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June 22, 2003
by Scott Aster, meet director
About 160 participants came out on a beautiful, sunny day to enjoy some fine orienteering at Spring Lake park. Most of the attendees were first or second timers, and everyone seemed to have a good time. Even though it was quite warm, many people finished one course and decided to try another before heading home. None could match the endurance of BAOC regular, Steve Gregg though. Steve ran the Orange, then the Yellow, then the White, and later picked up controls! I can also add that Steve had the fastest time for all three courses. As an added challenge, I set a memory-o course, and a 1.5km sprint style course. Only two people tried either variety though, so I must put on my thinking cap and come up with something even better for next time, to draw advanced orienteers. Creative suggestions are always welcome!
While Spring Lake is tightly interwoven with trails and roads, the terrain is actually quite intricate, with hundreds of pits, depressions, knolls and confusing bare rock surfaces to challenge all participants. While I tried to make the Orange course as technical as possible, I was very impressed with the times and lack of DNF's on the course.
I apologize to Yellow and Orange course participants for the convoluted finishing controls for their courses. I had already designed courses extending slightly into Annadel State Park, when the Annadel rangers told me we could not cross the park boundary. To fix this dilemma, I bent these two courses into odd shapes to keep them within the boundaries of Spring Lake park. This resulted in having a couple of legs mostly on trail, and I used a shared control which had a fair amount of Poison Oak around it. I hope everyone successfully avoided the P.O. there! I also had to move the last control for these two courses due to P.O., placing the control about 20 meters from the middle of the control circle, though in plain view. Fortunately, no one seemed to complain about the placement (they were warned about this at the start).
No successful event occurs without some great support, and I certainly had that! Gary Kraght and George & Pat Aster handled registration. Judy Koehler did non-stop clinics for over 2 hours, Joan Roos and Mike Mahoney handled the starts most of the day. Vivian Lee and George and Leslie Minarik worked finishes and posted results, and Steve Gregg, Wes Erck, and a very friendly newcomer whose name I forget helped with control pickup.
Preliminary Results
Pl Name Time
White Course (2.6 km, 35 m climb, 9 controls, 81 participants)
1 Joan Roos 34:25
2 Michael Stewart 34:38
3 Ellen Stefaniak, Dana Brownfield 43:45
4 Josh Hittleman; Dave, Shanon & Kathy Dejong 46:02
5 Greg & Sally Logan 47:35
6 Mike & Jessi Lux 50:40
7 David & Emily Sims 51:55
8 June & Norine Quinones, Tom & Dylan Sweet 61:21
9 Christine Wedel, Danielle Daveiro 64:18
10 Gina Pippin 64:20
11 Thor & Erik Bodtker 64:27
12 Jim Amparano, Brad Morgan 65:38
13 Rosemary Gallagher; Tony, Julia & Adrian Rossi 67:23
14 Maggie Andrews, Melanie Smith 67:58
15 Ophir & Sivan Orr, Gordon & CB Wolf 70:55
16 Gaye Holman 72:52
17 Richard & Duncan Hatch 77:58
18 Paul, Emma & Zachary Gibson 78:28
19 Jack & Tom Kendall 80:31
20 Brian, Kate & Alden Gillespie 81:55
21 Larry & Barbara Wofford 85:17
22 Lori Ross 89:12
22 Joanna, Lindsey & Madeline Lutman 89:12
24 Alexander, Charlotte, Elizabeth & Gwen Kamei 89:26
25 Sharona Es 99:15
26 Jet Battalion Encinal H.S. JROTC (8) 147:54
Girl Scout Troop 98 (10) DNF
Marina Jaehn DNF
Ricky, Danny & Nickey Tompkins DNF
Yellow Course (3.4 km, 100 m climb, 11 controls, 40 participants)
1 Susan Lehr 57:06
2 Sandy & Tom Guldman 60:38
3 George Aster 78:32
4 David & Sandra Kendall 85:10
5 Darlene Chow, Michael Young, Cybele Chang 87:38
6 Sean Cox 88:57
7 Eric Burris 92:22
8 Josh Hittleman; Dave, Kathi & Shannon Dejung 93:58
9 Martha Lavin; Dylan, Jed & Marc Solomon 105:39
10 Brian, Kate & Alden Gillespie 109:34
11 David & Emily Sims 110:02
12 Dayna Shamrock 120:57
13 Keith, Chris, Sean, Donald & Alex Schoenthal 121:39
14 Jim Brooks 148:17
15 Cathy Brooks (3) 150:15
16 Jean Burkehead 157:19
17 Andre, Chris & Sarah Veenstra 159:09
Gabriel Gelfond Finished, but lost card
Orange Course (4.4 km, 120 m climb, 10 controls, 60 participants)
1 Dan Holman 49:36
2 Daniel Johnsson 55:01
3 Rod Jaehn 63:35
4 Artem Stemkovski 63:39
5 Brett Lehigh 66:45
6 Sunshine Cary 71:31
7 Wes Erck 71:33
8 Gregory Khanlarov 75:51
9 Alex Englehart 78:14
10 Matt Holman 80:20
11 Dana Brownfield, Ellen Stefaniak 81:59
12 Rick Garcia, Sara Sitafiabady 82:38
13 Jeremy Giovannetti, Betsy Cory 88:38
14 Joan Roos 91:01
15 Judy Koehler 94:57
16 Toby Zimmerer 95:50
17 Ken Giovannetti, Patty & Brandon Crow 98:50
18 Tim Kinion 100:50
19 Victor Villalobo, Michael Trevino, Adrian Guadino 101:40
20 Matthew Bye 105:15
21 Rich Steiner, Jan Cregan 107:19
22 Sally & Nancy Smith 110:42
23 Marty Lautze 112:32
24 Neil Peterson 116:34
25 Stefan & Jun 116:52
26 Bug's Posse (4) 121:02
27 Phillipe Tapon 123:33
28 Robert Chavez, Amber Burkett, Jeff Gomez 128:05
29 Dayna & Kyle Wiebalk 141:57
30 Renato Lim 145:21
31 Melissa Smith, Becky Hogan 147:29
32 Clarence Camari, Randall & Reggie Dugard 148:50
33 Bill Porter 152:42
34 Peter Barberi 177:52
35 James Fish 186:45
36 Dan & Aaron Kalb 186:50
Michael Young, Cybele Chang, Darlene Chow DNF
Sprint-O Course (1.5 km, 40 m climb, 6 controls)
1 Matt Holman 14:07
2 Doug Bass 14:25
Triathlon Division (10.4 km, 255 m climb, 30 controls)
1 Steve Gregg (Wht 19:09, Yel 30:12, Orn 40:27) 89:48
Memory-O Course (18 controls, 3 master maps)
Pl Name Controls
1 Vivian Lee 16
2 Doug Bass 13