Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, January 20, 2003 R is for report from GeorgiaMary and I went to the A-meet in Georgia on the weekend. Here is a short report:Big Hills The map had a big hill that we climbed a couple of times on the first day. The second day was not nearly as hilly. One the first day, my course was 11.08 km with 610 meters of climb on my route. On the second day, my course was 7.69 km with 370 meters of climb on my route. The climb was a bit more extreme on the first day than it seems from just the length and climb numbers because about 2+ km was flat. So, the 610 meters of climb came in about 9 km of course. The hills told me that I'm not in shape to run a hilly course two days in a row. I suffered a lot on the second day's climbs. Lots of kids The event was the Interscholastic Champs and drew several hundred school kids. That's always good to see. U.S. O' seems to have far too few kids. Courses; OK but not inspired The course setting was ok, but not inspired. The courses had plenty of direction and length changes (a good thing!), but not much technique change. I suspect that with some work you could get some more interesting route choices. I'd have like to have a few legs with side-of-the-hill orienteering (where you've got to go along the side of a hill gaining or losing a line or two). The course setter squeezed a long course in a fairly small area. The first day's course was over 11 km on a map that wasn't much more than 2 square km. Map was OK The map was OK, but not without some problems. The contours were a bit rough. Point features were over-mapped. Some of the cliffs and rock piles, in particular, were too small to be mapped. But, the open forest made those features a bit more apparent than they'd have been if the woods were thicker. Some people felt there was some green (light green at least) missing. I thought the runnability was mapped fine. Cold The newspaper said it was colder in Atlanta than it'd been for three years. It got down to about 14 F at night. When we ran it felt like it was in the mid-30s F. Not super cold, but not what I'd expected for Atlanta. I won Ross Burnett and I had a good race. I beat him by a couple of minutes the first day and he was ahead of me the second day. When the times were added up, I got him by less than a minute. The meet didn't draw a very strong M21 field, but it is always fun to win. I think Ross is on the Canadian team (he was in 2002), so he's not too shabby. A bit of day 1 map The map shows a bit of the M21 course on the first day. We went over the big hill in the middle a couple of times. 
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