“What do you mean that there aren’t any parking spaces left? That’s never happened to us here before. Where are all these people coming from?.
That was the scene at this year’s National Orienteering Day event at Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont. 311 competitors (at least 129 of them first timers) ran one or more of the four courses offered. Each course provided spectacular views of the bay with the Long Orange course visiting parts of the park unused by courses at prior events.
Veteran (if you can call someone that young a veteran) Kelsey Wyatt-Mair won the white course with a time of 23:18. Tim Wooten (a colleague of Wyatt’s) was the quickest first-timer (3rd place overall) with a time of 27:53. A compass provided by Brunton is on its way to Tim. Brunton was a sponsor of this year.s National Orienteering Day events around the country.
First timer BJ Hamel won the Yellow course with a time of 29:26, more than 5 minutes ahead of the second place finisher. BJ then went on to have the quickest time on the Orange course (as a 2nd course) as well. A copy of Terrain Navigator software from MapTech is on its way to BJ. MapTech was also a sponsor of NOD 2002 around the country.
Werner Haag placed first (as a 1st course) on Orange with a time of 50:45, more than 5 minutes ahead of the second place finisher.
Vladimir Gusiatnikov clocked an amazing 58:44 (close to 10km) on the Long Orange course to take first place and beat out Wyatt Riley by just over a minute.
There is something about Coyote Hills that seems to encourage competitors to loose their punch cards. Like last year, a surprising number of people returned empty handed.
An event like this could not go on without the help and support of a lot of people. As usual, Rosemary Johnson helped with the permit and Bob Cooley printed the maps. Abby Wolfe and Nick Corsano helped with beginner clinics. Chuck Spalding served as a pre-runner. Ev & Jean Beuerman and Ester Heller ran registration. Carol Lewis, Jack Meyers, and Nancy Lindeman started people on their courses. John Pagendarm, Joan Roos, and Cheryl Madson tracked finishers while Sharon Evans, Marsha Jacobs and Chuck Spalding calculated results. Dean French, Vlad Gusiatnikov and Penny and Harold DeMoss retrieved controls afterwards. Special thanks go to two people. Nancy Lindeman apparently pulled some strings to get the Bay Area Backroads show to re-air the orienteering show a week or two before the event. (That’s where they all came from!) Kelly Wells helped set out controls with me on Saturday and made several trips setting out controls and water on Sunday. It’s the mark of a true volunteer when you spend all weekend helping and then don’t get to run a course. I’m sure I missed one or two others. I thank you as well.
Here are the preliminary results for all of the NOD courses run at Coyote Hills on May 5. Please let me know of any spelling errors, typos, etc.
