Meet Results Archive
2000-2001 Season
[Results from other seasons]
Night-O, July 26, 2000
Canoe-O, Sept. 9, 2000
Crowders, Oct. 28, 2000
Kings Mtn State/Lake Crawford, Nov. 18, 2000
McDowell Park, Dec. 2, 2000
Latta Plantation, Jan. 6, 2001
Reedy Creek Park, Feb. 1, 2001
Kings Mountain State Park, Mar. 3, 2001
Kings Mtn. National Military Park
National Orienteering Day! Reedy Creek Park, May 5, 2001
Summer Night-O
Reedy Creek Park | 26-Jul-2000 | Jim Hall
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COK is known as a club with really good orienteers; however, some of you have been keeping your skill level a secret. We have members we know are good. What we didn't know is how good they are even in the DARK!
We placed 27 controls out there, some in "less than obvious" places, and the scores were really great. The results ranged from 3 errors to 6 errors or mismarked controls (many only slightly mismarked).
Most participants enjoyed a different type of challenge that tested observation and pacing skills. We were pleasantly surprised that over 30 folks showed up for the event....or was it for the food?
Rank Competitor Mismarked controls Tied for 1st Blair Peery and Arlene Roman -3 Tied for 1st Dan Davis -3 Tied for 3rd Monica Siegenthaler -4 Tied for 3rd Howell Peterson -4 Tied for 3rd Charlie Martz and Group -4 Tied for 6th Shane and Todd Smith -5 Tied for 6th Keith Liscinsky -5 Tied for 6th Scott Pyle -5 Tied for 6th Jeannie Martz and Group -5 Tied for 6th Alan Barnhardt and Group -5 11th place
(all to themselves)Chris Mitchell and Group -6
Canoe-O at Latta
Latta Plantation Park | 9-Sep-2000 | Jim Hall
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Twenty-three "paddlers" turned out for the orienteering by canoe meet at Latta Plantation Park and found 27 controls waiting around the shores of Mountain Island Lake in a course designed by Jim Hall and Nancy Stephens. As you can see from the results, Jim offered a 60-minute trial and a 90-minute trial with point values ranging from 5 to 100 points per control based on the distance from the start/finish. Since this was a Score-O with a time limit, penalty points deducted for overtime became increasingly severe the later the return: 1-5 minutes over deducted 1 point per minute from the score; 6-10 minutes over deducted 5 points per minute over and 10 plus minutes cost 10 points per minute.
We saw a few new faces (which we hope to see again) and we gained two new members. Thank you for the nice turnout. We are always pleased when a little hard work produces a fun time at orienteering.
90 Minute Course
Competitor Total Points Penalty Points Net Score Liz Horgan & Harry Taylor 242 None 242 Chris Mitchell & Christie Starnes 170 None 170 Edward Little & Dan Rhodes 127 None 127 Jean-Yves Nicaise & Guido Nordmann 152 30 122 James Staub & Curt Halvorsen 89 5 84 Tony & Lila Slate 71 3 68 Walter & Monica Siegenthaler 247 210 37 Team Pork (they know who they are) 42 120 (78) Team Charlie & Charlie (they do too) (You dont want to know...)
60 Minute Course
Competitor Total Points Penalty Points Net Score Bill & Ann Blackett 62 None 62 Richard McClerin & Pat Guarnieri
(without the motor)
New Members!47 None 47
"Dang hot too"
Crowders Mtn Park | 28-Oct-2000 | Dick & Sylvia Davis
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The October 28th meet held at Crowders Mountain State Park went well. Although the temperatures were on the warm side, no one seemed to suffer too much. Turnout was pretty good and the autumn colors were peaking. If you were not there, it's a shame.
Sylvia and I arrived from Montana on Friday the 20th and began putting out controls Monday the 23rd. Our first impression after being in the west the last six months was, "Wow, there are a lot of trees". Our second was, "Dang hot too". But it was nice running around outdoors and not having to worry about Grizzly bears. By the way, I have a new bear story. If any of you are interested, see me at Kings Mountain and I'll gladly tell it.
