A weekend of sun brought many veteran orienteers out of their winter hibernation to compete on an expanded Coyote Hills map. It also attracked quite a few first-timers. Fifty-mile-per-hour wind gusts did all but blow some participants off the courses. No one got lost (or blown away!) and there were very few DNFs. Below are the complete results, and be sure to check out the photos, taken by Angelica Riley.
Seventy-plus girl scouts and leaders from Almaden arrived on a mystery bus
ride to learn all about orienteering and visit the Nature Center at Coyote
Hills. After sitting through beginners' clinics presented by Scott Aster,
Gary Kraght, Nick Corsano, and Jeff Lanam, the girls and their leaders broke
into small groups and did White courses. They met back in the registration
area, had lunch, picked up new maps and did Yellow courses. I bet they slept
well on their bus ride back.
On White, Gary Martinez won with a time of 10:43, followed by Josh Wells and Lindsay Lowe at 15:13. F10 national champion Rachel Care did her first-ever solo course (without an adult shadow), and proved that she could do just fine even without an adult trailing behind, finishing 3rd of 31, in 19 minutes, an excellent 10 minutes per kilometer.
On Yellow, 1st place went to Steve Jankowski at 19:59, 2nd place to Susan Petrick at 23:45 and 3rd place to Bruce Washburn at 25:28. Seventeen participants that competed on White also competed on Yellow.
On Orange, Eric Rosenweig burned up the course with a time of 50:20 followed by Alan Glendinning at 55:18. The team of Darin van Hoff and Craig Spencer finished at 61:41 in third. Marching around the steep and windy course, Nancy Lindemann finished solidly, ahead of 27 people in 13 groups.
Several recent events have shown that Dan Stoll-Hadayia is rapidly becoming a fast and consistent orienteer, a cut above most of BAOC's USA-leading M21 (and more) crowd, now challenging James Scarborough for the spot of fastest orienteer in the club. His 56-minute run on the Coyote Hills Long Orange placed him nearly 7 minutes ahead of the pack at his heels, with 11 more people in the next 7 minutes. Leading the pack was Doug Stein, followed just 2 seconds later by M35 Neal Barlow. M40 Matthias Kohler showed he is in excellent shape (supposedly after just a few days of cross-country skiing), coming in 4th, less than a minute from 2nd. Gary Carpenter (M50) showed he's still cruising, within 7 minutes of Doug making him a member of the "fast pack" at Coyote Hills. Penny Demoss (F50) is clearly back in strong form, clocking 75 minutes for the 8.3 km, 325m climb course.
(Just for fun, Long Orange winner Dan Stoll-Hadayia, and Steve Gregg, member of the top Long Orange pack, ran the Yellow course unofficially (after finishing the Long Orange) clocking a 13:05 and 14:53, respectively for 2.1 km and 125m climb.)
Thanks go out to all the volunteers that made this event director's first event such a success. Pre-registration (of the girl scouts) was handled by Ev & Jean Beuerman. On-site registration was handled by Aimee Grimes and Vivian Lee. Bob Cooley printed the maps. Scott Aster, Nick Corsano, Gary Kraght and Jeff Lanam did the beginners' clinics (including the 70+ girl scouts and leaders.) Harold and Penny DeMoss and Dean French handled the Starts. Carol Lewis and Bilal Kheir manned the finishes. Meg Gerstner, Alan Glendinning, and Christina Philips calculated and posted the results. Mark Blair, Chuck Spalding, Parag Gupta and Kelly and Julie Wells picked up controls after the event.
Special thanks go to Wyatt and Angelica Riley for expanding the mapped area, setting the courses, vetting the courses, hanging the bags, picking up equipment before the event, taking pictures, etc., etc., etc. I am convinced that Wyatt did more work than the event director, and Wyatt is convinced of the opposite. Doing tag-team events makes it easier on everyone.
