Race Evaluation
Georgia Navigator Cup & 2023 OUSA Junior Nationals: GREENX
Ben Brady
| 1. | No issues. | ||||||
| 2. | No issues. | ||||||
| 3. | A bit of confusion along the way but no real time loss. | ||||||
| 4. | Didn't like the hill. | ||||||
| 5. | +05:00 | Control 5: The plan was to intercept the trails, take it to the top of the reentrant, and head down into the control. It seems like an easy leg. It was not (for me). First of all, I couldn't even find the trails. When I finally did intercept one, I couldn't find the main trail that it was supposed to cross. Eventually I ended up in the large reentrant with the boulders, still running at a decent pace, and came up the reentrant into the control. Except, I was in the shallow reentrant instead of the larg ereentrant. I intercepted the main trail, but at this point, was confused about where I was. I looked down into the reentrant that had the control in it in plain sight, but couldn't see it. Then, I kept following the trail for a bit hoping to relocate (as I wasn't sure where I was). Eventually I returned to the correct reentrant and found it, but not without losing at least 5 minutes. | |||||
| 6. | No issues. | ||||||
| 7. | +04:00 | Control 7: Everything was perfect until the end. I followed the trails, got to the saddle, made my way to the ruins, and was climbing the final hill when I stopped following my bearing properly. I ended up in the flat area between 7 and 8, and was desperately trying to relocate. Eventually I figured it out, but lost around 4 minutes in the process. | |||||
| 8. | +02:00 | Control 8: this control was hidden well. I probably went by it multiple times without seeing it. I always knew where I was but just couldn't find the control. 2 minute time loss. | |||||
| 9. | +03:30 | Control 9: Another massive mistake. I executed the first half of the control perfectly. My plan was to intercept the large reentrant with stone walls next to the control, which I did. But when I got there I managed to convince myself that it was actually the other reentrant with stone walls, and that I was making a parallel error. Ironically, THIS was the parallel error. I spent a while looking in the wrong erosion gully complex before figuring out what I had done, and finding the control. 3:30 of time was probably lost. | |||||
| 10. | +02:00 | Control 10: Exited 9 incorrectly, and got myself into a position where the fastest route was to climb the massive hill unfortunately. At this point, I thught my race was over, so I just went for it and grinded the hill and sprinted the trail down, but after this I found 10 perfectly. 2 minutes lost probably. | |||||
| 11. | No issues. | ||||||
| F. | No issues. |
Total Time Lost - 00:16:30