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Topic created by WindWalker on Sun Dec 4, 2011 at 7:12 pmAnother beautiful day for chasing controls.
I finally got through an event without any real substantial screw ups.
I will say the green was GREEN. And I made some less than ideal choices, good day for donating blood.
Thanks for the tour of the park.
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Reply by edscott on Sun Dec 4, 2011 at 7:49 pmThanks Clem for a very enjoyable and relatively briar free Brown Course. Is it my imagination or is Ridley opening up just a little bit?
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Reply by FredR on Sun Dec 4, 2011 at 7:52 pmWell, it's either clever course design or the park is opening up, or something in between. Red was more open than I recalled from past Ridley events. Nice day all around.
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Reply by Sandy on Sun Dec 4, 2011 at 8:15 pmI posted results and splits a little while ago. I'm not sure why but the course lengths for some of the courses got truncated in the results file. The correct course lengths are in the splits file however.
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Reply by rgbortz on Sun Dec 4, 2011 at 8:58 pmAgreed ! I can only speek for the green course, but this was the most enjoyable Ridley course as far back as my memory can take me and I've run many, many courses here over the last 25 years. Very few spots that the briars were a holdup, and the choice to go through them was not even necessary as the course setter left options. Thanks for a great day all around Clem and Dasha.
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Reply by Tom-O on Sun Dec 4, 2011 at 9:30 pmI echo the previous comments. Thanks Dasha & Clem for a very enjoyable day in the woods!
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Reply by Dasha on Sun Dec 4, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Thanks!
We were fortunate to have a wonderful group of helpers without whom this meet would not have happened.
First of all, thank you to Mary Frank for working with Ridley Creek State Park to secure permissions. Despite some changes in management, and the road race taking place on the same day, she made everything work.
Thank you to Tim Walsh, Mary Frank, and Ron Bortz for coordinating and delivering the event and e-punching kit for this meet.
Starting with registration, thank you to Eugene and Cindy. A special thanks to Cindy Humphries, who not only is a complete beginner volunteer, actually has not orienteered before. And she worked so hard at registration, which, with 230 people, was quite a scene, that she couldn’t even get out on a course. Needless to say, we look forward to welcoming Cindy out to the woods on many occasions. We hope that Cindy can join us at Brandywine next week.
Epunch crew: Sandy Fillebrown, Ed Niemann, and Jim Eagleton for working the e-punch. A very special thank you to Sandy Fillebrown for making this event a success: Sandy printed maps, helped to seal the maps, set-up all of the event courses for e-punch, helped running epunch for most of the day, and concluded by then posting results in her usual remarkably fast manner.
More thanks to Dave Urban and especially to Tom Overbaugh for sage beginner instruction. We had a great turnout, and it was wonderful to see so many beginners. Tom was doing instruction for most of the day.
A great thank you to Deb Sammans, Kolya Babushok, and Eugene for staffing the start.
And last but not least thanks to Ron Bortz, Eric Weyman, Ron Wood, Dan Barker, Zack Barker, and Jim Eagleton for sticking around and helping with control pick-up. It took a lot of help to be collect all of the controls before dark, and before the park closing time at 4:30pm.
Thanks to all of you for making this meet a success!
We hope to see you all at the next meet!
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Reply by yoyonateo on Sun Dec 4, 2011 at 11:44 pmcourses were great and took advantage of the nice woods. you can tell there was time put into where the course setter wanted you to go. awesome course with some awesome route choice. cant wait to see routegadget
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Reply by markwalsh on Mon Dec 5, 2011 at 1:24 amGreat weather and nice course. Thanks for not dragging us through some of those really dense sticker patches. I am a little dissapointed that we didn't have to get our feet wet crossing the creek like last year.
Terrain, park layout, and control placement required little usage of the compass for most of the red course.
Roads and trails seemed well mapped and accurate. Helped alot to have run it once last year as well.
Thanks to all volunteers who continue to make DVOA events top notch must run events.
-Mark
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Reply by Sandy on Mon Dec 5, 2011 at 10:56 amI found a route choice (maybe not the best one?) that had me crossing a knee deep creek. You should have come my way!
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Reply by Guy-O on Mon Dec 5, 2011 at 11:45 amI guess I have not run at Ridley enough to know when a course is lighter on thorns than usual. This Green course, though, was no worse than other venues at which I've run this season -- including Star Village and Missouri.
One disconcerting aspect was uncertainly regarding the reliability of mapped trails, and the actual thickness/thorniness of mapped vegetation. Particularly bothersome was what I encounted when leaving Green #1, but only that was really bad in terms of affecting direction of movement -- plus blood loss. After that, I became more inclined to leave the control the way I had approached it. Even more so after #s 2-5.
That said, based on other comments, I guess it could have been much worse. Thanks, Clem & Dasha! -
Reply by Vadim on Mon Dec 5, 2011 at 3:15 pmCongratulations to Clem and Dasha for having one of the biggest local events this year. Well done, nice courses, perfect weather.
And thank you to all the volunteers who made this event go smooth. Your help is greatly appreciated.
