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Thursday Jun 25, 2009 #
Orienteering race (Relay) 43:47 [4] *** 3.4 km (12:53 / km) +115m 11:01 / km
Had to find a team for this and I was lucky to be hanging with the BAOC crowd where Joan Roos offered up her grandson Amos Meeks. He's about 16 years old with a Red ranking not too far below the JWOC cut-off. So that was an exciting prospect and we set about finding others to join the team. The five member Breseman family had to sacrifice someone and decided to let Eileen go since she was worth more points and might find a new team more easily. Eileen recruited Ardis Dull and we had the makings of a fine high point team. We called it "Team Amos" since we figured Amos couldn't refuse to be on a team named after him (he didn't).
Eileen ran first and came in a ways back but quite respectably given the competition on leg 1. It was clear watching the finishers that this would be technical, the finish order was not a straight reflection of running speed. Ardis did the second leg and picked up a few places, then I went out third and picked up quite a few more, catching a number of teams with Juniors who could keep up with the pack, but were having a harder time once teams got spread out. Amos held his own, I think he picked up at least one place and we ended up around 8th overall and first place in the 10 pt. category.
Still hoping for the elusive LAOC team. Although four LAOCers were in attendance during the weekends (me, Bruce, Allen, and Will) I was the only one at this midweek relay.
Eileen ran first and came in a ways back but quite respectably given the competition on leg 1. It was clear watching the finishers that this would be technical, the finish order was not a straight reflection of running speed. Ardis did the second leg and picked up a few places, then I went out third and picked up quite a few more, catching a number of teams with Juniors who could keep up with the pack, but were having a harder time once teams got spread out. Amos held his own, I think he picked up at least one place and we ended up around 8th overall and first place in the 10 pt. category.
Still hoping for the elusive LAOC team. Although four LAOCers were in attendance during the weekends (me, Bruce, Allen, and Will) I was the only one at this midweek relay.