Delaware Valley Orienteering Association

Topic created by Gillettejw on Tue Jul 23, 2013 at 8:04 am

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Come join DVOA down on the farm at Springton Manor!  Nate Ohrwaschel is back from the Czech Republic and  has set a full array of courses that are sure to please. The courses prove to be fast on a 1:5000 map that is not too technical and has only 10 foot contour intervals.  Aside from our regular courses, we will be offering a Sprint course as a fundraiser for DVOA Juniors. 

With the rather compact boundaries of a working farm, runners can expect some controls that will be punched twice, close controls (check your clue codes!!), and some red slashed out of bounds on planted fields. 

After your course, enjoy a stroll around the grounds to see the farm animals and maybe bring a picnic lunch. 

Volunteers are always welcome to help and we still have some open slots in early e-punch & registration, late Start, and control pick-up.  If anyone wants to help set up, Nate and I will be out at the Farm on Saturday.  Email us and we will give you the details.  Nate and I look forward to seeing everyone on Sunday!!

Reply by kathyu on Tue Jul 23, 2013 at 9:23 am

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I'm signed up for late epunch, and I would like to invite anyone and everyone to hang with me at the computer and learn the ropes, even for as little as 15 minutes. 
Kathy U

Reply by Gillettejw on Tue Jul 23, 2013 at 2:45 pm

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Awesome Kathy, thanks.  Sandy just signed up for Early E-punch too.  I am setting up the computer tonight, so I will reach out to you if I have issues.  It will be great to start growing our e-punch team to take the pressure off the small but distinguished group of "regulars"

Reply by ErikEddy on Thu Jul 25, 2013 at 11:01 am

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Looking forward to the event on Sunday ( a chance to rebound from FCE :) )...

I'm curious, why must the Sprint be run first?  Any further insight here?  I'd like to try it out, but most likely only if I could run my regular course first...

Thanks!
Erik

Reply by Gillettejw on Thu Jul 25, 2013 at 3:46 pm

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Erik:

Essentially, it is a competition issue and not a technical issue.  As Vadim imparted to me, running a longer standard course first would give unfair advantage to the runner when it came to understanding control placement for the Sprint Course.  The same advantage would not be gained in running the Sprint first.  Vadim did say that we can make a caveat that if a runner wants to run the standard course first, we can accomodate and then just not apply the results to the overall club standings.

Vadim, please step in if I have not articulated that correctly.

John 

Reply by ErikEddy on Fri Jul 26, 2013 at 3:28 pm

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That makes more sense.  Not too worried about rankings...I was assuming a 2nd run wouldn't count for rankings either way..

Reply by kathyu on Sun Jul 28, 2013 at 7:35 pm

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Thanks Nate, John and crew for a day that turned out to be more challenging than expected. I wrote two haiku to commemorate the day, but I couldn't post them here because the line breaks don't work, but you can read them on Facebook if you like. Kathy Urban

Reply by KathleenG on Sun Jul 28, 2013 at 7:47 pm

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Kathy: Publish the haiku in the Briar Patch!  Were your haikus about the mud, or the spiders?

Reply by kathyu on Sun Jul 28, 2013 at 8:50 pm

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Thanks, Kathy G. They are going in the Briar Patch. One is about following and the other is about the moving control on brown. But you remind me to find an old haiku about spiders from a couple of years ago.