Running AND Thinking

Okay folks. The topic today is adventure racing. The Portland metro has a cool club called CROC. That stands for the Columbia River Orienteering Club. See http://www.croc.org/ for more details.

This is another local adventure racing site:
http://www.pdxadventureracer.com/

This event looks cool:
http://www.cascadeoc.org/Degrees/SixHome.html

Here's another site for a related club (Klubb) down south: http://www.forestrunner.com/orca/Club_Info/index.htm

Here's a group that does lots of stuff in Washington:
http://trioba.com/triobahome.html

Okay, back to CROC stuff:

The next event is in Antelope Oregon and is a long event called a mini-rogaine. I'm not sure what rogaine means but it sounds alot like the cure for baldness. So, I'll encourage you to restrict the laughter to a minimum and maybe have a moment of silence out of respect for those among us who have lost so much and have so little left.

Moving on... uhhem, here's a snippet from the CROC website that talks about the event:

6-hour mini-rogaine, Big Muddy Ranch near Antelope OR Apr 25 2009
This event will be a 6-hour mini-rogaine: Participants may visit as many control points as possible in any order they wish, but must make it back to the event center start/finish area within the 6 hour time limit. Points will be taken off for each minute over the time limit.

The control points are found using an Orienteering map and a compass. The participants are running (mostly) to track down proof they've visited as many control points as possible before the end of the allotted time. The race element of this event does not restrict old and young from participating. It's a very open event with a focus on choosing efficient routes and managing your energy and orienteering skills to get done as quickly as possible.

I'm a fan because I like orienteering but I'm also beginning to be a fan because I'm starting to like running a bit more. Especially trail running. This is definitely a thinking sport. It could be cool.

Internet Church

Today, I went to church and they had connected a projector to a laptop. It was broadcasting a concurrently occurring stake conference from another building.
It kept cutting out pieces of the talks, songs, and prayers, and only at the very end did a man decide to try to lower the quality of the video to speed up the connection.

Oh well. So much for tEchnoLoGY...