Race Evaluation
BAOC Local, Annadel: Brown
Tundra/Desert
| 1. |
Bad compass work +00:50 | This was a run/walk the day after a 50-miler. Stood for a while at the map crates trying to fit the 11x17-sized map into an 8x14 plastic bag. Lost most of the contact with the map soon after I departed the start triangle. Drifted out to an orange control 75 m S of mine, relocated immediately. This was the area I lost quite a bit in in 1997 (the other two places were the famous Distortion Hill and some man-made earthworks near the finish. The day was voided.) | |||||
| 2. |
Did not read control description +01:00 | Snaked erratically through the patches of yellow among the dark green. At normal speed, I wouldn't have been able to read all of this stuff, but at close to walking, I could. I could also see that there was a sizeable compression in the map in the E-W direction (recall, Distortion Hill) but all the clearings and thicket boundaries were there. Missed the control to the right/too far as I didn't know what the green X's meant. They were firs. I was looking for a rootstock. I found a bag. | |||||
| 3. | Actually ran this one. | ||||||
| 4. | Ran this one, too (took the high trail route; did you call this leg a route-choice one, George? not too much of that if all routes go essentially straight). Mtn bikers on the trail looked curious. | ||||||
| 5. | Contoured, went through a clearing half-way through the leg, the one in the middle of 2nd green. | ||||||
| 6. | Went too far W out of this one, close to the man-made X (a fenced special plant area? or what was it). Recovered and read _everything_ on the straight way to #6 from there. Never in my normal-paced races would I read sooo much. My feet hurt. I know now what those old people think and feel. | ||||||
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| 8. | Boring, trail. Wouldn't be boring if I ran instead of shuffling. I know now how those old people feel when I the course setter send then along my trail legs. A Red female runner was ahead most of the way, moving much faster but stopping at every trail junction. From the trail, she went in the wrong direction. Duh. | ||||||
| 9. |
Bad compass work +00:30 | Very slow on a straight line through the rock, but still got there before two adventure racers who left #8 shortly after me and looped around. A little too wide on approach - saw the finish. | |||||
| F. |
Total Time Lost - 00:02:20