Tuesday, June 7th at 6PM
Registration: Register here (preferred). Registration will also begin at 5:45 for 6 pm starts on Tuesday.
Location: Go to the boathouse in the park (center of park). Look for our orienteering signs as well.
Meet Director: Kevin Minton, Mark Geldmeier
Details: There will be two courses – the Sprint Course and a Beginner “Score-O” course. The sprint course will have a fun twist …. you’ll find out Tuesday!!!!
Thanks for everyone who made it out to Saturday’s Tame the Dragon. Although weather and road conditions caused a delayed race start, we were still able to have a 7 hour race. Below are the results as well as some analysis performed by our race director Gary Thompson. Also, check out the strava flyby link below.
| Overall Place | Solo Place | Team Place | Solo/Team # | Solo/Team Name | Points | Time Penalty | Final Points | Elapsed Time | Team Members |
| 1 | 1 | T1 | 43 Down | 1070 | 0 | 1070 | 6:46:02 | Josh Borgmeyer, Jeff Ryan | |
| 2 | 1 | S4 | Michael Garrison | 970 | 0 | 970 | 6:54:19 | ||
| 3 | 2 | S10 | Andrei Karpov | 960 | 0 | 960 | 6:38:17 | ||
| 4 | 3 | S9 | Matthew Jourdan | 800 | 0 | 800 | 6:52:06 | ||
| 5 | 4 | S14 | Bryan Niehaus | 780 | 0 | 780 | 6:52:14 | ||
| 6 | 5 | S2 | Bob Billings | 780 | 0 | 780 | 6:53:54 | ||
| 7 | 2 | T7 | KC | 780 | 0 | 780 | 6:55:48 | Scott Lillis, Aaron Parker | |
| 8 | 6 | T12B | James Mercer | 760 | 0 | 760 | 6:39:52 | ||
| 9 | 7 | S13 | Robert Minto | 770 | 20 | 750 | 7:02:38 | ||
| 10 | 8 | S8 | Nathan Graves | 730 | 0 | 730 | 6:58:21 | ||
| 11 | 9 | S1 | Jason Bettis | 960 | 230 | 730 | 7:23:30 | ||
| 12 | 10 | S6 | Mark Geldmeier | 690 | 0 | 690 | 6:56:49 | ||
| 13 | 3 | T2 | Big Dogs | 590 | 0 | 590 | 6:07:21 | Matt Darr, Stephen Kruse, Jason Wilson | |
| 14 | 4 | T3 | Blue Tails | 570 | 0 | 570 | 6:47:38 | David Crane, Bill Langton | |
| 15 | 11 | S16 | Drake White | 570 | 0 | 570 | 6:56:19 | ||
| 16 | 5 | T5 | Control Freaks | 530 | 0 | 530 | 6:50:50 | Randy Cooper, Perry Gabbard, Sterling Hyland | |
| 17 | 12 | S11 | Danny Lyskowski | 520 | 0 | 520 | 6:07:31 | ||
| 18 | 6 | T17 | Team Virtus | 510 | 0 | 510 | 6:41:08 | Kate Geisen, Chuck Vohsen | |
| 19 | 13 | T4A | Mike Reese | 490 | 0 | 490 | 6:22:24 | ||
| 20 | 14 | S7 | Jason Glenn | 480 | 0 | 480 | 6:49:06 | ||
| 21 | 7 | T18 | Tigger and Eeyore | 470 | 0 | 470 | 6:52:34 | Jessica Heupel, Jim Huss | |
| 22 | 8 | T13 | STFD | 440 | 0 | 440 | 6:47:45 | Chris Heupel, Manoj Sood | |
| 23 | 1 (Y) | Y1 | The Chuckwagon | 430 | 0 | 430 | 5:56:18 | Charlie Boyle, Chris Boyle | |
| 24 | 9 | T14 | STLCC in the Woods | 420 | 0 | 420 | 6:33:04 | Robert Bart, Kevin Minton | |
| 25 | 10 | T16 | Team Constantia Gear | 400 | 0 | 400 | 6:32:15 | Frances Young, Jerry Young | |
| 26 | 11 | T9 | Mud Crawlers | 330 | 0 | 330 | 6:28:08 | Evan Petzoldt, Kaitlin Petzoldt | |
| 27 | 15 | S17 | Ben Woolsoncroft | 320 | 0 | 320 | 6:53:36 | ||
