Race Evaluation
Blue Hills Traverse:
cmorse
| 1. | With J-J on the first part, then over the top and muddling with the crowds, turned to look back uphill and saw Ken punched a short distance away. | ||||||
| 2. | Trailing Ken & Will | ||||||
| 3. | +00:40 | Initially hit trail and thought about heading to road then in, then remembered road was OOB, came back up through some trash and caught up with J-J | |||||
| 4. | Following J-J, but maintiaining contact. Would shadow J-J, Tim & Steve most of the rest of this map. Worthington | ||||||
| 5. | Paralleled road to pick up major trail west of line. Good running. | ||||||
| 6. | There was no 'edge' to that green spot - its all green up there. | ||||||
| 7. | +01:00 | Got low with J-J & Tim, had to correct back up | |||||
| 8. | Lots of folks wound up farther up reentrant - I got a litle ahead of a few here, punching just in front of Abi | ||||||
| 9. | Initially started up the rock (why??) then dropped back to reentrant - back in behind J-J et al... | ||||||
| 10. | With J-J and Steve along the stonewall. Seemed like a decent route choice, be had to walk jog a lot of it. | ||||||
| 11. | Screaming downhill - I love these things - caught Joe rather quickly, then crashed hard (soft landing) shortly after J-J's crash behind me. Left J-J on the trail and cut in earlier than most. Two glasses of water, left quickly on the heels of Ross. | ||||||
| 12. | After passing through marsh w/ Ross, he took to the right, I went up over spur and nailed it. Alone now... | ||||||
| 13. | Saw J-J headed uphill towards 12 as I headed to 13, Saw Steve leaving 13 (he had gone there before 12), then alone again. | ||||||
| 14. | Catch a glimpse of Ernst in front of me, push a little harder to close gap. | ||||||
| 15. | Hit it ok, but apparently have lost Ernst. No one in sight behind | ||||||
| 16. | Trails to boulder cluster at top, right in. Ernst overshot and was coming back uphill... | ||||||
| 17. | Close behind Ernst in here... | ||||||
| 18. | Lost Ersnt leaving 17, but went straight and nailed it solidly. | ||||||
| 19. | Smooth and clean - Abi catches me just before control and Joe in behind I think.. | ||||||
| 20. | +01:30 | With Misha and Abi on the road/trail up hill. I cut through sandpit and down reentrant but apparently was in the reentrant hidden under the number 20 since I wound up on the trail North of the hill with Misha and Abi headed north away from control. By the time I got around and back to control, J-J, Joe and Tim were there. Time to get back in the train. | |||||
| 21. | Trails around with the crowd - same control as last year. | ||||||
| 22. | Peter joins the train in here | ||||||
| 23. | Follow J-J through the trash, we wind up low near a building that I can't see on the map, J-J apparently sees it and heads up hill - I of course follow suit. | ||||||
| 24. | +05:00 | I'm really starting to run out of gas here, Everyone leaves me here. I briefly consider going over, but the backside looks bad, so go around with everyone else, albeit at a walk. Ross passes me in here for the 5th? and last time. Once around the hill I hit the control solidly. | |||||
| 25. | Straight lines and dead accurate from here on out, but only mustering a slow jog. | ||||||
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| F. | Good tough course, I wish I had time to run longer runs once in a while so I would not run out of gas late in the game. Muscles etc felt fine, just no energy left. Need to start carrying GU as well, since the aid offerings don't seem to appeal. |
Total Time Lost - 00:08:10