Briones Rogaine
Orinda
March 24, 2002
by Harold DeMoss, meet director, and Penny DeMoss, course setter
Thanks to all who came out for the meet. The weather was perfect. All 60
of the controls were visited, but no one team visited them all. The team
with the most points, which went to 50 controls, was the winning men's 6-hour team.
Of a possible 1740 points, they racked up 1500. Very impressive.
Of the 45 teams, 22 chose to do the 4-hour, and 23 did the 6-hour. Only a
handful of teams were late, mostly only a part of one minute. Amazing.
I've gone over every control card with a magnifying glass, found all
faint 'dimples,' checked against the master, rechecked the math, and below
are the final results for the 4-hour and 6-hour rogaines.
Most teams will notice that they actually had more
points than on the preliminary results at the meet.
I was going to include what controls each team went to, but 'argh'...that
got old real fast. So, anyone who wants to know which controls any
particular team went to can e-mail me
and I'll give them to you. I don't know which order they were visited, though.
Point Values
Control Points Control Points
1-9 10 40-49 40
10-19 15 50-55 50
20-29 20 56-60 60
30-39 30
The Grand Plan
The grand plan was to have a rogaine that would test people a bit more
mentally, instead of it just being an endurance race. The Briones map is
not terribly technical, but you certainly have to pay attention. Four and
six hours is not long in rogaine terms, in fact I guess it barely
qualifies, but we wondered if people would actually want to have to
think for even that long. From the feedback, it sounds like it was
enjoyed by most.
When deciding the point values for the controls, I took
a number of factors into consideration. I wanted people who didn't have
as much range to have the chance to get some high pointers, and
certainly, if you had to hike up a steep hill, evading poison oak (or
not) all the while, you should be rewarded proportionally. Also, I
thought that if enough high pointers were close in, a team could
concentrate on the southern half of the map and get enough points to win
their division without going onto the northern part at all (I was
right). In order for a team to get all 60 controls, they would have had
to pick up a control every 6 minutes for the entire 6 hrs. We felt
pretty sure no one would pull that off. Every control was visited by
some team, but no team got every one.
Although we did spend many more hours planning this meet than normal, it
was actually much more enjoyable. We spent many hours hiking around in
those beautiful hills mapping, vetting locations, and putting out and
picking up controls. As opposed to sitting at my desk trying to figure
out how to send people on 7 different courses.....getting the distances
right, the proper percentage of climb (really, I do try to get that
right), then finding people to help on the day with starts, finishes,
e-punch, beginners clinics, etc. You get the picture. Given the time,
which sounds more fun to plan to you?
I guess the best way to be sure it doesn't rain is to be totally
prepared for it. We were ready, rain or shine, but let's face it, the
perfect weather had much to do with everyone's enjoyment of the meet.
We set up the tents and waited for people to arrive. Thanks very much to
everyone for getting there early as requested. We know many of you had
to travel a long distance and we were very impressed that everyone was
ready to go by the time we shut down registration at 8:45.
After the 9:00 am mass start, we had a cup of coffee, read the Sunday paper,
got to know Neal (Shirley Parlan's friend), made up a list of who was in
each category and pondered why, when given 4 categories from which to
choose one, some people chose none, some people checked the wrong
one, some checked two, and some wrote in a category that did not
exist......why, oh why? Then I took the binoculars and hiked up to a
high spot and watched some of the teams' progress. I only saw one team
being a bit too liberal with the 'together' rule. Upon my return, we
practiced a system for the finish.....Neal's a quick learner and a really
good sport for helping out.
Thanks!
First and foremost, we want to thank Evan Custer for helping produce the
map you used for this event. We field-checked a fairly large area
between the two existing maps, and Evan entered the info onto the OCAD
base map. This is not done quickly. I sat there and watched him do just
a few last-minute changes, and I'll tell you, it's not that easy.
Especially with someone hanging over you saying "no, the fight is shaped
like THIS, not like THAT!" And then, even though he didn't have time to
do it, he printed all those maps. What is that saying, "If you want
something done, give it to a busy person?" We REALLY appreciated Evan's
help. Thanks again. (Right in the middle of this he asked us to be
assistant meet directors at Burton Creek......what could we say?!) We
had figured in a break in the mapping phase, so that Harold could have
elective foot surgery. What we hadn't planned on was Harold having to
have his guts remapped...so we ran out of time and didn't finish
mapping the white area around controls 50 and 56. We did walk all the
trails to be sure they went through, though.
