This event went quite smoothly, despite the last-minute reschedule from Lake Crabtree to Bond Park.

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Finally we got a really hot summer orienteering event. Merciful heat even early in the morning definitely added difficulty to the already “above average” sprint courses with unusual 1:7500 map scale. Apparently map scale wasn’t such a big issue after all. Main problems orienteerers talked about were: barely visible control circles on the map, disappeared […]

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The weather for the meet was sunny and a bit on the warm side. We had a decent turn out for the regular courses…though an adventure race held on Saturday kept attendance down for the advance courses. Unfortunately, we struggled with a couple of issues during the event…1) we ran out of registration forms, 2) we ran out of electronic punches (which really only effected the red course) and 3) there were three misplaced controls…one on the orange course and two on the red course (despite having flagged the control placement with tape). Kudos (I think) to the orange course runners who found the misplaced control in a ditch about 200m to the SW. I’m still trying to determine where the two misplaced red controls were actually placed. For both courses, I tried to give credit for the misplaced controls, which in turn meant compiling the results by hand. So, if you notice an error please let me know I will update accordingly.

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Rain? What rain? Actually I heard comments like “perfect weather for running”, and “couldn’t have planned it better” from several of the participants. Sure, it might have been a little damp, but the event was far from a washout. Special greetings go out to Boy Scout Troop 588 from Youngsville, NC who successfully navigated the White and […]

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The results of this slightly soggy event have been posted.

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Not many people came to the event, but those who did enjoyed good warm (not too hot) weather and some unique orienteering challenges. 9 out of 32 controls were not printed on the map and only their legends could had been used to located them (or luck). As it appeared, luck didn’t play such a […]

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We had a very hot weather today, maybe that impacted the navigation of even seasoned runners. One white control was incidentally removed by the park ranger, but was restored quickly when he brought it to us. (We will get in touch with the park about this)…
The Red-Green-Brown overprinted map was pretty confusing, so I printed some extra individual brown and green maps, maybe that was not enough, a lot of folks started on red and finished on some muddy, greenish-brownish color.
My thanks go out to Ken. Hanson who taught the class and picked up controls, Terese Camp — registration help and control pickup, Eugeni Kountikov — minded the finish and picked up controls, Roman Kraus, Kenneth Gordon and Bill Ebenstein (control pickup). A great thanks to the Boyscout troops who helped to move the tables. Thanks to Vladimir Stemkovski who helped with the clean up.

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3 quick announcements for tomorrow’s race.

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Addition to the results: Birkhead 2009-04-12 Score-O splits.

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Birkhead Score-O was a nice successful event: the weather was perfect, the attendance was small, and the area and the map were just gorgeous. Thank you for control pick up: Tatyana, Vladimir and Michael Stemkovski, and Holly Kuestner.

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