On a lovely spring day, 196 participants accounted for 98 entries on the four courses designed by Dwight Freund. Although the beginner courses were more challenging than usual, we had virtually no complaints and almost everybody finished. Furthermore, the meet directors weren't deluged with dozens of newcomers, after finishing their course well within an hour, saying "What do we do next?" Below are the complete results.
The White course required careful navigation through the maze of buildings in the central campus. However, everyone completed the course successfully, with Nicholas Mang and Nina Lin finishing first in a speedy 20:34.
The Yellow course was longer than usual, and took participants to open fields both N and S of the "urban sprawl." That gave people a chance to experience some "normal" orienteering, as well as enjoy some whimsical control features Dwight found on the campus. The course was won by Susan Petrick with a swift 50:45.
The Orange course combined fine orienteering among the buildings, open- field navigation, and a really long (1 km) leg. Five people finished under the magical 10 min/km pace, led by Angelica Riley at 36:01. In addition, the team of Michael Brill and John Gaylord blazed through the course in 32:18, with the benefit of having been to 6 of the 10 controls while running the Long Orange course.
The Long Orange course gave the more-experienced orienteers a chance to show their speed, with two thirds of the entries running faster than 10 min/km. Syd Reader won with an impressive 40:45 (claiming that his "home field advantage" didn't help). Apologies are offered for not having streamers on the barbed "trip wire" near the lake.
Another gold star goes to Bob Cooley for field checking and map corrections, and for printing all the maps (including many during the event). The ever-present registration team of Ev and Jean Beuerman were assisted by Esther Heller, none of whom took time to run a course. Beginners clinics were held by Bill Straka, Marsha Jacobs, Nancy Lindeman, Neal Barlow, Nick Corsano and Steve Gregg, which surely contributed to the high level of success on White and Yellow. Starts were managed by Galena Shakhnovsky, Meg Gerstner and Mike Fleishman. Results were processed by Meg, Alan Glendinning and Greg Fleishman. Last but not least, Mike Fleishman and Oleg Shakhnovsky picked up the controls. Thanks to all those folks, and to anyone that I've inadvertently overlooked.
In closing, I thank Mike Fleishman for volunteering to be the official meet director. His direction was invaluable, as was his calm handling of the hectic moments of the event.
White - 2.5 km, 9 controls (21 entries, 56 people)
1. Nicholas Mang, Nina Lin 20:34
2. Anu Perasalo 25:29
3. Dan Eggerding 33:55
4. Gail Glendinning, Reyer Band 36:50
5. Henry & Sarah Band 40:30
6. Simpson Group #1 40:32
7. Daniel Zaks, Lev Stefanovich 40:50
8. Karen, Vijay, Tara & Moira Saxena 44:26
9. Simpson Group #2 50:15
10. Wanda Doll 52:17
11. Maureen Blando 52:32
12. Leah & Natalia Feliz, Samantha Smith 55:45
13. Susie & Anne Mielke, Sarah Loebner 57:45
14. Amber & Jane Lombard, Laura Blockhaus 59:45
15. Carole Prior, Liane Kobori, Megan Stubbs,
Brenda Pena 61:39
16. Melissa Kobori, Shannon Prior,
Amanda Mestas 63:40
17. Diane Hall, Alice Boyd 63:43
18. Alexandra & Katharine Magana 65:10
19. Kaitlin Torres, Brianna Jones,
Tonya Fowler, Debbie Torres 73:00
20. Jeanne Fenton, Serita Bowen 79:52
21. Justin Welsh, Garry Krum,
Dinesh & Latha Prabhu 104:40
Yellow - 4.25 km, 11 controls (24 entries, 55 people)
1. Susan Petrick 50:45
2. Rosalind Archer 57:49
3. Jennifer Schultz 64:23
Dan Eggerding 69:45 2nd course
4. Melissa Wardlaw, Chris Waters 69:57
5. JoAnne Goldberg, Vincent, Samy, Pop C, Rex 70:14
6. Karen Schorr, Chris Blake 73:20
7. Dox Doxiadis, Sarah Edwards 74:59
Maureen Blando, Marsha Jacobs 76:15 2nd course
8. Daniel, Kathryn, Danielle & Matthew
Cassley, Jimmy Hylton 79:51
9. John & Sue Rizzi 80:45
10. Brad & Drew Pfaff 81:25
11. John Gronley 82:01
12. Galena Shakhnovsky 86:11
13. Julia Zaks, Karina Solomonik, Alina Libova 86:52
14. Jeff, Alex, Ana Maria, Margarita Boenig 92:40
15. Lisa Childers, Wm/Marjorie, Takeo Hirai,
Matt/Nate 94:14
16. Andrew & Al Theiss 107:04
17. Jesse Patterson 113:29
Carol Schultz, Liz Spalding MSP (121:00)
Barbara Bangs, Fausto Sanchez MSP (156:40)
E.B. Thompson OT (186:06)
Brian, Ann, Laura & Matthew Agee DNF
Ethan Dreyfuss DNF
Orange - 4.75 km, 10 controls (26 entries, 54 people)
Michael Brill, John Gaylord 32:18 2nd course
1. Angelica Riley 36:01
2. Scott Aster 40:24
3. Nick Corsano 41:54
4. Greg Fleishman 46:57
5. Marsha Jacobs 47:34
6. Irina Zaks 52:27
7. Cecil Conkle 56:36
8. Oleg Shakhnovsky 59:20
9. Jack Myers 62:53
10. Audrey Warmuth, Ken, Scott, Nick 71:28
11. John Ma 74:01
12. Judy Koehler 76:26
13. Robby Reimer, Goeffrey Theiss 77:27
14. Don Gee 81:03
15. Chang Yu 82:11
16. Laurie Menke, Nancy Renfree 86:54
17. Audrie Faist 88:10
18. William Rassieur, Freda Xu 90:51
19. Nancy Lindeman 107:21
20. Pack 213, Den 3: Trygve & David Thorsrud,
Michael Brewster, Paul Bennet 117:44
21. Judy & Nicole Cronin, Lindsay Steinfeld 130:44
22. Jay, Linda & Emily Hann,
Gigi & Corky Heckendorn 145:08
23. Tom & Libby Cronin, Sara Scibetta 158:10
24. Brianna Torres, Dana Thorsrud,
Sarah & Loretta Wilson 162:06
25. Troop 774: Laura Bennett, Katie Oey,
Jessica Deckert, Janet Thorsrud 169:15
Long Orange - 7.5 km, 15 controls (27 entries, 31 people)
1. Syd Reader 40:45
2. Steve Gregg 43:04
3. Neal Barlow 43:38
4. Panu Haaramo 47:19
5. Tapio Karras 52:20
6. Eric Rosenzweig 56:15
7. Alan Glendinning 56:48
8. David Dreyfuss 57:33
9. Gavin Wyatt-Mair 57:45
10. Bob Cooley 59:44
11. Justin Graham 59:45
12. Theo Verhoeven 60:42
13. Michael Brill, John Gaylord 64:17
14. Rod Jaehn 66:11
15. Mark Blair 67:02
16. Jorian Riley, Topher Wilkins, Rachel Heit 70:14
17. Parag Gupta 70:40
18. Edward Boenig 76:34
19. Robert Lewis 81:30
20. Bill Straka 85:28
21. Meg Gerstner 87:38
22. Alan Razee 90:03
23. Steve Beuerman 97:20
24. Brian Donohue 102:58
25. Barbara Straka 125:10
26. Jonathan Seder 130:57
27. William Boenig, Sherrie Raposa 140:08