More than 50 BAOC members road-tripped south for LAOC's first-ever A-meet, held at Mt. Pinos (8,800 feet) in the Los Padres National Forest (southwest of the Grapevine off I-5). Meet Director Clare Durand and the Los Angeles O Club put on an excellent event - congrats! We hope our fellow Cali-Os will put on more A-meets in the future, so we don't have to travel so far to attend USOF ranking events.
Below are the complete results. You also can view them - plus the recreational finishes - on LAOC's website.
The weather was wonderful and the terrain excellent - open, runnable forests (except for "croquet wickets" that tripped the unwary) that are the envy of other Western clubs. Overall, the courses were quite good - technically challenging (unlike the Bay Area) as well as physical (fairly long, and Day 2 Red finished with a 12-contour climb in the thin mountain air).
A minor downside was the Mt. Pinos map - "The contours are mostly correct...everything else is suspect" said the mapper's notes. Not exactly reassuring, but in fact - despite anomalies with rock features, clearings, and disappearing trails - few people had real problems (due to map quality, anyway). However, many people did run off the maps both days, a risky proposition caused by the placement of courses close to the printed edges of the maps.
As expected, BAOC did quite well in the final 2-day standings, and there were some exciting races and unexpected twists, including a 1-second win and a family sweep (both featuring the same BAOCer - can you guess who?).
Panu Haaramo won M21 Blue on the strength of his Day 1 performance. Wyatt Riley, a close second on Day 1, was affected by the altitude and dropped to Brown on Day 2 (where he demolished the field in 33:10). In all, BAOCers comprised 7 of the 13 ranked Blue competitors.
On Red, Angelica Riley took the F21 class, also benefitting from her Day 1 run (the always-amazing Sharon Crawford of RMOC, age 55, beat her on Day 2). M35 featured a clean sweep by BAOC, led by Tapio Karras, who leapfrogged from 3rd to 1st on Day 2, besting Neal Barlow and Ken Vomaske. Dan Greene, only seconds behind Matthias Kohler on Day 1, won M40 handily when Matthias ran off the map on Day 2 and DNF'd. Alan Glendinning finished third. (Many runners shared Matthias' fate on both days. LAOC should consider printing more of the map beyond the areas covered by the courses.) On M45, Mark Blair finished a respectable third, ahead of Gavin Wyatt-Mair, who lost his control card part-way through Day 2 - and ran back several controls to find it! Steve Jankowski (a theoretical Blue runner) took M-Red, although he was bested on Day 2 by Eric Rosenzweig, a relatively new BAOC orienteer.
The closest races were in Green. On M50, Gary Carpenter had a superb Day 1 run, putting him comfortably in front of friendly rivals Dennis Wildfogel and George Minarik. But Dennis streaked through the Day 2 course at the head of the field - and finished ONE second ahead of Gary in the final standings! On M55, Bob Cooley finished Day 1 in a tie with Ingvard Jakobsen of LAOC, and wound up 2nd after giving up all of 33 seconds on Day 2. Joe Scarborough was 2nd in M60, and Eric Andersen and Steve Beuerman were 2nd and 3rd, respectively, on M-Green.
On the female side of Green, the competition was a bit meager. Stacy Goss took F35 and Aileen Abernathy F40, both the only 2-day participants in their classes. Stacy ran a great course on Day 1, and Aileen overcame severe blisters to turn in one of the better women's runs on Day 2. Leslie Minarik won F45, and Marsha Jacobs accepted the F50 baseball cap (our prizes).
F-Brown featured another friendly rivalry: Meg Gerstner and Louise Madrid. Meg finished Day 1 nearly 16 minutes ahead of Louise, then saw her lead evaporate on Day 2 when she ran into problems and Louise turned in the best performance of her career - even beating top Brown competitor Donna Gookin of SDO! (Louise claims she did well because she finally asked husband Dennis Wildfogel how to take bearings with the compass. Hmmm...) On M-Brown, Evan Custer had the best Day 1 time, but hampered by a knee injury, he opted out on Day 2. On Yellow, our favorite couple, Ev and Jean Beuerman, won the Group category.
On White, up-and-coming juniors Rachel Care and Malcolm Wyatt-Mair topped the F10 and M10 categories, respectively. Rachel's win rounded out the family award sweep started by Dennis and Louise. She had the fastest Day 1 time on White (Malcolm was fastest on Day 2), and Rachel's Day 2 run created some unexpected drama when her "shadow," Olivia Graeve, sprained her ankle near control 2 and had to be rescued with a stretcher. Rachel, who aborted her course to report Olivia's injury, received another start time, and ran so fast that her new shadow, mom Louise, had trouble keeping up!
Congratulations to all the finishers, and thanks again to LAOC for a great weekend of orienteering.
