Willow Glen Holiday Lights and Potluck Social
Date: (Sat.) Dec. 17, 2011
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Director: 
- 857.361.8984
Course Setters: Brad Wetmore, Steve Harrison, David Harrison
Type: C; Score-O walk/run through San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood while enjoying the festive decorations, followed by the annual BAOC potluck social and awards ceremony.
Related Event Information
Event Announcement RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=275&kieli=) Afternoon Bayfront Event
Event Write-Up
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What does Santa have in his right hand? What color is the present that the dog is holding? Who is dancing in the window? What is the elf doing?
What fun it was to be running or walking around the Willow Glen neighborhood on a cool (in the 50's) night, looking for the answers to these and other questions at the controls that were all at decorated houses. What a beautiful neighborhood!
People started arriving at the Willow Glen Elementary School cafeteria right at 5:00. Most people went out on the mass start at 6:00. Next year we're thinking about letting people have their maps 15 minutes before the mass start, so that they can plan their course before they start.
Most of the controls were worth 30–90 points, but there were two 200-point controls and a 300-point control. Two of the controls had their lights off, so that made it more challenging for people to see the answers.
In the 60-minute division, Steve Haas came in first (240). The first team was Widerstrom, Bleile, & Gillis (150). Julia Doubson, Masha and Fyodor Konkov (130) were the first family, and Barbara Robben (40) was the first woman.
The 90-minute division was won by Rex Winterbottom (480) for the second year is a row. Penny DeMoss (320) was the first woman, Bud and Carol Laird (230) were the first team, and the Blonstein family (190) was the first family.
This year the potluck was a big success again, and we were surprised to see a whole table of pies!
The 2011 BAOC Service Award went to Kelly Wells. Congratulations Kelly, we appreciate all that you do for our club.
Speaking of the Service Award, we'd like to sing the praises of the many people who helped with this event. Thanks to:
- Brad Wetmore, the course setter, for all his hard work on this event, and obtaining the insurance.
- David and Steve Harrison for helping set the courses with Brad Wetmore's help. Thanks Brad for your offer to mentor others on course setting. What a great way to learn how to set courses! David and Steve did come up with very creative questions.
- Ev and Jean Beuerman, who arrived early (before 5:00) to help with set up and who helped out throughout the evening.
- Steve Haas for handling registration.
- Chuck Spalding for helping with starts, finishes, and results.
- Bob Cooley for printing the maps
- Tapio Karras for putting the event on RouteGadget
- Alex Finch, our Event Coordinator, who helped get this event on the schedule.
- Brad Wetmore and Chuck Spalding for being so helpful in updating the Web page often for this event.
- Trinka Gillis for helping me present the BAOC Service Award.
- Jay Hann for extending the hours of the Bayfront event so that people could run an afternoon course at Bayfront and then head to Willow Glen for the evening event.
- [Course Setter's Addition: And my thanks to Nancy Lindeman for doing such a superb job of Event Directing!]
And thanks to everyone for coming to our third annual Willow Glen Holiday Lights event. Many of you said that you had a great time. We hope to see you next year.
Results
Willow Glen Holiday Lights and Potluck Social
San Jose, CA
Saturday, December 17, 2011
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=275)). (See the comments below.)
60-Minute Division
Total Raw Total Penalties Incorrect Pl Name(s) Score Score Time Late Wrong Control
1 Steve Haas 240 240 00:59:22 0 0
2 Dan Greene 200 200 00:57:27 0 0
3 Widerstrom, Bleile, Gillis 150 150 00:59:04 0 0
4 Julia Doubson,
Masha & Fyodor Konkov 130 160 00:55:00 0 30 44
5 Daniel Kopisch 120 120 00:48:00 0 0
6 DNA Kim 110 110 00:59:55 0 0
7 Conway Family 70 70 00:56:30 0 0
8 Vladimir Gusiatnikov, 70 120 01:01:02 20 30 80
Lani Schreibstein
9 Barbara Robben 50 90 01:03:03 40 0
90-Minute Division
Total Raw Total Penalties Incorrect Pl Name(s) Score Score Time Late Wrong Control
1 Rex Winterbottom 480 490 01:30:05 10 0
2 Pierre Delforge 450 450 01:27:30 0 0
3 Kyle Peter 410 440 01:29:16 0 30 33
4 Jason Reed 390 420 01:29:54 0 30 45
5 Steve Gregg 360 360 01:28:22 0 0
6 Greg Favor 350 350 01:26:47 0 0
7 Penny DeMoss 320 320 01:27:06 0 0
8 Tony Pinkham 300 330 01:29:16 0 30 32
9 Erika Kiruchi 290 290 01:29:25 0 0
10 Vicki Woolworth 260 260 01:28:55 0 0
11 Geoffrey Sears 240 270 01:32:08 30 0
11 Bud & Carol Laird 230 240 01:30:25 10 0
13 Steve Beuerman 210 210 01:29:30 0 0
14 Blonstein Family 190 190 01:24:20 0 0
15 Toby & Jane Ferguson,
Shaun & Trina Etherington 190 190 01:24:35 0 0
16 Jeff Lanam 190 190 01:28:42 0 0
17 Kim & Trevor Graham,
Allen Gee 180 180 01:22:08 0 0
18 Cassie Pelayo 160 160 01:29:29 0 0
19 Jane Melia 160 200 01:33:19 40 0
20 Kathy Ornellas, Nancy Glenn 150 150 01:26:21 0 0
21 Franco-Lee Family 130 130 01:21:40 0 0
22 Esther Heller, Nick Corsano 130 140 01:30:40 10 0
23 Jordan & Bailey 110 110 01:21:40 0 0
24 Lara Willing 110 110 01:28:56 0 0
25 Cassandra, Hannah,
Elisabeth, & Natalie 100 190 01:35:20 60 30 51
26 Nancy Lindeman 80 80 01:06:22 0 0
27 Gary Robertsen 50 50 01:12:35 0 0
27 Mary Robertsen 50 50 01:12:35 0 0
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Comments on RouteGadget for This Event
Since this is a Score-O setup with no e-punch, RouteGadget only knows about the Start and Finish locations. All the control circles are included directly on the map image. When drawing your route, be sure to visit the Finish only when you have completed your route. That is, the blue line pointing to the Finish should follow you throughout your route.
You need to enter your name and total time in MMMSS format before drawing your route. For example, 89:52 is entered as 8952.
For the animation, each competitor's speed is averaged out over the whole length of their route. For Score-O this works out just fine as competitors often end up taking very different routes anyway.