China Camp State Park
Date: (Sun.) Jul. 10, 2005
Location: San Rafael, CA
Event Director: 
- 415.479.4262
Course Setter: Rex Winterbottom
Type: B; Standard White through Blue courses
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Event Write-Up
By Bill Papendick
We had a wonderful turn out with warm weather and clear skies for orienteering at China Camp State Park on Sunday, July 10, 2005. There were 238 participants, with 158 entries, on eight standard-length courses. Yellow had the most entries with 29, but surprisingly, Red had the second most with 25 entries, followed by Blue and Orange with 22. Rex Winterbottom set some very runnable courses that were similar to a long sprint. Many runners said they enjoyed their courses and the different format. No one missed the punishing climb in the upper reaches of the park.
Jimmy and Mai Chung won the 1.8 kilometer White course with a time 29:33, but less than a minute away was Don and Liam Bartling with a time of 30:07.
The Yellow course of 2.8 km provided a tight finish with Jukka Karras (29:39) edging out Greg Barber (30:30) by just under a minute.
The two top orienteerers on Orange completed the 3.7 km and 225m-climb course in less than 60 minutes. Jaakko Karras burned up the course in 52:30, and Jon Bonwick navigated it in 56:39.
Long Orange had only 6 participants. Adam Citarella had the fastest time of 86:34 for the 6.1 km course.
Brown had some fast times, with five runners breaking the one-hour mark on the 3.2 km course. Gary Kraght had a great run at 48:49, which was more than 4 minutes faster than Todd Paulsen.
The top four individuals on the 4.2 km Green course finished within 5 minutes of each other. Malcolm Wyatt-Mair won with a time of 56:39, and George Minarik was just a few minutes behind. Evan Custer and Bob Cooley were just a couple minutes behind George.
Three men completed the popular Red course of 5.6 km and 275 m climb within three minutes of each other. Matthias Kohler successfully avoided downed trees and completed the course in 1:05:33. Second place was very close with Tapio Karras three seconds ahead of Bruce Wolfe.
Mikkel Conradi did the long Blue course of 6.6 km and 375 m climb in a rapid time of 1:10:34, which is less than 11 minutes per kilometer.
I would like to thank all of the people who helped put on this successful event. First, Rosemary Johnson painstakingly received the necessary insurance endorsements to allow us permission to use the State Park. These forms were finally received the Wednesday before the meet.
Rex Winterbottom set all of the courses, field checked, and hung the controls. He also worked at advanced starts, sitting in the hot sun all day.
Steve Gregg helped Rex with the difficult job of inputting the courses on the computer, reviewing them, and submitting them to Bob Cooley to print. He also vetted the courses, and during the day of the event single handedly set up the e-punch unit and ran the e-punch download station until Evan Custer took over.
Thanks also are extended to Evan Custer for manning the download station and posting the advance results shortly after the end of meet.
Scott Aster was an invaluable consultant on the beginning courses. He vetted the beginning courses and made a few suggestions. He greeted people as they arrived and assisted in managing the flow of people to registration and the starts. He also helped with finishes.
Bob Cooley printed the maps under a rather short time frame. We all appreciate his time and effort of providing the club with the indispensable job of map printing.
The registration crew was headed by Gary Kraght and assisted by first-timers Dan Dwyer and Jackie Wong. Dan also did a beginners clinic when the need arose. Thank you so much for the excellent job with registration.
On the morning of the event, Bud Laird helped me with set up. He helped with beginner starts until his relief came at 11:00.
Anne Gorby's delightful laugh was heard at finishes, where she recorded the finishing time and calculated the time spent on the course.
Joan Roos took some time greeting people before her run, and afterwards she left for Canada.
Judy Koehler was a big help with greeting and directing everyone in the right direction. Judy conducted the beginner's clinics, introducing all the newcomers to the sport of orienteering. She also assisted in tracking down and verifying the one group whose control card was missing. Judy also contacted various newspapers to provide publicity for the BAOC.
Pick up crew was finished in record time by: Harold and Penny DeMoss, Mark Blair, Leslie and George Minarik, Nancy Lindeman, and Peter Graube.
