Swanson Road

Course results can be seen below. Splits are available on Attackpoint or Winsplits. To enter your routes and see how others went, head to RouteGadget.

It was very warm, sunny day at Swanson Road with high reaching 85 F, about 10 degrees above normal for this time of year. The turnout was tremendous with 231 starts almost half of which were thanks to NJROTC groups from Calvert, Great Mills, Governor Thomas Johnson, and Patuxent High Schools. Boy Scout Troop 303 was also in attendance and sent several groups of scouts into the woods, all of whom returned safely. The rest of the starts were a mix of club members and first timers. The best estimate of the total number of people participating is about 266.

Thank you to everyone who turned in orange maps once they were done with the course thus allowing others to also run or walk the orange course.

Thank you to the volunteers who helped out at this event. Mike Newman arranged for the park permit, the mowing of the field where vehicles parked, and the delivery and pickup of the porta-potties. Reiko Rager, Peggy Dickison, JP Landers, Jessica Lopes, and Greg Lennon ran the registration station. Joel Ford and Kathleen Lennon provided orienteering instructions for those new to the sport or who felt like they needed some help getting started. Sayshan Conver-White (of Governor Thomas Johnson Patriot NJROTC), Justin Levine, and Oghale Levine directed people where to park. Jon Torrance, Mark Mace, Anne Jepsen, Kim Jepsen, Tom Wells, Christopher Puin, Richard Fulton, and Catherine Fulton picked up the controls. Nick Grenier helped with clean up. Amy Louden and Valerie Meyer ran the e-punch and results station. Craig Shelden designed the courses, placed all the controls for all the courses, and directed the pickup of the controls afterwards.

There were no major mishaps. Clean-up including control pickup went fairly quickly and the last of us were departing the site by 4:30 PM.