For your information, there were 311 total participants comprising 177 entries. Of the 311, 129 were first-time orienteers.
Pl Name Time
White (2.975 km, 55 m climb, 9 controls)
1 Kelsey Wyatt-Mair 23:18
2 Tim Wooten 27:53
3 Susan & Hannah Kopisch 29:48
4 Emily Kellison-Linn & Chris Linn 33:44
5 Robin & Joanne Leadbetter 36:21
6 Neil, Nick, Zachary, Jacob DePratt 37:34
7 Lauren Pagendarm 39:32
8 Sergio, Daniella & Alex Morariu,
Kelly McAdoo 40:40
9 Rick Mills, Daniel Russie, Alex Baker 41:10
10 Pratima and GC 41:20
11 Allthea Morasca & Victor Polich 44:00
12 Bevan Waite 45:14
13 Pei-Fang Fang 47:16
14 Karen Siegel & Drew Fitting 48:00
15 Lauren Sawyer, Ariel & Robert Peterson 48:51
16 Will & Robby Sare 50:18
17 Scott Stickeler 53:06
18 Jordy & Kathy Louie 54:55
19 Nancy, Joe, & Bill DeRose, John Lund 57:38
20 Kevin & Marian Brown 57:56
21 Kevin, Rosie & Christopher Marks 58:44
22 Mike, Hannah & Susan Boland, Andrew Marks 59:54
23 Richard Young 60:45
24 Steven, Dale, Patty & Jenny Bennett 65:34
25 Dennis Kovach & Barbara Zuxas 66:06
26 Adele, Pat & Byron Cibart 67:50
27 Cynthia Greene 68:59
28 Pedrazza, McGee & 3 kids 69:48
29 Bill & Colin Wright 71:35
30 Brad Steen, John & Domini Tarman,
Kathy Copeland & Sandra Bauer 72:10
31 Mark & Rowan Zellers 74:52
32 Julia, Alex, Anna & Michael Rotaknin 80:30
33 Mary Singh & Richard Banttari 89:57
34 James, Terri & Justin Peters,
Robbie Corey & Bruce Wilson 90:11
35 Ken Malone & kids 103:27
36 Colleen Kong-Sawyer 106:00
Jukka Alastir DNF
Second Course
Vladimir Gusiatnikov (by memory) 15:34
Steve Silverman & Mark Batayola 23:29
Yellow (4.00 km, 115 m climb, 11 controls)
1 BJ Hamel 29:26
2 Gary Martinez 34:29
3 John Falkenroth 38:18
4 Robert Strauss 41:07
5 Joan Roos 43:57
6 Mari Miyashita 51:50
7 Gail Glendinning 54:18
8 Tania & Kirstin Haag 55:18
9 Chelsea Waite 56:01
10 Patrick Matthews 57:38
11 Steve Silverman 58:50
12 Elizabeth Grewal 59:14
13 Carl & Aleene Reisinger 59:30
14 Henry, Bryan, Leo, Derek & Shannon 59:38
15 Kathy & Jonathan Harris 61:15
16 Nancy Lindeman 64:18
17 Douglas Chang & Crystal Wang 65:42
18 Mark Batayola 65:44
19 Valerie Mondo, Alix Womack & Katy Wonner 66:03
20 Craig Huff 67:15
21 Alex Dehnert & Pat Worthington 68:08
22 Jonathan & Hayley Leib 70:22
23 Sammy, Sherry & Kevin Murray 71:21
24 Rosemary Johnson & Marty Acuff 72:51
25 Jay, Charlotte, Mac & Marianne Dean 73:49
26 Ed McKnight & Don Andress 74:12
27 Kinkoi Lo, Fiona Lo, Ben Yip, Frankie Lo
& Lauren Grao 76:00
28 Kathy Daly 76:07
29 George & Terri Warren 77:48
30 Evan, Chris, & Diane Bird 82:16
31 Cal Loomer & family 82:22
32 Lauren, Chris, Shirle & Kristen Wemmer 82:34
33 Andrew Wilson, Grant Nahouraii &
Clayton Nickels 83:40
34 Jake & Clark 84:14
35 James Schallert & Sean Henry 86:38
36 Galena Shakhnovsky 88:34
37 Ron & Emily Thumann 89:05
38 Roland Portman 89:13
39 Ken & Michael Marschall 91:51
40 Austin, David, Kathy & Justin Welsh 96:54
41 Kurt & Evan Spahrmann 97:43
42 Russ & Caitrin Hughes 98:10
43 Matthew Kruskamp & Ben Mitchell 99:59
44 Frank & Andie Markowitz 100:10
