Race Evaluation
SVO Pine Grove Furnace: Red
TimGood
| 1. | Lot of running sat. so tired and sore at the start. Trail from the clearing then straight. Passed a group wandering around in the ferns so ran through as if I knew where I was. Luckily I hit it. | ||||||
| 2. | +00:40 | Hit the thin pond instead of the trail bend. Followed trail but control was farther than expected. Kept running over to stream to look for the bridge. Finally just ran along stream. | |||||
| 3. | +08:00 | Ran down road to by steam bend to get a definate location then carefully up on a bearing. Came out at a new trail and beautiful clearing. Besides the control and the platform I was looking for a little section of nice woods. Did not see the control so assumed I must be a the only clearing in the map and attacked from there. Wandered around a bit and eventually reached the houses near the road. Relocated and made another attempt using the compass. Found it this time. Very surprised to see the clearing behind it. I must have just missed it the first time. | |||||
| 4. | Uphill to mapped clearing then follow the trail. | ||||||
| 5. | Trail, road, small trail, road then start up the reentrant. Could have made much better time if I was not to tired to run fast. Bearing in. Passed someone coming up from direction to 10. I hit platform perfectly, giving away its location. | ||||||
| 6. | +01:00 | To trail on line to (6) then down trail all the way to bend. Caught indistinct trail to ditch end then across stream and swamp. Came out low and had to run up last stream. Very slow in the green. Wonder if I should have simply cut to road then run up trail. | |||||
| 7. | Horrible time going up reentrant though the green. Followed ditch to road then bearing in. Used pace count for distance then looked around. Luckily I spotted it without having to relocate from trail. | ||||||
| 8. | Tried to run along the line of platforms but did not see either. Attacked from the reentrant S of the road bend. Bearing and pace count to get close then used the contour spacing to decide I was to low. Went up and spotted it. | ||||||
| 9. | Downhill run not much faster than the on the flat. Straight and think I correctly identified the dot knoll & ditch when I crossed the trail. Tried to run where it looked most like a spur. Punched carefully so I would not disturb the bees. | ||||||
| 10. | Running was nice here so I picked it up a bit. Tried not to drop down to soon but still came to close to the first sinkhole | ||||||
| 11. | +03:00 | Straight, coming out at the large building S of the road bend. Though these would be unoccupied cabins but they looked lived in so I wasted a lot of time trying to find a place to cut though without runing across someones yard. Gave up and took the road N and approached control from W. Stopping thinking at the top and did not see the control. Started looking on the wrong side. | |||||
| 12. | +02:00 | Did not resume thinking. Passed the trail by lake and headed NW down the road. Crossed stream thinking I was going around lake. At the parking lot I realized I was way off course. Down lot and trail to control. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:14:40