<commit_before>---
layout: post
title: Don't Get Lost
excerpt: "Racing in a forest with a compass and map"
modified: 2017-02-04T14:17:25-04:00
categories: blog
tags: [race, adventure]
comments: true
share: true
---

## Race Summary

|                       |                   |
|:----------------------|------------------:|
| **Race Date**			| January 21, 2017	|
| **Race Stats**		| 3:06:02. 215_pts_. 11/13|
| **Format** 			| Most checkpoints in alloted time 			|
| **Would do again?** 	| Yes 							|
| ===
{: .table}

I heard about this race from my uptown run shopw [Running Free in Markham](http://www.runningfree.com/). I'm generally interested in trying out new race formats...well new things in general and this race seemed rather compelling. The [Snowshoe Raid Adventure Run](http://dontgetlost.ca/index.php/ark-locations/ark-hamilton?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=66) is a 3 hour event where you are required to find as many checkpoints within the area of play as possible. Each checkpoint has a difficulty rating, with an associated number of points (i.e. beginner checkpoints are 25 points, and backcountry are 150 points). The race focuses primarily on orienteering skills (as well as fitness), so you're only given an elevation map with the location of where each checkpoint is located. In the 'field of play' there are no markers or boundaries other than the standard trail markets (e.g. bruce trail) so it is actually possible to get lost if you're not paying attention to where you are at all times. The difficulty is definitely compounded when you start search for advanced markers, where you need to know when to break off-trail, find the market, then make your way back onto a trail. You are required to stay in pairs, unless you are in the matrix zone where you can go off individually but must exit the matrix together.<commit_msg>spelling mistake<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: Don't Get Lost
excerpt: "Racing in a forest with a compass and map"
modified: 2017-02-04T14:17:25-04:00
categories: blog
tags: [race, adventure]
comments: true
share: true
---

## Race Summary

|                       |                   |
|:----------------------|------------------:|
| **Race Date**			| January 21, 2017	|
| **Race Stats**		| 3:06:02. 215_pts_. 11/13|
| **Format** 			| Most checkpoints in alloted time 			|
| **Would do again?** 	| Yes 							|
| ===
{: .table}

I heard about this race from my uptown run shop [Running Free in Markham](http://www.runningfree.com/). I'm generally interested in trying out new race formats...well new things in general and this race seemed rather compelling. The [Snowshoe Raid Adventure Run](http://dontgetlost.ca/index.php/ark-locations/ark-hamilton?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=66) is a 3 hour event where you are required to find as many checkpoints within the area of play as possible. Each checkpoint has a difficulty rating, with an associated number of points (i.e. beginner checkpoints are 25 points, and backcountry are 150 points). The race focuses primarily on orienteering skills (as well as fitness), so you're only given an elevation map with the location of where each checkpoint is located. In the 'field of play' there are no markers or boundaries other than the standard trail markets (e.g. bruce trail) so it is actually possible to get lost if you're not paying attention to where you are at all times. The difficulty is definitely compounded when you start search for advanced markers, where you need to know when to break off-trail, find the market, then make your way back onto a trail. You are required to stay in pairs, unless you are in the matrix zone where you can go off individually but must exit the matrix together.
{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.10053475935828877, 'fraction_numerical': 0.02459893048128342, 'mean_word_length': 3.4429928741092635, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 3, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 3, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 2, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 2, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
{'dir': 'git-commits-cleaned', 'id': '7133678', 'n_tokens_mistral': 1107, 'n_tokens_neox': 978, 'n_words': 516}