Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Good race at Cliff CaveI had a good race (and a good result) at Cliff Cave. I ran the M21 course for this middle distance one-day race. And I won M21!The field was small. But, a win is a win. The top of the result list looked like this: 1. Michael Eglinski 2. Michael Eglin I had a good race. I took safe routes. I orienteered "100 meters in the future." I worked hard. I lost a little time in two places when I had trouble with my glasses. I like to wear clear glasses when I orienteer, especially when there is a chance of a branch hitting my eye and scratching my cornea or pushing my contacts out of place. Cliff Cave was good terrain for glasses. Wearing glasses let me push through some of the green areas without slowing down as much as if I had run without the glasses. At two points a branch hit me in the face. Once my glasses went flying and the other time one of the lenses popped out of the frame. I stopped both times, spending a few seconds getting the glasses back in place. One of the places I lost my glasses was at point 5 (just off the map clip below). My glasses flew off near the control. I stopped, found the glasses and put them back on. I was a little unsure of exactly where I was, but I headed in the right direction and looked around. I spotted the control. It wasn't a spike, but I didn't lose much time. Others lost a lot of time at that control, complaining of a sketchy map. I'm not sure. I may have gotten lucky. Cliff Cave is interesting terrain. I haven't seen other maps of this sort of terrain in the U.S. I suppose there is lots of this sort of sinkhole terrain, but it probably hasn't been mapped for orienteering. posted by Michael | 8:11 PM 
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