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.

https://stlouisorienteering.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Results-Route-66-Bike-O-2022.xlsx

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

Groups

Group with Children

Individuals

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

Thanks to everyone who came on a beautiful summer night. The two courses were kept at sprint length and out of the woods. But the route choices are what made the precious seconds matter. The top 3 were separated by seconds!

Below is a link to see split times to each checkpoint and Overall Results

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/default.asp?page=classes&databaseId=83284

Thank you to everyone who made it out to the Carondelet O-Meet to celebrate the start of the Summer Series! Everyone seemed to have a great time and no one got run over by a bicycle during the Bike Crits so all was good. Also, a big thank you to Kevin Minton for designing the course, Mark Geldmeier for directing, and Bryan Niehaus for assisting. It takes a village to run a meet and we appreciate all the help. For those interested, the “sequence” event (French town names) was created to be similar in distance but exact distance was not the same for all sequences. Part of the fun was the luck of the draw!

A big thanks to David Welsh and assistant director Nathan Graves for putting on a great course in the beautiful St. Francois park. Also, thanks to all who made the trip to enjoy the park and the company of like minded map nerds.

Thanks to everyone that braved the wet-looking weather forecast and headed out to Forest Park.  The weather turned out fine, with the occasional sprinkle, but otherwise a nice spring day.  The park was crowded with other events, so traffic was an issue, but no one bothered our course.

This event was held in conjunction with the Missouri State Parks, “Wonders of the Outdoor World”.  Their event was lightly attended and only 19 registrants selected orienteering as one of their three class options offered throughout the day.

SLOC participants had two options, a 45-minute score-O with 20 checkpoints/controls, or a 3.6 km point-to-point course with 12 checkpoints/controls.  Several groups took the opportunity of the nice day and beautiful park to just roam recreationally.  Checkpoint #8 was not in the correct location (a fault of the meet director), but everyone seemed to take it in stride.  Jim Avery lost his key fob, and decided he would do a “micro-orienteering” course of circling repeatedly between 3 controls while searching.  I hope things worked out okay Jim!

Thank you to the Missouri State Parks for asking us to help out, and to Bill Langton, Mary Pat Geldmeier, and Bryan Niehaus for helping at the registration table.

Results

Thank you to everyone who braved the cold weather and came out to our annual John Smerek Memorial Scout O-Fest at Beaumont. We had a larger than expected turn out and everyone seemed to be having fun in the brisk beautiful woods of Beaumont. A special thanks to David Fisher and Nathan Graves who helped with directing and running the event. Coincidentally, David Fisher placed first in the Score-O division and Nathan Graves placed first overall on the Red Course. Congrats men! Let it be known that Nathan did not help set the course so had no prior knowledge of kite placement, however, I can’t speak the same for David :).

The results of the White, Green, and Red Courses are below. I also attached the Scout Score-O. We are already making plans to improve next year’s Scout Fest. Place March 11th, 2023 on your calendars!