Enough of this rambling; following this are the results from Crowders.
White Course (2.5 K)
Rank Competitor Finish time Individuals 1 Kevin Queen 0:27 2 Lindsay Brown 1:38 3 Tom Lidderdale 1:56 Groups 1 Chris King, James Powell 0:54 2 Eric Presseley, Shane Yoo 0:55 3 Shaheen Counts, Padget, Hales 0:56 4 Casey Hatley, Jessica Burgess 1:10 5 Tim & Sally Duborde 1:12 Bradley Mills, Cody Chesney DNF
Yellow Course (4.0 K)
Rank Competitor Finish time Individuals 1 David Belk 1:57 Groups 1 Troop 707 #1 1:33 2 Scott Falconer, Jeff Swing 1:37 3 Anna Padget, Shaheen Counts 1:46 4 Troop 707 #2 "Slackers" 1:51 5 Tom Smith & 2 Eagle Scouts 2:13 6 Alex Robbins, Tracy, Fred 2:46
Orange Course (5.0 K)
Rank Competitor Finish time Individuals 1 Jonathan Priest 0:51 2 (tied) David Alexander 0:56 2 (tied) Timo Jantti 0:56 4 Pavlina Chladkova 1:09 5 Karen Hales 1:10 6 Al Rogers 1:21 7 Jeanie Martz 1:54 8 Nancy Stevens 2:03 9 Rich Davis 2:14 Blair Peery DNF Arlene Roman DNF Groups 1 Don Christensen, Howell Peterson 1:19 2 Gary Creed, Adam, Elliot 1:46 3 Ken Laskey, Kelly Duncan 1:53
Green Course (6.7 K)
Rank Competitor Finish time Individuals 1 Jim Hall 1:00 2 Josef Trzicks 1:06 3 Scott Pyle 1:42 4 Dan Davis 1:46 5 Ryan Smith 2:28 Charles McComas DNF Joe Hall DNF Groups 1 Gator Kierce, Westley 3:18 Tony & Lila Slate DNF
Lake Crawford
Kings Mtn State Park/Lake Crawford | 18-Nov-2000 | Walter Siegenthaler
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Just one year after the A-meet we returned to Lake Crawford for our local meet. Once again the Blue Ridge JROTC Championship was ran in parallel to our meet. This was the 5th time that COK set the courses for this annual championship. Alexander Central High School from Taylorsville, NC takes care of the meet organization and administration, so that it is not too much of a load for our club. Since I was organizing the club meet, I did not have much time to spend with the JROTC folks. I believe they had over 300 cadets and instructors out on the courses competing for trophies. It is nice to see that there are a lot of young people being exposed to orienteering. Maybe in the future when we mention orienteering to somebody, they will know what we are talking about that would be quite a change.
The weather was a bit on the cool side, but at least it was dry and much more comfortable then the following day as we got the surprise snowfall.
We had a total of about 88 people participating in the club meet. Due to some time restraint on my side I decided to set out a White, Yellow, Green and Red course, skipping the Orange. As people started to show up, I heard several comments like: "What, no Orange course today"? It shows once again that White, Yellow and Orange are a must for our local meets.
Setting beginners' courses at Lake Crawford is not an easy task. There are not too many trails and most of them are not looping around to use them for a White course. I ended up hanging streamers to guide the beginners from one trail to another and for on one leg I used the lake as a handrail, which is perfectly ok. On the other hand it is relatively easy to set advanced courses with all the re-entrances and valleys. There are also a number of interesting pits and knolls that make good control locations. Unfortunately, I made a mistake as I drew the master maps for Green and Red. I did show one of the controls about 100 meters to the north in the wrong dry ditch. This did cause some problems to some of the competitors.
