Huddart Park - Results
Date: SATURDAY, February 14, 2004
Location: Woodside, CA.
Contact: - (650) 312-7381
Type: C; "Come and Try It" event: White & Yellow courses
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Writeup by Mike Fleishman
The club experienced an outstanding turnout at Huddart Park for this rare Saturday meet. Although the weather had been threatening rain, nearly 200 runners showed up to run the white and yellow courses, and most were orienteering for the first time. In this regard, Nancy Lindeman, Theo Verhoeven, and Jeff Lanam did an outstanding job of providing briefings for the newcomers. Meanwhile Don Larsen and Chuck Spalding did the thankless job of sorting out the groups and getting them off to a good start. Chuck has been a tireless volunteer at both of my Huddart Park meets and deserves a special thanks for his efforts. At the finish line, the results were diligently recorded by Eric Bone, Brad Johanson, Andrew Garner and Matthias Kohler. As always, Everett and Jean Beuerman did a wonderful job of greeting and registering the eager participants. Stephanie McCain, in addition to helping by reporting an injured runner, teamed up with Cayla Whitney to hang the results. Thanks to everyone for a great effort.
The White Course was run by 97 new orienteers combined into 31 separate groups. The winners were a group comprised of Karim Poonja, David Evans, and Tyler Gorzynski, which ran the course in 23:52, beating the field by over seven minutes. They were followed by Will & Susan Ryan who beat out Susan Blair by one second for second place. Fifteen groups finished in the following ten minutes between 31:50 and 41:07. The fastest time of the day on White (21:45) was actually run by Jane Booth who had already run the Yellow course (finishing 7th with her partner David King). The two apparently had not had enough after the Yellow, and split up to run White as a second course. David was a few minutes behind at 23:59.
There was a major spread among the Yellow course finishers ranging from the winner Dan Dwyer, who ran the course in 37:09 to a number of runners who took over two hours to complete the course. Behind Dan was Alexey Shulgin in second place at 38:36, and Irena Artemieva in third at 42:55. In all 89 people (in 41 groups) ran the Yellow Course for their first run, and another eight groups totaling 20 competitors ran the Yellow Course after trying the White.
This was a second attempt to revisit a park that we have not used in a number of years. The rangers do not want runners to go off-trail, and want to know the exact routes runners are taking. Therefore, it would be impossible to have either advanced courses or a Score-O. There are also financial constraints that make it difficult to hold a meet in this park on any day other than a Saturday in the off-season. However, we now have the map on CAD and are keeping up with trail changes so despite the shortcomings, its close-in location makes it useful as a training site. If anyone would like old maps to use for workouts, please .
