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Shell Ridge - Results

Date: Sunday, March 7, 2004
Location: Walnut Creek, CA.
Event Director: - 925-516-7622
Course Setters: François Léonard, Laura McKeegan, and Rob Clima
Event Type: B; Regular Event, all seven courses
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Writeup by - François Léonard

This year's event at Shell Ridge was well attended: 270 competitors scoured the hills of Shell Ridge looking for that elusive control marker on a warm and sunny day (March Madness ?). The white and yellow courses were set and designed by Laura McKeegan and Rob Clima, while François Léonard designed the advanced courses. The first surprise of the day was the locked gate at Northgate High School, were parking had been advertised. Why the gate was locked still remains a mystery, as it never had been in the past. Because of the large turn-out and the warm weather, we ran out of drinking water on the advanced courses for the late starters; apologies to those who were affected.

The terrain at Shell Ridge is mostly open, with only the northern portion of the park being forested. This, coupled with the steep terrain and the request from the park ranger that we not cross over fences, put some serious constraints on course design. The advanced courses all had about 6.5% climb and were not terribly long. Most of the legs were not technically difficult, except for a couple of controls on each course that demanded more attention. The course setter's favorite advanced courses were the red and orange courses. The red course had some interesting route-choice legs, while the orange course had several risk/reward legs for the intermediate orienteer.

most competitors followed the red route (on right) to the gate crossing

The green, red and blue courses visited a corner of the map that required a gate crossing. On the way back, the same gate had to be used, requiring a strenous climb out of a re-entrant. To my surprise, most of the competitors followed the red route shown on the right, which required a very steep climb at the end of the re-entrant. While setting up the advanced courses, I went through this leg several times, and always took the blue route. And every time I was glad I didn't have to climb up the steep part of that re-entrant. I never imagined that anybody would follow the red route, so it definitely was not my intention to inflict mental pain by having the competitors walk along that (easily) crossable fence...

brown through blue courses shared one leg, shown here

The brown through blue courses shared one leg (brown 5-6, green 5-6, red 4-5, blue 7-8), shown in the figure at left. You can compare your time on this leg with the other competitors by looking at the winsplits file. The 4 fastest splits were Thiago Ghilardi 1:24, Eric Bone 1:27, CJ Powers 1:30, and Vladimir Gusiatnikov 1:34.

The white course was won by Mat and Steve Eriksen, with 9 year olds Karel Bachand and Connor Sanchez in second place. In Karel's own words: "this was more fun than skateboarding". (O.K. I made that up).

Terry Farrah won the yellow course convincingly, and was first woman on orange; obviously, the private instruction she is receiving is paying off. The busy day at registration did not faze James Wilson, who won the orange course by 9 minutes. The brown course was dominated by the "A" team, although Mr. T was nowhere to be seen. On green, Misha lipatov was followed by Dennis Wildfogel and Takashi Irie, while Stacy Goss was first woman.

On the red course, Tapio Karras had the fastest split to the first control to take the lead, and maintained that advantage throughout the course. Vivian Lee came in first on the woman's side. Eric Bone won the blue course by 1:43 over Vladimir Gusiatnikov, with Syd Reader another 19 seconds back. Vlad lead the race up to control 8, but a 30 second difference on the next control gave Eric the lead, which he kept to the end of the race. Eric had the fastest splits on 10 of the 21 controls. Penny DeMoss was the first woman on blue, followed by Claire Warner. Claire had the fastest split of all the competitors on blue on the fourth control.

Thanks to the volunteers who helped with the event. A special thanks to Bob Cooley, who was just about ready to start on his course when we realized we were running out of maps for the blue course. He was kind enough to delay his start and print extra maps.

