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Sunday May 2, 2010 #
8 AM
Road run 1:17:50 [5] 7.25 mi (10:44 / mi)
So I probably shouldn't have mentioned besting 70 minutes for this course :) Hubris makes for some very painful lessons as the Greeks have shown us. So map 1 and map 2 from the race with QR.
I was just plain not careful enough. The beginning of my race was going swimmingly so I was kinda lulled into a sense of well-being. Then I got caught by the uncrossable fences at 4 and then again at 6 ( I just don't read those black lines with double ticks very well). Then a really serious error as I came across the hillside to 8. Looking at the QR it is now, finally, obvious what happened. I was contouring along and saw a spring/mine shaft opening. It was very nicely built and must be on the map. I scanned the slope as I was running and saw what looked like a mine shaft-y kind of cliff just before the control. So I altered my route and used this new feature as an attackpoint. On the QR it is clear that the mine shaft spring thing is really marked as a black X and that's why I was so far off coming down to the cliff. I relocated on the marsh just east of 9 and was able to move on... but it derailed the sub 70 train for sure :)
For 13 I wanted to stay high which I don't think was a great idea here anyway, and then I did a poor job of reading the cliffs in the circle and very confidently ran too low thinking my flag would be at the base of a different cliff.
On 15, I hadn't even flipped my map over yet to read ahead (just forgetful I guess) and was greeted with a beautiful long leg. I looked left and it seemed pretty far off the line and I looked right and it seemed even farther off the line. Straight was a joke because of all the sidehilling.... or was it. I'd been along that slope a lot already and it wasn't so bad... so I chose to go along the righthand slope. I executed my plan as best I could but the green near the end of the contouring was murder and truly destroyed the route. In retrospect dropping down at the end to run along the fence at the base there would have been nice. In quick routes i can check and see that it took me 8:30 to get to where the green begins... and I bet I could have done the rest in about 4 minutes... puts me even with some of the other guys that went left.
The last set of controls was really fun, I left 21 too low and had to climb up the road a fair bit to cut over to the finish control... but otherwise the last loop went very nicely.
Awesome course by Hannah.
I was just plain not careful enough. The beginning of my race was going swimmingly so I was kinda lulled into a sense of well-being. Then I got caught by the uncrossable fences at 4 and then again at 6 ( I just don't read those black lines with double ticks very well). Then a really serious error as I came across the hillside to 8. Looking at the QR it is now, finally, obvious what happened. I was contouring along and saw a spring/mine shaft opening. It was very nicely built and must be on the map. I scanned the slope as I was running and saw what looked like a mine shaft-y kind of cliff just before the control. So I altered my route and used this new feature as an attackpoint. On the QR it is clear that the mine shaft spring thing is really marked as a black X and that's why I was so far off coming down to the cliff. I relocated on the marsh just east of 9 and was able to move on... but it derailed the sub 70 train for sure :)
For 13 I wanted to stay high which I don't think was a great idea here anyway, and then I did a poor job of reading the cliffs in the circle and very confidently ran too low thinking my flag would be at the base of a different cliff.
On 15, I hadn't even flipped my map over yet to read ahead (just forgetful I guess) and was greeted with a beautiful long leg. I looked left and it seemed pretty far off the line and I looked right and it seemed even farther off the line. Straight was a joke because of all the sidehilling.... or was it. I'd been along that slope a lot already and it wasn't so bad... so I chose to go along the righthand slope. I executed my plan as best I could but the green near the end of the contouring was murder and truly destroyed the route. In retrospect dropping down at the end to run along the fence at the base there would have been nice. In quick routes i can check and see that it took me 8:30 to get to where the green begins... and I bet I could have done the rest in about 4 minutes... puts me even with some of the other guys that went left.
The last set of controls was really fun, I left 21 too low and had to climb up the road a fair bit to cut over to the finish control... but otherwise the last loop went very nicely.
Awesome course by Hannah.
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