Blue Course Splits & Commentary
DAY 1: Manfred Neeme Lans Michi Syd 1 101 6.11 4.22? 4.14 5.43 6:04 2 102 5.22 4.12 3.56 6.06 5:16 3 103 5.51 2.30 2.14 5.28 3:06 4 104 4.26 3.19 3.35 4.17 5:10 Water 1.09 0.15 5 105 7.09 3.40 4.30 5.57 6:40 6 106 8.34 4.28 4.52 6.41 8:59 7 107 7.21 2.37 2.59 4.15 3:48 8 108 9.55 6.28 12.35 9.54 9:01 Water 1.06 0.16 9 109 18.37 10.34 11.39 12.22 14:56 10 110 8.28 4.32 5.28 5.26 5:01 11 111 5.39 5.01 4.58 5.16 6:28 Water 0.46 0.14 12 112 22.25 18.22 14.14 42.37 19:09 13 113 3.54 5.12 2.39 2.47 3:35 Water 1.19 14 114 18.31 11.42 9.46 10.46 11:20 15 115 8.36 5.08 5.37 7.23 9:44 Water -- 16 116 5.41 4.26 3.16 6.46 5:30 17 199 1.56 1.07 1.17 2.11 1:44 Finish 0.36 ? 0.36 0:42 TOTAL 153.39 98.25 99.20 145.00 126:12 DAY 2: 1 151 8.03 13.27 6.00 14.55 6:17 2 152 5.16 4.44 4.47 15.16 4:51 3 153 4.31 3.25 3.48 3.41 4:19 4 154 5.11 2.54 3.36 8.51 3:10 5 155 1.23 1.03 1.05 | 1:23 Water 0.50 0.19 | 6 156 8.08 6.38 7.03 11.26 9:02 7 157 22.25 7.26 8.43 8.40 8:43 Water 1.28 0.08 ~1:00 8 158 9.00 10.06 7.15 15.10 9:50 9 159 16.49 15.12 11.02 21.37 15:09 Water 1.33 10 160 9.19 6.20 5.45 23.49 7:27 11 161 9.50 5.50 6.39 8.02 10:30 12 162 13.41 6.03 6.30 7.35 | Water 1.22 | 13 163 14.26 7.25 6.35 11.12 22:28 14 164 19.30 4.35 5.79 9.21 | Water 1.39 | 15 299 8.00 4.20 4.02 6.07 13:31 16 199 1.04 1.09 0.53 1.00 1:08 Finish 0.11 0.10 0.08 0.10 0:09 TOTAL 163.48 90.47 118:56 DAY 1 COMMENTS 1) MK: South on the trail. West over the saddle along the green to the stone field. N: Straight. L: Straight. Hit the fence real hard and lost about 20 sec catching breath and checking for wounds. Michi: Straight. Lost 1 min around the stoney ground east of the control. S: Straight. Took a moment to run directly into the barbed wire fence; managed not to get poked much, fortunately. 2) MK: East to the hill. Contoured to low and ended up at the small southern clearing. North to the green and to the stone. N: Straight. Went too low on the right of control. Lost 1.5 min. L: Same as MK. spent about 30 sec relocating at clearing Michi: Straight. Went too low and ended up at the open south of the control. Lost 3 min. I could not recognise the light green and the clearing around the control. S: East to hill. Contoured too low and a little past the control. 3) MK: Compass straight. This was a mistake becase I didn't really know which pit I hit. I had to search to almost all to find the control. N: Followed the edge of clearing. Came in 30m past control. L: Along trail reading the shape of the edge of the clearing to identify the correct place to enter woods. Michi: I tried to hit the control from the edge of the open west, but I could not tell the correct place. Lost 3 min. S: Along the edge of the clearing. A little slow finding it. 4) MK: Over the hill over the meadow to the three little greens to the control. N: Straight, over the clearing. L: Stayed high to the right. Michi: Straight. S: Through the clearing. Went just south of the thicket. 5) MK: North east to the trail. East on the trail to the meadow. North on the meadow and north west to the to the control. N: Along the side of meadow to large road, then hesitated a little, and went straight thru green, to control. L: Straight over top of hill. Michi: Almost same as MK. S: Same as Michi, bu didn't go west enough and ended up in the clearings to the east of the control. 6) MK: South east to trail junction. On the the trail to its bend. South to control. N: Came to long narrow clearing just east of 5, then followed that, crossed large road, cut acrosss to another road, then straight from bend. L: same as MK Michi: South east to trail junction and straight from it, but could not recognise the clearing and ended up the road south east of the control. Hit from the clearing along the road. Lost 2 min. S: Intended to do the same as MK and L, but after the bend, I somehow started contouring and falling off, until I hit the man-made object to the east. South to the trail and back to the control. 7) MK: To trail. SES between greens. Over clearing to small clearing north of control. To control. N: Direct hit. Noticed the clearings before control. L: Left on trail to clearing, check off gentle ridge and reentrant, incipient stream. Michi: Could not identify the clearings, finally I was on the clearing west of the control and hit from the edge of it. S: To trail and then the big clearing; then south. Saw a control to my right, and didn't think it would mine yet, but had to check anyway - it was mine. 8) MK: Compass to trail junction. West on small trail until the field became more runable. Uphill to root stock. N: Wanted to hit the road at bend but missed to the left and got to junction. Then cut across the opening, veered left on uphill, had to right to get to control. L: Intentionally went left to edge of map, along trail. Flawed route choice because there is no attack point. Got confused by vegetation near control and finally relocated in field 250 meters to west. Michi: Followed the large open west of the control to the junction and straight. Uphill but missed to the right ending up the stone area. Could not identify the large rough open around the control again and looked for control for some time. S: NW-ish to small trail, to large trail, to bend. Up the hill, then over to the west to the control. 