The New England Orienteering Club

Great Brook Farm State Park, September 19, 2015

Another year, another mid-September meet at Great Brook Farm.  The sun was shining, kids were running around on the lawn, people were hanging out at the picnic tables sharing stories from their courses, the Allman Brothers' “Blue Sky” was playing in the background... well, OK, maybe that last detail wasn't quite real, but it was a good day and place for a relaxed event.  

The Great Brook map presents a course-setting challenge in that there's a relatively small area of technically interesting terrain in the north, and then long extensions to the south of swamps, ponds and eskers; using the latter entails more trail running.  While I've sent people to “the island” and environs in the past, this year the courses stayed entirely north of Meadow Pond, with Red and Green going back and forth into the area of rocky detail.  One competitor described it as like a long “middle-distance” (meaning short, technical legs) and that's probably true.

The results featured some familiar names near the top on most courses.  Mori Finlayson won the White, Rachel Lupien the Yellow, and Neil & Dashiell Martin the Orange.  On the advanced courses, Alex Fiedler topped the Brown standings, and Alex Jospe won the Green over Kristin Hall (who was ahead of son Ethan, but give it time).  On Red, Ian Smith eked out a victory over Isak Prellner (a visiting Swede) by less than a minute, but admits to having more local knowledge.

Many thanks are due to all those who helped, including Tim Booth, Pete Frykman, Faye Doria, Mike Cooper, Kristin Hall, Richard Powers, Joanne Sankus, Ian Smith and Kelly Guarino.  Finally, Steve Carlin and his staff at the State Park deserve our gratitude – they are wonderful to work with.

Lost and found note: a nice water bottle and compass were left behind.  Contact me if either is yours.

-Tim Parson, Meet Director 

 Split times are here (courtesy of WinSplits).

Orange Red Green Brown White Yellow
Orange 4.1k
 NameClassClubTime
 
1 Neil & Dashiell Martin   NEOC 47:03
 
2 David Quinn   NEOC 71:40
 
3 David/Joel Metcalf   NEOC 72:57
 
4 Balog     73:06
 
5 Laurie Kubik   NEOC 75:47
 
6 Samantha Pova   NEOC 80:55
 
7 Josh&Jake   NEOC 81:18
 
8 Justin Kunimune     87:04
 
9 Savitri Khalsa   NEOC 89:34
 
10 Twomey + 1   NEOC 96:51
 
11 Mary Regan   NEOC 104:07
 
12 John Mitchellk   NEOC 107:49
 
13 Christopher&Rowan Dunning     110:52
 
14 Steph & Chelsea     110:57
 
15 Tom Baldwin/Howard Wack   NEOC 117:02
 
16 Izhar Sharon     135:52
 
17 Liz Brooks   NEOC 139:33
 
18 Sarah Valentine   NEOC 164:39
 
19 G Seifert   LIOC 186:20
 
  Efrat Engel +2   NEOC DNF
Red 6.5k
 NameClassClubTime
 
1 Ian Smith   CSU 54:52
 
2 Isak Prellner     55:49
 
3 Ian Finlayson   NEOC 67:08
 
4 Bo Nielsen   NEOC 71:54
 
5 J-J Cote   LROC 78:55
 
6 Clinton Morse   NEOC 80:09
 
7 Stephen Tarry     89:37
 
8 David Yee   NEOC 99:43
 
9 Earl LaVallee   WCOC 117:01
 
10 Jonathan Sou   NEOC 121:42
 
11 John Hansman   NEOC 140:43
 
  Mike Springer   NEOC DNF
 
  Tanel Alumae     DNF
 
  Pelle Wåhlström   NEOC DNF
Green 5.5k
 NameClassClubTime
 
1 Alex Jospe   CSU 56:50
 
2 Kristin Hall   NEOC 66:00
 
3 Pia Webb   CSU 67:54
 
4 Michael Cooper   NEOC 78:46
 
5 Ethan Hall   NEOC 85:12
 
6 Anne Wilkinson   NEOC 85:27
 
7 Jeffrey Schapiro   NEOC 88:11
 
8 Trisha Underwood   NEOC 97:32
 
9 Nat Mayer   COC 103:35
 
10 Michael Tallefson   NEOC 104:59
 
11 Andrew Vakhutinsky   NEOC 109:05
 
12 Nancy Duprey   UNO 116:59
 
13 Chris Bradford   NEOC 132:14
 
14 Michael Perbost   NEOC 141:40
 
15 James Brooks   NEOC 147:41
 
16 Nat Brooks   NEOC 153:43
 
17 Bill Binette   NEOC 155:34
 
18 Jeanne & Mark Hummel     156:30
 
  Richard Powers   NEOC DNF
 
  Roger Underwood   NEOC DNF
 
  William Glover&Kate Murtagh     DNF
 
  Paul Regan   NEOC DNF
Brown 3.1k
 NameClassClubTime
 
1 Alex Fiedler     47:50
 
2 Dorina Nimigean   NEOC 54:21
 
3 Isaac Shapiro   NEOC 56:54
 
4 Sylvie Guichard   NEOC 71:22
 
5 Mark Webb   CSU 75:37
 
6 Faye Doria   UNO 79:40
 
7 Peter Frykman   NEOC 82:17
 
8 Richard Shapiro   NEOC 90:55
 
9 Steve Fiedler     94:35
 
10 Xavier Fradera   NEOC 100:16
 
11 J Kwan/G Bronk/J Oppenheim   NEOC 113:22
 
12 Ruth Johnson   NEOC 125:01
 
13 John Warner     133:36
 
14 Patti Miller   NEOC 142:20
 
15 Hop Holmberg   NEOC 143:05
 
16 M Commons   NEOC 147:01
 
  Jim Markiewicz     DNF
 
  Michael Dwyer   NEOC DNF
 
  Tim Booth   NEOC DNF
White 1.6k
 NameClassClubTime
 
1 Mori Finlayson   NEOC 18:10
 
2 Wesley McCarty     19:28
 
3 Emmitt Cook     19:38
 
4 Leah Greebey/Rob Gruben     22:33
 
5 Sierra Springer     23:04
 
6 Clara Stram     23:05
 
7 Sahara & Orion     24:16
 
8 Lily Springer   NEOC 24:33
 
9 Tom And Drew Tobin     27:55
 
10 James Sperry + 2     29:45
 
11 Rich Desalvo     40:29
 
12 Sugarman Family     44:16
 
13 D, V, S &N Turner     45:05
 
14 Cassandra Fiedler     59:38
 
15 Carrir McMillen / David Mary     209:05
Yellow 2.6k
 NameClassClubTime
 
1 Rachel Lupien   NEOC 37:11
 
2 Boyd Potts   NEOC 47:47
 
3 Jack Regan +1     51:31
 
4 Jarmo and Mika Latva-Kokko   NEOC 59:39
 
5 Terry Keegan   NEOC 59:50
 
6 Clinton&Hayden Morse   WCOC 60:13
 
7 James Sperry +2     63:13
 
8 Marsh&Westerbery   NEOC 74:58
 
9 Merick Lavallee   WCOC 79:33
 
10 Matt Villamains     96:14
 
11 Shari/Naomi Metcalf     105:00
 
  Naomi Shapiro   NEOC DNF
 
  Emmitt Cook   NEOC DNF
 
  Wesley McCarty   NEOC DNF
 
  Deardrorff (4)     DNF
 
  Betsy Fiedler   NEOC DNF
 
  Team Tobias   NEOC DNF