Race Evaluation
2006 North American Championships (Golden Leaf Ori: Middle Course 8
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| 1. | Straight. Took me a little while to warm into map reading, so a fairly hesitant leg. | ||||||
| 2. | Went a slight bit right of the line, intending to hit the limestone pavement and then run along the east side of it, which is what I did. From the trail I just went straight. | ||||||
| 3. | +01:00 | Plunged into the leg without properly planning and reading the map. Consequently, overshot the control. Noticed pretty quickly that things were wrong and corrected (relatively) quickly. | |||||
| 4. | To the right of the line, between the cliffs and around the back of the limestone pavement into the control. | ||||||
| 5. | +00:05 | Straight. Through the narrow portion of the marsh, through the cliffs just before the control, up onto the limestone pavement with a moment's hesitation before realizing I should be at the cliff 10m to my right. | |||||
| 6. | Basically straight, though I went south around the big cliff and then over the pavement and followed the reentrant into the control. | ||||||
| 7. | Straight. | ||||||
| 8. | Straight to the cliffs on the line, went N along the cliffs, then straight to the control. | ||||||
| 9. | Straight. | ||||||
| 10. | Went left of the line, thinking that the marshes were too indistinct to navigate off of, so I better have something more concrete (like boulders) to use. So, I went hesitantly but correctly to the trail, then headed off towards #4, got past a cliff or two, and thought that we'd already had a control in a depression surrounded by limestone pavement. Which indeed we had, so I corrected and headed towards #10, saw the cliff to the SW of the control and ran straight to the control. It's a great feeling to find a control exactly where you know it should be. | ||||||
| 11. | +00:10 | Straight. Took too long to read my map when I came across the swamp which I knew would be there. | |||||
| 12. | Decided to play it safe and take the small trails to the big trail, then followed the pavement until it cut right, at which point I ran over the top, around the rootstalk and into the control. | ||||||
| 13. | Hit the small trail, over the fence, N around the marsh, between the two northern cliffs, straight into the control. | ||||||
| 14. | +00:15 | Ran through the pockets of clearing, straight to the depression SE of the real control. Didn't notice that one on the map, plus there were a bunch of lost looking people milling around in that depression, so I stopped for a few seconds before realizing where I was on the map and then dashing off to the control pulling the lost people along behind | |||||
| 15. | +00:15 | Patrick passed me, so I thought I would try to stick to him, but quickly decided that I would get lost at that speed, so I relocated off the set of cliffs with the fence between, which I basically climbed over (would have been much better to go around) and then carefully found my way along the indistinct trail system to the control (where I could see Patrick now punching). | |||||
| 16. | Took trails all the way. | ||||||
| 17. | More trails. | ||||||
| F. | More trails. |
Total Time Lost - 00:01:45