Saturday was Backwoods Orienteering’s (the local club) first A-meet in a couple years, and it was my first A-meet ever. There were a ton of people — in fact, a bus of cadets from West Point made the 12+ drive down to race.

I had gotten a minor stomach bug on Thursday, but strong enough to make me not want to eat much, and that was apparent for me early in the race. I ended up walking a lot more than I had hoped, which is of course evident in my time. My navigation was ok, but not great. There were 20 controls, and I was spot-on on at least 1/2 of them. But there is always one or two that mess me up. I must have gone by one about 5 or 6 times, all within 10-15 feet of it, including running right by it on my entrance to the area, but it was low in a ditch. Problem was there were about 20 ditches all right there so i spent at least 10 minutes looking through that area. 😦

My knee handled the 2+ hours fine, but my legs were pretty dead, so, like I said, I did walk a lot.

Here are the results. I am amazed at the winning time!

Red M (27) 7.5 km 330 m 20 C

1 Andras Revesz 62 DVOA M45 65:45
2 Randy Hall 65 DVOA M40 72:20
3 Istvan Nagy 60 DVOA M45 78:11
4 Nadim Ahmed 61 QOC M45 78:15
5 Dylan Thies 87 HOC M20 85:20
6 Josef Trzicky 59 COK M45 85:41
7 Gabriel Svobodny 90 MVOC M20 87:18
8 Neal Trump 87 USMAOC M20 89:33
9 Justin Lane 88 QOC M20 94:01
10 James Lingar 59 QOC M45 95:12
11 Thomas Svobodny 58 MVOC M45 96:38
12 Artem Kazantsev 67 BOK M40 99:17
13 Vladimir Stemkovski 74 BOK MR 99:20
14 Dale Helm 89 QOC M20 99:53
15 Aleks Peterson 90 QOC M20 101:12
16 Linda Kohn 50 ROC MR 111:36
17 William Corkey 73 BOK MR 113:49
18 Patrick Downie 71 BOK M35 114:23
19 Charles Martz 72 COK M35 117:16
20 Benjamin Bruder 83 USMAOC MR 118:33
21 Jeff Porter 67 CAOC M40 120:28
22 Sean Butler 70 BOK M35 124:59
23 Rick Worner 47 ROC M45 130:50
24 Scott Drumm 65 CROC M40 138:30
25 Ken. Hanson 65 BOK M40 140:50
26 Donna Fluegel 59 WCOC MR 171:30

nc Barbara Bryant 62 TOC M45 117:38