REPORT

We had a wonderful and sunny day for our Spring season opening event. It was the inaugural meet for the Club’s newest O-map – a 5 km² area of winding roads, mini-parks and wooded sections, mostly within the City of Beaconsfield.

The large participation was nice to see, especially the considerable number of people who had never done Orienteering before. An appealing article in the West Island edition of The Gazette accounted for over a dozen first-timers.

We set three courses. The LONG was 11.5 km – if run using the shortest route choices. The MIDDLE was 7.5 km and the SHORT was 5 km. Each provided about the same degree of navigational difficulty, the only differences being the distances.

The Long Course had the largest number of starts, not surprising, as 26 Cegep students from John Abbott College were all sent on that course – and all but one successfully completed it. Fastest among the Abbott class was Ying Ran Lin with a time of just over 93 minutes. The class was brought by Karen Oljemark, John Abbott’s Chairman of the Dept. of Physical Education, and also a long-time Ramblers O Club member.

Stephen Novosad led the runners on the 11.5 km Long, completing the 15-control circuit in 49 minutes. Francis Falardeau was 2^nd in 0:50:07. 3^rd was Gary Davies, 0:52:52. Gary is a recent arrival from Wales where he has had Orienteering experience.

The 7.5 km (probable best-route) Middle Distance event was an abbreviated version of the Long. Jeremy Barnes covered the distance and it’s 10 controls in 0:39:34. Donald Watson was 2^nd (0:41:25), Jessica Auer 3^rd and fastest woman (0:42:10), Michael Bole came 4^th (0:43:40).

Jenna Senecal, running in her first Orienteering meet, won the 5.0 km Short Course, finishing in 0:35:48, two minutes ahead of another first-timer at our meets, Andreas Krauchi.

Almost all who participated on the Short, as well as many on the Middle, were family groups, some of them with very young children in tow.

Congratulations to all who came and thanks to those who helped with the meet… especially Gloria (Registration) and Bruce (Timing). Bruce also picked up controls and made arrangements for the use of the chalet as well as the comfortable room for the Club meeting that followed the event.

Beaconsfield-Kirkland O-Maze (Street & Park-Orienteering)
April 19, 2009

# 3	LONG — 11.5 km (Probable best route) 15 controls.
			O-Club member	Time
1	Stephen	Novosad	Ramblers	49:01
2	Francis	Falardeau	Ramblers	50:07
3	Gary	Davies	Ramblers	52:52
4	Jake	Brennan	—	55:05
5	Mike	Quirion	Ramblers	55:59
6	Eric	Christensen	Ramblers	01:01:13
7	Dmitri	Golovanov	Ramblers	01:06:00
8	Maxime & Maëlle	Chauvier	Ramblers	01:15:38
9	Ying Ran	Lin	J-Abbott Coll.	01:33:22
10	Sergej	Manhart	J-Abbott Coll.	01:38:49
11	Dora	Bartulovic	J-Abbott Coll.	01:39:40
12	Miriam	Leleg	J-Abbott Coll.	01:39:43
13	Justin	Parungao	J-Abbott Coll.	01:45:34
14	Brandon	Neshanian	J-Abbott Coll.	01:47:30
15	Claude	Nadon	Ramblers	01:48:50
16	Christopher	Carpini	J-Abbott Coll.	01:52:05
17	Jason	Belsher	J-Abbott Coll.	01:56:15
18	Andrew	Brooks	J-Abbott Coll.	01:58:32
19	Katherine	Quinn	J-Abbott Coll.	02:01:25
20	Alyssa	Shaw	J-Abbott Coll.	02:04:16
21	Christina	Rowan	J-Abbott Coll.	02:08:51
22	Amanda	Hambsch	J-Abbott Coll.	02:10:15
23	Eva	Di Domenico	J-Abbott Coll.	02:10:20
24	Marilena	Bekierz	J-Abbott Coll.	02:12:00
25	Christopher	Connors-Wadden	J-Abbott Coll.	02:17:53
26	Nathaniel	Wong	J-Abbott Coll.	02:21:12
27	Serena	Pavlopoulos	J-Abbott Coll.	02:22:24
28	Kimberley	Butz	J-Abbott Coll.	02:27:07
29	Brittany	Paquin	J-Abbott Coll.	02:29:12
30	Marc-André	Palerme-Restrepo	J-Abbott Coll.	02:30:20
31	Philippe	Ouellette	J-Abbott Coll.	02:31:13
32	Jessica	Laplaine	J-Abbott Coll.	02:35:05
33	Kayla	Butz	J-Abbott Coll.	02:55:00
34	Carolyn	Hoskins &	Ramblers }	02:58:00
	Richard	Latraverse	— }
35	Rana	Abu Assi	J-Abbott Coll.	03:23:00
.	Isabel	Cabana	J-Abbott Coll.	DNF
.	Elaine	S	Ramblers	not timed

