Originally Posted by
TimJ
There's no grabbing on to anything, the courses are always tape held up by flimsy plastic stakes. This is mostly grass and dirt so going as wide as possible is just the general way to do it if you can do it? Otherwise, however you can get around it?
I always seem to try to skirt the inside corner as close as possible- like if it's a right turn veer out left a little and turn in next to the fence as much as possible, but it doesn't work very well, I end up almost going outside the course on the left side when I come out of the turn.
widening the corner is definitely a general approach, but how much traction each part of the corner offers is dictates how you take it i.e. early apex if the inside and outside of the turn have traction or the opposite of these if the opposite holds true.
You can also do what happened to me on tuesday cx and just run up on the inside at the last second and early apex the turn slowing everyone down, but maintaining good position. I hated that it was done to me, but I cant argue its effectiveness.