It was a very nice day for orienteering, sunny, temperature about 50 with dry woods. We had a fair turnout with 31 starts and 47 people showing up; based on previous contacts, more beginners were expected but didn't show up. There were a couple of new faces, but only a couple.
Jim Wolfe was meet director. The courses he set had a bit too much climb, especially the White course; but it is difficult to limit climb to an appropriate level at Pine Ridge Park. In contrast, a lot of people liked the Yellow course and the One-Person Score Relay seemed to be a genuine hit. The map was brand new and participants seemed to like that too. The Relay idea was for each person to decide at the end of a leg whether on not s/he could do the next leg and stay within the time limit. The time limit was 100 minutes regardless of whether participants chose to do one, two or three legs of the relay. Each leg had seven controls worth 100 points. There was a 12-point per minute penalty for each minute or partial minute over the 100 allowed. Strict rules were set down for what people on the Relay were to do. In the results below, there were a number of people who didn't quite follow the rules; rather than label them as DSQ in the results, I have chosen to footnote what they did.
Thanks to Sherry Shank, Christy Freeman and Eric Steinbring for handling registration. Thanks to Andy Strat and Joe Logan for handling start/finish. And thanks to Dave Battista, Noami Jarvis and James Fenn, Kimmo Berg, Gordon Huang and Alexis Rzewski for picking up the controls.
You can see photos that Alexis took at the meet here .
This was the last WPOC event for 2014. We will begin 2015 as usual with Raccoongaine on March 22.
White Course
2.3 km 120 m climb 9 controls
| Weikuo Fan | 41:23 | |
| Andrew Foor & Kevin Roles | BSA | 97:44 |
| Jon Rodriguez & Thomas Roles III | WPOC | 99:42 |
| Emilie Lanciano (4) | 112:24 |
Yellow Course
3.4 km 165 m climb 10 controls
| Mladen Kolar | 30:38 | |
| Fred Chenot | WPOC | 46:05 |
| Matt Murphy | 70:05 | |
| Weikuo Fan | 71:09 | |
| Christy Freeman | WPOC | 82:00 |
| Giuseppina Mecchia, Luca & Anita Rzewski | WPOC | 87:58 |
| Emma Livingston (2) | WPOC | 93:42 |
| Barbara Johnstone | WPOC | 94:53 |
| Tali shalom-Barak | WPOC | 98:20 |
| Dave & Keiko Hurst | 99:00 | |
| Tom & Linda Gray | WPOC | 99:00 |
| Walters (4) | WPOC | 115:35 |
| Mike & Tricia Ward | WPOC | 131:40 |
Relay Course Single Leg 100 points possible 7 controls
Limit 100 minutes
| Name | Club | Controls | Time | Raw Score | Penalty | Total |
| Sherry Shank | WPOC | 7 | 79:14 | 100 | 0 | 100 |
| Naomi & James | WPOC | 7 | 91:45 | 100 | 0 | 100 |
| Yaki Barak | WPOC | 7 | 99:30 | 100 | 0 | 100 |
| Eric Steinbring 1 | WPOC | 4 | 84:20 | 45 | 0 | 45 |
| Loretta Opila | WPOC | 3 | 125:30 | 30 | -192 | -162 |
Relay Course Two
Legs 200 points possible 14
controls
Limit 100 minutes
| Name | Club | Controls | Time | Raw Score | Penalty | Total |
| Gordon Huang | WPOC | 11 | 98:39 | 145 | 0 | 145 |
Relay Course Three Legs 300 points possible 21 controls
Limit 100 minutes
| Name | Club | Controls | Time | Raw Score | Penalty | Total |
| Andy Strat 1 | WPOC | 21 | 87:07 | 300 | 0 | 300 |
| Dave Battista | WPOC | 21 | 95:47 | 300 | 0 | 300 |
| Alexis Rzewski 2 | WPOC | 20 | 91:17 | 290 | 0 | 290 |
| Kimmo Berg | WPOC | 21 | 101:47 | 300 | -24 | 276 |
| Havard Klokkerud | 17 | 88:59 | 240 | 0 | 240 | |
| Joe Logan | WPOC | 16 | 98:53 | 210 | 0 | 210 |
| Mladen Kolar 3 | 11 | 87:20 | 135 | 0 | 135 | |
| Jessie Amend & TJ Platt 4 | 1 for sure | 99:40 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
2 Exchanged the position of two punches but didn't tell finish crew.
3 Returned to Pine Lodge carrying three maps (two more than were allowed).
4 Had 11 punches on the card but only one was in the correct position and one punch was a partial. It was not possible to determine with certainty which controls they actually visited.