Mark Rice was one of the first runners and then helped replace a control that was missing on White.
Ian volunteered to present an Adventure Racers clinic, but it was not needed with the low turnout of adventure racers.
I extend my apologies to anyone that I have not recognized for volunteering.
Two items of clothing were left behind. If you have misplaced a T-shirt or long-sleeve shirt, let me know.
Results
China Camp State Park
San Rafael, CA
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Pl Name(s) Time
White Course (1.8 km, 25 m climb, 7 controls)
1 Jimmy & Mai Chung 29:33
2 Don & Liam Bartling 30:07
3 Troop 888 family (Los Altos) 30:54
4 Sarah Liu 34:23
5 Jeralyn Coursey, Doug Brown 35:04
6 Peter, Alan, & PJ Winder 39:11
7 Susan Chang 39:58
8 Shakib Ghassemieh 40:14
9 Brad & Lisa Melton 40:30
10 Tavor Baharav &d Kerrie 43:34
11 Jen & Charlie O'Neil 45:44
12 Barbara Ziegenhals, Sally Morgan 46:03
13 Sue Mace Tish Souza 46:06
14 Troop 888 boys (Los Altos) 51:40
15 Eileen Dorsey 51:31
16 BSA 333: Tim & Tom Mansell,
Jacob Mason, Steven Lee,
Mike & Nathan Baeyens 53:34
17 Steve Turgeon, Boyd Potts,
Max Zerrudo-Turgeon 56:04
Yellow Course (2.8 km, 100 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Jukka Karras 29:39
2 Greg Barber 30:30
3 Alex Kiperman 44:24
4 Dinesh Moorjani 48:43
5 Beth Dameron 53:58
6 Brian & Rick Seegers (Troop 24) 59:45
7 Ellie Li, Michael Chan 63:01
8 Sam & Erin Larsen 66:06
9 George & Pat Aster 66:15
10 Idalia Larsen 68:04
11 Carol Levin, Wayne Riddle 68:39
12 David & Joshua Murphy 69:02
13 Janet Kan, Kelvin Ng 73:52
14 David Springer 75:19
15 Janet Stein 76:10
16 Bryce & Kevin Killingsworth 77:10
17 Team Run DMC (Duncan Matthews) 77:39
18 Galena Shakhnovsky 78:40
19 Quess & Gus Liu 81:41
20 Eileen Candelaria, Scott & Jeremy
Curtis 83:29
21 Anna Griffin 85:54
22 Gary Larsen 87:02
23 Jayne, Ted Josh, Pam Krawiec,
Nick & Will Kluger, Kayla LaBuda 89:53
24 McKeay Family 99:19
25 Dolores Shotton, Barbara O'Grady 107:09
26 Silva & Kaia Garrity, John
Sheppard, Robin & Lia Vanderale 109:22
27 Troop 74: Mark & Jordan Padgett,
Keith & Garrett Winters 174:47
Brian McDonald, Claire Sebahar,
Kevin Whitclaw, James & Sam Reilly DNF (Card Missing)
Second Course
Shakib Ghassemieh 83:19
Orange Course (3.7 km, 225 m climb, 9 controls)
1 Jaakko Karras 52:30
2 Jon Bonwick 56:39
3 John Turner 71:59
4 Greg Ehrensing 88:06
5 Marcus Ryan, Noah Winters 96:35
6 Adam Ruskin, Eric Wilkinson 102:04
7 Patricia Ross, Rhea & Bob Yauch,
Don Lillin 102:59
8 Steve O'Keefe 104:45
9 Erin Magers, Chris Ryalls 105:52
10 Anne Gorby 107:51
11 Jeff Hanson 108:49
12 Rick Boyer 113:23
13 Web Jordan, Linda Koziol 122:04
14 John Juarez, Robert Schlaffer,
Kurt Wolf, Mark Bott,
