Training Log Archive: mikeminium

Mounds SRA. Union County orienteering practice. Kids ran courses (yellow or white) from day 2 of 2014 US Interscholastic Champs.

10 students present, 5 HS, 5 MS.
depot set streamers for the yellow course and jpreeder set streamers for the white.

Event: OLOU Winter Sprint Series #4 and #5
 

OLOU Waverly Park Sprint - short.
Map could use some improvement. I quickly discovered that trails could not be relied upon. Both maps claimed to be 1:4000 scale, but they were clearly significantly different from each other. It remains uncertain whether either was actually 1:4000. If the north lines are 250 meters apart, then the long map is very close to 1:4000; the short one appears to be somewhere around 1:2500. Regardless of the shortcomings, I still had fun.

Getting back home proved to be an entertaining exercise in off-interstate route choice - on the way down to the meet I had observed the aftermath of a major accident and at least two significant secondary crashes in the eight or ten mile backup on the northbound side. A long section was still seriously backed up when I started home, but I managed to get around it without too much lost time.

OLOU Waverly Park Sprint - long

Event: OCIN TROL #7 - Big Bone Lick
 

Setting cameras at 2 controls, setting up sign to start, turning on strobes at the "runners crossing" signs.

Red course at Big Bone Lick State Park. Pleasantly warm (short sleeve shirt for running), but very wet and sloppy conditions. Muddy pants above the knees before I reached the second control.

OCIN_Big_Bone_Lick_Jan_2017_6 Red - Splits

Portion of the Adena Trace Trail, south from the causeway, out and back.