Saturday started off as a beautiful sunny day – not too hot - just right for O. Then the heavens opened up and soaked everyone; including poor Joe (Maliszewski) who was running the remote Start/finish. He valiantly protected the start sheets etc. by trying to keep them under the clip board when he wasn’t actually writing on them. Other folks commented that the rain was just what they needed to cool off.
Marilu Dempsey and Andrea Canelos were swamped at the Registration table right from the beginning. Unfortunately the park rangers had given us a different pavilion than the one we were expecting. That meant that we had to re-mark the Start point on the White/Yellow maps and explain to each starter about the change. This, together with the unexpectedly large turnout of JROTC, made things rather more chaotic than usual around the registration area.
In the end we had a total of 289 people out on the courses; 200 of those from the JROTC units. The rain didn’t appear to put anyone off … in fact we had many people go back out on a second course after they completed their initial run.
We had a number of first timers, who received basic instruction from yours truly, and a number of ‘lapsed’ members who had not been out for years.
Since this was our ‘National Orienteering Day’ event we randomly picked 4 start times (2 on beginner courses and 2 on advanced) to be the recipients of our prize giveaways. The lucky winners were:
Speaking of prizes; we will be sending out our 30,000th starter at Wekiva Springs next month. The lucky winner will receive an award, and an as-yet-undisclosed prize.
We would like to apologize to those of you who ran the Red course for the misplacement of control #2. It seems that the control was 50 meters or so from its intended location. Looking at the results however it appears that most of you were able to find it anyway. This is another example of our volunteer shortage. Ideally we could use a control ‘vetter’ who would go out and double check that the controls had all been set in the correct locations. (This is a requirement at Class A events.)
Our Food Drive was a little disappointing this year – only 136 pounds today, and another 61 pounds last month. The Second Harvest Food Bank folks were still very happy to see us when we rolled up with your donations.
Thanks again to all our volunteers. In addition to those mentioned above we also had Anne Shimer, Denise Hargis and Toby Henson from Titusville ROTC working Start/Finish and Registration, at various times, and Jim Staubach and Antonio Baez from Riverview ROTC on Start/Finish. Thanks also to the Titusville ROTC cadets who retrieved controls.
Mike Dempsey
| Name | Time |
| Riverview 3 | 10:31 |
| Oviedo 2 | 12:30 |
| Candace Horan | 14:11 |
| Riverview 2 | 14:24 |
| Boone 3 | 17:15 |
| Riverview 8 | 19:20 |
| Riverview 5 | 21:00 |
| Oviedo 1 | 23:01 |
| Boone 6 | 23:32 |
| Boone 4 | 24:05 |
| Boone 7 | 24:55 |
| Boone 2 | 25:46 |
| Boone 5 | 25:55 |
| Riverview 4 | 27:25 |
| Riverview 6 | 27:30 |
| Riverview 1 | 28:12 |
| Nina & Siry Barker | 28:54 |
| Boone 1 | 30:55 |
| Williamson / Ruiz | 36:00 |
| Catherine Thomas | 40:10 |
| Riverview 7 | 41:40 |
| Kevin Harrelson | 53:07 |
| Harrell / Schaeffer | 53:57 |
| Name | Time |
| Cypress Creek B | 22:46 |
| Patriots 1 | 23:30 |
| CC, Pellino | 25:20 |
| Patriots 2 | 27:40 |
| Horn / Ellingsgard | 30:15 |
| Orangatan | 44:01 |
| CC, Marte | 44:34 |
| Ben Heath | 48:20 |
| Berlin / Steinke | 49:39 |
| Hargis | 51:20 |
| Joshua Patterson | 56:10 |
| Den 5 | 56:39 |
| Will Frye | 59:10 |
| CC, Valentin | 60:10 |
| Big Den 5 | 61:40 |
| Nathen | 62:10 |
| Emert | 63:20 |
| Thomas Tyndall | 64:47 |
| Delahunty | 69:15 |
| Melanie Tyndall | 74:06 |
| M & K Skinner | 79:55 |
| J & K Brown | 103:58 |
| Charpentier | NTR |
| Cypress Creek C | NTR |
| Name | Time |
| Keith Pattillo | 30:00 |
| Missy Kaler | 32:00 |
| John Whalen | 35:40 |
| Boone 4 | 36:18 |
| Girlzgo | 39:25 |
| Boone 1 | 42:02 |
| Walenty Prytulo | 44:10 |
| Boone 3 | 46:30 |
| Nina & Siry Barker | 47:45 |
| Tiger Team | 62:00 |
| Hobron / Hyland | 66:00 |
| Martin | 67:00 |
| Gibbs 3 | 77:00 |
| Auburndale 4 | 89:40 |
| Hawkins / Lunt | 95:30 |
| Auburndale 1 | 102:00 |
| M & K Skinner | 102:50 |
| Gibbs 2 | 107:00 |
| Jason Mortham | 145:30 |
| Auburndale 2 | DNF |
| Auburndale 3 | DNF |
| Auburndale 5 | DNF |
| Boone 2 | DNF |
| Boone 5 | DNF |
| Boone 6 | DNF |
| Cypress A | DNF |
| Gibbs 1 | DNF |
| Gibbs 4 | DNF |
| Gibbs 5 | DNF |
| Titusville 1 | DNF |
| Team Michigan | NTR |
| Chris Mann | NTR |
| Name | Time |
| Mitch Jarvis | 46:45 |
| John Ide | 49:00 |
| Adam Johnson | 50:00 |
| Brett Barker | 55:00 |
| Norm Lei | 72:37 |
| Nicole Wright | 78:20 |
| Richard Pattillo | 85:30 |
| D & C Clayburn | 94:00 |
| Dan Carrington | 97:40 |
| Hamilton | 104:00 |
| Snapper | 107:30 |
| Clare Ferrari | 109:00 |
| Keegan McCreary | 110:00 |
| Karrie Kormick | 112:00 |
| Christian Jones | 122:00 |
| Ian Sawers | NTR |
| Name | Time |
| Artur Intson | 56:40 |
| Dave Gottschalk | 67:00 |
| Andy Canelos | 68:30 |
| Derek Bohn | 73:01 |
| D & L Jenkins | 79:00 |
| Debbie Gottschalk | 82:35 |
| Dirty Fish | 87:20 |
| Bruneau / Boyd | 87:50 |
| Bates / Vaughn | 116:59 |
| J Mulherny | 146:00 |
| Vanessa Baez | 147:00 |
| C Degraeiy | 151:00 |
| Benzo Manny | 153:00 |
| Jamie Sheriff | 158:58 |
| Hemness | DNF |
| Toby Henson | DNF |
| Robert Vargas | NTR |
| DNF | Did Not Finish |
| NTR | No Time Recorded (YOU MUST CHECK IN EVEN IF YOU DO NOT COMPLETE THE COURSE - This is a safety requirement.) |