Indian Valley
Novato
May 20, 2001
by Gary Kraght, meet director
May 20 was the hottest day of the budding year, but 220 people eschewed their air conditioners and expended their energy instead on the sylvan hills overlooking Indian Valley College. Girl Scouts, home schoolers, adventure racers and adventure walkers, even a couple of canine friends, the multitudes came and the multitudes conquered. Final score - no misplaced controls, no injuries, enough water, no horribly lost people, and plenty of smiles. Below are the complete results. Also be sure to check out the e-punch splits.
Despite the heat, times were reasonable with not too many DNFs on all but the longer advanced courses. This is a testament to the fine course setting of Dwight Freund. It was Dwight's first experience setting for a seven-course E-punch event. The White course was won by newcomer Karel Konvicka, who also recorded the fastest time on Yellow, as a second course. Something tells me we'll see Karel at more BAOC events. Close behind on Yellow were the team of Jingao Wang and Minyao Zhu.
Eric Gordon did a fine job in decisively winning on Orange, despite a horrific 20-minute first leg. Lesson to be noted: Don't let down after a bad leg - perhaps everyone else is having their troubles too. Brown was topped by Penny DeMoss, not running her usual Blue course because of the heat. Green was highly competitive. Gary Carpenter edged out Francois Leonard, with the top five within about five minutes of him. On Red, Hannu Haarma barely edged Bruce Wolfe, and Thorsten Graeve gutted out a Blue victory over the heat and a small field of finishers.
The exciting up-and-comer award (I just made that one up) goes in a three-way tie to Eric Gordon, Gwenhael Jacq, and Bill Wright. These three have a few orienteering lessons to learn, but don't be surprised if they are soon challenging BAOC veterans on our advanced courses. With his victory at Indian Valley, Eric has won a couple of Orange courses. Gwenhael finished both Brown and Green courses in respectable times, although due to the vagaries of the E-punch setup, he could only count one in the results. And Bill turned in a strong third place finish on Orange in only his second orienteering event.
As always, Indian Valley happened because of you. It takes many people, a veritable small army, to put on an orienteering event. So please volunteer often. Harried event directors will love you. The volunteer honor roll for Indian Valley includes: George & Pat Aster, Scott Aster, Ev & Jean Beuerman, Mark Blair, Evan Custer, Harold & Penny DeMoss, Dwight Freund, Judy Koehler, Jeff Lanam, Carol Levin and her Girl Scouts, Ellie Lightfoot, David Meredith, Bill Papendick, Martin Taylor, Chris Taylor, James Wilson, Bruce Wolfe. I apologize for anyone I left off, I love you anyway!
Results
White -- 2.4 km, 40 m climb
1 Karel Konvicka 27:53
2 Steve Albert, Brian Cox, Dave Emese 33:34
3 George Nicol, Spancer Tellerman,
Dylan, Mary & Brad Stompe 33:51
4 Carol Weir 36:15
5 James Ezell 37:00
= Ralph Pilley 37:00
7 Richard, Bothwell, Virginia Bing,
Turley Mings 44:57
8 John & Carolyn Crowell, Kelly Nielson 46:02
9 Jeff & Kristi Burton 46:36
10 Justin Booth 49:51
11 Ilana Minkoff, Susan Abernathy,
Jessica Scadron 50:50
12 Dave Launchbury 50:52
13 Edoardo & Peter Turati 51:15
14 Sonza & Robert Van Herick 57:40
15 Jay & Aaron Frantz 58:51
16 Katharine & Alex Ratertz, Colin Spencer,
Kelly Noncoy, Roger Johnston 62:34
17 Andy & Johnny Prewitt 64:52
18 Sandy, Rob, Spencer & Mitchell Kelly 65:31
19 Arielle Ikeda, Anna Taylor 93:49
20 Yvonne & Cheyanne Lillie 118:24
