okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Saturday, July 12, 2008
A look at the sprint model map
The sprint model map from the WOC:
First impression - lots of vegetation detail in the open area. Second impression - hmmm...nothing really.
The open park land looks like good terrain for some short legs with direction changes. That's the sort of terrain where it can be easy for a runner to skip a control.
The built up city terrain looks like good terrain for route choice (with maybe a control or two tucked in little alleys. I'd guess there will be a bunch of legs where the runners will have to decide which way to run around a building, but it won't really make a difference which route they select. But, there may also be a couple of legs where the route choice will matter. The trick for the runners could be to recognize the important route choice legs versus the unimportant route choice legs.
