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Friday Oct 28, 2011 #
Event: US Night & Relay Champs
8 PM
Orienteering race 1:31:04 [3] *** 7.0 km (13:01 / km)
spiked:12/14c shoes: VJ Falcons
National Night O champs.
A great Red course. 7 k, which seems a bit longer than our normal Red courses.
Tentative on the first control, but ran right to it. The second control, I got a bit of course, but flashed a fence with my light, realized my error and did a quick 50m adjustment.
#3 was a long leg with a lot of green and slash. I chose a circuitous route that put me on a path on the eastern edge of the map. I attacked from a distinctive tree and quickly found out that the rough open land was tall grasses with downed trees... spiked the control after some good bushwhacking.
#4 was another run through "rough open" ground to a path, then a 90 degree diversion to the straight line path to approach the control from the exact opposite direction from the prior control, skirting the dark green. Spiked it.
#5 was an 1100 meter trek over multiple ravines. No issues here either.
#6 was straight forward with a few steep areas. Fell on my hip here for a nice strawberry souvenier. #7 and #8 were short and breezy.
#9 was my largest bobble. I too a conservative path that avoided all the slash, but somehow ended up doing a 180 and getting significantly off course. I came to some power lines... no power lines on the map???? unfolded the map to find I was on the wrong hill. Crossed the stream and everything started making sense. Lost about 4 minutes though.
9-10 was easy, 10 to 11 was easy also, but I took a weird route. I was not decisive on route choice and did a little rambling.
12 was another 1000m leg with a sea of green in the middle. I navigate well to a path that ended up disappearing into a green slash mess. found the road and stumbled the last 12" to land flat out on the pavement. Nice run down the road and through the open woods to find 12.
12 to the go control was mapped white. It was medium green with a lot of deadfall. It took me twice as long as a similar length leg and all you had to do was bash through to the lights you could see at the end.
Go control to finish was flagged. Spiked it!
Someone let me know if there is a way to draw my route on the map.... GPS didn't work for this event.
A great Red course. 7 k, which seems a bit longer than our normal Red courses.
Tentative on the first control, but ran right to it. The second control, I got a bit of course, but flashed a fence with my light, realized my error and did a quick 50m adjustment.
#3 was a long leg with a lot of green and slash. I chose a circuitous route that put me on a path on the eastern edge of the map. I attacked from a distinctive tree and quickly found out that the rough open land was tall grasses with downed trees... spiked the control after some good bushwhacking.
#4 was another run through "rough open" ground to a path, then a 90 degree diversion to the straight line path to approach the control from the exact opposite direction from the prior control, skirting the dark green. Spiked it.
#5 was an 1100 meter trek over multiple ravines. No issues here either.
#6 was straight forward with a few steep areas. Fell on my hip here for a nice strawberry souvenier. #7 and #8 were short and breezy.
#9 was my largest bobble. I too a conservative path that avoided all the slash, but somehow ended up doing a 180 and getting significantly off course. I came to some power lines... no power lines on the map???? unfolded the map to find I was on the wrong hill. Crossed the stream and everything started making sense. Lost about 4 minutes though.
9-10 was easy, 10 to 11 was easy also, but I took a weird route. I was not decisive on route choice and did a little rambling.
12 was another 1000m leg with a sea of green in the middle. I navigate well to a path that ended up disappearing into a green slash mess. found the road and stumbled the last 12" to land flat out on the pavement. Nice run down the road and through the open woods to find 12.
12 to the go control was mapped white. It was medium green with a lot of deadfall. It took me twice as long as a similar length leg and all you had to do was bash through to the lights you could see at the end.
Go control to finish was flagged. Spiked it!
Someone let me know if there is a way to draw my route on the map.... GPS didn't work for this event.