Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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| okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering |
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Monday, March 22, 2004 A few notes on the St Louis raceA high quality meetSLOC did a good job with the meet. The map and courses were fine. As far as I could tell, everything went well. As Mary said -- they knew what a good quality meet was, they knew what to get right. Let's hope SLOC hosts another A-meet in the not-too-distant future. And, let's hope SLOC inspires some other clubs. Hmmm....maybe it is time for OK and PTOC to think about hosting another A-meet? Nice map This is the first time I've run on a non-offset map and felt the map wasn't a disappointment. I was able to read the map without any trouble, even at 1:15,000. Eric said the maps were printed on a color laser printer and on good paper. He said the key was the high quality paper. I don't know the details and I don't know much about printing technology. But, whatever SLOC did, the map was fine. Randy found the map "100% acceptable." Al Smith Memorial The event was a memorial for Al Smith. The meet was a nice way to remember Al and to recognize the things he did for orienteering. It was good to see Edie at the meet. I think she appreciated that the orienteers recognized Al's contributions. Red course I haven't scanned my routes, but Peter Gagarin did. Check out his routes on the red course. The day two courses were more interesting because the course took you through a bit more variety of terrain and gave you a few more navigational challenges. For the most part the orienteering problems were keeping contact at high speed (the forest is quite open) and shifting technique when you got in some thicker forest with lower visibility. On the second day a couple of the legs forced you to navigate a bit carefully in the middle of the leg, something a bit unusual (take a look at Peter's map for day 2, legs 2-3 and 4-5). With some work I think the course setters could have given us one or two longer legs with some route choice, but overall the courses were fine. Old men's Tio Mila H43 Kavlen is a relay race in Sweden -- a Tio Mila for the old men. For the M43 class, the minimum age is 35 and the team's average has to be 43. Legs 1-3 are forked, 5.5 km night Leg 4 is not forked, 9 km night Leg 5-6 are forked, 4.5 km dawn Legs 7-8 are forked, 7.5 km day Leg 9 is forked, 4.5 km. Leg 10 is forked 9.5 km. There were a lot of old men performing pretty well at the SLOC meet, including Mikell Platt, Tom Hollowell, Peter Gagarin, Dan Meenehan and Randy Hall. Not so far back were people like Nadim and Tom Bruce. I'll have to take a look at a few more results and come up with a U.S. "fantasy" H43 Tio Mila team. posted by Michael | 8:11 PM 
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