A slightly modified version of the M21 course at the 1972 US Champs, or maybe of an M21 course if was a two-champs? Slightly modified because the start/finish area was not available, so the beginning and end were different.
Also the map was quite different, 1:15 based on Eric Weyman's 1983 mapping, not the 1:24 used in 1972.
An interesting run, both good and bad, though overall certainly more good than bad. Might as well get the bad out of the way first.... :-)
-- My orienteering was a little shaky, especially to #1, couldn't adjust to (or read) the map, blew off at least a couple minutes. Also misses at #2 (a minute or two), #5 (at most a minute), at #6 (at most a minute, lucky it wasn't more), at #8 (30-45 seconds), and at #9 (a minute). Not so good.
-- My minute or two at #2 is only part of the story. Never found the control. Got to the area and saw two guys claiming to have been there quite a while. Did a quick look around and then split. Balter found it, figured it was 100-150 meters to the north. Glad I didn't spend much time searching.
-- Had a really hard time reading the map, could extract only minimal info on the run, many many times had to stop and then still really struggled to read it. I assumed it was just the 1:15, hardly ever get that these days for the courses I run. But then back home I pulled out the 1983 version, offset printed, and it was substantially better, especially the contour lines.
And then the good....
-- A beautiful day, nice and cool, and the legs had some energy. Ran up a lot of hills. Started getting a little heavy-legged the last 25 minutes, but even that was not so bad. Really happy about that, given I was out for two hours. Still struggling with the rocky areas and the hemlock deadfall, but that is a given these days.
-- If there is going to be a bad control, a local meet is the place to do it. Not stressed at all about it, just moved on. So nice not to have any reason to be bummed or pissed or obnoxious. :-)
-- Compared splits with Greg. He was killing me early on, getting me by a normal margin in the middle, and I got him by a little on the last three. Guess the course was just too short.
Are there results anywhere from 1972? Would be interesting to see.
Today's map (click on map for a larger version) --
And the 1983 map (click on map for a larger version). Notice, for example, just east of #9 on the hillside, how much sharper the contours are. Both maps were scanned and condensed the same way.