PTOC event at Watkins Mill, red course
What fun for me, to finally run on this map! We've used it for three years, but I kept missing each event, for some reason or other. So nice to have a new map, that I didn't know at all. Unfortunately, it was typical western MO terrain, with lots of thick stuff and thorns. I figured it was good practice, and makes me tougher. (Edit: I should note, that the terrain for our A meet, in eastern KS, is much better :)
There were a few places that were flat and open. It makes one feel fast (even if you aren't) to run through these areas; that was fun.
I messed up 2, and took a terrible route choice to 4: I never saw the trail to the west. Wonder if I folded my map over it? But ironically, my bad route choice meant I approached the control from a funny direction, and thus I saw the (misplaced) marker from below. Mike was not so lucky; he gave up after searching for a bit.
I thought 11 was misplaced, but it was just that the map is a bit funny in this area. The whole map is a bit funny; the contours definitely need to be updated to Lidar.
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