White Course 8 Controls - 1.9 Km - 25 m
1 Gary Martinez 10:43
2 Josh Wells, Lindsay Lowe 15:13
3 Rachel Care 19:17
4 Martin Cavanaugh, Brandon Coon 21:43
5 Morgan Wall, Brittney Bylund, Ashley Giersh 26:42
6 Krista Gaffney, Alex Bishop, Emily Weller 27:06
7 Amanda Vogel, Whitney Reyes, Jenna Ryan 28:19
8 Jakob, Lynne, Philip & Daniel Heitz, Arvin Reyes 29:50
9 Patricia Perez + 3 31:52
10 Katie Cavanough, Heather Coon 33:00
11 Philipp, Daniel, Manfred Kopisch 34:23
12 Tim Hill 35:31
13 Angel, Ida, Kenji, Aleira Soto 35:45
14 Dena & Karl Lukes 38:45
15 Grace & Teresa Chang, Kelli Donovan 39:00
16 Deirdre Zentler 42:12
17 Mary Sheridan, Claire Thompson, Lauren Kido,
Emily Rand 42:36
18 Lindsay & Sheridan Rodriquez, Katie Russell,
Vanessa Morgen 44:45
19 Liz Nash + 3 45:18
20 Marian & Elizabeth Wimner, Caitlin Richards,
Jamie Borad 48:20
21 Roosevelt Racoons - 11 49:16
22 Phil & Tommy Hass, Joe Diaz Ramero Troop 263 49:22
23 GS 277-1 Michelle, Pamir, Melissa 49:40
24 GS 277-2 Katrina, Tina, Christine, Kristin,
Cindy 50:05
25 Mary & Nick Washburn 52:30
26 Megan, Kendra, Sophia 52:40
27 Spratt + 2 58:09
28 Claire, Nora, Judi 1:00:08
29 Laura P, Geeti, AJ, Janet 1:00:28
30 Eri K., Tanya S., Ashley P. 1:01:59
31 Michelle Lee, Chelsea Hawes, Jena Barridge,
Monica Song 1:04:45
Yellow Course 9 Controls - 2.2 Km - 125 m
1 Steve Jankowski 19:59
2 Susan Petrick 23:45
3 Bruce Washburn 25:28
4 Svetlana Kopeikina 27:30
5 Isabelle 29:45
6 James & Zion Wilson 34:12
7 Ann Perasalo 34:26
8 Henry Band, Gail Glendinning 35:12
9 Kat Cai, Art & Ann Sunhachawel 36:01
10 Jesse Patterson 36:42
11 Matt, Patrick, Terence Rabuzzi 36:48
12 Peter, Taylor & Dustin McMahon 37:43
13 George & Charlotte Dean 38:05
14 Alan Houser 41:19
15 Mark Rice, Nghia Nguyen 44:18
16 Kevin Walker 44:20
17 Alexander & Jeff Boenig 44:43
18 Carlos Miller, Alana, Amando Colton 46:11
19 Karen & Jill Cleveland 47:47
20 Ana Maria Boenig, Margarita Afane 48:17
21 Shirley Parlan & Bill Smith 51:16
22 Denise, Will & Kyle Larsen 51:42
23 Philip, Athena, Joan & Jack Myers 53:45
24 Diane & Harry Hall 56:32
25 Dox Doxadis, Sarah Edwards 58:47
26 Keith & Kenneth Tsang, Matthew So, Fred Chen,
Joel Wong 1:02:22
27 Judy Gronin, Nichole, Libby, Melissa Joy,
Sam Breault 1:04:50
28 Madsen Agee 1:08:04
29 Fay Cleveland & Alyssa Russo 1:24:58
30 Helen Ciernick, Drew & Christina Philips 2:01:16
- Roxane Wilde DNF
- Julie Van Hoff DNF
Yellow Course - Second Course
1 Lindsay Lowe, Josh Wells 25:29
2 Deirdre Zentler 46:39
3 Grace & Teresa Chang, Kelli Donovan,
Eri Kameyama 46:40
4 Kendra, Megan, Ashley, Sophie, Mrs. Conner 50:15
5 Chelsea Hawes, Jena Burridge, Monica Song,
Michelle Lee +1 50:21
6 Anoez & Kenji Soto 51:03
