Schenck Forest, April 15, 2007
Meet Director Comments – Ron Brown
Assistants: Course Design and Vetting – Joseph Huberman, Ron Brown; Control
Setting – Ron Brown; Registration, Start, Finish – Ron Brown; Pickup
Controls –Bill Ebenstein, Artem Kazantsev, Miles de Forest, Phil Sweigert, Ron
Brown; Teaching – Joseph Huberman
What a wild and woolly event! In spite of tornado watches and sporadic heavy
showers, we had a pretty good event with 42 starts (58 participants). As could
be expected, the lack of fair weather caused the fair weather orienteers to stay
home. But the hardcore orienteers came out in spite of the threatening weather.
I got soaking wet while putting out the White Course controls (I dried out by
the end of the event). That shower ended by noon and everyone was able to start
their courses under a dry sky. Those participants still out on the course during
the last 40 minutes were rewarded with another dose of liquid sunshine. And to
prove that no good deed goes unpunished, Bill, Artem, Miles, and Phil got
another soaking while picking up controls after the end of the event. Thanks
fellows.
Understandably, there were a higher level of DNFs in this event than most.
The Boy Scouts from Troop 207 had an early deadline for returning to their scout
hut and left their courses early. A number of the participants in the advanced
(Brown, Green, Red, and Blue) courses were reluctant to cross the rain swollen
Richlands Creek (I do not blame them -- I do not wade deep water and I am not
about to cross on a log). The creek was very tame on Saturday when I put the
controls out.
Similar to the January event at Lake Johnson, the advanced courses contained
10 controls with "dummy" controls nearby. This was a hit at the
January event, so we tried it again. This was explained in the email
announcement sent out prior to the event. I tried to mention it to participants
on Sunday, but when the event got hectic, I could not continue the notification.
I apologize to any participant that I did not warn (fortunately, the penalty for
a wrong punch was a five minute addition and not a DQ).
See you all at the next event.
Ron
Course Setters Comments - Joseph Huberman
I had such a good time at the Lake Johnson event I wanted to set the
"extra" controls for Schenck Forest. I tried to make them as
difficult as possible while still keeping them fair. I tried to set the approach
up so that one would come to the controls at right angles and have to use map
clues to figure out the correct control. It looks like I did a good job,
as only Patrick's group got them all correct. (The creek was very low when
I set the courses too.)
Let me know if you like these extra challenges... I can dream up others!
Joseph
|
Symbol |
Pair |
|
Misses |
|
! |
TC/WA |
 |
5
"!" is in a significant gully, but visible,
while WA is in a re-entrant and not visible from outside the gully |
|
@ |
AK/TH |
 |
1
TH ditch connects to the ride while "@" does
not. I thought this would confuse more people |
|
( |
AH/MT |
 |
2
MT is too close to the man-made object which was the
sign - black "X" |
|
% |
AZ/HZ |
 |
1
Good compass work from "$" was necessary |
|
& |
BM/EZ |
 |
3
"&" a very shallow re-entrant. Need
good compass work from "^"to get this one. |
|
- |
RC/WM
Blue
Red |
 |
4
"-" is to the side of the ridge |
