Orienteering 50:00 [1]
Setting points, and confirming a flag placement.
Great day for a meet! Shout out to Tizoc Cruz-Gonzalez as a brand new meet director with me, cedarcreek for helping with control codes (saved us) and to Dr. Jess, runninghils, Madman, AliC and Angela for helping! There were 2 boy scout troops, a trail life group and lots of new people. We had about 65 starts, which I thought was awesome considering 1) there was a major freeway accident that prevented many from getting to the meet and 2) it was slightly chilly, we had snow the day before!
What I love about this park is the varied terrain, and I sought to feature some of my favorite areas. Such as the cliff/rock outcropping, an isthmus, gorgeus long views, sandy hills, dense vegetation and very fussy glacial contours and form lines. God Belss Tizoc, moving some of the controls into thickness. Well, he got feedback. :)
We predicted the winners at about 90 min. That's what Voit did, and Hail to the Chimp was right behind. And Cooper Green did super, and although it's home turf for him, he shared that we took him places that he had not experienced. And, of course...the other non-mortals (Mr. Dubs, guskov, ccmarie) were awesome. It was long, 9.1k. And we did a drop down option to Green, and Green was almost the same as Red, except minus 4 controls.
I loved the trail and scout groups. They did white, then came back to try yellow and then a few borrowed the orange map just to bump around. Love seeing their enthusiasm.
Wondering if I should volunteer to do Highland next, and see what others would do with ILRA....and I could race it! :)