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Saturday Mar 31, 2018 #
6 PM
Orienteering 5:04:55 *** 17.69 km (17:14 / km) +331m 15:46 / km
ahr:117 max:168 shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw
Conquer the Crossroads ICO Rogaine, near Maumee, Indiana. TroisTigres and I did the wimpiest possible 5 hour loop: 30 49 58 67 63 80 19 We skipped 54. We were worried we wouldn't make it back without help. We almost did 42, but it was an extra 1.5km. We both wanted to get it, but neither of us wanted to do the walk.
We did the 6-hour (with about 3.5 hours in the dark). I was amazed at the scale of the effort to set this out and organize it.
We as a community should really market these to increase the attendance. I saw a total of four people (two solos and a team), plus maybe six more on the drive out after midnight.
More people need to know how fun this is.
The map made easy-looking controls tricky. I was doing my best to watch every little detail. Two controls weren't where the map said they should be. They warned us about 63, but not 58. If the circle for 63 was in the right spot, I would have taken the spur route rather than the road. 58 was pretty inexplicable. I found it at the South part or SE end, but the clue said NW Quadrant. I went all the way to the N-end of the fill, and came all the way back. We didn't even look at the beginning (S part) of the fill because the map implied we didn't need to.
I felt fine until I finished. Joe's hands weren't working right because of the cold. I never felt cold, but I knew I wasn't warm. I wouldn't even say I felt chilly. When I stopped, I ate two bowls of chicken noodle soup and some oranges. I figured that would warm me up. But I walked outside to go to the car, and I started shivering immediately. I stopped twice on the drive back, and immediately shivered when I'd open the door. My best guess is my core temp was low, but when I was walking, I was making heat. When I stopped, even with the soup, I think the cold blood in my arms and legs got to my core and dropped my temp. I was worried driving home, even though I felt fine in the heat of the car. One good sign was that the intense shivering actually made me warm up a little.
They need a portable hot tub for cold-weather rogaines. (I should have gotten coffee or tea.)
I wish I had known the cell service was bad. I would've brought a ham radio. (About the size of a cell phone plus a roll-up antenna about the size of a USB cable.) There weren't very many cars driving around in the cold rain. I think most of the cars I saw were actually competitors leaving after the 6-hour and early finishers for the 12-hour.
I was sore all day Sunday, but I'm feeling pretty good as I write this Monday. My back could be a little less tight. I did a 1-mile walk on Sunday that really loosened up my legs.
This is a must do activity next time. The woods are quite nice (at least in places) if anyone wants to make an orienteering map here. I've got the lidar of the main part of the area almost completely processed. I didn't download the NE and SW parts of the map.
We did the 6-hour (with about 3.5 hours in the dark). I was amazed at the scale of the effort to set this out and organize it.
We as a community should really market these to increase the attendance. I saw a total of four people (two solos and a team), plus maybe six more on the drive out after midnight.
More people need to know how fun this is.
The map made easy-looking controls tricky. I was doing my best to watch every little detail. Two controls weren't where the map said they should be. They warned us about 63, but not 58. If the circle for 63 was in the right spot, I would have taken the spur route rather than the road. 58 was pretty inexplicable. I found it at the South part or SE end, but the clue said NW Quadrant. I went all the way to the N-end of the fill, and came all the way back. We didn't even look at the beginning (S part) of the fill because the map implied we didn't need to.
I felt fine until I finished. Joe's hands weren't working right because of the cold. I never felt cold, but I knew I wasn't warm. I wouldn't even say I felt chilly. When I stopped, I ate two bowls of chicken noodle soup and some oranges. I figured that would warm me up. But I walked outside to go to the car, and I started shivering immediately. I stopped twice on the drive back, and immediately shivered when I'd open the door. My best guess is my core temp was low, but when I was walking, I was making heat. When I stopped, even with the soup, I think the cold blood in my arms and legs got to my core and dropped my temp. I was worried driving home, even though I felt fine in the heat of the car. One good sign was that the intense shivering actually made me warm up a little.
They need a portable hot tub for cold-weather rogaines. (I should have gotten coffee or tea.)
I wish I had known the cell service was bad. I would've brought a ham radio. (About the size of a cell phone plus a roll-up antenna about the size of a USB cable.) There weren't very many cars driving around in the cold rain. I think most of the cars I saw were actually competitors leaving after the 6-hour and early finishers for the 12-hour.
I was sore all day Sunday, but I'm feeling pretty good as I write this Monday. My back could be a little less tight. I did a 1-mile walk on Sunday that really loosened up my legs.
This is a must do activity next time. The woods are quite nice (at least in places) if anyone wants to make an orienteering map here. I've got the lidar of the main part of the area almost completely processed. I didn't download the NE and SW parts of the map.