Camp Timberhill at Rentschler Forest MetroPark
December 31, 2020 – January 2, 2021
Course
Setter – Mike Minium
Co-sponsored by MetroParks
of Butler County
Thanks to all volunteers who helped with
this event.
Mike Minium –
Course Setting, Site Setup and Registration
Matthew Robbins – Results / Download
Laurie Sydzyik
and Bob Frey – Beginner Instruction
Guy Olsen – Registration
Beth MacLehose
– Route Gadget
Stephanie Ross, Ben Hart, Chiori Shimizu, Shin Shimizu, Amy Lamborg,
Joey Richey, Katrina Young – Control Pickup
OCIN Route Gadget website – Draw
or upload your route!
Night course
– It was a chilly evening with temperatures hovering around freezing, with a
dusting of snow lingering from early that morning. Skies were partly cloudy, and a waning
gibbous moon made a beautiful appearance about an hour after dark. There were
29 controls – about half were white to easy yellow difficulty but some of the
remaining ones proved to be quite challenging.
Due to COVID restrictions, we didn’t have our usual indoor space and
party, but we did have a nice roaring fire in the fireplace of the outdoor
shelter. We’d asked everybody to finish
by 9:45 and be out of the park by 10, and had no problems meeting that goal.
New Year’s Day
– Are we sure it is not still 2020?
Freezing rain coated roads to the north of the event site, and more than
a dozen people called or emailed to say they were not coming because of icy
roads. At the park, it was just rain,
but gradually getting heavier. As people
started to arrive, they were commenting on water flooding over a culvert on the
park entrance road. The water rapidly
deepened, and soon park rangers were on the scene, and it wasn’t long before
they closed the road and started turning people away. By that time, we had 11 starts and 17 people
out on the courses. So
they ran and we waited, while the water rose.
Meantime, park officials agreed to a decision to allow the meet to
repeat the next day, so we sent notices to everybody to try again on Saturday.
One
control on green and red courses was across a small creek that had turned into
a deep raging torrent. Most orienteers
decided that the risk to life and limb outweighed the value of punching that
control, but red runners Dylan Poe and Bill Donnelly both made the decision to
cross, and fortunately both survived the attempt. All other runners on green and red were given
credit for completing the course if that was the only control that they
skipped; Dylan and Bill still had faster completion times.
Finishers started to return from the
courses, and by then the rain had diminished and the flood was receding. Some finishers had to wait for a short time
before being allowed to leave the park, but after a few minutes, a ranger drove
through in a Humvee and decided that it was shallow enough to let higher
clearance vehicles leave. Eventually, we
got everyone back alive, and by the time the final volunteers (Mike and
Matthew) left, the water over the road had been reduced to a sheet just an inch
or two deep.
However, some pavement damage and undercutting erosion was noted, so
future road repair will have to be in the MetroParks
budget.
January 2
– The rerun day was nicer – cool, cloudy, and damp. Most of the northerners who had cancelled out
on New Year’s Day made it down and had a great time on the courses. We used up the rest of the firewood, and the
warmth was appreciated as much by event volunteers as the damp and tired
finishers. Plenty of help made quick
work of control pickup, and we had everything picked up and were out of the
park just after 4:30.
Results
by Course:
Night
Score Course – Dec 31
Score (23) |
29 C 1350
Points |
3:00:00 |
Place |
Name |
Team Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Points |
Penalty |
Score |
1 |
Jasper Ralinovsky |
OCIN |
Junior M |
1:00:02 |
1350 |
1350 |
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2 |
Mathieu Sertorio |
OCIN-TJ79 |
Adult M |
1:00:54 |
1350 |
1350 |
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3 |
Sam Richardson |
OCIN |
Junior M |
1:06:02 |
1350 |
1350 |
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4 |
Rob Minto |
ICO |
Adult M |
1:13:05 |
1350 |
1350 |
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5 |
Jim Benton |
OCIN |
Adult M |
1:17:33 |
1350 |
1350 |
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6 |
Caden Lyerly Courtney Lyerly |
OCIN |
Group |
1:37:05 |
1350 |
1350 |
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7 |
Brenda Blacklock |
ICO |
Adult F |
2:10:01 |
1350 |
1350 |
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8 |
Michael Darby |
OCIN |
Adult M |
2:15:20 |
1350 |
1350 |
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9 |
Matthew Robbins |
OCIN |
Adult M |
2:20:20 |
1350 |
1350 |
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10 |
Robert Darby |
OCIN |
Adult M |
2:21:37 |
1350 |
1350 |
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11 |
Shane Dawalt |
OCIN |
Adult M |
2:50:58 |
1350 |
1350 |
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12 |
Dave Robinson |
OCIN |
Adult M |
2:52:33 |
1350 |
1350 |
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13 |
Kevin Mitchell |
OCIN |
Adult M |
2:52:46 |
1350 |
1350 |
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14 |
Tim Rouse |
OCIN |
Adult M |
2:58:01 |
1290 |
1290 |
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15 |
Bill Donnelly |
OCIN |
Adult M |
2:30:55 |
1220 |
1220 |
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16 |
Mimi Ruwe Ray Scheidler |
OCIN |
Adult Grp |
2:14:33 |
1160 |
1160 |
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17 |
Amy Lamborg Sue Seplela
Mark Sepela |
OCIN |
Adult Grp |
2:26:48 |
1110 |
1110 |
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18 |
Laurie Sydzyik |
OCIN |
Adult F |
2:50:19 |
1060 |
1060 |
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19 |
Daniel Penman |
OCIN |
Adult M |
