Needham Town Forest, Needham, MA
April 25, 2015
Meet Director: Jeff Schapiro
A comfortable, sunny day set the backdrop for the Needham event. We had 84 starts which were quite evenly distributed with only the White course attracting a lesser degree of interest.
In recent years, the Town Forest has become a very popular venue for trail bike riders. As a result, a great number of new biking trails have been introduced on the terrain. The presence of these trails proved somewhat of a dilemma for the meet director. Both time constraints and concerns about map legibility made it undesirable to try to fully map the biking trails. In the end, I opted to map only the bike trails which seemed likely to influence competitors on the White and Yellow courses. I also tried to indicate intersections which crossed the pre-existing trail network. It is hoped that the presence of the numerous unmapped trails did not prove to be too excessive of a distraction to the competitors on the upper courses.
The woods in Needham are generally open for running and provide a fairly intricate array of small terrain features. Competitors on the Yellow course were also amused to discover the elaborate model train that has been erected by one of the adjacent neighbors in the southeast region of the map. Ian Smith set the standard for excellence with a sub-45:00 performance on the Red course. Meet organizers are saddened that they will have to consider this result unofficial as Ian failed to start within the prescribed start window. :-)
Many thanks to Michael Cooper and Marsha Westerberg who assisted with Registration, and also to the omnipresent Jim Paschetto who once again ran the computer, to the great relief of the technically challenged meet director. I was pleased that Scott Turner and Ken Menzies were able to assist with the computer towards end of the event which allowed Jim the opportunity to run a Green course. Jim and Ian were also gracious enough to stay afterwards to help pick up the controls. In addition, special thanks are also due to my sister Amy who served as parking consultant and somehow managed to park about 50 cars in a venue that was only designed for about 20, thereby saving competitors the unpleasant option of parking at the quite distant overflow parking area.
View the splits here (courtesy of WinSplits). Raw splits file is here.
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White 1.79k | ||||
Name | Club | Time | ||
1 | Ivan Ivanov | NEOC | 34:31 | |
2 | Greg & Eleanor Lewis | NEOC | 45:36 | |
3 | Patrick McNeal | NEOC | 46:06 | |
4 | Bob & Anita Redus | 72:55 | ||
Yellow 2.38k | ||||
Name | Club | Time | ||
1 | Bridget Hall | NEOC | 36:59 | |
2 | Greg Lewis | NEOC | 43:34 | |
3 | Roland & Ted Ouelette | NEOC | 48:51 | |
4 | Liat Shapiro | NEOC | 54:00 | |
5 | Terry Myers Coney | NEOC | 55:40 | |
6 | Bob & Anita Redus | 57:23 | ||
7 | Sarah Björkman | NEOC | 58:00 | |
8 | Andy McIlvaine | NEOC | 61:43 | |
8 | Caroline McIlvaine | NEOC | 61:43 | |
10 | David, Jacob, Peter Severance | NEOC | 63:38 | |
11 | Steve & Betsy Fiedler | NEOC | 66:22 | |
12 | Dan Scotina | 71:30 | ||
13 | Chris Noon | NEOC | 72:27 | |
14 | Marsha Westerberg | NEOC | 78:54 | |
15 | Jennifer Fitzsimmons-Gauger | NEOC | 91:35 | |
16 | Bruce Schweitzer | NEOC | 94:23 | |
17 | Shane O'Donohoe | 107:09 | ||
Naomi Shapiro | NEOC | DNF | ||
Fiona Clot | NEOC | DNF | ||
Orange 3.26k | ||||
Name | Club | Time | ||
1 | Patrick McNeal | NEOC | 63:09 | |
2 | Yana Galukhina | NEOC | 65:10 | |
3 | Aims Coney | NEOC | 70:36 | |
4 | Team Jake (2) | NEOC | 90:22 | |
5 | Aaron Aaker & Ethan Aaker | NEOC | 106:37 | |
6 | John Mitchell | NEOC | 111:40 | |
7 | David Penfield | NEOC | 117:38 | |
8 | Andy, David, Zach Baumel | NEOC | 117:42 | |
9 | Sean Lane (2) | NEOC | 120:25 | |
10 | Ulla Björkman | IK YMER | 123:22 | |
11 | Joan Albert, Emily Chang | 130:46 | ||
12 | Mia & Andrew Vakhutinsky | NEOC | 132:43 | |
13 | Sarah Valentine | NEOC | 175:32 | |
14 | David Goldman (4) | 177:10 | ||
15 | G. Seifert | LIOC | 305:37 | |
David & Jacob Severance | NEOC | DNF | ||
Clarissa Smith +1 | NEOC | DNF | ||
John Bottoms | DNF | |||
Tom Jones | NEOC | DNF | ||
Team Tobias (2) | NEOC | DNF | ||
Brown 3.27k | ||||
Name | Club | Time | ||
1 | Leif Björkman | IK YMER | 60:25 | |
2 | Neil & Dashiell Martin | NEOC | 65:54 | |
3 | Gil Shapiro | NEOC | 67:36 | |
4 | Isaac Shapiro | NEOC | 76:41 | |
5 | Richard Powers | NEOC | 79:30 | |
6 | Judith Karpinski | NEOC | 90:37 | |
7 | Tim Booth | NEOC | 97:08 | |
8 | Peter Frykman | NEOC | 100:21 | |
9 | Gabe Bronk, P. Carrera, P. Lu | NEOC | 129:30 | |
10 | Diane Menzies | NEOC | 192:00 | |
Hop Holmberg | NEOC | DNF | ||
Peter Severance | NEOC | DNF | ||
Ken Menzies | NEOC | DNF | ||
Roland & Ted Ouelette | NEOC | DNF | ||
Green 4.55k | ||||
Name | Club | Time | ||
1 | Jon K. Hansen | Viking (NO) | 66:19 | |
2 | Mika Latva-Kokko | NEOC | 68:15 | |
3 | Michael Cooper | NEOC | 71:24 | |
4 | Pete Lane | NEOC | 89:29 | |
5 | Michael Tollefson | NEOC | 97:54 | |
6 | Will Dewey | NEOC | 98:12 | |
7 | David Webster | 101:43 | ||
8 | Jim Paschetto | NEOC | 106:36 | |
9 | Jaana Pietari | NEOC | 130:31 | |
10 | Bill Binette | NEOC | 149:45 | |
11 | Richard Shapiro | NEOC | 163:31 | |
Xavier Fradera | NEOC | DNF | ||
Richard Powers | NEOC | DNF | ||
John Kernochan | NEOC | DNF | ||
Red 5.65k | ||||
Name | Club | Time | ||
1 | Ian Smith | CSU | 44:27 | |
2 | Andy Hall | NEOC | 58:46 | |
3 | Will Daniels | NEOC | 62:12 | |
4 | Kristin Hall | NEOC | 68:32 | |
5 | Magnus Björkman | NEOC | 71:24 | |
6 | Jeffrey Saeger | NEOC | 74:17 | |
7 | Scott Turner | NEOC | 79:57 | |
8 | Joe Usoff | NEOC | 85:40 | |
9 | Tom Nolan | QOC | 94:43 | |
10 | Bob Dangel | NEOC | 96:34 | |
11 | Phil Bricker | NEOC | 104:42 | |
12 | David Quinn | NEOC | 115:22 | |
13 | Jeanne & Mark Hummel | NEOC | 192:48 |