Orienteering race 33:44*** 4.04 km (8:21 / km) +74m7:39 / km spiked:9/13c shoes: X-Talon 212
Camp Cullom sprints - Sprint A 2.9 km
A great day, sunny and warm, on a "new" map. Camp Cullom had been not used by ICO for quite a long time, never since I have been involved with the club. The original map by Mike Minium was updated by Mattias Eriksson for this weekend. There were 3 sprints and a white course. Each of the sprints was set up differently enough to still have some challenges by the last one. The park has a nice mixture of rides through tall grass prairie broken up by some very green isles of vegetation to make path choices matter and reasonbly open forest/reentrants. A new disc golf course added some faster paths through the vegetation. I am sure that this venue will be used again in the next year or two, when the green is still pretty thick.
A redux of my day was that the first course was mostly fine, marred by a large oops on my way to 7, having a lapse and veering to the wrong side of a marsh then being confused about the outcome. Course C was next and it was better with only a map-related pause, and B was about as good as it might have been. Then the white course was a final run off between Aragorn and I. Fortunately, I prevailed this time but was nearly caught by Wangki.
Orienteering race 31:03*** 3.74 km (8:18 / km) +50m7:47 / km spiked:11/14c shoes: X-Talon 212
Sprint C, 2.8 km
Orienteering race 25:25*** 3.14 km (8:06 / km) +28m7:45 / km spiked:14/15c shoes: X-Talon 212
Sprint B 2.5 km
Orienteering race 6:20** 1.1 km (5:47 / km) +4m5:41 / km spiked:6/6c shoes: X-Talon 212
Orienteering1:02:41*** 3.65 mi (17:10 / mi) +153m15:12 / mi ahr:147 max:166 spiked:11/17c shoes: Inov 340 Pair #2
Twin Creek/Camp Hook MVOC Green 4.7 km
A wobbly start to the course and, although I seemed to settle down after a few controls, I did not make consistently decent route choices. Errors were certainly made, drifting this way or that usually before the attackpts, and there was one larger slip-up near the end where I nearly skipped #15 by not following the correct line; ah, but they were not the biggest problem. What was was that most of my lost time was from bashing when it was not essential and going way wide when the bashing was not so bad (call it a lack of sensitivity to one's surroundings). After so much open running of late, it was a reminder that in the Midwest the misguided can visit bits of jungle. A beautiful fall day and friendly faces I have not seen for months, a good way to spend a Sunday!