Our new members from the Czech Republic, Pavlina Chladkova and Josef Trzicky, did show their experience in orienteering by wining the Green and the Red course respectively. However, the race on the Red course was very close, with Joe Hall being less than a minute behind Josef.
On the White course it was mainly a battle of the different groups of Boy Scout Troop 260. Four of their five groups finished within 12 minutes, with the team from South Meck HS JROTC (not competing in the JROTC champs) finishing in 3rd in between them.
A big thank you to everybody that helped me run this meet, I could not have done it without them: Joe Hall, control hanging and registration; Jim Hall, instruction; Dan Davis, water carrying, instruction and control pick-up; Mike Davis, control pick-up; Dick and Sylvia Davis, control pick-up.
[Hey, meet directors: Don't forget to include distances for each course! - Webmaster]
White Course (x.xK)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 BSA Troop 260, Ransom (5) 53:10 2 BSA Troop 260, Kiwi (5) 54:40 3 S. Meck. JROTC,Maral (4) 56:14 4 BSA Troop 260, Winston (6) 62:40 5 BSA Troop 260, Williams (4) 65:42 6 Diane Hallas,Cindy Babb 75:00 7 BSA Troop 260, Eagles (5) 77:30 Carol Wynn (5) DNF
Yellow Course (x.xK)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Kevin Queen 53:10 2 Anderson (2) 57:15 3 Blair Peery 59:38 4 Jim + Leslie Taft 65:20 5 Arlene Roman 71:44 6 Keith Liscinsky 79:50 7 Jeanie Martz 82:15 8 Arnold + Gail Willen 106:30 9 Rich Davis 149:00 10 Phillis Tarrant 165:15
Green Course (x.xK)
Rank Competitor Finish time Individuals 1 Pavlina Chladkova 62:00 2 Timo Jantti 87:24 3 Charlie Martz 96:30 4 Charles McComas 108:55 5 Sylvia Davis 144:40 6 John Fairley 158:00 7 Jim Carroll 215:00 Al Rogers DNF Howell Peterson DNF Larry Arnold DNF Kevin Queen DNF Groups 1 Bryan Miller (2) 158:00 2 Karen Hales, Bruce Bell 181:20 3 Glenn + Colin Blafield 191:45 S. Meck. JROTC, Joe Constant (5) DNF Tony + Lila Slate DNF
Red Course (x.xK)
Rank Competitor Finish time Individuals 1 Josef Trzicky 78:13 2 Joe Hall 79:03 3 Jim Hall 98:32 4 Dan Davis 132:55 5 Dick Davis 146:20 6 Mike Davis 211:00 Groups 1 David Alexander, Pam+Michelle Smith 153:00 Jean Allen, Cynthia Beam DNF S. Meck. JROTC,Tom Curtis (4) DNF
McDowell Park
McDowell Park | 2-Dec-2000 | Timo Jantti
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The December Meet took place at the McDowell State Park. The terrain at the park was wonderful for orienteering, providing lots of interesting and challenging spots for controls as well as high and steep climbs. The weather was a bit rainy and chilly, which did not disturb the participation, which turned out to be pretty good. 21 individuals, and 9 groups of JNROTC members and scouts took part. The international (European) participation was delightful. Finland, Switzerland and former Czechoslovakia were all well represented. I set up three courses with many controls: white 2.5 km, orange 3.5 km, and green 5.6 km. The orange course was a shorter version of the more challenging green, and the controls were rather difficult ones requiring good, accurate map reading skills. Most of the participants spent a lot of hopefully enjoyable time in the woods going through the courses.
