For the second time in two weeks – by coincidence – expert orienteers
were treated to some long-form courses, with relatively few controls and
relatively long legs that required careful route choice. The red course, for example, had only five
controls and one leg that was over 2.3 km long.
People really differed on their appreciation for this format, with some
loving and preferring it, and others just putting up with it.
Shortly after our event, we got word that several NC state parks are starting to close, and with the size of the crowds that are descending upon them it is understandable why they need to. We were lucky to have slipped into Eno River while it is still open, but we realize that this may one of our last state park events in a while. I’m confident that the precautions that BOK took for this event (limiting participant number, canceling beginner courses, not renting equipment, expanding the start window) did not add substantially to the interpersonal proximity at the park. I never saw more than three or four people together at once, and all were always at least a few meters apart.
Please check back to the BOK website in a couple of days for
updates. If nothing else, I will
hopefully have figured out how to upload the event into Route Gadget so that
people can examine their routes and compare them with others.
Finally, just a reminder that although orienteering is usually an excellent opportunity to get your kids out into nature, taking them out on a red course can sometimes push them too far. Results follow the last photo of Roman Kraus ever taken.
RIP Roman Kraus
There were 26 starts.
Eno River. 22 March 2020, Results
2020-03-22
Orange
3.6 km
7 Controls
1
2073236
Marcus Enochs
76:47
2
2049374
Matthew Craig
86:47 (+10:00)
3
2049366
Rod Butler
94:42 (+17:55)
4
2114162
Alex Burroughs
100:42 (+23:55)
–
2005021
Michael Tharp
MP
Brown
3.8 km
6 Controls
1
2073231
Team Thomkowski
60:00
2
2049367
Yuuki Butler
67:59 (+7:59)
3
2005002
Ruth Bromer
71:39 (+11:39)
4
2006377
Ken Walsh
90:22 (+30:22)
Green
5.7 km
8 Controls
1
2005018
Nadia Scharlau
66:49
2
2005005
Joseph Huberman
83:14 (+16:25)
3
2114141
William Allen
88:41 (+21:52)
4
2106552
Paul Emmerson
89:51 (+23:02)
5
2005017
Miles Deforest
133:16 (+66:27)
Red
6.3 km
5 Controls
1
2005151
Vladimir Stemkovski
56:01
2
7654323
Robert Enochs
61:14 (+5:13)
3
2114146
Brian Thompson
67:11 (+11:10)
4
2106554
Lina Lindberg
68:16 (+12:15)
5
2094192
Yuriy Bulka
70:17 (+14:16)
6
2005141
Mihai Ibanescu
75:29 (+19:28)
7
2114140
B McC
78:37 (+22:36)
8
2114152
Debra Rezeli
88:49 (+32:48)
9
2005008
Sean M Butler
89:19 (+33:18)
10
2114142
Bailey Karl
113:12 (+57:11)
11
2028427
Kevin Wilkinson
122:06 (+66:05)
12
2005153
Tatyana Stemkovski
124:19 (+68:18)
Eno River. 22 March 2020, Split times
2020-03-22 *Control 50 was not on Daylight Savings. Joseph did his confusing best to correct the times.