Race Evaluation
Texas: Interscholastics A meet: Blue Day 2
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| 1. | +02:00 | Took the trail to the 2nd junction by top of hill. Down trail to the first bend then cut into the woods.Ended up on spur to the north. Took me a while to figure out where I was and wandered for a bit. | |||||
| 2. | +05:00 | North to trail. Trail was longer than mapped and extended farther south. Across the creek. cut through green but should have stayed on trail. Through semi open. Hit clearing area, across trail and right to north part of ditch. Down west side of ditch to the end. Still no control. Looked around and didn't see anything.Hit the southern trail and relocated to the same spot. Up the clearing on the west and still no control. Control was suppose to be western tip of forest corner so I kept looking on the western side. Finally went up the east area and eventually saw a control which turned out to be mine. Control description was wrong and I don't think it was mapped or hung in the correct spot. I put a protest in which agreed control description was wrong but map/control location was correct. | |||||
| 3. | +03:00 | Still flustered over number control 2. ran off intending to follow the trail around got on the wrong trail. Crossed the correct trail without ever seeing it and end up way north of the control. Realized I was way off and head back to the water. Cross the trail yet again and didn't see it but spiked the control. | |||||
| 4. | Trail around. Bill Cusworth passed me. I cut in before him and got to the control first. | ||||||
| 5. | +01:00 | I went straight and ended up two low. Bill passed me again going up the stream. I got confused and headed down stream until I could see the fields. Then back up to the stream to control. | |||||
| 6. | Bill Leaving the control as I approached. | ||||||
| 7. | Impossible to read the map in this area. There are gullys crossing the major control lines and you can't tell what is what. Bill Ran by the spur. Control was faded and tucked out of sight. I got lucky and saw it. Punched and ran on. | ||||||
| 8. | Straight | ||||||
| 9. | +02:00 | Intended to go straight but was forece low. Hit the lower rocks by four and had to correct.Then hit the stream area north of control but didn't know where I was. Head north initially and had to come back south. | |||||
| 10. | Over to trail system. Took the trails around. Bill Cusworth passed me again as we left the trail to head south across the field. | ||||||
| 11. | Bill Clearly running much faster down trail. He ran away from me. | ||||||
| 12. | Stayed in the field system high. Cut down the hill and cross the stream somewhere. Up the steep trail by 12 and to it. Saw Bill running towards 13 on my way to 12. | ||||||
| 13. | straight | ||||||
| 14. | straight | ||||||
| 15. | Caught up to Bill again. Up to the major trail. Trail to bend area. Straight to control. I think Bill was to far right. | ||||||
| 16. | Straight was my intention but fell to far down the hill. Hit the stream. Intended to follow the stream up to the control area. Map shows a gap by cliff and stream but there wasn't any so I had to climb the cliff. The map in this area is also wrong. They have control lines joining which you can see with a manifying glass. I couldn't read the contours so just ran the spur area. Passed Bill Cusworth again right by the spur. | ||||||
| 17. | Around the green to the right. Control description say cliff but it was really in the bottom of a gully and you can't see the cliff until you get there. Looked like a cliff on each side. Map contours flakey again. | ||||||
| 18. | +00:30 | Started off the wrong direction just to get out of the gully. Then through fields to the right which were all thorny. | |||||
| 19. | Up spur to trail. Silly control. They shoudl have removed this control. | ||||||
| 20. | +00:20 | Headed to the water stop. Had some water then to the cotnrol. Still off even though I took a careful bearing from the water. | |||||
| 21. | straight | ||||||
| 22. | straight. Legs really tired now. Worrying about cramping so taking it easy. | ||||||
| 23. | Trail to where it cross stream. Then stayed left. | ||||||
| 24. | straight | ||||||
| 25. | Got on several unmapped trails. Just moving very slow now. | ||||||
| 26. | Bill Cusworth passed me again somewhere in here. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:13:50