Race Evaluation
DVOA Fair Hill Classic: Red 1
Cristina
| 1. | +00:15 | Slow start, and it's a good thing because there were probably 4 or 5 controls within view once I got into the woods. Ran through the gap in veg and then stayed left of the rootstocks. I saw the control to my right, but didn't realize it was mine since I didn't see any wall. I was basically standing on the ruined wall, and once I realized that, I was set. Lesson learned: ruined things may be hard to see. | |||||
| 2. | +00:15 | Not yet into the map & scale, and perhaps a little overwhelmed by the detail. Basically headed straight, but didn't really recognize the features I expected to see. Turns out I had veered left to end up between the two streams, which confused me. Luckily the rootstock was pretty prominently alone. | |||||
| 3. | Still cautious, but successfully used the rootstocks and trail as collecting features. | ||||||
| 4. | +01:00 | All the red lines scared me into being ultra careful about where I stepped. Planned on handrailing along the stream from the trail intersection, which I did, but only bothered to the note that the control was on the other side of *a* stream, so I crossed over S to all the marshy stuff, hacked around for a bit, then realized I my mistake, turned back, crossed the stream, and hacked through green stuff to get to the control. Not a very well executed leg. | |||||
| 5. | Headed straight for the large track and out to the field. I stayed to the left of the water tanks and aimed for the deciduous tree to break through, which wasn't the easiest. Had a good idea of the control locatioin, so I managed to move quickly by the trails, rootstocks, and first stream, handrailed up the second. A bit confused when the "knoll" was really a rootstock, but only for a few seconds. | ||||||
| 6. | +00:15 | Cut up to the large track along the road, over the northern bridge, then along the small trail, attacking from the bend. Hadn't really looked closely at what was inside the circle, so I hit the leftmost mini-reentrant first. | |||||
| 7. | Again with missing the detail in the circle. Didn't cross the stream until halfway through the leg, thinking the control was on the same side. | ||||||
| 8. | This one was just hard to get to. I struggled along the side of the steep hill. It looks fairly uniformly steep, so I'm not sure of how it could have been a faster leg. | ||||||
| 9. | +01:00 | After the last three quick legs, I wasn't in "planning" mode and didn't have a plan coming out of 8. This led to some on-the-fly decision making in the complicated trail area through the green. Would have been better, I think, to just have gone around, as in the sprint. As it was, I stopped and tried to figure out where I was in the maze several times, though that wasn't necessary since I was going in the right direction towards the field. From the field it was easy to head for the thickets, break through between them, and head left to the marsh. | |||||
| 10. | +02:00 | I had a basic plan here - get out of the woods by trail to the left, cross the road at the far left, intercept the trail across the stream and attack from the Y in the trail. Worked fine except I lost the large track while going south. Cut over the spur to instead follow the hillside but was further down that I thought. Ended up following a trail way left to the main stream. Recovered quickly and attacked the control from the stream/trail intersection. | |||||
| 11. | This time I read the details and knew where to find the control without need to consult the map. Crossed the big stream left of the line to avoid the cliff. | ||||||
| 12. | +00:20 | Went straight, which meant hacking through green. Would have been simple enough to detour 20m to the right. | |||||
| 13. | I could smell the end, and it's an easy long leg, so I came up with a route fairly quickly. Split the leg into two - midpoint the road crossing. Took the right trail up to the field, through the gaps, under the fence at the white, and straight to the road crossing. From there it was basically a trail run to the reentrant. | ||||||
| 14. | Stayed in the white off to the right, intercepted trail. | ||||||
| F. | Pushed it for the sprint, as usual. |
Total Time Lost - 00:05:05