Nearly 80 competitors on the advanced courses and over 100 beginners and intermediates came out to enjoy a glorious fall day at Calero Park. The orienteering went off without a hitch; the courses were well appreciated, with the excellent conditions leading to some very fast times and some close races. Below are the complete results; Also check out the e-punch splits for the advanced courses.
A few were confused by the "crag" control feature on Yellow and Orange; a crag is of course a small cliff, and its inclusion a consequence of the control descriptions being prepared by an Englishman! The cliff feature on the advanced courses also drew some attention. It seems that a cliff as described by the Condes software has only 2 legs, whereas we are all used to seeing the 4-legged variety. I guess the 2-legged ones are easier to catch!
The volunteer response was so great that no plea for help needed to be issued. Michelle McMillan, an orienteer from her Girl Scout days, helped with tasks all day long. Devon van Hoff, Thorsten Graeve, and Chuck Spalding helped with finishes. Devon also volunteered for control pickup, as did David Barr, Tony Pinkham, Mark Blair, and Penny and Harold DeMoss. Abby Wolfe and Jeff Lanam helped with beginners' clinics. Werner Haag helped with Start-O, and the ever-reliable Ev and Jean Beuerman did registration. And, lest they be taken for granted, the BAOC officers helped in various background tasks.
Congratulations to all who took part, and especially to the course winners. Nimish Shah won the White course convincingly, as did Michael Sobczyk on the Orange. The team of Pisanski and Guzinski won a hard Yellow course. It was nice to see such good completion numbers, despite the difficulty of the courses: only 4 DNF's and one mispunch were recorded on WYO out of 60+ teams.
The advanced courses saw some very close races. The Brown course had 4 different leaders before Stephanie Maclean, after trailing for the whole race, took over on the penultimate control to win by less than 30 seconds from Svetlana Kopeikina. The lead on Red changed no less than 6 times before Tapio Karras beat out Derek Maclean, also by less than 30 seconds. Dennis Wildfogel won an equally close battle with Hannu Haarma on Green, while Marcus Karlsson won the 6K Blue race in a staggering time of 52:05. James Scarborough was second in 54:25.
White 3.7k, 90m climb, 12 controls
1. Nimish Shah 37:50
2. Gorge Gonzalez 42:33
3. Cristal Marin 46:57
4. Larry Heller, Felix Wiench 54:12
5. Jose Trujillo 57:14
6. Angel Cruz 1:00:10
7. Troop 535-1 1:04:51
8. Troop 535-3 1:08:59
9. Troop 535-2 1:22:33
10. Tylor and Kim Watkins,
Chris Chambers 1:41:18
Yellow 3.0k, 130m climb, 12 controls
1. Z Pisanski, M Guzinski 39:55
2. M Pisanski 40:46
3. Jim Waite 46:06
4. Tono Estrada 52:08
5. Elliot Young 55:11
6. Brendan Lloyd, Noelle Birky 57:10
7. Malcolm Wyatt-Mair, Drew Robinson 58:03
8. Matt, Pat, Terence Rabuzzi 58:30
9. Heather, Matthew Dennis 1:00:18
10. Meg Gerstner 1:02:00
11. Adam Rudzinski, Alex Guzinski,
Jakob Fiedorowicz 1:02:32
12. Karen Cleveland 1:03:50
13. Rachel Care 1:18:25
14. Ben Goldsmith 1:19:23
15. Elanor Hayes, Lauren Dunne 1:20:24
16. Kristen, Roberta Pitsenbarger 1:28:31
17. Jim, Claire Wampler,
