It was a warm day for the beginning of December, temperatures in the 50's. The combination of weather and Alexis' advertising of the event in almost every conceivable forum and the event location brought an exceptional number of participants. The best description would be to say that we were overwhelmed: we ran out of preprinted maps for every course; we ran out of control descriptions; we ran out of punch cards; we would have run out of cookies if it weren't for the contribution of the East End Co-Op. 232 people came to the event, many of them trying orienteering for the first time; we had 135 starts with 16 people trying more than one course. All of these are records for the club, in the case of starts, nearly doubling the previous record.
Alexis Rzewski was the meet director; he also did the field checking and cartography for the map. The courses, especially Orange and Red, were very challenging; this led to a substantial number of disqualifications. However, many of the DSQs and DNFs were also the result of participants thinking they could do a more advanced course than they were ready for. Frick Park has difficult terrain; the course designs were such that the winning times were expected to be quite long and they were. A number of newbies also did not understand our procedures and left on courses without being recorded at the start, leading to an unusually high number of DNSs.
Thanks to Giuseppina Mecchia, Tali Shalom-Barak and Laurie Opila for running registration. Thanks to Stephanie Martineau for hand-drawing I-don't-know-how-many courses on the clean maps after we ran out of pre-printed ones. Thanks to Sherry Shank, Dave Battista, and Alexis Rzewski for handling start/finish. Thanks to Joe Logan for doing instruction. And thanks to Yaki Barak, Dave Battista, Joe Logan, Andy Strat and Brian Ottinger for helping with control pick-up.
To see Alexis' photos from the event, go here
This was the last WPOC event for 2012. We will be back at it in
March 2013 with Raccoongaine as our first event. The 2013 schedule
will come out in early January.
White Course 2.2 km
60 m Climb 8 controls
| Chiara & Azzurra | 24:29 | |
| Ana Haas | 31:58 | |
| Bottom/Waddock (2) | 34:42 | |
| Alan Kaffner & Brody Connor | 35:07 | |
| Bryan and Johnna | 36:15 | |
| Anita, Allison, Leah | 37:08 | |
| Mady, Erica, Mrs. Denko | 37:08 | |
| Tamara Abell | 38:45 | |
| Guava Team (2) | 40:10 | |
| Barb Brewer (3) | 42:00 | |
| Daniel Walton (2) | 42:41 | |
| Kit Eagon | 42:43 | |
| George Danko (2) | 44:00 | |
| Gold Team (2) | 46:04 | |
| Pamela Peele | 48:28 | |
| Lauren Kester | 50:12 | |
| Mike & Sam Rush | 51:00 | |
| RCL (3) | 52:10 | |
| Stephen Zupanc and Heidi Hofer | 52:56 | |
| Joey & Janet | 53:20 | |
| Naoko (2) | 53:43 | |
| Shoshanna Shear | 53:52 | |
| Barbara Jones (2) | 54:31 | |
| Phil Kowalski | 55:44 | |
| Wayne Carey | 56:04 | |
| Capozzi (4) | 56:20 | |
| Missi Carey | 56:25 | |
| Warmongering Wallabies | Troop 251 | 56:38 |
| Panthers | Troop 251 | 58:23 |
| Jim, Stephen, James Wilson | 58:53 | |
| David Kirk (4) | 65:17 | |
| Stanford (3) | 66:15 | |
| Greg Angell (5) | 67:22 | |
| Trevor Lloyd (2) | 72:07 | |
| Chadd Simpson & Kristen Yunn (4) | 72:32 | |
| Bettina Cornell | 72:35 | |
| Navigators I (4) | 74:11 | |
| Navigators II (3) | 74:11 | |
| Derek & Kim Scalzott | 74:18 | |
| Valentino (3) | 88:21 | |
| Temih and Granpapa completed course | DNS | |
| Ficht completed course | DNS | |
| Gabriel Cisneros (2) completed course | DNS | |
| Meng Meng (2) missed control #5 finished in 109:58 | DSQ | |
| Marge Myers (2) found first 4 controls in 43:32 | DNF | |
