Race Evaluation
West Point Day 1: Red Y
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| 1. | Not a confidence builder! I had forgot the course setter's notes and didn't notice the skewed N-S lines until I was halfway to the control. This caused me to go a little high. Then there were all these unmapped significant rock features. At one point I looked down and saw a flat area, and I guessed it was the one beyond the control. Yup. | ||||||
| 2. | Contoured around by the ruin (which I couldn't see on the map until after the race). Climbed up the reentrant and glanced to the left. There it was. | ||||||
| 3. | Followed the road from the T then cut in before the cliffs -- found a trail that went in my direction. When I got to the area I thought I was N so I veered left + overshot. D'oh - it was right by the trail. | ||||||
| 4. | I was on the way, when I found myself at the base of a 13m cliff with people appearing from it. Drat! I climbed it. Wrong control cliff. Down to the reentrant and up. | ||||||
| 5. | S, then E | ||||||
| 6. | First plan: Go NE then cut back around after the cliffs. Nah -- Let's try going straight up. So I headed E, and found myself on a side hill, confusing the heck out of me for quite a while before I worked it out (Damn skew map). But the route wasn't really that bad except I was slow because of my confusion. | ||||||
| 7. | Whee! | ||||||
| 8. | Thought I was going N, actually slightly NW and ended up on the big trail, which I thought was the road. I ran to the left for 50 m. before I worked it out. On the way, cut the corner. | ||||||
| 9. | Straight. | ||||||
| 10. | Stayed high -- too high. Hit the road and bounced back into the woods. | ||||||
| 11. | Stayed high for a while then down. Pretty much straight to the control from the water. | ||||||
| 12. | What a disaster. I contoured to what I thought was (and probably was) the big cliff, then started pace counting until I saw a flat area below me which I thought was the one just before the control. I went down, but it was clearly too low, with many unmapped big rocks. So I stopped to tie my shoe. I decided to try to relocate from the trail, but higher up. On my way I spiked the control. | ||||||
| 13. | Too low, found the big reentrant and slogged up. | ||||||
| 14. | Straight. Dangerous control location! | ||||||
| 15. | Run straight. | ||||||
| F. | Run fast (for me...) |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00