Lepregaine, with Sherpes as teammate. 6 hr event, salt fork state park. 50F, sunny for first half (which we ran about half of). cooler and cloudy second half (which we progressively walked more of). With only one map between us (rules), it was a less than satisfying orienteering experience, but the navigation was simple, and a good excuse to practice memory-o. We made several bonehead errors, probably losing half an hour or 45 minutes on them (at walking pace they tend to be big). Got all but 3 controls (and also found a 'pot of gold' control (map at a normal control to a nearby control not on the map), but were beat by 3 seconds to the gold there!). The Hartmann's won (all but one control), and kept up a very steady but slightly slower pace than us - but they navigated much cleaner (shows what happens when a team has worked together before!). Map was usgs 1:24, and better than i'd feared, but not as good as it should be. It's a great venue - we should consider mapping it properly for the club. Good ride down with the lost pole, and great conversation. Fun event, warts and all. I am not nearly as sore afterwards as I feared I would be.
Later: Alexis figured distance on gmaps, and posted a
blog entry on it. He estimates 37k actual travel distance, and I VERY roughly estimate the crow-fly distance as 25k. Elevation gain wildly estimated from gmaps. Since we only got one map and Alexis has ours, it's hard to postmortem this.
Even later: we took 4/35 or so teams, well out of third (2 controls at least), and only 10 points ahead of 5th. This is much better than i expected.