Lincoln HS 5Km XC Course Tour (Tom Brown Park)
NOTE:
I believe this course is no longer used. Consider it for archival use.
DON'T WEAR SPIKES on this course.
An every 50m photo tour of Lincoln HS Coach Perry Shaw's traditional cross country 5Km season opener. Florida HS XC course are measured "center of course" NOT tangent, per NFHS direction. http://www.nfhs.org/ I'd like to see NFHS and FHSAA join the rest of the world and measure tangents. Till that happens, I'll continue to measure HS courses to the official standard.
Last event on this course was the 15 Sep 07 Lincoln XC race. We used orange pinflags on raceday. No paint, no lime, no marble dust! The only white marks were from Martha White flour - and I hayalped! Here's hoping we can get sponsorship and a visit from this:
http://www.s-w-b-a.com/mwbus.html
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NOTE to coaches an competitors: I recommend against wearing spikes on this course. There is over 1M of running on smooth asphalt. Then there are the quite uneven sections that require attention to footplant. These are reasons I've posted these photos. Check it out for yourself. I just said DON'T WEAR SPIKES on this course.
2007 GPS track here:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/3895788
Revised for 20 September 2008 races:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6800150
See photo 122 (last photo in this gallery) for a Google Earth screen grab.
Two changes for 2008:
1) minor change just before 800m (Goose Pond to road transition) due to new fence along road
2) reroute between 3800m and 4050m due to drainage rock (SEE PHOTOS 110-121!!)
Because that reroute adds some distance, original photos after about 4Km will be a bit off.
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John Kalin
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