BLUE
Place Name (last, first) Club Day 1 Time Day 2 Time TOTAL
M-21+
1 Haaramo, Panu BAOC 72:59 76:52 149:51
2 Forsberg, Oskar Umea OK 81:32 70:33 152:05
3 Cusworth, Bill HUSKY 82:01 72:33 154:34
4 Stoll-Hadayia, Dan BAOC 76:10 82:50 159:00
5 Wallenborg, Magnus OK 99:46 67:12 166:58
6 Lorits, Neeme BAOC 89:48 78:09 167:57
7 Stein, Doug BAOC 98:12 81:03 179:15
8 Graeve, Thorsten BAOC 97:32 91:28 189:00
9 Reader, Syd BAOC 109:23 82:05 191:28
10 Taavi, Tatsi GAOC 125:46 66:56 192:42
11 Boughner, Van BAOC 131:43 99:00 230:43
12 Novikov, Dmitry Caltech 162:35 133:14 295:49
13 Hingtgen, Robert SDO 178:18 128:13 306:31
Prior, Mark BAOC OVT 126:20 --
Riley, Wyatt BAOC 73:42 DNS --
Hansson, Roland LAOC 82:10 DNS --
Faure, Nicolas Caltech 111:55 DNS --
Rousu, Ville -- DNF 57:53 --
Velichko, Sergey CTOC DNF 63:55 --
Gusiatnikov, Vladimir OCIN DNF 70:46 --
Moore, Dorsey BAOC DNF OVT --
Pojtinger, Dave LAOC DNF OVT --
Verdon, Marc Caltech DNF DNS --
RED
Place Name (last, first) Club Day 1 Time Day 2 Time TOTAL
F-21+
1 Riley, Angelica BAOC 97:17 78:03 175:20
2 Crawford, Sharon RMOC 120:43 75:48 196:31
3 Pistole, Nancy LAOC 170:39 132:23 303:02
M35+
1 Karras, Tapio BAOC 108:20 69:53 178:13
2 Barlow, Neal BAOC 87:45 95:48 183:33
3 Vomaske, Ken BAOC 96:00 95:42 191:42
4 Chin, Mike LAOC 112:26 94:37 207:03
5 Aster, Scott BAOC 141:03 108:33 249:36
6 Reason, Mike LAOC 157:39 116:28 274:07
7 Churchill, Steve LAOC 155:22 167:53 323:15
Eckles, Rod -- OVT DNS --
Parsons, David LAOC DNF DNS --
M40+
1 Greene, Dan BAOC 97:23 78:30 175:53
2 Breseman, Rick COC 112:39 78:36 191:15
3 Glendinning, Alan BAOC 135:49 103:31 239:20
4 Wells, Kelly BAOC 158:19 101:51 260:10
Kohler, Matthias BAOC 96:45 DNF --
Lewis, Robert BAOC DNF 157:05 --
Pincus, Allan LAOC DNS 123:52 --
Schoenfeld, Kevin BAOC DNS DNF --
M45+
1 Graznevich, Mikhail TVOC 117:05 80:29 197:34
2 Kiperman, Eugene LAOC 130:01 107:57 237:58
3 Blair, Mark BAOC 138:42 129:33 268:15
4 Wyatt-Mair, Gavin BAOC 97:03 172:43 269:46
Rice, Mark BAOC OVT 125:20 --
Hudson, Ron LAOC DNF 87:46 --
Dickson, Scott SDO DNF 175:44 --
Graube, Peter BAOC DNS 118:48 --
M-Red
1 Jankowski, Steve BAOC 102:43 95:10 197:53
2 Rosenzweig, Eric BAOC 170:39 86:49 257:28
Winterbottom, Rex BAOC 109:42 DNF --
Muehlbacher, Thomas TVN DNF 71:59 --
Kindberg-Austria
Pering, Trevor BAOC DNF 89:14 --
Kapinus, Vadym Caltech DNF 120:25 --
Dekany, Richard LAOC DNF 129:01 --
Ellison, Corbin LAOC DNF DNS --
GREEN
Place Name (last, first) Club Day 1 Time Day 2 Time TOTAL
F-20
Neuhold, Alexandra TVN DNF DNF --
Kindberg-Austria
F35+
1 Goss, Stacy BAOC 124:31 141:29 266:00
F40+
1 Abernathy, Aileen BAOC 151:17 96:14 247:31
Wojtowicz, Debbie BAOC DNS 108:30 --
F45+
1 Minarik, Leslie BAOC 146:11 117:22 263:33
Davis, Peg TSN MSP 94:20 --
F50+
1 Jacobs, Marsha BAOC 151:01 118:48 269:49
2 Dennis, Karen MVOC 161:20 111:37 272:57
F55+
