Error by rival orienteer paves way for Bray
Fresh off his run at the Junior World Orienteering Championships, Trevor Bray made it look easy at a local meet at Mount Lorne last night.
Fresh off his run at the Junior World Orienteering Championships, Trevor Bray made it look easy at a local meet at Mount Lorne last night.
鈥淭revor Bray put in a phenomenal run, beating the current Yukon orienteering champion Forest Pearson,鈥� meet organizer Craig Brooks told the Star today.
鈥淭revor鈥檚 time was really good. Forest made a significant parallel error, which is where you think you鈥檙e on one feature, but you鈥檙e actually on another one.
鈥淥n the map, they look similar. It takes you a while to basically second guess yourself and say 鈥業鈥檓 not there. I鈥檓 somewhere else鈥� and then figure out where you really are.鈥�
The meet was based out of the Mount Lorne Community Centre, with competition funnelled into four divisions.
The expert, advanced, intermediate and novice courses measured in at 5.9 km, 4.9 km, 3.8 km and 2.7 km, respectively.
The novice course included 10 controls, while each of the other categories had 12.
The meet鈥檚 map scaled in at 1:10,000.
鈥淚t was very flat, open terrain, so we made our courses a little bit longer than normal,鈥濃�圔rooks explained.
鈥淎nd it鈥檚 the end of the season, so we made them a little bit more challenging ... with more off-the-trail control locations.鈥�
Despite last night鈥檚 ideal weather conditions, the territory鈥檚 orienteering season is winding down now, with two meets scheduled to happen in September.
The final meets will be held Sept. 10 and 26. See yukonorienteering.ca for more details.
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Expert
1. Trevor Bray (40:22)
2. Forest Pearson (42:57)
3. Brent Langbakk (43:42)
Advanced
1. Afan Jones (47:18)
2. Ross Burnett (51:08)
3. Sam Nielsen (60:21)
Intermediate
1. Savannah Cash (57:58)
2. Bruce McLean (58:23)
3. Bryn Knight (72:10)
Novice
1. Curtis Cash (20:08)
2. Elias Sagar (22:24)
3. Charlene Desjarlais (26:39)
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