Boston ARDF - 2009 USA and Region 2 ARDF Championship

On Dec 5, me and Lezsek had a 80 meters training at our famous Blue Hills map. Nick (UR8UA) set a course and we started around 9:30 a.m and finished well before rain started. I was transmitting my running as live session , and anyone could see it in real time, here on this website. This was a first time I tried to do it. It looks like there may be a few bugs exists in software I am using, and I will try to fix them once I have time, but besides abnormal speed (device showed I was running with 23,495 km per our speed)  - it was ok. My goal is to bring real time information from our training and competition and to make it here available at real time to view by the rest of the world while we are on the course. Final goal is to have inexpensive system to track athletes in real time and to see how they are doing at the finish and online for spectators. Here is the map with FOX and Start and Finish locations, along with my splits. Click on image to enlarge (to get full details - click on image on the next page as well.) Here is My GPS Track Running Details for 80 Meters Fox Hunt - Blue Hills. My time was 74 minutes with change… Lez finished it under 112 minutes which is great progress - course was really long and Blue Hills is not easy terrain to run. Here is my splits:

I lost 2 cycles - one at number 1, when I hit the marsh - it was impossible to cross it in 1 minute - I went west from marsh, as I did not expect fox to be at that small area behind it. And second cycle I lost at number 2 - when fox finished I got almost to water tank, marked on the map, but went 30 meters left from the transmitter in off cycle and did not find it. If it would be world class competition someone would not loose those 2 cycles for sure. In my opinion ideal time on this course was 64 minutes. I ran 74. Not bad for 12k distanse, but we need to do better. Loosing even a cycle at the World Champ - will get you no gold and may will leave you with no medals at all.

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