9) MK: To trail. West on trail. Compass over medow through forest over meadow through forest to trail. Climbed and contoured to control N: Followed trail/clearings through the upper part of the reentrant, then straight up and contour to control. Looked for a tree in the forest, hmm, I am glad I found it. L: west then south to trail along edge of map. Follow trail around hillside to saddle at the edge of the clearing. Check off thick down the hill in the distance. Michi: Same as Neeme. Felt hard to run fast because of uneven ground and sore blister of the medial side of my right foot. S: SW to the trail on the edge of the map. Across and up the big open reentrant SE of 9 and then contoured to correct reentrant. 10) MK: To trail junction. Trail to meadow. West on meadow. Through forest to control N: Same. L: Same Michi: Same. S: Same. 11) MK: Compass through both re-entrents. Contoured arund hill to control. N: Kept to the right of red line to avoid reentrants. Still had to go through second one. I believe the control was placed lower (further NW) than on map. There was a parallel situation. I was convinced of that when I came to road and ended up much further from bend than I should have. Maybe it's just the feeling I had. L: right to trail and down ridge. Looks faster than going straight Michi: Same as N. I had the same impression. S: Down into the first reentrant, but higher than I thought. Contoured over, found trail just at the spur above 11. Down the spur. 12) MK: Down to trail. Along the trail to the meadow and going up the small trail. Over the hill. Down to the stream. Up to to the green. Along the green to the stream. Along the stream. West to control. N: Followed the big road, then acrosss the clearing at first small trail, followed road again, then took the small path through green and to trail junction, down the reentrant. When it got greener I thought I left stream to the left, but ended up on the another hill on the right. I even crossed that narrow strip of yellow, but thought that another unmapped thingie. Then missed the control again because it was so thick there and I was lost I guess. Lost 4 min. L: Same on the first half. Down stream until it flattened out and then slightly left to the control on the edge of a drop off. Michi: I made the same mistake as Neeme did. As I believed I left the stream to the left, I thought I was just close to the control. Yes, I lost my concentration at that time, and lost where I was completely. It was nightmare that I was wandering in the dark green! S: Same as L. I almost got lured over to the other hill. 13) MK: NW to clearing to first tree to control at second tree. N: Still upset, wasnt paying attention. Veered to left crossed the wrong stream, came down to path to relocate, then back and up. Lost 2 min. L: Straight, over the knoll and down. Michi: NW to clearing, cross the trail, down the reentrant and veered to left. S: Through the clearing, across the reentrant, and then down. 14) MK: Contoured all the way to the control. N: Same, followed paths where I could. Syd and Michi did better running around. L: went down on the trails Michi: I almost gave up the race, then ran slowly on the trail and road. Although it is down and up, I think running the trail is much faster because the control is close to the road and easy to get from the junction. S: Same as L. 15) MK: NW to trail. On trail to trail junction. Trail north to pit. Compass to control N: Road, then straight. L: same as N. Michi: Same as MK. S: Same as MK, but was a little slow finding it. Stared dumbly at my map for a bit while I was 3 meters below it. 16) MK: Compass. Ended up at the eastern root stocks. From there to control. N: Wanted to bounce off trail but missed first trail, took second trail on the right, then realized I was off went down the hill. Lost 1 min. L: angled down and right to trail, down trail to ridge and control Michi: Same as MK. S: Down and right; found an intermediate point (boulder and rootstock with red? control) then over to all the fallen trees. 17) MK: Straight. N: Same. L: Same Michi: Same. S: Same. DAY 2 COMMENTS 1) MK: South on trail to trail junction. Trail east to junction. Trail south. Overshot the by 150 m due to the scale that was different from the day before. Climbed back to control. N: South on trail, then cut across to another trail, compass bearing from the top of the hill, no control. Searched around in that battlefield there, more people started to show up. Went back to trail to try again, ended up in the same place, saw big herd of turkeys around there. Others went further downhill and didnt come back, so I assumed they found control. So I found it too. L: As a pre-starter, there were no turkeys. South on trails, angled up hill towards control. Lots of pits and detail, so I figured I had to be to the south. Went north until the pits ended and found the control. S: I had no turkeys, either. Same as Lans. 2) MK: East to trail. Trail to clearing on the right. Carefully following the features to the control. N: East to trail, hit the trail crossing to the north. Then had to look a little for the control when off the trail, I was too north. L: South of the dark green then had to wander a bit in the area. S: East to the trail, then east to the clearing just north of 2. 3) MK: To trail junction. On trail to meadow. Over meadow to forest. Ended up at green to the north of control. From there to control N: To trail junction, didnt recognize the larger road, cause it seemed like a small path in reality. So I took the other trail and only realized the control was gonna be on my left, not right, when I saw Derek dive off to the right. Followed him more or less. L: Like N, ended up on higher trail by accident, identified it quickly and stayed on higher trail to cliff. S: Took the higher trail; east through the clearing after the junction. 