Florida Orienteering
Rock Springs Run State Reserve
April 10, 2010


Courses: WHITE | YELLOW | ORANGE | GREEN | RED | BLUE | NOTES

On a beautiful sunshiny day in April, even if the flies were horrendous, I saw many smiling faces when participants returned, so all went well. Thanks to Bob for same day (on the clock) setting of the BLUE course and to Jonathan for setting the others a day prior. I happened to have 2 great table helpers on Sat. - Pauline Girard and Jack Cash(relieved me so I could run a course). I thank Bob for holding the reg. table after he returned and I also saw Mike milling about helping new participants. Thanks to Jerry for coordinating the pickup crusaders consisting of: Pauline/Chris, Derek Bohn, Jack, Jerry and myself.

Some thought that having a O/G course to make BLUE was lame but different.

There seems to always be a problem with not having enough envelopes OR the Iron Ranger is full.

Ray

First: "Wish You Had Been There!" - it was a perfect day! And I mean Perfect!! In the 70s all day with a mostly sunny sky and a bright breeze out of the west. Evidently so wonderful a day that a few of you found other things to do - only an average turnout of 200 or so. For those of you who did participate, thanks for coming and I trust you had as much fun as I did.

I pulled in at 8:00 am to a chorus of wild turkeys surrounding our picnic table plus sand hill cranes audible in the distance, with Ray Bruneau right behind me, he setting out road signs and those gopher-tortoise-warning flags all around the parking field. More deer in the open fields and throughout my run - I must have seen 20 or more deer overall. And a surprising number of animal bones too. Will Pirnasch had no idea he was designing courses that would take us past so many skeletons; even the by-now-years old bear skeleton in the depression where control 232 was located.

Will's course designs were, deliberately, rather straightforward, without tricks or especially challenging control placements, so as to bring the winning times more into line with USOF recommendations. I believe he succeeded, but some of you said they were too easy. Maybe, but our objective is to make the winning times conform, not to give everyone their maximum money's worth in terms of time spent on the course.

Ray has already thanked everyone in his report, so I don't need to name names, but I do need to add Thanks: Thanks to everyone who pitches in, and to Ray (see, I'm not at all mentioning any names...) who spent the whole day there, from 8:00 am until all the controls were retrieved, only because he had all the equipment, not because he was Event Coordinator or anything.....

Bob


WHITE

Name Time
Warburton, J 25:13
Piazza, V 37:40
Md Blues 54:20
Planck 60:02
Ruppert, N 64:00
Misuraca DNF

YELLOW

Name Time
Warburton, J 38:36
Titusville #2 56:54
Pais 65:00
Czigan 80:45
Kansol, H DNF

ORANGE

Name Time
Falcon 1 58:27
Elks 59:31
Roberts, M 67:53
Jax Rt 76:15
McCulloch 76:50
Water Trackers 82:25
Dempsey/Walthers 83:25
BSA Troop 713 83:50
Reed, R 85:00
Troop 404 G1 112:05
Brown, J 113:28
Ortiz, N 115:13
Rioux 153:53
Nusbaum, A DNF
GSA Troop 404 DNF

GREEN

Name Time
Gladding, T 49:20
Mustangs 70:30
Kagolam, R 75:11
Cash, J 75:20
Dennis/Carolyn 91:50
Yak Attack 111:45
Wild Hogs 118:35
Demarcken, Atk OT

RED

Name Time
Bruneau, R 61:10
Sirmans, J 63:30
Fluegel, S 73:53
Scott, D 81:34
DHHS #4 92:29
Team Griffield 107:34
Team Awesome 109:52
Breaking Wind 121:50
DHHS #1 122:47
DHHS #2 124:52
DHHS #3 128:55
Kalmbach, G 131:50
Paddled Or B 153:00
Andy Capp 153:21
Nikki/Sam 155:32
Nusbaum, A 163:40

BLUE

Name Time
Johnson, C 70:15
Putnam, B 83:31
Fluegel, D 91:00
Warburton 96:14
Reaves, M 100:50
R We There 110:33
Watkins, N 116:47
Ar Militia, B 117:40
Conelos, A 120:08
Ar Militia, C 131:34
Garnett/Gold 138:11
Turtles 155:56
Team Gecko OT


NOTES

DNF   Did Not Finish
DQ Disqualified (Missed Controls)
OT Over 3 Hour Time Limit


Created 13-April-2010