Las Trampas - Golden Goat
San Ramon
Nov. 24, 2002
by Ian Tidswell, Goatmaster 2002 (retired)
This year's Golden Goat (the 7th!) was held in true Goat terrain, the vertiginous Las Trampas Regional Park. And the Goat made good use of those contours. The course statistics for the Goat were truly fearsome - 10.3km and 750m of climb (that's almost ½ mile of climb, and that is without the walk to the start!) But while maintaining the reputation for toughness, the Goat was in a good mood! The weather was cool, and the Kid, the first loop of the Goat (and 'only' 7.3km and 495m of climb) offered an alternate route to success. And what's more, as tradition dictates, following was allowed, and participants could skip one control. Truly the Golden Goat is awesome, but most merciful and glorious! You can check out the course yourself by clicking here.
Overall, 27 finished the full Goat (38% of the total), and 34 finished the Kid (48%). In the front of the pack, Syd Reader had an awesome run, finishing in 98 minutes. Except for the very first control, he led the whole way, and held a 4 minute lead over Vladimir Gusiatnikov after the Kid, increasing to 6 minutes by the finish. Vladimir's excellent performance was further 'enhanced' by his control card, which was far and away the most smelly and disgusting of the event (hint to future event directors: Beware - tyvek control cards hold odors really well!). Wyatt Riley came in third, his otherwise solid run hampered by a sub-optimal choice for skipping controls. On the women's side, Penny DeMoss continued her domination of the event, finishing in 131 minutes (10th place overall). The other two women to vanquish the Goat were Vivian Lee, and Terry Farrah. Other notable Goat performances included Steve Hass, the oldest Goat finisher at age 55, Otti Bisang, who ends his stay in BAOCland with a great finish (and now heads back to Switzerland), and Steve Gregg, who finished fourth and maintained his lead in Golden Goat lifetime points.
On the Kid, Anders Nilsson had the fastest time of 96 minutes, but apparently not the stomach for the whole Goat. Marie-Josee Payare was the fastest woman, with a time of 112 minutes. Malcolm Wyatt-Maier was easily the youngest finisher, at age 14, while "Oldest Goat" award (or perhaps that should be "Oldest Kid" award) goes to Oleg Shakhnovsky, aged 65. Gerry Goss won the prize for "least worried about his finish time", deciding to visit the conveniently positioned toilets just before finishing. Apparently the detour took him 49 seconds. Finally (and it was finally), Mel and Grant Glouser did a great job of maximizing the time on the course, coming in just 90 seconds before the course closed. That's how to get value for money! Congratulations to all who vanquished the Goat, and I trust for those who the Goat was just a little too feisty also had a good time.
To see some photographs of the event, check out http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/tidswell1/lst?&.dir=/Golden+Goat+2002&.src=ph&.view=t
In addition to the Goat, standard white and yellow courses were offered. Judging by the finish times, pretty much everyone was inspired! On the white course, Doug Adler and Lena Svensson screamed round the course in just over 20 minutes, closely followed by Scott Spears. Doug went on to have the fastest time of the day on the yellow course too.
As is always the case, the Golden Goat couldn't have pulled it off without the help from his (or her?) many loyal subjects who volunteered to help:
- Vetting/Hanging controls/Event setup: Bill Straka, Harold DeMoss, Frank Markowitz
- T-shirt design: Penny DeMoss
- Registration: Ev & Jean Beuerman, Vivian Lee, Barbara Straka
- Beginners' clinics: Scott Aster
- Starts: Joan Roos, Chuck Spalding
- Finish/Results: Bill & Barbara Straka
- Control pickup: Harold DeMoss, Sean Campbell, Wyatt Riley, Darren van der Hoff, one other
- Permit: Rosemary Johnson
- EBRPD: Jim Wolfe, Mark Ragatz
Thanks especially to Bill Straka, who made several trips to LT to check the courses, and Harold DeMoss, who ended up visiting almost all the controls while hanging controls or on pickup.
