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Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 #
orienteering 1:00:00 [3] ***
20c
Surebridge/Hogencamp control pick, part of the naoc training camp.
Woods were beautiful in the rain, and in theory this should have been loads of fun, but I never got into a rhythm.
At the first control (well, 50m before) there was a flag, clearly not where my control should have been. I decided to stop and think a bit and work out exactly where I was and where the control would be --- description said re-entrant, circle was centred on knoll. Before continuing on, I turned around, and saw someone up a tree. Woah! How weird. Wondered if it was an orienteer, but that didn't make sense, and I didn't recognise him. He also wasn't 70 years old, before you ask. As I was leaving, he jumped down from the tree, moved a few metres, and stopped.
Got one, left in the wrong direction, corrected, got 2, went to three and the badness began. The hilltop before the control was terrible. Almost flat in reality, the knoll atop form-line hill together protruded a whopping metre. This kind of thing goes on in various parts of Surebridge, and I don't know which bits of the map are reliable and which are not. By control 18 (I think) apart from being wrong, one contour just disappears for a while.
Since I'm ranting, I'm going to say that Surebridge is too poor a map to be worth doing middle-type training on without vetting the courses first. In too many places the contours over-emphasise terrain features and the terrain contrasts too much with any reasonable preconception one may make looking at the map.
By number 14 I crossed tree-man again, and he was orienteering, so I introduced myself. He was a Chris from Edmonton. And I think he may have been up the tree for a while, scared of a bear, although that didn't click immediately when he said he'd seen something black going back and forth for almost half an hour. Haha.
Having given up running at 18 in order to think about how one could repair the map, by 20 I was done, and on the verge of being upset, but then I reminded myself I was in beautiful, glorious woods, and smiled :)
Woods were beautiful in the rain, and in theory this should have been loads of fun, but I never got into a rhythm.
At the first control (well, 50m before) there was a flag, clearly not where my control should have been. I decided to stop and think a bit and work out exactly where I was and where the control would be --- description said re-entrant, circle was centred on knoll. Before continuing on, I turned around, and saw someone up a tree. Woah! How weird. Wondered if it was an orienteer, but that didn't make sense, and I didn't recognise him. He also wasn't 70 years old, before you ask. As I was leaving, he jumped down from the tree, moved a few metres, and stopped.
Got one, left in the wrong direction, corrected, got 2, went to three and the badness began. The hilltop before the control was terrible. Almost flat in reality, the knoll atop form-line hill together protruded a whopping metre. This kind of thing goes on in various parts of Surebridge, and I don't know which bits of the map are reliable and which are not. By control 18 (I think) apart from being wrong, one contour just disappears for a while.
Since I'm ranting, I'm going to say that Surebridge is too poor a map to be worth doing middle-type training on without vetting the courses first. In too many places the contours over-emphasise terrain features and the terrain contrasts too much with any reasonable preconception one may make looking at the map.
By number 14 I crossed tree-man again, and he was orienteering, so I introduced myself. He was a Chris from Edmonton. And I think he may have been up the tree for a while, scared of a bear, although that didn't click immediately when he said he'd seen something black going back and forth for almost half an hour. Haha.
Having given up running at 18 in order to think about how one could repair the map, by 20 I was done, and on the verge of being upset, but then I reminded myself I was in beautiful, glorious woods, and smiled :)
orienteering 20:00 [3] ***
15c
Control pick at BM. Thanks, Boris!
By the time Marek arrived, it was getting dark, and this quickly turned into nighto. Yay. Many streamers were there, but not all, afaics.
Pulled pork at Birdsall after.
By the time Marek arrived, it was getting dark, and this quickly turned into nighto. Yay. Many streamers were there, but not all, afaics.
Pulled pork at Birdsall after.
trail run 20:00 [2]
to/from the control pick.
Note
I didn't take the camera with me today, but Harriman was lovely, esp by the lakes. I think the rain may enhance the loveliness.