7 Rachael Care 52:11
8 Elizabeth Wimmer, Caitlin Richards,
Ronya Sukicha, Jaime Boraod 53:40
9 Lindsay & Sheridan Rodriguez, Vanessa Moyen,
Katie Russell 55:56
10 Liz Nash + 3 1:03:14
11 Spratt, Riparbelli, Nygen, Janet,
Judi Dimicelli +2 1:07:06
12 Mary Sheridan, Claire Thompson, Lauren Kido,
Emily Rand 1:11:18
13 Amanda Vogel, Jenna Ryan, Whittney Reyes 1:12:04
14 Morgan Wall, Brittney Bylund, Ashley Giersh 1:15:26
15 Troop 277-2 (Tina, Christina, Kristin, Katrina)
& 277-4 & 277-1 (Michelle, Melissa, Pamir) 1:19:46
16 Krista Gaffney, Emily Weller, Alex Bishop 1:27:20
- Gary Martinez MSP
Orange Course 14 Controls - 5.0 Km - 225 m
1 Eric Rosenweig 50:20
2 Alan Glendinning 55:18
3 Darin van Hoff, Craig Spencer 1:01:41
4 Don Larsen 1:03:24
5 Vivian Lee 1:03:52
6 Gerry Goss 1:09:25
7 Stephanie MacLean 1:09:27
8 Oleg Shahknovski 1:10:22
9 Stacy Goss 1:11:23
10 Louise Madrid 1:14:35
11 Dwight Freund 1:14:55
12 Dave & Scott Payne 1:29:00
13 Silvian Centiu 1:30:17
14 Leslie Minarik 1:32:26
15 Will Noel, Chris Sun 1:32:38
16 Don Gee 1:39:57
17 Rosemary Johnson 1:42:40
18 Cathy Bolger, Ken Renworth 1:49:36
19 Nancy Lindeman 1:53:51
20 Emma & Glenn Shelton 1:54:40
21 Lauren Wemmer 2:04:10
22 Al, Anna, Geoff, Andrew 2:05:00
23 Robb Stanek, Karen Lolans 2:14:43
24 Judy Koehler 2:18:27
25 Gabriel, Katherine, Arthur, Harrison 2:21:03
26 Kenworthy, Dudley, Kathy 2:21:05
27 Ira & Ben Weiner, Dennis Braddy 2:33:35
28 Ev & Jean Beuerman 2:54:14
- Simona Nan DNF
- Joe Rivera DNF
- Audrie Faist DNF
- Alan, Linda MSP
Orange Course - Second Course
1 Mark Rice, Nghia Nguyen 1:37:29
2 Dean French, Tim Hill 1:54:26
Long Orange Course 20 Controls - 8.3 Km - 325 m
1 Dan Stoll-Hadayia 56:48
2 Doug Stein 1:03:20
3 Neil Barlow 1:03:22
4 Matthias Kohler 1:04:15
5 Syd Reader 1:04:39
6 Markku Hannula 1:05:52
7 Panu Haaram 1:06:51
8 Thorsten Graeve 1:08:10
9 Steve Gregg 1:08:26
10 Ian Ramsey 1:09:00
11 Gary Carpenter 1:10:07
12 Derek Maclean 1:10:20
13 Tapio Karras 1:14:25
14 H. Haarma 1:15:20
15 Penny DeMoss 1:15:57
16 Chuck Spalding 1:18:59
17 Ian Tidswell 1:19:25
18 Rod Jaehn 1:21:31
19 George Minarik 1:23:19
20 Kelly Wells 1:27:18
21 Nik Weber 1:29:00
22 David Dreyfuss 1:31:50
23 Mark Blair 1:32:46
24 Kevin Schoenfeld 1:35:33
25 Paul Allman 1:35:49
26 Scott Aster 1:36:18
27 Harold DeMoss 1:36:43
28 Tony Pinkham 1:37:11
29 Bob Cooley 1:39:14
30 John Herron 1:42:22
31 Theo Verhoeven 1:44:59
32 Brian Donohue 1:48:40
33 Debbie Wojtowicz,
Leon Berzins 1:58:04
34 Philip Hoare 2:00:32
35 Aileen Abernathy 2:03:00
36 Frazier Stevenson
(Lost Card) 2:06:02
37 Jeff Lanam 2:10:29
38 Parag Gupta 2:25:23
39 Steve Beuerman 2:52:03
- Boyd & Dianne Potts OT
- Joan Roos DNF