Patuxent River Park

It was a cold and windy day at Patuxent River Park for the 2019 Stumble hosted this year by Quantico, but that didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the volunteers or the participants who ran the Long and Short Stumble courses and the WYO recreational courses. Thanks to Brad Whitmore for ordering and bringing the commemorative towels that were awarded to the top finishers on the long and the short Stumble courses.
A big thank you to Matt Stout, who designed and set the courses. There was a total of 55 controls placed for all of the courses - the long course alone at 14k in length comprised 41 of the controls. This was Matt's first time volunteering as a course setter and he did a great job. We also want to thank Mike Newman for handling the permitting and all of the advance work with the park officials.
Many thanks to the hearty registration crew consisting of John Landers, JP Landers, Jessica Lopes, Cecilia Landers, Gavin Weise, Dennis & Balogun Borie and Julie Keim of SVO (who's photos are shown below - thanks Julie!).
Craig & Suzanne Shelden, Gavin Weise and Julie Keim were on hand to help with beginner instruction and they deserve a big thank you for hanging in there despite the dearth of beginners, but they greeted those who did show with gusto.
The e-punch operation was defty handled by Valerie Meyer and Amy Louden, assisted at times by Jon Torrance and Julie Keim.
A tremendous round of applause goes to the control pick-up volunteers, including: Dave Linthicum, Jon Torrance, Dave Levine, Brad Whitmore, Tom Wells, Jared Silk, Charles Carrick, & Joe Barrett. I also want to recognize Hideharu Tanaka and Chris Zborzek who volunteered for control pickup, but ended up spending a bit more time on the course then they had counted on; we nonetheless appreciate their willingness to help.
Lastly, I want to thank Dave Linthicum, Brad Whitmore, Joe Barrett, and Michael Woods for sticking around and helping to search for a participant who had gotten lost and disoriented and was finally safely retrieved at 4:30 in the afternoon.
We thank you all for making our job as Meet Directors a great experience.
- Jody & Cecilia Landers

White

Course Length: 2.4 km

Number of Controls: 8

Yellow

Course Length: 3.9 km

Number of Controls: 10

Orange

Course Length: 4.5 km

Number of Controls: 10

Short

Course Length: 7 km

Number of Controls: 21

Long

Course Length: 14 km

Number of Controls: 41

Abbreviations: DNF = did not finish, MP = mispunch, NC = non-competitive (usually 2nd course or course setter/vetter), OT = overtime (more than 3 hours or returned after course closing time).