Vasona Lake County Park
Date: (Sun.) Aug. 14, 2022
Location: Los Gatos, CA
Event Director: - 415.456.8118
Course Setter: Taylor Pospisil
Type: C; This is the fifth event of the 2022 Summer Series. Beginners are welcome!
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=83946) Attackpoint Results (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_53748) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=499)
Event Write-Up
By , Event Director
Just over 150 intrepid souls came out to test themselves at our event at Vasona Lake Park—a great turnout! Taylor Pospisil set courses for his very first time, and based on comments from finishers, did a great job! It is hard to design challenging courses in a semi-urban park like Vasona, but Taylor made the most of the landscape, with multiple changes of direction while touring almost every corner of the park.
The large lake, bridges, playgrounds, and even a railroad were in play for competitors, making for fun, interesting, and unusual terrain for orienteering.
The weather was great, getting a bit hot by my mid-afternoon, but not oppressively so. It was great to see a large turnout of beginners, and to hear their comments and see their smiles when they finished. A large number of club members showed up as well, some encouraged by the opportunity to advance their position in the Summer Series, and others due to this park being in the geographical center of our membership.
Lots of people helped out with this event, and I want to first recognize Graham Brew, who made the reservation, found Taylor as course setter, and got our application going with the Park District. Despite just returning from Belgium, and surely suffering jet lag, Graham came out and volunteered as well as ran a course!
Steve Haas, Sarah Williams, and Dennis Wildfogel handled the mobile registration table, moving it every so often to stay in the shade.
Jeff Lanam and Jay Hahn ran the E-punch system flawlessly. Rex Winterbottom led multiple beginner clinics throughout the morning. Taylor set out all the controls early in the morning, while Graham and John Richardson ran the Start area all day. Graham also performed his magic to compute the Summer Series points and current standings.
Finally, Taylor, Steve Haas, Briana Steven, and Chuck Spalding made my day, by going out and picking up all the controls, allowing us to close down and leave the park in plenty of time for me to get home and relax before dinner!
It was an all-around fun day for orienteering. Thanks to everyone for coming out and enjoying it with me.
Results
Vasona Lake County Park
Los Gatos, CA
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Beginner Course Short Course Long Course Summer Series Points Summer Series Standings
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=83946) and on Attackpoint (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_53748).
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=499). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
- E-punch Comments:
- Thanks to Scott Aster and Graham Brew, Event Directors, and Taylor Pospisil, Course Setter, for a great event in this pretty park. We had 101 starts, with many groups, so probably over 130 people.
Note that there was an error in the course data for the Beginner course, which initially had a control #35. This was replaced by #67, but early runners on the course got a result of “MPâ€. This has been corrected in the results below.
– Jeff Lanam
Please tell Jeff Lanam () if anything needs to be corrected.
