Race Evaluation
Hudson Highlander 7:
kensr
| 1. | Up the hill on the left side. Taking it easy because I haven't warmed up yet. Time includes ~20 sec waiting to punch. | ||||||
| 2. | In a mob. | ||||||
| 3. | Lost a bit of time on this one. | ||||||
| 4. | Catch up with large crowd here -- Peggy D, Tim Good. | ||||||
| 5. | Cut towards road, pick up trail, run road. Foot starts to hurt (arch) from running on hard surface in o-shoes. Trail around edge of hill to stoney reentrant and up to marsh. | ||||||
| 6. | Back along west side of marsh, in from R side. To changeover and Rockhouse. | ||||||
| 7. | Up trail along lake -- really rough until I picked up the larger trail parallel to it. Across marsh and up reentrant. | ||||||
| 8. | +05:00 | Cut across green to clear ridge slope. No attack point on featureless slope and ran down past control. Looped around and back up, finally picking up ditch leading to control. | |||||
| 9. | Straight over hilltop. | ||||||
| 10. | +03:00 | Crossed brook and straight to control. Vegatation looked ok at first, so thought running would alright. Kept getting worse and slower. Finally just kept pushing until I came out of the west end of the green and looked for the control. | |||||
| 11. | +04:00 | Crossed first faint trail and thought I was at second one. Lost position and attack point. Got to circle but no clue as to exact location. Saw runners leaving and backtracked. | |||||
| 12. | Nice run along ridge. | ||||||
| 13. | Road. | ||||||
| 14. | Down and across stone wall. | ||||||
| 15. | Exchange and on to Pole Brook. | ||||||
| 16. | Around L of cliff and in to control. Picked up Peggy, Tim and Charlie Leonard. Peggy wandered off; Charlie stuck with me for the next 8 controls. | ||||||
| 17. | Off to R and up reentrant. | ||||||
| 18. | Straight through heavy brush. | ||||||
| 19. | Went from bump to bump to reentrant. | ||||||
| 20. | Trail along marsh, then up a bit and back down. | ||||||
| 21. | Through green, not bad. | ||||||
| 22. | Straight. | ||||||
| 23. | Across marsh, off a bit R. | ||||||
| 24. | To road and back up. | ||||||
| 25. | Picked up pace to lose Charlie. On my own on this map. | ||||||
| 26. | Back up along road. | ||||||
| 27. | Road to camp and up over saddle. Tim coming up slope behind me, but not gaining any ground. Ran out of splits at this point; balance of course took 1:22:26. | ||||||
| 28. | Road to clearing. Could see control, but had 6' wall of barberries in way. Finally went past control and barberries thinned slightly. Hey, no thorns, just scratchy. | ||||||
| 29. | Coming out was much easier than going in. Found game trail and followed it to power line. Had this control location at a meet a few years ago, so knew route to it. | ||||||
| 30. | Got to edge of reentrant and looked for control. | ||||||
| 31. | Up road to clearing, then L across brook to trail. Up slope to L of marsh. To small bump on hillside and up through cliffs to control. | ||||||
| 32. | Down to stream and up reentrant to control. | ||||||
| 33. | +05:00 | Up along marsh, angled up when bushes started getting thick. To road, through camp, down to power line by lake. Good crossing near N end. Followed reentrant up hill, branched off L to big rock. Took bearing and paced to control location. Slightly low and totally befuddled (went brain-dead about 5 minutes too early). Suddenly, Jeff Sager, Charlie, Peggy and Tim coming running out of control 10 m away behind bushes. | |||||
| 34. | Now in a pack scrambling to last control. Pass Tim, but Jeff is too fast on a run-in. | ||||||
| F. | Everyone finishes in a clump. |
Total Time Lost - 00:17:00