Race Evaluation
Texas Interscholastics A meet: Blue Day 1
johncrowther
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Unused to map | Difficulty making sense of map, but navigated to center of circle and found control. | |||||
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Unused to map | Again having difficulty with map, but found control OK. | |||||
| 3. | +00:15 | Went in off the end of the open to the SW, found myself too far to the left. | |||||
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| 5. | Straight through the green, not as bad as I thought it would be given some Texas terrain. Interesting field of junk at on the way. | ||||||
| 6. | Saw Vladamir arriving at control as I left. | ||||||
| 7. | Got too far north, but could follow ditches back to control. Having difficulty seeing contours under green on map. | ||||||
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| 9. | Vladamir passes me, I see him leaving control showing me where to go in. | ||||||
| 10. | +01:00 | Get too far west thinking the boat is from the junk on the 4-5 leg. Realise that the tapes are marking the trail to the SW of control. | |||||
| 11. | Trail run. | ||||||
| 12. | Went about 200m along the trail to the S, and then cut in down the long broad spur. | ||||||
| 13. | Up to the trail W of control. | ||||||
| 14. | Back up to the trail as I thought it would give faster running. | ||||||
| 15. | And back up to the trail again. | ||||||
| 16. | +03:00 | SE to N-S trail (200m from control), followd it until the last place the creek was corssable. Then up to the SW, and then S. Used the thin trail just W of the line to take me to the 2nd major creek crossing, and then got caught in the briars beyond for a bit. On approach to control I thought I was getting too close to the lake and hit the creek behind the control in some more really bad briars. | |||||
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| 18. | Got too far north and ended up in undergrowth to W of out of bounds area. | ||||||
| 19. | Got too far south and almost hit road. Alan Gaulding catches me. | ||||||
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| 21. | Alan gets away from me leaving this control | ||||||
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Did not like map +03:00 | Tried to follow finger of yellow leading to the control, but it's too vague and I end up using the trail behind as a catching feature (after trying to decipher the earthwalls on the map, again hidden by the green. End up attaching control from path junction to north. | |||||
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| 24. | Down the creek but eventually climb up to E side for easier running. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:07:15