Beginner Course (1.7 km, ~0 m climb, 12 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Kian Gupta 12:09 (2nd course) 2 Chuck Spalding BAOC 14:01 1:52 (2nd course) 3 Megan & Zoe 15:15 3:06 4 Lowd Troop 286 21:26 9:17 5 Team Moldy 22:30 10:21 6 Koa Brunskill-Krikorian COC 25:28 13:19 7 Raffi Krikorian COC 25:41 13:32 8 Eric Bronstein 26:00 13:51 9 Brooke Staats BAOC 29:56 17:47 (2nd course) 10 Roney family 31:53 19:44 11 Fletcher family 32:07 19:58 12 Fire Avengers QOC 32:22 20:13 13 Dantong Zhu 32:40 20:31 14 David Bartz 34:22 22:13 15 Beatrice Schreibstein OCIN 36:35 24:26 16 Katrina Farris BAOC 39:23 27:14 17 Adrian Cheng COC 44:27 32:18 18 Kevin's Krew 48:50 36:41 19 Austin Harley 49:37 37:28 20 Jason & Ellie Hou 49:49 37:40 21 Liehann Loots 49:53 37:44
Short Course (2.8 km, ~30 m climb, 12 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Ouri Karni Technion-Carmel 20:42 (2nd course) 2 Weichun Fong BAOC 22:37 1:55 (2nd course) 3 Tapio Karras BAOC 25:03 4:21 4 Yana Konovalenko BAOC 25:22 4:40 5 Liehann Loots 25:26 4:44 (2nd course) 6 Daniel Vo 26:02 5:20 (2nd course) 7 Werner Haag BAOC 27:08 6:26 8 Tom De Vre BAOC 27:21 6:39 (2nd course) 9 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 27:30 6:48 10 Logan Sternberg Truckee 27:57 7:15 11 Sierra Meisel 28:47 8:05 12 Kian Gupta 32:37 11:55 13 Yingfei Wang 33:26 12:44 14 Brooke Staats BAOC 33:58 13:16 15 Chuck Spalding BAOC 34:05 13:23 16 Team Cocoa 34:34 13:52 17 Albert Cheng 37:03 16:21 18 Frank Markowitz BAOC 37:59 17:17 19 Johanna Merriss BAOC 39:47 19:05 20 Sarah Williams BAOC 40:06 19:24 21 Evan Custer BAOC 41:44 21:02 22 Jeff Lanam BAOC 43:59 23:17 23 Dan Greene BAOC 44:05 23:23 24 Smurphies 44:45 24:03 25 Imogen Robinson BAOC 49:34 28:52 26 Anna Staats BAOC 54:06 33:24 27 James Qian 54:46 34:04 28 Jay Hann BAOC 55:05 34:23 29 Joey Wang 56:16 35:34 30 Ruizi Tang 56:21 35:39 31 Katy Robinson BAOC 57:03 36:21 32 Edifer 58:30 37:48 33 Terry Gleason BAOC 1:14:31 53:49 34 Yael Baruch 1:26:32 65:50 35 Daniel Baruch 1:44:42 84:00 36 Nancy Lindeman BAOC 2:23:53 123:11 Kun Zhou DNF
Long Course (5.2 km, ~50 m climb, 21 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Yurii Konovalenko BAOC 30:08 2 Carl Hoel 31:04 0:56 3 François Léonard BAOC 32:05 1:57 4 Wayne Staats BAOC 34:23 4:15 5 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 34:28 4:20 6 Graham Brew BAOC 35:53 5:45 7 Ouri Karni Technion-Carmel 38:12 8:04 8 Briana Steven BAOC 38:41 8:33 9 Mikkel Conradi CSU 40:55 10:47 10 Weichun Fong BAOC 41:38 11:30 11 Steve Gregg BAOC 45:47 15:39 12 Drew Taplin BAOC 47:06 16:58 13 Tom De Vre BAOC 47:08 17:00 14 James Roney BAOC 47:25 17:17 15 Andrej Masalkov BAOC 49:16 19:08 16 John Richardson BAOC 50:06 19:58 17 Chun Wu BAOC 52:13 22:05 18 Klimov BAOC 52:52 22:44 19 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 53:18 23:10 20 Billy Bao 55:11 25:03 21 Megan & Zoe 57:09 27:01 (2nd course) 22 Jason Reed BAOC 59:15 29:07 23 Stephen Haas BAOC 1:00:25 30:17 24 Jason Lee BAOC 1:01:24 31:16 25 Sean Robinson BAOC 1:02:08 32:00 26 Michael Robinson BAOC 1:03:37 33:29 27 Lingshan Xu BAOC 1:04:17 34:09 28 Vicki Woolworth NAVX 1:04:22 34:14 29 Daniel Vo 1:09:55 39:47 30 Scott Sampson BAOC 1:12:13 42:05 31 Team 4 Troop 74 1:17:58 47:50 32 Team 3 Troop 74 1:19:43 49:35 33 Alan Glendinning & Meg BAOC 1:24:57 54:49 34 Anya Trubelja 1:27:17 57:09 35 Roopa McNealis BAOC 1:27:21 57:13 36 Miroslav Trubelja 1:27:26 57:18 37 Rhonda Stieber BAOC 1:27:28 57:20 38 Team 2 Troop 74 1:32:17 62:09 39 Team Dave 1:34:59 64:51 40 Mirjana Spasojevic 1:37:43 67:35 41 Chase BAOC 1:39:33 69:25 Joerg Rathenberg BAOC DNF Linda Folkman DNF Team 1 Troop 74 DNF
2022 Summer Series Points
Great to see so many people yesterday. Thanks for coming out, and especially thanks to all our fantastic volunteers! Summer Series points earned at Vasona Lake listed below.
As usual there are a few birth years we do not have, and these people have “M21†next to their points. If you are so labeled, and you are not a 21-year-old male, then you can earn some automatic free points by sending me your birth year. I’ll make the correction after the next event.
Let me know if there are any questions, comments, or corrections to any of this.
