North Park
Orienteering Meet
9 September 2018
It was really a fairly horrible day for orienteering - continuous rain,
cool in the 50's, with a raging stream and trees falling here and there
in the forest. Nevertheless, 46 intrepid folk did come out to the
event and there were 26 starts. Everyone seemed to have a good
time, even though crossing Irwin Run became a problem. And as for
the trees which could not deal with the amount of rain: Kevin
Fisher had a close encounter as one tree nearly fell on him and about
15 minutes after the last start, a large tree fell about 30 meters from
the registration area.
Alexis Rzewski set the courses. The only negative comments I
heard were about a couple controls on the advanced courses that were
difficult because of a combination of rain and vegetation. Despite
the weather, only
one person didn't finish his course; and the winning times on all but
the Advanced Short course were what would be expected. The
Intermediate and Advanced Long courses required two crossings of Irwin
Run, normally not a difficult task; however, with 3+ inches of rain
falling before and during the event, there were some portions of the
stream that were dangerous to cross. We did have half a dozen
people try the Advanced Long course and they generally did well.
One remarkable note is that five of the six had at least one leg
of the course in which he/she was the fastest. Usually, the
fastest legs are not that well distributed.
Thanks to Dave Battista for vetting Alexis' courses. Thanks to
Laurie Opila, Yaki Barak and Jim Trautmann for handling registration.
Thanks to Sherry Shank, Naomi Jarvis and Joe Logan for conducting
instruction. Thanks to Katrina Weinmann and Ryan Knecht for
helping with start/finish. And thanks to Ryan Knecht, Kevin and
Sydney Fisher, and Joe Logan for doing control pickup.
The next WPOC sponsored event will be a Frick Park on September 16.
You can view the splits for the courses here
You can view Alexis' photos of the many rain-soaked participants here
| 180909 North Park |
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| results |
created by Ór |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Rose Saville-Iksic | | | 35:40 |
| 2 | Shane Whitney (3) | | Tr 404 | 54:07 |
| 3 | Kai Roylo (3) | | Tr 404 | 58:24 |
| 4 | Kevin Miller (4) | | Tr 404 | 60:30 |
| 5 | Noah Panyon (4) | | Tr 404 | 61:40 |
| 6 | Autumn Forrest | | | 66:31 |
| 7 | Jack Meredith (3) | | Tr 404 | 68:43 |
| 8 | Cortlan Harrell (4) | | Tr 404 | 80:57 |
| Tim Jones (3) | Wrong 1st control; finished at 77:50 | WPOC | DSQ |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Lee Saville-Iksic | | | 49:37 |
| 2 | Sherry & Naomi | | WPOC | 76:00 |
| 3 | Luca and Giuseppina | | WPOC | 80:46 |
| 4 | Charley George | | | 84:28 |
| 5 | Ximena Marinero (2) | | | 87:51 |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Ryan Knecht | M40 | WPOC | 47:46 |
| 2 | Brian Hattenbach | | | 118:56 |
| Andrew Ballard | One control out of order; finished at 132:04 | | DSQ |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Joe Logan | M60 | WPOC | 88:35 |
| 2 | Jason Miller (2) | | | 123:59 |
| David Devine | Found 4 controls; finished at 143:38 | WPOC | DNF |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Sydney Fisher | W21 | WPOC | 91:57 |
| 2 | Katrina Weinmann | W21 | WPOC | 99:30 |
| 3 | Kevin Fisher | M21 | WPOC | 108:20 |
| 4 | Jim Trautmann | | WPOC | 114:10 |
| 5 | Todd Pownell | M40 | NEOOC | 121:24 |
| 6 | Yaki Barak | M55 | WPOC | 166:27 |