Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, April 10, 2002 Some thoughts about last Saturday's chaseHere are my routes on the chase.The chase start was based on places from the prologue. I had the fastest prologue time, so I started first. The next start was 15 seconds later and so on. For example, Gary Thompson had the third fastest time and started 30 seconds after me. 1. The way we were lined up, it looked like we'd be heading south to the first control. So, I started off in that direction. I oriented the map quickly and noticed that to get to the first control I actually needed to go west. So, I made a quick 90 degree turn and headed off in the right direction. A straight route to 1 looks ok. But, the grass can be rough. My route sticks to trails. It turned out the trail just on the back side of the hill was slow -- there were a lot of downed trees (from the ice storm). In places I left the trail and ran in the woods. Snorkel caught me very quickly (Mary told me afterwards that he jumped the gun). I heard footsteps behind me as I crossed the creek. Snorkel was right behind me on the trail up the hill. 2. I thought about going all the way down to the clearings. Instead, I took the small trail a bit down the hill from 1. Snorkel left 1 and headed back up the hill to the trail. I gained a bit on the route choice, but not much (I'd guess I got to 2 about 75 meters ahead). 3. I planned to go a bit straighter to 3. But, as I left 2 the running was better going the way I went. I wondered if Gary Thompson was far behind. But, I didn't look for him. I didn't see any point in looking back. 4. I didn't want to go straight because I was worried the forest would be too thick. So, I made use of the trail. When I crossed the stream I got a bit hung up in some vicious thorns. I backed up. Snorkel found a better way through and got ahead of me. There is a bit of white forest with a distinct vegetation boundary near number 4. You could see it from a long ways away. I saw it when I was about 1/4 of the way to 4. 5. On the map my route looks ridiculous. But, the yellow areas near 4 were quite overgrown and rough. I stuck to deer trails (there are a lot of deer trails at Monkey Mountain and they offer some good running). 6. Snorkel went further to the right (staying much lower on the hillside leaving 5). The two routes are equal. We reached the control together. 7 and 8 and finish. Just running. Snorkel let me go when we reached the road. He walked in. I ran. posted by Michael | 1:10 PM 
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