45 Lauren Kruskamp & Stephanie Wo 105:59
46 Deron, Nicholas & Alexander van Hoff 109:23
47 Angela & Mary Stoering, Eli Wyle,
Kate & Louise Aspell 109:28
48 Mark & Mike Govnik, Brian & Bob Pratt 115:55
49 Bob, Lauren, Alex & Rachel Ward 122:00
50 Tim, Malomone, Nicholas & Aaron Rodden 126:18
51 John, Tara, James & Evan Losito 128:20
52 Sammy & Katie 129:46
53 David Takacs 141:32
Angelica Riley DNF
Second Course
Lauren Pagendarm 57:52
Allthea Morasca & Victor Polich 63:32
Ariel & Robert Peterson, Lauren Sawyer 79:59
Mark & Rowan Zeller 92:42
Orange (5.50 km, 180 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Werner Haag 50:45
2 Anna Brunzell 56:08
3 Eric Ramberg 58:06
4 Manfred Kopisch 58:35
5 Lukas Gruendler 59:18
6 Hardev Grewal 62:47
7 Elliott Delaye 63:32
8 Kenneth Tateosian 66:06
9 Harold DeMoss 68:03
10 Meg Gerstner & Alan Glendinning 70:33
11 Michael Young 72:50
12 Oleg Shakhnovsky 75:32
13 Sharon Evans 76:02
14 Beth Dixon 76:06
15 Marlene Roberts & David Bond 81:24
16 Leif Kirschenbaum & John Heimann 85:17
17 Eric & Kitty Gordon 87:01
18 Jeff Lanam 88:13
19 Jayanth Mathi & Mahadevan Venkatraman 88:41
20 Eric Butler & Diane Reese 89:40
21 Vaso Chatzi 94:35
22 John Pagendarm 97:16
23 Jack Myers 100:40
24 Dean French 105:13
25 Charles Perkins 106:08
26 Linda Koziol & Web Jordan 106:30
27 Rob Clima & Laura McKeegan 106:49
28 Boyd Potts 110:08
29 Chris Lozinski 110:17
30 Chris Testroet 111:03
31 Kathy Tegtmeier & Mike Christensen 112:26
32 Julie van Hoff 116:15
33 Steve Beuerman 117:22
34 Jeff Levin & Patrick Lane 121:34
35 Helen & Ed Shaw 122:23
36 Lorann Snow & Jennifer Howard 127:03
37 Gregg & Katherine Perkins 128:48
38 James Lechner 135:10
39 Matty & Holly Stave, Dave & Leona Messink 143:20
40 Audrie Faist 156:03
Cheryl Madson DNF
Second Course
BJ Hamel 45:52
Steven & Dale Bennett 77:23
Will & Robby Sare 139:50
Long Orange (8.075 km, 195 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 58:44
2 Wyatt Riley 59:53
3 Doug Stein 61:19
4 Steve Gregg 61:57
5 Syd Reader 62:05
6 Vadimas Masalkovas 63:40
7 Rex Winterbottom 64:15
8 Andrejus Masalkovas 71:47
9 Sean Coady 72:57
10 Penny DeMoss 74:18
11 Hannu Haarma 74:48
12 Ben Wahlstrand 75:40
13 Nik Weber 76:08
14 Tapio Karras 76:35
15 Dan Greene 77:50
16 Chuck Spalding 79:35
17 Rod Jaehn 79:49
18 Marc Gelinas 82:55
19 Ian Tidswell 84:17
20 Eric Rosenzweig 85:18
21 Alex Krasnov 87:12
22 Manuel Alvarez 89:06
23 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 91:01
24 Yelena Krasnova 91:59
25 Vivian Lee 94:18
26 Theo Verhoeven 99:50
27 Stacy Goss 103:24
28 Marcello Napolitano 105:12
29 Terry Farrah 110:08
30 Gerry Goss 111:10
31 Erik Suomela, Sheri Baublitz,
Gina Gerritzen & Kenton Kosiek 115:04
32 Abby Wolfe 122:55
33 Jesse Meyer, Julia Gee & Bob Drues 150:18
34 Fred Ciaramaglia 154:40
35 ROTC Alpha 181:06
Kristen Stinger MSP (#8)
Tod Flak DNF
Matthias Kohler DNF
Lukas Frei DNF
Stew Hintz DNF
Dennis Wildfogel DNF
Mark Blair DNF
Doug Taylor DNF
DNF = Did Not Finish
MSP = MiSPunched