Saturday was the PreWTOC TempO competition. The course had six stations each with five tasks. Seven had been planned, but the grass is so high here that one station across a meadow had to be canceled. The organizers couldn't clear enough of the brush to make everything they needed visible. Similar to Friday, the terrain was steep hillsides filled with large and small cliffs and boulders. Quite technical for a TempO. Clare once again had the top US result with a raw time of 319 seconds and seven misses for a total score of 529. They scored the weekend with a combined scoring system that added up your TempO score, your PreO timed control time, and gave penalty points for missed PreO controls (similar to Trail-O relay scoring). In the final scores, Clare placed 70th, Sharon 98th, and Peter 101st out of 116 Open Elite competitors.
The organizers were kind enough to leave open the previous days PreO course and allowed us to go back to analyze things and even go into the terrain to investigate the sites. It's always nice to be able to visit afterwards and look for how you could have improved. I was able to check out number 18, where I was thrown by the mapping of a single large rock as a cliff with boulder above and a gap between (Not how I would map it!).
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| The offending rock feature and flag |
After the competition, the team enjoyed a trip to the site of Hrad Trosky - ruins of a medieval castle built onto two imposing basalt towers. We then visited more nearby rocks for another fun hike.
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| The team at Hrad Trosky |
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| Peter is King of the Rock |
Next up: The model event for WTOC. The entire team will finally be together and we will bring you team pics and bios.
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