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Date: Sunday, February 22, 2004
Location: Richmond, CA.
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Type: C; Sprint Championships (plus White, Yellow, and Orange courses)
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Writeup by Steve Gregg
Over 100 intrepid orienteers ignored the threatening weather forecast and journeyed to Point Pinole for this year's Sprint Championships. Fortunately the early-morning showers ended by 8 AM, and by the time the event began at 9:30 it had turned into a pretty good day for orienteering.
Unlike last year's near-perfect conditions, this year the above-average rainfall leading up to the event left the terrain a bit soft for really fast running. Nonetheless, the top three Prologue runners still negotiated the 2.9 km course in right around 5 min/km. As expected, Eric Bone, Syd Reader, and Vladimir Guisatnikov were in the top three spots after the Prologue, with Wyatt Riley only three seconds back in fourth place. After Wyatt there was a 46 second gap back to Martin Kunz in fifth place, so it seemed clear that the fight for the three medals would take place among the top four.
However, the Chase did not generate a whole lot of drama, as the time gaps between the top three runners did not change much throughout the course. As this was Eric's first time on the map, it is particularly impressive that he was able to hold off the chase pack and win the event by a 28 second margin. Vlad did manage to cut the gap to Syd to 5 seconds early in the Chase course, but then faded a bit and Syd took the silver medal by 12 seconds. Vlad gradually increased his gap on Wyatt throughout the chase and took the bronze medal by 30 seconds. The fastest time on the Chase course was turned in by Francois Leonard, who lost about a minute at a small ruin on the Prologue course that some people claimed was slightly mismapped (I'll have to check that the next time I visit the park) and started the Chase in 7th position. He moved up to 5th place by the end of the Chase and without the earlier error might have been in contention for a medal.
On the women's side, newcomer Claire Warner took first place by a minute over longtime star Penny DeMoss. We hope Claire will be a regular attendee at future events. Marie-Josee Parayre took third place. As usual, the unsettled weather kept attendance down on the White and Yellow courses. The white course was won by Jennifer Willis, and Gary Kraght beat out William Gilmore by 10 seconds to win the yellow course.
I hope the butterfly loops added some interest to the event. Unfortunately, that entire hillside was burned by the park sometime last fall, and so the terrain containing the loops was quite a bit more open than I would have liked it to be. Next year expect the butterfly to be earlier in the course, in the more forested part of the map.
A big thank you to everyone who helped out at the event. Kelly Wells, Bruce Wolfe, and Ev and Jean Beuerman all vetted the courses before the event. Ev and Jean also helped the day of the event itself. As usual, Harold and Penny DeMoss arrived early to help set up all the rain tents at the staging area, and picked up bags after the event ended. Vivian Lee and James Wilson ran registration flawlessly. Terry Farrah gave beginner's clinics, and Martin Kunz and Frank Markowitz ran courses early so they could help out later. Harold and Meg Gerstner helped at the Chase start, and hauled all your sweats back to the finish area afterwards. And my biggest thanks go to our new E-punch director Trinka Gillis, who had to learn how to set up the event software for this complicated, two-part event and also arrived at the park early to set up all the E-punch hardware. My apologies to anyone I have forgotten who stepped up to help.
