okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Friday, May 17, 2002
Pre-champs training
We did a bit of pre-champs training at French Creek this morning. I\'m not sure how relevant the training is to tomorrow\'s race at Mt. Penn.
Mt Penn is a big hill (much like French Creek areas), but is very close to the town of Reading. I expect Mt Penn will show signs of heavy use -- lots of trails, for example. Area that are near cities often have a lot of small trails that aren\'t on the map but can make for good running.
One of the toughest type of legs in French Creek (and probably at Mt Penn) is when you have to go down one of the blandish hillsides to a control on a point feature. It is easy to drift and hard to be sure you have gone far enough down the hill (without having gone too far). I practiced one or two of those sort of legs at French Creek today.
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posted by Michael |
1:10 PM
