Almaden Quicksilver County Park
Date: (Sun.) Oct. 20, 2013
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Director: 
- 408.599.9709
Course Setter: Misha Kreslavsky
Type: B; We're returning to this popular park, after missing it for several years, for a full 7-course event
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=28307) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=324)
Event Write-Up
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About 130 people came out to enjoy a beautiful warm day at Almaden-Quicksilver Park, with its historical mining remnants and dramatic vistas. Misha Kreslavsky designed, vetted, and set out all the controls, all on fairly short notice. His original plan for low climb was thwarted by vegetation changes, resulting in higher-than-typical climb (>8%) on some courses. Despite the tough courses, not many shifted down to shorter courses, there were not more DNFs than usual, and Blue (8.2 km, 690 m climb) runners were undeterred. In fact, Greg Favor decided that wasn’t enough, so he came early and did a trail run of some 12 miles and 700 m+ climb as a warm-up for his Blue course! The funniest story I heard was of Vladimir Gusiatnikov crawling through a longer-than-expected section of poison oak, stopping to take a picture of himself, and texting it to his wife! [Ed. Note: Vladimir reported that he was not able to get a picture out, and ended up following a family of Bobcats.] I saw Lori Huberman (with her trusty O-dog appropriately named “Prestoâ€) with her ankles covered in burrs and asked her how her course went. She answered “Oh, no – I’ve only walked over to register!†But I believe that is as bad as it got, because although the finishers came back sweating, exhausted, and sometimes covered with dirt from slipping on steep, loose-leaf hillsides, there weren’t too many stickers on their clothes.
Even the White and Yellow courses were harder than usual, as we had to streamer a section through a clearing and some forest to allow for reasonable-length courses. This gave beginners a taste of what off-trail orienteering would be like. One lady wanted to take her baby stroller on the White course, but I convinced her stay on the dirt road portion and skip the off-trail controls.
Stephanie Jackson won the White course, edging out Jamie Maclean. The Sebo Family had a great day, with Daniel winning Yellow, Lubomir winning Red, and Matej placing 4th on Blue.
Fillian Swift blasted through the Orange course, beating the nearest competitor by over 40 minutes! Gary Kraght took the Brown in a tight race over Steve Haas and Lori Huberman/Presto.
It was great to see Kent Ohlund back in form, complaining that he “wasn’t moving wellâ€, but still winning Green by over 10 minutes. Swiss extended-visitor Roman Zoller finished second on Red, edging out Tapio Karras by 1.5 minutes.
Blue runners often amaze me. Francois Leonard ran the course in 94 minutes, faster than the best Red course time, and just 4% longer than the best time on Green, which was barely over half the length & climb of Blue. Perennial winner Dennis Wilkinson took second, with Mikkel Conradi third. The Belgian Beer Brigade uncharacteristically came back too exhausted for control pick-up; I hope we didn’t wear them out of the usual helpful nature they have, even when they run off the map.
Thanks to all those who helped:
- Set-up: Kent Ohlund, Macleans
- Beginner’s Clinics: Derek Maclean
- Starts: Stephanie Maclean, Misha Kreslavsky
- E-Punch: Jeff Lanam, Rosemary Johnson, Derek Maclean
- Parking Signage: Penny & Harold DeMoss X’d out the “Horse Trailers Only†signs so people could park everywhere.
- Control Pick-up: Roman Zoller, Steve Haas, Nancy Lindeman, Fillian Swift, Misha Kreslavsky
- Park Ranger: Paula Burgmeier was very helpful, and even allowed us to drive into the park for setting out water and control pick-up, and at the last minute allowing us to use the entire parking lot, most of which was supposed to be reserved for horse trailers.
Results
Almaden Quicksilver County Park
San Jose, CA
Sunday, October 20, 2013
White Course Yellow Course Orange Course Brown Course Green Course Red Course Blue Course
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=28307).
You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget. (Use of RouteGadget is explained here. RouteGadget for this event is here (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=324). Note that you might need to upgrade to the latest version of Java. A new version was released last week, and the Chrome browser required an immediate upgrade.)
