S-F

March 13, 2005

Most of the terrain near St. Louis is pretty steep. We have two parks south of the city that offer much more subtle features: Hawn and S-F. S-F is owned by the Boy Scouts, so we don't get to train on it. That makes our annual meet there almost like an out of town meet.

This year the S-F meet coincides with the KC 9-hour. The meet director let a few of us run the course a week early. It was a lot of fun. The format was 2-hour score. David and I planned sweep routes. Mine was a little longer, but I felt that it followed the features better. We both ran well, with no significant mistakes. My total error was around two minutes. I finished with 7:25 to spare; about a minute and a half ahead of David. Jeff Sona also ran and got all but a few controls.

A scan of the meet map is here.