FAIR HILL Sunday March 6
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Topic created by BevH on Sat Mar 5, 2011 at 9:21 amFair Hill.... Rain Hill. We can promise you won't find Snow Hill!
Though it is likely to be rainy, we look forward to the early spring turn-out at FAIR Hill-Little Egypt on Sunday March 6th. We do need a few more volunteers--to help with start, registration, and control pick-up. If you will have time to do this, please sign up online soon, so our anxiety levels go down.
We want to reiterate the note and warning to advanced runners (brown, green, red): some controls on different courses on similar or identical features are DELIBERATELY placed closer together than is allowed by USOF guidelines--to add a bit of difficulty to an intrinsically intermediate-level map and to challenge those fine-detail skills. The locations and relationships are MAPPED and they are DESCRIBED accurately on the clue sheet. For fastest times, don't be decoyed to the wrong control. In one case, they are about 30 meters apart on identical features. In other cases, they are closer to 100 meters apart. These controls, will furthermore, be obvious on the map for your course, as they are the only ones with identical features within the control circle. Be precise and confident on your orienteering and this course-design eccentricity will not cost you a moment. We were inspired by the diabolical Hickory Run training activity where we had no map and a clue sheet with distance and direction (but no control numbers), and there were several controls within about 30 meters. The intention is to add a little challenge and fun to this early spring event.
Come on out and have some fun in the wet. See you there.
Bev & Fred -
Reply by edscott on Sun Mar 6, 2011 at 7:19 pmWish I had seen this note before I went out. I knew there were to be controls closer than USOF guidelines but not that they were going to be on similar features. The long legs on Brown offered multiple route options and made good use of the terrain. Good course.
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Reply by kathyu on Mon Mar 7, 2011 at 4:56 pmThank you to everyone who worked on the first event of the season. I'll just have to consider that first control I messed up as a shake-down cruise. The brown course was fun and we lucked out with the weather -- it was much worse before the event and way worse after!
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Reply by sfmones on Mon Mar 7, 2011 at 5:33 pmMy thanks as well to all who braved the elements and organized, set up, and ran the event. I lucked out as the rain started after I finished. I did not mind the proximity of multiple controls; I fgure that it doubled my likelihood of finding a control.
