Shell Ridge Open Space
Date: (Sun.) Apr. 30, 2017
Location: Walnut Creek, CA
Event Director:
Course Setter: Vicki Woolworth
Type: B; Normal set of beginner through advanced courses
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=48305) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=396)
Event Write-Up
By
One hundred one hill-climbers tested their mettle on Vicki Woolworth's brain-teasing courses, on a perfect spring day filled with bird song and wildflowers. The Brown course was so popular that we ran out of maps and started recycling dog-eared maps from earlier finishers. One participant from Norway, many kids in backpacks on the White and Yellow courses, and the most orienteering dogs of any BAOC event that I recall. The Red and Blue winners won in the same exact time, down to the second, even though the courses were quite different.
Course Winner Time White Greg Mandler 15:44 Yellow Greg Mandler 32:19 Orange Ellen Smith 1:53:55 Brown Denis Kourakin 57:06 Green Steve Gregg 1:04:42 Red Tapio Karras 1:29:01 Blue Greg Khanlarov 1:29:01
Thanks to Jeff Lanam who set up, ran, and fixed the glitches in the E-punch system and gave us detailed information about the course times, splits, and runners. This was particularly valuable as we tracked final groups on the course and wrapped up the event. Thanks to Vicki Woolworth, our intrepid course setter, who haunted Shell Ridge's wilds for months to plot out the courses, then stayed to do control pick-up with help from Natalie Kim. Thanks to my fellow Berkeley High parents/colleagues Sarah and Carl Williams who smoothly registered all the participants.
Kudos to Scott Aster for running multiple beginner clinics. Thanks to the many of you who helped set up tents, run starts, and pick up controls who I didn't mention by name.
On a personal note, thanks to Vicki Woolworth and Stephen Harrison for mentoring me as a first-time Event Director. Makes me appreciate all the labors of love that my fellow BAOC members do to make the wheels go round. I look forward to working and running with you again soon!
Lost and Found
One item left behind at Shell Ridge was what looked to me to be some kind of dental retainer (clear plastic with tooth impressions), along with rubber bands, on a plate near the snack table. Happy to send it if you are missing this item.
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Course Setter's Comments
By
Hi and thanks to all who came out to Shell Ridge. I just want to add some more details to Troy's write-up, and, of course, to thank him for stepping up and joining the ranks of now-experienced Event Directors!
As course setter, I'd like to thank Dan Greene for course consulting and Jay Hann for helping put out controls and water prior to the event. Control pick-up Team 1—Natalie Kim, Mark Blair, and Peter Graube—were able to get most of the closer controls on the day of the event, so we saved some for those who missed the event. Team 2—Nick Corsano, Gary Carpenter, and Marie-Josée Parayre—went back later in the week to get the rest. Thanks!
I'm not sure what happened to the once-standing dead tree at #59. It was in place as mapped when I put out the control on Saturday. I was able to confirm that, as reported, it fell over and was a few meters downhill when I picked the control up after the event. Not sure when that happened, just glad no one was hurt.
See you all in the woods.
Results
Shell Ridge Open Space
Walnut Creek, CA
Sunday, April 30, 2017
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=48305).
You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget for this event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=396). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
White Course (1.7 km, 113 m climb, 8 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Greg Mandler 15:44 2 Baptista family 21:37 +5:53 3 Maria Filonova 31:20 +15:36 4 Gulstone family 38:43 +22:59 5 Jarod & Charlene Thompson 41:29 +25:45 6 Halliday family BAOC 55:31 +39:47 7 David Harrison BAOC 1:01:26 +45:42 8 Jenn Sheridan 1:18:32 +62:48