WHITE COURSE (2.5 KM)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 JROTC Constant 1:14:20 JROTC Gueranmayeh DNF JROTC Hoose DNF
ORANGE COURSE (3.5 KM)
Rank Competitor Finish time Individuals 1 Charlie Martz 1:34:30 2 Lewis Tager 1:43:15 3 Karen Hills 2:02:35 4 Jeanie Martz 2:57:10 5 Kevin Queen 3:26:00 Larry Arnold DNF John Berkley DNF Phyllis Tarrant DNF Groups 1 Mike Weeks & Jim Carrol 2:43:20 2 Troop 174 2:45:30 3 Troop 11 2:52:30 4 JROTC Espi 3:12:40 Jay & Renalds Anderson DNF JROTC Dehatorre DNF
GREEN COURSE (5.6 KM)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Josef Trzicky 57:23:00 2 Martin Farenfield 1:08:40 3 Walter Siegenthaler 1:11:58 4 Pasi Ronkainen 1:12:00 5 Jim Hall 1:13:25 6 Joe Hall 1:50:00 7 Dan Davis 2:00:07 8 Pavlina Chladkova 2:20:20 9 Charles McComas 2:48:17 10 Al Rogers 2:49:00 11 Mike Davis 3:18:00 David Alexander DNF John Fairley DNF
Into 2001 at Latta
Latta Plantation | 6-Jan-2001 | Jeanie Martz, meet director.
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We had a great turnout on a beautiful day for orienteering. The participants were new and experienced, young and old, and came from as far away as Columbia, Fayetteville and Winston-Salem.
Since there is little elevation change at Latta, I made the green course slightly long and annoying. There were many good competitors; check out those times!
Thank you to Charlie and Jennifer for helping with registration, timing and picking up the controls. Thanks to the Boy Scout who picked up the yellow controls to complete his orienteering badge requirements. And a big thank you to Dan who instructed the large group of CHOA club members; most of them were so inspired that they completed two courses.
White Course (2.3 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Jeff Plummer 24 2 ROTC Curtis 25 3 ROTC Thompson 32 4 Pack 74 33 5 ROTC Mitchell 40 6 Chuck Reedy 52 7 Knight family 52 8 CHOA 55 9 ROTC Constant 58 10 Jennifer and Amber 1:04
Yellow Course (4.0 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Horgan women 1:08 2 Sunny and Brent 1:23 3 Mark Loring, Jamie Horgan 1:29 4 Alexander 1:29 5 Tom Davis 1:40 6 Sarah group 1:46 7 Tony Slate 1:48 8 Reedy 1:57 9 Phyllis Tarrant and David Montgomery 2:13 10 Jamie Griffin 2:16 11 Bottomly 2:22 12 Neal and Candice 2:51 ROTC Curtis DNF
Orange Course (4.9 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time Individuals: 1 Pavlina Chladkova 1:20 2 Sandy Kohn 1:28 3 Tom Ward 1:47 4 Harry Taylor 1:50 5 Arlene Roman 2:13 6 Karen Hales 2:23 7 Jim Carroll 2:24 8 Lane 2:29 9 Arnold 2:30 Wilson DNF Blair Peery (It's a lie, I tell you!) DNF Groups: 1 Liscinsky 2:15 2 Don and Kim Seriff 2:25 3 Christensen and Peterson 2:33 4 Fort Mill Head 4:33 Fort Mill DNF Sunny and Brent DNF Creed family DNF
Green Course (5.4 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Martin Farenfield 52 2 Josef Trizicky 57 3 Joe Hall 1:12 4 Edmonds 1:14 5 Walter Siegenthaler 1:15 6 Timo Jantti 1:26 7 Erminia Farenfield 1:31 8 Dan Davis 1:34 9 Lew Stookey 1:48 10 Tager 2:52 Gator DNF John Berkley DNF David Alexander DNF
Reedy Creek
Reedy Creek Park | 1-Feb-2001 | Sandy Kohn, meet director.
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We had a tremendous turnout with over 100 participants including a dozen or so each from: the CPCC orienteering class, the UNCC Venture Programs' leadership training, Army ROTC, plus some high school corps and over 20 from the Charlotte Outdoor Adventure Club (CHOA?). We had 182 starts. There were so many people that we ran out of registration forms, punch cards and even maps, though luckily the maps didn't run out until the last person. There were lines and lots of waiting: to register, to draw the controls from the master map, and to get a start time. Thanks for everyone's' patience.
