Presidio of San Francisco
Date: (Sun.) Sep. 17, 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA
Event Director: 
- 415.453.3679
Course Setter: Vic Revenko
Type: C; National Orienteering Day "Come and Try It" event with White, Yellow, and 2 Orange courses
Event Write-Up
By Vic Revenko, Event Director and Course Setter
What a perfect day for a "come try it" National Orienteering Day meet. Clear blue skies, ideal temperature, no wind, great views, and wonderful people. It doesn’t get much better. We had a record 389 particpants including new attendees, ROTC, scouts, disabled, and the "usual suspects". I have been event director for the Presidio for seven years, and this was the most rewarding meet. Everyone, first timers or other had a good time. Congratulations to the winners: Joan Roos (White course), Brian Koga (Yellow), Greg Khanlarov (Orange), and Ben Legg (Long Orange). The participant who probably came the farthest to run was Slava Durassov from Kazakhstan.
Thanks to the volunteers who helped make this event possible: Ev and Jean Beuerman (Registration); Jim Fish and Tony Pinkham (Beginner’s Clinics); George Minarik (Advanced Clinic); Ed Ow, Terry Smiley, Gavin Wyatt-Mair (Starts); Joan Roos, Martin Kunz, Jeff Lanam, Oleg Shakhnovsky (Finishes); Kent Hetherwick, Bill Papendick, Chuck Spalding (Results); Mark Prior, Leif Kirshenbaum (who is getting married the weekend after the meet) and Nancy Lindeman (Control Pickup), Bob Cooley (Mapping), and Steve Overman (Presidio Parks). George Minarik had a nice discussion group as a format for the Advanced Clinic. I think this worked very well.
Some course comments: Some of the Orange and Long Orange controls were a little hidden to avoid vandalism in this highly popular urban park. Hopefully this didn’t ruin anyone’s fun. Also, there were several complaints by housing residents about participants cutting across lawns. This is a no no. In the future, course design and course rules will minimize this from happening again.
The following is a breakdown of attendance. We had more than three times the number of participants on Orange compared to last year! No wonder that we ran out of maps.
Course Entries People
White 43 133 Yellow 35 100 Orange 50 115 Long Orange 32 41
Totals: 160 389
Results
Presidio of San Francisco -- National Orienteering Day Event
San Francisco, CA
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Pl Name(s) Time Comment
White Course (2.9 km, 35 m climb, 9 controls; 43 entries, 133 people)
1 Joan Roos 40:55
2 Rob Riley 42:00
3 Galileo 15: Heidi Vuong, Hermes Xiang,
Steven Schewenka 54:14
4 Julia Doubson 56:50
5 Mark Willett 1:01:06 (2nd course)
6 Nicole & Dmytro Voytenko 1:03:55
7 Steve, Jenny, Ryan, & Sarah Kim,
Masato, Sachiko, & Kaito Kikuchi 1:05:00
8 Galileo 13: Christopher Li, Henry Gee,
Clarizeyale Revadavia 1:07:02
9 Cooper, Regan, Tricia, & Angus Murray 1:09:16
10 Martin & Stuart Lerner 1:10:30
11 Sophia, Mary, & Antonio Gonzalez 1:12:03
12 Linda Franklyn 1:12:12
13 Sonza van Herick, Carolee Perrich 1:15:09
14 Martha Partida, Diane Hall 1:15:12
15 Gray Chang & family 1:16:15
16 Rory Maclean, Sean Diamond 1:24:57
17 CA-032 1:32:08