Yellow Course (2.3 km, 132 m climb, 12 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Greg Mandler 32:19 (2nd course) 2 Ellen Smith 46:14 +13:55 3 Cade Maw, Jamie Maclean BAOC 46:21 +14:02 4 Kai Rosenbaum BAOC 47:00 +14:41 5 Cowan family BAOC 48:29 +16:10 6 Joshua Meyer, Isiah Vanderpol 1:18:24 +46:05 7 The Can Do's BAOC 1:35:52 +63:33 8 Tracy Martin 1:45:53 +73:34 9 Judy Koehler BAOC 2:38:59 +126:40 Ronny & Sofie Gaal MSP Harmanas Chopra DSQ (No download) Mike Joe DSQ (No download)
Orange Course (3.1 km, 260 m climb, 12 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Ellen Smith 1:53:55 (2nd course) 2 Anastasia & Marc Kourakina BAOC 1:55:37 +1:42 3 Steve Blankespoor 2:03:43 +9:48 4 Team Buck 2:04:42 +10:47 5 Sarah Blankespoor Berkeley High 2:07:26 +13:31 6 Bill Murphy BAOC 2:12:18 +18:23 7 Kevin Walker BAOC 2:18:21 +24:26 8 Michael Budiansky BAOC 2:29:51 +35:56 Ana Pastrana DNF Eva von Bahr BAOC DNF Fred Loebel BAOC DNF Gavin Li DNF Greg Mandler DNF (3rd course) Susan & John Kim BAOC DNF
Brown Course (2.7 km, 210 m climb, 11 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Denis Kourakin BAOC 57:06 2 Dan Greene BAOC 1:05:20 +8:14 3 Ray Rosenbaum BAOC 1:07:41 +10:35 4 Evan Custer BAOC 1:10:21 +13:15 5 Team Poopypants BAOC 1:15:23 +18:17 6 Rory Maclean BAOC 1:20:38 +23:32 7 Mark Blair BAOC 1:26:11 +29:05 8 Irena Stefanova BAOC 1:28:32 +31:26 9 Scott Aster BAOC 1:39:56 +42:50 10 Johanna Merriss BAOC 1:40:39 +43:33 11 Roy & Bexter Want BAOC 1:41:10 +44:04 12 Team Jet 1:43:43 +46:37 13 Philip Hoare BAOC 1:44:25 +47:19 14 Jeff Lanam BAOC 1:55:53 +58:47 15 Wes Erck BAOC 2:03:50 +66:44 16 Andy Cate Berkeley High 2:04:21 +67:15 17 Katie & Sean Robinson BAOC 2:29:18 +92:12 George Minarik BAOC MSP Bob, Gail Walker Aron BAOC DNF Leslie Minarik BAOC DNF Michael & Imogen Robinson BAOC DNF Nancy Lindeman BAOC DNF Run Amok DNF Vojtech Mezera, Helen Tauc DNF
Green Course (4.1 km, 340 m climb, 16 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Steve Gregg BAOC 1:04:42 2 Fyodor Konkov BAOC 1:08:19 +3:37 3 Elliott Jones Berkeley High 1:16:18 +11:36 4 Oystein Grovlen Nidarost 1:18:07 +13:25 5 Gavin Williams BAOC 1:19:17 +14:35 6 Jeffrey Kabel BAOC 1:20:10 +15:28 7 Penny DeMoss BAOC 1:24:05 +19:23 8 Daniel Å ebo BAOC 1:30:34 +25:52 9 Matthias Kohler BAOC 1:31:40 +26:58 10 Stan Barrett BAOC 1:36:16 +31:34 11 Derek Maclean BAOC 1:36:17 +31:35 12 Peter Graube BAOC 1:44:40 +39:58 13 Gavin Wyatt-Mair BAOC 1:45:55 +41:13 14 Nick Townley BAOC 1:49:09 +44:27 15 Carl Williams BAOC 1:51:16 +46:34 16 Stephanie Maclean BAOC 1:56:02 +51:20 17 Chris Delp 1:57:27 +52:45 18 Dennis Gavrilenko 2:18:26 +73:44 19 Panda BAOC 2:27:44 +83:02 20 Team Babies 2:41:01 +96:19 Ann Wilkinson BAOC DNF Bob Cooley BAOC DNF Davy Williams BAOC DNF Vincent Leonard DNF
Red Course (5.9 km, 387 m climb, 16 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Tapio Karras BAOC 1:29:01 2 Stephen Harrison BAOC 1:35:36 +6:35 3 Graham Brew BAOC 1:38:52 +9:51 4 Greg Ehrensing BAOC 1:53:24 +24:23 5 Ann Marie Cody BAOC 2:13:17 +44:16 6 Theo Verhoven BAOC 2:33:08 +64:07 7 Marina Keating BAOC 2:43:14 +74:13 8 Ivan Lopez, Cat Kazbour BAOC 3:39:13 +130:12 Joe Geddes DNF Nikolay Chukanov BAOC DNF Sandra Durand DNF
Blue Course (6.8 km, 416 m climb, 20 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Greg Khanlarov BAOC 1:29:01 2 Matej Å ebo BAOC 1:35:26 +6:25 3 Kim van Berkel BAOC 1:38:02 +9:01 4 Jose Garcia Club Iberos 1:44:49 +15:48 5 Kyle Peter BAOC 1:48:13 +19:12 6 Paul Ort BAOC 1:55:06 +26:05 7 Greg Favor BAOC 2:18:39 +49:38 8 Joe Maffei BAOC 2:45:21 +76:20 9 Scott Sampson BAOC 3:00:28 +91:27
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DSQ = Disqualified (violated a rule)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)