Golden Gate Park
Date: Saturday, July 17, 2004
Location: San Francisco, CA.
Event Director: - 415.566.7990
Course Setters: Leif Kirschenbaum
Type: C; White, Yellow, and Orange Courses
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Writeup by Deron van Hoff
The orienteering courses seem to be getting better and better at Golden Gate Park since Leif Kirschenbaum and I first attempted course setting at the 2002 event. The first year saw many doglegs and rather obvious route choices. We were able to remove the doglegs the second year, but route choice was still not where it should be. All the credit goes to Leif this year for setting courses that involved some route choice in a park where this is honestly tough to do. The heavy network of trails and roads makes this event part orienteering and part trail running, and Leif did a good job at emphasizing the orienteering as much as possible.
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Event AnnouncementA special thanks to our pre-runners this year. Thiago Ghilardi pre-ran the Long Orange course and spent about 20 minutes searching for the elusive, missing control no. 13. He might have finished in the top three if not for that. Jean van Hoff and Gary Truce pre-ran the Yellow course, and Johannes van Hoff pre-ran the White course. In all, two controls were completely missing from the evening before, and one control was misplaced. Without their efforts, we could have had an unhappy orienteering bunch.
Others that helped enormously with the effort were: Bob Cooley printed the maps; Daryl Frame helped set out the white and yellow controls the day before the event; registration was chaired by Scott Aster with help from Gary Kraght, Vic Revenko, and Brad Zuchero; Rosemary Johnson and Judy Koehler provided beginners clinics; starts were handled by Chuck Spalding, Johannes van Hoff, and Leif Kirshenbaum; and finishes were handled by Jean van Hoff and Gary Truce. Gary took a day of his vacation in San Francisco to help out. Gary is from Binghamton University in upstate New York, where he has been the long-distance coach for the track team. Finally, Chuck Spalding, Andrea Shepherd, Leif Kirshenbaum, Daryl Frame, Jean van Hoff, Johannes van Hoff, and Gary Truce picked up controls.
Fiona Gersh won the white course in 31:43. Threesomes came in second and third, with Andrew, Kelvin, and Holly finishing in 38:26 and Clinton, Sharon, and Judy finishing in 50:28. On Yellow, Andrew Gersh completed the one-two punch for the Gersh family with a winning time of 34:42. Ed Collins and Susan Ryan finished in second and third place, respectively.
Penny DeMoss appears to have had an errorless run over the 5.6 kilometer Orange course. She finished over 8 minutes ahead of everyone else in a winning time of 42:41. Gary Kraght was in second with a time of 51:06, and Brad Zuchero and George Minarik tied for third with the same times of 54:08. Mark Prior snuck in a run after his duties organizing the orienteering leg of the Red Tail Adventure Race at Briones Park. He bettered his second place finish of last year with a winning time of 55:42 over the 8.4 kilometer Long Orange course. Martin Kunz finished a close second in 56:57, and Tapio Karras finished in third with a time of 68:32. Liv Klemetsaune finished first among the women in a very good time of 69:55.
The attendance was about two-thirds of the normal attendance at the Golden Gate Park event, most likely because of being held on a Saturday this year. The breakdown of entries for the various classes are as follows: White - 16 entries, Yellow - 28 entries, Orange - 34 entries, and Long Orange - 19 entries.
