Training Log Archive: mikeminium

Flagging 14 controls at Mounds SRA for Union County practice. 2.8 km yellow course, marked only with pink streamer tapes. Upon finishing, the kids had to recite the story which revealed itself a word or two at a time on the tapes.

Warm up jog from parking lot to start with the kids; back to the cars, and a little other back and forth.

Practice today - only 9 kids present - 8 middle school and 1 high school.

Kids did a 2.8 km yellow course. Each control had a pink tape with the control number and one or more words that contributed to a story. Upon completion, the finisher needed to recite the complete story.

38:02 Nate B
39:47 Noah P
41:15 mpage
41:16 Alex Y
42:25 Luke B
44:22 Priscilla
46:40 Eric P
50:40 Gideon
82:25 Nick C

The story...

Prologue: "One day I went orienteering and ..."

1 I
2 heard a
3 gigantic
4 monster
5 crashing
6 in the trees.
7 I thought
8 it must be
9 a Bigfoot!
10 Then I saw
11 it was
12 really
13 only
14 (insert name of your favorite orienteer)

The guilty course setter declines to disclose the actual person named on control 14. Suffice to say it generated lots of laughs from the team.