4) MK: Compass to big boulder. From there to control. N: To trail, then diagonally up from the bigger clearing. Ended up highr. Caught up to Derek who had started after me (6 min?) L: Same as N. minus Derek. S: Same as L. 5) MK: Straight. N: Same. L: angle right to trail, down trail to field, field to control. S: Straight. 6) MK: To trail junction. On trail over meadow through forest to meadow Over meadow using compass straight over other meadow to control N: As straight as possible. Used road across the first big clearing. Derek went more to the right. L: stayed on the smaller trail all the way to the field just before the control S: Substituted distance for climb - to the trail and east then south, then followed the clearing edge down. 7) MK: SE to trail. Trail over dam. South east on the first small trail Climbing hill using the compass. That was a huge mistake!! I missed the control (I thought I would easily recognize the tree) and ended up at the trail. Went back on the trail for 100m and down to the control. N: Trail, road, over dam, straight from road crossing. Looked for streams and other stuff. L: Same as N S: Same as N,L. Found the little hill to the west, and was set. 8) MK: Compass to first stream. Contoured around to second and third stream. Hit the third stream above its fork and contoured to control. N: Got sloppy here for no reason. Thought I'd go straight/contour, but I didnt realize the control was much higher, so I veered much left. For a while even held my map 180 degrees wrong way and thought 'Oh my god, where am I going?' then corrected but still ended up going 45 degrees to left. forgot about the last stream too, crossed path at about 400m (sic!) west of where I thought I was, ended up at the big, steep reentrant, followed it east some, completely lost, then returned to trail, went to control. Lost 4 min? L: contoured to trail and made a parallel error identifying fields. entered woods at stream 250 m. west of where I wanted to. Contours didn't match, saw field and corrected with minimal time loss S: Same problem as Neeme. Wandered generally in the right direction until I found myself next to the clearing west of 8. 9) MK: North to trail. West on trail to its. bend. Compass all the way to control. N: Went down to trail, was surprised to see the trail on the opposite side of stream, but wasnt thinking clearly and started running (to make up time, hehe) Then realized I had come too far west on trail. Looked up the hill and decided not to go back, instead went all the way to lake and big roads, then took a path from clearing to near control. Lost 4 min? L: due north, over ridge and across road to second big bend. left road about 250. west of bend, straight to control S: Down to stream, NW up the joining reentrant, around the flat, down and joined the road at the tiny clearing east of the road junction. To the trail junction, along the trails, then over to the tree. 10) MK: West to trail. West on trail. West along green. Down to trail junction. Western trail along green. West over clearing over trail trough forest over clearing to control. N: Went straight towards 10, hit road at second junction N of red line, straight to control from there. L: basically straight, drifted a bit down to north early on. S: Pretty much the same as MK. 11) MK: Compass over meadow to trail. Along trail over big trail over meadow to forest. Through white arond hill to control N: Followed meadow all the way, then cut across small hill before control. L: due north to indistinct trail through thick to main trail. Down trail to junction and south of thick. S: Across clearing/trail/clearing. Tried to go throught the narrow white bit between fight, but kept getting bogged down. 12) MK: Tried to go north and then NE over meadow to trail. Went to far north and ended up at trail. Went ESE over small clearing to bigger clearing to the trail I wanted to hit in the first try. On that trail to big trail. North on trail to small cearing. Over clearing (Trail) along green to big boulder. North to other big boulder. From there to control N: Pretty much straight, followed small clearings to road, then trail, and straight down the hill to control. I just realized I never look at boulders or anything like that to rely on because most of them arent mapped in the bay area. Even paths I've learned to take with caution. L: basically the same as N S: Same as N, except I did use the boulders along the way. 13) MK: To trail. Along trail until it turned west. Compass down the hill. Over stream. Up the hill. Contoured around to stony meadow North along green to control. N: Contour to trail just below excavation, then off the trail when it turned and more or less straight to control. L: small trail all the way to big reentrant. Over ridge at the major spur, and into field as attack point. S: Same as MK. 14) MK: Contoured to control area but couldn't find the control itself. Several people were looking for the control. It took me almost 10 min to find it. I was terrible tired. N: Contoured, ended up lower, saw people storm the control. L: Same as N, but saw fence below instead of people above. S: Same as Neeme. There were so many pits and clearings/runnable forest were so interchangeable, I had a hard time knowing where I was. 15) MK: NWN over fence to fence corner at out of bound area. West to control. N: Contoured, crossed fences at fence intersection, more contour/straight. L: Same as N S: Pretty much the same. 16) MK: Straight. N: Same. L: trail S: Same