Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 Nomeland on his leg at Tio MilaArild Nomeland ran the 2nd leg at Tio Mila for Kristiansand OK's winning team and wrote about it at the KOK elite blog.Here is a rough translation of a bit of what he wrote: I was with a pack of 6-7 teams on the way to the start triangle. I decided to run the left route choice on trails in order to get a safe and good start. None of the teams around me went that way. I have to say that my pulse went up a bit when I didn't see any headlamps either ahead or behind me. I tried to push hard without getting too much lactic acid. On the way into the first control I saw a lot of the known teams and know that I'd had a good start.  If you can read Norwegian, the original article is worth a look. If you can't, you can check out the Google Translate version. It isn't perfect (and some of the translation is a bit strange) but you'll get the idea. My New Toy I picked up a Radio Shack Infrared Thermometer yesterday. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, but I can tell you that the glass of Smithwicks sitting next to the keyboard is at 51.5 degrees and tastes good. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 9:07 PM 
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I was really surprised by that leg. My brain said the trail was the way to go, unless the woods was just insanely fast and daylight. The choice is 1, navigate for a long way, or 2, run brainlessly really fast for a long time. Hmmmm.
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I don't consider myself a master coursesetter---I know there's a lot I don't know. But my eye thinks control 1 needs to be a few hundred meters closer to the start triangle, on the same line, more or less. This gives the trail route a longer attack from the trail. And the fact that a lot of people didn't take the trail is proof against my eyeball. |
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