Orienteering

I’ve always enjoyed orienteering, I ran my first meet back in 1992, and although I’ve run in over 200 meets I’ve rarely gone out in the last 5 years.  It seems I am either racing on the roads, trails, or mountains or I’m injured…both of which keep me out of the woods.  Earlier this month I ran in a 24 hour Orienteering meet and it got me thinking about other long-distance O-meets I’ve done.  I’ve done 18 long distance races including two local “Billygoats” and one “Blue Hills Traverse”.  The Goat and Traverse are a bit unusual in that you are allowed to follow, hence by high finishing places in those!  In all I’ve run in two North American championships, two U.S. championships, and one World championships.  I’m hoping to partner up next year and run the worlds in South Dakota.

As if orienteering isn’t “unusual” enough, I included a strange result from 1997.  I “ran” an orienteering course at Rafton Reservation on crutches!  That was the year I broke my navicular and had surgery to put a screw into my foot.  I was itching to get back outdoors and figured it’d be fun to try a course even though I was still hobbling around on crutches.  I ended up finishing in second place.

Date	Map	City	St	Time	Pl	Fin
7/10/1993	French Creek Park	Elverson	PA	3:48:00			2x4 hours
7/11/1993	French Creek Park	Elverson	PA	3:41:00			2x4 hours
10/23/1993	Blue Hills	Canton	MA	3:56:11	2		4 hours w Woody
5/22/1994	Ethan Allen range	Jericho	VT	4:00:00	2	6	4 hour
6/25/1994	Kamloops	Kamloops	BC	24:00:00	2	25	1720 points w P Anderson
3/1/1997	Empire ranch	Pima	AZ	24:00:00	11	45	NA rogaine champs w Alar
7/24/1999	Finger lakes	Hector	NY	0:20:00	1	50	2340 pts won by 2 hours W Ernst
5/6/2000	Souhegan Rogaine	Wilton	NH	3:30:00	21	29
6/30/2001	French Creek	Elverson	PA	12:00:00	4		W Robert
10/13/2001	Blue Job	Farmington	NH	3:48:29	4	19	With Richard
5/27/2002	Russell-Abbot SF	Greenville	NH	7:30:00	2	13	With Richard
7/26/2002		Lesznia	Czech	21:39:00	22		World champs with Robert
10/6/2002	Blue Job	Farmington	NH	7:56:36	1	17	W Alar & Ernst
6/14/2008	Allegany State Park	Salamanca	NY	20:00:00	7	39	With Al Bernier.  U.S. Championships
7/13/2013	Connecticut Hills	Newfield	NY	23:00:00	6	35	With Ernst U.S. Championships
11/2/1997	Rafton	Andover	MA	0:46:00	2	32	On crutches
4/21/1996	Mt Wachusett	Westminster	MA	1:42:02	2	107	Billygoat
5/15/1994	Townsend	Townsend	MA	1:47:37	1	30	Billygoat
12/5/1993	Blue Hills Traverse	Canton	MA	2:08:29	5	22	Traverse