Nice course at Macedonia from the usual pavilion as the preferred start location (farther north near camping) wasn't available. Only one stinker hill climb, from 3-4, but on a trail so could have been worse. Fun, SL=5.0km; 160m climb by my count. 1:15000 map with hand-drawn course as they had more Brown course runners than expected. I think the Garmin Communicator via Firefox to AP calculation of climb is wrong.
63 degrees at start and mostly sunny so a gorgeous day to be in the woods. Only a few blackflies buzzing around, most annoying on the hill climb to 4 but otherwise not biting so barely noticeable.
My route:
Through an administrative glitch I had the wrong control descriptions, so when I arrived at #1 on my map and found a charcoal platform #50 instead of a stone wall end #49, I was confused, as were Geof C. and Marilyn F. who had the same descriptions. Relocated off the E-W trail to the north and came back to the same place (as circled on the map), and figured out the control descriptions were bogus, and decided to continue on the course without them. (Got there in 13 minutes the first time but puttered around figuring things out, so 75 minutes would have been a good time for me.) No problem finding the controls as they were accurately hung, with the flag in the pit visible from a distance. :-) One dogleg, from 8-9 [perhaps an intentional Saeger-loop], but at least we didn't have to go on the steep/rocky west side of that hill like the Green course did.
On the way to 1, Geof picked up a stray brown lab who stayed with either him or me all the way through the course. No collar, but very well behaved and he obviously does this all the time (trail running, at least). Half the time he located the controls before I did (following previous runners' scents no doubt). :-) I lost him on the way to the finish as he crossed the road to visit the stream for a drink, but he picked up Geof and finished with him a few minutes later. Seems like the owners were parked in the next lot south of where we were.
Thanks, Lyn and George, for all your work, including last minute course design changes! The micro-sprint was fun and not too taxing.