Race Evaluation
NEOC: Norwottuck: Green
bgallup
| 1. | decent. should've popped out onto the road immediately (a la BP) | ||||||
| 2. | +02:00 | bad bearing, misinterpreted scale, wrong re-entrant. | |||||
| 3. | ran right over the trail i wanted, caught by the electrical easement. pretty direct from there | ||||||
| 4. | +06:00 | woof. flipped the topo in my head, and thought i was looking for a choke in a gulley, not on a ridge. took maybe 5 minutes of searching to realize that, and 1 to recover. | |||||
| 5. | possibly my first 1k+ leg. feel like i nailed it. got a little disconnected in the middle, but knew there were catching features galore, so i pushed on. checked off a few features on the way, to boot. | ||||||
| 6. | killed it. took a bearing, corrected at the first stream crossing. control was easily visible from the other side of the second streambed for rapid collection | ||||||
| 7. | +18:00 | woof. the good were great, the bad were miserable. shot a horrible bearing, realized i was off, searched and corrected, came real close, then got highly confused - perhaps by an unmapped beaver dam. found a trail, followed it until it became distinct, then reattacked. missed, but caught by a marsh and zeroed in. | |||||
| 8. | +02:00 | bad bearing, turned north to study a trail feature, relocated, reattacked. | |||||
| 9. | +15:30 | started out great, but went to pot at the control. the control was a bit off. and while not conducive to a competitive time, it was a great exercise in understanding the map - it was a while before i was willing to conclude it was the control, and not me. finally got it when someone else saw it. | |||||
| 10. | took the safe route. really feeling the higher mileage on the day and was chugging along slowly. astonished to have the third best time. the downhill second half helped. | ||||||
| 11. | emptied the tank to beat BP. thought i made a bad choice to go off-trail, but he followed. made perhaps the best navigational choice i've made yet to go up trail, find the re-entrant, and go straight up that. | ||||||
| F. | stumbled along in recovery mode while BP shot off. |
Total Time Lost - 00:43:30