Thanks very much also to the following people who helped out: East Bay
Regional Parks and Briones ranger Doug, who drove us out with all those
jugs of water. Doug Masiel, who fetched in the remains of the water stop
plus a few controls even though he'd run. David Barr, Jeff Lanam, and
Joan Roos, who came out to help pick up. And Shirley
Parlan's friend, Neal, was an enormous help with the finish...he has
excellent math skills!
Pl Names Time Points
WOMEN
1 Marie-Josee Parayre, Molly Cooper, Jamie Close 3:57:43 635
2 Jill Seaman, Helen Sabin 3:56:35 425
3 Andrea Shepard, Robin Bier 3:59:54 235
MEN
1 Ralph Pilley, Justin Snider 3:49:55 840
2 Johan Overby, Jim Waite 3:52:20 760
3 Phillip Hoare, Jan Hoare 3:40:40 635
4 Michael Condrin, David Tait 3:51:31 630
5 Chris Day, Paul Overvoorde 4:04:40 605 (655 - 50 penalty pts)
MIXED
1 Ermina Farenfield, Martin Farenfield 3:57:58 975
2 Katerina Loomisova, Vivian Lee, James Wilson 4:00:20 835 (845 - 10 penalty pts)
3 Angelica Riley, Wyatt Riley 3:51:52 820
4 Johanna Merriss, Peter Graube 3:53:12 700
5 Kim Morse, Rod Jaehn, Danny Moy 3:57:20 640
6 Maria Colgan, Russell Green 3:48:55 530
7 Laura McKeegan, Rob Clima 3:55:50 430
8 Carrie Johnston, Adrian Martin 3:55:16 410
9 Terese Karras, Chris Moore 3:59:13 385
10 Alan LaVergne/Debra LaVergne/Dean French 4:00:43 355 (365 - 10 penalty pts)
11 Rachel Freund, Dwight Freund 3:57:34 295
12 Julia Gee, Jesse Meyer 3:43:45 245
SENIOR
1 Zbigniew Pisanski, Andrzej Sobczyk 3:47:02 715
2 Jay Hann, Scott Hann, Doug Masiel 3:58:26 605
Pl Names Time Points
WOMEN
1 Abby Wolfe, Christine Shirley 5:57:05 745
2 Janet Petersen, Marsha Jacobs 5:45:35 540
3 Nancy Lindeman, Shirley Parlan 5:47:43 280
MEN
1 Vadimas Masalkovas, Andrejus Masalkovas, Slava Akinin 5:46:38 1500
2 Ian Tidswell, Steve Gregg 5:52:51 1385
3 Thorsten Graeve, Matthias Kohler 5:58:36 1380
4 Adrian Crane, Johnathan Crane, Charlie Kharsa 6:00:19 1370 (1380 - 10 penalty pts)
5 Nik Weber, Stew Hintz 6:00:15 1010 (1020 - 10 penalty pts)
6 Deron Van Holt, Leif Kirschenbaum 5:50:55 970
7 Mike Springer, Jesse Gray 6:06:30 950 (1020 - 70 penalty pts)
8 Kelly Wells, Jed Wells 5:42:54 770
9 Parag Gupta, Nimish Shah 5:53:02 530
MIXED
1 Beverley Anderson-Abbs, Alan Abbs, Greg Favor 5:56:41 1075
2 Adriana Camarena, George Minarik 5:55:22 1020
3 Debbie Wojtowicz, Kevin Schoenfeld, Leon Berzins 5:58:11 1020
4 Stacy Goss, Gerry Goss 5:45:33 880
5 Lori Maloney, Rob Williams 5:57:35 695
Catherine O'Sullivan, William Humnicky DNF (lost punch card)
SENIOR
1 Mark Petersen, Gavin Wyatt-Mair 5:57:12 1215
2 Hannu Haarma, Chuck Spalding 5:53:23 1195
3 Dan Greene, Tapio Karras 5:57:26 1150
4 Michael Fleishman, Steve Haas 5:54:10 870
5 Joann Grether, Brien Crothers 5:53:33 735