| 28 | 12 | T15 | Team BOR-SFR | 300 | 0 | 300 | 6:08:13 | Larry Lazo, Jonathan Lazo, Matthew Lazo | |
| 29 | 16 | T12A | Andrew Karandjeff | 260 | 0 | 260 | 3:31:00 | ||
| 30 | 13 | T10 | OzMOsis | 250 | 0 | 250 | 6:09:03 | Joe Szabo, Tamara Szabo | |
| 31 | 14 | T11 | Recalculating | 190 | 0 | 190 | 5:36:35 | Michael Knapp, Dennis Race | |
| 32 | 17 | S5 | Tim Garvey | 510 | 510 | 0 | 7:38:35 | ||
| 33 | 18 | S12 | Aidan Minto | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6:49:20 | ||
| 34 | 15 | T6 | Getting Lost in the V V | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6:59:16 | Shane Lewinski, Brian Rodenbeck |
Again, all controls were visited. This year, #53 was the most visited (25), and #12 was the least visited (2). By contrast, this year there were 503 control visits, Last year there were 683. What a difference one less hour and a little snow and ice can do!
Score-O Results
| Gannon Niehaus | 21:15 | |
| Tim Welsh | 41:00 | |
| Rader Group | 42:51 | |
| Carrie Sona | 47:03 | |
| Haveman Group | 49:49 | |
| Christopher Barber | 56:50 | |
| Scott/Myles Kelly | 48:54 | |
| Brody Lehmann, Kelly Allen (20 of 21) | 1:00:00 | |
| Anne Schrupp (18 of 21) | 46:57 | |
| Lora Welsh (15 of 21) | 48:13 | |
| Carol Meagher (14 of 21) | 1:00:00 |
Memory-O Results
| Jeff Ryan | 34:18 | |
| Jeff Sona | 34:54 | |
| Josh Borgmeyer | 34:55 | |
| Eric Buckley | 37:58 | |
| Nathan Graves | 39:24 | |
| Robert Bart | 39:39 | |
| Kevin Minton | 44:31 | |
| Angie Haddock | 46:55 | |
| Manoj Sood | 46:55 | |
| Gabriel Sison | 51:40 | |
| David Bruns | 57:48 | |
| David Welsh (12 of 14) | 52:23 | |
| Mary Piper / David Frei (12 of 14) | 58:00 |
Advanced Course
| 1 | Nathan Graves | 31:16:00 |
| 2 | Matt Helbig | 31:37:00 |
| 3 | Josh Borgmeyer | 32:31:00 |
| 4 | Robert Bart | 33:09:00 |
| 5 | Gabe Sison | 35:23:00 |
| 6 | Bryan Niehaus | 37:45:00 |
| 7 | Jennifer Dolas | 39:51:00 |
| 8 | Eric Buckley | 41:46:00 |
| 9 | Gannon Niehaus | 46:33:00 |
| 10 | Tim Johanns | 47:18:00 |
| 11 | Mary Piper | 49:14:00 |
| 12 | Carrie Sona | 52:58:00 |
| 13 | Jeff Sona | 57:01:00 |
| 14 | Brian Rodenbeck | 1:00:49 |
| 15 | Dave Beattie | 1:01:07 |
| 16 | Angie Haddock | 1:01:19 |
| 17 | Manoj Sood | 1:01:21 |
| 18 | David Welsh | 1:24:36 |
Beginner Course
| 1 | Douglas Sickbert | 43:41:00 |
| 2 | Christa Ponstingl | 45:13:00 |
| 3 | Myles Kelley | 48:11:00 |
| 4 | David Rader | 48:35:00 |
| 5 | Richard Davis | 54:32:00 |
| 6 | Heidi Abbott | 55:28:00 |
| 7 | Chad Bryant | 55:40:00 |
| 8 | Neal Bockwoldt | 1:13:26 |
| 9 | Lora Welsh | 1:25:26 |
| 10 | Melissa Kelley | 1:25:37 |
| 11 | Jason Bart | 1:31:08 |
| 12 | Tom Nuzum | No Time |
The SLOC Summer Sprint Series continues, making a stop at family friendly Laumeier Sculpture Park. Enjoy navigating the beginner friendly or advanced course as you discover the incredible artwork this urban park has to offer.
