Despite a torrential rain the day before, Sunday May 19th was a beautiful day. This event was designed to be easy to run and relatively short, so that the club picnic could take place afterwards. We also wanted to have a course for beginners. So, we planned to have a Score-O and a White course. Michael Hughes [and Paige Williams] designed the courses, and came prepared with pre-printed maps. Sixty-three people attended, including many members of Scout Troop 56 from Wilmington. The top three White runners completed the course in 20:05, 23:09 and 24:00 minutes. The Score-O results show the different strategies that people used (how many tried to pick up high score controls versus low score controls) and the results of those strategies (thanks to Paige Williams for compiling these results in this detailed form). James Trasker, who ended up with the most points, actually picked up [all] 8 of the low point controls, and that was the main thing that distinguished him from some of the other top runners.

We offered free orienteering to all those who joined NEOC that day, and garnered six new members.

Thanks go to: Peter Amram, for helping to set out and pick up some of the controls; to Dean Sturtevant, for helping to pick up controls on the day of the event, after just doing a 50-mile bike ride; to Joanne Sankus, whose help with planning, starts, and a lot of other things was invaluable; and to Margaret Miller, who did a great job of registering people and helping to enroll the new members.