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Indian Valley Open Space Preserve

Date: (Sun.) Jan. 29, 2006
Location: Novato, CA
Event Director: - 415.895.6039
Course Setter: George Minarik
Type: B; White, Yellow, Orange, & Brown courses open to everyone; Red & Green courses by reservation only

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Event Write-Up

By Gary Kraght

It rained heavily in Marin the day before, but Sunday, January 29, was a glorious day for 224 orienteering enthusiasts at Indian Valley. Between the sunshine and the soft verdant hills, course conditions were ideal. Now if only we could have cut back on some of the climb!

As has been the case for a couple of years, the Marin Open Space District restricts orienteering to a small portion of Indian Valley Open Space and limits the number of orienteers. Luckily, the campus of Indian Valley Community College extends well into the hills south of the college. So White through Brown courses were offered to all comers, and Red and Green courses were available for club members who have been, or will be, event directors and/or course setters for O' events in 2005/2006.

On White, the brother and sister team of Adam and Danielle Strauss crossed the finish line 16 seconds ahead of the Peterson group. I don't think I have ever seen such enthusiastic winners! Yellow was won convincingly by upcoming club junior Jukka Karras, with Alexali Brubaker and newcomer Dan Shu also turning in strong runs. Orange was bested by Adam Citarella, with Marie-Josee Parayre close behind. A very physical Brown course had its share of in-shape speedsters, with Piers Newbery being the speediest, and Stephanie MacLean as the top woman. The Green course was won by our club mapping guru Bob Cooley. On Red, James Scarborough turned in an amazing 10 minute per kilometer performance on a course in which the advertised climb of 5-1/2 percent was considered by all to be on the low side. Top woman was Sofia Olsson, visiting from Sweden.

A BAOC orienteering event with over 200 participants, particularly one with over 100 newcomers, can't happen without a cast of supporting volunteers. So thank you goes to Scott Aster, Mark Blair, Eric Bone, Jon Bonwick, Rob Clima, Bob Cooley, Evan Custer, Harold and Penny DeMoss, Terry Farrah, Jim Fish, William Gilmore, Anne Gorby, Rosemary Johnson, Judy Koehler, Jeff Lanam, Nancy Lindeman, Rory MacLean, Laura McLeegan, Leslie Minarik, Eric Ohlund, Bill Papendick, Shirley Pierce, Joan Roos, James Scarborough, Jennifer Stilwell, Jeff Watson, and Rex Winterbottom. A special thank you for George Minarik, who again demonstrated his skills as one of BAOC's best course-setters.

Plans for 2007 at Indian Valley include sprints and Trail-O. Stay tuned.


Results

Indian Valley Open Space Preserve

Novato, CA
Sunday, January 29, 2006


We had 224 participants (not including second courses) in total at Indian Valley, broken down as follows:

  Course   Participants
  White        75
  Yellow       47
  Orange       36
  Brown        41
  Green         5
  Red          20

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White and Yellow Results


  Pl  Name(s)                                           Time

White Course    (1.9 km, 55 m climb, 12 controls)

   1  Adam & Danielle Strauss                           40:14
   2  Jeff & Jeffrey Peterson, Travis Feickert          40:30
   3  June Rago, Donald Perrando, Sandra Marron         43:07
   4  David & John Oster, Dave, Sean, & Pat Cain        43:23
   5  Lou, Mario, & Massimo Smaldino,
        Bob & Joey Peterson                             44:30
   6  Gabriella, Danny, Giselle, Emma                   48:21
   7  Bailey-Gates Pack 7, Den 1 (5 boys)               48:44
   8  Kelly, Patrick, Trevor, Jack, Pat Mulroy          48:53
   9  Susan Kelly, Kathy Fleming                        50:27
  10  Jacquie & Kathy Peterson                          50:34
  11  Douglas Weller, Gus Bolen, Ben Nichols            52:33
  12  Laura Matteucci, Heather Pinto                    55:00
  13  Stephanie Monahan, Pat, Wyoming, Ziggy, Emma      55:02
  14  Otavka - Birmingham Pack 7 (group of 10)        1:00:38
  15  Sonza & Bob Van Herick                          1:00:47
  16  Robyn Talman, Jesse & Isaac Boss                1:06:16
  17  Lauren Wemmer, Kristen & Alison                 1:10:49
  18  Nancy & Emery Jones                             1:15:19
  19  Sue Mace, Tish Souza                            1:17:28

      Kerry, Catherine, & Michelle Boozenny,
        Daelin, Wille, & Brinya Waschke,
        Mariah Dorssers                                 MSP  (#5)


Yellow Course    (2.3 km, 65 m climb, 11 controls)

   1  Jukka Karras                                      26:27
   2  Alexali Brubaker                                  31:48
   3  Dan Shu                                           32:36
   4  Joan Roos                                         36:16
   5  Chris Murray                                      39:39
   6  Judy Koehler                                      41:18
   7  Bryce, Blake, & Kevin Killingsworth               42:00
   8  Brittany Blankenship                              45:40
   9  Suzy Murphy                                       46:41
  10  Shirley Pierce                                    47:32
  11  Kayla Clark                                       47:40
  12  Paul Bell                                         48:52
  13  Loni Singer                                       49:34
  14  Trevor Price                                      50:52
  15  Daryn Nabila, Nicolas, Ethan, & Clement Osouf,
        Kailan Horillo                                  51:46
  16  Christina Richie, Cameron Gray, Paul Lambert      53:47
  17  Michael Modrall, Kennith Schjoth II               54:40
  18  Carl, Gavin, & David Williams                     55:31
  19  Galena Shakhnovsky                              1:01:26
  20  Steve & Greg Kricke, Greg Elliott, Zack Ryan    1:07:49
  21  Silva & Kaia Garrity, Lia Vonderahe             1:11:15
  22  Asher & Xena Wolf, Ruth Rogow, David Petterson  1:11:17
  23  Anita Adams, Nick Chuba, Martyn Henderson       1:11:56
  24  Dolores Shotton, Barbara O'Grady, Karen Bourke  1:14:50
  25  Xena Wolf                                       1:15:04

