Race Evaluation
Hungaria Kupa, Day 2: M21E (WRE)
Tundra/Desert
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Bad compass work +01:25 | Was a bit passive in looking for the pits as I attacked from the clearing. Missed and had to turn around. | |||||
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Did not like map Bad map reading +00:55 | Was almost there but could not make out the hill ahead of me on the inkjet-printed map. Then saw a different control to my left, thought my compass direction was wrong, and visited the wrong control. | |||||
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| 7. | Very happy with map reading on this one... | ||||||
| 8. | ... and on this one... | ||||||
| 9. | ... and on this one. As I was coming in, a Serbian guy came in from below. | ||||||
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No attack point Bad route choice Did not like map +03:10 | The Serb left towards the north. I thought he'd be stuck in the green, as it looked medium green on the map. It was only later when I saw the 1:10,000 offset-printed maps that everyone else used, that I realize it really was light green and not medium! To go through the green meant saving climb and having a better attack point. I went around, meaning climbing (at a pretty good HR) and then coming down without a distinct attack point. The lack of attack points lead to me exploring three other reentrants before locating mine. | |||||
| 11. | Started to start to fade... | ||||||
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Took a chance +00:25 | Again, got distracted by another control, located on a clearing just like mine. | |||||
| 16. | Crossing the road was about the half-way point in distance. The rest of the course looked flat, however, with two long trail legs; I thought there was a chance it would go faster... how wrong... | ||||||
| 17. | Dropped the camelback at the water point—though I'd drunk enough to get me through... | ||||||
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Did not like map Did not read control description +00:45 | The control description was really inadequate here. The descriptions weren't particularly exacting to begin with, but here it just sucked. "Spur" with a reentrant junction circled, and the control being at the very possible top of the spur. | |||||
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| 22. | Tried to prod myself into running on the trails. Actually slowed to a walk a few times but mostly ran. | ||||||
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Bad compass work +00:20 | Went off on a trail that paralleled the edge-of-map trail but was actually off the map. Figured it out somewhat quickly as the features made no sense. | |||||
| 25. | As I was running on the trail right after #24, towards the edge of the young firs, Matti-Pekka of Espoo came along. "Feels like Tour de France." "Sure does, but no water." "Want some?" Matti-Pekka was so graceful to stop and let me drink from one of two miniature Silva bottles he had. I tried running for as long as I had him in sight, but slowed down to a walk on the E–W road. | ||||||
| 26. | Mostly walking. | ||||||
| 27. | Also walking... planning for 2:18 finish... | ||||||
| 28. | ... maybe not so fast... | ||||||
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| F. | ... it's finally over! |
Total Time Lost - 00:07:00