The Bay Area's first O' meet since before the summer solstice attracted a solid turnout of 185 orienteers to Bayfront Park. Bayfront's cozy confines make it ideal for beginners, but it proved again that its low-key topographic details can offer a good challenge to the fleet of foot and the keen of eye.
A highlight of the day was the BAOC's only scheduled Trail Orienteering event of the year. Trail-O' is a fairly new version of the sport, designed to provide people with limited mobility - whether from disability, injury or age - the chance to compete on equal terms with those who are more able-bodied. Success relies on map-reading ability and powers of observation, not speed and stamina. We had two courses, beginner and intermediate. Club veteran Dox Doxiadis won an uncontested victory with a perfect score on the former. Steve Beuerman won the Keen of Eye award by identifying 10 of 11 controls correctly on the intermediate course. One of the features of this course was a timed control, where a monitor recorded the length of time it took the competitor to make a decision once at the viewing station. The time serves as a tie-breaker. Steve didn't need it, but his 12 seconds was half the time of anyone else who identified it correctly. Larry Pagendarm and Gary Kraght each got 9 controls right.
On White, five teams finished under a half hour, all within a two-minute range. Mimi Hui and Jose Machuca finished first. Second place went to the team of Sally Andrews and two 11-year olds, Christian Opperman and Thomas Tarleton. Honors for the top all-junior team went to three other 11-year olds, Benjamin Struve, Nolan Kent and Michael Sakoi. On Yellow, the most popular course, the group of Sam Huber, Jeff and Robyn Wefel was first, with Chris Buchner second, and Frank Markowitz third. They were followed by Vasya Volkov, the top junior finisher.
The final two courses were a short and long "Trail-less O'", standard courses but run using maps that omitted all roads, trails, fences and other person-made objects. On the short course, Gary Kraght took first, with George Minarik second. In a family triumph, Louise Madrid was the first female, and daughter Rachel Care the top junior. In the long course, Doug Stein retained his Bayfront Fleet of Foot crown with a five-minute victory over Dan Greene. Yelena Krasnov was the first female and David Falck the top junior.
I have many people to thank for the smooth running of this meet. First on the list is Alan Glendinning, who reviewed the courses and logistics, hung controls, set up start and finishes, ran the White/Yellow/Trail-less finish, and picked up controls. Others to whom I extend my gratitude include Senior Girl Scout Megan Madsen (publicity for Trail O, timed control monitor), Meg Gerstner (site setup, starts, control pickup), Ev & Jean Beuerman (registration), Chuck Spalding (setup, starts, results), Steve Haas (setup, control pickup), Marsha Jacobs and Scott Aster (beginners' clinics), Ben Wahlstrand (starts), Gary Kraght and Steve Beuerman (Trail O finish), Dan Greene, Shirley Parlan and Larry Pagendarm (control pickup), Bob Cooley (map printing), and especially my wife Esther Heller, who was indispensable in all event preparations, and staffed the Trail O finish most of the day.
BEGINNER TRAIL O (max 8 correct)
Pl Name Score
1 Dox Doxiadis 8
INTERMEDIATE TRAIL O (max 11 correct)
This course had one timed control. The time is shown in seconds following the
score, for competitors who identified this control correctly.
Pl Name Score
1 Steve Beuerman 10 (12)
2 Larry Pagendarm 9 (25)
3 Gary Kraght 9 (27)
4 Becky Wang and Phillip Hoare 8 (55)
5 Don Gee 8 (--)
6 Scott Aster 8 (--)
7 Elliott Delaye 7 (26)
8 Jay and Emily Hann 7 (27)
9 Bjorn Widerstrom 7 (44)