      Anna Strauss                                      DNF  (missed #10)
      Samantha & Karen Jaber                            DNF  (missed #10)

  Second Course

      John Quintrell                                  1:08:01

      June Rago, Donald Perrando, Sandra Marron         MSP  (#8)
 
 

E-Punch Results


  Pl  Name(s)                            Time

Orange Course  (3.6 km, 160 m climb, 14 controls)

   1  Nad Nubthar                        38:11 (2nd course)
   2  Wendell Doman                      46:24 (2nd course)
   3  Joe Maffei                         52:42 (2nd course)
   4  Adam Citarella                     58:00
   5  Marie-Josee Parayre              1:00:44
   6  Lennard Hachmann, Daniel Janse   1:06:54
   7  Dan Shu                          1:14:16 (2nd course)
   8  Dustin Consol                    1:18:19
   9  Karen Cook                       1:26:51
  10  Alvin Kernan                     1:29:00
  11  Terry Farrah                     1:30:56
  12  Bob Heady, Jane Moorhead         1:35:05
  13  Erin Magers                      1:38:05
  14  Kael Fischer, Julie Hollien      1:41:58
  15  John Quintrell                   1:43:22
  16  Brian & Jeremy Kirshner          1:46:19
  17  Efrem Alba                       1:49:30
  18  DV Outdoors (3)                  1:52:12
  19  Marina Keating                   1:54:10
  20  Anne Gorby                       1:57:39
  21  Ken Perry                        2:00:03
  22  van Hoff family (6)              2:11:46
  23  Rehder Girls (3)                 2:23:53
  24  Caedmon Haas                     2:36:09

      John Quintrell                     DNF
      Steve O'Keefe                      DNF   (no download)


Brown Course   (3.4 km, 150 m climb, 17 controls)

   1  Piers Newbery                      45:44
   2  Russell Neilson                    49:05
   3  Peter Graham                       49:41
   4  Ido Green                          50:09
   5  Nad Nubthar                        50:18
   6  Doug Stein                         51:52
   7  Misha Lipatov                      55:04
   8  Wendell Doman                    1:00:17
   9  Steph Maclean                    1:04:09
  10  Trevor Pering                    1:05:30
  11  Alex Saltman                     1:05:43
  12  Jon Bonwick                      1:07:53
  13  Tomer Maymon                     1:08:10
  14  Joe Maffei                       1:09:28
  15  Joe Scarborough                  1:09:54
  16  Bill Strauss                     1:11:35
  17  Chad Davis                       1:13:47
  18  Nick Corsano                     1:19:19
  19  Lauren Knight                    1:30:12
  20  Theo Verhoeven                   1:30:41
  21  Oleg Shakhnovsky                 1:32:07
  22  Mark Rice                        1:32:23
  23  Dwight Freund                    1:36:38
  24  Luc Poppe                        1:37:20
  25  Jim Fish                         1:37:46
  26  Leslie Minarik                   1:40:59
  27  Alex Solomatnikov, Max Martynov  1:48:34
  28  Steve Beuerman                   2:13:22
  29  Rosemary Johnson                 2:16:17
  30  Alan Houser                      2:19:01
  31  Valeria & Anastassia Fedyk       2:40:38
  32  JROTC 011                        2:50:51
  33  Nancy Lindeman                   3:48:23

      Harold Lischner                    DNF
      Jen Stillwell, Will Gilmore        DNF
      Laura McKeegan, Clima Rob          DNF
      Vic Revenko                        DNF
      Paul San Giorgio                   DNF


Green Course   (4.5 km, 295 m climb, 18 controls)

   1  Bob Cooley                       1:16:21
   2  Evan Custer                      1:19:33
   3  Gary Carpenter                   1:25:05
   4  Chuck Spalding                   1:38:49
   5  Jeff Lanam                       2:24:55


Red Course     (6.1 km, 335 m climb, 22 controls)

   1  James Scarborough                1:01:30
   2  Eric Bone                        1:03:48
   3  Per Samuelsson                   1:07:54
   4  Mark Prior                       1:21:47
   5  Mattias Eriksson                 1:24:04
   6  Mikkel Conradi                   1:26:31
   7  Francois Leonard                 1:26:53
   8  Tapio Karras                     1:27:54
   9  Matthias Kohler                  1:30:28
  10  Steve Gregg                      1:31:48
  11  Rex Winterbottom                 1:32:47
  12  Kent Ohlund                      1:33:38
  13  Ian Tidswell                     1:35:36
  14  Derek MacLean                    1:36:03
  15  Sofia Olsson                     1:36:42
  16  Nik Weber                        1:38:55
  17  Dan Greene                       1:44:35
  18  Mark Blair                       2:06:49
  19  Gavin Wyatt-Mair                 2:07:26
  20  Bill Papendick                   2:24:05

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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)