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Spring Lake Regional Park

Date: (Sun.) Dec. 4, 2022
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Event Director: - 415.456.8118
Course Setter: James Roney
Type: C; Beginner and intermediate/advanced courses. This park is suitable for first-timers.

Related Event Information

WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=86514) Attackpoint Results (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_54335) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=505) Event Announcement

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Event Write-Up

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Returning to Spring Lake after three long years brought a lot of happiness to me, and to the many participants who came out for the event. Despite torrential downpours early, the rain ceased by 9:30, and mostly stayed away for the rest of the day, allowing us to get in a fun, challenging day of Orienteering.

Due no doubt to the wildfires in the area over the last couple of years, the park has significantly reduced the brush and thickets in the park, allowing more of the terrain to be runnable.

James Roney designed the courses this time, doing a great job making the most of the complex terrain. I heard only good comments about his courses, though several participants on the “Contour” course, described it as “brutal, but fun” (one or two runners may have omitted the “fun” description 😉). James cleverly designed the advanced courses to minimize the sharing of controls, and the controls that were shared were approached from different directions depending on the course.

Along with regular club members, several youth groups came, including Girl Scout troops and Navy ROTC cadets, but the morning rain kept our turnout of beginners rather low. Hopefully, when we next hold an event here, the turnout will be greater.

This event ran very smoothly thanks largely to the great volunteers who spent a great deal of time and effort to make this so.

David Arsenault, the park permit officer, was very helpful in securing our permit. Chuck Spalding made timely updates to the website, including editing my submissions to make them more concise and informative.

James, of course spent hours creating the courses, and hanging all the bags before the event, even picking up some afterwards!

Western Race Services, aka Jay Haan, handled all the E-punch duties, including a large results screen, allowing everyone to see how they did.

Sarah Williams ran the registration table, ably assisted by Steve Haas and Bill Cusworth. Jeff Lanam and George Minarik gave instructional clinics, while James, Bill, and Olga Kraght helped by picking up controls at the end of the day so that we could leave before 4 PM!

Thank you all for helping, and everyone who came for making the event a good one!

Lost and Found

Someone left a thumb compass at the Start table. Identify it, and it is yours.

– Scott



Results

Spring Lake Regional Park

Santa Rosa, CA
Sunday, December 4, 2022

White Course   Yellow Course   Brown Course   Green Course   Contour Course

Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=86514) and on Attackpoint (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_54335).

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=505). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)

RouteGadget Tip #1: After selecting your GPX file, make sure to adjust the time offset between the start line and the start triangle. For most of our local events, the offset should be set to 0 as we start from the triangle. The offset can have a huge impact on your route accuracy.
RouteGadget Tip #2: After uploading your GPS track to RouteGadget, you can create additional blue adjustment points by right-clicking your track. You can use these points to better align your route with the map, for example, along trails. You can delete extra adjustment points by right-clicking them.

Please tell if anything needs to be changed in the results below. 


White Course     (1.7 km, 20 m climb, 9 controls)  
                                                            Time      Time   
   Pl  Name                              Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Leo Putman                        TAD       14:56              3:22  
    2  Everett Abercrombie                         15:02     0:06     3:08
    3  Brandon Willoughby                          44:44    29:48     9:02
    4  Midori Kemp                     Troop 84    47:00    32:04    11:23
    5  LilyRose Lennon                 Troop 84    47:02    32:06    12:15
    6  Charlotte McKay                 Troop 84    47:18    32:22    13:01
    6  Sydney Lin                      Troop 84    47:18    32:22     9:49
    8  Charlotte Willooughby           Troop 84    47:22    32:26     9:16
    9  Kaylani Thompson                Troop 84    50:55    35:59    12:34
   10  Charlie Nelson                  Troop 84    51:01    36:05    12:49
   10  Vivienne Aronson                Troop 84    51:01    36:05    12:44
   12  Alexis Garcia                   Troop 84    51:12    36:16    12:41
   13  Lilian Matthies                 Troop 84    51:39    36:43    12:59


Yellow Course    (2.4 km, 40 m climb, 13 controls)  
                                                            Time      Time   
   Pl  Name                              Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Lost Tech People                            42:52              4:58  
    2  Isaac & Angely            Turlock NJROTC    49:26     6:34     5:57
    3  Roney family                      BAOC    1:00:17    17:25    10:36
    4  Kelsey & Sean             Turlock NJROTC  1:01:55    19:03    14:09
    5  John & Axel               Turlock NJROTC  1:05:50    22:58    17:06
    6  Mark Burchill, Mel Konrad                 1:38:10    55:18    18:15


Brown Course     (3.0 km, 75 m climb, 13 controls)  
                                                            Time      Time   
   Pl  Name                              Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Steve Gregg                       BAOC      40:12              5:49  
    2  James Roney                       BAOC      40:26     0:14     4:13
    3  Deron van Hoff                    BAOC      40:55     0:43     6:41  (2nd course)
    4  Ye Olde Trekkers                            42:33     2:21     8:19
    5  Calimercs                                   45:40     5:28    10:09
    6  Dennis Wildfogel                  BAOC      52:56    12:44    11:12
    7  Johanna Merriss                   BAOC    1:01:31    21:19    11:49
    8  George Minarik                    BAOC    1:01:52    21:40     7:34
    9  Everett Abercrombie                       1:21:11    40:59    41:44  (2nd course)
   10  Evan Custer                       BAOC    1:22:30    42:18    13:05
   11  Bohn's Delvers                            1:25:29    45:17    17:39
   12  Alex van Hoff                     BAOC    1:33:20    53:08    28:26
       Jeff Lanam                        BAOC      MSP                      
       Sarah Williams                    BAOC      DNF


Green Course     (5.4 km, 195 m climb, 15 controls)  
                                                            Time      Time   
   Pl  Name                              Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  François Léonard                  BAOC      43:27              0:37  
    2  Erin Schirm                       BAOC      46:36     3:09     2:03
    3  Wayne Staats                      BAOC    1:01:44    18:17     5:08  (2nd course)
    4  Steve Gregg                       BAOC    1:07:22    23:55     3:57  (2nd course)
    5  Marie-Josée Parayre               BAOC    1:11:44    28:17     7:08
    6  Rex Winterbottom                  BAOC    1:11:49    28:22    10:04
    7  John Richardson                   BAOC    1:17:42    34:15     8:03  (2nd course)
    8  Gavin Wyatt-Mair                  BAOC    1:20:56    37:29     9:34  (2nd course)
    9  Eron Flory                        BAOC    1:46:04    62:37    27:59
   10  Van Boughner                      BAOC    1:46:12    62:45    13:48
   11  Olga Kraght                       BAOC    2:23:36   100:09    42:55
   12  Drew Cannon                       BAOC    2:47:03   123:36    41:40


Contour Course   (3.5 km, 80 m climb, 10 controls)  
                                                            Time      Time   
   Pl  Name                              Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Deron van Hoff                    BAOC      57:25             10:36  
    2  Leo Putman                        TAD     1:01:39     4:14    16:08  (2nd course)
    2  Wayne Staats                      BAOC    1:01:39     4:14    19:05
    4  Gavin Wyatt-Mair                  BAOC    1:02:13     4:48    11:53
    5  John Richardson                   BAOC    1:08:23    10:58    19:13
    6  Vicki Woolworth                   NAVX    1:25:19    27:54    22:48
    7  Stephen Haas                      BAOC    1:50:40    53:15    39:42
    8  Chuck Spalding                    BAOC    1:52:09    54:44    41:41

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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)