Discussion: Results and maps available

Thanks for the quick results!

And many thanks to everyone who contributed to this awesome event! I'll be back next year!

Thanks to all who made this such a fun weekend. I enjoyed every minute, and learned a lot.

Every month or two there seems to be a few more sprint maps in Vancouver. I love the (new?) Downtown Vancouver map. Looks pretty technical with all the crossable and uncrossable walls. Vancouver has very quickly become the sprint orienteering capital of North America. Given that it is sprint where North American orienteers have had their greatest success in getting into A finals at WOC, move to and train in Vancouver if you want to be a sprint specialist! I'd love to see GVOC partner with a marketing company to host a high profile sprint race in Vancouver to attract some more fast runners to sprint orienteering.

Great job GVOC! I'll be there at the camp when Adventure Girl! is a little older...

Delightful! A job well done again. The city sprints were exhilarating; loved the mass start romp through Lost Lagoon; great butterfly loops through the forest at Princess Park. Great variety. The ultra-sprint in the last session was quite inspiring and I aim to make some local maps for these kinds of activities.

Heard in conversation on the weekend:

"So, Vancouver is like the Hamilton of the West Coast?"

Ummmm, yeah, I guess so... (though about 600,000 Vancouverites might beg to differ). Definitely a sprint orienteering stronghold anyway, wealthy in both maps and runners at the moment. And not just semi-passable quasi-ISSOM maps like we often see elsewhere, but real, honest-to-goodness ISSOM standard maps - lots of 'em.

Vancouver - Hamilton

Why Just Run? - DontGetLost
Big port - Big port
Pacific Ocean - Lake Ontario
Coastal Mountains - Hamilton 'Mountain'
lotsa sprint O maps - lotsa forest maps
lotsa Starbucks - lotsa Tim Hortons
John Markez trains there - John Markez trained there
research intensive University - research intensive University
mid winter rain - mid winter rain
fog - smog
Olympics host city - Commonwealth Games founding host city
Buffs - Hard hats
Tevas - Steel toed boots
Patrick Goeres trains there - Patrick Goeres trained there
hate Toronto - hate Toronto
Thomas Nipen - TNT
East end issues - East end issues
Sun Run - Around the Bay
CFL team owned by a Hamiltonian - CFL team owned by a Hamiltonian

Yeah, Hamiltonians might beg to differ too.

How about "Vancouver, the Halden of British Columbia"?

Why not be proud to be yourselves? The real champions become the best not because they copy others but because they develop their own trade marks... such as both Vancouver and Hamilton (and Halden) have done.