Blue Spruce Park
Orienteering Meet
9 August 2015
With a temperature about 80 and
mostly blue skys, we had a rather low turnout for our first event of
the fall season. Very few of the usual suspects from Pittsburgh
decided to come to this event for some reason. We had only 23
starts with a total of 35 participants - no wonder Ryan had to
really struggle to get volunteers to help.
Sherry Shank designed some very
challenging courses; that was the consensus for the Yellow course; and
it was clear from the results that it also applied to the Score course.
The Score course consisted of 32 controls (8 worth 10 points
each, 8 worth 20 each, 8 worth 30 each, and 8 worth 40 each) for a
total possible of 800 points. No one reached more than 21 of
these controls in the 100 minutes allowed, although our winner (Paul
Humphreys) clearly tried to stick with higher valued controls on his
route. Many participants chose routes or partial routes that were
similar to Paul's. There were three controls on Score that on one
went to (6 which probably had too much climb to be worth the effort,
9 which was in the middle of nowhere, and 29 which was too far
out of the way to be worth the effort).
Thanks to Tali Shalom-Barak, Christy
Freeman, Ryan Knecht and Laurie Opila for handling registration.
Thanks to Al Sheaffer and Joe Logan for doing instruction and to
Jen Livingston for doing some impromptu tutoring. Thanks to Yaki
Barak and Jen Livingston for helping with start/finish. And
thanks to Sherry Shank, Ryan Knecht and Al Sheaffer for helping with
control pickup.
Results are shown below; to see splits for the various courses click here
The next WPOC sponsored event will be at Mingo Creek Park on August 30.
| 150809 Blue Spruce |
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| results |
created by Ór |
| White | 2.4k 80m 8 controls |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Ian Livingston (2) | | WPOC | 54:11 |
| 2 | Keara Cash (2) | | | 63:58 |
| 3 | Andrea Heinle | | | 72:39 |
| 4 | Fay Marshall (3) | | | 77:51 |
| Jonas Scanga | Found 4 controls in 82:32 | | DNF |
| Kathy Kane (2) | Found 6 controls in 71:31 | | DNF |
| Yellow | 3.2k 120m 12 controls |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Al Sheaffer | | WPOC | 65:48 |
| 2 | Ellen Yerger (2) | | | 71:34 |
| 3 | Loretta Opila | | WPOC | 91:25 |
| 4 | Christy Freeman | | WPOC | 97:54 |
| 5 | Eric Steinbring | | WPOC | 100:20 |
| 6 | Tali Shalom-Barak | | WPOC | 113:59 |
| 7 | Tressa Wright (4) | | | 121:41 |
| Team Swank (3) | Mispunched control #1; finished in 114:33 | | DSQ |
| Linda Geissler (2) | Found 8 controls in 91:54 | WPOC | DNF |
800 points possible
| Name | Notes | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 1 | Paul Humphreys | | WPOC | 100:04 | 590 | 600 | 10 |
| 2 | Yaki Barak | | WPOC | 102:38 | 410 | 440 | 30 |
| 3 | Ryan Knecht | | WPOC | 89:56 | 370 | 370 | 0 |
| 4 | Joe Logan | | WPOC | 95:29 | 310 | 310 | 0 |
| 5 | Gordon Huang | | WPOC | 101:25 | 210 | 230 | 20 |
| 6 | Rayden Sorock | | | 102:08 | 170 | 200 | 30 |
| 7 | Neil Dolinger | | NEEOC | 91:12 | 150 | 150 | 0 |
| 8 | Jett Downey | | WPOC | 85:36 | 100 | 100 | 0 |