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Yankee Springs
May 22

Meet Director Mike Keating Assisted by Joe Burkhead

The morning started out foggy with wet woods, but the conditions got better and better as the day progressed. By mid-afternoon it was a beautiful sunny day with dry woods. For the most part the courses were laid out through nice open woods, which made for great orienteering. A couple of people, Chris Svoboda and Rich Gaylord, from the Chicago Orienteering Club came over to enjoy the excellent orienteering terrain at Yankee Springs.

Mark Voit had a clean run on Red to finish first with a time of 60 minutes 31 seconds. Dave Eaton was second at 64 minutes and 39 seconds. On Green, Roddy Wares finished first in 95 minutes 32 seconds, followed by Pat Murad in 102 minutes 47 seconds. On Orange, Chuck Newman was first in 75 minutes 15 seconds followed by Tim Bulten in 100 minutes 50 seconds. On Yellow, the Rioux Force Team (Mikala and Johnny) were first in 52 minutes 24 seconds followed by Brett and Robin Baker in 56 minutes 40 seconds. On White, the Salinda & Koert team was first in 44 minutes 53 seconds followed by Christina Zinn in 54 minutes 40 seconds. This was Christina’s first orienteering experience and after further instruction she also went back out and successfully completed the Yellow course.

Thanks going to the following: Mary Jean Keating and Joe Burkhead for assisting with registration, and to Joe Burkhead for providing orienteering instruction and also helping with control and sign pickup; Pat Murad for providing orienteering instruction; Mikala Rioux, Mark Voit, Alex Izzo, Dave Eaton, and Rick Waldo for helping with control pickup. Also acknowledgements to the Chicago people, Chris Svoboda and Rich Gaylord, who volunteered to help with control pickup and stayed around to make sure we didn’t need any other help.

There were a number of kids on the teams that did the White and Yellow courses and they appeared to have a fun time. Many of the runners, especially those that did the Red Course, stayed around and had lively discussions on their route choices. It was a really enjoyable day.