White Course (1.6 km, 60 m climb, 8 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Stephanie Jackson 18:46 2 Sara Wegner 21:30 3 Rainbow Unicorns 31:48 4 Victor & Alicia Hurtado 42:23 5 Oleg Yershov 44:26 6 Janosik Family 45:28 7 Matvei Yershov 45:40 8 Gloria Rodriguez 47:34 9 GS Troop 60337 51:29 10 The Grapes 52:13 11 Tom Higgins 1:05:27 (estimated Start) 12 Diane R. Hall, Amy Palmaffy 1:09:18
Jamie Maclean (COOL) DNF
Gabriel Sandoval, Lali Martinez DNF
Maria Hastings & family DNF
Samuel Kretchetov DNF
Second Course
Jamie Maclean (COOL) 19:19
Yellow Course (2.5 km, 150 m climb, 9 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Daniel Sebo 32:18 2 Susan Want 53:53 3 Lena Eydelberg 1:12:35 4 Jeff & Tammy Janosek 1:16:46 5 Bill Murphy 1:21:01 6 Lananh Group 1:22:14 7 Peter Phan, Andrew Szeto 1:32:13 8 Evan Alekseyev 1:40:53 (estimated Finish) 9 Fabianne & Jason 1:42:38 10 Michael + Jackie 1:43:04 11 Olivia Ocher 1:46:53 (estimated Finish) 12 Troop 606 1:49:32 13 Michael Chapman 2:53:41
David Ferriera DNF
Juliette Ferrera DNF
Bad Birds DNF
Harold DeMoss DNF
Second Course
Dace Krilova 1:10:13
Orange Course (4.5 km, 310 m climb, 10 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Fillan Swift 54:38 2 Adam Gross 1:35:01 3 Hope Fa-Kaji 1:41:13 4 Susan & Mary Kim 2:06:22 5 Troy Kaji 2:10:30 6 Shawn Poston 2:36:32
Nancy Dean, Mike McKenzie DNF
Sosnowski Family DNF
Mike Hard DNF
Second Course
Peter Phan, Andrew Szeto DNF
Brown Course (3.1 km, 230 m climb, 9 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Gary Kraght 55:49 2 Steve Haas 57:09 3 Lori Huberman 57:19 4 Dan Greene 1:04:37 5 George Minarik 1:18:18 6 Krists Krilovs 1:21:00 7 Carl & Tom Gabrielson 1:41:28 8 Jeff Lanam 1:46:07 9 Dace Krilova 1:51:40 10 Olga Kraght 2:03:37 11 Roy Want 2:15:13 12 Oleg Shakhnovsky 2:22:43 13 David Hallsted 2:27:15 (estimated Start) 14 Nancy Lindeman 4:04:53
Rosemary Johnson DNF
Green Course (4.6 km, 360 m climb, 12 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Kent Ohlund 1:29:20 2 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 1:39:55 3 Shura Kretchetov 1:40:25 4 Penny DeMoss 1:41:51 5 Gavin Williams 1:42:29 6 Greg Ehrensing 1:42:55 7 Stephanie Maclean 1:51:00 8 Christine Brew 2:09:31 9 Johanna Merriss 2:14:46 10 Victor Frolov 2:34:46 11 Ben Hallsted 2:49:01 12 Phillip Hoare 2:59:19 13 Judy & Tom Cronin 3:19:43
Nugent Team DNF
Angela Contreras, Jonathan Gee DNF
Second Course
Nugent Team 3:22:08
Red Course (6.2 km, 510 m climb, 14 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Lubomir Sebo 1:43:07 2 Roman Zoller 1:45:55 3 Tapio Karras 1:47:17 4 Stephen Granger-Bevin 1:52:57 5 Deron van Hoff 2:07:19 6 Travis Parker 2:16:14 7 Eric Rosenzweig 2:19:47 8 Gary Carpenter 2:51:40 9 Marina Keating 3:26:24
Derek Maclean DNF
Damian Swift DNF
Blue Course (8.2 km, 690 m climb, 22 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 François Léonard 1:34:48 2 Dennis Wilkinson 1:44:27 3 Mikkel Conradi 1:56:25 4 Matej Sebo 1:59:44 5 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 2:02:30 6 Cedric LasFargues 2:41:06 7 Rex Winterbottom 2:45:04 8 Greg Favor 2:54:24 9 Andrew Peterson 3:06:59 10 Theo Verhoeven 3:25:49 11 Joe Maffei 3:38:27
Mladen Kolar DNF
Scott Sampson DNF
Andrew Masalkov DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)