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Thursday Nov 17, 2005 #
Orienteering 3:00:00 [2]
Today was my final vetting of the Tree Huggers Adventure Run race course. Bent will be doing it tomorrow, and hopefully the flags will all stay up until Saturday!. It was a beautiful, cold day with heavy snow flurries at times. Yahoo, it's almost time to get our XC skis out!
I'm predicting a winning time just under 90 minutes, using my usual rule of thumb that anyone who has ever lived in Scandinavia can do anything athletic twice as fast as I can do it. The course is longer than last year, but the higher quality map makes it go faster. The race will probably come down to success on the bonus questions, as it did last year.
I did the entire course in 3 hours, mostly running at medium speed, and making occasional stops to beef up the visiblity of some flags and word clues. I spent 5 minutes wandering around, unable to find one of my own controls when I came at it from a different direction - oops! The biggest diversion was 10 minutes of looking for ThunderDog when she suddenly dashed off into 40 acres of farmland where some aggressive guard dogs live, and disappeared from view. It wasn't pretty - I was running around in thigh-deep weeds, calling her name, blowing my whistle, and eventually crying when there was no sign of her. Just as I was about to phone Bent to tell him that he had to cancel his patients for the afternoon and come search for her, she appeared around the side of the farmhouse, looking very pleased with herself. Phew!!!
I'm predicting a winning time just under 90 minutes, using my usual rule of thumb that anyone who has ever lived in Scandinavia can do anything athletic twice as fast as I can do it. The course is longer than last year, but the higher quality map makes it go faster. The race will probably come down to success on the bonus questions, as it did last year.
I did the entire course in 3 hours, mostly running at medium speed, and making occasional stops to beef up the visiblity of some flags and word clues. I spent 5 minutes wandering around, unable to find one of my own controls when I came at it from a different direction - oops! The biggest diversion was 10 minutes of looking for ThunderDog when she suddenly dashed off into 40 acres of farmland where some aggressive guard dogs live, and disappeared from view. It wasn't pretty - I was running around in thigh-deep weeds, calling her name, blowing my whistle, and eventually crying when there was no sign of her. Just as I was about to phone Bent to tell him that he had to cancel his patients for the afternoon and come search for her, she appeared around the side of the farmhouse, looking very pleased with herself. Phew!!!