People must have been excited for the new map and favorable February weather
as we had over 100 people attend!
There are so many folks to thank for lending a hand in helping pull this together.
From Brian Hey and David Fischer with permitting and equipment, Jason, Jeff
Sona, and Jarrid for help getting the Wyman Center as our start/finish, Josh,
Jeff Ryan, Mark, and Bryan for helping with epunch learning and course
concepts, Jeff and Bryan for vetting, and Jeff, Todd, and Josh for course set
up and pick up. The Kelly’s, Jerry, and Brian Rodenbeck for help cleaning up
and Manoj for jumping in to help with the registration table.
We had a scout group and several new folks who learned and had their first
day in the woods orienteering this meet. Thanks to Josh and Mark for doing some
teaching. What a group effort!
Congratulations to Bryan Niehaus for taking home the first ever GROM Rock
which was awarded to the best combined score for participants who completed
both the Blue and Score O Courses.
I had such a good time, and given the new map and the efforts the club is
anticipating in getting more of Greensfelder Park mapped in 2023, I am
committing right now to another similar event of this kind in February 4, 2024.
Mark your calendars now!
-Nathan
Jeff Ryan’s photo on the morning of course setting, maybe you saw the remnants of this the next day?
Link to the course notes and details
Great course Yvonne. It was an exciting event, so many new friends who have been at meets this past year are returning more and more. The woods family is growing and its a great time to be part of SLOC. Well done Mark and Bryan for the quick work on the e-punch. Dave Frei held court once again teaching us all that the best route from 6 to 7 was immediatly up the Eastern spur after the road crossing and folloing the ridge to the attack point. The Master.
Big thanks to Eric Buckley for putting on a great meet in an awesome park. Here’s Eric’s summary below:
This fall’s (winter’s?) event at Hawn was my first event directing in quite some time, and it showed. Included in my gaffes was leaving the results in the equipment bin which is why these are being posted two weeks after the fact. Thanks for all your patience!
That said, it was a great day to be in the woods. Most felt that the unexpected snow enhanced the experience. The courses were a bit longer than intended. I could chalk that up to the snow, but one of our fastest navigators, Nathan Graves ran it in 1:40:25 the following week in perfect conditions, so I think the vegetation at Hawn has just thickened up a bit since the days when we used see the top folks running 8-9 minutes/K.
Three courses were offered. A traditional Yellow, and a long and medium Pink. The long Pink included a couple legs that wouldn’t be completely out of place on an advanced course, though they had catching features to keep intermediates from getting too off course.
Due to the cold, the ball point pens weren’t working particularly well. Apologies to anyone whose name is misspelled below.
Pink Long:
Jack Boubonnais 1:49:14
Vladimir Yurkuns 2:05:25
Mark Geldmeier 2:08:03
Brian Rodenbeck 2:08:44
Brian Niehaus 2:15:42
Ken DeBeer 2:28:34
Paul Yemm 2:23:00 (12 controls)
Jeff Juell & Tom Evans 2:28:16 (12 controls)
Pink Medium:
Derek Hebda 1:39:14
Toni & Jeff Ryan 1:50:29
Robert Bart 2:21:01
Abby Wilde 2:33:11 (9 controls)
Harry, Mandy, & Nathan 1:54:00 (8 controls)
Patrick Kalgren 2:19:10 (8 controls)
Rob Whirting, Nathan Booker & Kristy Schwarzkoff 2:32:44 (8 controls)
What a night! We laughed, some cried, but we all had fun celebrating the legendary David Frei. After spying the international space station orbiting overhead, David gave a very heartwarming speech that was very moving. To top off the evening we got to treasure hunt in an awesome park, then spin the wheel of fortune for some tasty and not-so-tasty treats from David’s favorite’s list. Thank you to everyone who came out and special thank you to the following people who helped make it an amazing evening: Jeff and Carrie Sona, Ken and Kathie DeBeer, Jeff Ryan, Kevin Minton, Mark Geldmeier, Robert Bart, Thomas Ryan, and Bryan Niehaus just to name a few.