# 2	MIDDLE — 7.5 km (Probable Best Route) 10 controls
1	Jeremy	Barnes + 2-yr-old son Léon in stroller!)	—	39:34
2	Donald	Watson	Ramblers	41:25
3	Jessica	Auer	Ramblers	42:10
4	Michael	Bole	Ramblers	43:40
5	Jean-François	Côté &	— }	44:52
	Paul	Addy	— }
7	Bruce	Glen	Ramblers	45:20
8	Christian	Reber	Ramblers	46:51
9	Simon	Dugal &	— }	49:10
	Alexandre	Briguet	— }
10	Alain	Harel + 2-yr-old daughter Alexia in stroller!	Ramblers	50:28
11	Marie-Pierre	Gauthier	Ramblers	56:15
12	Thomas	Davignon	Ramblers	01:01:47
13	Christian	Côté &	— }	01:04:26
	David	Ethier	— }
14	Raymond	Roy	—	01:07:15
15	Kia	St-Pierre &	— }	01:16:19
	Janna	Rehder	— }
16	Steve	Cabilio	Ramblers	01:17:00
17	Patrick	Fernet	Ramblers	01:18:19
18	Group :—	Varela / Despots (2 adults + 2 juv.)	—	01:19:30
19	Linda / Sue / Wendy	Homsy / Railer / McWade	—	01:25:50
20	Donald	Bulua &	Ramblers }	01:26:30
	Brenda	Gossack + Michael Bulua (14)	Ramblers }
21	Marie-Hélène	Tremblay &	Ramblers }	01:30:07
	Alain	Gauthier	Ramblers }
22	Louis	Robichaud &	Ramblers }	01:47:00
	Darlene	Scott	Ramblers }
23	Sylvie	Perrault	Ramblers	01:50:47
24	Robert	Dubé &	—	01:52:35
	Stéphanie	Dufresne + 2 enfants: 9, 8	—
25	Cindy	Cook group of 2 adults + 2 teens	—	01:53:13
26	Jean	St-Pierre + Jade, 13	—	01:56:50
27	Doug	Balmer	Ramblers	msp (0:42:10)
28	Beata / Andy	Dusza / Paczoski	—	msp - #1

	Stephen	Novosad (2nd course !)	Ramblers	30:10

# 1	SHORT — 5.0 km (Probable Best Route) 9 controls
1	Jenna	Senecal	—	35:48
2	Andreas	Krauchi	—	37:57
3	Famille :	Vilotte – 2 adults + enfant de 3 ans	Ramblers	47:46
4	Famille :	Dery – 2 adults + child (12)	—	58:50
5	Family :	Neysmith – 2 adults + child (10)	—	59:00
6	Family :	Steve Shaw grp– 2 adults + child (12)	—	01:04:08
7	Mary Ellen	Montague	Ramblers	01:05:32
8	Denise / Jeff	OBriain / Secours + children: 3½, 1½	Ramblers	01:07:05
9	Julie	Roy + Nicolas (12)	—	01:08:38
10	Mary	Rupnik &	— }	01:10:00
	Pat	Marsolias + 3 children 9,8,5 yrs	— }
11	Wendy / Karen	Rindress / Brown	—	01:15:00
12	Anton	Magnan (age 10) (shadowed by parent)	—	01:15:30
13	Martin / Luz Maria	Wiedenhoff / Sotelo + 2 small children	Ramblers	01:21:24
14	Heather	Martin + Melissa, 6	—	01:21:48
15	Jo	Balmer + Millie, 8, Sophie, 8	Ramblers	01:22:20
16	Christophe & Katel	Deprez + enfants: 3 et 8 mois	Ramblers	01:26:00
17	Donna & Kim	Lisk + children: 11 & 6	—	01:28:58
18	Nick & Lizzie	Sartain +elie 5, Toby 3, Lucy 1	Ramblers	01:32:08
19	Carole / Dan	Brunet / Macoosh + Benjamin, 10	Ramblers	01:33:00
20	Gwen / Hendrik	Spurll / Boom	—	01:36:57
21	Lindsay & Scott	McLeod + Eliz. 8, Lorne 7	—	01:39:57
22	George	Kiss + Daniel, 7	Ramblers	01:42:00
23	Sylvaine	Grousset & Gauffre,Dulong,Herandez	—	01:47:00
24	Matt & Elizabeth	McMahon	Ramblers	not timed
26	Sam	Homsy + Justin, 10	—	not timed
27	Christian	Reid + Léa, 7	— (0:31:15)	msp'd 1st con.
28	Group of 3 :	Clenman, Bui, Gagné	— (0:54:51 )	msp'd 1st con.
29	Josée	Di Tomasso	—	omitted #7 & 9

	Stephen	Novosad (3rd course !)	Ramblers	22:38

94 "starts"; 172 participants, including 9 who were 12–16 yrs. and 32 under 12 yrs.

		Ramblers Orienteering Club