|
\ |
WM/RC
Brown
Green |
2
"\" is in the center of the ridge |
|
* |
LU/LB |
 |
1
"*" is much farther up the main re-entrant |
|
) |
RG/DE |
 |
1
")" is next to a rootstock |
|
# |
AR/PZ |
 |
10
PZ the ditches are perpendicular. For
"#" the ditch angel is acute. |
|
= |
GO/ES |
 |
6
"=" has a much more pronounced re-entrant |
RESULTS
|
WHITE COURSE 2.0 km |
|
|
Name |
Begin |
End |
Time |
|
1. |
Cindy & Mandy Wolf |
12:36 |
13:04:20 |
0:28:20 |
|
2. |
Ron Brown |
10:30 |
10:59:10 |
0:29:10 |
|
YELLOW COURSE 2.7 km |
|
|
Name |
Begin |
End |
Time |
|
1. |
Cole Flaherty |
13:25 |
14:09:13 |
0:44:13 |
|
2. |
Christina & Greg Holzer, Clell Britt |
12:20 |
13:19:20 |
0:59:20 |
|
3. |
Michael Stemkovski, Eugene Zboichyk |
12:56 |
14:12:35 |
1:16:35 |
|
4. |
Christine & Lawrence Hare |
13:09 |
14:31:05 |
1:22:05 |
|
5. |
Scott Barbee |
13:03 |
14:28:40 |
1:25:40 |
|
|
Jerry Usary |
13:04 |
|
DNF |
|
|
Louis Cherry, Jake Umstead (T207) |
13:21 |
|
DNF |
|
|
Grayson Oakley, Jon Matson (T207) |
13:27 |
|
DNF |
|
|
Ben Farmer, Michael Kariuki (T207) |
13:28 |
|
DNF |
|
ORANGE COURSE 3.9 km |
|
|
Name |
Begin |
End |
Time |
|
1. |
Rob Ward, Larry Dickinson |
12:56 |
14:07:16 |
1:11:16 |
|
2. |
Archie Futrell (T207) |
13:30 |
14:47:15 |
1:17:15 |
|
3. |
Eric Moore |
13:08 |
14:35:40 |
1:27:40 |
|
4. |
Tatyana Stemkovski |
12:54 |
14:23:14 |
1:29:14 |
|
5. |
September Mihaly, Eric Johnson |
13:06 |
14:39:07 |
1:33:07 |
|
6. |
Brian Dodge |
13:05 |
14:39:01 |
1:34:01 |
|
7. |
Steven Carr |
12:29 |
14:20:05 |
1:51:05 |
|
|
Pablo Destefan |
12:22 |
|
DNF |
|
|
Richard Kariuki, David Ji (T207) |
13.22 |
|
DNF |
|
|
Kyle Stallings, Daniel Pope (T207) |
13:23 |
|
DNF |
|
|
Mike Templeton (T207) |
13:29 |
|
DNF |
|
BROWN COURSE 4.4 km |
|
|
Name |
Begin |
End |
Time |
Penalty |
Total |
|
SPW (I set the courses) |
Joseph Huberman |
13:13 |
14:17:20 |
1:04:20 |
0:00 |
1:04:20 |
|
1. |
Terese Camp |
12:13 |
14:14:31 |
2:01:31 |
0:10 |
2:11:31 |
|
|
Paul Weber |
13:10 |
|
DNF |
|
|
|
|
Bill Ebenstein |
14:02 |
|
DNF |
|
|
|
GREEN COURSE 5.3 km |
|
|
Name |
Begin |
End |
Time |
Penalty |
Total |
|
1. |
Blake Norwood |
12:17 |
13:47:35 |
1:30:35 |
0:05 |
1:35:35 |
|
2. |
Dahai Olsu |
12:09 |
14:12:55 |
2:03:55 |
0:25 |
2:28:55 |
|
3. |
Miles de Forest, Phil Sweigert |
12:10 |
15:24:30 |
3:14:30 |
0:15 |
3:29:30 |
|
RED COURSE 6.2 km |
|
|
Name |
Begin |
End |
Time |
Penalty |
Total |
|
1. |
Josef Trzicky |
12:37 |
13:36:01 |
0:59:01 |
0:05 |
1:04:01 |
|
2. |
Vladimir Stemkovski |
12:55 |
14:11:58 |
1:16:58 |
0:15 |
1:31:58 |
|
3. |
Sean Butler |
12:42 |
14:31:06 |
1:49:06 |
0:05 |
1:54:06 |
|
4. |
Michael Rhodes |
12:31 |
14:07:09 |
1:36:09 |
0:20 |
1:56:09 |
|
5. |
Ken Hanson |
12:15 |
14:05:02 |
1:50:02 |
0:15 |
2:05:02 |
|
|
Sheila & Shelly |
12:20 |
|
DNF |
|
|
|
|
Mihai Ibanescu |
12:57 |
|
DNF |
|
|
|
|
Nadia Scharlau |
12:58 |
|
DNF |
|
|
|
|
Charles Scharlau |
12:59 |
|
DNF |
|
|
|
BLUE COURSE 8.3 km |
|
|
Name |
Begin |
End |
Time |
Penalty |
Total |
|
1. |
Artem Kazantsev |
13:44 |
15:27:40 |
1:43:40 |
0:05 |
1:48:40 |
|
2. |
Brian Thompson |
12:08 |
13:49:50 |
1:41:50 |
0:20 |
2:01:50 |
|
3. |
Don Childrey |
11:46 |
13:39:20 |
1:53:20 |
0:10 |
2:03:20 |
|
4. |
Patrick Downie, Jeff E., Chris K. |
12:40 |
15:15:45 |
2:35:45 |
0:00 |
2:35:45 |
