okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Georgia on my mind
The second part of today's M21 course:
I was mostly satisfied with my race. Tennessee's best orienteer destroyed me by about 18 minutes over just under 10K. On the other hand, I think I managed my race fairly well, though I got quite tired of climbing the hills. I haven't seen final results. When I left I was 3rd about a minute back of Vlad.
One of the strange features of today's race was how noisy it was in the forest. The terrain is covered by several inches of lose, dead leaves. Running makes a constant rustling sound. You had to make an effort to come to a complete dead standstill at each control if you wanted to hear the SI unit "beep."
