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The champions 2012: Jessica Auer (women), Francis Falardeau (men) and Mina & Guillaume Lafont and  Nancy Zenger (Team).

Full  results are here.

The route by Jessica Auer (click on the map for a detail view):

The route by Francis Falardeau:

Both routes are quite similar in terms of overall strategy. This years particular challenge were control 33/34 and 24/25. Both runners found a way to get them without too much detour or elevation gain. A decisive factor for a win on Mt. Royal.

+ The John Charlow Report: en français / in english

+A selection of photos by Ralph Seyfert:

Nous transmettons nos remerciements à ceux qui ont donné un coup de main lors de l’événement :
Bruce, qui a conçu la course, et en compagnie de Elaine, ont placé les balises;
Francis qui a conçu et fabriqué la carte de contrôles exceptionnelle;
Gloria pour l’organisation et l’inscription des renonciations et plusieurs autres tâches;
Geoffrey, Thomas, Francis, Céline, Julie, Lina et Maia pour la compilation des résultats;
Encore une fois à Bruce et Elaine pour avoir ramassé les balises en compagnie de Francis, Céline, Julie et Annie;
L’équipe souriante de Michael, Dimitri et Jane qui ramassaient les signatures des feuilles de renonciation;

Barbara et Christine qui ont distribué les cartes;
Ralph qui a pris des photos souvenirs d’une journée magnifique;
Stéphane qui a traduit les annonces avant le début;
Thomas pour la mise à jour du site-web;  et
à ceux qui ont donné un coup de main mais ne sont pas nommés, nous sommes très reconnaissants!!

It was one of our biggest meets in years – and fortunately it was a cloudy but dry day – much drier underfoot than in some parts of the Arboretum last year! There was a great turn-out for the event with a considerable number of youths participating. This included several West Island Scout and Guide groups, as well as 35 students from Karen Oljemark’s Outdoor Education classes at John Abbott College.

There were a lot of members who contributed importantly to the success of the meet. Among them, Gloria and Bruce handled registrations, Jessica and Andreas worked outside doing start timing and control card calculations, Aurore set up the String Course for young kiddies, and Elaine did multiple tasks. Course planning, control placement and finish timing was handled by John. Thanks to all !

+ full results are here.

Ramblers OC at the North American Championship.

Eight member of the Rambles OC travelled to the Delaware Water Gap, PA to attend the North American Orienteering Championships 2012. In the age category 80 years and older, both Gloria and John Charlow came home with Gold medals. Below the map from the middle distance event, with the course both Gloria and John had to complete. Lots green and barely any trails on the map!
Full results of the event are here.
+ congrats to John and Gloria!

Middle distance course for M80+ and W80+ at the NAOC 2012.

course #3, set by Céline Mul

If you were wondering who planned those interesting and challenging courses it was the very busy, always smiling, young lady that sat at the end of one of the tables.  Céline Mul was completing her practicum in becoming a Canadian Orienteering Official, Level I.  She was mentored by Francis Falardeau and myself.

Almost half the competitors ran the #4 course — first completing the #2 and immediately following, did #3.  Nicolas Barrière finished this 8 km total in a swift 0:50:53. Just behind was Dmitri Golovanov and Stephane Rousseau with times of 52:08 and 54:00.  Jessica Auer was 5th overall (1:03:04) and, once again, earned top lady position.  She was very closely followed though by 3 other ladies — placing 4 women in the top 8 finishers on the “Long-Advanced”. For complete results see here.

Thank for the meet are deserved by Céline, Francis, Gloria, Bruce and Elaine, all of whom also participated in the pick-up of controls.

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Orienteering: Correre soltanto non basta!!!  (Just running is not enough). This spot, made by the Italian Orienteering Federation, was shown on Italian TV (RAI) with lots of success.