The beginner course will be a point to point navigation challenge suitable for families and those new to orienteering. The advanced course features companion points that must be collected in tandem. Both courses have a one hour time limit.
Registration is open online and will guarantee a map will be available for you. Limited in person registration in person be at 6:30PM. Check in and registration will be located near the parking lot of the Silver Maple Drive entrance off of Rott Road. Mass start is at 7:00PM and in person participants will be using the e-punch system for scoring. Come explore the park with us! <update, we have removed the virtual course due to low interest. sorry for any inconvience>
In Person Event registration is OPEN
Great Event! Thank you for coming out and enjoying another Gary Thompson course. So far his courses have been unclearable! Check out links to photos and results below.
These photos are courtesy of Jim Glickert. As always, he says these are free to share and post however you wish with no credit. He’s just a generous guy!
https://gojim.smugmug.com/Sports/Tame-the-Dragon-2021/
Marcus Janzow is a professional photographer. Check out this link for some great pics that are available for purchase. https://marcusjanzow.zenfolio.com/p899425514
There is also a spreadsheet Gary put together that is an analysis of all of the controls visited. The loneliest control was #14 (4 visits) followed by #35 and #45 (7 visits) while the most popular controls were #30, #41, and #53 (30 visits).
| Overall Place | Solo Place | Team Place | Solo/Team # | Solo/Team Name | Points | Time Penalty | Final Points | Elapsed Time | Team Members |
| 1 | 1 | S2 | Jason Bettis | 1450 | 0 | 1450 | 7:56:17 | ||
| 2 | 1 | T1 | 42 Down | 1370 | 0 | 1370 | 7:55:04 | Josh Borgmeyer, Jason Noakes, Jeff Ryan | |
| 3 | 2 | S8 | Andrei Karpov | 1310 | 0 | 1310 | 7:31:55 | ||
| 4 | 2 | T3 | Big Dogs | 1200 | 0 | 1200 | 7:47:09 | Matt Darr, Stephen Kruse | |
| 5 | 3 | S7 | Nathan Graves | 1170 | 0 | 1170 | 8:00:55 | ||
| 6 | 4 | S3 | Bob Billings | 1160 | 0 | 1160 | 7:56:17 | ||
| 7 | 5 | S15 | Bryan Niehaus | 1160 | 0 | 1160 | 8:00:25 | ||
| 8 | 6 | S17 | Jon VanDis | 1120 | 0 | 1120 | 7:41:12 | ||
| 9 | 3 | T13 | Rachel & Stewart | 1040 | 0 | 1040 | 7:16:50 | Rachel Furman, Stewart Gray | |
| 10 | 7 | S14 | Phil Nicolas | 1070 | 50 | 1020 | 8:05:22 | ||
| 11 | 4 | T16 | STFD | 770 | 0 | 770 | 7:33:28 | Derek Hebda, Chris Heupel, Manoj Sood | |
| 12 | 8 | S6 | Mark Geldmeier | 770 | 0 | 770 | 7:52:48 | ||
| 13 | 9 | S9 | Melissa Kelley | 750 | 0 | 750 | 8:00:25 | ||
| 14 | 5 | T20 | Tigger and Eeyore | 690 | 0 | 690 | 7:43:20 | Jessica Heupel, Jim Huss | |
| 15 | 6 | T9 | Might Survive | 640 | 0 | 640 | 7:44:48 | Tucker Seise, Chris Boyle, Cody Eubanks | |
| 16 | 10 | S12 | Bryan Lowry | 630 | 0 | 630 | 6:31:55 | ||
