okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Today's race at Blue Springs
Here is the course I ran at Blue Springs today. Typical east-Kansas City terrain. The map was at the very unusual scale of 1:10,500 (apparently to fit the map on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper).
It might not look interesting, but this leg was fun. The best way to run the leg is to ignore the vegetation detail and just run the hill looking for the control and counting on the road to stop you. But, I thought it'd be more fun (and better practice) to read the vegetation detail along the leg. There aren't many opportunities around here to run and read lots of features along the entire route.
