Florida Orienteering
Wekiwa Springs State Park
November 9, 2013


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

Those of you who are old enough to remember the comedy team of “Bob & Ray” are right now composing your own funny one-liners about us. Save them; and bring them to the Winter Annual Meeting – Time and Date to be announced soon.

What a fabulous turnout that was! Thanks to all who showed up and Thanks to all who pitched in to help.

Thanks too for everyone taking it all in good humor that we were somewhat constrained in our course designs due to the nature of the set up in the park.

They did what they could for us – and Thanks to Ranger Scott Mowry for coordinating it all on the Park’s behalf – in light of the ongoing usage of our favorite venue: the Youth Camp Auditorium. We’ll try to get in there next year to simplify everything.

We could not have asked for more pleasant weather – I’m guessing it started out at 70F in the morning and never got above 85F all day, with a nice breeze, low humidity and Florida sunshine in abundance.

All that makes for fun running and pleasant hiking.

Speaking of fun running, Dave Ashley appears to have bettered a 9 min/km pace on his Blue course (8.72 min/km to be exact) which is pretty much the benchmark for speed this season, and considered that it was done over a 9.2 km Blue course means Dave has brought the Big Time to FL.

Cameron Haupt did pretty well himself on the Red course, if you notice.

We enjoyed having quite a few newcomers on this day, thanks no doubt to the publicity generated by the park itself. We also enjoyed the presence of a reporter from the Tampa Bay Times, whose coverage will serve well to publicize the upcoming Suncoast events over that way.

Ray has a better list of helpers, since he was there all day, while Janet and I ducked out early to go see the Avian Recovery Society’s annual celebration held just off Ponkan Road, very nearly adjacent to our Wekiwa map.

I notice several “overtime” on the Blue course, no doubt simply because it was a fairly normal Blue course this day and not the gentle give-away kind we’ve been providing. Even with the ‘lost distance’ involved in getting people from the Spring boil area put to the interesting forest, and back, the course itself was what I thought would be nicely challenging. And so it was, it seems. I also was a little concerned that several groups on the Blue course had more than 2 people. I wish that would not happen, because groups of people on any course are more likely to compromise the fun and challenge of others on that course, so I would ask for more consideration from everyone on that score in the future. I don’t want to be harsh and police it myself at the Start table. I just want everyone else to be considerate. Try to limit group size on Blue to 2; on Red to 3. Thanks.

As for the courses, everyone had nice things to say and I was not too surprised at that just because the courses themselves passed through some of the most gorgeously restored wiregrass carpeted pine flatwood forest we have among all our venues. I think all would agree that the forest is really pretty out there, and I’m guessing that rubs off onto everyone’s assessment of how great the courses themselves were.

In all: Good times, good day, good folks.

Get ready for next month’s Florida Championships – with medals to top 3 men and top 3 women on each course – but you must compete individually - at Kelly Park.

Ray is very short-winded. It's always nice to have a large pavilion to meet/greet people as was this time. Everyone was greeted at the registration table by Frank Kuhn, Cheryl Mc and Lammi Lambert until she ran her course(Red). Jonathan Linforth, Kris Mante and Mike Dempsey were at the Start/Finish table, I filled in here/there but not really. Bob gave instructions and hung around for the entire day (very unusual) until it was time to venture off to ARS. We had another large group of BScouts come up from the Tampa area, who camped and made a great weekend of it. Again, we had groups come from St. Augustine and Tampa. I stepped up to the Blue course, finding that I had an early starting time, leaving before Dash and some others but never seeing any pass me -- not even a blur, ha! The pickup was conducted by Jerry, myself and Rashi Hall [sent over by Ranger Scott] who took his dog on a hike. Jerry managed to get out of the woods by dark after picking up 21 controls on the far end.

Thank You Everyone for you assistance making another event enjoyable.

Bob and Ray


WHITE

Name Time
Dash 21:33 *2
Ruppert, N 54:47

YELLOW

Name Time
CCHS Peller 60:13
UHS #1 77:00
Icandi, J 89:20
CCHS Mounts 88:08
Lost Boys 98:14
CCHS Velez 100:06
Blackhearts 103:30
VHS #2 104:00
Team Tomilin 104:55
CNZ 109:00
Team Cobb 110:45
CCHS Campos 118:26
Sharkey 122:10
Mtn. Men 159:55
Pythons DNF
CCHS Decker DNF
Landon DNF
Elite Patrol DNF

ORANGE

Name Time
Dash 42:46 *2
Canyoneros 52:55 *2
Eisenstadt 67:00
Kontanz 79:39
CostaK 110:40
Team M5 113:30
Wekiva #1 115:30
BSDLY 120:12
Kuhlman 123:37
BHS #B 130:48
JsL/Brew 138:15
Chrysalis 142:41
Allens 148:52
Team Kelly 151:20
Team Shrimp 165:10
Lundeen, M OT
BHS #A DNF

GREEN

Name Time
Dempsey, M 97:02
Humberg, N 121:54
Dennis/Carolyn 128:45
Eisenstadt 130:20
Zackless 148:19
Deb/Paul/Beca 172:35
Hawkins/Lunt 178:25
Wekiva #1 DNF
Four C's DNF
Peters DNF
Weeks DNF

RED

Name Time
Haupt, C 91:54
Meow Meow 102:43
Boris/Lammi 103:56
Haupt, J 112:11
Mante, K 144:18
Yak Attack 147:38
Thomas, L 154:42
Bjordust 155:26
Kalmbach DNF

BLUE

Name Time
Dash 80:18
Carr, J 88:22
Hearn, G 94:12
Av Jericho 95:55
Canyoneros 112:27
Sheriff 118:48
Schultzie 131:02
Bruneau, R 142:37
Pororzelski, H 154:40
Fantastic Fur OT
Rodents OT
Ezra OT
Lombardi, R OT
Scott, J OT
SuckaPauw DNF


NOTES

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


Created 10-November-2013