1 Moore, Linda NISQ 133:36 91:59 225:35
Hanna, Gail SDO OVT 129:03 --
Roos, Joan BAOC DNF 114:20 --
Magde, Peggy SDO DNF DNF --
F-Green
Savranskaya, Yelena SDO 165:45 DNF --
M50+
1 Wildfogel, Dennis BAOC 84:16 55:53 140:09
2 Carpenter, Gary BAOC 67:55 72:15 140:10
3 Minarik, George BAOC 86:14 61:50 148:04
Miller, Robert COC 86:17 DNF --
Pelnar, Thomas LAOC 123:52 DNF --
M55+
1 Jakobsen, Ingvard LAOC 93:39 63:14 156:53
2 Cooley, Bob BAOC 93:39 63:47 157:26
3 Parker, Rich SDO 93:14 71:13 164:27
4 Magde, Doug SDO 161:10 81:52 243:02
5 Fleishman, Mike BAOC 161:43 112:11 273:54
Friedman, Harvey COC OVT 153:13 --
M60+
1 Kerr, Alex GVOC 96:33 55:02 151:35
2 Scarborough, Joe BAOC 88:30 84:04 172:34
3 Moore, Carl NISQ 109:45 65:02 174:47
4 Gookin, Bill SDO 117:35 108:32 226:07
Kelly, Kalon LAOC 128:06 DNS --
M-Green
1 Olsen, Guy HVO 134:08 82:08 216:16
2 Andersen, Eric BAOC 140:55 94:20 235:15
3 Beuerman, Steve BAOC 158:39 148:36 307:15
4 Corning, Bruce LAOC 158:33 165:09 323:42
5 Lanam, Jeff BAOC 176:37 148:10 324:47
Rose, Dan -- OVT 100:55 --
Richardson, Wilkey TSN DNF DNF --
Tamada, Mike LAOC DNF DNF --
Ranasinghe, Ananda QOC DNF DNS --
Tyszka, Michael Caltech DNS 63:50 --
BROWN
Place Name (last, first) Club Day 1 Time Day 2 Time TOTAL
F60+
1 Gookin, Donna SDO 99:07 98:25 197:32
F-Brown
1 Madrid, Louise BAOC 128:10 91:29 219:39
2 York, Anne COC 116:15 129:34 245:49
3 Gerstner, Meg BAOC 112:12 157:49 270:01
Johnson, Rosemary BAOC DNF 140:52 --
M65+
1 Gookin, Ed SDO 58:15 51:17 109:32
M70+
McAlister, Bruce SAMM DNF 133:45 --
M-Brown
1 Drumm, Scott CROC 123:58 114:14 238:12
2 Irving, David MVOC 146:08 122:02 268:10
Custer, Evan BAOC 80:57 DNS --
Riley, Wyatt BAOC DNS 33:10 --
Ranasinghe, Ananda QOC DNS 141:42 --
ORANGE
Place Name (last, first) Club Day 1 Time Day 2 Time TOTAL
F-Orange
1 Fothergill, Roberta CTOC 82:40 71:51 154:31
2 Hamrick, Annie SDO 136:55 89:33 226:28
Wojtowicz, Debbie BAOC 122:10 DNS --
Churchill, Theresa LAOC DNF DNF --
Borishpol, Marina none DNF DNS --
Jones, Linda LAOC DNS 62:47 --
M-Orange
1 Jakobsen, John LAOC 145:46 82:07 227:53
Schwitkis, Kent LAOC OVT 57:29 --
Jerrard, Richard LAOC DNF 96:05 --
Schoenfeld, Kevin BAOC MSP DNS --
YELLOW
Place Name (last, first) Club Day 1 Time Day 2 Time TOTAL
F-Yellow
Borishpol, Marina SDO DNS 75:39 --
M-14
1 Wingfield, James SDO 132:24 40:02 172:26
M-Yellow
1 Schwitkis, Jeramy LAOC 67:45 58:41 126:26
Schwitkis, Zachary LAOC MSP 55:01 --
Grp-Yellow
1 Beuerman, Everett & Jean BAOC 131:38 75:13 206:51
Cimino/Campbell/Nickol LAOC DNF DNS --
Barraza/Voegele LAOC DNF DNS --
WHITE
Place Name (last, first) Club Day 1 Time Day 2 Time TOTAL
F-10
1 Care, Rachel BAOC 17:43 34:50 52:33
M-10
1 Breseman, Ryan COC 37:45 41:23 79:08
M-12
1 Wyatt-Mair, Malcolm BAOC 33:22 26:59 60:21
2 Reason, Nicholas LAOC 41:49 46:09 87:58
Grp-White
1 Reason, Denise & Amy LAOC 29:48 42:08 71:56