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Friday, January 05, 2007
Route choice test at SMP
Take a look at the leg below.
1. Which route is fastest? 2. How much slower are each of the other routes?
I ran the three options yesterday. I ran at an easy, but steady, pace. My time on the fastest route was 6:30.
The leg is about 800 meters long. The contour interval on the SMP map are 3 meters, so the hills aren't as big as they look at first glance. The trails are all nice to run on. The forest is fairly open and fast.
I think it is pretty easy to pick out the fastest route. But, for me it is a bit harder to pick out how much slower the other options are.
I think the best route of all might be to take C to the end of that 2nd trail section around 2/3 of the way through the route, and then cut across to route B to approach the control.