Cold Nose

January 24, 2005

SLOC typically likes to do something non-standard for the Cold Nose meet in January. This year, David Frei was meet director and chose to run a Farsta. A Farsta is a mass start event where the course is forked. Whichever fork you take on the first loop, you take the opposite fork on the second. The number of possible leg orders depends on how many forks you have in each loop. David�s course had three forks, so there were 8 possibilities.

Competition map.

The navigation was fairly straightforward and made a bit easier by the fact that I was nursing a bad ankle so I didn�t run full speed. Rudy Schwartz stayed with me through control 5 at which point we split on different forks. I was alone from that point on. Gary Thompson finished second, passing Rudy at the end of the first lap.

It was a fun meet, with enough entrants to make the Farsta format work. As usual at Tyson, the straight line route had a brutal amount of climb, but there were plenty of around options. Actual climb was around 3%, which is really low for Tyson.