Presidio
San Francisco
Sept. 2, 2001
by Vic Revenko, meet director
A great turnout on a beautiful Labor Day weekend! A whopping 241 participants attended the Presidio O' meet - many for the first time. Several groups decided to picnic after their event, including a group of 11-year-old girls celebrating a birthday. Below are the complete results.
Mike Springer was the course setter and decided to use pie plates as controls to allow more flexibility in locating them in an area as accessible as the Presidio. They worked out well except for a few misplaced controls on Long Orange (13 and 15). Thanks to Steve Gregg, they were placed correctly. Steve as well as Penny DeMoss (and apparently some others) also helped by fixing wind-blown controls, which slowed their times. Your fellow orienteers thank you for this unselfish effort. One other shortcoming of the pie-plate control method (ppcm) was the solid red color on one side of the control that waved in the breeze. This was a problem for some who are color-blind. Notwithstanding these problems, the feedback from the participants was that it was a fun event.
The Presidio is constantly changing since it must be a self-sustaining park. This means that the map frequently needs updating. Long Orange orienteers found needed changes in the west part of the course area. Hopefully these can be made in time for next year's event.
The Presidio attracted people from around the Bay Area and beyond. Sometimes winning is better with more than one head. This was the case for the White course winner (the Hobsons at 39:04) as well as the next five runners-up (the Longinottis, the Snoopers, the Road Runners, the Jaguars, the Chins). The Long White winner (57:44) was Blanka Dobrkovska, newly arrived from the Czech Republic. Gary Kraght was the Yellow course winner (24:22). He said that he broke some personal best efforts. George Minarik, the BAOC treasurer, won the Orange course with a time of 52:33. Long Orange was long - it was designed to go around the periphery of the Presidio. Boris Granovsky had the fastest time (58:47). Congratulations to all participants!
Thanks for the Help!
This event depends on lots of help from fellow orienteers. Thanks to Mike Springer for his excellent and new course setting. The Presidio is limiting, since it is a heavily used urban park, but Mike added some new touches. Bob Cooley made the event easier with great preprinted maps. Thanks also to Rosemary Johnson for getting the permit.The Presidio draws lots of new people to orienteering. Gary Kraght and Tony Pinkham did a great job of teaching new orienteers at the beginners' clinics. This makes a big difference to making the day fun for novices.
Ev and Jean Beuerman stayed awake long enough after returning from Europe the day before to manage the registration process. My great thanks for their invaluable service not only at this but at many BAOC events.
Energetic orienteers were well Started by Galina and Oleg Shakhnovsky and Ed Ow. Moving 241 participants out into the courses was a smooth process. Participants were Finished off by Penny and Harold DeMoss, Scott Aster, and Leif Kirschenbaum.
The results were tallied by Marsha Jacobs, Robert Lewis, and Chuck Spalding (who also waited for the last finisher). Chuck also did later homework to compile all the results and publish them.
Thanks to all who made this event seamless. It was a lot of fun and the feedback - especially from new orienteers - was very positive.
Results
White 2.3 km, 40 m climb, 9 controls
1 Kevin, Laura, Dave & Nancy Hobson 39:04
2 Vicki Newton & Cheryl Longinotti 39:28
3 The Snoopers (Michael Behrens group) 41:59
4 The Road Runners (Liza Sanchez group) 44:10
5 The Jaguars (Silvia Orsini group) 49:15
6 Ken & Alex Chin 53:53
7 Maryann Banez 57:28
8 Robert, Julie, Rachel & Anu 60:38
9 Gloria Jew, Jolani Chun-Moy & Emma Dowd 70:21
10 Kelsey Wyatt-Mair 71:08
