On May 9, 243 people experienced Indian Valley at its finest, a beautiful spring day at the height of wildflower season. Among the participants were a busload of South Bay girl scouts on a "mystery" expedition. Indian Valley also inaugurated BAOC's 2003 Adventure Racer series with a clinic and a course tailored for adventure racers. About 15 adventure racers were attracted to our event, not a bad beginning!
After preliminary courses had been designed and vetted, we were restricted by park rangers from using a substantial portion of Indian Valley Open Space. All courses had to be quickly redesigned and vetted. Course setters Bill Papendick, Rob Clima and Laura McKeegan performed heroics to get the new courses ready. Although in the end one control was somewhat misplaced too low in a reentrant, most participants were not aware of anything other than BAOC's long tradition of outstanding courses.
The White course was won by the team of Paul Malokas and Charles Thiede running under 10 minutes/kilometer, an excellent pace for first-timers. David Cook was a close second. Another team of Mark Stevens and Robert Rye blasted through the Yellow course, again in under 10 minutes/kilometer. All of these people went on to try Orange as a second course. The Orange course was easily won by Dan Holman in 52 minutes. There was no competition on the Adventure Racers course as Rod Jaehn, an experienced orienteer, outfoxed an assortment of adventure racers.
The Short Brown field was led by Penny DeMoss, Joe Scarborough was tops in the regular Brown, Hannu Haarma had his usual superb run on Green, and the Red/Blue course was bested by Vladimir Gusiatnikov in tight competition with Syd Reader. Among the women of note (besides Penny with her win on Short Brown) was Patty Clemo, who has recently been running well on Brown. Congratulations to everyone who competed!
I am always grateful to the many BAOC volunteers that make our events seem "organized" and "professional", and fun of course. The event at Indian Valley was more challenging than some, with last minute course changes to support. Besides our indomitable course setters of Bill, Rob and Laura, a special thanks goes to Bob Cooley, who was printing maps until the morning of the event. The Indian Valley Volunteer Honor Roll includes: Permits - Rosemary Johnson, Tent Setup - Harold & Penny DeMoss, Starts - Joan Roos, Neil Peterson, Sandy & Tom Guldman, Finish - Leslie Minarik, Bill Straka, Registration - Ev & Jean Beuerman, George & Pat Aster, Esther Heller, Clinics - Scott Aster, Stew Hintz, Ian Tidswell, Greeter - Judy Koehler, E-punch - Evan Custer, Jeff Lanam, Trinka Gillis, Bjorn Widerstrom, Bill Straka, Control Pickup - Steve Gregg, Wes Erck, Mark Blair, Gavin Wyatt-Mair, Bill Papendick. Thank you all.
Below are the results. Also be sure to check out the e-punch splits for the advanced courses.
Pl Name Time
White Course (2.25 km, 70 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Paul Malokas & Charles Thiede 21:23
2 David Cook 23:04
3 Rick, Danny, Nicky & Kyle Tompkins 31:07
4 Jennifer Baltz 32:06
5 John Ludwig, Tom & Joe Soares 35:24
6 Troop 1395 - Calderon (5) 36:46
7 Troop 1393 - Hartman (4) 37:00
8 Troop 250 - Erickson (4) 38:46
9 Rob Wainwright, Howlett & Keller 38:53
10 Troop 313 - Wakefield (3) 40:46
11 Jim & Sammy Cardoza, Brendan Kelley 42:03
12 Rebecca Hogan 42:16
13 Troop 1395 - Bray (5) 42:40
14 Troop 250 - Ledna (5) 47:35
15 Troop 313 - Haley (4) 48:06
16 Elena Livak 49:21
17 Will & Matt Lamers, Sean Rohtla 51:35
18 Ryan & Toomas Rohtla, Mike Sheehan,
Terry Pellegrini 51:40
19 Monique & Nicole Egli, Nate Sheehan,
Kevin Wilmunder 53:40
20 Silva & Kaia Garrity 57:51
21 Don, Will & Peggy Porter 58:27
22 Dean, Denise, Brandon & Anna Joyner 67:00
23 Dave, Dee, Alex & Austin Bufano 81:16
Erik Bodtker DNF Missed #9
Yellow Course (3.05 km, 90 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Mark Stevens, Robert Rye 28:40
2 Stew Hintz 35:13
3 Wes Erck 37:03
4 Sandy & Tom Guldman 39:19