– Graham Brew, BAOC Event Coordinator ()
Short-Course Points earned at event #5, Vasona Lake
Pl Name Points 1 Dennis Wildfogel 1000 2 Tapio Karras 947 3 Werner Haag 923 4 Chuck Spalding 837 5 Johanna Merriss 818 6 Yana Konovalenko 750 7 Evan Custer 742 8 Logan Sternberg 685 9 Sierra Meisel 660 (M21) 10 Frank Markowitz 654 11 Brooke Staats 648 12 Sarah Williams 642 13 Kian Gupta 585 (M21) 14 Yingfei Wang 571 15 Dan Greene 566 16 Jeff Lanam 562 17 Albert Cheng 514 (M21) 18 Imogen Robinson 507 19 James Qian 489 20 Terry Gleason 480 21 Anna Staats 461 22 Jay Hann 447 23 Katy Robinson 426 24 Joey Wang 338 (M21) 25 Ruizi Tang 338 (M21) 26 Yael Baruch 281 27 Nancy Lindeman 265 28 Daniel Baruch 240
Long-Course Points earned at event #5, Vasona Lake
Pl Name Points 1 François Léonard 1000 2 Yurii Konovalenko 955 3 Carl Hoel 922 4 Rex Winterbottom 914 5 Graham Brew 877 6 Wayne Staats 849 7 Briana Steven 823 8 Steve Gregg 798 9 Ouri Karni 758 10 Mikkel Conradi 748 11 Weichun Fong 694 12 Andrej Masalkov 694 13 Steve Haas 677 14 Marie-Josée Parayre 664 15 Vicki Woolworth 656 16 Tom De Vre 652 17 Drew Taplin 601 18 James Roney 597 19 John Richardson 566 20 Chun Wu 543 21 Michael Robinson 537 22 Jason Lee 524 23 Billy Bao 511 24 Jason Reed 477 25 Sean Robinson 455 26 Scott Sampson 453 27 Lingshan Xu 443 28 Daniel Vo 405 (M21)
2022 Summer Series Standings
Here are the all-important overall Series Standings after our fifth event.
Things are getting pretty interesting now, since only the best four scores for each athlete are used in the final ranking. So there is still a lot of opportunity for the rankings to change as we head into our sixth and final event of the Summer Series at Bedwell Bayfront Park in Menlo Park on August 28th. Hope to see you there!
(Event Directors and Course Setters earn “credit points†for their event[s], equal to their best “scored points†during the Series. Those credit points are indicated with “cr†below.)
Let me know if there are any questions on any of this.
– Graham Brew, BAOC Event Coordinator ()
- Abbreviations used below:
- JMP = Joaquin Miller Park; Mills = Mills College, Oakland; UCB = U.C. Berkeley; DVC = Diablo Valley College; VLP = Vasona Lake County Park; cr = Credit points for Event Director or Course Setter
“Short Series†Standings After Event #5
Pl Name JMP Mills UCB DVC VLP Events Best 4 1 Chuck Spalding 1000 913 1000 837 4 3750 2 Jan Cisar 543 865 685 877 4 2970 3 Tapio Karras 1000 822 947 3 2769 4 Evan Custer 706 544 589 742 4 2581 5 Werner Haag 733 774 923 3 2430 6 Sarah Williams 500 566 464 642 4 2172 7 Anthony Riley 1000 1000cr 2 2000 8 Logan Sternberg 591 652 685 3 1928 9 Jeff Lanam 437 418 493 562 4 1910 10 Nathan Curtis 601 512 541 3 1654 11 Terry Gleason 478 612 480 3 1570 12 Rosemary Johnson 592 431 537 3 1560 13 Johanna Merriss 711 818 2 1529 14 Jay Hann 478 516 447 3 1441 15 Imogen Robinson 370 431 507 3 1308 16 Katy Robinson 425 448 426 3 1299 17 Yana Konovalenko 534 750 2 1284 18 Anna Staats 358 328 461 3 1147 19 Dennis Wildfogel 1000 1 1000 20 Eric Rosenzweig 811 1 811 21 George Minarik 810 1 810 22 Lauren Knight 777 1 777 23 Derek Maclean 727 1 727 24 