A bunch of us OKers went to the 2-day B-meet in St. Louis this past weekend. It was a lot of fun. Representing OK were _____, _____, ______, and _____. There were some PTOCers along as well: ______ and ______. Overall the meet was well-organized and the courses were fine. The weather turned out ______, which was not so ____.

The best result of the weekend was by _____. (S)He had good runs on both days and ended up in ___ place in the ___ category.

We all missed Snorkel at the meet, but it is good that he stayed at home and let his ankle heal.

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), March 13, 2000

Answers

Mike, Mary, Gene, Fritz Dick, Mike Shifman snowy, dry Spike, first, M35 (all of red, actually)

-- Mary (maprunner@juno.com), March 13, 2000.

Now it is Mook's turn to guess what happened.

Another OKer in attendance was _____ who came all the way from _______. The overall attendance was about ______ people, which was ________.

The day one courses were _______. Everyone had a _______ run, despite the _______. Dick and Mike S. were several hours late due to _________. Fritz bought _______ from Gale Teschendorf.

After day one, we went to our hotel in Eureka. The guys spent the afternoon playing ______. At dinner, Mike S. told us about his recent ________.

On day two, the courses were _______. People were upset about Red #6 because ________. Mike bought _______ from Al Smith. Beth Skelton said SLOC was ________.

The ride home was exciting because Fritz's car________.

-- Mary (maprunner@juno.com), March 13, 2000.

I can give Mary's story a shot...

Dave "Legs" Linthicum
Maryland
1000
more than Vader could hope to sell bandaids to.
well-set
reasonable
awful weather
the accident
a new headlamp
pool
trip to Russia
not so good
it was a bingo control in the middle of a bunch of thorns
a pair of thornknickers
preparing a team for the relays and would kick some serious butt
still smelled like orange and cloves after all these years


-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), March 13, 2000.

I rated the Georgia A-meet by giving the event grades for terrain, maps, course, organization and overall. Here are my grades for the SLOC B-meet.

Terrain A: The terrain was typical St Louis terrain. The hills were big.

Maps A: The maps were fine. They were consistent and I didn't have any real trouble with them.

Courses C: I'm giving the courses a pretty harsh grade. It is tough to set good courses in St Louis terrain. But, I think the courses could have been a lot more interesting with just a few changes. Neither day had a long leg. Neither day had much variety in leg length.

Organization C-: The controls on my course were all in the right place. But, the organization seemed a bit loose. The event seemed a bit understaffed and the staff seemed a bit over worked. SLOC can do better! On the plus side, the meet center was indoors on the first day -- very nice given all the snow! Start times on the second day were delayed by 30 minutes...not good.

Overall C+: The event was a lot of fun. But, SLOC can do a lot better. A couple of small changes (like hanging the control for number six on day two so it was more visible) would have raised the grade.

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), March 13, 2000.

Splits...

Day 1 Red Course Beaumont Scout Camp Saturday 11 March 2000 3 to 4 inches of snow, brisk wind, low 30's Leg Dist Climb M. Eg. K. T. M. M. F. M. M. Ea. G. W. D. C. 1 0555 00 3:51 4:28 4:57 5:16 4:31 2 0472.5 12.5 4:09 10:45 4:50 4:45 4:42 3 0675 10 5:05 4:50 6:11 6:22 9:15 4 0540 32.5 5:46 6:26 7:41 6:29 5 0585 02.5 4:18 5:15 5:47 5:16 [(4&5) 1125 35 10:04 11:18 11:41 13:28 11:45] 6 0270 40 3:38 4:10 4:00 4:20 4:02 7 0780 30 6:30 9:51 7:17 8:53 9:41 8 0390 15 3:56 4:25 4:06 5:40 3:49 9 1012.5 35 9:11 10:35 19:03 12:36 13:33 10 0367.5 22.5 4:03 4:00 4:27 7:42 5:34 11 0615 45 7:58 9:20 8:45 8:57 12:32 12 0345 00 3:55$ 3:15 3:14 3:58 3:31 13 0375 05 3:33 3:35 5:50 14 0150 00 1:03 1:04 1:58 [(13&14) 0525 05 4:36 4:39 5:10 7:04 7:48] fin 0345 00 1:31 1:34 1:58 2:06 1:57

total 7477.5 250 68:29 83:07 82:03 85:37 97:09 92:29 91:13

Day 2 Red Course Rockwoods Range Sunday 12 March 2000 still snowy, but warmer, high 40's Leg Dist Climb M Eg. K. T. M. M. F. M. M. Ea. G. W. D. C. 1 0870 12.5 7:31# 11:22 8:51 8:40 2 0330 17.5 3:21 5:00 14:30 19:10 3 772.5 17.5 5:46 6:36 7:03 8:44 4 0300 22.5 2:44 2:46 3:04 4:03 5 0952.5 45 7:39 9:09 9:30 10:26 6^ 0975 95 11:31 11:24 11:39 32:45 7 0405 50 5:02 6:08 5:42 6:19 8 0637.5 62.5 5:55 6:45 7:24 7:50 9 0915 42.5 8:14 9:22 13:58 11:22 10 0600 20 4:21 4:01 5:09 4:32 fin 0105 05 0:28.39 0:28.52 0:28.98 0:31.42

total 6862.5 390 62:23 73:05 79:43 87:18 91:29 114:22 DNF

2day 130:52 156:14 161:47 172:55 188:38 206:51 ---

M. Eg. = Mike Eglinski K. T. = Kevin Teschendorf M. M. = Mike Minium F. M. = Fritz Menninger M. Ea. = Mark Early G. W. = Gene Wee D. C. = Dave Coziahr (quit after the 5th control on day 2.)

Dist and Climb in meters, calculated by F. M.

$ Mike Eglinski was one of the first runners to this control, which was lower than he expected. Many others simply followed the footprints in the snow. # Mike believes he had about 1:00 in mistake on this control. ^ This control was hung low in a small pit such that it could not be seen even when standing within 2 to 3 meters. Some times were better because of being able to see others punch at the control.

-- Fritz Menninger (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), March 13, 2000.

There was some trouble with the formatting for Fritz's message. I should be able to adjust it so that it looks ok. When I get the formatting fixed, I'll probably post it as a new thread.

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), March 13, 2000.

I have managed to get the split times in a more useful format. I also created a new thread with the splits. The new thread is titled "Split Times for SLOC B-Meet." The split times are posted at:

http://www.geocities.com/okansas.geo/slocsplits.html

-- Michael (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), March 13, 2000.

To fill in the blanks on Mary's story(I hope this formats correctly; it doesn't always come out on seperate lines, as I would like):

Alan Edmonds Ohio 40 sad tolerable decent snow traffic on I-70 gaiters pool Caribean cuise worse the marker was hung IN the pit O shoes "dead" turned 50,000 miles

-- Mary (maprunner@juno.com), March 15, 2000.