Shell Ridge Open Space
Walnut Creek, CA
Sunday, March 7, 2004


Results


  Pl  Name                             Time

White Course  (2.1 km, 130 m climb, 12 controls)

   1  Matt & Steve Eriksen                29:19
   2  Karel Bachand & Connor Sanchez      35:40
   3  John Regin                          37:27
   4  Kate Lenschau                       44:10
   5  Tonsing group                       46:14
   6  Casey Hansen                        46:38
   7  Kris & Zachary Smith                46:42
   8  McCandless group                    47:22
   9  Hofstetter/Van Fossen group         48:32
  10  Moorehead team                      49:49
  11  Marina Jaehn                        52:20
  12  Pack 210 Den 18                     57:12
  13  Aris & Angie Deleon               1:00:38
  14  Patterson clan                    1:01:00
  15  Santi group                       1:02:13
  16  Croce group                       1:02:27
  17  Carol Kummerer                    1:03:30
  18  Matt & Chris Welch                1:06:58
  19  Sheehy group                      1:07:30
  20  Koehler, Thomas, Riley group      1:08:05
  21  Smith group                       1:09:13
  22  Judy Vuong & Andrew Leung         1:14:48
  23  Hengel group                      1:15:45
  24  Monica & Elke Behrens             1:36:23

      Sarah & Katie Petersen              DNF
      Ramana & Anand Mallela              DNS


Yellow Course  (3.0 km, 160 m climb, 15 controls)

   1  Terry Farrah                        45:14
   2  Todd Paulsen                        49:42
   3  Terry Pratt                         51:30
   4  Ruth Cunningham                     51:31
   5  Fermina Quinones & Heather Green  1:00:11
   6  Jukka Karras                      1:08:26
   7  Want group                        1:10:55
   8  Kreiss group                      1:13:38
   9  David & Cathy Rice                1:13:52
  10  Kathy & Mitch Allan               1:13:59
  11  Kevin Walker                      1:20:48
  12  Trevor Pering & Lucy Clark        1:22:50
  13  Sheehy group                      1:25:29
  14  Lei Xiao                          1:26:14
  15  Marina Shoffer                    1:33:39
  16  Maja Gray & Ann O'Hara            1:33:28
  17  Shannon Phares & LauraLynn Jansen 1:35:23
  18  Isabel & Christina Souto group    1:37:15
  19  Chris Bragg & Robin Pomerance     1:46:40
  20  Carl & Gavin Williams             1:47:19
  21  Polik group                       1:50:57
  22  Quess & Shenghui Liu              1:53:15
  23  Galena Shakhnovsny                1:54:18
  24  Katherine Batcheller              2:19:00
  25  Sovulewski group                  2:40:59

      Pack 210 Den 18                   1:42:30 (second course)
      Karel Bachand & Connor Sanchez      DNF   (second course)
      Bevan Waite                         MSP   (#10)


Orange Course  (2.7 km, 180 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  James Wilson                     39:15
   2  Ernst, Wickman                   48:17
   3  Todd Paulsen                     55:42
   4  "A" Team                         57:18
   5  Eric Prestemon                 1:03:14
   6  Roberts, Bond                  1:04:08
   7  Terry Farrah                   1:04:50
   8  Hurley, Tate                   1:08:35
   9  Taylor & Quincy Fong           1:14:07
  10  Patalinghug, Dobleman          1:19:27
  11  Nina Wyatt-Mair                1:25:37
  12  Souto, Strauss                 1:26:20
  13  Daniel & Manfred Kopisch       1:30:55
  14  Kelsey Wyatt-Mair              1:31:29
  15  Kent Hetherwick                1:33:57
  16  Scott Bower                    1:34:53
  17  Chelsea Waite                  1:37:14
  18  Ramana Yerneni                 1:43:42
  19  Jim Fish                       1:47:36
  20  Scaer Ciavetta                 1:56:02
  21  Chad Davis                     1:57:16
  22  Weis, Johnson, & Morano        2:04:48
  23  Hongche & Gus Liu              2:09:24
  24  Ev & Jean Beuerman             2:52:12

      Shifman, Fong                    DNF
      Jaremiah Sumagit, Tim Gravier    DNF
      Ruth Cunningham                  DNF
      Charlotte Nix                    DNF
      James Earhart                    DNF


Brown Course   (3.0 km, 210 m climb, 12 controls)

