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 |