OREAD -- February 2000

The OREAD is the unofficial e-mail newsletter of Orienteer Kansas. There is also an OREAD home page at http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/field/7306. Both the home page and the e-mail newsletter are edited by Michael Eglinski (meglin@juno.com).

COMING EVENTS

February 5 (Saturday) Informal O' practice at Clinton State Park. This will be a very informal practice. There won't be any markers or a specific course. Meet at the parking lot by the Corps office. The tentative time is 11 a.m. (it is probably worth double checking with me before showing up -- meglin@juno.com or call me -- before 9 p.m. -- at 816-584-9367).

February 12. Possum Trot OC hosting a local event at Monkey Mountain (east of Kansas City). Info at the PTOC web page or from Tom Hanley at 816-224-3898.

March 4. Possum Trot OC is hosting an event at Wyandotte County Lake.

March 11-12. St Louis Orienteering Club is hosting a two day meet. This meet may -- or may not -- be an A-meet. Either way, it should be a high quality event. It'd be great if we can have a big group of OK and PTOCers at the meet.

WOTW

WOTW? Workout Of The Week is a way for OKers to improve their orienteering. Even though we can't all get together and practice together, we can all do the same workout sometime during the week. WOTW will be posted on the OREAD homepage. Go to the WOTW page at http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/field/7306/wotw.html

Armchair orienteering, designed by Mary (OK club prez) is the first WOTW.

BIG NATIONAL EVENTS

Relay Champs -- hosted by New England Orienteering Club on the weekend of April 15-16. The last two years OK has had two teams at the relay champs. It would be very cool if we could have two teams this year.

Short Champs -- OCIN is hosting a three day event that includes the US Short Course Champs on 3/31 through 4/2.

-- Michael (meglin@juno.com), February 02, 2000

Answers

Tried to go to OREAD webpage (or is it the OK webpage) at geocities. Got the following message.

HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 15:17:59 GMT Last-Modified: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 03:05:50 GMT ETag: "9ed05-1233-386d6f0e" Accept-Ranges: bytes X-Host: www67 Content-Length: 4740 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 15:17:59 GMT Connection: close Content-Type: text/html

OK

You don't have permission to access /Colosseum/Field/7306/index.html on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

...so, is everything OK there?

-- Fritz Menninger (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), February 03, 2000.

I get the same error message Fritz got. I went in to the geocities "file manager" and all the files seem to be there, but I could not view them. It seems like a geocities problem. Of course, there could be a darker explanation -- could the St Louis Orienteering Club or Deleware Valley O' Association have hacked out site?

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), February 03, 2000.

I just connected to the OREAD! We are back on the web.

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), February 03, 2000.

I tried the last suggestion: jacuzzi map reading, with the added challenge of having the tall cool glass contain an intoxicating substance. Look at a leg, sketch it (real struggle to keep the paper dry after a bit), then take a drink. Those last legs were really tough!

-- Fritz Menninger (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), February 04, 2000.

You can also use the leg scanning armchair exercise while lifting weights to rehabilitate your injury. During the 60 seconds between each set, look at the map. The next break between sets, draw what you remember (or describe it to yourself.)

-- Fritz Menninger (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), February 04, 2000.