Race Evaluation
NEOC Troll Cup Day 2: Blue
BorisGr
| 1. | Seeing where Greg Balter and Sergei has gone, run the same way from the start and begin reading the map after 50m or so. Contour around the hill and spike the first one. | ||||||
| 2. | Slowly down the green/rocky reentrant, cross the trail and climb up to the flag. | ||||||
| 3. | Down to the trail, read ahead on the trail and plan my route to 4. Go up a small reentrant and through a saddle, then straight to the knoll. Am surprised and pleased to see Greg and Sergei barreling down the hill towards me and the control. Goal 1 accomplished! | ||||||
| 4. | +00:30 | Running down the slope with Greg to my left and Sergei to the right, I step awkwardly and sprain my ankle quite badly, ligaments popping and all. Try to get up and put weight on it, but can't and fall again. I know that if i lose Greg and Sergei now, the race is over, so i attempt to stay with them. Am behind them crossing the trail and the marsh, then slow up the hill, with Greg disappearing left. Hit the large trail and jog a bit on it to the junction with a small one, then cut in up the hill, aiming for the bend of the mt.bike trail. Hit the bend, pleased to see Sergei right behind. He passes me on the trail as i limp along and we run all the way to the T-junction. Then, up the reentrant, across the hillside, count off the reentrants and down to the flag. Sergei is almost out of sight. | |||||
| 5. | Down into the stream and to the trail. Once on the trail, i see Sergei about 75m ahead and getting away. I decide to run my own racer and just attempt to finish, when i see Sergei appear on the trail out of a swamp - he turned into a piece of the woods that looked like a trail. We split up at the trail junction he goes left, i go right, hoping to take trails all the way to reduce the pounding of branches and rocks on the ankle. Go around on the trails and turn right on the large one going NE. Hear footsteps and turn to see Sergei maybe 30m behind me. He passes me on the trail and we go up the stream and then up the hill to the control. | ||||||
| 6. | Knowing that i can't run downhil, i try to think of a way to not lose Sergei, but fail. He disappears down the trail, never to be seen again. I go left around the hill and hit the control, but moving quite slowly. | ||||||
| 7. | +00:45 | Down the hill to the trail, having trouble putting any weight on the ankle. Going along the hilltop, manage to miss the control and have to come back. | |||||
| 8. | As i walk down the hill to the stream, Greg passes me, moving much faster downhill. We punch and eat Gu together. | ||||||
| 9. | Up to the stream, along the trail, south of the marsh, across the trails, hit the first reentrant, then second and go up to the flag. Greg is lower and i leave 9 before he appears. | ||||||
| 10. | +01:00 | Very slow, almost walking, on the trail, then cut down to the flag but miss left and have to come back. Assume Greg is long gone. | |||||
| 11. | No problems, but slow. | ||||||
| 12. | Slogging through the deadfall (why put a control in this crap???), i catch sight of Samantha Saeger, who i attempt to chase in vain all the way to the finish. | ||||||
| 13. | Down the hill to the stream and the small trail. Walking/jogging most of the way. Samantha easily gets away from me on the trail. | ||||||
| F. | Jog it in and am, again, glad to be alive when i finish. This was just not my week-end. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:15