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Tuesday Jan 7, 2020 #
7 PM
running (trails) 34:17 [2] 4.3 km (7:59 / km) +13m 7:51 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Fractal Trails (Four Corners), In The Dark. I used to run here 15+ years ago, when I lived nearby, and it was the first place I ever encountered the kind of MTB trails that have since become common, where it looks like they've tried to fill the entire area with one long trail that twists and turns so much that if you were to leave it, you'd hit another part of it before you've gone more than a few feet. I'm pretty sure there's a lot more out there than what I ran on tonight. Got fairly well disoriented, and when I hit the power line ride I had to think a bit to figure out which way to go in order to get back to the parking lot. (But I did it correctly.) An inch or two of hard-frozen snow everywhere. GPS track is clearly flaky, because it shows my route crossing itself (didn't happen), and when I was at the end going back on the same trail I'd come out on, it shows are pretty far separated.
11 PM
Note
J-J's Ten (plus one) Memorable Orienteering Experiences List, #7
Mike’s Maze: Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup Can (sprint), Massachusetts,10/20/2010
The first CMOUSA Champs had two races, just a Classic and a Sprint. I got pretty thrashed in the Classic, not dealing well with the scale and getting very lost early on. There were two entrances to the maze that year, the normal one on the east and another on the north side. The Classic had us going in on the east and the last control was near the north exit, and from there we ran around the outside to the finish.
For the Sprint, there were only four controls, and I went at it aggressively, getting through the 610 meter course in 3:36. There’s a note on the back of my map saying “no hope of remembering my route”. But I do remember one important thing. The last control was again near the north exit, or so it seemed. But there were a number of zigs and zags required to get to it, and I saw a better way. After coming out of the dead end where #4 was located, there was an open corridor due south to the curving top of the soup can, and that led straight back to the entrance. I think it was that route choice that made the difference, and got me my only 1st place finish in a corn maze event (not counting the corn maze trail-O a few years later when I spiked all of the controls with a drone).
Contemporaneous account here.
Mike’s Maze: Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup Can (sprint), Massachusetts,10/20/2010
The first CMOUSA Champs had two races, just a Classic and a Sprint. I got pretty thrashed in the Classic, not dealing well with the scale and getting very lost early on. There were two entrances to the maze that year, the normal one on the east and another on the north side. The Classic had us going in on the east and the last control was near the north exit, and from there we ran around the outside to the finish.
For the Sprint, there were only four controls, and I went at it aggressively, getting through the 610 meter course in 3:36. There’s a note on the back of my map saying “no hope of remembering my route”. But I do remember one important thing. The last control was again near the north exit, or so it seemed. But there were a number of zigs and zags required to get to it, and I saw a better way. After coming out of the dead end where #4 was located, there was an open corridor due south to the curving top of the soup can, and that led straight back to the entrance. I think it was that route choice that made the difference, and got me my only 1st place finish in a corn maze event (not counting the corn maze trail-O a few years later when I spiked all of the controls with a drone).
Contemporaneous account here.