Race Evaluation
2008 Laramie Daze & US Champs: Red Day 2
jjcote
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| 5. | +00:30 | Went right of the big rock, but stayed too close to it, and came down the back side too far to the left. Saw a bit of forest and ran to it, but didn't see any knoll, and there was no flag, either. Spun around and spotted the knoll behind me and to the right. I had been off by about the diameter of the control circle. | |||||
| 6. | Just left of the bare rock idway along the leg. | ||||||
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| 9. | A bit rlight of the line, left might have been faster. | ||||||
| 10. | Straight (instead of right to avoid the sage at the beginning), and then just ran toward the giant rock. | ||||||
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| 12. | Jeez, this leg was boring. But what can you do? | ||||||
| 13. | Left of Frog Hole, not that it mattered. Considered hurdling the fence, but I had a headwind. | ||||||
| 14. | The map shows this leg as being downhill by 10 meters or so, but it sure seemed uphill to me. It distinctly looked like the control was out on a broad hill rather than being down a spur. Spotted Michael Rounds way out ahead of me. | ||||||
| 15. | The control location was pretty evident from the start of the leg. When going through the aspens at the end, I looked right and saw a couple of head of cattle just a few meters away. | ||||||
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| 17. | Finally overtook Michael Rounds near the end of this leg (I had been steadily gaining on him, but I had a lot of gound to make up). | ||||||
| 18. | Left to get out of the marsh quickly, then contoured in a big S and approached the control from slightly to the right. | ||||||
| 19. | run run run run run run run run run... | ||||||
| 20. | +00:30 | Up over the ridge, spiked the control, and.. wrong code. Looked around to see where I really was, and it all looked right. Checked the code again. Checked the conrtol descriptions on the map to make sure they weren't different. Tried to figure out where to go, but I appeared to be in the right place. Finally realized that I had two controls left to go, not just one, and I was just looking at the wrong line on the cluesheet. This delay probably accounts for the difference between me and Plamen for the weekend. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:01:00