Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Hounds course, which I did first, because that's the one that Lyn handed me the cluesheet for (I assume she had some heuristic for deciding which to give each person a registration, perhaps alternating). Who am I to argue with Lyn? Not overly fast, but clean until ner the end, when I left #12 in the wrong direction, and hit a different trail than I was expecting, so I headed the wrong way (right) very briefly before realizing that this was totally the wrong thing to be doing.

Still not very quick, slightly cleaner this time in that the one error I made (drifting left on #6) was a little less boneheaded.

Red/Green alternating visit-all course. My choice of control order could have benefitted from some rearrangement to save distance, but at least it included all 30, in proper red/green order. Small errors (difting one way or another) on few controls in the woods, not a lot of time lost.

Order: 60 32 65 42 57 33 56 34 63 35 64 41 52 40 51 37 54 38 55 44 59 43 53 39 62 45 58 31 61 36

Picking up 6 controls at a very leisurely pace.

Now that the results are out, it appears that my suboptimal route was good enough for the best* time on the Red/Green course. This despite the fact that I don't appear in the results for any of the races, presumably due to the fact that WCOC's equipment can't read my epunch. No big deal. Although I do appear in the splits (with no splits shown), and my time there for the Hounds course is wrong.

*In theory, of course, there could be myriad people with cutting-edge SI sticks who also don't appear, and they could all have been faster then me.