So I think it takes me about a day to be at peace with a race blow up (Rage....Spring Mill).
QuickRoute#1 - Okay, took trail, broke off a tiny bit early but right to it
#2 - Excecuted mostly the route I wanted. This inspired false confidence. :-)
#3 - I thought for sure, had I veered off onto the peninsula, that I would notice the "uncrossable" swamp. NOPE! If it there's, and it gets your feet wet, I'd love to know about it because I don't recall a thing! I should've noticed the distance, and I did, but recovery was slow so I looped around. Nearly ten minutes lost, which would set up later disaster. Lesson: exit more cautiously!
#4 - Wandered a bit, but mostly did what I wanted to, hesitated heading towards the gully/swamp before the N trail, confirmed it, and away we go.
#5 - no trouble on #5, bu I think I took a slightly different line than those who hit the unmapped gully
#6 - Trails for safety, but I almost blew except the yellow height of the bag made it very visible.
#7 - end of the road. First third was fine. Around the swamp, up north of the reentrant to the trail, trail down to the jump, but I blew the jump, thought I hit my trail, but ended up on the other trail. Easy running though!
I eventually realized I was on the wrong trail, but I figured I'd loop around, no trouble. Then I made my largest blunder - I specifically ignored the reentrant I wanted to jump up due west of #7 thinking it was the one SW of 7. So I exited too much north, but not north enough to hit #11, and couldn't relocate. I am a terrible judge of distance, should've checked up immediately and went back to the swamp. Note to self! I was specifically scared of being lost NE of #11, knowing it would be super difficult to relocate, and sure enough, it happened.
Since I started so late, I didn't have time to do a mega relocate, which is unfortunate as I had done much of the distance I ended up doing.
I'll try again Saturday and see how it goes.