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Little Bennett - Mar 23, 2013

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My plan when I set out was to find all the controls in a particular area and finish before the 2 hour time limit ended. I wasn't entirely successful. I found most of the controls I wanted to find but in the end I had to give up because it became clear to me that I was going to take me longer than 2 hours if I insisted on finding all the controls I originally wanted to find. Unfortunately I didn't make it back in less than 2 hours and ended up getting docked 160 points because I was almost 4 minutes over.

I made one serious navigational error just before I gave up and started to head back. I was coming from control 140 and wanted to find 141 next. I got mixed up and started heading southwest instead of southeast. I went quite a ways before I realized my mistake.

On the whole I think my strategy was sound. Considering the competition and the course I didn't stand a chance of winning or even breaking into the top 20. I finished 38 out of 51. I could have finished a few places higher if I had gotten to the finish a few minutes earlier and avoided a penalty.

Score-O

(1) 122 - 40 points
(2) 132 - 40 points
(3) 128 - 60 points
(4) 130 - 60 points
(5) 135 - 60 points
(6) 136 - 40 points
(7) 137 - 80 points
(8) 138 - 100 points
(9) 139 - 40 points
(10) 140 - 60 points

Subtotal: 580 points

Time: 2:03:58

Penalty: 160 points

Score = 580 - 160 = 420 points

Distance Traveled: 5.82 miles

Results

Westmoreland - Apr 10, 2011

Course: Line-O/Score-O [8 controls/15 controls]
Time: 2:52:00 (24/25 points) - results


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Once again the weather was damn near perfect. It was cool but not too cool but I heated up pretty quickly even though up top I was just wearing a t-shirt and a jacket.

The line-o portion of the course was hilly but not too difficult. A good deal of the line-o was along trails or well defined train features. I was completely unfamiliar with line-o prior to this event; I hadn’t even heard of it. I tried not to take that portion of the course too seriously. I focused on staying on course and didn’t worry too much about missing controls. I found them all even though I misplaced one of them (by 10 or 20 meters) on my map.

The score-o portion of the course was more challenging. The controls weren’t difficult to find, but the terrain was physically challenging; in other words, there were lots of steep hills. There was also a fair amount of mud and a swampy area that had to be crossed to get to most of the score-o controls. I was ankle deep in mud on a few occasions.

There was no e-punching. Very few people, just 11, attempted the advanced (line-o/score-o) course.