Results Pl Name Time White Course (2.5 km, 10 controls) 1 Fiona Gersh 31:43 2 Andrew & Kelvin Leung, Holly Lam 38:26 3 Clinton Jang, Sharon Cheng, Judy Vuong 50:28 4 Jim Carroll 52:39 5 Josh & Sheila Adams 53:25 6 Linda Grimes, Anna Kennedy 53:37 7 Diane Hall, Suellen & Isabel Haggerty 54:55 8 Naho Yoshida, Marcel Good 56:06 9 DaMarlynn & Linda Wright 59:05 10 Jacqueline Haggerty, Janki Sheth 61:18 11 Robert, Elsa, Claudia, & Monique Carvalho 66:08 12 Snow, William, Shane, & Chance Ford 76:27 13 Joe Schmidt 78:39 14 Linda Zittel, Sasha Chordas 112:11 Jennifer Mar DNF Rory & Jamie MacLean DNF Yellow Course (3.0 km, 11 controls) 1 Andrew Gersh 34:42 2 Ed Collins 38:04 3 Susan Ryan 42:21 4 Susann Novalis 45:59 5 Yerneni family 60:51 6 Susan Paul 63:12 7 Hermann Wackler 66:19 8 George & Pat Aster 70:47 9 Dinesh Moorjani 71:50 10 Kristi Burton, Amber Bradley 73:41 11 Jean van Hoff, Gary Truce (pre-runners) 75:00 12 Jessica Sheldon, Michael Hickey 82:15 13 Amy & Jim Chapman 82:40 14 Matt & Tak Hirai 92:38 15 Ken & Halina Repp 95:08 16 Ben Friedlander 97:52 17 Doug Wilson, Cathie Feiler 100:11 18 Sue Rosenof, Peter Thelin 102:11 19 Scott Walker, Brandy Rose 105:39 20 Brad & Lisa Melton 112:03 21 Peter Shaw, Sam Chordas, Adam Zittel 171:04 Andrea Shepherd DNF Robin Pomerance DNF Tish Souza, Sue Mace DNF Jukka Karras DNF Emily & Jay Hann DNF Eric Burris DNF Second Course Diane Hall, Jacqueline Haggerty, Janki Sheth 86:54 Orange Course (5.6 km, 14 controls) 1 Penny DeMoss 42:41 2 Gary Kraght 51:06 3 Brad Zuchero 54:08 3 George Minarik 54:08 5 Evan Custer 57:58 6 Reed Moulds 65:57 7 John Brown 68:08 8 Leslie Minarik 68:35 9 Daryl Frame 71:05 10 Bruce Cannon, Karen Peterson 74:06 11 Gabrielle Jamison, Eddie Johnston, Kevan Corbett 81:57 12 Tom, David, & Sandra Kendall 88:35 13 Alan Houser 88:48 14 Rosemary Johnson 88:53 15 Kevin Harrington, Denise Ebright, Tim, Jake, & Davis Cecchin 89:33 16 William Dvorak 91:35 17 Hongche Liu 105:26 18 Rajesh Kulkarni 105:42 19 Don Gee 106:31 20 Scott & Nancy Shaw 108:36 21 Jeff Levin, Patrick Lane 108:53 22 Chris Hann 109:59 23 Nate Hirai, Lisa Childers 111:31 24 Nancy Lindeman 112:26 25 Judy Koehler 113:11 26 Peter Williams, Elaine Ireland 123:00 27 Scott Hann, Anita King 132:41 28 Liz Johns, Elias Morales 132:45 29 Yishuen Chin, Merilyn Umboh, Peklui Cheng, Anny Lee 136:46 30 Katherine & Peter Pulido 140:49 31 Nancy Flagg, Lucy Bunch 146:40 Brad Jacobs DNF Don & Debbie Billings DNF Second Course Joe Schmidt 155:53 Long Orange Course (8.4 km, 23 controls) 1 Mark Prior 55:42 2 Martin Kunz 56:57 3 Tapio Karras 68:32 4 Derek MacLean 69:10 5 Liv Klemetsaune 69:55 6 Steve Haas 73:41 7 Chuck Spalding 74:16 8 Rod Jaehn 76:32 9 Eric Rosenzweig 79:29 10 Ian Tidswell 82:22 11 Brian Hart 85:02 12 Thiago Ghilardi (pre-runner) 86:15 13 Tomer Maymon 87:47 14 Phillip Hoare, Mary Anne Pedroni 105:58 15 Michael & Max Behrens 106:58 16 Jim Fish 154:08 17 Vic Revenko 173:17 18 Ruth Cooper, Ellen Stefaniak 184:35 Second Course Susann Novalis DNF _______________ DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)