10 Dwight Freund 6 (31)
11 Galina Shakhnovsky 5 (--)
WHITE - 2.2 km, 35 m climb, 10 controls
Pl Name Time
1 Mimi Hui and Jose Machuca 27:49
2 Sally Andrews, Christian Opperman and
Thomas Tarleton 28:17
3 Ben Friedlander 29:20
4 Emily Kellison-Linn and Chris Linn 29:34
5 Bart de la Cruz 31:40
6 Will Sare 31:41
7 Dimitry Struve, Neil Swarup and
Daniel 33:31
8 Benjamin Struve, Nolan Kent,
Michael Sakoi 39:02
9 Scott, Laura, James, Megan Flynn 50:49
10 Carol, David, Gail Bassett 51:15
11 Mandy Wang 54:54
12 Nathan Wang 56:54
13 Josef and Hannah Sukonick 61:39
14 Magdy, Noor, Hisham, Hani Hussein;
Mervat Ali 73:23
15 Freddie & Joey Kellison-Linn,
Tricia Kellison 79:18
16 Anne, Bryant, Caleb, Alexander Ling 81:55
17 Pam Suess, Sam & Meredith Gold msp
YELLOW - 3.0 km, 65 m climb, 13 controls
Pl Name Time
1 Sam Huber, Jeff & Robyn Wefel 27:54
2 Chris Buchner 28:38
3 Frank Markowitz 29:28
4 Vasya Volkov 31:51
5 Justin Anderson 40:16
6 Glen and Kathy Pierson 40:43
7 Dima Volkov 43:40
8 Mike and Bonnie O'Halloran 44:16
9 Nga and Yoko Nguyen 49:08
10 Jason Edelman 51:45
11 Mark & Garrett Pitsenbarger 56:48
12 Roberta Pitsenbarger and Diane Hall 59:11
13 Sean O'Halloran and John Pagendarm 61:11
14 Kevin, Marian and Michelle Brown 64:36
15 Molly McDermott and Nancy Becker 64:55
16 Scott O'Halloran and Eric Pagendarm 65:28
17 Yvonne Dutreaux and Jeanne Brown 66:20
18 Harry Hall 66:47
19 Wendy and Manabu Tokunaga 67:45
20 Emma Shelton, Bev Hastings, Glenn,
Tim, Kyle 69:28
21 Scott & Eric Pierson, Curtis & Craig
Murphy, Irwin Lan 70:35
22 Sonza and Bob Van Herick 71:13
23 Terry Barnes and Annette Fountain 71:21
24 Ramana, Lakshmi, Anita Yerneni 71:33
25 Debbie Wetmore 74:34
26 Dox Doxiadis 75:03
27 AJ & Marcene Van Dierendonck,
Neal Isaac 81:00
28 Mark and Paula Van Dierendonck 81:00
29 Joe, Lorraine, Brantley Rideau 82:17
30 Bill Ashworth, Laura & Stephen Rhodes,
Kristian Divito 84:45
31 Shirley Parlan 86:11
32 Nicole and Libby Cronin 88:40
33 Bill & Helen Madsen; Nancy, Burt &
Dave Houtz 103:40
34 Richard & Aaron Robitsch, Tim, Duane 110:36
35 Jen Brown and Jill Murphy 141:50
Second course
Sally Andrews, Benjamin Struve,
Neil Swarup, Michael Sakoi 55:05
Mimi Hui and Jose Machuca 57:50
SHORT TRAIL-LESS - 2.5 km, 60 m climb, 11 controls
Pl Name Time
1 Gary Kraght 21:36
2 George Minarik 24:15
3 Louise Madrid 28:14
4 Marsha Jacobs 30:46
5 Hardev Grewal 32:38
6 Leslie Minarik 37:54
7 Rachel Care 43:04
8 Joel Smith and Marjie Buckley 51:14
9 John and Eric Pagendarm 52:26
10 Ethan Snyderman, Harry Gold (Troop 24) 58:06
11 Robbie Sare (Troop 815) 62:45
12 Chris Lozinski 63:10
13 Travis Volpe (Troop 815) 64:45
14 Beth Dixon 68:42
15 Chris Coyne (Troop 815) 80:38
16 Audrie Faist 83:00
17 Elizabeth Grewal 85:40
18 Jill Gaines 90:45
19 Shane Tutass, David Gribble (Troop 24) 94:58
20 Brian de la Cruz 98:18
Second course
Shirley Parlan DNF
LONG TRAIL-LESS - 5.5 km, 140 m climb, 24 controls
Pl Name Time
1 Doug Stein 32:16
2 Dan Greene 37:58
3 Dennis Wildfogel 38:30
4 Ben Wahlstrand 41:31
5 Tapio Karras 44:32
6 Alex Krasnov 44:35
7 Eric Rosenzweig 47:49
8 Yelena Krasnov 50:33
9 Bob Cooley 51:43
10 Jim Waite 53:59
11 Al, Geoff, Andrew Theiss 66:42
12 Tom Stanley 68:00
13 Brad Wetmore 75:37
14 Oleg Shakhnovsky 77:51
15 David Falck (Troop 24) 85:09
16 Cathy Bolger 85:14
17 Julia Zaks 85:41
18 Steve Beuerman 87:13
19 Brendan Dreaper (Troop 24) 89:35
20 Phil Lovalenti 90:07
21 Alan Houser (Troop 24) 90:43
22 Tom and Judy Cronin 95:20
23 Boyd Potts 96:49
24 Larry Pagendarm 96:50
25 Lyrinda Snyderman and Sherry Tutass 102:14
26 Fred Ciaramaglia 126:20
27 Sandra Staple and Anne Roeth 153:40
Second course
Sam Huber, Jeff & Robyn Wefel 57:29
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MSP = Mispunch
DNF = Did Not Finish