The New England Orienteering Club

Prospect Hill, Waltham, MA
October 2, 2010
Meet Directors: Joel Gould & Scott Meeks

October 2nd was a gorgeous fall day in New England and we had a very good turnout with about 125 people participating. Because of the park’s compact size, steep terrain, and significant overgrowth, it can be a challenge to design courses that are simple and not too strenuous for beginners alongside courses that challenge the experts without being boring. The interesting features and beautiful overlooks of Prospect Hill make this a particularly rewarding challenge. Joel managed to design the yellow, orange and green courses so that they all shared the water stop at the overlook with the best view of the Boston skyline. We felt that having this control on the white course would make it too challenging, but Joel was able to substitute a somewhat lesser view that was more accessible.
This was Scott’s first meet and Joel’s first meet with e-punching, so it was a very interesting learning experience for both of them. The e-punch process and equipment were well organized and we had just enough e-punches that no one had to wait for one to be returned. All participants returned safely (barring a twisted ankle and few cuts and scrapes) and seemed to enjoy themselves. All in all, everything went very smoothly.
Successful events would be impossible without the many volunteers who generously give of their time. We would like to thank Michael Commons, Patty Miller, Nat & Liz Brooks, Dianna ben-Aaron, and the Olin trio, Amos Meeks, Cypress Frankenfeld, and Kelsey Breseman. We would like to give special thanks to Joanne Sankus and Jim Paschetto for almost single-handedly running the epunch starts and finishes, and, finally, to our wives Daphne Gould and Caroline Meeks both for helping at the meet and for putting up with us while we were putting it together. And, of course, to anyone we inadvertently left out, our thanks and sincere apologies.


Joel's photos from the meet are available on his site.

Split times for e-punch entrants available here (courtesy of Winsplits).

Use RouteGadget (in the Results menu above) to draw your route and see others' routes.

White 1.7k

Name Club Time
1 G. Faucher & T. Tenney +1
23:18
2 Duncan & Wiley
31:15
3 Team Grayhound (3)
31:18
4 Isaac Shapiro NEOC 37:44
5 Joanne Sankus NEOC 40:28
6 Gil Shapiro NEOC 51:32
7 Latva-Kokko Family NEOC 55:36
8 Dianna ben-Aaron
222:21
Yellow 2.2k

Name Club Time
1 Karianne Taylor + 1
29:19
2 Cypress Frankenfeld
40:20
3 Karen Wilcox
47:54
4 Andrea Whitcomb NEOC 54:56
5 Carlin Meeks NEOC 55:23
6 Marina Afonkina
57:45
7 Matt & Mitchell Carson
60:09
8 Heather & Sacha Panic
62:11
9 Francine Eladhari
66:06
10 Luis Luis NEOC 72:31
11 Patti Miller & Michael Commons NEOC 76:43
12 Amy Ann Max Schapiro NEOC 79:35
13 Judy Lloyd +1
102:51
14 Debra Steele & Sarah Curley
156:57
Orange 3.7k

Name Club Time
1 Jim Paschetto NEOC 45:01
2 David Miller NEOC 51:35
3 Mark Webb CSU 51:52
4 Amy Teasdale
63:48
5 Devin Harper
63:52
6 Caroline Lius NEOC 66:44
7 Paul Yannetti
72:16
8 Ann Harrer NEOC 75:39
9 Daphne Gould NEOC 76:06
10 Leslie Means +1
86:16
11 Sara Bellini NEOC 86:42
12 Ruth Johnson NEOC 91:35
13 Tom Livak & Mikal Rosendahl
93:04
14 Kathy L. Kelley NEOC 93:47
15 Olaf & Mette Tabur NEOC 94:04
16 Ed Hurley NEOC 97:07
17 Richard Shapiro NEOC 102:53
18 Jo Seibel NEOC 107:27
19 Hop Holmberg NEOC 111:02
20 David & Sheelagh Kelly
111:08
21 Kathy Girard NEOC 116:53
22 Diane Menzies NEOC 138:27
23 Liz Brooks NEOC 145:56
24 Valerie Murray NEOC 148:49
25 Robert & Barbara Peary NEOC 155:17
26 Paul Windt +4
155:53
27 Troop 9 (6 runners)
198:05

David & Zakwani Gibbs NEOC DNF

Karl & Jessie Jacobsen
DNF

Ken Menzies +5
DNF

Janet Bostrom
DNF

Richard Powers
DNF
Green 5.3k

Name Club Time
1 Ian Finlayson NEOC 51:55
2 Dave Dunham NEOC/UNO 57:48
3 Bill Pullman NEOC 58:36
4 Vadim Afonkin CSU 60:56
5 Jeff Schapiro NEOC 61:38
6 Dan Westerberg NEOC 64:28
7 Magnus Bjorkman NEOC 67:05
8 Neil Bostrom
72:35
9 Mika Latva-Kokko NEOC 73:36
10 Ames Meeks NEOC 74:08
11 Bob Dangel NEOC 74:18
12 Bo Nielsen NEOC 84:31
13 Kelly Guarino NEOC 89:33
14 Gary Gallagher NEOC 90:49
15 Stephen van Ness NEOC 93:25
16 Andy McIlvaine NEOC 95:52
17 Keith Durand CSU 101:57
18 Garvin Louie & Nate Strong
107:43
19 Jacob Pretorius
111:58
20 Aaron & Ethan Aaker
111:59
21 Jim Crawford NEOC 112:54
22 Andrew Vakhutinsky NEOC 119:39
23 Martin Kessel NEOC 123:49
24 Jakob Haldorsen NEOC 125:19
25 Chris Noon NEOC 129:43
26 Steve Kellogg NEOC 133:23
27 Dan Goodwin NEOC 149:25
28 David Lloyd LIOC 233:19

Kelsey Breseman COC DNF

Cameron Murray NEOC DNF

Nat Brooks NEOC DNF

Peter St.John NEOC DNF

Pia K Webb CSU DNF

Gavin Braithwaite
DNF