| Jim Tunney found only first control in 31:59 | DNF | |
| Ed Sumrak found only first control in 41:35 | DNF | |
| Kevin, Kirsten, Kyle did not return punch card | DSQ |
Yellow Course 2.8 km
110 m Climb 10 controls
| Bree McCollough (2) | Troop 522 | 35:06 |
| Mladen Kolar (2) | 53:18 | |
| Phillip Bergen | 53:30 | |
| Kenny Brown & 2 Goof Balls | 57:45 | |
| Mike Miller (2) | 64:01 | |
| Azzurra and Chiara | 67:37 | |
| Alan Kaffner (2) | 68:12 | |
| Cecilia & Veronica Caro | 68:50 | |
| Regina Atkinson (3) | 69:41 | |
| Ashley Key | 72:05 | |
| Harris (2) | 73:05 | |
| Primak (2) | 73:05 | |
| Johnna & Bryan | 75:07 | |
| Fiona, Eric, Joe | 75:50 | |
| Anthony Paterra | 76:55 | |
| Matt Wood (2) | 78:12 | |
| Unligil-Shaikh family (4) | 78:27 | |
| Luca Rzewski | WPOC | 79:45 |
| River Rat (3) | 84:29 | |
| Tali Shalom-Barak | WPOC | 86:28 |
| Ariel Raz (4) | 87:06 | |
| Eric Steinbring | WPOC | 87:08 |
| Lavender Woolstrom (2) | 93:34 | |
| Osburg (2) | 97:45 | |
| Guava Team (2) | 100:41 | |
| Janowitz (3) | 106:15 | |
| Gold Team (2) | 106:38 | |
| Mary Jo Hollern (4) | 109:38 | |
| Team Coffee (3) | 113:01 | |
| Stephen Styer (3) | 113:55 | |
| Joey & Janet | 119:56 | |
| Brigitte Busch (6) | 125:08 | |
| Jeff Rose (4) | 127:54 | |
| Charles George | 144:47 | |
| Mary Bates (2) | 150:08 | |
| Hochheiser (2) missed control #8 finished in 86:58 | DSQ | |
| Julie Ann Mountain found 3 controls in 52:32 | DSQ | |
| Weinstein (3) no punch card returned finished in 62:57 | DSQ | |
| Eryn Hughes completed the course | DNS | |
| Ronnie Parker, Melissa Gaul, Blair Capitano completed the course | DNS | |
| Eric Beringer (3) completed the course | DNS | |
| Unknown (no name on punch card) completed the course | DNS |
Orange Course 4.1 km
195 m Climb 14 controls
| Ahmet Sahnoz | 80:52 | |
| Mladen Kolar (2) | 91:09 | |
| Joe Logan | WPOC | 93:26 |
| Johan Holm | 99:58 | |
| Sid Wiesner | 103:28 | |
| Karl Mormer | 111:56 | |
| Mike Miller (2) | 112:36 | |
| Randy Fasenmyer | 118:08 | |
| Sherry Shank | WPOC | 120:41 |
| Sspanacino/Forbeck | 128:08 | |
| Keith & Frances Irvin | WPOC | 128:28 |
| Void (2) | 133:06 | |
| Will Levine | 138:41 | |
| Kenneth Lappin | NEOOC | 145:01 |
| Karocina & Plamen | 154:14 | |
| Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler | 157:56 | |
| Gordon Lhuang | 201:51 | |
| John Popp (2) found 9 controls in 162:22 | DSQ | |
| Karnavas (3) found 9 controls in 194:09 | DSQ | |
| Roger Stoffregen found 7 controls in 69:29 | WPOC | DSQ |
| Ireland & Sons (3) found 5 controls in 119:04 | DSQ | |
| Amy Haynes found 5 controls in 138:18 | DSQ | |
| Linda Ryan (2) found 3 controls in 153:03 | DSQ | |
| Anneliese Steuben no punch card returned | WPOC | DSQ |
Red Course 7.9 km 380
m Climb 19 controls
| Andy Strat | WPOC | 113:56 |
| Jim Trautmann | WPOC | 118:56 |
| Dave Battista | WPOC | 123:05 |
| Felipe Trevizan | 150:16 | |
| Trail Heads Racing (2) | 150:48 | |
| Kevin Peterson | WPOC | 158:09 |
| Tim Spang | 158:59 | |
| The Biddies (2) | 167:17 | |
| James Hokanson | 177:27 | |
| Lisa Storey | 180:46 | |
| Kevin Tucker | WPOC | 192:27 |
| Lorenz (2) | WPOC | 193:23 |
| Rats in the Night | WPOC | 221:40 |
| Yaki Barak | WPOC | 238:10 |
| Brian Komoroski mispunched #8 finished in 138:57 | DSQ | |
| Mark Zaitsoff found 12 controls in 252:28 | DSQ | |
| Andy Miller found 10 controls in 90:36 | DNF | |
| Jamie Yoder found 10 controls in 235:28 | DSQ | |
| Mike Salamon found 3 controls in 153:56 | DNF | |
| Stephanie Roussel found 3 controls did not return | DSQ | |
| Matt Wood (2) no punch card | DNF |