Naturally, you can find them at the 1000 Day home page: www.geocities.com/colosseum/stadium/7418

A curiousity is for the 9th straight year there were more Possum Trotters represented at the 1000 Day than OKers. Could this be the first real evidence that there is such a thing as possum intelligence?

-- Swampfox (wmikell@earthlink.net), August 29, 2000

Answers

It is nice to see the results, but for the 5-day A-meet standing why do you drop one of the 4 day times for the total? It seems to devalue the longest courses.

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), August 29, 2000.

Were there not 2 OKer's at last year's crystal relays? How many Possum Trotter's were there? Correct me if I'm wrong.

-- Snorkel (danielmeenehan@aol.com), August 29, 2000.

Looks like Mook let some girl named Janne from Wisconsin beat him. No wonder he complains.

-- Snorkel (danielmeenehan@aol.com), August 29, 2000.

I think Mook's question is one for the JJ. The total times should reflect all 5 days.

-- Swampfox (wmikell@earthlink.net), August 29, 2000.

There were no OKers registered for last year's 1000 Day, and there were no OK relay teams competing, continuing what has been a truly deplorable trend in OK participation in the Crystal Relay.

-- Swampfox (wmikell@earthlink.net), August 29, 2000.

How can OKers be inspired to run at the Crystal Relays? I know! What if Swampfox had an on-line training diary that described his training in Wyoming? Would that help to get people excited? Too bad such a thing doesn't exist, it would be nice to try.

By the way, if the Crystal Relay rules are relaxed away from the strict team make-up in gender and age like they were this year, it could help to sway more teams to show up, I think.

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), August 30, 2000.

Okay, okay, I fixed the results. Sorry about that. The only course that has a day dropped is White, where we dropped Day 1 because some camper screwed around with the controls. It was just a clerical error on the other courses.

-- J-J (jjcote@juno.com), August 31, 2000.

Thanks J-J and the other 1000-Day desperados for a good meet! It wasn't a personal attack against you that I asked about how the final times were calculated. Forgive my insolence.

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), August 31, 2000.

Why is it that OKers are known for showing up at the most peculiar, backwater stops on the US A-meet circuit (Texas, Georgia, to name but a few), yet every year or every other year there is a big multi-day A-meet just one or two states over that seems to draw only one or two OKers at the most? Could it be that the maps at the 1000-Day are too good? Is it the fact that the controls at the 1000-Day are correctly placed? Maybe the summer weather in Wyoming is not to OKers satisfaction? Are OKers afraid of the cows? Disease? What is it? Is the 1000-Day too expensive? Is our hostess with the mostest charging too much for floorspace? It must be the terrain, because as everybody already knows (and I'm sure Peggy would be quite willing to tell you, after all Peggy is considered one of the world's foremost experts on Wyoming terrain) that Wyoming terrain requires on the most rudimentary of orienteering skills, ie. the ability to glance at a compass, pick out the single tree in the distance that the control is hung on, and run there at top speed. Maybe that's the problem.

Of course there have always been accusations that LaRamie lacks a truly decent bagel bakery. Hmmmph!

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), August 31, 2000.

Mook must be confusing Wyoming O' with northern Tahoe orienteering. In Wyoming the compass is purely superfluous equipment. In Wyoming, you look up, see the tree your control is on a kilometer off, and you run over to the tree and punch and are off on the next leg. In northern Tahoe O', you dare not venture *anywhere* without a compass (and preferably you have a military lensatic model for even more accurate sightings). A knotted string to help you remember pace count is also essential. Then you set off and after you've hopped over the requisite number of fallen logs and other debris, and have waded through enough California Lilac--a misnomer if the ever was one- -to feel like you might be somewhere in the vicinity of the control circle, plus or minus 500 meters, then you begin carefully scrutinizing every possible living or dead tree, regardless of whether they are standing or fallen or whatever. Eventually you will probably find the control, and then you can get down on your knees and praise the lord! E-punching furnishes a major advancement, since at least occasionally you may get lucky enough to hear the tell- tale "peep" alerting you to the fact that someone esle has found a control close by. This is not to intimate in any way that one style is any more or less valid or correct than the other, though clearly individuals will have their personal perferences.

-- Swampfox (wmikell@earthlink.net), September 01, 2000.