orienteering race 42:21 [3] 8.41 km (5:02 / km) +35m 4:56 / km
Mats from Sacramento is starting up a quasi-orienteering/trailcross/AR sortof league for school kids this winter, so Carol and I went down to test run the prototype course with a couple other people. It was a short flagged trail run, followed by a loop of easy orienteering, followed by a long off-trail run (straight out to a rock in the middle of the lake and back), followed by a second orienteering loop. Pretty fun, I would totally race one of these every week if they existed. It seemed better than the two BAOC trailcrosses we've done, maybe because it was trying to be orienteering less, even though it had at least as much. So the impression I got was that it was a fun xc race, not a weak orienteering race. Though maybe that was just from preconceptions going into all three.