Sprint Championship at Morehead State University in Kentucky, map by Mike Minium at 1:4000, 2.5 m contours
Brown 4-5, 1.9 km, 40 m climb
A cold, raw, breezy day, but no snow (oh, until the flurries started just before we left). Good for running though not so pleasant for standing around and chatting afterwards, plus there was a good hike back from finish to parking/start.
Pretty good sprint overall for me for not having done one in awhile. Some hesitations to read the map and check routes, and a bit of going back and forth in a place or two, so I'm calling 6 and 12 non-spikes. Coming out of 5 I didn't turn left at the long building but actually went around it on the north side but realized what I was doing so tucked back in at the end for control 6; George W (who had started 2 minutes behind me) passed me there but never saw me.
After 7 I knew I had to really look closely to see the options as there looked to be several dead ends with uncrossable walls. Decided that around to the left to 8 was better than around to the right where I'd have to reverse direction to continue on to 9. Coming out of 10 I had to hesitate again to read the map and determine I had to go around (again left).
To 12, although it was hard to tell because of the purple connecting line, I reasoned that there wouldn't be a staircase climbing the hill if there wasn't a way through; the line wasn't broken on the Brown maps, though Green had the same leg and their leg line was broken in two extra places for visibility. Then when I got close to the building I saw George again, heading to 13, but from an odd angle if he'd punched at the building corner on the first floor..... OH, look at that; the description says upper, so I turned back toward the walkway across. Then down the stairs on the back of the building to go to 13.
Fourth overall on F60. I expected Natalia to win, and she did in about 19 minutes. Then Janet Peterson, and Sandy was 25 seconds ahead of me--well done!
Fun to run around a campus, even though the course was too long.
My QuickRoute --
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