Huddart Park
Date: (Sun.) Oct. 23, 2011
Location: Woodside, CA
Event Director: 
- 650.906.9672
Course Setters: Matthias Kohler, Nick Corsano
Type: B; White through Red courses in a beautiful redwood forest
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=19122) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=270&kieli=) Control Descriptions
Event Write-Up
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The big surprise of the day came early: Arriving at Huddart Park when the gate opened on Sunday morning, I found yellow caution tape blocking a hiking trail down which White runners would be heading in two hours. A ranger came up to me and explained that there had been an encounter between equestrians and yellow jackets on that trail Saturday afternoon. One rider had actually required a call to the paramedics. The rangers had sprayed the yellow jacket nest late Saturday, and were in the process of doing it again. They were hopeful that they could re-open the trail in time for our event, but maybe I should come up with a Plan B. In turned out that Plan B wasn’t required—the trail was deemed safe, with just a cone set up at the nest site to alert folks. Both the registration team and the start team informed all the White course participants of the situation, and we had no incidents.
There really weren’t any more surprises, except perhaps for the higher than expected attendance, which required some map recycling and redrawing. Supported by an excellent group of volunteers and blessed with extraordinary Indian Summer sunshine, the event ran quite smoothly. Runners, even those who endured the arduous Green and Red courses, had generally positive feedback.
These are the people who made the meet a success. My gratitude goes out to you all, and to any others I may have missed.
- Matthias Kohler – Chief course setter
- Mikkel Conradi – Vetter
- Bob Cooley – Map printing
- Brad Wetmore – Insurance and website updates
- Alan Glendinning, Trinka Gillis, Mark Blair – Equipment acquisition
- Dennis Wilkinson – Setup and early runner
- Peter Graube, Nancy Lindeman – Setup
- Steve Haas, John Marold – Registration
- Dan Greene – Beginners’ clinics
- Ben Legg – Refreshments
- Esther Heller, Judy Cronin, Tom Cronin, Ankitha Satyam, Bob Strauss – Starts
- Joe Knapp, Jeff Lanam, Tim Erickson, Rosemary Johnson – E-punch
- Greg Ehrensing – E-punch and results
- Cassie Pelayo – Cleanup
- Peter Graube, Luc Poppe, Cedric Lasfargues, Theo Verhoeven, the entire Sebo family, Steve Haas, and Matthias Kohler – Control pickup
- Pam Noyer – Head ranger and yellow jacket exterminator
The White and Yellow courses started near the assembly area, and used the extensive trail network on the eastern side of the park. I set a rather challenging Yellow course, which required close attention to the map in a couple of places. Paul and Alex Morgan turned in the fastest time on the White course. Sasha Iakovlev was the official winner of the Yellow course, although the fastest time was recorded by Erika Kikuchi, running a second course.
Runners on Orange, Brown, Green, and Red had a brisk walk up a big spur to their start. All those courses began with a collection of fairly short, zigzagging legs on the spur. Orange then came downhill and had a fairly uneventful series of controls leading to the eastern end of the park, where more interesting navigation resumed. The duo of Julian Lallemande and Brian scored a narrow victory over Fedor Karpelevitch on Orange.
A big challenge for runners and course setters alike at Huddart is how to handle the monstrous, steep, boulder-strewn re-entrant that runs south to north and splits the park in two. We brought the Brown, Green, and Red courses down into the re-entrant, with controls placed to lead runners to optimal crossing points. Beyond the re-entrant is a part of the map that I call “ugly whiteâ€. This entire hillside is mapped as runnable forest, although I feel it would be just as accurate if one splattered various shades of green at random across the area. Both Green and Red had strenuous legs with about 75 meters of climb here. All three advanced courses concluded with a string of mostly common controls in the more navigable northern section of the map.
On Brown, Joe Knapp led the field, with Chuck Spalding and Krists Krilovs close behind. Kent Ohlund had a comfortable victory on Green. On Red, Jonas Kjall eked out the win, just five seconds ahead of Joseph Doetsch.
There was a fairly large number of DNFs at this event. While this is not unusual on the longer courses in terrain like this, there were also four DNFs on the White course and eight on Yellow. The problems seem to have been concentrated at the beginning and end of the courses. A couple of White entrants struggled with the beginning of their course, while five of the Yellow DNFs simply missed the Go control. I spent a lot of time trying to work out the optimal arrangement of Start, Finish, and Go. This mundane-sounding task is more of an art than a science, especially when runners are setting out and returning in multiple directions.
Results
Huddart Park
Woodside, CA
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=19122).
You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget (introduction; this event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=270)).