   1  The "A" Team                     45:39
   2  Beth, Bergkessel, & Bradshaw     51:45
   3  Doug Masiel                      52:57
   4  Scott Aster                      56:48
   5  Kordan, Zuchero                  59:58
   6  Harold DeMoss                  1:01:31
   7  Bud Laird                      1:04:52
   8  Bastis Bower                   1:05:52
   9  Leslie Minarik                 1:08:43
  10  Oleg Shakhnovsky               1:09:24
  11  Jasper Wu                      1:10:40
  12  Chris Delp                     1:13:21
  13  Meg Gerstner                   1:15:26
  14  Svetlana Kopeikina             1:16:10
  15  Vicki Woolworth                1:16:58
  16  Van Horne                      1:19:47
  17  Kamini Singha                  1:21:00
  18  Trinka Gillis                  1:39:05
  19  Dean French                    1:39:48
  20  Arwen Wyatt-Mair               1:44:45
  21  Alan LaVergne                  1:46:42
  22  Nancy Lindeman                 2:01:55
  23  Gordon, Houser                 2:20:54

      Joan Roos                        DNF


Green Course   (4.1 km, 295 m climb, 15 controls)

   1  Misha Lipatov                    48:42
   2  Dennis Wildfogel                 51:45
   3  Takashi Irie                     53:19
   4  Malcom Wyatt-Mair                53:57
   5  Eric Rosenzweig                  58:30
   6  Evan Custer                      58:43
   7  George Minarik                   59:47
   8  Bob Cooley                     1:05:24
   9  William Gilmore                1:06:28
  10  Alan Glendinning               1:09:10
  11  Russell Neilson                1:09:24
  12  Bobby Poon                     1:15:35
  13  Stacy Goss                     1:17:25
  14  Bob Strauss                    1:18:19
  15  Peter Graham                   1:20:04
  16  Bjorn Wilderstrom              1:20:20
  17  David Jorgensen                1:23:00
  18  Gerry Goss                     1:26:39
  19  Steve Perez, Joe Knapp         1:27:08
  20  Janet Petersen                 1:35:18
  21  Rob Clima, Laura McKeegan      1:45:19
  22  Jennifer Kerr (GCO)            1:46:20
  23  Mark Rice                      1:53:34
  24  Robert Lewis                   2:05:51
  25  Steve Beuerman                 2:10:51
  26  Vic Revenko                    2:16:41

      Bud Laird                        DNF


Red Course     (5.0 km, 330 m climb, 14 controls)

   1  Tapio Karras                     56:16
   2  Kent Ohlund                    1:00:51
   3  Derek Maclean                  1:00:58
   4  Hannu Haarma                   1:02:08
   5  Jim Waite                      1:04:32
   6  Dan Greene                     1:06:08
   7  Mark Petersen                  1:10:00
   8  Doug Bass                      1:11:32
   9  Eric Rosenzweig                1:11:52
  10  Rod Jaehn                      1:13:32
  11  Tony Pinkham                   1:17:20
  12  Alexy Shulgin                  1:21:17
  13  Vivian Lee                     1:22:14
  14  Deron van Hoff                 1:22:28
  15  Gary Kraght                    1:23:04
  16  Dan Holman                     1:24:13
  17  Michael Behrens                1:30:48
  18  Chuck Spalding                 1:31:05
  19  Thiago Ghilardi                1:50:33
  20  Bernhard Hiller                2:04:12

      Mark & Molly Jimenez             DNF
      Kohavi Riesenfeld                DNF


Blue Course    (6.0 km, 375 m climb, 21 controls)

   1  Eric Bone                        57:08
   2  Vladimir Gusiatnikov             58:51
   3  Syd Reader                       59:10
   4  Keith Tonkin                   1:03:26
   5  Steve Gregg                    1:04:54
   6  Matthias Kohler                1:07:31
   7  Rex Winterbottom               1:08:30
   8  Andrejus Masalkovas            1:10:11
   9  Mike Prindiville               1:12:56
  10  CJ Powers                      1:14:06
  11  Mark Prior                     1:17:06
  12  Nik Weber                      1:24:07
  13  Penny DeMoss                   1:25:14
  14  Attila Nagy                    1:25:21
  15  Mark Blair                     1:27:06
  16  Jon Borwick                    1:28:11
  17  Stephen Price                  1:31:45
  18  Peter Graube                   1:38:44
  19  Claire Warner                  1:47:14
  20  Gregory Khanlarov              1:57:01
  21  Artem Stemkovski               2:07:24
  22  Bark, Heady, & Moorhead        2:32:56
  23  Vlad Bolshakov                 2:37:55

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DNF = Did not finish (did no punch one or more controls)
MSP = Mispunch (one or more incorrect controls)
DNS = Did Not Start