I must admit, when I woke up event morning and looked at the
weather and it said “17 but feels like 11” I wanted to crawl back under the
covers. But instead, I headed out to lay controls for event. Arriving on site it was very quiet, even the
geese were still asleep huddled together to keep warm. We took this time to move around campus and enjoy the morning as the sun welcomed us
with a sea of frosted sparkly grass.
Despite the chilly morning several brave souls (most waited
for more sun) came out and participated.
I was a little overzealous this month and created 3 standard
courses (Beg, Int & Adv) and one Urban course.
The advanced course consisted of 20 controls and when
placing them this morning I had to call a last minute audible and move one due
to an unforeseen water feature. I didn’t
figure anyone was up for some wading on a 17-degree morning. We had 4 runners who were up for the challenge,
and all gave impressive times, all finishing with 10 min of each other.
|
Name
|
Course
|
Out
Time
|
In
Time
|
Duration
|
|
Jason
Russel
|
ADV
|
11:17:00 AM
|
12:07:00 PM
|
0:50
|
|
David
Bergset
|
ADV
|
10:38:00 AM
|
11:31:00 AM
|
0:53
|
|
Melanie
Wright
|
ADV
|
11:06:00 AM
|
12:03:00 PM
|
0:57
|
|
Dustin
Thomas
|
ADV
|
11:23:00 AM
|
12:23:00 PM
|
1:00
|
|
Bill
L
|
ADV
|
DNS
|
|
DNS
|
The Intermediate course consisted of 14 controls. While many of them overlapped the Advanced
course I tossed in a few different ones and had runners going in different
directions. However, that didn’t stop participants from making quick work of
this course.
|
Name
|
Course
|
Out
Time
|
In
Time
|
Duration
|
|
Innes
|
INT
|
11:05:00 AM
|
11:37:00 AM
|
0:32
|
|
Marcella
|
INT
|
11:00:00 AM
|
11:54:00 AM
|
0:54
|
|
Michail
|
INT
|
11:13:00 AM
|
12:16:00 PM
|
1:03
|
|
David
B
|
INT
|
DNS
|
|
DNS
|
|
Johnny
S
|
INT
|
DNS
|
|
DNS
|
|
Janice
McEnroe
|
INT
|
DNS
|
|
DNS
|
We had 11 teams participate in the urban course with 5
getting all the answers. While this year
was a little tamer than last year there were still some “tricky”
questions. These questions just show how
different people think (I focused on the words while others on the
images/pictures)
|
Name
|
Course
|
Out
Time
|
In
Time
|
Duration
|
Points
|
|
Fords
|
Urban
|
10:13:00 AM
|
11:06:00 AM
|
0:53
|
34
|
|
Ashley
|
Urban
|
10:11:00 AM
|
11:18:00 AM
|
1:07
|
34
|
|
Chaitanya
|
Urban
|
10:33:00 AM
|
11:59:00 AM
|
1:26
|
34
|
|
Cat S
|
Urban
|
10:42:00 AM
|
12:13:00 PM
|
1:31
|
34
|
|
Pete
P
|
Urban
|
10:20:00 AM
|
12:12:00 PM
|
1:52
|
34
|
|
Karin
D
|
Urban
|
10:47:00 AM
|
11:46:00 AM
|
0:59
|
33
|
|
John
S
|
Urban
|
10:55:00 AM
|
12:19:00 PM
|
1:24
|
32
|
|
Leslie
|
Urban
|
10:55:00 AM
|
12:19:00 PM
|
1:24
|
32
|
|
Donna
P
|
Urban
|
10:10:00 AM
|
11:57:00 AM
|
1:47
|
32
|
|
Kim/Roy
|
Urban
|
10:10:00 AM
|
12:15:00 PM
|
2:05
|
30
|
|
Darla
|
Urban
|
10:10:00 AM
|
12:15:00 PM
|
2:05
|
29
|
|
Lynette
|
Urban
|
DNS
|
|
DNS
|
DNS
|
Last but not least the Thank You list:
·
A big thank you to April Rice and the Department
of Admin leadership team for allowing us to host this event on their
campus. We are hoping to use it again in
future years.
·
John Murray:
This was a new area for us which meant a lot of map work needed to be
done but as always John stepped up to the plate and got us a workable map in a
very short amount of time. He also took
many phone calls from me and had a side by side tutorial on using the mapping
software. His knowledge was extremely
valuable in understanding what may make some good control locations to force
some route choices. We will see how much
I retain come Nov next year!
·
David Bergset: After finishing the ADV course in
a great time he hung around the start/finish and kept me company while waiting
for everyone else to finish. It was good
to catch up with him since we no longer work together. Then he offered to help pick up controls
while he drank his still warm coffee, which was appreciated!
·
Karin Dedisse:
She arrived at the parking area before I had and graciously helped set
the CTOC sandwich boards and carried some of the equipment to the starting area
while I frantically finished putting out the last controls. Also, a thank you for taking the lead on
ordering new CTOC jerseys (the first in 10 years I’m told).
·
Scott Cockerham: As his daughter I have gotten
him into some weird adventures and Orienteering is no exception. He helped scout campus with me several times
over the last few weeks with no complaints – even when we went out the afternoon
it was snowing like mad! I appreciate
all the hours he spent walking and suggestions while putting this course
together – now you don’t need to worry about it for another year!
