Mingo Creek Park
30 August 2015
Orienteering Meet
It
was a rather warm, humid day for orienteering; but it was still August;
so what can you expect. There was a little rain before the
event
started and a brief sprinkle toward the end; but the only person to get
really rained on was Jerry Agin as he finished picking up controls.
Turnout was the best we have had at Mingo Creek with 43
starts
and 74 people participating.
Anneliese Steuben designed the courses; this the first time she has
done this and the results were very good. There were a couple
people on the Yellow course who mysteriously could not find the control
box at one control for unknown reasons. There were a few
others
on the Yellow course that did not read the course notes and were
confused with the water stop on control 6 not being exactly at the
control flag. However, nearly all the course comments I heard
were very positive. There were a couple places where the
vegetation on the map could be improved; but otherwise, the particiants
seemed to enjoy themselves.
There were two interesting occurrences at this event. Tom
Svopodny came all the way from Dayton to give Mingo Creek a try; and
put on a demonstration how orienteering should be done. He
won
the Red course by almost 12 minutes. As you might expect, he
was
also the fastest on many of the legs of the course; however, he was
also the fastest on a couple of legs after severely cutting his foot on
a bottle. On the Yellow course, there was an unexpectedly
wide
variety of people who were the fastest on the various legs.
There were 11 legs on the Yellow course; seven different people or
groups were fastest on one or more legs. You can view the
split
times at the link below; I have highlighted the fastest time for each
leg on all courses.
Thanks to Yaki Barak, James Fenn, Ryan Knecht and Laurie Opila for
handling registration. Thanks to Naomi Jarvis and Joe Logan
for
helping with start/finish. Thanks to Sherry Shank and Andy
Strat
for providing instruction; and thanks to Andy for making some
additional Yellow course maps. And thanks to Jerry Agin,
Alexis
Rzewski, Ryan Knecht and Yaki Barak for doign control pickup.
Our next event will be our annual celebration of National Orienteering
Day at Keystone State Park on September 20.
Click here to see the splits
for each course
Click here to see Alexis Rzewski's photos
from the event
| 150830 Mingo Creek |
|
| results |
created
by Ór |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | John Huffman | | | 33:12 |
| 2 | Derek Wessel (2) | | | 51:20 |
| 3 | Ling Tian (4) | | | 52:03 |
| 4 | Nelson Chipman (3) | | | 52:44 |
| 5 | Susan Caro (5) | | WPOC | 56:01 |
| Colin Neil (5) | Missed controls 1 & 2; finished in 40:11 | | DSQ |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Andrew Sedgwick | | | 51:43 |
| 2 | Kirill Kiselyov | | | 58:28 |
| 3 | Blaine Sanner (3) | | | 63:07 |
| 4 | John Huffman | | | 63:22 |
| 5 | Alexis Rzewski | | WPOC | 63:24 |
| 6 | Rzewski (3) | Manual punch #7 | WPOC | 74:19 |
| 7 | Stanley Liu (4) | | | 74:42 |
| 8 | Zean Chen (3) | | | 75:36 |
| 9 | Roger Stoffregen (2) | Manual punch #7 | WPOC | 86:09 |
| 10 | Katherine Fair(4) | | | 86:13 |
| 11 | Derek Wessel (2) | | | 88:26 |
| 12 | Dave Ross | | | 107:09 |
| 13 | Linda & Jack Geissler | | WPOC | 127:53 |
| 14 | Linda Alberico (3) | | | 135:41 |
| Colin Neil (9) | Missed #6-#9; finished in 84:09 | | DNF |
| Mike Ward (2) | Missed #6-#10; finished in 147:48 | WPOC | DNF |
| Melanie Plummer (2) | Missed #6-#10; finished in 128:39 | | DNF |
| Loretta Opila | Missed #7-#9; finished in 77:49 | WPOC | DNF |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Ryan Knecht | | WPOC | 75:10 |
| 2 | Joe Logan | | WPOC | 93:43 |
| 3 | Rayden Sorock | | | 110:19 |
| 4 | Jerry Agin | | WPOC | 126:51 |
| 5 | Sherry Shank | | WPOC | 133:50 |
| 6 | Naomi Jarvis | | WPOC | 146:49 |
| 7 | Tom & Linda Gray | | WPOC | 172:01 |
| Kayla Poling (2) | Missed #11 & #12; finished in 194:35 | | DNF |
| Stephen Brown | Missed #11; finished in 106:05 | WPOC | DNF |
| James Fenn | Missed #11 & #12; finished in 127:42 | WPOC | DNF |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Tom Svopodny | | MVOC | 83:41 |
| 2 | Jim Trautmann | | WPOC | 95:38 |
| 3 | Andy Strat | | WPOC | 96:46 |
| 4 | Dave Battista | | WPOC | 99:14 |
| 5 | Alexis Rzewski | | WPOC | 102:45 |
| 6 | Yaki Barak | | WPOC | 169:20 |
| 7 | Gordon Huang | | WPOC | 195:53 |
| Beth Ann Eyth | Found #1-#8; finished in 110:38 | | DNF |
| Mike & Diane Lorenz | Found #1-#8 & #16; finished in 120:42 | WPOC | DNF |