Miriam Orrhede 669 1 669 25 Sierra Meisel 660 1 660 26 Enrico Rantala 658 1 658 27 Frank Markowitz 654 1 654 28 Brooke Staats 648 1 648 28 Nick Corsano 648 1 648 30 Stephanie Maclean 641 1 641 31 Amy Winston 596 1 596 32 Nat Jeffries 592 1 592 33 Kian Gupta 585 1 585 34 Yingfei Wang 571 1 571 35 Dan Greene 566 1 566 36 Maria Jergus 537 1 537 37 Olga Kraght 523 1 523 38 James Qian 489 1 489 39 Jussi Tahtinen 484 1 484 40 Rayner Malasaga 441 1 441 41 Daniel Ingram 439 1 439 42 Melodie Desmarais 427 1 427 43 Zach Saltzman 409 1 409 44 Ludovic Chubby 405 1 405 45 Swaminathan Ramesh 395 1 395 46 Nikolay Makhnenko 394 1 394 47 Clara Staats 392 1 392 48 Charles Van Tassel 339 1 339 49 Joey Wang 338 1 338 49 Ruizi Tang 338 1 338 51 Chuyan Zhu 315 1 315 52 Josef Estrada 296 1 296 53 Zhiqi Ang 292 1 292 54 Mark Schneider 288 1 288 55 Yael Baruch 281 1 281 56 Jenny Zheng 272 1 272 56 Ryah Newton 272 1 272 58 Nancy Lindeman 265 1 265 59 Daniel Baruch 240 1 240 60 Henry Hardcastle-Ross 237 1 237
“Long Series†Standings After Event #5
Pl Name JMP Mills UCB DVC VLP Events Best 4 1 Yurii Konovalenko 1000 970 985 955 4 3910 2 François Léonard 828 1000 1000cr 1000 4 3828 3 Rex Winterbottom 670 889 914cr 881 914 5 3598 4 Carl Hoel 923 849 812 922 4 3506 5 Graham Brew 581 822 803 834 877 5 3336 6 Mikkel Conradi 822 729 681 748 4 2980 7 Steve Gregg 702 646 797 798 4 2943 8 Erin Schirm 1000 931 1000 3 2931 9 Liubov Pitko 650 763 741 711 4 2865 10 Taylor Pospisil 579 685 670 685cr 4 2619 11 Vicki Woolworth 664cr 664 616 656 4 2600 12 Steve Haas 668 602 649 677 4 2596 13 Wayne Staats 873 784 849 3 2506 14 James Roney 619cr 619 605 597 4 2440 15 Jeff Goodwin 850 775 754 3 2379 16 Ouri Karni 757 784 758 3 2299 17 John Richardson 403 598 579 506 566 5 2249 18 Chun Wu 387 544 589 555 543 5 2231 19 Drew Taplin 421 580 586 601 4 2188 20 Michael Robinson 557 527 540 537 4 2161 21 Weichun Fong 325 563 570 694 4 2152 22 Jason Lee 513 589 504 524 4 2130 23 Deron van Hoff 599 769 754 3 2122 24 Marie-Josée Parayre 589 866 664 3 2119 25 Billy Bao 505 557 479 511 4 2052 26 Andrej Masalkov 773 694 2 1467 27 Tom de Vre 652cr 652 2 1304 28 John Crowther 651 605 2 1256 29 Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill 592 630 2 1222 30 Sean Robinson 289 466 455 3 1210 31 Kyle Navarro 527 608 2 1135 32 Lance Kenison 478 575 2 1053 33 Chris Degen 989 1 989 34 Julia Doubson 863 1 863 35 Briana Steven 823 1 823 36 Lubomir Šebo 794 1 794 37 Daniel Šebo 775 1 775 38 Stephen Harrison 746 1 746 39 Jonathan Owens 712 1 712 40 Martin Jergus 688 1 688 41 Suzanne Kosina 656 1 656 42 Nikolay Makhnenko 592 1 592 43 Logan Kenison 572 1 572 44 Amy Winston 553 1 553 45 Travis Navarro 531 1 531 46 Jason Reed 477 1 477 47 Kristin Bremm 461 1 461 48 Scott Sampson 453 1 453 49 Brad Jacobs 444 1 444 50 Lingshan Xu 443 1 443 51 Samuel Barker 440 1 440 52 Alan Glendinning 437 1 437 53 Henrique Miranda 426 1 426 54 Daniel Vo 405 1 405 55 Steven Luibrand 394 1 394 56 Ellen Holbrook 370 1 370 57 Julie van Hoff 343 1 343 58 Gabriella Jergus 332 1 332 59 Shane White 289 1 289 60 Philip Zhu 246 1 246
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)