Results for White and Yellow Courses
Pl Name Time Comment
WHITE (1.8 km, 110 m climb, 9 controls)
1 Doug Adler, Lena Svensson 20:56
2 Scott Spears 21:04
3 Wendy Stancer 45:50
4 Al & Jane Phillips 49:22
5 Mike, Ravi & Eric Hecker 51:49
6 Irene Chow 52:45
6 Nelson Chung 52:45
6 Ammon Hoenigman 52:45
6 Andrea Wong 52:45
6 Stephanie Minami 52:45
11 Emily-Rose Schelvin, Jay & Emily Hann 53:13
12 Judy Koehler, Piper Riley, Nancy Thomas 1:01:37
13 Chris Mellor 1:06:51
14 Paul Dubbell, Cris Strunk 1:44:41
YELLOW (2.4 km, 135 m climb, 9 controls)
1 Doug Adler 30:01 2nd course
2 Wendell, Sarah & Aaron Doman 49:19
3 Bond, Roberts, Walsh, Collaco 49:31
4 Terry Pratt 50:12
5 Lena Svensson 1:01:40 2nd course
6 Olsen, Prunetti 1:04:15
7 Henry Band, Gail Glendinning 1:04:27
8 Jami Ediger, Debbie Ramm, Adam Wisnewski 1:09:05
9 Don Gee 1:11:06
10 Scott Spears 1:11:34 2nd course
11 Leslie Taylor 1:12:12
12 Reggie Dugard, Jasper Wu, Linda Garum 1:14:01
13 Sharon, Tyler & Dan Evans 1:16:21
14 Al & Jane Phillips 1:17:30 2nd course
15 Nordberg 1:18:56
16 Chris Paje, Sonny Antonio 1:19:53
17 Galena Shakhnovsky 1:26:04
18 Ernest, Sam & Julia Gomes 1:27:30
19 Chris & Kevin O'Meara 1:27:32
20 Therese & Andrew Hutcheson 1:33:10
21 Brad Paschal, Lisa McMillan 1:35:50
22 Frank, Dalila, Jackie & Stephanie Perez 1:40:47
23 Doug, Mary & Jim Hartman, Willie Friedman,
Morgan Zander, Joanne Brinsman 1:45:17
24 Stephanie Minami 1:46:08 2nd course
25 Emily, William & Bruce Bassett 1:48:56
26 Lluvia Zuniga 1:54:41
27 Carlo Patalinghug, Nic Pena 1:56:07
28 Barb Koltai 1:56:38
29 John Dobleman, Megan Standad, Tony Pena 1:58:05
30 Mike, Eric & Ravi Hecker 2:03:39 2nd course
31 Laura & Meagan Fenisey 2:35:21
Dewey DuMond DNF
Results for Golden Goat & Golden Kid
Kid/#16 Goat
Pl Name M/F Age Club Time Pl Time Skip
GOLDEN GOAT (10.3 km, 750 m climb, 22 controls [*])
1 Syd Reader M 30 BAOC 1:07:35 1 1:37:56 8
2 Vladimir Gusiatnikov M 29 OCIN 1:11:15 2 1:44:16 8
3 Wyatt Riley M 29 BAOC 1:12:07 5 1:47:05 7
4 Steve Gregg M 45 BAOC 1:12:05 4 1:47:28 8
5 Doug Stein M 33 BAOC 1:13:44 7 1:49:44 8
6 Jim Waite M 46 BAOC 1:12:34 6 1:50:15 8
7 Vadim Masalkov M 33 BAOC 1:11:50 3 1:54:05 8
8 Van Boughner M 35 BAOC 1:25:12 9 2:02:25 8
9 Thorsten Graeve M 34 BAOC 1:24:40 8 2:03:19 7
10 Penny DeMoss F 52 BAOC 1:30:48 10 2:11:02 8
11 Otti Bisang M 47 OLG Basel 1:33:08 13 2:14:12 7
12 Matthias Kohler M BAOC 1:34:06 14 2:16:43 8
13 Tapio Karras M 41 BAOC 1:33:05 12 2:18:39 8
14 Bruce Christopherson M 40 COC 1:30:56 11 2:26:23 7