18 Jamie, Ali, & Natalie Hui 1:33:50
19 Brandon & Ian Chinn, Sue Grimes 1:37:40
20 Susan Keyte, Larry Wong 1:39:00
21 Galileo 12: Jennifer Wu, Natalie Yip,
Cardmat 1:42:09
22 Snakes: Jerry, Sean, & Bethany Murray,
Greg & Scott Baker 1:44:05
23 Galileo 11: Matthew Nagatome,
Hellen Quang, Jessica O'Yang 1:44:09
24 Sam Maffai, Ezzy Jawad 1:44:40
25 Galileo 10: Katrina Lee, Wendy Yu,
Zhipeng Ren, Kevin Tran 1:46:09
26 Galileo 9: Larry Talisic, Shelley Fung,
Calvin Seto 1:48:09
27 Galileo 8: David Zhou, Shirley Pan,
Kelly Chen, Charles Johnson 1:50:09
28 Galileo 7: Genya Royfman, Samuel Kuang,
Kristie Pan 1:52:09
29 Galileo 16: Autumn Lee, Anna Tan,
Jenny Troung, Michael Chun 1:52:28
30 Alex & Leora Gilgur, Sophia & Greg
Shtilman 1:54:40
31 Galileo 4: Jacky Zhu, Michael Rudzki,
Lina Lin 1:58:09
32 Carl, Tom, & Zach Gabrielson,
Shirley Ting, Kenneth Lin 2:00:29
33 Emily & Jay Hann 2:01:09
34 Evan & John Kitzmiller 2:01:18
35 Matina & Eric Bragas 2:06:10
36 Rosa Javadi, Kevin & Matthew Luu 2:07:24
Galileo 5: Dominic Chan, Daphane Zhang,
Becky Lin MSP (#1, 2) 1:42:00
Galileo 6: Fletcher Talika, Anson Davis,
Michael Huynh DNF (#8) 1:54:09
The Pokemons (White family) DNF (#1, 8, 9) 1:13:40
Laura Olson DNF
Galileo 14: Laura Lleanter, Johnny Nhok,
Jenny Wong, Perry Udom DNF (Lost card)
Girl Scout Troop 1438 DSQ (No Start Time)
Girl Scout Troop 1438 DSQ (No Start Time)
Yellow Course (4.2 km, 65 m climb, 8 controls; 35 entries, 100 people)
1 Brian Koga 1:03:50
2 Susan Ryan 1:10:18
3 Stephen Popper 1:10:51
4 Linda Backens, Slava Durassov 1:15:11
5 Rob Riley 1:23:00 (2nd course)
6 Mike McDonald, Brian Seegers 1:24:19
7 Janet McDonald 1:25:13
8 Matt Cover, Nancy, Pete, Kimi 1:36:25
9 Fred & Donna Munic 1:40:45
10 Natalie Tilley, Luke Snyder,
Julie Tsai, Mark Prior 1:40:50
11 Kevin, Bryce, & Lauren Killingsworth,
Mike & Mathew Moser 1:43:34
12 Mark Willett 1:46:44
13 Greg & Brian Messenger 1:49:20
14 Galena Shakhnovsky 1:49:52
15 Masha Konkov 1:57:12
16 Joe, Lorraine, Matt Rideau 1:58:20
17 Brad & Lisa Melton 2:02:12
18 Maida, Marco, & Aurelio Cardenas,
Ignacio Salceda 2:04:08
19 Diana, Clara, & Will McKennett,
Bill Johnson 2:04:38
20 Lane Parker, Stacey Hunter 2:19:50
21 Mary Ann Laun 2:31:38
22 Brandon, Ryan, & Lanny Forrest 2:33:02
23 Troop 15 "A" group 2:39:50
23 Cati Munic, Jennifer Foreman 2:39:50
25 Ken Foreman 2:42:10
26 Judy Mayne, Tish Souza, Sue Mace 2:44:10
27 Jack & Lisa Van den Bogaerde 2:48:43
28 Eric & Jason Burris 3:01:50
29 Troop 15 "B" group 3:18:57
30 Laishan & Simon Yee, Vincent Kwan 3:22:30
Debra Bleemer DNF (#6) 2:42:30
Vanessa, Mason, & Valerie Andrews,
Chris Bailey DNF (#6, 7) 2:15:40
Suzanne Ezrre, Shiva & Daphne Kogan,
Maya Moore DNF
Troop 62 DNF (Lost card)
Nina Schindler DNF (No card)
Orange Course (4.4 km, 80 m climb, 9 controls; 50 entries, 115 people)
1 Greg Khanlarov 43:19
2 George Minarik 48:30
3 Martin McDonald, Charles Mighetto 51:49
4 Joe Maffei 54:02
5 Fyodor Konkov 1:06:58
6 Stephanie Maclean 1:07:31
7 Oleg Shakhnovsky 1:14:26
8 Adam & Parker Doti 1:19:59
9 Greg Ehrensing 1:20:42
10 Jim Williams, Phil & Adam Graves 1:25:02
11 Ed Dunn, Sally, & Molly (dog) 1:28:30
12 GWHS Team Charlie: Kenneth Hu,
Jason Huang, R. Isaree 1:30:02
