Author: ian.shields
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November 15 Open Event at Lake Crabtree – Results
We had gorgeous weather and a large crowd for our first open event at Lake Crabtree County Park. Runners on the longer courses got to see a lot of the park. Vladimir and Tatyana organized the event but had to leave early, so I get to write up the results. Thanks to them both for…
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Falls Lake Advanced June 14 – Results
Sorry about the long delay in getting these results out. This event event was a Farsta relay. This is a one-man relay where each participant runs two relay loops. The course is made up of intersecting loops. The number of shared controls determines the possible number of relay legs. For example, two loops with four…
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Falls Lake Advanced June 14
Our next event is at Falls Lake on June 14. This is an advanced event for club members who are ready to do orange level courses or above. Update Wednesday2015-06-10 I finally have what looks like a decent course design for a Farsta relay. Total length is about 3.8km, with each relay part approximately half…
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Lake Crabtree Line-O Advanced May 24 – Results
We had beautiful weather for the Line-O event on May 24 at Lake Crabtree. This was my first attempt to run a Line-O, so it was great to see that everyone had fun and found the course challenging. Well, except for Josef who thought it was too easy and won just to prove it. Joseph…
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Lake Crabtree Line-O Advanced May 24
We will have a Line-O event on May 24 at Lake Crabtree. This is an advanced event for club members who are ready to do orange level courses or above. Line-O is an event where the map will have a line which you must follow to find the controls which are somewhere along the line.…
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Regular event at Raven Rock State Park
We will have a REGULAR event at Raven Rock State Park on Sunday April 12, 2015. Raven Rock is near Lillington, about 40 miles S of Raleigh. We will be using the part of Raven Rock that is South of the Cape Fear River. If you are using a GPS to get to the park,…
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Results for Regular Event at Umstead North, February 15
We had a good turnout Sunday considering that the temperature was below freezing all day. Many thanks to Joseph for course consultation, Patrick, Kelly and Pat for sterling work at registration and to Patrick for teaching the beginner course in the solarium. The day was so cold that many of our pens weren’t up to…
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Results for Sept 28 Regular Event at Umstead South
We had great weather for the event and the woods were lovely. A few green sections, but mostly quite easily runnable. We had some technical difficulties generatign the results because of a broken wire in the download box cable. I believe I now have all the results, but if you can’t find yours, please let…
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Results for Sprint event at Lake Crabtree July 27
The sprint event at at Lake Crabtree County Park, was a lot of fun. After a week with plenty of rain, we thought Sunday would be relatively fine. At around 9:30 or so, a huge thunderstorm rolled in as Pat and I were setting controls. With my map now an illegible sodden replica of its…
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Results for Regular Event in Umstead North on April 13, 2014
It was a lovely day at Umstead, apart from the small matter of a lot of pollen. We had a good turnout with 60 starts. The advanced courses might have been a little easy because I reversed the direction after I designed them and then forgot to move some controls that were now after a…