Race Evaluation
Colorado 5-day Day 1: Blue
mindsweeper
| 1. | Easy start via roads. | ||||||
| 2. | Tricky - just a teaser of what's to come later on. Seems like I hesitated a bit on this one. | ||||||
| 3. | On road for a bit, then reasonably straight. | ||||||
| 4. | Decide to go left around rocks. Might have been faster to swing wide right, but this is probably more economical. | ||||||
| 5. | +00:30 | I stay way too high and miss uphill. | |||||
| 6. | Straight. See Vladimir up ahead. | ||||||
| 7. | I stay high, Vlad contours left. Probably lose some seconds, but avoid some climb also. | ||||||
| 8. | Vlad asks for my start time as he runs out from the control. | ||||||
| 9. | Stay on spur. | ||||||
| 10. | The line goes off the map! I start ot straight but fall in behind Vlad again as I see the green below | ||||||
| 11. | Pass Vlad as I run up the shallow reentrant. After I hit the road I stay on it for a short time to avoid a steep traverse. Once I'm in the yellow I aim for the rock face NE of the control. I decide to go right of it rather than left to avoid climb. If only this had been the last control. | ||||||
| 12. | +00:30 | Miss to the right and overshoot. A warning sign that my concentration is faltering... See Nadim as I run back to punch. | |||||
| 13. | Around left. | ||||||
| 14. |
Confused parallel features +01:30 | Wobbling left then dropping to the field. I mistake the various reentrants and make the fist parallel error. Suzanne is approaching as I punch. | |||||
| 15. |
Confused parallel features +03:00 | Miss high and make another parallel error. Meet Suzanne running out of the control. | |||||
| 16. | Use rock face to guide me in. | ||||||
| 17. | The course setter either has a strange sense of humor or a poor understanding of what a saddle is. | ||||||
| 18. |
Confused parallel features +04:00 | Third parallel error. I mistake the various rock-clad hills. | |||||
| 19. |
Did not read control code | Nasty leg. Lots of steep both down and up. Oh, and I went too far left and mispunched. One of the few controls that I didn't check the number of. Grrrrrr. | |||||
| 20. | Decide to stay high / straight then drop. Rocks are nasty and slow me down. | ||||||
| 21. | Try to preserve elevation, but should have gone straight. | ||||||
| 22. | No juice left. I'm bringing a power bar tomoorow. | ||||||
| F. | Ugh, great race until 11, but poor afterwards. |
Total Time Lost - 00:09:30