Training Log Archive: mikeminium

Event: MVOC - Bill Yeck Park - Turkey Hunt & Jr Champs
 

Green course at Bill Yeck Park in Centerville. Matt "King of Pain" Bond demonstrated the Kruschev principle of "we will bury": by hiding controls behind unmapped trees and even sticking one down inside a rotten stump that was allegedly a "rootstock". Still fun and I can't say I lost significant time on any of the burials.

Afterwards, Sam & I enjoyed a late lunch at City BBQ with Stryder, Heidi, Morgan and Jameson. Yum.

shadowing Reed on yellow.

shadowing Reed on yellow.

checking the trails at the re-opened Indian Creek west. Did a couple minor map updates, but mainly this was just a walk-through.

yard and garden. digging and wheelbarrow.

golf, 9 holes at Hillview.

completed and filled in remainder of drainage trench.

setting and collecting controls for school O' club. 1.6 km course. Sam did it in 11 minutes and change; Ethan was 2nd around 19.

MVOC and COO jointly sponsored the first Buckeye Goat Highlander in the steep terrain of Tar Hollow State Park and State Forest. I ended up in third, several minutes behind Tom Svobodny, and chasing but never quite catching Marek Polinski for the last couple controls. Matt Bond was 4th after being in the lead at 14 and 15, then opting to do a shorter but climbier route to 16. There was no option to skip a control, but there was a forked control decision. Alexander Preobrazhensky did a nice job on the map, given a USGS base, and also set an interesting and challenging course.

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Control pickup at Buckeye Goat Highlander.