REPORT
Ramblers
Orienteering Club
Terry Fox Park,
Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Street-Orienteering Maze –
April 17, 2005
The 25th anniversary of the start
of Terry Fox’s memorable run
The weather was absolutely superb. The sky was sunny and the temperature rose
to 22º, well above the normal. It was
probably one of the reasons that we had such a good turn-out for this less
usual type of O-event. There were 51
“starts” and a total participation of 81.
We had three courses: The “long” (#3) was about the same distance as a 1/3 marathon –
if run using the shortest route choices.
It was a little longer than last year’s #3. The #2 course basically did the same legs but in reverse and,
omitted the legs that went to top end of Pierrefonds. The #1 course, at 5.2 km, was a kilometre shorter than last
year. It had 9 controls, all within a
one kilometre range of the Terry Fox chalet.
The fastest, and
the average, times for each course were about what we had been
aiming for when
the courses were planned. Members
comments on distances and courses would be welcome. We were pleased that everyone finished their
course and most with excellent times.
Eric Morand (Rams) had an outstanding run to win the #3 (14.2k)
course with a time of 1:13:25. David
Agar (OOC), last year’s winner, was 2nd in 1:19:28 and Jean-Pierre Launay
(Rams) was 3rd in 1:37:38.
On Course 2 Donald
Watson (OOC) edged Christian Reber (Rams) for 1st place.
(0:52:41 / 0:54:25). Ariane Burke
(OOC) was 3rd, as well as top woman, with a time of 0:56:39.
The short course - #1, had eight groups/individuals
with times of under one hour. Harri
Salo (Rams) repeated his win of last year with another good run, completing
the 5.2 km in 0:40:40. Sandy
Phillips (Rams) [+ 2 pre-teen children & a dog!] also had a great run last year and was once
more just a minute behind Harri, in 0:41:47.
Don Gillis and son James (Rams) were 3rd in
0:43:00.
Of particular note were the couple who actually
orienteered the greatest distance. Jacquie
and Serge Therrien (Rams) – although not amongst the youngest
participants, were the only ones to complete a second course. Jacquie and Serge first did Course #1 and
then went out again to do #2 – a total distance of about 15 km – 800 meters
longer than Course #3; total time – a few minutes less than 3 hrs.
Thanks to Keith
Mallette and the DDO Recreation/Parks Dept for
allowing us
a key to their Terry Fox
Park chalet - normally not yet open in April.
Meet Organization was by
John & Gloria Charlow, Ramblers
Orienteering Club