Discussion: Daze 2 - Devil's Claw

We are trying to get some photos posted from the race site, however, we have arrived to find incredibly dense fog. You could be literally next to a herd of cattle not more than 7-8' feet away and not be able to see them. Let's hope the fog lifts in time, because you can tell from the astonished looks of racers huddled in their cars that this is *not* what they were expecting! Silly runners, thinking that racing in the Laramie Range would just be the usual thing.

The fog seems to have burned off.

Maybe you can arrange for a group webcam photo here on Happy Jack Road (bottom photo) sometime during the event.

With some hard work, and an extra vetting streamer(?) to distract the competition, I managed to avoid a 2nd scalping. But that wasn't nearly enough for 1st, which was claimed but a relatively new father, who missed his start, and stopped to stake a claim.

It's not often we get a runner with 3 WOC medals under his/her belt at little Laramie Daze, but we did today: it's Marc Lauenstein about to punch at the last control, leading the field!

From publiken

Winners at Devil's Claw were Marc Lauenstein and Ali Crocker. But the person happiest about the prizes appears to be the young, blossoming orienteer Matti Lauenstein (in his papa's arms)!

From publiken

Today's course on Routegadget.

Results, Daze 2: 7.1 km, much climb (short course at 4.5 km and not as much climb), blue skies, very pleasant temps with light breeze, no cattle.

There were several cryptic notes on the Finish Sheets which the results recorder had to take a best guess at, and thus these results are semi-official and perhaps subject to some amount of correction, and which at any rate will concretize over time.

Short
Sandra Lauenstein 52.06
Clinton Morse 59.06
Benjamin Langton 62.56
Thomas Laraia 66.29
Michael Minium 68.11
Kris Beecroft 73.01
Sam Listwak 76.12
Alex Yancey 78.11
Mike Poulsen 78.29
George Walker 82.01
Sam Kelsch 82.37
Donna Fluegel 83.01
Peter Goodwin 83.01
Lyn Walker 83.04
Brennan Hertel 93.01
Jamie Reeder 93.54
Shelagh Pepper 94.01
Virginia Lehman 96.41
Daniel McGregor 111.01
Valentina 120.13
Carol Sauceda 123.01
George Wood 123.51
Mike Shifman 130.01

Long
Marc Lauenstein 51.01
Wyatt Riley 59.39
Alison Crocker 59.52
Mikhail Martemyanov 68.58
Tom Svobodny 69.01
JP Lande 69.16
Troy Bozarth 75.25
Ondrej Jezek 75.33
Ron Birks 75.54
Rich Kelly 75.54
Steve Gregg 78.42
Brian Moore 83.02
Amanda Skyttersaeter 83.11
Angelica Riley 83.11
Neal Barlow 85.38
Theodore Good 91.42
Charlie Shahbazian 96.15
Robert Minto 97.13
Thomas Allen 100.01
Leonid Shatskin 102.03
Stina Bridgeman 102.04
Goril Skyttersaeter Jones 102.06
Dylan Poe 102.42
Sue Kuestner 115.06
Mark Parsons 115.31
Gavin Wyatt-Mair 117.01
Robert Lehman 118.53
Craig Weber 119.05
Steve Dornseif 122.43
Ioana Lindsey 123.01
Mark Hendrickson123.51

Thanks Mikell for another great day in the mountains.

JPL, how to you add names in routegadget?

Great course and wonderful to have the "shorter" option that I took although I got credit for the longer one. The view from the start/finish spectacular and should be mentioned as a huge addition to the course. It was also great to look across the valley and see people running on long, beautiful spurs as I was running down a long beautiful spur on my side of the valley.

The course:

From publiken

"concretize"? Cowboy lingo for sure