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Sunday Sep 18, 2011 #
10 AM
ARDF 80m race 1:33:51 [4] *** 6.5 km (14:26 / km) +194m 12:34 / km
80m ARDF at Sulphur Canyon/Doc Long in the Sandias.
Good race, slow, kinda short (M40 in straightline is shorter than W21, W35, M50, and M60). Map way better than in 2005, but the trail symbols need a going-over---one huge trail symbol on the map is a normal singletrack, and other normal single tracks have tiny tiny rat trail symbols.
I'm not going to claim the contours are wrong, but it *seemed* like transmitter 1 (SW most part of my track), which is mapped as up 3 contours, felt like 5 contours. I was going *really slow*.
My QuickRoute I started my GPS 15 minutes late---I wanted to start it on a cycle so I could use the time to know what T was on. My order was 2,1,3,4. I didn't have to get 5 in the SE of the map.
Dick's QuickRoute
Good race, slow, kinda short (M40 in straightline is shorter than W21, W35, M50, and M60). Map way better than in 2005, but the trail symbols need a going-over---one huge trail symbol on the map is a normal singletrack, and other normal single tracks have tiny tiny rat trail symbols.
I'm not going to claim the contours are wrong, but it *seemed* like transmitter 1 (SW most part of my track), which is mapped as up 3 contours, felt like 5 contours. I was going *really slow*.
My QuickRoute I started my GPS 15 minutes late---I wanted to start it on a cycle so I could use the time to know what T was on. My order was 2,1,3,4. I didn't have to get 5 in the SE of the map.
Dick's QuickRoute
Saturday Sep 17, 2011 #
Event: Air Force Marathon
12 PM
ARDF 2m race 2:25:00 [4] 11.3 km (12:50 / km) +248m 11:34 / km
2m ARDF at Los Alamos, NM.
Very pretty, very nice area, good map. I'm happy with my result. But ARDF is not a foxhunt. I was disappointed with the course. It's a reasonable course, but I think many of the choices the designers made contributed to unfairness. I have no idea why we were given a map this big. When the map goes that way, and there are obvious course design hints that going that way (north) is a reasonable thing to do, and you decide to not put anything up there, then you need to have big hints to not do obvious things like go to the north part of the map. Going north is aggressive; going east is safe. Aggressive route choices should be rewarded, safe choices penalized.
Am I wrong?
My QuickRoute (I went east along the stream, and back west on the road; so CW.)
Dick's QuickRoute
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I considered going north on the trail about 300-400m out of the corridor, but I instead spent a lot of time verifying that I couldn't hear obvious transmitters up the reentrant to the left of the "boot mesa" as well as from the high point north of transmitter 3 (off the tip of the boot mesa). So I wimped out, but wasted a lot of time doing the safe thing---checking out the north part of the map.
The problem with the course is that so much is determined by random factors. I'm confident the best people were high in the standings and the worst were low, but this course doesn't give similar results to similar ARDFers.
Very pretty, very nice area, good map. I'm happy with my result. But ARDF is not a foxhunt. I was disappointed with the course. It's a reasonable course, but I think many of the choices the designers made contributed to unfairness. I have no idea why we were given a map this big. When the map goes that way, and there are obvious course design hints that going that way (north) is a reasonable thing to do, and you decide to not put anything up there, then you need to have big hints to not do obvious things like go to the north part of the map. Going north is aggressive; going east is safe. Aggressive route choices should be rewarded, safe choices penalized.
Am I wrong?
My QuickRoute (I went east along the stream, and back west on the road; so CW.)
Dick's QuickRoute
{edit}
I considered going north on the trail about 300-400m out of the corridor, but I instead spent a lot of time verifying that I couldn't hear obvious transmitters up the reentrant to the left of the "boot mesa" as well as from the high point north of transmitter 3 (off the tip of the boot mesa). So I wimped out, but wasted a lot of time doing the safe thing---checking out the north part of the map.
The problem with the course is that so much is determined by random factors. I'm confident the best people were high in the standings and the worst were low, but this course doesn't give similar results to similar ARDFers.