Josh, Shay & Sophie Feinstein DNF (lost card)
Mary Grillo & Girl Scouts Troop 698 DNF
Barbara McAuliffe DNF
Yellow -- 3.2 km, 95 m climb
1 Jingao Wang, Minyao Zhu 47:13
2 Elliot Young 55:31
3 Sandy & Tom Guldman 55:56
4 George Aster 58:30
5 Martin Taylor 60:55
6 Douglas Chang 62:02
7 Vadong Li, Guoqiang Chen 62:54
8 Kitty Gordon 64:00
9 Doug, Jan & Dan Masiel 69:12
10 David Huang, Richard Chen 69:24
11 Pat Coyle 74:01
12 Tyler & Sharon Evans 76:14
13 Margareta Linde, Lynn Christensen,
Sam Teplitzky 77:15
14 Wilson & Fong 89:19
15 Jeff, Denise, Jake & Will Hanson 89:21
16 Andreas von Sneidern, Li Meng 99:45
17 Mona Hatfield, Gene Williams 103:31
18 Mary Pedon 103:41
19 Marc, Chickie, Myles & Brad Jhzkow 105:00
Bev & Cheryl Egan, Jacqueline Levin DNF
Analise Marcus, Renee Sayles,
Chelsea Sicatte, Carol Levin DNF
Galina Shakhnovsky DNF
Peter Williams, Elaine Ireland DNF
Lauren Wemmer, Kristen Weber DNF
John Wright DNF
Second course
Karel Konvicka 43:00
Jay & Aaron Frantz 127:03
Ralph Pilley DNF
Carol Weir DNF
Orange -- 3.9 km, 150 m climb
1 Eric Gordon 67:28
2 Marie-Josee Parayre 84:01
3 Bill Wright 90:21
4 Ron & Michelle Sanders 101:32
5 Robert Bulten, Paul Overvoorde 103:53
6 Leena Ilmarinen 104:05
7 Steve O'Keefe 106:20
8 Eglute Martisiute 106:35
9 Alan Jones 107:50
10 Alan LaVergne 108:30
11 John Pagendarm 110:41
12 Ken Sheaffer, Jason Axtell 122:00
13 Barbara Straka 142:50
14 Sean Campbell 146:33
15 David Sweeney 151:09
16 Elliott Delaye 153:53
17 Vaso Chatzi 160:01
18 Rebecca Redfield 167:57
Larry Pagendarm MSP
Hank & Ian Zucker DNF
Bill Blake DNF
Don Gee DNF
Julie Van Hoff DNF
Craig Spencer, Carla Warden DNF
Second course
Steven Albert, Brian Cox, Dave Emese 84:33
Richard Bothwell, Virginia Bing,
Turley Mings 97:48
Ilana Minkoff, Susan Abernathy,
Jessica Scadron 126:29
Brown -- 3.0 km, 135 m climb
1 Penny DeMoss 40:28
2 Evan Custer 48:06
3 Gary Kraght (event director) 60:34
4 Alan Glendinning, Meg Gerstner 61:47
5 Gwenhael Jacq 64:31
6 Ellie Lightfoot (GCO) 69:39
7 Leslie Minarik 72:50
8 Jasper Wu, Reggie Dugard 73:12
9 Heini Ilmarinen 78:49
10 Scott Donald 78:59
11 David Barr 84:46
12 David Meredith 89:59
13 Shirley Donald 91:05
14 Joan Roos 95:17
15 Jay Hann 98:15
16 Melissa Criqui 100:34
17 Cathy Bolger, Nancy Gerber 107:18
18 Cecil Conkle 120:59
19 Alan, Geoff & Andrew Theiss 129:18
20 Nancy Lindeman 129:50
21 Judy Koehler 142:31
22 Dean French 167:58
Natasha Gelfand MSP
Michael Young MSP
Martin Weiss DNF
Jack Myers DNF
Kathleen Lennon DNF
Green -- 4.5 km, 305 m climb
1 Gary Carpenter 75:15
2 Francois Leonard 76:32
3 Dennis Wildfogel 77:26
4 Steve Jankowski 80:05
5 George Minarik 80:18
6 Yelena Krasnova 94:51
7 Gerry Goss 109:22
8 Stacy Goss 113:02
9 Chris Day 125:19
10 Deron Van Hoff 132:58
11 William Straka 134:00
12 Matt Praetzel 136:52
13 Leif Kirschenbaum 137:02
14 Abby Wolfe 139:31
Angelica Riley MSP
Wyatt Riley DNF
Phillip Hoare DNF
Vivian Lee DNF
Oleg Shakhnovsky DNF
Jeff Lanam DNF
Steve Beuerman DNF
Bill Grasberger DNF
Second course
Gwenhael Jacq No time
Red -- 5.3 km, 360 m climb
1 Hannu Haarma 92:40
2 Bruce Wolfe 93:47
3 Derek Maclean 100:38
4 Chris Taylor 117:26
5 Peter Graube 136:09
6 Nik Weber 136:47
7 Bill Papendick 146:48
8 James Wilson 166:07
9 Pete Olsten 168:36
10 Dennis Struble 170:04
11 Stew Hintz (GCO) 173:32
12 Mark Blair 178:43
13 Shawn Larsen 189:49 (OT)
Alex Krasnov MSP
Adrian Martin DNF
Andrejus Masalkovas DNF
Greg Lennon DNF
Blue -- 7.1 km, 460 m climb
1 Thorsten Graeve 122:20
2 Steve Gregg 134:38
3 Craig Murray 147:30
4 Tony Pinkham 185:43 (OT)
Gavin Wyatt-Mair DNF
Dan Stoll-Hadayia DNF
Greg Thomas, Lisa Jhung DNF
