Meet Results

Reedy Creek Park & Nature Preserve | 18-SEP-2004 | Walter Siegenthaler, meet director.

Boy, oh boy, can the weather forecasters be wrong. With the remains of Hurricane Ivan in the area the weather didn’t look good at all on Friday. At lunch time the forecast was still calling for rain for the whole weekend, but what could I do, I still had to go out and set the controls. Yes, I got wet but the temperature was warm enough to keep me warm. After all the preparations were completed and I was ready to go to bed, I checked the hourly forecast on the Weather Channel. To my surprise there was no more rain predicted after 9:00 am, and that would be just perfect for the first starts.

While driving to the park on Saturday morning early to go and set the last controls, the sun was already out and it turned out to be a perfect day to be out in the woods.

I set the usual White, Yellow and Orange courses. In addition, I wanted to have something ready for the advanced runners but at this time of the year the woods at Reedy Creek are still quite thick and it is not much fun to run through all the thickets. I therefore decided to take the Orange course and add a few more controls to it, with difficulties between Orange and Green. So what do you get when you mix Orange and Green? I wasn’t really sure, so I called it Purple. It ended up to be 5.5 K long with 17 controls, definitely enough of a challenge for the people that showed up, the winning time was 2 hours 22 minutes.

This event was part of the National Orienteering Day (NOD), with more than 50 events, mainly geared towards beginners, held across the US. Considering the misleading weather forecast, our turnout was good, we had about 90 people participating and I guess about one third of them were beginners. BRUNTON, a compass manufacturer, and MAPTECH, the manufacturer of the Terrain Navigator Software, are sponsors of the NOD event. Unfortunately, the prizes to give away (4 compasses and 1 Terrain Navigator Software) didn’t arrive on time to give them out at the event, but they will be sent to the winners.

Many thanks to Keith Liscinsky, Bill Ketring, Charles McComas and David Alexander for helping to run the meet, with such qualified helpers it is a breeze to be meet director.

 

White Course — Length in kilometers:  2.3

Rank	Competitor	Finish time
1	Rebel Chicks, Burns H.S. (4)	42:45
2	Major’s Munchkins, Burns H.S. (4)	45:00
3	Jack Williamson, Jeff Maxwell	46:45
4	Hick Chicks, Burns H.S. (3)	49:05
5	Josh Dupuis (3)	60:20
6	CHAO, Ralph (3)	61:45
7	CHAO, Flagler (3)	70:57
8	Team Herrera (3)	71:00
9	Brad Benton	84:30
10	Scotty Smith (3)	86:00
11	Charles Hobson (2)	88:00

Yellow Course — Length in kilometers:  3.4

Rank	Competitor	Finish time
1	Ian Prince	46:00
2	Rebel One, Burns H.S. (4)	102:21
3	Educated Donkeys (4)	105:27
4	Jack Williamson, Jeff Maxwell	109:20
5	CHAO, Ralph (2)	110:43
6	Spartans #1, South Caldwell JROTC (4)	146:30
	Special Forces, Burns H.S. (4)	DNF
	Allyn Weilacher	DNF

Orange Course — Length in kilometers:  3.8

Rank	Competitor	Finish time
1	Lane Williamson	100:45
2	Poole and Hopkins	107:36
3	Soggy Bottom Boys, Burns H.S. (3)	109:47
4	Arnold Willen	114:40
5	Chris Plizga	119:30
6	Keith Weilacher	128:24
7	SOS (4)	143:30
8	Phyllis Tarrant	228:50
	David Dutton, William Grant	DNF
	Sam G., Alicia, Sherry (3)	DNF
	Josh Revels, Cory Childers	DNF
	Hernan Atencio	DNF
	Double X’s	DNF
	Richard Ilson	DNF
	Keith Liscinsky	DNF

Purple Course — Length in kilometers:  5.5

Rank	Competitor	Finish time
1	Brian Badders	142:36
2	Josh, Jeff, Zach (3)	145:22
3	Kevin Godbee	157:17
4	Steven Morris	180:31
5	Robert Rhyne	196:20
	Shawn & Christa Rodgers	DNF

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