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Saturday Dec 5, 2015 #
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Belated Willvision from last Saturday @ Rick's b-day. I was hoping those curses under my breath wouldn't be audible.
C • Rage 3
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:00:09 [4] 6.0 mi (10:02 / mi) +305m 8:39 / mi
9:15/km
WS3 @ St. Edward SP. Quite an awful performance by me; I was smashed by Eric and Jourdan but somehow ended up third. That's what you get for being lazy four days in a row. Lots of unfortunate things going on with this course:
-- Controls 2 and 7 were misplaced.
-- There were several very weird legs (6-7-8, 9-10) which created both strong incentive and easy opportunity for cheating by taking off-trail shortcuts (I'm sure that some or many did). What's worse, at certain points the map was also unclear (even to an experienced orienteer) as to what connected where and therefore which routes were in fact allowed and which were not. And if you successfully acted contrary to all your orienteering instincts and avoided anything questionable, the reward for your uprightness was tedious back-and-forth running all the way around on interminably loopy MTB trails.
-- I'd argue that the control description for 15 was misleading at best and should have read as "foot of earth bank" rather than "clearing." Unless you want to call Lake Washington a clearing.
--Never was able to find the northern entrance to the trail leading into 16 - eventually backtracked into the control via the south entrance.
-- Generally uninspired course design which created precious few route choices and made little or no use of the more interesting areas of the park. For example, even a minor adjustment of 18 would have created a more difficult decision as to which trail to take up the hill.
Basically, trails-only venues = crap orienteering, and it takes a strong course design and/or an abnormally complicated trail network to make things work and end up with an interesting and enjoyable course.
WS3 @ St. Edward SP. Quite an awful performance by me; I was smashed by Eric and Jourdan but somehow ended up third. That's what you get for being lazy four days in a row. Lots of unfortunate things going on with this course:
-- Controls 2 and 7 were misplaced.
-- There were several very weird legs (6-7-8, 9-10) which created both strong incentive and easy opportunity for cheating by taking off-trail shortcuts (I'm sure that some or many did). What's worse, at certain points the map was also unclear (even to an experienced orienteer) as to what connected where and therefore which routes were in fact allowed and which were not. And if you successfully acted contrary to all your orienteering instincts and avoided anything questionable, the reward for your uprightness was tedious back-and-forth running all the way around on interminably loopy MTB trails.
-- I'd argue that the control description for 15 was misleading at best and should have read as "foot of earth bank" rather than "clearing." Unless you want to call Lake Washington a clearing.
--Never was able to find the northern entrance to the trail leading into 16 - eventually backtracked into the control via the south entrance.
-- Generally uninspired course design which created precious few route choices and made little or no use of the more interesting areas of the park. For example, even a minor adjustment of 18 would have created a more difficult decision as to which trail to take up the hill.
Basically, trails-only venues = crap orienteering, and it takes a strong course design and/or an abnormally complicated trail network to make things work and end up with an interesting and enjoyable course.