Huddart Park Woodside, CA Saturday, February 14, 2004 Results Pl Name Time White Course (1.6 km, 90 m climb, 9 Controls) 1 Karim Poonja, David Evans, Tyler Gorzynski 23:52 2 Will & Susan Ryan 30:57 3 Susan Blair 30:58 4 Bryan, Hershal, Quang, Paul 31:50 5 Anita & Lakshmi Yerneni 33:50 6 Tom, Kim, & Jeff Stein 35:35 7 Kevin Gibbons, Roger Hau, Sonny Maxoy 35:37 8 Jesus & Estebon Valencia (Pack 213, Den 2) 36:44 9 Kristen Pitsenbarger, Sammie Stein 36:48 10 Michael Lynch, Brian Kopleck, Dylan Gorzynski 37:00 11 Marc & Audrey Struve (plus three others) 37:20 12 Kim, Hadrian, & Blaec Rowden 37:27 13 William, Danielle, & Adam Strauss 37:34 14 Valerie, Ann, Louise, & Grace Marquino 38:32 15 Eileen Candelaria 40:10 16 Brad & Lisa Melton 40:23 17 Ashwath Chennapan (Pack 213, Den 2) 40:32 18 Dave, Linda, Nicky, & Theresa Klug 41:07 19 Jaakko, Jahha, & Johanna Karras 43:29 20 Rick & Eric Jones (Pack 213) 44:30 21 Jim & Ann Myers 46:24 22 Chris Johnston 47:00 23 Tim, Jeanine, Sam, & Lauren Grillo 53:41 24 Pack 61 Explorers (group of 9) 55:20 25 Stephanie McCain, Cayla Whitney 57:31 26 Girl Scouts Troops 100 & 129 (group of 8) 60:10 27 Cristina, Amanda, & Katrina Lee, Sammi Shea, Ted Silva 65:20 28 Kyle, Leilani, Niki, & Kimberly DeWitt 68:55 29 Chris, Marj, & Phil Moehrke 71:59 30 Zachi, Tavor, & Peter Baharav 85:11 31 Lucy Li (plus two shadowing adults) 133:40 Second Course Jane Booth 21:45 David King 23:59 Yellow Course (3.5 km, 180 m climb, 14 controls) 1 Dan Dwyer 37:09 2 Alexey Shulgin 38:36 3 Irena Artemieva 42:55 4 Ramana Yerneni 43:43 5 Matthew Mattson 45:28 6 David Jorgensen 47:29 7 David King, Jane Booth 51:36 8 Jeff Lanam 52:38 9 Kevin & Brenda Harrington, Denise & Linda Ebright 57:48 10 Steve Beuerman 57:58 11 Jackie Wong, Rebeca Hwang 61:32 12 Brian & Jeremy Kirshner 64:12 13 Nancy Lindeman 64:14 14 Anna Strauss 64:43 15 Phillip Hoare 68:53 16 Bishu Ganguly 70:12 17 Keith Simmons, Christina Lee 71:31 18 Shawn Larsen, Kevin Cowels 73:49 19 Ann & Matthew Cowels 82:08 20 William, Rachel, Sydnie, & Logan Wilson 83:13 21 Ritz & Macdoran 83:47 22 Andrew Garner (with Brad Johanson) 85:51 23 Hongche, Sarah, Quess, Gus, & Sabrina Liu 88:51 24 Sean Hiller 94:46 25 Denise, Garcia & Mary Harrington, Joel Ebright 98:28 26 Tyler & Travis Weger 98:45 27 Carl, Sarah, Gavin, & David Williams 100:13 28 Ruth Cunningham, Julie Heath 100:58 29 Jean & Erica Strauss, Isabel & Christina Souto, Kelly Ward 101:25 30 Karin Yusba, Jim Sicolo 104:53 31 Harry Hall 107:15 32 HS School (group of 4) 109:37 33 Edmund, Kyra, Katie, & Joe Johnson 110:09 34 Virginia, John, Susan, Connor, & Mary Hood 111:42 35 Diane Hall, Cathy Whitney 117:18 36 Alex Young 119:22 37 Michael Hall, Ryan Tubongbanua 125:58 38 Nicole & Trevor Weger, Anne & Caleb Ling, Michelle & Zander Dragony (Team HMB) 130:16 39 Marwin Balanza, Alex Mendoza, Jary Nhouv, Jantha Toeurn (ROTC) 160:04 40 P. Markovich, Z. Gore, J. Cousland, R. Chavez, K. Tramell, R. Flores -- Elsie Allen High School (JROTC) 164:40 Jim Fish MSP Manuel Platino MSP Second Course Kevin Gibbons, Roger Hau, Eric Bruins 55:16 Jim Fish 55:58 Bryan Peterson, Quang Nguyen, Hershal Patel 64:01 Kim, Tom, & Jeff Stein 73:46 Michael Lynch, David Evans, Brian Kopleck, Dylan Gorzynski 89:31 Kristen Pitsenbarger, Sammie Stein 93:17 Susan Blair 107:00 Karim Poonja, Sunny Maxey, Tyler Gorzynski 117:40 _______________ MSP = Mispunch (one or more incorrect controls)