Eric Allen, Brian Smaalders 1:28:55
18. Randi Sprague, Dianne R Hall 1:30:17
19. Rajeev, Shaheen Patel 1:30:50
20. Laura, Matt, Aya, Kathy Power 1:32:54
21. Garret Pitsenbarger 1:33:23
22. Jorge Gonzalez 1:34:28
23. M Stelzner, J Wampler,
K Pohling, D Dykenney 1:41:41
24. Janie, Kelly, Alyssa Krag 1:53:18
25. Enrique Senra, Homero Silva 1:57:20
26. Pack 213 Den 3 1:57:51
27. Mrs T, Mrs W, Dana, Katie, Laura 2:08:19
Fay Cleveland, Ashely, Terin Kirk DNF
Connie Dialeris, Maria Colgan Mispunch
Second course:
Nimish Shah 46:09
Cristal Marin 1:21:35
Troop 535-1 1:30:08
Jose Trujillo 2:21:04
Angel Cruz 2:21:51
Orange 3.2k, 160m climb, 15 controls
1. Michael Sobczyk 50:39
2. Lukas Gruendler 1:01:53
3. Ann Perisalo 1:11:18
4. Lukas Frei 1:16:50
5. Grant Glover 1:17:32
6. Kristen McGuire 1:28:28
7. Jasper Wu, David Romano 1:38:56
8. Ed Richards 1:41:27
9. Daniel Russel, James Chen 1:42:50
10. Vasiliki Chalzi, Kostadis Roussos 1:47:50
11. Kathy Devoy 1:48:20
12. Barbara Straka 1:50:13
13. Marionne, Mark, Nita 1:51:13
14. Julie Van Hoff 1:54:57
15. Larry Pagendarm 1:58:03
16. John Pagendarm 2:00:27
17. Jack Myers 2:02:20
18. Greg, Shelly Heironimus 2:04:43
19. Jill Custer 2:36:25
20. Harry Hall 2:41:01
LaForge DNF
Audrie Faist DNF
Tim Moran DNF
Brown 3.3 km, 185 m
1 Maclean, Stephanie 1:04:50
2 Kopeikina, Svetlana 1:05:19
3 Estrada & Ruiz 1:06:38
4 Straka, William 1:12:01
5 Young, Michael 1:12:09
6 Allman, Paul 1:14:38
7 Shakhnovsky, Oleg 1:17:31
8 Jacobs, Marsha 1:17:48
9 Barr, Dave 1:27:45
10 Bolger & Renworth 1:29:55
11 Lee, Vivian 1:36:01
12 Dietiker, Thomas 1:48:15
13 Seaman, Jill 1:53:17
14 Gelfand, Natasha 2:02:08
15 Van, Jeff 2:06:04
16 Chaney, Dana 2:15:38
17 Perkins 2:22:05
18 Lindeman, Nancy 2:50:39
Gupta, Parag mp
Minarik, Leslie dnf
Second course:
DeMoss, Harold 1:05:32
Green 4.1 km, 230 m
1 Wildfogel, Dennis 53:24
2 Haarma, Hannu 54:29
3 Fleishman, Michael 1:02:56
4 Scarborough, Joe 1:05:24
5 Spalding, Chuck 1:06:10
6 Custer, Evan 1:06:29
7 Minarik, George 1:08:19
8 Van Hoff, Deron 1:09:12
9 Marshall, John 1:13:06
10 Goss, Gerry 1:17:22
11 Cooley, Bob 1:19:35
12 Jorgensen 1:19:49
13 Goss, Stacy 1:19:56
14 Lewis, Robert 1:25:43
15 Wojtowicz, Debbie 1:27:22
16 Verhoeven, Theo 1:30:09
17 Martin, Adrian 1:34:59
18 Wolfe, Abby 1:42:55
19 Lanam, Jeff 1:45:03
20 Yeowell, Karen 1:50:53
21 Johanson, Brad 1:57:31
22 O'Connel, Mark 2:07:37
23 Johnson, Rosemary 2:11:47
24 Madrid, Louise 2:28:16
25 Kemp, Ray 2:44:05
26 Beuerman, Steve 2:44:37
DeMoss, Harold dnf
Hoare, Phillip disq
Red 5.2 km, 385 m
1 Karras, Tapio 1:11:50
2 Maclean, Derek 1:12:18
3 Weber, Nik 1:20:06
4 Kohler, Matthias 1:22:25
5 Greene, Dan 1:23:09
6 Sherwood, Chris 1:27:58
7 Glendinning, Alan 1:33:56
8 Carpenter, Gary 1:35:47
9 Blair, Mark 1:36:41
10 Jaehn, Rod 1:46:04
11 Larsen, Shawn 1:50:33
12 Schoenfeld, Kevin 2:07:21
13 Rice, Mark 2:32:29
14 Masalkovas, Andrejus 2:38:15
15 Conkle, Cecil 3:08:08
Blue 6.1 km, 430 m
1 Karlsson, Marcus 52:05
2 Scarborough, James 54:25
3 Reader, Syd 59:08
4 Stoll-Hadayia, Dan 1:01:23
5 Stein, Doug 1:07:38
6 Haaraamo, Panu 1:09:00
7 Graeve, Thorsten 1:10:41
8 Gregg, Steve 1:14:24
9 DeMoss, Penny 1:18:26
10 Masalkovas, Vadimas 1:22:31
11 Winterbottom, Rex 1:26:07
12 Pinkham, Tony 1:32:00
13 Wyatt-Mair, Gavin 1:53:50
Brown dnf