Discussion: Sprint Finals

Seedings and start groups for the Sprint Finals have been posted. More info on the courses will be posted shortly.

Where were they posted?

Look at the September 5 entry, click on either men or women.

Just a question, who ran the World Cups in 1992 at Pawtuckaway? I'm pretty sure the Canadian men were:
Brian Graham (just outside of WC points) Brian May, Oivind? Ted? Rosco? Hammer didn't run.
Women: Pam, Catherine Hagens, Nina, Pippa, anyone else?

Who ran for the states? I remember watching the two British Steves doing awesome. That's about all.

Where does the trash talking go?

Hmm, women include: me, Debbie Newell, Anne Dentino, Karen Muffatti ... memory fading ... perhaps Sharon? Must be others too. There's a picture of the US Team somewhere of us wearing our K-Swiss stuff.
Kristin Hall pre-ran before heading back to the UK.

Women running for the US were Peggy, Kris Harrison, Debbie Newell, Laurie Collinsworth, and Karan Keith. Men were Rick Oliver, Mike Eglinski, Lans Taylor, Joe Brautigam, Peter Andersen, and Tom Bruce.

For Canada - Pam, Pippa, Nina, Alison Skinner, and Jane Brandreth; men - Brian Graham, Ted, Ross, Mark Adams, Brian May, and Oivind Naess.

Map was 1:15,000.

Course setter's notes and course lengths have also been posted.

couple of random questions:

the third round starts with two loops - do all runners take the loops in the same order, or is this a form of butterfly loop with half of each field doing A first and half doing B first?

are there multiple start SI boxes since its a mass start?

are there multiple SI boxes at any of the controls - ie first couple or penultimate/final controls?

are control stands being used, or are boxes going to be swinging from string?

just things I'd rather not wait until being out on the course to discover...

All sprinters do the loops in the same order.

No SI boxes at the start needed.

Multiple boxes? In a very few places (William/Sandy?)

Stands, or hanging from/tied to trees. A few of the former, many more of the latter, I think.

Are you going to win Heat 2, Clint, or are you going to forget about pacing and waste yourself in the first 5 minutes of each round? :-)

Man! this Heat 2 has got some teefs.

There will be a few controls with multiple boxes. The last control of each heat in particular. I will check whether we have enough boxes to do so on the first of each heat as well.

There are enough SI boxes for two at the first and last control of each heat.

Man! this Heat 2 has got some teefs.
Yeh, I was worried that if the attendance was a little lighter, I might have wound up in the top heat, serving as cannon fodder. Instead, I'm going to be in the second heat... serving as cannon fodder.

So Magnus, where's that chopper of yours? I wanna go.

are you going to forget about pacing and waste yourself in the first 5 minutes of each round?

I thought the whole idea of sprinting was that you didn't have to worry about pacing yourself... We all know I suck at that...

I was more concerned with a repeat of my finish chute faceplant from the Boulder Dash a few years ago - hopefully Wil has mercifully designed the chute with a relatively soft landing area... :-)

JJ - look at the positive side, maybe you won't have to purposefully get lost this year in order to confuse your opponent.

Start times for the Finals have been posted.

I probably should know this, but I can't seem to place the areas Will has mentioned for the sprints. Where is the baseball field?, I cannot remember one at any of the main parking areas. And the briefing at the "rocks", lots of them at this place. Which group of rocks are we talking about here?

Here's another map. We're using the parking area that's aligned northwest/southeast (not the really big one down by the beach). The baseball field is the field on its SW side. The rocks, well, show up at the baseball field, can't tell you everything.... :-)

The pavilion for check-in is at the end of the narrower clearing also on the SW side of the parking area.

Should I take this as a positive sign if one of my round one opponents sounds lost days before the event?

Not if it is Coach. He is well versed in the various fakeries and a master of the ruse and the feint. Plus he is one of the very few O' superheros with his very own shoe! Be very wary, especially if, when approaching the final control, Coach shrieks as if in pain and exclaims that he has suffered a massive "humus globulus" rupture. If you look back, he'll be by you in a flash with no chance to reel him back in as he slips into his much dreaded 7th kickin'-it-in gear.

That IS an awesome heat actually!

Nev-Monster, Spike, J-man, Coach and MrPither.

But Nev-Monster is the king of the fake dry heave and has a mean high steppin' finish line stride.

Coach has his own shoe? I'm not impressed. Many of us own our own shoes. Whose shoes is Swampfox running in. Most impressive stunt I have seen is PG running Day 2 at US Champs in two different kinds of shoe. See his training entry. Of course that may balance his rightward foot strike.

Swampfox is probably running in those o-shoes he claim's to have found out on Happy Jack (see Sept 4). Any sign of their previous occupants having been dragged off by attack badgers Mikell?

It remains one of America's unsolved mysteries. Another big American mystery is: Whatever happened to George Bush's brain, and did it have anything to do with Lake Waldo and the impending disappearance of Andy Dale?

By the way, I've notice that Google acknowedges this event at _the_ Sprint Series Finals. No need to even mention the word orienteering, and the top 3 entries are this weekend...

Number 4, the 'Speedo Sprint Series Finals', appears to be a swimming event held at a pool in Canberra, Australia, about half a mile from where I grew up...

OK, I know the start and finish, so I figure I'm way ahead of those other guys in my heat....Mr Pither, J man, Nev Monster, spike? Can you guys tell me what your cartoon costumes look like so I know who to follow?
I'm the one with my own shoes.

Oh, you didn't know? New Hampshire Parks has outlawed all O shoes. Some kind of thing about protecting the endangered Nottingham spider. So you have to rent these special shoes which will not injure the spiders if you accidentely step on one (and don't get them in your mouth when you hit their webs in the forest, that's a $50 fine). Just another way for the "Live Free or Die" state to keep from taxing their citizens. Bring your cash when you check in at the gate. I have my own shoes,of course, since I run at Pawtuckaway so often.

Nottingham spider? Is that what bit me the day before yesterday? Little green thing, kind of sticky, and it hurt like a beesting when it happened, though only for a couple of minutes.