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Sunday Jun 7, 2020 #
11 AM
Orienteering 1:54:03 5.59 mi (20:24 / mi) +284m 17:37 / mi
ahr:81 max:119
Orienteering training on Ted Good's course at Patapsco-Woodstock. The little parking lot by the tracks was overwhelmed with about 100 times as many cars as can fit there, but I parked on the side of the road a quarter mile away.
The woods were nice at the start, and good orienteering, with a flourishing layer of wavy leaf basket grass covering everything. At #7 I got off course in pretty bad woods, all thick with thorns, and headed down to the trail by the tracks, planning to skip the rest of that loop and pick up the course somewhere later on after I figured out where I was.
Then Peggy D. came down to the tracks right where I was, looking for a way through the crap to her next control, which was 12. She was navigating with her phone, having left her map at home. I know someone else who did the same thing this weekend. Forgetting to bring your map is the new orienteering mistake that everyone has to make a few times before learning to avoid it.
Peggy and I kept pace for the rest of the course. I took different routes on purpose to avoid just following, which mainly involved going up hill more, but we ended up with similar times.
The woods were nice at the start, and good orienteering, with a flourishing layer of wavy leaf basket grass covering everything. At #7 I got off course in pretty bad woods, all thick with thorns, and headed down to the trail by the tracks, planning to skip the rest of that loop and pick up the course somewhere later on after I figured out where I was.
Then Peggy D. came down to the tracks right where I was, looking for a way through the crap to her next control, which was 12. She was navigating with her phone, having left her map at home. I know someone else who did the same thing this weekend. Forgetting to bring your map is the new orienteering mistake that everyone has to make a few times before learning to avoid it.
Peggy and I kept pace for the rest of the course. I took different routes on purpose to avoid just following, which mainly involved going up hill more, but we ended up with similar times.