John Gelert, Maurizio Lezama 125:41
15 Ray Jannson, Ted Whiton 132:46
16 Jeff Levin, Patrick Lane 133:59
17 Jane Ferguson, Mary Linkin 162:36
Thoms O'Donnell, Wassim Ghannoum DNF
Kevin Walker DNF
Boyd Potts DNF
Peter Williams, Elaine Ireland,
Bethlamy DNF
Second Course
David & Joshua Murphy DNF
Long Orange Course (6.1 km, 300 m climb, 18 controls)
1 Adam Citarella 86:34
2 Debbie Wojtowicz 96:08
3 Craig A Benson 101:56
4 Christopher Moore 102:48
5 Karen Cook 114:10
6 Eric Burris 157:41
Brown Course (3.2 km, 125 m climb, 12 controls)
1 Gary Kraght 48:49
2 Todd Paulsen 53:04
3 Jackie Wong 54:21
4 Zachi Baharav 56:53
5 Oleg Shakhnosky 59:38
6 Terry Gleason 1:02:08
7 Leslie Minarik 1:05:15
8 Chris Roper 1:06:49
9 Michael Behrens 1:14:03
10 Lauren Knight 1:16:57
11 Jeff Lanam 1:23:41
12 Vic Revenko 1:26:19
13 Tom Cronin 1:29:04
14 Alan Houser 1:32:46
15 Judy Koehler 1:46:31
16 Philippe Tapon 1:47:24
17 Dean French 1:57:46
18 Nancy Lindeman 2:01:50
Hongchi Liu DNF
Green Course (4.2 km, 200 m climb, 16 controls)
1 Malcolm Wyatt-Mair 56:39
2 George Minarik 59:29
3 Evan Custer 1:01:24
4 Bob Cooley 1:01:31
5 Alex Saltman 1:06:12
6 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 1:10:44
7 Theo Verhoeven 1:15:50
8 Chad Davis 1:25:07
9 Joan Roos 1:41:04
10 Mark Rice 1:43:14
11 Dave Ingram 1:44:17
12 Jennifer Kerr 1:47:26
13 Luc Poppe 1:57:02
14 Frederick Lee 2:11:02
15 Rosemary Johnson 2:12:23
Jennifer Ratay DNF
Philip Hoare DNF
Leif Kirschenbaum DNF
Red Course (5.6 km, 275 m climb, 23 controls)
1 Matthias Kohler 1:05:33
2 Tapio Karras 1:07:44
3 Bruce Wolfe 1:07:47
4 Ian Tidswell 1:11:32
5 Kent Ohlund 1:12:10
6 Derek MacLean 1:15:05
7 Dan Dwyer 1:19:02
8 Mark Blair 1:20:44
9 Deron van Hoff 1:21:21
10 Donatas Zigmantos 1:24:02
11 Werner Haag 1:25:06
12 Chuck Spalding 1:29:51
13 Brad Wetmore 1:33:20
14 Russell Neilson 1:35:20
15 Tony Pinkham 1:36:38
16 Eric Rosebzweig 1:38:03
17 Eugene Kiperman 1:40:32
18 Joe Knapp 1:48:16
19 Paul Kotturi, Toby Ferguson 1:48:40
20 Bud Laird 1:53:51
21 Gery Swallow 1:57:43
22 Leon Berzins 1:59:00
23 Kevin Schoenfeld 2:05:58
24 Trevor Swallow 2:19:06
Blue Course (6.6 km, 375 m climb, 26 controls)
1 Mikkel Conradi 1:10:34
2 Mattias Vangbo 1:17:20
3 Sergey Grushin 1:20:19
4 Vlad Gusiatnikov 1:21:24
5 Syd Reader 1:22:18
6 Ian Marsden 1:28:30
7 Mattias Eriksson 1:32:06
8 Piers Newbery 1:39:14
9 Attila Nagy 1:39:59
10 Pascal Corpet 1:40:28
11 Mutsumi Sugizaki 1:41:30
12 Penny DeMoss 1:43:13
13 Gregory Khanlarov 1:51:04
14 Jeffrey Schapiro 1:57:24
15 Scott Porter 2:05:13
16 Brian Hart 2:08:59
17 Artem Stemkovski 2:10:05
18 Peter Graube 2:17:43
Frederick Lee DSQ
Todd Paulsen DNF
Hanna Falk DNF
Andrejus Masalkovas DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DSQ = Disqualified