Discussion: Daze 1 - Yellow Pine

The Daze 1 course went through a final complete test run this morning, and we are thrilled to announce that the course has now been formally certified as 5 Spurs


by the International Cowboy Orienteering Association (ICOA). This is the highest level of certification that is awarded, and indicates a quality level that only the tiniest sliver of races achieve each year.

Our calculated winning time for the challenging 6.4 km, 14 control course is 45:30 minutes or a smidge under. (Of course it all depends on just who is in the start field.) The grass is high, the hills are big, and the marshy areas are very wet. Just the way we like it! ; )

It should be really, really good. We already have a record breaking start field of 50 people for Daze 1 (old record is 48) and registration has not gone out yet.

Overnight more racers have registered. The 5 Spur status beckons, and orienteers are drawn in. The popularity of the infamous Yellow Pine (campground) can not be denied! It was Mark Parsons who put it best: "Every day at Yellow Pine is like a day in pre-heaven." And if you walk around and examine the picnic tables there, you can see the little drawings and names and dates that countless orienteers have carved there over the years....

A quick run through the campground yesterday did not reveal any super early arrivals for Laramie Daze, but it won't be long now.

It has been raining off and on today in the Laramie Range. If it keeps on raining from now right on through Laramie Daze, there will be flooding of epic proportions. Probably the only safe place on earth will be Yellow Pine Campground, and it will be up to the orienteers camped there to pair off and repopulate the earth. (And you thought Yellow Pine was only about orienteering?!?)

But that's not the forecast. It is expected to be about 67F at race time, with a chance of thunderstorms (almost every day during the summer there is a chance of thunderstorms, except for the days when there are actual thunderstorms occurring.) Sizzling temperatures, sure, but we know that we can expect a hardened crowd of racers who can handle heat, beetle ravaged pine forests, harpoon grasses, carnivorous cattle, Daze race clocks, and even the occasional epic flood.

Winner of Daze 1 was Ali Crocker, who ran the 6.4 km Long offering in 47:31. Winner of the Short version (4.3 km) was Ondrej Jezek, in 35:05. Ondrej is a junior runner from Czeck. Ali is a senior runner lately from Toledo, but not quite yet from Portland.

Very partial results form the Long:

Alison Crocker 47.35
Wyatt Riley 48.27
Brian Moore 49.49
JP Lande 50.37
Mikhail Martemyanov 51.49
Ron Birks 54.26
Theodore Good 55.33
Rich Kelly 55.55
Steve Gregg 56.54

Is that the same Brian Moore who was living in Boulder a decade or so ago?

Yes. (this is kissy answering)

Tell him J-J says welcome back!

He'll be at the US Champs. He's one of my vetters. But I'll tell him.

Results may only be partial, but this photo of the winner is entirely whole!

One thing we *never* skimp on at Laramie Daze is prizes, and here you can see that Ali is truly excited by winning what was stated at the start of the race to be "a lifetime supply of Vienna Chicken Sausages". So yummy, so tasty, so fine!

From publiken

Results--Weather, fair, about 70F at start, light breeze, no cattle, huge amount of needle-and-thread grass. More of a medium grass prairie than a short grass prairie today, with the cattle clearly not up to the task of clipping this season's surfeit of grass in this particular pasture.

Long
1 Alison Crocker 47.35
2 Wyatt Riley 48.27
3 Brian Moore 49.49
4 JP Lande 50.37
5 Mikhail Martemyanov 51.49
6 Ron Birks 54.26
7 Theodore Good 55.33
8 Rich Kelly 55.55
9 Steve Gregg 56.54
10 Charlie Shahbazian 57.06
11 Dylan Poe 67.13
12 Robert Minto 69.31
13 Toini Skyttersaeter 72.01
14 Goril Skyttersaeter Jones 72.01
15 Sam Listwak 73.48
16 Stina Bridgeman 74.51
17 Sue Kuestner 75.46
18 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 75.51
19 Ioana Lindsey 76.01
20 Michael Minium 76.36
21 Jim Hall 77.56
22 Kris Beecroft 80.39

Short
1 Ondrej Jezek 35.05
2 Benjamin Langton 49.55
3 Thomas Allen 50.01
4 Steve Dornseif 50.05
5 Mark Parsons 51.01
6 Craig Weber 51.15
7 Thomas Laraia 51.28
8 Nora Skyttersaeter 51.48
9 Sam Kelsch 51.51
10 Mike Poulsen 52.41
11 Alex Yancey 57.01
12 Amanda Skyttersaeter 57.31
13 George Walker 58.01
14 Lyn Walker 58.06
15 Jamie Reeder 58.31
16 Leonid Shatskin 72.21
17 Guy Olsen 72.47
18 Bob Ellis 73.25
19 Shelagh Pepper 74.01
20 Brennan Hertel 75.01
21 Anndy Wiselogle 93.01
22 George Wood 93.35
23 Valentina 93.36
24 Angelica Riley 97.01
25 Oriana Riley 97.01
26 Carl Moore 102.01
27 Linda Moore 102.01
28 Walter Schuit 107.01
29 Anthony Riley 109.08
30 Scott Donald 114.01
31 Shirley Donald 114.01

Anthony Riley was 49:08, also coming in 2nd...

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