The Yellow course had one mismarked control - listed as KP when it was actually KF. Sorry for the confusion. (I hereby declare jihad on Sandy Kohn.)
White Course (2.2 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Lamm 23:00 2 Ellis & 3 33:30 3 Harvey 36:35 4 Bethea 38:20 5 Knight & partner 40:00 6 Snelling & 2 41:50 7 Sharon & Winston 49:00 8 Kent 49:05 9 Sipple & 3 53:40 Bob Brady & Patty Corrbit map walk CHOA (20) map walk Rich & Brian Heberling map walk Brook Reynolds map walk
Yellow Course (3.4 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Arlene Roman 43:20 2 Reima Ojanen 47:00 3 J Merrill 47:00 4 Bill Mazzella 60:10 5 Trey McKeown 64:00 6 Delatorrie & 2 64:15 7 Winget 1 (3) 64:25 8 Bill Blackett & Peter Cross 67:00 9 Katie Nimen & Sommer 89:30 10 Espinoza & 2 69:40 11 Ryan Botzenmawer 72:10 12 Bob Bray, Patty Corbet & Patrick Smyth 74:00 13 Christian Dwight 74:10 14 Lindsey Morris & partner 75:15 15 Jeff Green & Gail Shomer 77:00 16 Winget 2 (2) 79:00 17 Robert Simpson 79:30 18 Team Ford (3?) 79:50 19 Austin & 2 85:20 20 Morrow & partner 85:30 21 Long & 2 85:50 22 D Lynch 87:15 23 Blair Peery 88:40 24 Sarah Lemley & 3 91:25 25 Rene Glass & partner 94:50 26 Miller & partner 97:10 27 Strawbridge & 2 118:40 28 M. Capony 124:45 Zulkey & 2 DNF Kent DNF JD Lauramore map walk
Orange Course (4.2 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Timo Jantti 64:25 2 Pavlina Chladkova 74:02 3 Jim Carroll & partner 75:45 4 Kevin Queen 83:45 5 Haikki Ojanen 84:40 6 Dan Childrey & partner 89:05 7 Master 90:00 8 Trey McKeown 90:50 9 Al Rogers 95:20 10 Gary Creed 106:20 11 Hal Peterson 113:25 12 Mike G 113:55 13 Tom Ward & partner 125:40 14 Demarco Bell & partner 127:00 15 Karen Hales & 2 137:40 16 Arnold Willen 140:00 17 Yellowman (with 4) 142:35 18 Buzz & Andrew Knight & Ed Guin 153:10 19 Troup 707 (with 3) 157:20 20 Ed Fortmill (with 4) 167:05 21 Jamie Griffin & partner 231:20 Tony Slate & partner DNF Russel, Benoza & Phyllis Tarrant DNF Alexander Central (w/ 6) DNF Harry Taylor DNF Alan Rosenfeld DNF Eric Lane DNF Cliff, Amy, Karen & Charles DNF Jeff Plumber map walk Adam Soto map walk
Green Course (5.2 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Josef Trzicky 52:25 2 Jim Hall 64:00 3 Pasi Ronkainen 65:15 4 Joe Hall 66.40 5 Paula Ojanen 85:50 6 Wes Smith 101:30 7 Dan Davis 103:50 8 Scott Pyle 119:30 9 Jay Anderson 187:00 Monica Siegenthaler DNF Whiten & Reeves DNF Cauldwell & White DNF Eriks & Jean DNF Al Lemaire DNF Dan Childrey & partner DNF Charlie Martz & dog DNF
"... the Red course was going to be competitive..."
Kings Mtn. State Park | 3-Mar-2001 | Dan Davis, meet director.
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(Ol' Dan gets his results to me at the COK website faster'n anyone else... and he even sent in the following write-up after I leaned on him.)