11 Amy Klatzlem, Ariel Jew, Yong Fry,
Audrey Chien & Maelin Wong 72:19
12 Rachel, Sarina & Usha 77:09
13 Jeff Levin, Gretchen, Samantha & Alex
Franklin 80:06
14 Mindy Johnson, Colin & Sonja Wright 86:02
15 Susan & Stacy Canzoneri, Salle Hanselman 90:50
16 The Mustangs (Caroline Orsini group) 117:45
17 Rafeal & Thea Boucher 136:47
The Shooting Stars (Lydia Zapana group) No Start Time
Susan Chang DNF
Long White 4.3 km, 100 m climb, 15 controls
1 Dobrkovska Blanka 57:44
2 Tom & Jack Harrington 95:19
3 Mike Christensen & Kathy Tegtmeier 99:20
4 Sonza van Herick 100:37
5 McDermott, Withers, Henchroth, Sattler
& Knox 100:48
6 David & Richard Pon 105:21
7 Chris & Wendy Hanson, Jackie Miyasaki 113:09
8 Dave & Ed Landefeld 113:31
9 David Takacs 114:20
10 Joey Catlin & Evan Daly 123:28
11 Chuck & Sue Willows-Raznikov 138:02
12 Matt & Sam Jones 139:41
13 Jenny Rawles & Nathan Jones 141:27
14 Carol Schultz & Liz Spalding 148:11
Darryl Skrabak No Start Time
Carol Johnson MSP
Burl Hall DNF
Karen & Jon Mathon DNF
Donna Campbell DNF
David Bond & Marlene Roberts DNF
Yellow 2.5 km, 70 m climb, 8 controls
1 Gary Kraght 24:22
2 Barbara Robben 43:02
3 Don Gee 43:15
4 Elizabeth Grewal 46:15
5 Downey Noel & Paul Martinez 46:38
6 Brian Koga 47:20
7 Alan Jones & Kate Watts 50:09
8 Alan, Susan, Ian & Evan Pendleton 50:33
9 Ed Ow 54:20
10 Laurie, John, Erin & Tim Kelm 54:35
11 Tim, Julie, Kenneth & Katie Thompson 55:19
12 Terry Parker, Yolanda Burrell,
Daniel Wolff & Manfred Rindl 58:43
13 Frank & Andie Markowitz 59:24
14 Galina Shakhnovsky 65:10
15 Stephanie Morse, Chris & Brian Twiggs 65:13
16 Mary Pedon 66:15
17 Idalia & Sam Larsen 68:00
18 B & A Agee, Laura & Mathew 76:11
19 Sharon Tsiu 86:10
20 Sharon Kato 88:10
21 Roy, Susan, Hannah & Becky Want,
Steve Swanson 99:48
22 Gary Larsen 103:32
23 Erin & Mike 115:45
Orange 5.3 km, 130 m climb, 14 controls
1 George Minarik 52:33
2 Genevieve Graves 59:07
3 Malcolm Wyatt-Mair 65:50
4 Boucher 67:07
5 Leif Kirschenbaum 81:22
6 Bill Wright 82:16
7 Doug Bullard 93:30
8 Susannah Graves 93:50
9 Elliot Delaye 98:21
10 Marsha Jacobs 99:15
11 Grant Glouser 99:17
12 Oleg Shakhnovsky 99:33
13 Rosemary Johnson 100:18
14 Jayanth Majhi & Harish Devarajan 103:10
15 Kinshuk Govil 104:59
16 Howard & Julie Graves 112:27
17 Mark Catlin 114:51
18 Cathy Bolger 122:38
19 Steve Beuerman 124:08
20 Jennifer Kerr 125:09
21 Barry & Suzette Pangrle 126:28
22 Douglas Chang 127:39
23 Rachel Care 128:06
24 Mike Whelply & Joyclin Hashimoto 129:13
25 Nate Aldworth & Stephanie Merlo 129:47
26 Vaso Chatzi & Johanna Quattruci 134:03
27 Steve Wynn & Monica Simpson 135:19
28 Judy Koehler 156:49
29 Greg & Shelly Heironimus 157:13
30 Fishkin & Worrell 161:00
31 Mark Jimenez 163:27
32 Michele Kundrack & Van Shih 163:28
33 Brendan Stuart & Marta Vallino 165:02
34 George & Terri Warren 167:22
35 John & Virginia Kibre 171:39
36 Harden Grewal 177:35
37 Audrie Faist 189:58
38 Jim Hayes & Larry Parker 201:13
David Braun DNF
Long Orange 8.3 km, 250 m climb, 20 controls
1 Boris Granovskiy 58:47
2 Eric Roller 62:05
3 Syd Reader 69:07
4 Tapio Karras 74:52
5 Rex Winterbottom 78:36
6 Penny DeMoss 79:21 *
7 Steve Gregg 83:00 *
8 Dennis Wildfogel 83:08
9 Chuck Spalding 87:55
10 Tim Ernst 97:18
11 Trevor Pering 97:28
12 Ian Tidswell 98:56
13 Mark Blair 102:50
14 Deron van Hoff 108:51
15 Mike Murphy 112:38
16 Robert Lewis 116:04
17 Jeff Walker 117:13
18 Will Gilmore 121:15
19 Chris Day 122:13
20 Cecil Conkle 123:11
21 Mark Fineman 123:15
22 Leslie Minarik 137:43
23 Jacqueline Wollman 144:43
24 Jim Duggan 149:17
25 Jeff Rose, Kriston Daley, Randal Burns
& Nancy Hersh 157:19
26 Kirk Lawrence 167:05
27 Ray Kemp & Wendy Wyman 170:28
28 Tami Anderson, Beth & Rob Brewster,
Joe Teno 196:05
Greg Favor & Tina Pete DNF
J, Kay & Kyle Peters DNF
Jenny Tom, Heather Mozdean &
Christine Lord DNF
Paul Overvoorde DNF
* Includes time spent tracking down misplaced and/or
blown-down pie plates and replacing them.
