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O' pass at Diamond Bay, cloudy, light breeze, temps in the upper 20s; course of 13.2 kms and 44 controls. Nice running conditions, with patchy snow but more coverage than earlier in the week--exceeding 50%. Easy running though, because it was mostly just unconsolidated snow a few inches deep. Already at #2 I had to scratch my head a little bit--I had put the circle on a boulder, and I couldn't find the darned thing for the life of me. I did hone in on another rock feature nearby, so I knew I was close. But I didn't want to spend more time there because 1) it didn't really matter so much, and 2) I knew I had probably only about 2 hours of light to work with.
Including the warmup, 2 hours proved to be not enough, and at #36 I decided to hang it up and run it back in from there. I could still see the circles, but now what was in the circles. By the time I got back to my truck and changed shoes and outer wear, it was dark.
Back home, I checked the missing boulder in the map file (to make sure it wasn't some misc. bit of lower rock rubble that I had marked with a triangle, and which could have been hidden by several fallen trees in the area), and saw that it was indeed marked as a boulder. So then I went to the actual fieldwork (good to hang on to some of this stuff for this very circumstance), found the right piece, and....no boulder! Who knows how it ended up on the final map, but it could have been something as simple as a fidgety finger on a mouse coupled with a moment of distraction. Now the mystery boulder is no more.
Fun running, and the course included two controls in a small piece of map added just this summer--a piece never orienteered through before today.
Including the warmup, 2 hours proved to be not enough, and at #36 I decided to hang it up and run it back in from there. I could still see the circles, but now what was in the circles. By the time I got back to my truck and changed shoes and outer wear, it was dark.
Back home, I checked the missing boulder in the map file (to make sure it wasn't some misc. bit of lower rock rubble that I had marked with a triangle, and which could have been hidden by several fallen trees in the area), and saw that it was indeed marked as a boulder. So then I went to the actual fieldwork (good to hang on to some of this stuff for this very circumstance), found the right piece, and....no boulder! Who knows how it ended up on the final map, but it could have been something as simple as a fidgety finger on a mouse coupled with a moment of distraction. Now the mystery boulder is no more.
Fun running, and the course included two controls in a small piece of map added just this summer--a piece never orienteered through before today.
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Ran in some new shoes (used once prior to today)--Inov-8 Roclite 280s. They were intended for trail running, I believe, and might be now discontinued. I got mine as clearance items, and so didn't pay much for them, and thinking they might be fine for orienteering training. My experience with them today was quite positive. My fingers are still crossed in hopes that Inov-8 will bring back Oroc 280s, or their equivalent. They remain my favorite O' shoes of all time.
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