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An eleven member peleton from Bike and Beer blew by me on Carling. Then when I was nearly home, a young girl with sandals and no gears passed me.

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SOAR #3 Barrhaven Royal Oak

"Memorable", that's what one could call SOAR # 3: memorable.

SOAR is the acronym for the Summer Orienteering and Adventure Race series staged by Orienteering Ottawa and hosted by the Royal Oak pubs at several of their locations around Ottawa.

SOAR # 3 at the Barrhaven Royal Oak was memorable for:

the thunder and lightning that came near the end of the evening portion of the event and threatened to delay the night portion (but didn't).
the same storm that drove softball teams off their fields and crowding in to the pub. Who knew that ball players went drinking when they couldn't play ball?
the more than 40 people who came orienteering on a threatening night: an attendance record for the new series when I had thought this would be our smallest crowd of the series.
the international field of entries, including siblings Eric and Nathalie Feignier of France. Their mother Judy Elver is originally from Nepean and used to come orienteering with the Sir Robert Borden HS team back in the era when Brian Graham was a student there.
the Feigniers, running independently from each other, would have dominated the evening long orienteering except for another international entrant, Kevin Fisher of Michigan, visiting Ottawa for a week of work and happening to find our event through the club website.
Mike and Rosemary Gibbard visiting from Adelaide Australia rounded out the international aspect of the evening.
The competition among the Raz family. Young Evan came within two minutes of dad Mike on the evening short course as they did some final preparations for the Canadian Champs coming up in the Maritimes next week.
These events are more social and recreational than competitive but the night O has to be memorable for the fantastic time posted by Alexander Bergstrom who blitzed around the one-hour limit long course in 37:35. He was back so quickly I'm not sure he had even worked up a sweat but he assured me he had. No other time was within eight minutes of Alex.

The $25 Royal Oak gift certificate winners were Andreas Buss, Evan Gibbard, Benoit Chagnon and Bridget Vickers.

Thank you once again to the Royal Oak management and staff and to steadfast volunteers Richard and Lorna Guttormson (night-O registration), Karen Tippett (evening finish timing) and Benoit Chagnon (control flag pick up). Your help is very much appreciated.

Thank you to all who made SOAR # 3 so memorable for me.

Gord Hunter
SOAR # 3










Evening
Points Time
Long Score Orienteering


Fisher, Kevin
300 0:48:17
Feignier, Eric
300 0:53:44
Feignier, Natalie
300 0:56:17
Gibbard, Evan
300 0:56:57
Gibbard, Lars
285 0:45:10
Gibbard, Mark
285 0:46:19
Dixon, Shane
285 0:49:00
Connell, James
285 0:49:00
Connell & Brekenridge
190 0:52:30
Night


Long Score Orienteering


Bergstrom, Alex
300 0:37:35
Powell, Stephen
300 0:46:00
Williamson, Peter
300 0:46:00
Bergstrom, Stefan
300 0:53:42
Dallaire, Alexis
285 0:39:13
Williamson, Eric
285 0:47:54
Lightman, Deborah
285 0:51:08
Agar, David
260 1:07:00
Lefebvre, Paul
255 0:47:03

117/69 48bpm

Event: OOC SOAR #3 (Summer Orienteering/Adventure Race): Barrhaven Royal Oak
 

Long Score night-O

2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 6, 5, 1

56% 8/9

I may have been the last runner back but I managed to collect more points, even with a missed punch.

For the most part, this was a very straightforward street-O, my kind of fun. I hesitated coming N off 12 (50), turned S and then hesitated at first trail crossing. Apparently, I punched the incorrect control at 6 (52), as did many others. I had serious problems finding 5 (35), apparently not going far enough down the trails. Having finally spotted the control, I was not happy to have to enter a field of parsnip. I was well beyond my time limit thanks to that second last control. It would have been great if I could have got back to the pub before the wonderful volunteers were preparing to collect controls. That makes me the last runner back at all three pub-O events. Mother and wife enjoyed three hours at pub, waiting on me.

I stole true distance and climb data from Alexander's log with identical route choice.