5 Mike, Terri, Ethan & Nolan Angerbauer 48:55
6 Kim Sauve, Heather Patterson 49:46
7 Jeremy Giovannetti, Betsy Cory,
Brandon Crone, Orion Leland 51:12
8 John Pappas, Sheila O'Shea 51:14
9 Patty Crone, Ken Giovannetti,
Gail & Keith Leland 52:19
10 Sean Larson, Adam Hill 53:14
11 Elizabeth, Hardev & Avery Grewal 54:13
12 Michael Pappas 57:18
13 Tom Phelan, Michelle Dick 57:40
14 Lovisa Sonnerstedt 59:35
15 Eric Halseth, Rick MacLachlan 60:35
16 George & Pat Aster 60:49
17 Rodney & Christopher Bush,
Fritz Wagenknecht 66:17
18 Gowan family (3) 66:36
19 Neil Peterson 67:01
20 Debbie Wetmore 68:03
21 Matthew Bye 70:38
22 Dan & Aaron Kalb 71:48
23 George & Terri Warren 72:07
24 John Albrecht, Paul Owen,
Max Wagenknecht, Kyle 72:56
25 Jeremy O'Shea, Drew Lawson 74:25
26 Robin Pomerance 74:29
27 Lehr family (3) 80:49
28 Bob Crankshaw 82:29
29 Joe & Josephine Moore 84:00
30 Andrew Khoo, Margaret Chiu 84:20
31 Ev & Jean Beuerman 85:00
32 Abby, Joseph & Kean Freeman 143:10
John Haviland DNF
Second course
1 John Ludwig, Tom & Joe Soares 46:11
2 Rebecca Hogan 59:25
3 Troop 1395 - Calderon 67:34
4 Will & Matt Lamers 71:49
5 Troop 250 - Ledna 72:38
6 Troop 250 - Erickson 74:38
7 Troop 1393 - Hartman 96:23
8 Troop 313 - Wakefield 97:52
9 Troop 313 - Haley 99:52
Elena Livak DNF Missed #8
Troop 1395 - Bray DNF
Orange Course (4.12 km, 175 m climb, 9 controls)
1 Dan Holman 52:53
2 Chris Delp 1:04:15
3 Mark Stevens, Robert Rye 1:13:47 2nd course
4 David Cook 1:20:50 2nd course
5 John Moss 1:25:32
6 Chris List 1:30:42
7 Ken Livak 1:41:06
8 Brad & Debbie Wetmore 1:46:01 2nd course
9 Bob Sandwina, Marty Lautze 1:46:42
10 TJ Nicholson, Nathan Hamm 1:58:22
11 Cheryl Madson 1:59:09
12 Janeen & Jeff Swan, Steve Kent 2:10:05
13 Jill Custer 2:23:10
Keller DNF
Charles Theid DNF
Steve Rubin, Pete Milovick DNF
Bob Crankshaw DNF 2nd course
Andrew Khoo, Margaret Chiu DNF 2nd course
Dan & Aaron Kalb DNF 2nd course
Adventure-Race Course (5.90 km, 410 m climb, 14 controls)
1 Rod Jaehn (3) 1:27:31
2 Lehigh 1:45:25
3 Ken White 2:26:18
4 Kevin Haugh 2:57:56
Carol Schick-Lyda (USOF) DNF
Ken Lieu, Sandra You, Chad Low,
Ricky Huey DNF
Matt Ericksen (2) DNF
Short Brown Course (3.10 km, 185 m climb, 7 controls)
1 Penny DeMoss 37:59
2 Scott Aster 51:41
3 Harold DeMoss 51:58
4 Dwight Freund (GCO) 59:29
5 Leslie Minarik 1:09:04
6 Barbara Straka 1:40:41
7 Judy Koehler 1:56:23
Brown Course (3.92 km, 230 m climb, 9 controls)
1 Joe Scarborough 47:23
2 George Minarik 50:36
3 James Wilson 51:50
4 Ian Tidswell 52:32
5 Trevor Pering 54:11
6 Patty Clemo 1:04:58
7 Joan Roos 1:06:59
8 Johanna Merriss 1:08:28
9 Bjorn Widerstrom 1:08:44
10 David Osterstrom, Daniel Johansson 1:08:45
11 Brad Wetmore 1:09:48
12 Matt Holman 1:10:27
13 Bobby Poon 1:11:59
14 Nick Corsano 1:14:53
15 Laura McKeegan, Rob Clima 1:16:52
16 JD Ahearn 1:21:44
17 Cathy Bolger, Ken Renworth 1:23:38
18 Trinka Gillis 1:26:06
19 Beatrix Paal, Tom Wiseman 1:32:40
20 Jeff & James Tait 1:34:58
21 K. Bayler 1:40:13
22 Vic Revenko 1:52:32
23 Nancy Lindeman 2:11:32
Elliott Delaye DNF
Green Course (5.20 km, 290 m climb, 11 controls)
1 Hannu Haarma 59:46
2 Werner Haag 1:08:44
3 Bill Wright 1:12:14
4 Bob Cooley 1:15:21
5 Evan Custer 1:15:22
6 Chuck Spalding 1:15:54
7 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 1:21:16
8 Rick Lavine (ROC) 1:30:36
9 Eric Rosenzweig 1:32:20
10 Dayle Lavine (ROC) 1:34:42
11 Jeff Lanam 2:03:16
12 Rosemary Johnson 2:30:38
Blue/Red Course (6.18 km, 360 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 1:00:45
2 Syd Reader 1:03:39
3 Steve Gregg 1:05:54
4 Matthias Kohler 1:09:23
5 Juha Heinonen 1:09:55
6 Vadimas Masalkovas 1:15:09
7 Andrejus Masalkovas 1:17:28
8 Mutsumi Sugizaki 1:17:50
9 Dan Greene 1:19:32
10 Jeff Lewis 1:19:39
11 Kent Ohlund 1:20:31
12 CJ Powers 1:30:48
13 Sunny Tam 1:36:10
14 Chuck Lyda (USOF) 1:45:49
15 Peter Graube 1:48:22
16 Travis Parker, Maria Hastings 1:51:53
17 Mark Blair 1:59:09
18 Vivian Lee 2:07:00
Devin Prouty DNF
Ralph Pilley DNF
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DNF = Did not finish