I turned to Don, who was keeping time, to see how long Joseph had been out on the Red course. "If Joseph doesn't show in 2 minutes, Pasi has him beat" was Don's reply. We knew the Red course was going to be competitive as Pasi, Joseph, and the famous Hall boys, Jim and Joe were all here. Too bad Walter was in Switzerland or it would have been even more exciting. This year has had lots of tight competition on the long course between this group and with Martin Farenfield showing up from time to time. The words were hardly out of Don's mouth, when Joseph came into view starting the long run up the hill to the finish. Incidentally, for those of you that don't like to finish with a up hill run, sorry about that but we had to take into consideration that we might have a rainy day and the Meet Directors planned to observe the finish under the shelter of the front porch of the lodge. Turned out to be a good decision.
Well, Joseph pushed Pasi out of first place an Red and, as you can see from the results, we had some very good performances. Look at Green. Also, some close competition. In fact, all courses were competitive.
Club meets are more than just competition though and despite the rain, we had a good turn out of those that just enjoy orienteering no matter where they finish. KMSP is an excellent location and gives the course setter ample opportunity to develop interesting routes. We have new people showing up with an orienteering background and we are also attracting several that are new but are gaining skills rapidly.
In addition to Don serving as my co-director, I appreciate Phyllis Tarrant handling Registration and Scott Pyle, John Fairley, and Howell Peterson helping with control pick-up.
White Course (x.x km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Air Force 9 72 2 Air Force 3 74 3 Air Force 8 74 4 Air Force 10 76 5 Air Force 6 85 6 Air Force 5 87 7 Air Force 11 88 8 Air Force 1 89 9 Air Force 4 98 10 Air Force 2 102 11 Air Force 7 138
Orange Course (x.x km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Heilelei Ojanen 60 2 Glen Megran 79 3 Kerttu Jantti 83 4 CHOA 84 5 Tertta & Reima Ojanen 91 6 Howell Peterson 92 7 Steve Jordan 117 8 Jeanie Martz 119 9 Horgan Family 125 10 Phyllis Terrant 148
Green Course (x.x km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Petra Malkova 57 2 Paula Ojanen 61 3 Timo Jantti 64 4 Scott Pyle 70 5 Charles McComas 83 6 Pete Way 91 7 John Fairley
(Corrected for control pickup)127 8 Mark Cichowski 164 9 Charlie Martz 166 Jean & Erik DNF
Red Course (x.x km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Joseph Trzicky 74 2 Pasi Ronkainen 74 3 Jim Hall 78 4 Joe Hall 94 David Rozek DNF
Kings National
Kings Mtn. National Military Park | 7-Apr-2001 | Pasi Ronkainen, meet director.
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Hot, hot, hot summer is back. These were the feelings we had during our meeting in Kings Mountain. About fifty orienteerers came to enjoy their day finding out those white and orange control flags I had set earlier during couple of Friday afternoons.
Five courses were available (white, yellow, orange, green and red). White and yellow courses were more difficult than normal since I was trying to avoid using those trails we have been using in earlier meetings. According to the comments after finish attendants were pleased with the challenges.
Looking at the results in the longer courses, it is obvious that there were some challenges also there. Red and green had same legs up to the fourth control first two controls were challenging and giving headaches to our most experienced fellows!
Since I am moving back to Finland (again) with my family, I would like to use this chance to thank you all in our klubb of the good time we have been able to spend around orienteering here in Charlotte. Good luck for everyone and if I will have any chance during my business trips back to US, I will try to participate in your meetings.
