OTHTC Summer 2022 Challenge Series

Photo credits: Elaine Riendeau, Brian Wolfe, John Baronowski

July 11 through August 28, 2022

by Dianne Rindt

I was happy to organize this virtual trail running series again for the third year. This time, I decided to share the fun of coming up with the courses. It did not take long to recruit six enthusiastic volunteers! A big thankyou to (in the order we did the courses) Jenny McLaughlin, Julie Jensen, Eric Kajiwara, Andrew Smosna, Wesley Elmore, and Tony Scanlan for your time and your ideas. And special thanks to Connie and Tony Scanlan, for picking up the course marking flags, and to Tom Rindt, for website work.

We again allowed two weeks to run or hike each of the six courses, with another course going "active" each Monday. The courses were described online with maps and .gpx tracks as in previous years. Maintaining course marking was more feasible this time, with a different person responsible for each course.

Forty-three runners and hikers signed up. Thirty-six of those turned in results from at least one of the six courses. And of those, 24 did all six of them! These numbers were all greater than for last year. I hope that others who did not submit times enjoyed these routes too. There were again some unofficial meet-up opportunities. Thank you Carol Wolfe for instigating them!

Although it was difficult to avoid the summer heat, I am grateful that we did not have the forest fire smoke that has discouraged us in past years.

Series male and female points leaders in six age groups will be receiving awards. Congratulations to this year's top points-earners!

Male 19 and Under	Uxbal Ortiz
Female 19 and Under	Mika Rull-Hildreth
Male 20-29	Brad Kasberg
Male 30-39	Germain Ortiz
Female 30-39	Candice Flanders
Male 40-49	John Baronowski
Female 40-49	Cara Lamoreux
Male 50-59	Brian Hildreth
Female 50-59	Connie Scanlan
Male 60 and Up	Wesley Elmore
Female 60 and Up	Linda Dewees