It was an unusually hot and sticky day for September; but National Orienteering Day turned out to be a popular day for orienteering at Deer Lakes. We had a record number of starts, 74, with 114 participants. Many people did a second course. This was what we had hoped for; Jennifer designed the white, yellow, and orange courses to be relatively short and somewhat on the easy side to encourage particularly newcomers to try a second course. One orienteer, Joe Egan, even did three courses and another, Brian Ottinger, ran the same course twice. As usual, Alexis set the pace for both the orange and green courses. There were a lot of very positive comments about the courses; Jennifer did an excellent job in putting the courses together. She also made a string-O course that 19 younger children tried out.
For National Orienteering Day, we gave away a few frisbees that we acquired courtesy of the DVOA club and a few copies of ONA provided by USOF. And naturally, we gave little prizes to the kids who finished the string-O.
This was our first event at Deer Lakes Park; so it was a brand new map. Everyone seemed to like the map, even though many of the yellow areas were a bit faded because of a printing problem. No one complained about anything out of place.
Thanks to Jennnifer Livingston for directing the meet. Mary McElhinny, Laurie Opila, Barbara Johnstone, Joe Logan, Mike Ward and Bill Unger for running registration. Thanks to Dave Battista and Bryon Roland for handling start/finish. Thanks to Jennifer Livingston, Alexis Rzewski, and Laurie Opila for providing instruction. And, thanks to Dave Torick, Alexis Rzewski and Jim Hokanson for picking up the controls.
Here are the photos that Alexis took at the event.
White Course
1.80 km 9 controls
| Alex Habermann & Sam Gutkind | 18:44 | |
| David Waldeck (2) | 23:02 | |
| Zara, Molly, & Gilli | 24:05 | |
| Brian Stack & Keith Miller | 24:22 | |
| Vincent P. & David C. | 25:07 | |
| Patty Murtha | 28:15 | |
| Joe Barbish & Steven Kim | 29:06 | |
| Elijah & Dave Battista | WPOC | 29:10 |
| Joseph Egan | 31:15 | |
| Ian Serbin & Laura Greenburg | 31:54 | |
| Luke Bittenbinder (2) | 32:00 | |
| Bree McCullough (2) | 37:46 | |
| Bobbi, Debbie, & Samuel | 38:38 | |
| Tom & Kelly Hahn | 43:30 | |
| Kurt & Carl Villock | WPOC | 48:10 |
| Sam Okabayashi, Toby Junker, Sagar Kamath | Pack 274 | 55:58 |
| Michael & Holden (5) | Pack 274 | 57:02 |
| Roth Family (3) | 60:00 | |
| Miller & Spence (5) | 73:72 |
Yellow Course
2.55 km 10 controls
| Keith Miller & Brian Stack | 18:01 | |
| Brian Ottinger (second time) | 21:20 | |
| Joe Barbish & Steven Kim | 22:35 | |
| Brian Ottinger (first time) | 23:09 | |
| Jan Waldeck (2) | 24:41 | |
| A. Flurie | 24:59 | |
| Ian Serbin & Laura Greenburg | 28:40 | |
| Joseph Egan | 30:50 | |
| Roger Stoffizeger | 32:05 | |
| Alex Habermann & Sam Gutkind | 32:50 | |
| Luca Rzewski | WPOC | 36:50 |
| Jason Maruccio | WPOC | 42:15 |
| Dave & Maggie Greer | 42:26 | |
| Gary Lohr | WPOC | 44:46 |
| Zang Family (4) | 49:35 | |
| Don Lind (3) | 51:11 | |
| Janz Family (3) | 54:45 | |
| Sean Byers (4) | 54:57 | |
| Matt & Jess Simmons | 57:13 | |
| Vizino Family (6) | 58:45 | |
| Erica Henry | 60:45 | |
| Paul Sutcliffe (3) | WPOC | 61:23 |
| Tom & Margy Kearney | 63:24 | |
| Unligil-Shaikh Family (4) | WPOC | 85:46 |
| Mary Bates (2) | 86:14 | |
| Joe, Angela, & Joshua Weltner | WPOC | 128:34 |
| Rick Szwaczkowski (2) | 128:34 | |
| Vincent P. & David C. One wrong punch, 20:52 | DSQ | |
| Zara, Molly, & Gilli One missed punch, 45:40 | DSQ |
Orange Course
3.75 km 10 controls
| Alexis Rzewski | WPOC | 33:29 |
| Karin & Anders Villwock | WPOC | 47:11 |
| Tim Piper | WPOC | 53:50 |
| Joseph Logan | WPOC | 57:30 |
| Randy Fasenmyer | 57:47 | |
| Terry Gillis | WPOC | 60:57 |
| Bill Unger | WPOC | 63:12 |
| Steve & Nicole Schlotterbeck | WPOC | 63:18 |
| Stephanie Martineau | WPOC | 74:15 |
| Brian Ottinger | 75:00 | |
| Loretta Opila | WPOC | 78:22 |
| Joseph Egan | 79:06 | |
| Mary McElhinny | WPOC | 79:30 |
| Jason Maruccio | WPOC | 85:42 |
| Ray Povirk | 89:35 | |
| Janz Family (2) | 122:57 |
Green Course
5.73 km 13 controls
| Alexis Rzewski | WPOC | 59:41 |
| Dave Battista | WPOC | 71:20 |
| Bryon Roland | WPOC | 93:52 |
| Jim Hokanson | WPOC | 104:10 |
| Mark Desnoyer | 122:30 | |
| Phil Martineau | WPOC | 137:10 |
| John Hinderliter | WPOC | 142:50 |
| Frank Ferraro | 146:28 | |
| Jason Gray | WPOC | 154:14 |
| Susan Moore & Dave Torick only 7 controls, 97:49 | WPOC | DNF |