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The G-Rant : Grant's Rants on Adventure Racing

“Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.” - Alfred North Whitehead

Tidewater Traverse 2005 Course Map

Got an email from a friend about an old TT course from 2005; nostalgia took over and I quickly put this into a live map as an overview of the course.  I've not messed around with Microsoft's Live Maps before but I hope the "Share" feature works and the link above works . . . here it is if you want the whole URL mess:

 

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=37.355422~-76.826019&style=r&lvl=11&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&cid=C326822CD984C1FE!103&encType=1

 

That 2005 race really stands out as a turning point in my memory; it was point-to-point and such a big scale compared to what we'd organized prior to then.  This was the first event of it's kind in the region, at 12-hours, and started me down the thinking "big" road.  It really was a well put together course; like a Greek tragedy, however, one CP was misplaced in YRSP by 400 meters and it wreaked havoc with the final standings.  The guys from Walter, Donny, and the Dude scrambled into first place and I think they've been riding that wave of adventure racing jubiliation ever since!

 

After that race, we started having our course testers verify the course booklet UTMs with GPS coordinates and we've never had an off CP since (this was the only one in our history!) . . . but it still scars my memory of this event.  Hard lessons learned!

 

 

 

 


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