Prospect Hill

 

Prospect Hill Park
Waltham, MA
October 5, 2003
Pelle Wåhlström, Event Director

A beautiful early October day guaranteed a good attendance at Prospect Hill. From the waiver sheets I counted 186 people participating and that doesn't count a number of scouts and scout leaders. The town of Waltham has upgraded this swath of woods during the last years. This seems to be finished now and most of these changes were on the map. The Prospect Hill map is now on OCAD (thanks to Dennis Struble). The OCAD map is based on the old map + the updated map that the Gould family created some years ago + updates from the 2 last years. This was the first time we were using the new map. It still needs corrections, but this is so much easier now.

There were many e-mails before a meet. Most of these were from new people that wanted to learn about orienteering and some of them from different scout groups that wanted to participate in the meet. I think our web site makes us more visible to people since a lot of new people clearly got their information from it. True enough there were a number of new people at the race. This generated a number of new member applications at the race.

Unfortunately the race was hit by an accident. Susan Federer broke her ankle while running down a steep slope on Green. She could no longer walk and we had to get her with a car on the other side of the park.

The courses seemed to work well in general. However, I wonder if Orange was too difficult since a number of people didn't finish it. This was also true for Green, but in that case a number of people stopped running in order to help Susan Federer.

Thanks for all the helpers that made this meet a successful one: Dennis Struble at setup and first starts, the Fleming family at registration and setup. The Gould family helped with registration, start and instruction, Patti Miller with instruction, Pete Beckwith and Bob Dangel at finish.

White -- 1.4km -- 40m
Sam Bryan NEOC 20:25
Tom Bryan NEOC 21:55
Michael Melaan 22:42
Conner Tingle 22:43
Stephen Koehler NEOC 22:50
Miak, Saaya, Rie &
Kris Maeda
23:40
H & M Ames NEOC 25:17
Thomas Hyde 25:35
Meg Parson NEOC 27:10
Bill Tharson 30:02
Chris Stearns 30:15
Amos Meeks NEOC 31:53
Crawford/Fang Family NEOC 32:30
Ceire Fleming NEOC 33:22
Linden Kids 33:35
Canaday 33:35
Andrea Whitcomb 37:42
Ben Parson NEOC 42:22
Emma Henderson 45:01
Omry Meiran 45:01
Mark Tasia Spencer
& Amy Kellogg
45:48
Gan Family 49:52
Kathleen Cavey &
Family
52:00
Natasha Hawke 57:16
Ido Dinnar NEOC 68:10
Shai Dinnar NEOC 68:10
Gil Dinnar NEOC 68:10
Connor Levine 73:12
Tone Rosenberg 74:23
Elaine Markopoulos, Dawn Sleeper & Mike Commons 80:20
Nicole Kocklen DNF

Yellow course -- 2.5 km -- 70m climb
Ben Gould NEOC 29:31
Jeffrey Tingle 38:05
Daphne Gould NEOC 42:57
Will Lin 44:12
Rachel Koehler NEOC 44:20
Johana + Gabe Bronk 48:20
Mike, Rie, Saaya and
Kris Maeda
51:15
C. Ames & C. Woolworth NEOC 54:28
Luis Luis et al NEOC 60:25
Fitzsimmons 61:50
Tanya NEOC 68:50
Bill Thasion 71:15
Hodge Team NEOC 77:05
Sean & Dan Deshaies Boy Scout Troup 77 77:35
Elaine Markopoulos Dawn Sleeper 83:25
Haupt/Cincotta 83:30
Peter & Shan Brent 85:25
P Rubel, S Rubel 85:58
Scouttroup A 94:02
Paul Wins + 2 scout
leaders
107:10
Isaiah Shalon CSU DNF

Orange -- 3.6 km --120m climb
Martin Gamache NEOC 50:12
Joel Gould NEOC 57:31
Chris Noon NEOC 58:30
Tal Dinnar NEOC 61:44
Carla Vey NEOC 62:08
Olaf Tabur UNO 71:01
Ann Harrer 72:00
Dave Kehs 76:02
Kate O’Brien NEOC 77:25
Tom + Pat Cronin NEOC 77:40
Tom Livak/Mykal
Rosendahl
77:50
Patrice Miller NEOC 79:20
Johnston 83:30
Pete Beckwith NEOC-MQ 86:17
Steve Feldman NEOC 100:03
John Marold NEOC 103:20
John Mitchell 112:50
Mette Tabur UNO 115:20
Jonathan Rosenfield NEOC 119:10
Adam Srar 124:15
Samanghe Munasinghe 125:24
O’Conor Family NEOC 140:40
Diane Monzies NEOC 143:35
Johnson/Grunbetz DNF
Susan Jaster NEOC DNF
Judith Meskill DNF
Kathleen Walsh NEOC DNF
Westerberg DNF
Stephen A. van Ness NEOC DSQ
Alex Brooks NEOC DNF
Rovert A. Brown & Melita Quesada DNF
Kevin Johnson DNF
Nicholas
Commons-Miller
NEOC DNF

Green -- 4.5 km -- 200 m climb
Mikkel Conradi (ran orange too) NEOC/CSV 49:39
Stephen Tarry Tufts Mtn Club 49:57
Tim Parson NEOC-MQ 52:51
Timmy Reif NEARA 53:15
Grant Staats EMPO 60:50
Andy Stuart NEOC 72:25
Peter Frykman NEOC 73:03
Nancy Koehler NEOC 75:10
Cristina Luis NEOC 83:12
Ken Krutt NEOC 84:37
John Lefebvre NEOC 85:50
David Miller NEOC 95:45
Alex Izzo NEOC 96:40
Sam Levitin NEOC 96:43
Bill Littlewood NEOC 99:02
Pete Lane NEOC 102:33
Bob+Doug Kirschner NEOC 110:30
John Hess NEOC 119:30
Andres Vesilind KAPE 128:24
Triin Tammearu 129:02
Brookwiers 129:30
W Scott Meeks NEOC 132:00
Janet Ryan NEOC 184:00
Nat Brooks NEOC DNF
Jim Paschetto NEOC DSQ
Ruth Johnson NEOC DSQ
John G Auch DNF
Peter Amram NEOC DNF
Dennis Struble NEOC DNF
Suzanne Federer UNO DNF
Cline DNF
Jonathan Sheffter,
Anders Newman
DNF
Stephen van Ness NEOC DNF
David Stuart NEOC DSQ