okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Testing routes at Shawnee Mission Park
I tested four routes on the leg below (click for higher resolution). This is a section of the forest that will be used for next Saturday's Kansas Orienteering Champs.
The forest at this part of Shawnee Mission Park is fairly nice. It is much better than most Kansas terrain. The trails are used by mountain bikers. For the most part the trails are very fast, easy running.
The leg is about 550 meters.
The contour interval is 3 meters.
Can you put the routes in order, fastest to slowest?
Can you put the routes in order, fastest to slowest? If you want to try, make your picks and post them using the comment feature. To make it tougher, for each leg make an estimate of how much time you think it took me.
To give you a start, I'll tell you that the fastest route took me 3:51.
I'll post the results in a few days.
And it isn't quite a hint, but you can see a bit of the forest and trails in a video I shot at the end of today's training. I loaded the short video (maybe 25 seconds) to putfile.com at:
