Discussion: Well done!

We were just talking the other day about how to get more people into orienteering. I'm dragging Doug out to the Valley Forge event if it is still going to happen. Might have to keep pulling him out though if he likes it to really get him hocked.

Speaking of Campus maps... What campus maps does DVOA have? I want to try and get on as many as possible to train for the JWOC sprint next year.

Well let's see. We have Lehigh Univ. mapped but haven't used it since the A event in 2008. We have a good sprint map of Norristown Hospital. We have a handful of other 1:5000 maps (there's something up near Green Lane, Schuylkill Center, the Hickory Run camp area, and some others I'm sure). We should try to have some sort of DVOA sprint series!

That would be awesome if we could have a DVOA sprint series! Because reading Clem's log made me think that part of what i need to work on my sprint is thinking and acting fast, and under race conditions. Anyone can navigate a sprint course slowly. It is the ones that can do it at speed that win. Sprints i also find the easiest navigation (normally), but i'm just not making the route choices fast enough :/

SJU O Club? :) I've really been thinking about a Penn O Club for a few years ... just wish someone else would start it and I could join. Anyone else at Penn on here?

Swarthmore College would be a beautiful place for a 1:5K O Map. Nice small skinny woods section, and a bucolic, beautiful campus ... my dad lives right there. I think he needs a mapping project. ;)

Another mapping project in the city would be to update Lemon Hill! If we had Lemon Hill, Swarthmore, Schuykill, and tyler thats a pretty good start to a sprint series!

I've thought on and off about a format for a sprint series and I keep coming back to a series of races, all on the same day of the week. For the fall with it getting darker earlier, it would have to be Saturdays but in the spring or summer it could be a weeknight evening. My idea was to make up flyers with the info and distribute them and try to get x-country runners to come try it. But I never get beyond the thinking about it stage.

On the other hand, we have the makings of a good series of sprints this fall already:
Sept. 5th at SCEE (my event, there's one good sprint, one silly one)
Sept. 12th at Hickory Run (we could re-run the sprints from the sprint series finals a few years ago - I have maps; offer it up as an option on Saturday afternoon maybe)
Sept. 20th at Daniel Boone (there's a sprint on the schedule) or the US Sprint champs are at ROC that weekend
And then we need to find someone to set a sprint somewhere on the weekend of Sept. 26-27.
That would be four sprints in four weekends.

Sept. 27th, Brandywine is not a good place for sprints, unfortunately :(

That would be awesome if we did those four sprints for the fall and then in the spring worked on another series. In the spring i would have more time to help with that. Right now is a bit crazy with college stuff going on and XC.

Maybe someone can set just a sprint somewhere on the 26th. My idea for this is that if you set just a sprint, you can advertise the start times in a really short window. So let's say your want the sprint to start at 3pm. You get to the event site at 1:30-1:45, and put out the controls in an hour or less, start registration at 2:30, close registration at 3, have starts from 3 to 3:xx where xx is the number of people who show up, course closes at 4 or sooner, controls are picked up in 20 minutes and you're done.

I do have leftover maps from Fair Hill sprint course I set couple of years ago. Also, I have some maps from Batsto sprints as well. But I'm going to be busy with setting up Brandywine courses on Saturday, Sept. 26th.

Ben updated Lemon Hill a couple of years ago, not sure what happened to the map though.

I would love to run the SS finals courses from HR.

I'd love to get my hands on a copy of the Lemon Hill map!

I think running the SS finals on the Sat afternoon at Hickory Run as part of the advanced or junior training would be a great idea. I was thinking of an exercise in the morning combining distance estimation and fine compass work

In addition to above I think the SS finals courses makes sense to get our juniors thinking about having to run and navigate at speed with a bit of competition between them to push them

I've emailed Fred Kruesi and suggested it. John, if you want to follow up and let him know you think it would be good then I think it will work. I am willing to hang the controls and run epunch for it.

And print the maps.

I'll contact Fred as suggested. Also Alison & I plan to attend TNT tonight so we can talk more about it. Is it at your house or the Ahlswedes?

My house.

Lehigh sprint map needs to be updated near the finish area since they're about to finish adding a new building there (we just drove by yesterday when we stopped to visit Rob). Otherwise, I think the map's in good shape. :-)