Point Pinole Regional Shoreline
Richmond, CA
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Preliminary Results
Pl Name Time
White Course (3.6 km, 55 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Jennifer Willis 44:50
2 Nancy Flagg 72:09
3 Mark Harnett 72:25
4 Lucy Li 78:01
Yellow Course (3.3 km, 55 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Gary Kraght 27:50
2 William Gilmore 28:00
3 Hall, Hall, & Barger 32:05
4 Denise & Kevin Harrington 35:31
5 Rob Jerdonek 38:49
6 JROTC group Easy 42:42
7 JROTC group Golf 44:31
8 Andrea Wuenschel 48:04
9 Souto group 55:57
10 JROTC group Bravo 57:05
11 JROTC group Alpha 57:25
12 Javier & Toño Fuentes 60:19
13 Galena Shakhnovsky 61:20
14 Mattson, Privat, Mavandoch 62:23
15 Irwin group 72:04
16 Borghi, Dulos 73:48
17 Dan, Michelle, & Ben 91:12
Orange Course (3.30 km, 60 m climb, 9 controls)
Pl Name Time
1 Penny DeMoss 26:57
2 Matthew Mattson 28:49
3 Daniel Johanson 30:41
4 Gary Kraght 31:39
5 Harold DeMoss 35:39
6 Kirshner 37:35
7 David Osterstrom 40:17
8 Jennifer Kerr 42:14
9 Terry & Amy Szucsko, and ?? 44:40
10 Garrett Pitsenbarger, Michael Hall 45:11
11 Mark Harnett 45:34
12 Trinka Gillis 45:59
13 Brian Schmitz 48:02
14 Dwight Freund, Al Berkowitz 48:27
15 Heather Stark 50:30
16 Meg Gerstner 51:36
17 Kristen Pitsenbarger 53:51
18 Nancy Lindeman 1:00:02
19 Howard Hall, Harry Hall 1:01:25
20 Alan Houser 1:04:38
21 Mariano Ferrario 1:08:05
22 Deer Valley 1 1:11:34
23 Hangche Lin family 1:14:08
24 Orange Oranges 1:14:32
25 Roberta Pitsenburger, Diane Hall 1:18:59
26 David Pope 1:20:19
27 Deer Valley 2 1:30:47
28 Jim Fish 1:33:53
29 Shirley Pierce 1:57:20
Prologue (2.9 km, 30 m climb, 9 controls)
and Chase (3.2 km. 65 m climb, 13 controls)
Prologue Chase Overall
Pl Name Time Pl Time Pl Time
1 Eric Bone 14:19 1 16:54 2 31:13
2 Syd Reader 14:34 2 17:07 4 31:41
3 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 14:50 3 17:03 3 31:53
4 Wyatt Riley 14:53 4 17:30 6 32:23
5 Francois Leonard 16:27 7 16:42 1 33:09
6 Martin Kunz 15:39 5 17:37 7 33:16
7 Rex Winterbottom 16:57 9 17:14 5 34:11
8 Doug Stein 16:09 6 18:36 9 34:45
9 Matthias Kohler 17:03 10 18:05 8 35:08
10 Van Boughner 16:54 8 20:11 12 37:05
11 Tapio Karras 17:40 11 19:51 10 37:31
12 Thorsten Graeve 17:53 13 19:55 11 37:48
13 Andrejus Masalkovas 17:45 12 20:55 15 38:40
14 Claire Warner 19:17 16 20:34 14 39:51
15 Doug Bass 18:36 14 21:30 18 40:06
16 Holman 19:51 21 20:55 15 40:46
17 Penny DeMoss 19:38 18 21:13 17 40:51
18 Ian Tidswell 19:13 15 22:00 19 41:13
19 Nik Weber 19:19 17 22:33 21 41:52
20 Kent Ohlund 21:35 25 20:21 13 41:56
21 Dennis Wildfogel 19:50 20 22:23 20 42:13
22 Dan Greene 20:11 23 22:49 22 43:00
23 Eric Rosenzweig 19:49 19 23:45 24 43:34
24 Brad Wetmore 20:09 22 23:31 23 43:40
25 James Wilson 22:41 28 25:24 25 48:05
26 Alan Glendinning 22:21 27 25:51 26 48:12
27 Marie-Josee Parayre 21:29 24 28:15 30 49:44
28 Deron van Hoff 21:57 26 29:19 35 51:16
29 Bjorn Widerstrom 24:18 31 27:26 28 51:44
30 Thiago Ghilardi 23:04 29 28:48 33 51:52
31 Bob Cooley 23:47 30 28:44 32 52:31
32 Pete Olsten (GCO) 26:19 34 28:40 31 54:59
33 Vivian Lee 25:56 33 29:13 34 55:09
34 Vicki Woolworth 28:48 35 27:46 29 56:34
35 Bob Strauss 29:46 36 26:51 27 56:37
36 Johanna Merriss 25:25 32 31:37 36 57:02
37 Oleg Shakhnovsky 32:04 38 38:42 38 1:10:46
38 Terry Farrah 36:48 41 34:03 37 1:10:51
39 Jeff Lanam 34:18 40 46:30 39 1:20:48
40 Nancy Lindeman 44:43 42 1:03:00 40 1:47:43
Jennifer Kerr (GCO) 33:06 39
Jim Fish 51:41 43
Harold DeMoss 31:11 37
