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| # Posted 2008-07-26 22:32:20 | |
| RLShadow: | No disagreement about your assessment of the sprint course. I might be a little biased because I did so badly (mainly because of extreme difficulty in locating #2). I can't say for sure if it would have made any difference -- but there's a chance I might have been more successful with #2 if the map had been at 1:5000 like it was supposed to be for a sprint, and if the control descriptions were more in view.
Of course, having the vegetation mapped better would also help, and I'm partly to blame for that since I've been involved in updating the Webster map on a couple of occasions over the years, and I know I haven't paid a lot of attention to the parts of the map in question here (mainly in the #1-#2-#3 area, and in the area between #9 and the finish that you mentioned). But when I set courses, either at Webster or anywhere, I'll either avoid putting a non-trivial control in an area that I can see isn't mapped real well, or else do a map update in that section to make it a suitable placement. |
| # Posted 2008-07-27 04:03:11 | |
| bishop22: | I know that we had no course setter for this meet as of a few weeks ago, so I definitely want to cut Sergey some slack, but a course setter must avoid a map's weak points. I did not have much trouble with C2, due to luck. I was planning on running around the "dark green", but the light or medium green was nasty enough that I went back to the control because I had seen a break in the brush. I kept following some breaks on a rough bearing and popped out to the area with the control.
And I don't want to be too hard on the mappers. The Webster vegetation changes drastically season-to-season and year-to-year. And I think the map said Joel and Ravi (?) did the last updates and I commend them for giving it a shot (I wish I had time to try the two controls I missed, especially the one in that rough clearing, to see if the new trail mapping is better than on the old map. The old trails seemed to be deer trails, not real trails, and tended to move and become overgrown. But last fall during XC, I stumbled on a new-ish trail in that area that still had some flagging tape showing the way. |
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