About 40 orienteers decided to start the new year in the best possible way: by running a fun single-person relay course at Bond park in Cary. This has been a tradition for a long time: it was usually Josef Trzicky who organized these for us. Sadly, he passed away earlier this year, but his legacy of relays lives on.
The forest was quite wet from the rain the day before, but otherwise it was very open and inviting. The meet director decided to compensate for the openness by placing the controls fairly low. This didn’t pose any challenge to the winner, Brendan Shields, who completed both laps in just over 34 minutes! Congratulations to him!
Everybody finished within the time limit and we even had time to chat over some cake and cookies. It was great to see some out-of-town people who came visiting for the holidays. Thanks to all who came!
Thanks to Dave, Paul, Ian, Matt and Silas for their help with control pickup. Special thanks to my brother-in-law for his help with logistics on the morning of the event.
Results
| 1 | Brendan Shields | 34:04 | 7200461 | ||
| 2 | Joseph Stevens | 36:35 | +2:31 | 1120890 | |
| 3 | Gheorghe Fala | 37:09 | +3:05 | 8400555 | |
| 4 | Ilia Neudakhin | 37:45 | +3:41 | 2005032 | |
| 5 | Matt Craig | 38:41 | +4:37 | 7000530 | |
| 6 | Vladimir Stemkovski | 41:02 | +6:58 | 2005151 | |
| 7 | Carteret 05 | 41:22 | +7:18 | 2121507 | |
| 8 | Lori Huberman | 41:50 | +7:46 | 2005006 | |
| 9 | Silas and Matt Kirk | 41:55 | +7:51 | 2114156 | |
| 10 | Karen Strat | 44:26 | +10:22 | 1120900 | |
| 11 | Sam Coradetti | BAOC | 44:39 | +10:35 | 7200411 |
| 12 | Mihai Ibanescu | 46:59 | +12:55 | 2005141 | |
| 13 | Carl Briscoe | 49:23 | +15:19 | 7991965 | |
| 14 | Varvara Vedukhina | 50:32 | +16:28 | 2005031 | |
| 15 | Carteret 02 | 51:37 | +17:33 | 2121504 | |
| 16 | Nadia Scharlau | 53:13 | +19:09 | 2005018 | |
| 17 | Carteret 01 | 54:17 | +20:13 | 2121503 | |
| 18 | Tom Strat | 54:22 | +20:18 | 255406 | |
| 19 | Carteret 09 | 55:41 | +21:37 | 2121511 | |
| 20 | Nadine Leisgang | 56:24 | +22:20 | 2026367 | |
| 21 | Joseph Huberman | 60:37 | +26:33 | 2005005 | |
| 22 | Adalia Schafrath-Craig | 61:05 | +27:01 | 2049374 | |
| 23 | David Waller | 64:26 | +30:22 | 2006764 | |
| 24 | Andrew Davis | 67:28 | +33:24 | 348912 | |
| 25 | Carteret 03 | 68:50 | +34:46 | 2121505 | |
| 26 | Andrea Polik and György Petercsák | 70:33 | +36:29 | 2114135 | |
| 27 | Carteret 15 | 71:16 | +37:12 | 2121517 | |
| 28 | Paul Emmerson | 71:59 | +37:55 | 2106552 | |
| 29 | Tatyana Stemkovski | 72:32 | +38:28 | 2005153 | |
| 30 | Ruth Bromer | 80:34 | +46:30 | 2005002 | |
| 31 | Carteret 06 | 87:42 | +53:38 | 2121508 | |
| 32 | Carteret 07 | 88:17 | +54:13 | 2121509 | |
| 33 | Ian Shields | BOK | 89:16 | +55:12 | 7028054 |
| 34 | Oros family | 93:48 | +59:44 | 2005030 | |
| 35 | Carteret 04 | 105:36 | +71:32 | 2121506 | |
| 36 | Carteret 11 | 106:56 | +72:52 | 2121513 | |
| 37 | Carteret 10 | 116:04 | +82:00 | 2121512 |