Vasona Lake - Results
Date: Saturday, May 8, 2004
Location: Los Gatos, CA.
Event Director: - 408.285.5201
Course Setter: Jeff Lanam
Event Type: C; "Come and Try It" event: White & Yellow courses
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Writeup by Jeff Lanam
Nearly 200 people came to this small park in Los Gatos to try the trails and tracks of this tiny tract. Many were first-timers; we had several Scout troops, a YMCA group, and a large group from the John Muir Middle School. This is the second year this map has been used; the attendance at its debut last year was held down by the threat of rain. The weather was more obliging this year; you couldn't ask for better.
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Event AnnouncementAround 172 people did the White course, plus some uncounted shadows. Matthew Yarik of Troop 57 raced around it in 17:52, just ahead of Vivek and Haresh Sunderam at 18:13. The course setter admits an error in putting a control next to the playground. Remarkably, it stayed where it was almost until the end of the day, when two groups from the Y had to track it down and bring it back to its proper place.
Seventeen people tried the Window course (or at largest size, 157k). A map for Window Orienteering consists of small windows around the control areas-the rest of the map is blank. The purpose of this exercise is "to test distance estimation and relocation within the window." I left in the water fountains, for relocation and refreshment. Tapio Karras, who found the course "almost challenging", finished first in 15:49, just ahead of Werner Haag and Dennis Wilkinson. Dennis started orienteering at this year's Stanford meet and did advanced courses at Briones and Joe Grant. I think he's hooked.
I want to thank the people who responded to a cry from an panicked meet director. Esther Haller directed registration, with help from Sharon Evans and Terry Farrah. Marty Katz held down starts most of the day. Robert Lewis, Bill Straka, and Nick Corsano did clinics. Barbara Straka, Tapio, and Terry ran the finish. Most of those people did other things too. Zachi Baharav hung the controls. Audrie Faust secured the permit and Bob Cooley printed the maps. Thanks again to all of you.
Vasona Lake County Park Los Gatos, CA Saturday, May 8, 2004 Results Pl Name Time White Course (2.0 km, 30 m climb, 12 controls) 172 people 1 Matthew Yarak, Nick Gaya, Christopher Tran, Jordan Bernstein, Alex Coblin, Nick Tran 17:52 2 Vivek & Harish Sunderam 18:13 3 Mike, Mikey, & Kevin Szelong, Paul, Richie, & Steven Hansen 19:20 4 Sharon Evans 20:12 5 James Vaughan 21:22 6 Abby Lineberry, John & Vern Ladd, Andrew Iverson 22:37 7 Charles & Jamie Branch, John & Tim Housler, Steve, Max, & Katie Adelman 24:05 8 Garrett Pitsenbarger 24:44 9 Sandra N, Carissa P, Brian L, Louise M, Ella C 24:57 10 Max Neidhardt, Scott Alexander, Stuart Yee 25:06 11 Thanh & Danh Nguyen, Michael Lam, Vincent Tran 25:09 12 Tom & Danny Howland, Perry & Kyle Caro, Dave & Chris McCutcheon 26:36 13 Mas, Jenny, Kate & Kyle Mishimura 26:55 14 Steven Wilbourn, Geoff Dodson 26:59 15 Todd Greenbank, Taylor Heisey, Cody Graef, Samantha Niewoehner 27:15 16 Rehaan Jahanghir, Dmer Zach, Robert & Simon Fox 27:30 17 Rob, Cailley, & Joe Biagini, Bob, Deepa, Namrata, & Akash Caveny 27:37 18 Pete & Pavel Kleer 27:41 19 Steve, Andrea, Danielle, & Nicholas Blonstein 27:42 20 Peter & Olivia Vuong, Thai & Jeannie Pham, Thanh Ta 27:50 21 John Hanley 27:55 22 Courtland Prestemon 28:02 23 Yasmin Khan 28:30 24 Jeremy, Jessica, & Brian Kirshner, Judy Thalherma 29:36 25 Victor Alfaro 30:15 26 Cory & Katie Fasbender, Chris & Helen Cassell 30:25 27 Jeanne Brown, Yvonne Dutreaux 30:36 28 Karel Driesen, Els Von Rossen 30:58 29 Richard & Jon Miller, Eric & Clark Wilson 31:14 30 Roberta & Mark Pitsenbarger 31:48 31 Hansen 32:15 32 Karl & Kyle Gerner, Tom & Tyler Teile 32:52 33 Ben Sklavoff, Clara Chang 33:34 34 Rajesh & Stella Kulkarni, Betty Paul 33:52 35 Tim, Avery, Timothy, & Taylor Swihart 34:03 36 Derek & Dorice Hu 34:49 37 Ryan, Erin, & Phil Mast 35:13 38 Jimmy Chung 35:22 39 Harry Hall 36:06 40 Nick Tran 36:34 41 Archie Stone 36:37 42 Dennis, Melissa, & Molly Wilkinson 37:08 43 Blue Jean Bratz 37:27 44 Randy & Zack Okamura, Peter & Matthew Shepard 38:24 45 Brad & Lisa Melton 38:27 46 Lili Cummins, Dean Hodgins 38:30 47 Avery R., Tanya R., Lauren B., Gabray C., Megan C., Shari C. 41:22 48 Nathan & Mason Hu 41:59 49 Jenny, Sage, Vince, Wendy 43:39 50 Joe & Reed Carter, Peter Economos 44:34 51 Johanna & Jukka Karras 45:05 52 Jeremy Talamantes, Ryan Wilson, Lauren Whitaker, Fana Yohannes, Kidanae Tesfaghiorghis 49:09 53 Young family 50:57 54 Esther & Nicholas Dareau 52:29 55 Srikar & Sritit Bonapally, Mitali & Sonali Shanbhag 55:40 56 Mukta Uday, Uday & Neel Kumar 56:20 56 Suhas, Anuja, Laxmi, & Sushil Panthau 56:20 58 John Olson 1:07:18 59 Lucy Li 1:16:44 60 Emily & Jay Hann 1:34:32 61 Thomas Nguyen, Paulina & Ngoc Tran, Nhung Le, Denny Pham 1:41:37 Viresh, Anjali, & Vaishalie Amin DNF Window Course (2.4 km, 33 m climb, 9 controls) 18 people 1 Tapio Karras 15:49 2 Werner Haag 16:34 3 Dennis Wilkinson 19:02 4 Daniel Sakai 28:27 5 Terry Farrah 31:55 6 Shane Glynn 33:08 7 Barbara Straka 39:07 8 Yerneni family 43:15 9 Bill Straka 46:47 10 Joe Farwell, Nicole Murray 1:45:17 Marty Katz DNF Second Course Victor Alfaro 34:28 James Vaughan 41:42 Yvonne Dutreaux, Jeanne Brown 50:52 John Hanley 1:03:24 Archie Stone DNF _______________ DNF = Did not finish (one or more controls missed)