Discussion: Flying Pig Updates

PREVIEW MAPS were mailed Monday. If you don't get yours by Friday, let us know.

FRIDAY FISH DINNER will be offered at St Mary Church in Oxford, serving from 5:30 to 6:30 pm

CHILD SITTING will not be offered since we received no requests by the cut-off date. But if you have an emergency need let us know right away & we'll see what we can work out. I have a couple parents and teens who might be willing to sit if needed.

ONLINE ENTRY closes this weekend. We are still accepting entries without the late fee.

Online registration and Event Information page

I still have some HOUSING spaces available with OCIN members. Let me know right away if you need a place to stay.

Got my beautiful preview maps in the mail today. Thanks for the promptness and quality! Looking forward to the Pig!

Are you looking forward to mud and muck that almost always comes with the Flying Pig and sometimes the dramatic weather changes from Friday to Sunday that also seem to go with the PIG. With the weather we have been having the last 2 weeks I'm sure that we could have some of both of these things and that is what makes the Pig the PIG! See you there Boris!

FREE SHOWERS will be available Sunday afternoon at Hueston Woods Campground, less than 2 km drive (and slightly shorter walk) from the Sunday finish.

The Course and Map Notes page is still undergoing updating, but the course statistics (length, climb, etc) are now posted.

Online REGISTRATION CLOSES TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT Eastern Time.

I am looking for a ride on Friday morning from either Columbus or Dayton. I can make it to a convenient pickup location.

Ride found, thanks!

Hi, will start times be up sometime soon, so that travel plans can be coordinated?
Thanks!

They were set last night and are being reviewed for any errors, and should be up by tonight.

Thanks Mike!

Start List is posted on the OCIN site. We were not able to get the o-signup site to accept the upload, so you must go here for now to find it. I hope and expect we will solve the upload problem soon.

Sortable Start List is now on the O-signup website.

And the Pig is upon us once again !!!

We have enough extra maps to accept a few day-of-event entries on ALL courses.

Canadians, your currency is welcome at check-in, at reasonable exchange rate. Currently about $1.04.

Preliminary split times and photos for Friday. More results and photos will be linked here as they become available.

... and here are the saturday photos

I'll have a lot of photos coming this week after I get home and have time to work on them

Results for all days are posted. The 3-day total awards file still needs a little cleanup before it can be put up. Some photos are already up and many more should follow. Be sure to check the "lost clothing" list at the top of the results page for a couple nice warm-up jackets and parts that appear to be from a knee brace or similar.

Mike, a big thanks to you and the OCIN team for another superb FP event- great course setting and execution. Thanks :-)

Great courses Mike....as expected. Congrats to the crew for a well run event.

Yes--OCIN is at the top of the charts in the US when it comes to consistently high quality events. Mike and his crew deserve a lot of credit for doing this year in, year out.

Awesome job again OCIN!!! Thank you for a great event!

Another fun Pig, and without mud or snow! Thanks to OCIN for all the work

Ditto to j-man's comments. Thanks again to OCIN!

Thx to OCIN and Mike for the great Orienteering weekend. The weather supported as well. Looking forward for the next year.

Thank you, OCIN! It has been a long winter and this was a great event for getting back into the woods.

Mike and entire team,

Thank you again for putting infamous Flying Pig again! Each year we are looking forward to enjoying challenging courses with many flavors set to the highest standards!

With deep respect,

Velichko familty

Next year there's a chance for those of you collecting A-meet states... although at least one A meet day was held previously in Kentucky, in October of 1996, not that many people had a chance to participate. Flying Pig XVI will feature three events at three venues in Kentucky, and support from Kentucky Sports Authority, an official partner of Orienteering USA.

congrats sam for getting 1st and hunter getting 3rd good job

Photos from all 3 days: http://www.flickr.com/photos/furlong47/sets/721576...

A request: Please enter your course into Routegadget. And if you're a top finisher or had some fastest splits, then Pretty please with sugar on top.

On behalf of OCIN, I'd like to thank everyone for your comments, both good and bad. We really appreciate that you keep coming back to Cincinnati every year, and we do what we do because you keep coming back.

This is something I said at the awards ceremony on Sunday, and I'll repeat it here because a lot of people had already left:

We had a lot of volunteers this year. In the past I was a vetter and a course setter, and this year was my first year running the SportIdent download. One thing that's always been easy for me and for the other volunteers (yeah, even course setters) is that the job is well-defined and you know what it will take to be successful.

That's true for everyone except Mike Minium. Mike is the event director, and his job is neither well-defined nor finite. He does so much to make the Flying Pig successful. I don't know how he does it.

Thanks, Mike.

Thanks for all the great comments. Looking forward to seeing more routes in route gadget. I'm also expecting to get another batch of photos up soon.

speaking of RouteGadget, is there an easy way to upload the GPS track from a Garmin 205 into it? I drew my routes this time as I've done in the past, but this time I also had a GPS track available. I saw Nikolay Nachev uploaded his from a GPS track.

look for the "GPS" link in the upper right once you are in the RG map/event view. You'll need a GPX file of your route which you can export via Garmin Training Center, Garmin Connect, or AP.

Saturday photos from water control 106 have been linked from the Results and Photos page. Thanks Wayne Wauligman for some great photos.