| 17 | 7 | T19 | The Okie Dokies | 620 | 0 | 620 | 6:50:22 | Jason Claunch, Stephanie Page | |
| 18 | 11 | S16 | Jeff Sona | 750 | 140 | 610 | 8:14:58 | ||
| 19 | 12 | S10 | Scott Kelley | 600 | 0 | 600 | 7:53:48 | ||
| 20 | 13 | S13 | Daniel Lyskowski | 590 | 0 | 590 | 7:41:41 | ||
| 21 | 14 | S4 | Yvonne Deyo | 580 | 0 | 580 | 7:10:46 | ||
| 22 | 8 | T18 | Team Virtus | 550 | 0 | 550 | 7:24:27 | Kate Geisen, Chuck Vohsen | |
| 23 | 9 | T4 | Big Muddy | 540 | 0 | 540 | 7:33:32 | Jerri Campbelli, Doug Deden | |
| 24 | 10 | T2 | 6th Day Adventures | 540 | 0 | 540 | 7:39:48 | Ryan Franks, Chris Winkleman, Luke Winkleman,Matt Winkleman | |
| 25 | 11 | T5 | Blind, Crippled & Crazy | 520 | 0 | 520 | 7:10:46 | Ken DeBeer, Anne Schrupp, Carrie Sona | |
| 26 | 12 | T7 | CAOC | 490 | 0 | 490 | 7:54:39 | Patrick Coneff, Michael Reese | |
| 27 | 13 | T12 | Perigee | 460 | 0 | 460 | 7:49:37 | Perry Gabbard, Sterling Hyland | |
| 28 | 14 | T8 | Dragon Asses | 560 | 110 | 450 | 8:11:40 | Scott Page, Mark Matthews, Gary Braman, Rob Kucsik, Stacy Roberts | |
| 29 | 15 | S5 | Timothy Garvey | 630 | 180 | 450 | 8:18:04 | ||
| 30 | 15 | T11 | OzMOsis | 410 | 0 | 410 | 7:56:55 | Joseph Szabo, Tamara Szabo | |
| 31 | 16 | T6 | Bloody Tears | 300 | 0 | 300 | 7:56:30 | James Avery, Mitch Faddis | |
| 32 | 16 | S18 | David Welsh | 260 | 0 | 260 | 7:12:35 | ||
| 33 | 17 | S1 | Frank Baukert | 300 | 50 | 250 | 8:05:39 | ||
| 34 | 17 | T17 | STLCC in the Woods | 240 | 0 | 240 | 7:43:12 | Robert Bart, Kevin Minton, Larry Lazo | |
| 35 | 18 | T10 | Off Road Rage | 180 | 0 | 180 | 8:00:00 | Tiara Adams, Ben Woolsoncroft | |
| 36 | 19 | T15 | Seeking Sunshine | 50 | 0 | 50 | 2:43:30 | Pamela Hudson, Chelsea Russell | |
| 37 | 20 | T14 | Run Like The Winded | 190 | 0 | 190 | DNF | Mike Knapp, David Rader, Trish Rader |
Results for Babler State Park Virtual Orienteering Event, January 2021** Please feel free to send results to yvonnedeyo@yahoo.com for inclusion in this list
Red – Male
Red – Group
Orange – Male
Orange – Group
Yellow – Female
Yellow – Male
Thanks to everyone who came out and enjoyed the Forest Park sprint this last weekend. The weather was nice, so I heard the crowds were out (and a minor obstruction at times) but luckily all of the controls remained in place all weekend. I had hoped to have some route decisions, and based on some of the strava routes I saw, lots of participants made different choices.
Here are the results I have as of 9/1/20. I know there are more! Let me know and I’ll get them added.
| Time (mm:ss) | Notes | |
| Group / Family | ||
| Lucy and Tom Ryan | 50:00 | |
| Mary Piper / David Frei | 54:40 | |
| Elizabeth Brennan / Tim Jackson | 90:00 | |
| Angie and Sam Ryan | 55:00 | 6 pts |
| Individual | ||
| Jeff Ryan | 24:00 | |
| Josh Borgmeyer | 31:42 | |
| Jim Avery | 48:38 | |
| Mark Geldmeier | 36:12 | missed one |
| Susan Kubinak | 65:19 | one out of order |