Please list your best and proudest 2012 orienteering achievements.
Having a strong run in the WOC sprint final

Please list your best and proudest orienteering achievements to date.
Continuing to improve through 3 WOC sprint finals

What is your first orienteering memory?
17 at a local meet in Winnipeg. I was getting into some adventure races and wanted to improve my navigation.

Is there a particular map/area where you could never get sick of orienteering?
Bow Valley, Alberta

If you could fly anywhere in the world to orienteer, where would you go, and why?
Somewhere hot. Maybe the Azores

If you could get orienteering coaching from anyone in the world (dead or alive) who would it be, and why?
Ted de St. Croix

What races are on your 2013 calendar?
Sage Stomp, Barebones, COC’s

Aside from orienteering, what other sports do you do on a regular basis?
Nordic skiing, the odd duathlon, cycling

What is your favourite pre-race breakfast/snack?
Oatmeal, eggs, and a good coffee

Tell us something that we might not know about you…
In my spare time, I carve canoe paddles by hand

Career Highlights

• 2005 Canadian Orienteering Championships short silver (first COC medal)
• Making my first World Orienteering Championship team in 2005 on the third try
• 2007 Canadian Orienteering Championships sprint gold
• First in 2007 Sprint Series Final
• Victory at the 2007 Hudson Highlander (2007 was a good year)

2011 Highlights

• 3rd (2nd North American resident) at the US Ultralong Champs
• 5th at the COC sprint, 5th (third NA resident) at the US Sprint Champs
• A single A meet race victory – the middle distance at the Buffalo A meet.

When and how did you get involved with orienteering?
Not counting a couple of times in high school gym which, along with Hal Higdon’s “The Electronic Olympics”, got me interested, in the spring of 1990 when I first showed up at a OOC event on the Nepean Sportsplex map.
What do you love most about orienteering?
The evergreen challenge of balancing physical effort and efficient navigation.
What is your favourite orienteering discipline, and why?
Middle, for the sheer enjoyment of doing orienteering that’s as technical as possible (whether I manage to rise to the challenge or not).
Which orienteering event is always on your calendar?
Is this a trick question? Canadian Orienteering Championships!
Do you have an orienteering idol? If so, who and why?
If I do, it’s Thierry Georgiou – it would be hard not to be impressed by what he’s achieved and the dedication it took to achieve it.
What was the highlight of your 2011 season?
Returning to the Yukon for COCs.
What are your 2012 orienteering goals?
Most importantly, performing well at COCs and NAOCs.
What races are on your 2012 calendar?
All the US A meets east of the Mississippi from March through May, the Billygoat, the Ottawa O Fest, COCs, NAOCs. WOC?
What is your favourite international orienteering location?
For an otherworldly O experience (unless you live somewhere similar), everyone ought to orienteer at Anza-Borrego.
When you’re not orienteering, where can we find you?
Hopefully downtown – usually DC for assorted culture, sometimes Silver Spring for the American Film Institute. Or out training. Sadly, at work might be a better bet other than evenings. Please don’t try to find me in the middle of the night, even if it is easier when I’m virtually certain to be in bed.

Please list your best and proudest 2012 orienteering achievements.
33 at WOC long Distance, Lausanne

Please list your best and proudest orienteering achievements to date.

• Canadian Orientering Championships – 1st middle and long distance, 2nd sprint (2011)
• North American Orienteering Championships – 1st middle and long distances (2010) 3rd North American sprint, middle, long (2012)
• World Orienteering Championships – 28th middle distance (2010) 36 middle & 37 sprint distance (2011) 33 long & 41 middle distance (2012)

What is your first orienteering memory?
Having my dad follow me on a course in Pacific Spirit Park.

What is your favourite orienteering story or experience?
Racing the Norwegian Ultralong, in alpine / subalpine terrain. Made contact with another orienteer who I had never met but was driving up and was super nice. I got to stay in his friend’s house up near the race. Not a particularly good race for me, but beautiful area!

Is there a particular map/area where you could never get sick of orienteering?
Brandywine, Bow valley, basically somewhere with lots of detail and very few trails.

If you could fly anywhere in the world to orienteer, where would you go, and why?
Slovenia – beautiful Karst terrain

Do you have any other achievements from 2012 that you’d like to share.
Best paper at Haptic Symposium 2012: “Exploring the Design Space of Programmable Friction for Scrolling Interactions” Vincent Levesque, Louise Oram, Karon MacLean

If you could get orienteering coaching from anyone in the world (dead or alive) who would it be, and why?
Minna Kauppi, she seems so naturally talented and driven

What races are on your 2013 calendar?
US team trials
WOC 2013

Aside from orienteering, what other sports do you do on a regular basis?
Running, some cycling, xc skiing, and rock climbing

What is your favourite pre-race breakfast/snack?
Oatmeal

Tell us something that we might not know about you….
I have taken up knitting in the last year