See event section for details.
The Results:
Women
1. Aurore Varela 530 pt
2. Laura Fuchs 460 pt
3. Jessica Auer 420 pts
4. Celine Bourdon 390 pts
5. Christine Rogers 320 pts
Men
1. Francis Falardeau 1.21.21
2. Matt Hryciuk 1.34.01
3. Timothee Govare 1:42:24
4. Andreas Rutkauskas 1:51:00
5. Michael Bole 1:51:58
(all runners with 600 pts)
Groups
1. Louis Simon Capistran / Daniel Grimard 550 pts
2. Stephane Lamy / Rakan Lamy 480 pts
3. Johnny Hlibchuk / Mohammad Passandi 470 pts
Detailed results here
+ The John Charlow Report: en français / in english
+ + more photos from the event:
+ some of the familiar faces:
John, Thomas and Francis (overall winner 2011)
Course setter Bruce Glen
+ the map of the 2011 edtions:
Thanks everyone for coming out!
Course #4, with GPS track: Really exciting terrain around control 8, welcome to the swamps! Complete results here.
Thanks to all the helpers:
Francis Falardeau designed the courses, put out the flags, and printed the maps and control descriptions, as well as keeping an eye on things around the Finish.
Gloria, with help from Bruce Glen and Sylvie Perrault, handled Registrations.
Michael Bole worked solo on the Starts until just after Noon (too bad we didn`t have one more helper to provide some relief !). He then did his 3rd place run on the #4 course.
As well as having the best run of the day, Dmitri Golovanov later spent hours record-ing `Finishers`, and along with Francis, tabulated some of the results.
Thomas Davignon helped Elaine take down the kiddies String course and Eric Christensen translated all these words for our French edition. THANK YOU, ALL !
The maps printed 2 were just barely sufficient to meet requirements. We had 54 starts, with a total participation of 104, including 20 children under 12 years of age that were accompanying their parents.
Matthew Hryciuk, a former member of the Canada’s Junior Orienteering Team, must have found the terrain and course to his liking. At an average pace of 5.2 minutes per km, he ran the 7.7 km No.3 course, with its 23 controls, in 0:40:02, well head of the other 13 entrants. Dmitri Golovanov was 2nd in 0:48:58 and Stefan Schmutterer (a visiting orienteer from Germany) was 3rd in 0:50:36. Jessica Auer was the fastest woman, finishing ‘the Long’ in 1:00:31.
Glen and Susie Wight had a great run on the 4.2 km No.2 Course, covering the 14-control circuit in just 0:37:12. Marc and Sylvie Davignon/Perrault were 2nd in 0:48:18 Thomas Davignon came 3rd, just 28 seconds behind his parents. Caroline Leger had the best time amongst the ladies and was 4th overall in 0:49:30. The course had 26 participants, not including the 15 who did it with the Long Course.
Susan Nerberg, recently from Sweden, partnered with Alejandro Palavecino to com-plete the 3 km easiest course, in a fast 0:35:45. Denise OBriain was 2nd in 0:45:40 (while shepherding her two young boys, ages 6 and 4, around the course). The Marc Butz family of five was just 14 seconds behind her. There were 12 starts on the course, the average taking about one hour.
Thanks to those who helped at the event!
The calendar for the fall season is out – check the events page for details.
The Canadian Orienteering Federation has created an online map archive (called DOMA), available to all Canadian orienteers. DOMA allows you to share your orienteering maps after your race. Simply scan/photograph your map (with or without your route), and upload it to the archive.
If you would like a DOMA account send an email to doma@orienteering.ca with your full name and email address (you must be full members of a provincial orienteering associations).
The archive is available here:
DOMA for all Canadian orienteers
For elite runners, there is a separate archive:
DOMA for Elite Runners (High Performance Program athletes)
Below the GPS track by Mike Daoust (Long, 1:19:54).
Detailed results and report are here!
Some great orienteering events will take place not far from Montreal in 2011. Among others, two US championships are in within driving distance (Williamstown, NY and Boston, MA). A season highlight will be the Ontario Championships in Carp near Ottawa, which will be held in the same terrain as last year’s COC (October 8-9). Closer to home: The Laurentian Rogaine is scheduled for May 7 and September 10. For details check the event page.
With the temperature just above freezing and the sky overcast, we didn’t really expect a big turnout at this end-of-season event…and unfortunately, we had assumed correctly. A few days earlier, when we hung the flags, new snow had been wonderfully fluffy, the air was crisp and a bright sun had been shining down on us. The Arboretum was showing her glorious best. But, winter can be very fickle and her moods can change quickly.
In the end, the snow for the ‘Shoeing event was quite good. For the Ski-O it was satisfactory for some and passable for others. There was good snow coverage but waxing was definitely a problem. Those with the right wax – or with waxless skis – did well.
The winners (long courses): Francis Falardeau on ski, Jennifer O‘Connell on snowshoes. Detailed results here (pdf)
