Florida Orienteering
Moss Park - October 14, 2006
Event Coordinator: Mike & Marilu Dempsey


Courses: WHITE | YELLOW | ORANGE | BROWN | GREEN | RED | NOTES

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


WHITE

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

YELLOW

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

ORANGE

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

BROWN

Name Time
N.Makris 83:20
David Hall 93:41
Richard Carlson 102:50
Jack Stidham 111:08
Hamilton DNF

GREEN

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

RED

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


NOTES

DNF   Did Not Finish
DQ Disqualified (Missed Controls)
OT Over 3 Hour Time Limit


Created 15-October-2006