okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Monday, August 13, 2007
Sprint Relay
Yesterday's race was a sprint relay. It was a blast.
The format was simple - three 2.4 km courses. The courses were forked. You could watch the runners on most of the first leg and see them pass two spectator controls. The best time was a fast 11:24 (turned in by a very, very good orienteer, Marius Bjugan from Norway).
John Fredrickson set the course. I thought he did a good job. The course was fast but interesting. It wasn't too physically demanding (which is important for a race at high altitude). Thanks.
I hope the sprint relay format gets used again. I'm not sure how best to fit it into a regular A-meet. It might work well as the second race on a day with a middle distance or individual sprint.
Giant Insect
When I looked our my office window, I spotted a giant insect on the glass.
What's that big blob on the way to #1? Is that sand? And were the green X's obvious? I just ran a race on Sunday with green O's being completely indistinguishable from their surroundings, so I am curious.
The blob was bare earth. The green Xs were individual pine trees. Most of them were distinct. The ones near the edge of white forest were less distinct.
