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Saturday May 22, 2010 #
7 AM
orienteering 2:41:20 5.53 mi (29:10 / mi)
ahr:98 max:126 shoes: saloman
Hanging streamers at Norwottuck, mainly for Ross and Sam for training. Had Valerie for company. A pleasant walk, except for the continual reminders that my legs have no energy at all.
Hanging streamers can be interesting. It's one thing when you are course setting and you go out to fieldcheck the points -- if something doesn't seem right, or the feature is not sufficiently distinct, then you just don't use it. But when the course is already determined, then you just have to hang it in the right place, even if it is bogus. Had just one really bogus one today, so not so bad.
One thing you notice going slowly is how the map is. Norwottuck has the usual stuff you would see on almost any map -- you could quibble with the green, or the marshes, or the rocks, or the contours -- but mostly that stuff is within reasonable tolerances. The one thing that is really insufficient is the trail network, mostly the bike trails that have been added over the years (and mostly were being added during and just after Clint was doing the last update, so I'm definitely not picking on him). For anyone one using the map who has not orienteered too much, I would guess it would be a real problem, since trails are one of the main things you rely on.
Today's stroll.
Hanging streamers can be interesting. It's one thing when you are course setting and you go out to fieldcheck the points -- if something doesn't seem right, or the feature is not sufficiently distinct, then you just don't use it. But when the course is already determined, then you just have to hang it in the right place, even if it is bogus. Had just one really bogus one today, so not so bad.
One thing you notice going slowly is how the map is. Norwottuck has the usual stuff you would see on almost any map -- you could quibble with the green, or the marshes, or the rocks, or the contours -- but mostly that stuff is within reasonable tolerances. The one thing that is really insufficient is the trail network, mostly the bike trails that have been added over the years (and mostly were being added during and just after Clint was doing the last update, so I'm definitely not picking on him). For anyone one using the map who has not orienteered too much, I would guess it would be a real problem, since trails are one of the main things you rely on.
Today's stroll.
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