2:47:42 |
1000 |
1000 |
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20 |
Samuel Penman |
OCIN |
Junior M |
3:03:15 |
1100 |
-120 |
980 |
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21 |
Jacob Rodeheffer |
OCIN |
Adult M |
1:00:50 |
810 |
810 |
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22 |
Karen Rekos Dave Lane |
OCIN |
Adult Grp |
1:00:08 |
760 |
760 |
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23 |
Mark Richardson |
None |
Adult Grp |
2:38:34 |
740 |
740 |
New
Year’s Day – Jan 1
1 White (1) |
1.6 km |
15
Controls |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
2 |
Jinda Lex Ben
Bowerman |
WO |
47:11 |
0:00 |
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2 Yellow (1) |
2.3 km |
14 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
42 |
Rex Settlemoir |
YO |
42:57 |
0:00 |
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3 Orange (2) |
4.8 km |
17 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
49 |
Hochscheid Hamblin |
OTO |
dnf |
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48 |
Scott Eberwine |
OM |
dnf |
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4 Brown (1) |
2.4 km |
13 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
47 |
Troop 990 |
BrnG |
dnf |
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5 Green (3) |
4.8 km |
17 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
10 |
Michael Darby |
GrnM |
2:10:57 |
0:00 |
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2 |
45 |
Laurie Sydzyik |
GrnF |
2:35:35 |
+24:38 |
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19 |
Ann Griessmann |
GrnF |
dnf |
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6 Red (3) |
6.7 km |
19 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
30 |
Dylan Poe |
RedM |
1:31:05 |
0:00 |
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2 |
27 |
Paul Merchak |
RedM |
2:22:53 |
+51:48 |
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3 |
11 |
Bill Donnelly |
RedM |
2:56:25 |
+1:25:20 |
January 2
(same courses as Jan 1)
1 White (4) |
1.6 km |
15
Controls |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
5 |
Gavin Burkhead |
27:27 |
0:00 |
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2 |
17 |
Gastrich Family |
34:07 |
+6:40 |
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3 |
50 |
Camille Jones |
1:04:39 |
+37:12 |
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57 |
Alex Eriksson |
mp |
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2 Yellow (7) |
2.3 km |
14 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
12 |
Alex Eriksson |
21:43 |
0:00 |
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2 |
28 |
Samuel Penman |
34:44 |
+13:01 |
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3 |
7 |
Rebecca Burkhead |
39:45 |
+18:02 |
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4 |
56 |
Steve Brown |
40:04 |
+18:21 |
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5 |
49 |
Nancy Griffiths |
50:47 |
+29:04 |
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6 |
51 |
The Mitros |
52:48 |
+31:05 |
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7 |
31 |
Julie Puckett |
1:00:11 |
+38:28 |
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3 Orange (2) |
4.8 km |
17 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
41 |
Tim Rouse |
1:36:12 |
0:00 |
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48 |
Isis Espinosa Ernesto Morales |
dnf |
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4 Brown (9) |
2.4 km |
13 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
25 |
Warren Mandrell |
30:52 |
0:00 |
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2 |
26 |
Thomas Martineau |
39:34 |
+8:42 |
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3 |
22 |
Amy Lamborg |
40:58 |
+10:06 |
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4 |
18 |
Bill Greenwell |
43:04 |
+12:12 |
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5 |
16 |
Robert Frey |
44:05 |
+13:13 |
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6 |
38 |
Matthew Robbins |
44:44 |
+13:52 |
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7 |
52 |
Daniel Penman |
57:52 |
+27:00 |
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8 |
54 |
Rex Settlemoir |
1:12:45 |
+41:53 |
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9 |
29 |
Gayle Pille |
1:30:06 |
+59:14 |
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5 Green (6) |
4.8 km |
17 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
20 |
Benjamin Hart |
57:10 |
0:00 |
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2 |
40 |
Stephanie Ross |
1:12:03 |
+14:53 |
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3 |
43 |
Chiori Shimizu |
1:12:52 |
+15:42 |
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4 |
58 |
Scott Eberwine |
2:03:30 |
+1:06:20 |
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5 |
39 |
Dave Robinson |
2:06:43 |
+1:09:33 |
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6 |
55 |
Katrina Young |
2:27:34 |
+1:30:24 |
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6 Red (7) |
6.7 km |
19 C |
Place |
Stno |
Name |
Club |
Class |
Time |
Diff. |
1 |
13 |
Mattias Eriksson |
1:02:14 |
0:00 |
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2 |
6 |
Joseph Burkhead |
1:22:17 |
+20:03 |
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3 |
1 |
Jim Benton |
1:30:56 |
+28:42 |
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4 |
53 |
Joseph Richey |
1:34:42 |
+32:28 |
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5 |
44 |
Shin Shimizu |
1:45:03 |
+42:49 |
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6 |
24 |
Jonathan Madden |
1:55:52 |
+53:38 |
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34 |
Jasper Ralinovsky |
mp |
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(Valley View, December 19, 2020)
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