Eastern Canadian Championships

The Eastern Canadian Championship is an excellent event hosted by the Ottawa Orienteering Club, though it can be tempered by the weather. It looked like we would be lucky this year as the forecast was for warm and sunny weather even as last as Wednesday. Saturday was great with highs over 20°C and with the Senators eclipsing the Sabres in the NHL playoffs, what could be better for the OOC. However, Sunday returned to Victoria weekend form with bustery conditions and rain. With the forests just flushing, navigation was tricky in quite rugged and varied terrain. Well worth the drive, though that was a problem for some also.

GHO's Logvin family, Elena, Andrei & Serghei, did well, all medaling in the middle distance event and sprint events with Andrei being the big winner with a second in the middle and first in both the sprint and long courses for the M35 class. The battle was between Andrei and UKR's Eugene Mlynczyk with the advantage to Andrei this week. Serghei moved up in class to compete against older competition and performed well. Glenn and Ian completed the GHO roster, competing in a deep M45 field.

Thanks to the TOC crowd for arranging camping for the GTA clubs at picturesque Lac Philippe in Gatineau National Park! See ECOC 2007 for the results