December 7, 2025

Around the Armstrong Municipal park

While it was drizzling and sun was not smiling through the clouds, nevertheless, the weather was excellent for an orienteering event and challenging courses set on new map of Armstrong Municipal park and surroundings. "Fun!" - that is what any meet director wants to hear from finishers. And we heared this many times today :)

Christy the happy finisher

We had quite a number of kids on the beginner course. We should be watchful for some of these superfast super-orienteerers! Team of Asker, Chase, Jane, and Sam finsihed within seconds from each other and all under 9 minutes. Isabella was next while executing solo, a little bit over 9 minutes. Max cleared the sport course at one hour and three minutes. The intermediate course was most competitive with 14 takers. Kirsten had a solid win with Carol second, and Karin third. Helle unfortunately couldn't finish trying to catch to the superfast super-orienteerers team, otherwise, it could be more heated battle for the crown. On the advanced course a merely one minute and one second separated Ted and Peter, both with perfect 44-45 minutes. I did preprun the Advanced course in 45 minutes and thought this may be the perfect time but Ted showed that it could be even better!

Advanced 6.3 km 25 C
1 Ted Smith 44:05
2 Peter Aumann 45:06

Intermediate 4.8 km 25 C
1 Kirsten Severud 42:31
2 Carol Baumbauer 49:45
3 Karin Didisse 55:19
4 John Murray 1:01:48
5 Leslie-John Siebold 1:10:21
6 Dave Byrd 1:15:11
7 Team Sprint 1:57:52
8 Cristy-Scott Morris 2:06:26
9 Austin Agosta 2:13:04
Dustin Thomas mp
Helle Beattie dnf

Sport 3.7 km 18 C
1 Max Hasiuta 1:03:33

Beginner 0.9 km 7 C
1 Asker Beattie 8:19
2 Chase Brown 8:21
3 Jane Boespflug 8:22
4 Sam Boespflug 8:55
5 Isabella McDonough 9:14
6 Team Tree Crab 28:25
Katerina Snarskaya mp

Split times on Winsplits to compare and see where you may have lost time.

We are defining 2026 club events and will post them soon. Some preliminary schedule is available at the right together with the list of major national and international events.

See you next month enjoying outdoors!

Cheers,
Sergey

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