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
Name | Time |
Warburton, J | 25:13 |
Piazza, V | 37:40 |
Md Blues | 54:20 |
Planck | 60:02 |
Ruppert, N | 64:00 |
Misuraca | DNF |
Name | Time |
Warburton, J | 38:36 |
Titusville #2 | 56:54 |
Pais | 65:00 |
Czigan | 80:45 |
Kansol, H | DNF |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
DNF | Did Not Finish |
DQ | Disqualified (Missed Controls) |
OT | Over 3 Hour Time Limit |