13 Justin Ha, Tai Ma 1:38:50
14 Alan Houser, Andrew McAfee 1:39:27
15 Anne Gorby, T. Cotter 1:41:20
16 Rosemary Johnson 1:43:58
17 Dan Rubinate 1:47:18
18 Lowell 2: Connie Chen, Mack Qin,
Jarrett Hornbostel 1:48:58
19 Nicholas, Jean, & Deron van Hoff 1:50:20
20 Phelan Guan, Nymayh Osman, Gloria Banh 1:50:52
21 Daniel & Philipp Kopisch 1:54:40
22 Rod & Jay Van Syoc, Andrew James 1:55:43
23 Kevin Walker 2:00:26
24 Galileo 2: Didier Liao, Mario Tobar,
Zsa Zsa Zeng 2:01:21
25 Galileo 1: Edmund Wu, Ricardo Frias,
Peggy Li 2:02:58
26 Troop 31 Group 1: Minh Nguyen,
Pete & Kevin Petersen, Al Strom 2:08:54
27 Lincoln 2: Robert Tu, Dana Lui,
Eric Vong 2:09:47
28 GWHS Team Bravo: Benton Yee, Edna Lo,
Grecco Balatbat 2:30:40
29 GWHS Team Delta: Gianna Yim, Wilson Au,
Norman Huang 2:30:58
30 Lincoln 4: Arthur Lum, Winnie Tang,
Ryan Lafuente 2:31:10
31 John & John Batcheller 2:32:35
32 Lincoln 3: Chris Wan, Alex Tam,
Colleen Ma 2:34:11
33 Kassy Earhart, Batcheller 2:34:16
34 Lowell 3: Norman Huang, J.Q. Liu,
Rachanna Kann 2:36:50
35 Lincoln 1: Chris Woo, Laura Tang,
Larry Chew 2:42:45
36 Harold Lischner, Eileen Everett 2:52:38
37 Daniel K.F. Yim, En Hao Cheung,
Tiffany Lam 3:26:51
Jeff Laun MSP (#6, 7, 8) 1:11:50
GWHS Team Alpha: Kevin Wong, Andrew Ou,
Sabrina Ramos MSP (#8) 1:33:36
GWHS News Team: Calvin Quan, Tony Chen,
Garrick Young, Juston Ong MSP (#8) 1:35:24
Alex Tejada, Nicole Wanzer MSP (#8) 1:37:37
Balboa 1: Mark Gobaleza, Jim Reyes,
Andrea Esquivel MSP (#8) 3:17:26
Lincoln 5: Vernon Wong, Dillon Nguyen,
Jonathan Escobur DNF (2 missing) 2:52:21
Galileo 3: Judy Zhu, Felipe Flores,
Wayne Chan DNF (3 missing) 1:59:37
Nancy Lindeman DNF (4 missing) 1:56:08
Lincoln 6: Tiffany Jaw, Kristina Lam,
Karen Ha DNF (4 missing) 2:37:37
Balboa 2: Alexis Bersonda, David Rivera,
Marion Viray DNF (4 missing) 3:25:50
Simon Zhong, Amy Xie, Giovanni Grey DNF (5 missing) 3:11:50
GWHS Team Echo: Steven Lin, Tina Lo,
Spencer Cai DNF
Jim Fish DNF (Lost card)
Long Orange Course (6.6 km, 130 m climb, 11 controls; 32 entries, 41 people)
1 Ben Legg 53:46
2 Andrejus Masalkovas 55:15
3 Rex Winterbottom 55:59
4 Steve Gregg 1:01:18
5 Mutsumi Sugizaki 1:01:50
6 Brad Wetmore 1:04:48
7 Svorre Eikeland 1:06:50
8 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 1:07:16
9 Chuck Spalding 1:09:11
10 Dan Greene 1:12:26
11 Manfred Kopisch 1:12:36
12 Mark Manning, Hailey Curtner 1:15:15
13 Julie Smiley 1:18:34
14 Bill Papendick 1:22:07
15 Kent Hetherwick, Nancy Chow 1:27:16
16 Todd Paulsen 1:30:44
17 Neal Lischner 1:42:50
18 Hugh Magen, Kirsten Van Sickle 1:43:09
19 Jeff Lanam 1:46:55
20 Karen Cook 1:50:39
21 Brian Schmitz, Aja Cook, Adam Armijo 1:53:45
22 James Maxwell, Ada Lovelace 1:55:52
23 Dararath Kim 1:57:21
24 Jim Duggan 1:59:50
25 Shelly Sirkus, Darren Kaff, Vern Ahnin 2:03:10
26 Adam Ruskin 2:05:15
27 Steve O'Keefe 2:20:02
28 Ray Kemp 2:23:00
29 Paul Fawcett 4:09:03
Mark Prior MSP (#10) 49:00
Greg Favor MSP (#10) 1:09:15
Erin Magers, Craig Pierce MSP (#10) 1:55:30
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DSQ = Disqualified (violated a rule -- e.g., did not check in at Finish)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more wrong controls)