Scapegoat at Round Mountain
25 August 2002

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The 2002 Scapegoat was held at Round Mountain August 25. There were 30 individuals and teams. The weather was great and everyone found the start. Only 2 missed the mass start.

There were two sets of courses, "Xs" and "Os", to help break up (and confuse) the orienteers. The first two controls were different for the Xs and the Os after which they returned for a map exchange. After the map exchange the Xs then ran the Os' first legs and the Os ran the Xs first legs so that by the 5th control each had run an identical course. After the 5th control all shared the same controls. There were lots of spectator controls for the benefit of the course setter and this allowed the runners to be near enough to start and finish on 3 occasions to grab some drinks or food if they wished.

From my standpoint everything was near perfect in that all the controls were hung by the features with care in hopes that the orienteers would soon be there. There was some difficulty with control 12 which was in a pit. Some reported that the control was hard to see. I had pulled a root stock into the pit and hung the flag from that so that it was visible from "inside the circle" just above the rim of the pit. The plastic hooks on the control flags sometimes allow the flags to slip a bit and that may have happened but only 2 people were unable to find the control. My apologies for not tying the flag on tighter!

Everyone seemed to survive all the little wrinkles in the course including two controls with different codes hung on the same feature. Did anyone notice? Times were fast in part due to the friendly nature of the terrain but mostly due to all the really fast people out there. Mikell Platt seems to have done the 13.7 K in just over 5 minutes per K. Mark Everett was likewise under 6 minutes per K. Third place Jan Ingebrigtsen had a more human time of just over 6 minutes per K. This was a very flat course, so flat that I didn't even bother to calculate the climb.

Sheryl Lehman was the fastest female, in fact the only female to finish the course under the 3-½ hour cutoff. Hooray, Sheryl!

My thanks to the helping hands that always seem to be there: Mikell Platt for setting out the direction signs, Neal Barlow for registering everyone and explaining the Xs and Os and Louise Segreto for handling the few late registrations and watching for finishers. Thanks to Laurent Billet, Doug Berling, Mikell Platt and Neal Barlow for picking up controls.

Everyone finishing in under 3-½ hours received a cup with a special commemorative Scapegoat sticker prepared by JJ Cote. Unfortunately, I could not locate the correct clear vinyl material to have these printed on so had to settle for a paper with a sticky back. This worked really poorly for the first 6 places which were on slightly larger and more rounded mugs and the paper really bunched up. If anyone wants the official sticker on vinyl just email me (gallery@ris.net) with your snail mail address and I will mail these out in November which should allow enough time to find the clear vinyl.

Thanks, everyone, it was fun. Next time there will be more hills.

- Steve Willman, Meet Director

Position	Name	Time
1	Mikell Platt	01:09:36
2	Mark Everett	01:17:50
3	Jan Ingebrigtsen	01:22:50
4	Todd Holmes	01:24:10
5	Jason Poole	01:24:10
6	Rich Kelly	01:24:45
7	Doug Berling	01:31:26
8	Neal Barlow	01:33:50
9	Michael Eglinski	01:35:20
10	Orlyn Skrien	01:36:18
11	Jim Sanders	01:58:30
12	Laurent Billet	01:59:18
13	Steve Dornseif	02:02:50
14	Ladislav Jezek	02:02:55
15	Mark Gibbard	02:03:18
16	Scott Powell	02:13:07
17	George Tsarevski	02:26:25
18	Mark Hughes	02:35:15
19	Bob McBride	02:41:48
20	Andy Moore	02:42:56
21	David Goldstein	02:48:00
22	Sheryl Lehman	02:58:44
23	Bob Ward	02:58:45
24	Brooke Mann	03:59:12
DNF	Martin Mavec	23 controls
DNF	Troy Bozarth	15 controls
DNF	Angie Lucht	10 controls
DNF	Laura Powell	6 controls
DNF	Sarah Park	lost card
DNF	Duncan & Tote Hughes	lost card

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