15 Steve Haas M 55 BAOC 1:34:13 15 2:27:54 8
16 Dan Greene M 47 BAOC 1:39:00 18 2:33:00 7
17 Bill Papendick M BAOC 1:42:55 19 2:42:51 8
18 Doug Bass M 27 SDO 1:51:16 21 2:45:05 7
19 Gavin Wyatt-Mair M 48 BAOC 1:56:40 29 2:54:09 8
20 Mark Blair M 49 BAOC 2:02:30 31 2:56:16 7
21 Vivian Lee F 28 BAOC 1:54:13 28 3:05:33 7
22 Deron van Hoff M 36 BAOC 2:21:44 37 3:09:00 8
23 Rod Jaehn M 40 BAOC 1:42:59 20 3:12:27 7
24 Stew Hintz M 37 GCO 2:16:40 33 3:12:47 7
25 Mark Payne M 25 2:22:48 38 3:19:18 7
26 Theo Verhoeven M 43 BAOC 2:18:23 34 3:34:21 8
27 Terry Farrah F 42 RMOC 2:46:54 42 4:02:27 8
Greg Favor M 1:51:59 24 DNF 7,19-22
GOLDEN KID (7.3 km, 495 m climb, 15 controls [*])
1 Anders Nilsson M 26 1:36:17 16 7
2 Andrejus Masalkovas M 38 BAOC 1:37:09 17 7
3 Marie-Josee Parayre F 28 BAOC 1:51:56 22 7
3 Francois Leonard M 30 BAOC 1:51:56 22 7
5 Kent Ohlund M 45 BAOC 1:53:21 25 8
6 Malcolm Wyatt-Mair M 14 BAOC 1:53:40 26 8
7 Alex Krasnov M 30 BAOC 1:54:01 27 7
8 Nik Weber M 33 GCO 2:01:16 30 8
9 Johan Overby M BAOC 2:04:57 32 8
10 Victoria Lee F 28 2:21:20 35 8
11 Yelena Krasnov F 49 BAOC 2:21:37 36 9
12 Meg Gerstner F 49 BAOC 2:23:20 39 7
12 Alan Glendinning M 47 BAOC 2:23:20 39 7
14 Stacy Goss F 38 BAOC 2:46:44 41 8
15 Gerry Goss M 58 BAOC 2:47:33 43 8
16 Matt Holman M 28 2:50:02 44 9
17 Dan Holman M 30 2:50:10 45 9
18 Sean Campbell M 40 2:54:14 46 7
19 Wes Erck M 56 2:55:02 47 8
20 Segri Rodienov M 2:57:29 48 None
21 Jamaica Lambre M 3:02:56 49 8
21 Giovanni Patella M 31 3:02:56 49 8
21 Tim McGee M 3:02:56 49 8
24 David Ingram M 55 GCO 3:05:32 52 7
25 Oleg Shakhnovsky M 65 BAOC 3:13:22 53 None
26 Greg Olberg M 49 3:15:16 54 None
26 Steve MacLaren M 3:15:16 54 None
28 Jeff Lanam M 46 BAOC 3:20:34 56 7
29 Natasha Gelfand F 26 BAOC 3:23:47 57 8
29 Niloy Mitra M 26 BAOC 3:23:47 57 8
31 Eric Cole M 3:26:01 59 9
32 Laura McKeegan F 46 BAOC 4:11:11 60 7
33 Rob Clima M 38 BAOC 4:11:25 61 7
34 Mel Glouser M 52 4:21:50 62 7
34 Grant Glouser M 27 4:21:50 62 7
Joan Roos F BAOC DNF 8,10-15
Nancy Lindeman F 61 BAOC DNF 6,8-14
John Pagendarm M 39 BAOC DNF 6-15
Larry Pagendarm M 53 BAOC DNF 6-15
Frank Markowitz M 46 BAOC DNF 7,9,13
Angela Glouser F 24 DNF 7-15
Jess Glouser M 82 DNF 7-15
Janell Glouser F 49 DNF 7-15
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"2nd course" indicates the person or group ran the White course first,
but that was ruled as not providing an advantage for the Yellow course.
DNF = Did Not Finish
[*] The statistics for the Goat and Kid are for the whole course,
without skipping a control.
