Race Evaluation
WCOC - Sessions Woods C-Meet & Sprint: green
dness
| 1. | (I was either first or second to go out on the course -- making a lot of tracks in the first half). Crossed stream on trail up to first quasi-level, diagonally to control. | ||||||
| 2. | Conservative route -- not leaving trail until I was due east of the control. | ||||||
| 3. | Diag. to E-W trail, then S-N. Looked for distinctive trees, but more of them exist than mapped, so just guessed a good place to leave the trail. | ||||||
| 4. | Questionable route choice - W to try to pick up trail and take it all the way to the end, then S on other trail. Didn't even execute it that well. Met up with another guy here. | ||||||
| 5. | He went right, I headed for the reentrant due S. I liked my choice. | ||||||
| 6. | Went right by a bow hunter in a tree. Control was lower than I thought. | ||||||
| 7. | Didn't know if I could cut a big slice of the marsh, so I only cut a little slice. | ||||||
| 8. | To reduce snow pushing, used trail until after hill on left, around N of pond. | ||||||
| 9. | To trail as soon as possible. Left trail at first closest approach to maximize chance of finding a usable crossing as soon as possible. Going downstream, took a long time to find a crossing. (Perhaps finding a crossing upstream rather than downstream would have been superior?) Almost bagged it here because it was very treacherous. Picked up Glen on the climb up. | ||||||
| 10. | Followed Glen to contour on the trail. A laurel branch poked my eye and I spent a lot of this leg not seeing that well. Followed some tracks to a stream crossing that looked really treacherous, so I followed stream to bridge, then up. My thigh muscles were really hurting here. | ||||||
| 11. | Not a good route: NW to N side of reentrant. When I got to top, got confused as to what trail I was on and took the long way around. | ||||||
| 12. | Drifted a little to the left. | ||||||
| F. | Thanks Charlie. I was hoping to redeem myself after a couple of miserable outings. My navigation today was OK I thought, but my legs weren't up to all the snow pushing. |
Total Time Lost - 00:00:00