Discussion: wp maps

Half your links point to your AP log rather than your maps. Did people run right to 15 via the building complex? Seems fast and easy, and little extra distance compared with what you ran.

I'm looking forward to running regularly in terrain like this :)

You can increment the map index in his map links to get the desired map files:

Middle Distance
Sprint Distance
Long Part 1
Long Part 2

Worked that out, I just wanted him to spend more time perfecting his log instead of going out training...

Cheers!

Ross, if you had just had a little more trouble with the fence at #4 then I would have won a split! 4 small seconds back on that leg.

Neil, I ran farther right on that long leg to #15 but got messed up by the fence in the green. I misread the red X as an access point. Funny thing is that also happened on the way to #8 which messed up what was a good route. There is also a nice route to the left to #15 but a lot farther out of the way and when you are as out-of-shape as I am I gotta minimize that extra distance as much as possible.

I'll post my routes later this evening.

:) hmm, seems that I left out the = in a couple of those hyperlinks. A few people I talked to did, Brendan for one. Sam wishes that she had, in retrospect, gone through the building complex.

When are you joining the cadets? I hear you're showing up pretty soon....

I think the way I was considering was the way Ross ran 1->2, but backwards.

Hopefully I'll be coming after WOC if the US will have me...

That's perfect, I'll be on my way to Sweden then. :)

I agree with Neil; that route looks clearly superior to me for 14-15. If it was slow 1-2 near the fences, you can go even further right without losing much.

feet, Neil>>I agree. My only question is, how do you finish - do you go over the last hill into 15 or run a bit around it?

over itl A bunch of people went far left to catch the road that cuts through the ski here towards #6 then angled down.

Agreed. It's only a couple of contours.

I climbed up past the passable cliff then cross the trail immediately to the left of the field (last year's call up line). I think I would have had a good split if I hadn't got trapped by those fences and forced into the dark green crap. Erin Schirm won that leg.

Boris>> you'll be responsible for consoling Andrew then. And I'm not consoling Kat! Also, you need to devise a punishment system for Ross to stop him orienteering like a muppet now feet is out of action...

Over the hill.

ndobbs>Am working on the punishment system. Well, not punishment, just different approach. I'll be glad to console Andrew, though at least he has Beata to comfort him when you are not around.

wait, muppets are good things, but I think that Neil is trying to equate them to poor orienteering. My world is crumbling....

also, this makes me want to record a parody entitled "it's not easy running thru green"

Nooo! Someone supply the whole world with ear plugs!

;)

"Why are there so many songs about getting stuck behind uncrossable fences... and what's on the other side"

Regarding the 14-15 leg, the winning route was actually the left one to the road through the ski slope (Schirm and Eddie were a bit over 12min).

I think I would have gone to the right, down to the parking lot, then the road up and at the end over the hill before the control. I'm surprised that left on the road was the fastest. It seems too far out of the way. Although, both Schirm and Eddie are fast road runners.

Ross, you and I need to get this shirt.

For the record, Schirm and I were together on this leg - at least until we topped the reentrant and hit the road, at which point he said something like "meep meep - ptthbbtttt!!" there was a cloud of dust, and I didn't see him again until #16. So we both had extra motivation until that point (where I lost all of mine, slowed down and planned the last loop). The tiny umbrella I was carrying didn't help.

Interesting because when I asked Hans (Sudden) which route he took he said 'there wasn't any route choice because it was so obvious to go left'. But I never looked that far left because it seemed so far out of the way. It certainly wouldn't have been the fastest for me cause I don't go meep meep anymore.

I guess the woods running is much better on the left route, or at least I found the slope on the right route to be quite rocky.

I guess Hannah should be chuffed!