Recap

Four Short Cross Country Courses:

WHITE, MEDIUM, MEDIUM ALTERNATIVE, LONG SPRINT

Conditions:

Track: Mixed (Mostly firm ground, some muddy trails, snow in spots)

Weather: Upper: 30s, Clouds early, breaking into glorious high-sky Sun

Volunteers:

Event Director: Howard Montgomery
Course Designer: Howard Montgomery
Registrars: Steve Hendrix & Fred Mailey
Starters: Henry Arthur, Gideon Kaine, Hendrix Gregory, Lucas Pierre (All from Troop 257A)
Control Collectors: Todd Pownell, Neil Dolinger, Howard Montgomery, Steve Hendrix and Tatiana Yudovina

THANK YOU! TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED!

Summary:

The day started on a frustrating note as, Yours Truly, mistook the start time of the event. I was targeting a noon start and we’d advertised a start of 11:00am. My bad! Thank goodness I got the course out in good order that morning. But even so, the day started with more chaos than is appropriate. And as an experienced event director, I should have done better. But with the help of Steve Hendrix, Fred Mailey and the Scouts from Troop 257A [Brian Feeley’s troop] we were able to keep the ship righted and get people out on the courses in reasonably good order.

Sorry to anyone that I was a little chippy with.

Once on the courses there were no outside mishaps, such as stolen controls or slips and falls or territorial owls (we once had that). The only dilemma was the intended one at hand —how to best navigate courses built essentially around a central loop trail. Thus: should one focus on the trail and duck into the woods at each appropriate point in search of the control or should one try to bisect through the woods and ravines as much as possible to keep to the shortest distance? Ahhh, the question…!?

As is always the case each person or group decided independently about that and the results ranged widely as a consequence. The universal good news seemed to be everyone was mostly happy with whatever choice they took, because they learned something either way AND had fun. In my world, the best possible of outcomes!

Thank you to all who came out and participated. You overwhelmed me with your kindness and patience.

Special shout out to Trinity Brown, who was simply happening by Kendall for a walk in the park when she decided to check out what the activity was at the shelter. After asking and being given a summary description, she decided “I’m up for that!” Thus, after seven entire minutes of instruction, she completed her first White course in excellent fashion. WAY TO GO TRINITY! We hope we will see you again!

Results

White Course: 9 controls 2.4 km 20 m
   Name           Controls  Time
 1 Bob Boltz             9   18:19
 2 Gary Burden           9   37:50
 3 Troop257A White       9   42:43
 4 Eric Curts            9   44:01
 5 Joey Anderson         9   48:34
 6 Tod Flak              9   49:38
 7 Caroline King         9   59:16
 8 Troop504 White        9   64:55
 9 Troop778 Group4       9   79:40
   Rebekah Burden        8   32:39 (missed 41...)
   Isaac Burden          8   52:28 (missed 41...)
   Trinity Brown         8   63:46 (missed 44)
   Troop778 Group2       7   75:12 (missed 42...)
   Troop778 Group1       5   91:36 (missed 41...)
   Troop778 Group3       5  118:52 (missed 45...)
   Chuck St John         3   43:14 (missed 43...)

Medium Sprint Course: 8 controls 3.1 km 70 m
   Name                  Controls  Time
 1 Fred Mailey                  8   81:00
 2 Sandra Albro                 8  109:28
 3 Katie Arbogast               8  121:13
 4 Geoffrey Borthwick           8  138:15
 5 Frank Mahne                  8  142:42
 6 Marcia Mauter                8  157:17
   Troop257A MediumSprint       5 182:44 (missed 58...)
   Jorden Allen                 4 80:26 (missed 56...)
   Team Schmitt                 1 63:06 (missed 52...)

Medium Alt Course: 9 controls 3.5 km 80 m
   Name                    Controls  Time
 1 Todd Pownell                   9   41:39
 2 Tatiana Yudovina               9   76:48
 3 Joel Music                     9  102:46
 4 Amy-Sean Hensley               9  112:56
 5 Crew4122 Rob-Diane-Addaido     9  117:20
   Kevin Shorts                   8  119:55 (missed 60)
   Crew4122 Matthew-Justin        7  143:47 (missed 60...)

Long Sprint Course: 10 controls 3.9 km 100 m
    Name             Controls  Time
  1 Sydney Fisher  WPOC    10  37:40
  1 Todd Pownell           10  37:40
  3 Andreas Johansson      10  46:41
  4 Randy Mitchell         10  49:21
  5 Kevin Fisher   WPOC    10  55:15
  6 Bob Boltz              10  60:50
  7 John Rasinski          10  64:16
  8 Gil Even               10  101:37
  9 Neil Dolinger          10  104:30
 10 Greg Madachik          10  167:13
 11 Sanae Rogers           10  170:54
 12 Andrew Strobel         10  172:03
 13 Krista Parran          10  179:29

Resources

RouteGadget – Upload your GPS file – Compare your route with others – Or draw your route from memory

Special Note: Control 40’s time was slow by about 70 seconds (we are investigating the cause.) Control 40 was the first control on both White and Long. All of following split times references have been adjusted accordingly. Overall course times were NOT impacted.

Attackpoint Splits – An tool to compare your Splits with others – Graphing – Also some cross course comparison is possible where common legs exist.

Simple Splits