Adventure Racing #09: How To Use A Compass

[@RndmAnvgr777]

Great info and helpful! Training to get into AR while saving up to buy a decent bike. This playlist has given me a good starting point and useful links. Thanks!

[@scany1980]

Great video!! Good refresher. 40k mistake...that’s scary 😧 I need to check your channel more. Would love to see more about distances and step counting etc, and reading elevations better. Thanks!

[@nathaliecomte2202]

Any advice on map reading elevation etc would be appreciated. Specially knowing the quality of the content you had already disclosed..

[@brucechaplin2123]

Hey AR, Another good video! We teach orienteering skills to scouts in US, and also use the rhyme "put red in the shed" to orient to north and find a bearing. :-)

[@corybourn8947]

Thank you for your channel!

[@ARonAR]

Thanks, Cory. I'll keep on doing it ;)

[@guidojoe11]

Another great video!

[@ARonAR]

Cheers, Jose :)

[@captainnicolasdubois]

Never ever stop near a power line in heavy rain conditions. We did that with my team to put an extra layer and our compass was reversed polarised after that, indicating north where south was.

[@ARonAR]

Lol. That must have been a LOT of fun! 🤣👍 Thanks for the contribution. I wouldn't have considered that. 🙂

[@captainnicolasdubois]

@@ARonAR we knew where we were, we knew where we were coming from, so we decided the compass was wrong, not an easy decision to take.

[@XEinstein]

0:54 indeed. AR is a thinking sport.

[@twineagleimports9029]

Awesome video

[@alistairgifford-moore9732]

Thanks for the great advice

[@mikereiser100]

Great videos Adam thank you for the effort, much appreciated. While we've practicing for our upcoming 24 hour AR (our first one) we've been wondering what we should do the first few minutes we have our map in hand? We see people getting out highlighters and immediately marking the maps and feverishly plotting lines .. can you explain what's going on practically? Essentially take us through a race start?

[@ARonAR]

Thanks, Mike 😊👍 I'll summarise it here for the moment: as soon as you get the maps, no matter that's the day before, at the start or during the race, you want to pour over them. After all, it's the first time you know what you're really doing, and you shouldn't start moving until you have a strategy (otherwise one is a headless chicken). So you're plotting your ideal route from CP to CP, making notes of special details, inc what to look out for, or to bring on a stage. It's the theory part. Then execute, to use the phrase :) I'll see if there's an episode in that. I have an episode on MAPS prepped for the last 4 months but not recorded it - YET.

[@mikereiser100]

@@ARonAR Thinking we should change our name to "Team Headless Chickens".

[@ARonAR]

@@mikereiser100 🤣👍👍

[@JTHuddo]

Thanks for sharing :-)

[@goingtothefifty]

how do you navigate on a flat land with no identifiable reference points?

[@ARonAR]

Purely use compass bearings and time/pace to work out distance covered. Just like a ship at sea 😁👍

[@antondeleeuw4931]

Adam - where did you source your wrist compass?

[@ARonAR]

Hey Anton. I got it new off ebay from Moscow themselves. £34. There aren't too many retailers in the UK for them, and mine was shipped from Russia. Orienteering shops might have them, but not main retailers for the most part. The Silva 66OMC is more widely available but almost double the price.

[@antondeleeuw4931]

@@ARonAR thank you so much for coming back to us - love the videos. Informative, clear and good advice

[@MutantMusings]

40KM my goodness. I hope I don't do double that. 😩😬😄

[@ARonAR]

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