The New England Orienteering Club

We had a beautiful day for the 3rd Belmont Wanderings, although a little too warm and sunny (high 70s) for the long runners and bikers. It was nice to see several families go out together, and to see more bikers than previous years. Once again, Phil Bricker came out on top in the 4½ hour combo division (3 hr bike followed by 1½ hr run). But Matt Humar from Slovenia had the top score after the 3 hr bike with an impressive grand loop of the map on his bike, staying near the edges to collect most of the high point controls. The meet was truly an international meet this year, with Ralph Lindzon of Toronto, who was in town to drop his son at college, being the only participant to get the maximum possible bonus points. Another impressive performance was put in by Heikki Topi, who carried his daughter on his shoulders the whole 90 minutes.

I had 2 poor control choices. Many people commented on control 55 because of it's vague location and what I called a green house looked gray to them. And what I thought was the best control on the course (#80) because of its spectacular skyline view was missed by all 6 people who went to it. It turned out that halfway up the long steep hill to the park on top of the bluff was another small park that had a sign that exactly fit my clue description (but of course without the view and without the punishing climb to the top).

If you want to see which controls everybody went to, open: Belmont Wanderings 2014 Raw Splits.

 

  

finish time

finish time

bike raw
Score

run raw
Score

bonus
Points

wrong
Answer

time
Penalty

net
Score

Phil Bricker

combo

12:59:30

14:31:30

1560

370

35

 

-30

1935

Ralph Lindzon

combo

13:01:59

14:29:30

910

270

155

 

-15

1320

Jeanne & Mark Hummel

combo

12:52:00

14:29:02

770

180

105

   

1055

Matt Humar

Bike 3 hr

12:52:00

 

1860

 

60

   

1920

Peter Gagarin

Bike 3 hr

12:58:20

 

1670

 

100

-50

 

1720

Paul, Dan, & Marel Regan

Bike 3 hr

12:51:00

 

910

       

910

Jeffrey Saeger

3 hr

13:01:46

   

1080

100

 

-15

1165

Charles Bradford

3 hr

12:42:00

   

540

30

-30

 

540

Devon Fitzpatrick

3 hr

12:37:00

   

410

     

410

Jim Paschetto

3 hr

13:16:36

   

740

5

 

-405

340

Andy McIlvaine

Bike 1½

11:21:50

 

460

 

15

-30

 

445

Magnus Bjorkman

11:28:14

   

560

     

560

Mark O'Connell

11:31:59

   

420

5

 

-15

410

Michael Tollefson

11:26:03

   

330

     

330

Bill Binette

11:25:00

   

240

     

240

Dan Kahn & Ady Balvey

11:24:41

   

190

     

190

Liz Brooks

11:35:30

   

230

   

-75

155

Heikki, Leila, & Saurz Topi & Anne-Louise Klaus

11:28:00

   

140

     

140

Terry Costello

11:34:40

   

200

   

-60

140

Lydia O'Connell & Sofia Bajenoru & Corinne Sciroppa

11:21:50

   

120

     

120

Karen Yeowell

11:46:45

   

400

5

 

-405

0

Nat Brooks

11:44:20

   

290

   

-345

-55