What a great day for Orienteering. Warm, but not hot, and just cloudy enough to make running pleasant!
And what a turnout! By my count there were over 300 people out there in the woods. Slightly over half of these were from the JROTC groups - although it looked a lot more if you were around the start area between 10 and 11am.
I would like to thank Janet Putnam, Jeanne Ryba and Marilu for running registration, John Ide and Ray Bruneau for Start/Finish, Joe Maliszewski for single handedly placing all the controls, and Ron Eaglin for retreiving the advanced controls. Bob Putnam and I had our hands full instructing all those new arrivals, and also helping at Start/Finish. Finally, Marilu and I collected in the White/Yellow controls as a relaxing way to view the park itself, while Jerry Sirmans waited at the pavillion for 2 straglers who finally returned around 3:45.
PLEASE NOTE that you must report back to the Finish desk by 3PM or we have to start to organise a search party!
I only heard one complaint that maybe one of the controls was mis-placed, so it looks like Joe did a great job of placing the controls where Bob had designed them to be. We should also thank Jonathon Linforth for printing a huge quantity of quality pre-marked maps. We received praises from a few newcommers that our maps were the best they had seen. (Of course they were probably comparing them to the maps produced by the parks and state agencies.)
My only disapointment was that I didn't get to see much in the way of wildlife this time. Maybe because I only did the Orange course - which didn't take me off into the more 'wild' areas. We did see a couple of large birds that looked like wild turkeys while pulling in the White/Yellow controls - not the usual Cranes that we often see at Moss park.
Hope to see you all out there at Wekiva next month!
Mike Dempsey
Name | Time |
BSA 236 #1 | 26:17 |
BSA 236 #2 | 26:43 |
Hodges | 38:15 |
BSA 236 #3 | 38:05 |
BSA 854 #2 | 43:22 |
BSA 236 #4 | 45:55 |
BSA 854 #3 | 46:55 |
BSA 854 #4 | 59:10 |
BSA 854 #1 | 65:10 |
Christopher | 76:38 |
Name | Time |
BSA 854 #1 | 28:27 |
BSA 854 #2 | 29:48 |
Stidham | 35:00 |
BSA 854 #4 | 40:46 |
BSA 854 #3 | 42:46 |
Holmes | 45:10 |
Leduc | 45:18 |
Schmid | 57:22 |
Fontenot | 58:52 |
Eric Barr | 80:35 |
Kent | 80:35 |
Farrell | 84:20 |
Pyros | 87:54 |
Heizer | 103:35 |
Name | Time |
Ann Putnam | 41:31 |
M&M Dempsey | 55:57 |
Hodges | 61:55 |
Dunedin B | 69:23 |
Leclere | 78:04 |
Carlson | 80:08 |
Kim Johnson | 84:20 |
Roberts | 91:53 |
W Brown | 93:40 |
Rachael Gilger | 93:40 |
GSA 4560 | 96:14 |
Jeanne Ryba | 98:54 |
Stidahm | 101:00 |
Lavigne | 127:04 |
Name | Time |
N.Makris | 83:20 |
David Hall | 93:41 |
Richard Carlson | 102:50 |
Jack Stidham | 111:08 |
Hamilton | DNF |
Name | Time |
John Ide | 57:15 |
Bob Hill | 60:42 |
Josh C | 64:50 |
Bret Barker | 85:48 |
Andy and Todd | 98:30 |
Dennis & Carolyn | 124:53 |
Kevin Kurzawa | 130:50 |
Jack Cash | 174:05 |
Nathan & Abbey | DNF |
Brown | OT |
E Hollingsworth | OT |
Name | Time |
Paul Hodges | 79:40 |
Ray Bruneau | 107:30 |
Jenkins | 118:32 |
Wil Pirnasch | 125:00 |
Oveido #1 | 135:30 |
Jerry Sirmans | 137:00 |
Murphy | 160:36 |
Jimmy Harris | OT |
J Hollingsworth | OT |
Lundin | OT |
Pabolina | OT |
DNF | Did Not Finish |
DQ | Disqualified (Missed Controls) |
OT | Over 3 Hour Time Limit |