If you weren’t there – well, you must certainly be kicking yourself for having missed some of the finest O-weather of the season. It was Cloudy; wind gusting from 10 to over 30 mph at times; a few drops of rain on the windshield. Temperature in the mid-to high 50’s. Like I said: perfect weather. Even despite the occasional falling tree crashing to the ground within earshot, though that can give one pause, I can tell you.
I want to combine this report with a “See-How-The-Controls-Got-There” narrative, if only to give us all a chance to comment on and appreciate the “new” map’s quality. (See the Tutorial page.)
As for the Event report, all went well. EC Donna Fluegel had a full crew lined up beforehand (let’s see everyone volunteer that nicely at all upcoming events) and a decent turnout made it all worthwhile. JROTC had over 100 cadets competing and the FLO contingent was nearly 100, so for distant-Croom this was quite respectable, although well below an average FLO headcount. Relations with the Croom administrators seem to have reached a new level of cooperation, for which we are most grateful.
Notable attendees were newly-Work-Visa-ed Lorena Klienmann bringing a newbie up from Miami with her, plus a Brazilian orienteer from the Tampa area joining us for the first time and also bringing along a newbie. The Brazilians offered right away to begin helping establish a Tampa area club and I assured them I could connect them with Don Hall in Sarasota to help with that. It was a treat to see Paul Hodges’ green and blue FLO uniform flashing through the woods ahead of me as I was headed for penultimate blue control. Paul finished first on blue, beating my own unofficial time. (Durn whippersnappers)
Helpers I know of (Donna can add more) were Janet Putnam on Reg along with Don Hall, Kris Mante and Ray Bruneau. Control setters were John Ide, Greg & Drew Owens and myself. Ales Hejna designed the advanced courses and I did the W-Y-O. Greg Owens and John Ide and Paul Hodges ran start/finish. Jerry Sirmans and Ron Eaglin retrieved controls. M/C Bruce Kennedy and his JROTC cadets ran the JROTC Registration/Start/Finish.
We picked on Ales Hejna to design the advanced courses because he’d just re-mapped the re-mappable areas in February. But that gave us no time to vet his courses or to set ribbons at control sites. So I volunteered to get there early enough the day of the event to set the Advanced controls, on the clock, in order, so that I could time myself. Another of the ground rules we had given Ales for his design was that the Blue course include the red and green course as simply truncated routes, thus, a blue route for setting accounts for both red and green with no detours.
Hope you enjoyed it. See you in the woods soon.
| Name | Time |
| Moira Roberts | 38:00 |
| Nikki Rupert | 62:20 |
| Name | Time |
| Moira Roberts | 38:30 |
| Constance & Dave Sarter | 60:00 |
| Jean-Pierre | 73:05 |
| Team Cloakey | 83:10 |
| Makris Family | 93:20 |
| Name | Time |
| AHS 1 | 73:05 |
| Kris Mante | 81:15 |
| Ron Wilson | 90:43 |
| AHS 2 | 97:20 |
| AHS 3 | 111:15 |
| Daniel Meyer | 119:45 |
| AHS 4 | 134:30 |
| Borah | 137:15 |
| John Hoffman | 137:40 |
| D/J Gewerth | 143:50 |
| Lee Family | 146:03 |
| Dave Rountree | 147:29 |
| JAX RTm | 164:02 |
| Thomas Marshall | 179:52 |
| Ed Spiezio | 190:00 |
| Robert Mahan | DNF |
| Burt Golub | OT |
| Name | Time |
| John Ide | 93:00 |
| Daniel Murphy | 102:00 |
| Vita Veita | 109:13 |
| Drew Owens | 121:36 |
| AHS 5 | 127:25 |
| Oviedo #1 | 137:40 |
| Team Griffield | 139:30 |
| Rodney Counts | 140:39 |
| Sam Sampoux | 168:40 |
| Hawthorne | 157:20 |
| Don Hall | DNF |
| Levy - Lorena | OT |
| Name | Time |
| Toby Henson | 87:53 |
| Ray Bruneau | 112:20 |
| Crusader | 168:10 |
| Scott | 190:20 |
| Derek Bohn | DNF |
| Name | Time |
| Paul Hodges | 88:30 |
| Donna Fluegel | 116:15 |
| Andrea Canelos | 166:27 |
| Steve Fluegel | 166:31 |
| Martin Dimitrov | 221:00 |
| DNF | Did Not Finish |
| DQ | Disqualified (Missed Controls) |
| OT | Over 3 Hour Time Limit |