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Monday Oct 1, 2007 #
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Not feeling too bad after the Boulder Dash -- very few scratches, no real soreness, hamstring is fine, no sticks in the eye, and O' skills are still intact, only complaint is I keep tweeking my right ankle, would be nice if it went away but it seems not to be, been bothering me on and off for about four months.
But no real reason not to sign up for the Highlander.
Lots of people had a hard time at the Boulder Dash. I don't think it was because of the accuracy of the map. I'd guess the main factors were the visibility in the terrain and the legibility of the map.
The visibility in the terrain was variable, but generally rather low, sometimes very low. The shakier your O' skills are and the less your confidence, the more this makes a difference.
And for some people, i think they just couldn't read the details on the map. So when the controls were in detailed areas, they just weren't getting an accurate sense of the lay of the land in the vicinity of the control.
As far as O' skills, and perhaps the lack thereof, I'd suggest giving some thought to what Spike put on his blog today, see the second part of his entry for October 1. If your control is on a boulder, and all you are looking for is a boulder (and not tuned in to the features around the boulder), you're just asking for trouble.
But no real reason not to sign up for the Highlander.
Lots of people had a hard time at the Boulder Dash. I don't think it was because of the accuracy of the map. I'd guess the main factors were the visibility in the terrain and the legibility of the map.
The visibility in the terrain was variable, but generally rather low, sometimes very low. The shakier your O' skills are and the less your confidence, the more this makes a difference.
And for some people, i think they just couldn't read the details on the map. So when the controls were in detailed areas, they just weren't getting an accurate sense of the lay of the land in the vicinity of the control.
As far as O' skills, and perhaps the lack thereof, I'd suggest giving some thought to what Spike put on his blog today, see the second part of his entry for October 1. If your control is on a boulder, and all you are looking for is a boulder (and not tuned in to the features around the boulder), you're just asking for trouble.
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