Pl Name(s) Time
White Course (2.0 km, 135 m climb, 12 controls)
1 Paul & Alex Morgan 19:47
2 Erika Kikuchi 22:47
3 Hannah Kopisch 23:29
4 Leah Lambertson 40:11
5 Pancakes 42:26
6 Mark & Kevin Schultz, William
Stanley, Aaron Alpagot 43:21
7 Wattson & Joey Lohman 43:58
8 Mai Chung 46:14
9 Meri & Samuel Valimaki 46:31
10 Hardcore - Doeden 47:21
11 Robert & Simon Burdick, Jayme,
Owen, & Kamran Bakrava 51:48
12 Natalie Pelayo 53:21
13 Edwards 1:00:11
14 Inga Gous 1:03:27
15 Glazer 1:04:48
16 Misha Iakovlev 1:09:08
17 Elisabeth Pelayo 1:12:15
Paul, Alex, Aaron, & Gwyn Morgan DNF
Jame Wise DNF
Scott Trappe DNF
Olivia Moore DNF
Yellow Course (2.6 km, 225 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Sasha Iakovlev 52:59
2 Daniel Sebo 56:45
3 Topper family 57:10
4 Gian Coolen 1:04:31
5 Cassandra Pelayo 1:05:25
6 Tim Erickson, Meg Homberg 1:06:24
7 Harold DeMoss 1:08:39
8 Josh Horowitz 1:11:23 (estimated Finish)
9 Susan Want 1:12:05
10 Danya Karpelevitch 1:13:09
11 Gabriel Early 1:19:32
12 Tyler Hemmings 1:20:14 (estimated Finish)
13 John Marold 1:22:15
14 Mira Chaplin 1:24:11
15 Judy Koehler 1:27:51
16 Rita Petviashvili 1:32:52
17 Andrew Peterson, Julia Schroeder 1:34:01
18 Sam, Ben, & Tyson Leistiko 1:34:55
19 Annika Vossen, Stephan Vossen 1:37:30
20 Kevin Walker 1:38:07
21 Matt Conway 1:41:54
22 Diego Garcia, Walter Neal 1:54:33
23 Mimi Lok, Brian McMullen, Julien
Lallemand 1:55:28
24 Dace, Aivo, & Linda Krilovs 1:57:59
25 Hula Group 2:18:49
26 Joan Merriss 2:23:06
27 Alexander & Anton Saydakov 2:35:41
Lauran Graham DNF
Isabella Wise DNF
Joe & Jean van Hoff DNF
Daniel Ousherovitch DNF
Katherine Tsvirkunova DNF
Kathleen Kerns DNF
Victor Chinnappan DNF
Ankitha Satyam DNF
Second Course
Erika Kikuchi 51:05
Inga Gous 55:10
Orange Course (3.5 km, 315 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Julian Lallemand & Brian 1:06:30
2 Fedor Karpelevitch 1:08:57
3 Brian Richardson 1:34:44
4 Flynn Buxton-Walsh 1:40:28
5 Dennis Mullane, Jill Moran 1:43:09
6 Paul & Kathy Li 1:46:03
7 Geoffrey Sears 1:51:52
8 Richard & Ty Gampell, Irene Kim 1:51:54
9 Natalie Kim 2:04:42
10 Richard Merriss 2:10:24
11 Fred Loebel 2:17:55
12 Brad & Natalia Best 2:19:00
13 Gay Family 2:23:46
14 Cathy Bolger, Diane Ingolia 3:02:54
Steve O'Keefe DNF
Christine Fawcett DNF
Zach Baggins DNF
Gus Callaway DNF
Rishi Gupta DNF
Vin Group DNF
Second Course
Jonas Kjall 31:00
Brown Course (2.4 km, 190 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Joe Knapp 1:26:22
2 Chuck Spalding 1:27:52
3 Krists Krilovs 1:29:24
4 David Strong 1:50:37
5 Roy Want 1:56:23
6 David Jorgensen 2:24:25
Bob Strauss DNF
Rosemary Johnson DNF
Spencer Tai DNF
Jeff Lanam DNF
Nancy Lindeman DNF
Cindi Choi DNF
Green Course (3.4 km, 335 m climb, 16 controls)
1 Kent Ohlund 1:15:10
2 Dan Greene 1:36:10
3 Andrew Peterson 1:37:51
4 Cornelia Coolen 1:39:18
5 Werner Haag 1:57:56
6 Brad Wetmore 2:01:52
7 Greg Ehrensing 2:03:17
8 Johanna Merriss 2:18:29
9 Tony Pinkham 2:34:41
10 Phillip Hoare 2:46:38
11 Wes Erck 2:49:03
12 Judy & Tom Cronin 2:51:52
Brendan O'Brien DNF
Julian Early DNF
Steve Haas DNF
Red Course (4.2 km, 420 m climb, 18 controls)
1 Jonas Kjall 1:02:04
2 Joseph Doetsch 1:02:09
3 Dennis Wilkinson 1:12:16
4 Misha Kreslavsky 1:33:23
5 Benjamin Legg 1:34:51
6 Mark Prior 1:36:08
7 Peter Graham 1:37:15
8 Lubomir Sebo 1:38:07
9 Peter Graube 1:43:21
10 Scott Porter 1:47:11
11 Steve Gregg 1:50:38
12 Misha Lipatov 1:51:04
13 Matej Sebo 1:53:57
14 Penny DeMoss 1:57:47
15 Greg Favor 2:04:10
16 Mark Geldmeier 2:07:51
17 Cedric Lasfargues 2:08:29
18 Mark Blair 2:09:33
19 Shura Kretchetov 2:10:46
20 Deron van Hoff 2:15:16
21 Nick Giori 2:18:40
22 Lou Lederer 2:31:49
23 Luc Poppe 2:41:08
24 Igor Sazonov 2:52:03
25 Joe Inkenbrandt 2:54:04
26 Theo Verhoeven 3:07:50
Manfred Kopisch DNF
Eric Rosenzweig DNF
Scott Samson DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)