The morning of April 7th saw 217 orienteers test their skills in the complex forests of Annadel. It seems that most people enjoyed the courses and 11 BAOC members earned Club Championship crowns. Below are the complete results.
The terrain at Annadel allowed for most legs to offer multiple route choices. For instance on leg 4 of the Blue, Red, and Brown courses, I have been told of at least 6 different choices that people took. Although many people had trouble with the technical terrain, Blue course winner Hannu Airila, a visitor from Finland, finished his run in under 9 minutes per kilometer. So it is possible to run fast through this terrain.
A number of people have commented on the long walks involved with the event. The 35-minute uphill walk to the start gave everyone a more than adequate warmup. As did the 30-minute walk back give the advanced competitors a further opportunity to orienteer. These walks enabled the courses to traverse the best terrain. But generally long walks like this are not a good idea, and the course designer apologizes to everyone for the inconvenience.
It takes hundreds of hours of volunteer work to hold an event. Thanks to all the crew members who donated their time, energy and expertise into making this a successful endeavor. Assistant Meet Director Idell Weydemeyer. Great publicity from Judy Koehler. Vetters: Steve Gregg. Alan & Debra LaVergne. Control Marker Placement: Leslie Minarik, Sarah Minarik & Dennis Wildfogel. Registration: George & Pat Aster, Jean Beuerman, Martin Taylor. Beginner's Clinics: Judy Koehler and David Meredith. Starts: Vladimir Gusiantikov, Barbara Coole, Louise Madrid and Rachel Care. Finishes: Leslie Minarik and Scott Aster. E punch Coordinators: Evan Custer, Rosemary Johnson and Dennis Wildfogel. Control Pick up: Adrian Martin, Tony Pinkham, Dan Greene, Kelly Wells and Tapio Karras. A special thank you to Annadel Park Ranger's Hayes and Noel for their invaluable assistance. I am sure that I forgot to mention some people.
Course setting is a great way to improve your orienteering and you get to spend a lot of time in a beautiful park. I would urge all orienteers to try their hand at it.
Also be sure to check out the e-punch splits for the advanced courses. (Note on Blue splits: The e-punch unit for the first control failed and was removed from the course; therefore, the control labeled as 1 is a combination of the time for both the first and second controls. All of the other controls are labeled one less than they actually were: control 3 is listed as number 2, 4 as 3, etc.)
White (2.90 km, 10 m climb, 8 controls) 1 Kelsey Wyatt-Mair 30:21 (BAOC Champ) 2 Julia & Michael Rotakhina 35:08 3 Suzie Cross 48.56 4 Aniko Hager 51:48 5 Rebecca Lawton, Kelly, Laurie 59:30 6 Rick, Danny & Nick Tomkins 62:58 7 Troop 315, Middleton, CA 64:39 8 Cassie Beals 65:06 9 Troop 315, Zapeda-Madsen 66:10 10 Don Dakan & Dianna White 67:09 11 Chris & Maya Luzinski 69:36 12 Maggie Andrews & Melanie Smith 69:57 13 Steve, Alisa & Victoria Dodge 72:18 14 Delfino Andrade & Christina Rivera 80:50 15 Roberton & Laurson 83:16 16 Marge Wojtowicz 92:01 17 June Whitesides 93:48 Ryan Jordan MSP (#2) Yellow (3.05 km, 30 m climb, 9 Controls) 1 Malcolm Wyatt-Mair 28:21 (BAOC Champ) 2 Finn Arildsen 31:43 3 Sebastien Chevrolet 44:10 = Rachel Care 44:10 (BAOC Champ) 5 Tom Dakom & James McLaughlin 49:30 6 Jussi Ilmarinen 55:57 7 Jeff & Kristi Burton 59:10 8 A. Jouer & J. Tatka 64:09 9 Team Veenstre 64:31 10 Amy Candan 64:41 11 Julia & Michael Rotakhin 70:85 12 Bill & Dayne Wiehalk 71:29 13 George & Pat Aster 72:10 14 Galina Shakhnovsky 72:49 15 Martin Taylor 79:47 16 Jay & Aaron Frantz, Jeremy O'Shea 80:20 17 Spillane 83:12 18 Neil Peterson 83:39 19 Ev & Jean Beuerman 92:00 20 Janell & Angie Glouser 98:49 21 Libby & Nicole Cronin 99:04 22 Al Berkowitz 112:46 23 John Juarez 113:40 24 Barry & Cindy Neal 116:36 25 Leo & Helen Larc 120:36 26 Collins & Maron 143:39 Chelsea Waite DNF David Takacs DNF Don Gee DNF Caneli Family DNF Jim Day DNF Orange (4.05 km, 100 m climb, 9 Controls) 1 Gary Kraght 53:46 2 Eric Gordon 72:45 3 Jack Myers 85:19 4 Jill Van Hooten 85:58 5 Sandy & Tom Guldman 93:57 6 W. Jordan & L. Koziol 105:16 7 Nimish Shah & Kala Venugopal 106:40 8 Barbara Straka 110:44 9 Jeff Levin & Patrick Lane 118:38 10 Larry Pagendarm 122:21 11 Jim Hayes & Larry Parker 125:57 12 Tom & Judy Cronin 130:21 13 Mel Glouser 131:05 14 Steve O'Keefe 138:17 15 Chad Corbin 140:22 16 Ellen Storz & Jackie Green 143:51 17 Lori Maloney 152:03 18 Judy Koehler 152:38 19 Audrie Faist 154:10 Brent Williams DNF Paul Turner DNF James McLaughlin DNF Brown (4.375 km, 145 m climb, 9 controls) 1 Vlad Gusiatnikov 64:51 2 Dwight Freund (GCO) 101:33 3 Marsha Jacobs 101:58 (BAOC Champ) 4 Oleg Shakhnovsky 105:59 (BAOC Champ) 5 Harold DeMoss 109:46 6 Bolger & Renworth 122:39 7 Rosemary Johnson 127:25 8 Bill Gookin (SDO) 128:42 9 Joan Roos 132:18 10 David Meredith 134:58 11 Meg Gerstner 136:03 12 Carlo Alesanvrini 138:23 13 Johanna Merriss 140:18 14 Jennifer Kerr (GCO) 168:25 John Pagendarm DNF Joe Scarborough DNF Green (5.225 km, 185 m climb, 9 controls) 1 Dennis Wildfogel 65:46 (BAOC Champ) 2 Evan Custer 68:10 3 Angelica Riley 75:54 4 Chuck Spalding 80:54 5 Rob Williams 81:37 6 Adrian Martin 90:49 7 Mark Blair 93:08 8 Ben Wahlstrand 94:40 9 Alan Glendinning 96:13 10 Pete Olsten (GCO) 98:15 11 Doug Masiel 102:05 12 Abby Wolfe 103:52 (BAOC Champ) 13 Mike Fleishman 104:28 14 William Straka 110:32 15 Leon Berzins 113:50 16 Leif Kirschenbaum 115:27 17 Vicki Woolworth 125:50 18 Jeff Lanam 126:35 19 Debbie Wojtowicz 127:21 20 Robert Lewis 129:57 21 Bill Wright 139:09 22 George Chau 141:42 23 Louise Madrid 157:48 24 Fred Ciaramaglia 217:26 Steve Beuerman DNF Andrea Shepherd DNF David Barr DNF Red (6.325 km, 295 m climb, 13 controls) 1 Lluis Cumellis (SDO) 70:06 2 Doug Stein 72:25 3 Tapio Karras 76:16 (BAOC Champ) 4 James Wilson 83:42 5 Katka Kastnerova 87:58 6 Dan Greene 89:28 7 Bill Papendick 92:35 8 Andrejus Masalkovas 98:55 9 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 105:04 10 Michael Behrens 105:12 11 Peter Graube 112:39 12 Trevor Perring 113:06 13 Jim Waite 116:14 14 Jay Hann 131:14 15 Toby Ferguson 133:24 16 Tony Pinkham 134:00 17 Catherine O'Sullivan 139:35 18 Wyatt & Praetzel 152:15 19 Richard Jerrard (LAOC) 168:37 Kelly Wells DNF Vivian Lee DNF Blue (8.000 km, 380 m climb, 13 controls) 1 Hannu Airila 70:11 2 Slava Akinin 72:16 (BAOC Champ) 3 Wyatt Riley 78:32 4 Perttu Illmarine 81:56 5 Syd Reader 83:46 6 Dan Stoll-Hadayia 83:49 7 Thorsten Graeve 88:50 8 Annabel Fernandez (SDO) 99:43 9 Lewis & Jaehn 101:00 10 Nik Weber 108:58 11 Rex Winterbottom 109:53 12 Vadimas Masalkovas 112:13 13 Alex Hall (SDO) 112:37 14 Sugizaki 115:25 15 Kevin Schoenfeld 129:06 16 Penny DeMoss 141:46 (BAOC Champ) 17 Mike Springer 146:27 18 William Humnicky 157:26 Mike Condrin DNF Pilley & Snider DNF