The New England Orienteering Club

Needham Town Forest, Needham, MA
April 13, 2014
Meet Directors: Bill Binette, Jim Paschetto

Despite the unpredicted (and prolonged!), chilly rains, over one hundred folks came out to Needham Town Forest. Scouts from Troop 100, Westborough, showed up in force and attacked the Yellow-and-above courses. Some of our better orienteers stayed home from West Point to to turn in  impressive times on the Green course. (Study their splits in RouteGadget's SplitsBrowser.)

Bridget Hall bested the field on White by a comfortable margin. "Feat of the day" was Ian Smith showing us what's possible on Green, Brown, Orange, and Yellow.

Thanks to the volunteers who handled the early registration crush in the cloudburst: Tim Booth, Bo Nielsen, Dorina Nimigean, and Joanne Sankus. Thanks as well to those who jumped in to keep things moving: Kristin & Ethan Hall, among others.

Thanks to those who helped collect controls (under beautiful clear skies!): Ken Menzies, Ian Smith (after his 4 courses), Karen Yeowell & Mark O'Connell (who went after those gnarly controls in the southwest corner), and a woman who's name escapes us--who waited in the chill to pull in the first Green control. (Send me your name so you can be immortalized!)


Split times are available here (courtesy of WinSplits). [raw splits file is here]

Analyze the splits and draw your routes in NEOC's RouteGadget (in the "Results" menu). The "SplitsBrowser" in RouteGadget's list of events lets you analyze your run.

White 2.1k 50m
  Name   Club Time
1 Bridget Hall   NEOC 20:12
2 Terry Costello   NEOC 23:35
3 Krueger (5)   NEOC 43:17
4 Mori Finlayson   NEOC 43:58
5 Lydia O'Connell   NEOC 56:46
6 Michael Fiske (4)     57:25
7 Tim Booth   NEOC 58:06
8 Cook family (4)     64:18
9 White (6)   NEOC 76:53
10 Karl Garant (6)     77:02
11 Becky King +2   NEOC 82:54
Yellow 2.6k 75m
  Name   Club Time
1 Ian Smith   CSU 18:16
2 Sarah Boehm, Terry Costello   NEOC 32:40
3 Liam Tasker   NEOC 52:54
4 Gil Shapiro   NEOC 61:57
5 Richard Shapiro   NEOC 62:45
6 Glenn Larsen +1     73:16
7 Jakubiak family   NEOC 76:14
8 Matt Calhoun (5)     78:19
9 Jennifer Fitzsimmons-Gauger   NEOC 86:58
10 Brian O'Keefe (5)     88:03
11 David Penfield   NEOC 96:56
12 Becky Bronson   NEOC 97:05
13 Steven J. Clark   NEOC 101:00
14 Sean White +3     110:04
15 Fiona Clot   NEOC 130:25
  Tim Roth (4)     DNF
Orange 3.6k 100m
  Name   Club Time
1 Ian Smith   CSU 27:52
2 Ethan Hall   NEOC 70:13
3 Sarah Boehm   NEOC 79:09
4 Jaana Pietari   NEOC 95:20
5 Matt Boffo (4)     96:26
6 Bud O'Leary   NEOC 102:51
7 Matt Baker   NEOC 108:34
7 C.J. DeMatteo   NEOC 108:34
9 Team Gallup (3)   NEOC 111:29
10 David Kehs   NEOC 112:37
11 John Mitchell   NEOC 122:03
12 Kirill Finkelshteyn     124:16
13 John Kernochan   NEOC 129:26
14 Sam St. Pierre   NEOC 131:11
15 Hop Holmberg   NEOC 131:18
  Diane Menzies   NEOC DNF
  David Miller   NEOC DNF
  Sarah Valentine, Anne Leighton     DNF
Green 5.0k 130m
  Name   Club Time
1 Ian Smith   CSU 37:14
2 Bo Nielsen   NEOC 49:13
3 William Daniels   NEOC 52:56
4 Jeffrey Schapiro   NEOC 56:33
5 Daniel O'Leary   NEOC 57:06
6 Kristin Hall   NEOC 57:15
7 Bob Dangel   NEOC 63:34
8 Dean Sturtevant   NEOC 63:41
9 Leszek Lechowicz   NEOC 64:13
10 Scott Turner   NEOC 65:55
11 Andy Mykyta   NEOC 72:58
12 Joe Usoff   NEOC 79:13
13 Andrew Vakhutinsky   NEOC 80:20
14 David Quinn   NEOC 80:33
15 David Wheeler   NEOC 82:29
16 Sam Levitin   NEOC 84:48
17 Xavier Fradera   NEOC 86:58
18 Cullen Franz   NEOC 89:39
19 Mark O'Connell   NEOC 98:35
20 Thornton Group (3)     102:50
21 Dorina Nimigean   NEOC 106:01
22 Stephen van Ness   NEOC 106:44
23 Richard Powers   NEOC 108:25
24 Karen Yeowell   NEOC 114:23
25 Jeanne & Mark Hummel   NEOC 134:53
  Terry Costello   NEOC DNF
Brown 4.1k 85m
  Name   Club Time
1 Ian Smith   CSU 31:13
2 Michael Tollefson   NEOC 75:55
3 Sylvie Guichard   NEOC 103:14
4 Gabe Bronk, Jon Kwan   NEOC 104:27
5 Cullen Franz     109:58
6 Joanne Sankus   NEOC 118:30
  Ken Menzies   NEOC DNF