It was a great evening at Joe Boccardi’s for the 2020 Route 66 Bike O. Participants came in many forms to enjoy this score o, scavenger style meet. There were corrections on the final results from what was announced at the meeting after the meet so check the chart for official braggin’ rights. No one did the course on Big Wheel but we did eat toasted ravoli anyway.
Thanks everyone for coming out to the Forest Park Triple Butterfly and I hope everyone enjoyed the format. The results are posted below.
A couple of comments on results:
There was a pre-start announcement that you’d be tempted to cross water that on the map was marked as “not crossable”. (and yes, I realize not everyone was there at the pre-start announcement). There were a couple of people who self-disclosed they crossed and I had to figure out the right penalty to apply. I looked at the minimum and average times to go “around” the lake and came up with assessing a 2 minute penalty to everyone who made that journey in less than 15 seconds. As it turns out there was no impact on finish order.
Additionally, there were some mis-punches captured by the epunches. For some of you, we discussed and I understood what happened. For a couple, I don’t think we got a chance to discuss and make sure that it was an actual mistake vs a mistake somehow with the software. As a result, everyone who had recorded a mis-punch, I place at the bottom of the standings and added comments on the punches I saw. If you have questions about what I saw, please contact me and we can look at the data and figure out what happened.
Thanks again,
Bryan
Beginners
1
Dennis Yurkun
0:19:43
2
Mary/ David Freiper
0:29:27
3
Joseph, Elizabeth, Katie Becky Zaegel
0:44:05
4
Kendal, Adam, Noah Gokan
1:11:19
Groups
1
Stephen Ducker / Molly Freeman (A)
1:11:35
Group with Children
1
Sam and Angie Ryan (C)
1:14:43
epunch indicated Missed last control
Individuals
Name (course)
Time
Adjusted Time
1
Jeff Ryan (F)
0:31:22
0:31:22
2
Josh Borgmeyer (B)
0:32:36
0:34:36
3
Nathan Graves (E)
0:35:07
0:35:07
4
Vladimir Yurkuns (E)
0:36:02
0:37:16
5
Kevin Minton (D)
0:40:39
0:40:39
6
Gannon Niehaus (A)
0:42:02
0:42:02
7
Gabriel Sison (A)
0:48:19
0:48:19
8
Clarkstons (F)
0:53:18
0:53:18
9
Andrea Kapan (C)
1:12:18
1:12:18
10
Brian Rodenbeck (C)
0:35:16
0:37:16
epunch indicated out of order punches on last butterfly
11
Mark Geldmeier (A)
0:38:05
0:38:05
Mispunch: epunch indicated out of order punch on SE leg
12
Mark Yurkuns (F)
0:46:10
0:46:10
Mispunch: epunch indicated out of order punch on SE leg
13
Tommy Ryan (A)
0:46:46
0:46:46
epunch indicated Missed last control
14
Mike Rhodes (B)
0:58:29
0:58:29
Mispunch: epunch indicated punching 2 instead of 7 on first leg
Thanks to everyone that made the drive to beautiful Broemmelsiek Park. It was a bit hot, but the shady sections on both courses made it bearable. A big thank you to Yvonne Deyo for setting a fun course. Also, special thanks to Mark Geldmeier and Jeff Ryan for helping with event prep!
Sprint – Individual Eric Buckley 25:48 Brian Rodenbeck 30:05 Mark Geldmeier 32:16 Jerry Young 36:16 Andrea Kapan 52:22 Neil Bockwoldt 30:37 Mispunch
Sprint – Group Nathan and Mandy Goff 36:44 Misha Goldman and Heidi Abbott 48:40 Renee and John Clarkston 48:57 Matt and Paige Helbig 34:02 Mispunch
Beginner Borgmeyer family 35:07 Kelley family 45:25
