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Date: Sunday, March 14, 2004
Location: Santa Rosa, CA.
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Type: C;"Come and Try It" event: White & Yellow courses
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Writeup by Scott Aster
A beautiful day greeted about 180 particiapants to our semi-annual meet at Spring Lake County Park this last Sunday (March 14). The bright sunshine, green grass, minimal poison oak, and proximity to St. Patrick's Day, all conspired to make this a great event.
A large number of juniors came out, including Boy Scouts, Home School association members, and about 50 Junior ROTC cadets from San Francisco. We also had a sprinkling of "regular" club members, most of whom seemed intrigued by the "Irish-O" course I set.
While most participants tried the standard White & Yellow courses, 19 daring souls took on my attempt of setting a course in the unpredictable spirit of the upcoming St. Patrick's Day Holiday. To create a fun challenge, I set a course that ran all over the park, with controls set at (what would normally be) yellow and orange technical levels. This was not a normal course however. With the wonderful ability of OCAD, I removed all trails, roads, and parking lots from the map, forcing participants to not only use other means of navigation, but to try not to be confused by the all the unmapped trails etc. I also made this course a "Phantom-O", meaning that while there were 15 controls showing on everyone's map, only 10 controls were actually set. This forced people to be very confident about their navigation and to be willing to move on quickly when they got to a control location, and there was no bag to be seen.
Coments from finishers on this course varied from "Great", "Fun", "Challenging", to "Sadistic", "Twisted", and "Cruel to older runners" (actual quotes). I tripped up several participants by making consecutive contols "Phantom" controls. A couple finishers couldn't believe I would be that mean, but I blame it all on the Leprechauns who made me do it!
Rex O'Winterbottom managed to win the Irish-O course, and thus won the $50 gift certificate. Good job laddie!
I wish to thank all the great people who stepped in and helped me make this event a success. Judy Koehler publicised the event heavily and gave instructional clinics and helped pick up controls. Gary Kraght worked a variety of jobs all day long, including control pickup at the end. Greg Logan was a very cheerful aid at the start area, along with Dick and Bette Koehler, and first timer Dave Knox, who not only placed an impressive 3rd on the Yellow course, but then stuck around and helped us at the start line! Bob Cooley printed out the maps and created the Irish-O map. George & Pat Aster worked registration all day long. Nina Wyatt-Mair helped at the finish line. Joan Roos gave clinics, and Martin Taylor helped with setup and starts.
We'll be back at Spring Lake in the fall for National Orienteering Day. Be prepared for more "alternative" courses!
Results: Some names were hard to figure out the spelling from the entry forms. JROTC teams competed on Yellow and one Irish group. They came from Washington, Lowell, and Galileo High Schools in San Francisco. Thanks for coming out!
Spring Lake County Park
Santa Rosa, CA
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Results
Pl Name Time
White Course (2.8 km, 35 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Gary & Erika Smith 50:19
2 Seamus & Neil Guerin 52:20
3 Len, Michael, & Kevin Pedrazzini 54:12
4 Sonia Nuss 56:47
5 Clinton Jang, Sabrina Jang, Andrew Leung,
Sharon Cheng, Holly Lam, Judy Vuong 61:02
6 April, Michael, & Nicole Querica 65:17
7 Richard & Duncan Hatch 65:17
8 Ann & Steve Adams 65:17
9 Dan, Kyle, & Krystram Heien 67:28
10 Rich & Dylan Geasland 67:28
11 Clay, Chas, & Gus Christiansen 67:28
12 Terry, Lanette, Camille, Adrienne, Mia, &
Julian 68:35
13 Jayne & Joshua Kluger 77:46
14 Becky Montrose 78:31
15 Carolyn & Zachery Radocaj, Melissa & Connor
Farley 80:37
16 Robin & Harrison Kauth 81:51
17 Juliette, Alexis, & Miranda Pokorny 115:17
Yellow Course (4.0 km, 115 m climb, 13 controls)
1 David Cervone 52:51
2 Adam Citarella 60:30
3 Dave Knox 70:12
4 Tom & Joe Soares, John Ludwig 70:53
5 Marcella & Ingrid Canelo 73:13
6 Martin Taylor 76:43
7 Laura & Terry White 77:19
8 Roberto Chavez, Kolby Trannell,
Paul Markovich, Rodrigo Flores 78:05
9 Paul McNiel, Ranelle Calub, Raymond Chan,
Daniel Chin 78:08
10 Rich Turner, Jill Thompson 81:40
11 Jim Fish 84:54
12 Darren & Lotta Black 88:14
13 Ashley Lake, Michael Trevino,
Dakota Blackwelder 88:45
14 Tom Dakan, Johannes Druehl 88:48
15 Nina Wyatt-Mair 91:00
16 Warren Ng, Carl Lee, Nettie More,
Jeanette Li, Benton Yee 93:00
17 Susan Lehr, Mark Milberg, Gregory & Karle 93:04
18 Chris & Phil Moehrke, Steve & Kevin Yum 95:17
19 Charles Lee, Justin Ha, Gloria Ng,
Kimberly Bui 96:05
20 Mory, Armro, Sonny, Denise, Camille 98:00
21 Jennifer Pang, Diana Tobar, Kim Tran,
Jeffrey Wong 99:19
22 Martin & Lisa McKeacy 100:02
23 Paul Hernandez, Nicholas Ng, Daniel Lee 101:01
24 Terry & Barbara Dill 103:02
25 Richard W., Jason B., Peter C., Hernadi B. 103:20
26 Emily & David Sims 104:29
27 Karen Li, Jannie Li, Malanie Ngo,
Pim Yungungksuk 108:37
28 Ken & Shane Wallace 112:09
29 Lee & Adam Van Dekerchove 113:35
30 Stephanie Stewart, Andy Zhu, Marshawn Egu 114:25
31 James McLaughlin, Don Dakan, Alika Gacusana 123:16
32 Sonza & Bob Van Herick 127:08
33 Mark, Anna, Leslie, & Lucas Irwin 127:37
34 George & Terri Warren 131:41
35 Carl & Gavin Williams 133:06
36 Andrew & Paul Yen 134:17
37 Simone Wilson, Creighten & Colton Bell 135:20
38 Manuel Ferman, Kevin Wong, Richard Sim 138:49
39 Ben Ford, Judy May, Tim Carrey,
Leah Christopher 146:51
Alexander Ankrom, Raymond Ng, Rubi Sanchez,
Tom Huang DNF
Kelii Bibar, Kurt Saechao, Dyrelena Adams,
Jarij Nhouv, Alex Mendoza DNF
Irish Course (4.1 km, 135 m climb, 10 of 15 controls)
1 Rex Winterbottom 60:19
2 Malcom Wyatt-Mair 63:30
3 Matt Strother 73:23
4 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 88:15
5 William Gilmore 91:01
6 Terry Ward, Andrew Polik 91:53
7 Bjorn Widerstrom 98:49
8 Dwight Freund 104:43
9 Terry Szucsko 109:31
10 Trinka Gillis 118:28
11 Arwen Wyatt-Mair 148:17
12 Kelsey Wyatt-Mair 150:18
Leif Lundquist DNF #9
Bobby Poon DNF #14
Neil Peterson DNF #13
Daniel Le, Douglas Ballard (Lowell H.S. JROTC) DNF #13,14,15
Jim Fish DNF #2,3,13
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DNF = Did not finish (one or more controls missed)
