Discussion: 2007 Sprint Finals and U.S Relay Champs results

Here are the results and the splits for the Relay Champs (including the special Junior Junior relay, which was cool!).

For the sprints on Saturday:
Sprint 1 result/splits.
Sprint 2 result/splits.
combined time for sprints 1 and 2.
SprintFinals results and splits.

Note that the Sprint Finals results combine the top 6 men and women with those who ran afterwards in the All-Comers version. In the battle among the top 6, the results were:

Women
1. Samantha Saeger
2. Hillary Saeger
3. Pavlina Brautigam
4. Kathy Bullard
5. Angelica Riley
6. Pia Webb

Men
1. Jon Torrance
2. Eric Bone
3. John Fredrickson
4. Wyatt Riley
5. Ross Smith
6. Mikell Conradi

All of this thanks to Valerie and Sandy!!

And now some cool pictures from Sprint Finals are available.

And here Is a great article on our weekend. A very nice summary of our sport's rock stars!

And I thought they were joking about Joe's initials being on the tree.

Hey, that really is a nice article! One of the best ones I've seen about orienteering in the States!

I like this quote:

"This sport is huge in Europe. It's what basketball is to the U.S.," said Rick DeWitt. ... "To be the world champion is to be Michael Jordan."

and another, very cute sentence (do you need to be a philosophy professor to understand this idea fully?):

"A straight line is not usually the optimum route," said DeWitt, a philosophy professor at Fairfield University.

But is it the case that some line, straight or otherwise, must be the optimum route?

Thanks Peter & Joe & Valerie & Sandy & Susie & Rick & everyone else! It was a really fun weekend!

Does anyone have the sprint maps scanned?

Yes the article was very good! one of the best i have read.

thank you everyone for a great relay championships!!! i had a lot of fun!

I had a lot of fun and thought it was very well organized. Thanks to all who helped put it on!

I might add I had no idea Connecticut was such a beautiful state!


NE - I e-mailed you my scans of the maps. Wasn't sure how to post them here. Enjoy!

BTW, I think both Peter G. & Joe B. (as well as other workers) deserve some serious appreciation for a very well done weekend. The Sprint Finals were great fun, and amazingly spectator friendly (even as a racer/spectator :), and the Relays were similarly amazingly spectator friendly. Add to that a speaker system and running commentary on both events from PG and it made for a very exciting weekend. I don't think I've ever seen Ross or John F. as nervous/excited as they were at the mass starting line of the Sprint finals :)

All of the sprint and relays results (in some cases with improved formatting, and for the relays, with places for eligible teams as well as overall) are now on the WCOC web site.

Here are pictures from US Relay Champs, mostly DVOA related ...

Another big thanks to the WCOC and additional organizers for a great meet. I though both course setters did a great job creating courses that were both fun to run and exciting to watch! Can we do it again next month? ;-)

So here are some of the maps from the Relay Champs:

White
Yellow (2nd leg on 8 and 12 point)
Orange (first leg on 8 and 12 point, 2nd leg on 4 point)
Brown (third leg on 12 point)
Green C (fourth leg on 12 point) -- Green A (first leg on 4 point) and Green B (3rd leg on 4 and 8 point) both were just a little longer, went further down the hill south of #3.
Red B map 1 (leg 4 on 8 point) -- Red A (leg 4 on 4 point was a little longer)
Red map 2 (leg 4 on 4 and 8 point)

Master map of all controls.

More photos here.

WinSplits Online for Sprint 1
WinSplits Online for Sprint 2

Thanks, Boris.

WinSplits Online for Relay

What is all of the listed splits? Combinations of all the people on the team and then single courses as well?

Wow--Ross really gave 110% in Sprint 2!

Thanks to WCOC, the Sprint Series organization, and the free agents who did the work to produce such an excellent weekend of racing!

Heh, I thought that was going to be a picture of him puking :) He did totally trounce us though.

No not puking, that would get a slightly lower rating. At 101%he would have died right after the finish punch but before the download punch.

I thought that Ross' run in relay was even more impressive!

Both Ross and Wyatt. I'm still having nightmares about seeing them come out of the woods before Sergei. Team trials next year are going to be really interesting :)

Here is a video from the relay.

Relay Video

Note: This is a 10 minute video slanted toward the DVOA club.

Here are the final standings in the 2007 Sprint Series.

The Results link is *finally* up on the USOF site (Results page). I guess my web gremlins were more stubborn than WCOC's (they got their links updated on Tuesday).