White Course (3.10 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Choa 1:30:40 2 Ricky F. & John H. 1:44:14 3 Troop 315 Group 3 1:51:35 4 Nathan Ricks 2:00:21 5 Troop 315 Dallas 2:03:46 6 Mayfield 2:09:00 7 Troop 315 Group 1 2:29:28 8 (tied) Troop 315 Group 2 2:34:43 8 (tied) Smith & Borysewicz 2:34:43
Yellow Course (3.45 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Johnson family 1:04:34 2 Reima & Terttu Ojanen 1:16:00 3 Allen 1:47:13 4 Hudspith 2:17:45 5 Phyllis Tarrant 2:31:45 6 Leeman & Renee Bryce 2:46:10 7 Leaf 3:03:30 Faucette & Hall DNF Kevin Queen DNF Heikki Ojanen DNF
Orange Course (4.15 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Paula Ojanen 0:56:57 2 Hall & Mitchell 1:25:55 3 Keith Liscinsky 1:44:24 4 Karen Hales 1:46:35 5 James Sisk 1:52:25 6 Sylvia Davis 2:01:10 7 Smith 2:05:13 8 Tager & Pickerds 2:44:55 9 Adam, Andrew, Rick 2:52:45 10 Tony & Lila Slate 3:14:10 Jeff Green DNF Peter (Choa) DNF
Green Course (5.35 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 Scott Pyle 1:27:37 2 Charlie Martz 1:50:15 3 Dick Davis 1:59:00 4 Al Rogers 2:07:06 5 Charles McComas 2:13:45 Don Teague DNF Arnold Willen DNF Peterson DNF Ricky F. & John H. DNF Timo Jäntti DNF Larry Arnold DNF
Red Course (6.75 km)
Rank Competitor Finish time 1 J. Trzicky 1:12:47 2 Walter Siegenthaler 1:46:40 3 Dan Davis 1:47:05 4 Pete Way 2:32:30 5 Glen Megran 3:30:51
National Orienteering Day
Reedy Creek Park | Cinco de Mayo, 2001 | Blair Peery & Arlene Roman, meet directors.
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Roughly 42 competitors turned out on Saturday for a hot day in the woods. The National Orienteering Day meet was a chance for beginners to get a taste of the sport, so there was a White course and a Yellow course only. Many registrants were a bit tentative about what to do, and we all tried to make them feel comfortable and welcome. They were greatly relieved to find instructors on hand to run through the drill with them.
Arlene and I arrived early to set out the controls. We've never set courses before, and were nervous about getting everything ready. The orange tape we had left out from the weekend before was a time saver (even though a couple had vanished in the interim). It was a beautiful day. Thinking of the hot sun on its way, we set up the registration in a nice shady spot. Don't tell, but we also swiped one of the picnic tables from a nearby shelter to lay out the master maps.
Comments at the end by competitors showed no problems finding controls. I didn't think we would screw up a White or Yellow, but you never know! There were reports of a few snakes, and poison ivy everywhere. The worst he'd ever seen, said one competitor. Everyone seemed pleased with the event. Many were not concerned about their times - they just wanted to try out orienteering and have a good stroll through the woods. One even admitted to visiting the Environmental Center during her course.
A tip of the hat to Walter Siegenthaler and Charles McComas for giving instruction to the swarms of new people. Those lessons would have been too much for us to handle along with registration duties, so we are very grateful. And Barbara Scruggs passed on a big Hello from ex-COK member Bill Ketring, who's up in Portland, OR, "enjoying" the rain. Hi Bill!
White Course (2.1 km) Average time: 54 minutes.
Rank Competitor Finish time (minutes) 1 Scouts: Reid (2) 38 2 Scouts: Flaming Arrows (5) 51 3 Tim Deborde (2) 63 4 Gary Glaze (2) 65 Steve Mayfield (3) DNF Scouts: Barbarians (4) DNF
Yellow Course (3.4 km) Average time: 75 minutes.
Rank Competitor Finish time (minutes) 1 Reima Ojanen (2) 51 2 Heikki Ojanen 53 3 Howell Peterson 62 4 Bill Blackett 67 5 Geoff Green 80 6 Ben Griffith 81 7 Jameson Reid 86 8 William Weber 91 9 AAA Air Force (3) 94 10 tied Marty McKenna (2) 101 10 tied Air Force Boys (3) 101 12 Road Runners (4) 110 13 Kate Van Zandt (2) 111 Barbara Scruggs Map Hike
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