Big Basin Results

Aug. 29, 1999

by Kent Ohlund, meet director

It was a nice day for orienteering, and many people took the opportunity to come out to our first regular B club event after the summer vacation season. The turnout was great; we counted 152 entries or approximately 235 people. Below are the complete results.

Thanks to the large group of people who volunteered to help, the event went rather smoothly. We did run out of White and Yellow maps, but managed to recycle enough maps so that everybody could run. As far as I know, there were no major problems on the courses except for not quite enough water on the third water stop on Blue and a shaky map in places. (For future event directors, I suggest printing at least 50-60 maps of White and Yellow each.)

As a course setter I always struggle to set interesting and fair courses which meet the standard in terms of effort required. I was quite pleased with the outcome this time. The winning time was fairly close to estimated time on each of the courses with the exception of Orange and Brown. Historically this is the case in BAOC. Only when we have A meets do we typically get more seasoned runners on those courses. Most often, we have winning times between 70 and 90 minutes on both of those courses. I did expect more DNF and OT then we actually got. I was pleased to see that as well.

Big Basin offers difficult navigation, poor visibility, and physical terrain in terms of climb and poor footing. I congratulate everybody who finished a course, even if you needed more than the maximum 3 hours.

On the White course, 6 entries were faster than my estimated 40 minutes. Malcolm Wyatt-Mair won the course in a outstanding time of 25.38, followed by Bethany Rust, Leslie Miky in 29.51, and the Webelos scout troup in 33.21.

On the Yellow course, the winner was Muhammed Mentese with a time of 46.18, very nice for trying orienteering for the first time. A few more Yellow wins and maybe it's time to try Orange. Daniel Ohlund was second with 53.03. Randy and Sandi Fox followed in 54.47; they also tried orienteering for the first time.

The Orange course was quite physical and participants had to contend with off-trail navigation and some stretches with low visibility. The winner was a team of Sharon Evans, Meg Gerstner, Marsha Jacobs with a time of 85.26. They were followed quite closely by Mark Rice in 86.25 and Bjorn Widerstrom in 91.54. Another notable on Orange was Jan Wolfe, who managed to beat her daughter Lauren by 6 minutes. Maybe for the last time!

Winner on the Brown course was Evan Custer in 78.25 - a good time by Evan, who is coming back from an injury. Evan was followed by Joe Papendick in 82.14 and Mark Blair in 86.19. Not bad by Mark who also is recovering from injury.

Green was won by Derek MacLean, who had stepped down in order to not be away from Rory too long. Derek must have been training lately (using one of those baby joggers maybe), as he had a very good time of 58.40, beating estimated winning time by 7 minutes. Derek was followed by George Minarik, who also had an excellent time of 61.53. Third was Ian Ramsey in 85.01. I think that Ian has improved his navigation quite a bit, and I expect that he will be able to challenge many people on Red and Blue soon. I also want to mention Penny DeMoss, who had a nice performance of 92.41 on her way back from a major injury (torn Achilles tendon).

The Red course was won by Gary Carpenter in 92.43. Gary was 6 minutes ahead of Tapio Karras and Neal Barlow, who shared second place in 98.47. Angelica Riley was 4th in 112.45.

James Scarborough won the Blue course in 91.37, one minute over the esitmated time, quite good. It became apparent that it was a very good time when everybody had finished. Bruce Wolfe was second 112.04, 21 minutes behind James, followed by Wyatt Riley in 114.16.

I would like to thank the following people for helping:


Results

WHITE	2.6km, 15m climb, expected winning time 40 min

1) Malcolm Wyatt-Mair			25.38
2) Bethany Rust, Leslie Miky		29.51
3) Webelos Pack 255			33.21
4) David Dippon 			37.19
5) Michael McDonald  			37.25
6) Jennifer Rubin  			39.21
7) Diane Ehelebe  			41.33
8) Sean Mish, Jenny Linder	 	45.26
9) Kurt, Patti, Benjamin, Christopher 
    Souvey, Guy & Evelyne Hendrix	53.09
10) Deirdre Sudano, Mike Wilson		61.39
11) W. Klear Pack 255 			64.24
12) Kevin Walker			68.37
13) Kimberley White, James Scarborough	73.36
14) Andrew, Kate, Peter, Becca, Ran  	79.09
15) Matt Graydon  			87.36
16) Renee Burginger  			88.38
17) Manfred, Philipp, Daniel Kopish, 
    Susan Tanner  			98.13
18) Want family  			157.40
Yumi Chin   				MSP


YELLOW	3.0km, 30m climb, expected winning time 45 min

1) Muhammed Mentese 			46.18
2) Daniel Ohlund  			53.03
3) Randy, Sandi Fox  			54.47
4) Jeffrey Steuben  			55.07
5) Erin Krueger  			56.00
6) David Dippon  			60.55
7) Margann Arata  			60.56
8) Kurt Krames, Elsie Yim, Mark Krames	61.08
9) Rachel Care   			64.04
10) Oleg Kibirev, Wendy Yu		65.11
11) Jennifer Rubin			66.18
12) Pete, Rudi, Lynn, Greg Elmensdorp	66.21
13) Eric Jacobsen, Donna Phillips  	66.28
14) Jen Shultz   			66.48
15) Lauren Wenmer 	 		68.39
16) Amelia, Wendy Girsti 		70.27
17) Sam To   				70.53
18) Nicholas Jacobsen, Kevin Smith 	71.08
19) Robert Blumberg, Vanessa Hemingway 	71.22
20) Trinka, Charity Gillis 		71.26
21) Aaron & Russel  			73.04
22) Diane Ehelebe, Harry Taylor 	76.35
23) Jill Custer   			76.54
24) Vernon Brown, Sean Nyikos 		81.54
25) Cheri Leonard  			82.37
26) Audrie Fast  			83.07
27) Deidre Sudano, Mike Wilson 		86.22
28) Melanie, Gary Jonas 		87.57
29) Aharon Kapitulnik  			89.16
29) Green, Gerbaldi  			89.16
31) Eran, Torres, Gillie Agmon 		91.16
32) Andrew McGugan, Margaret Kentzler 	91.57
33) Elena, Ken Livak  			95.40
34) Dean McCollom, Martha Dyer 		96.11
35) Galena Shakhnovsky 			98.43
36) Vin Pascal   			99.49
37) Lucia Livak  			112.08
38) Eric, Shelley Jacobsson 		126.13
39) Marshall Madamba, Luzmaria Martinez	127.11
40) Arek Malinowski, Charlie Cogan 	160.15
Nancy Livak   				DNF
Zachi Baharov   			DNF
Jan McFarland, Steve Nyikos		MSP
Etai Bruhis   				MSP


ORANGE	3.0km, 150m climb, expected winning time 55 min

1) Sharon Evans, Meg Gerstner, 
   Marsha Jacobs 		85.26
2) Mark Rice			86.25
3) Bjorn Widerstrom 		91.54
4) Jan Wolfe      		122.17
5) Patti Clemo      		124.48
6) Mack Cuttitta    	 	127.38
7) Lauren Wolfe     		128.00
8) The Larrys      		133.08
9) Christine Shirley    	160.59
10) Dimitris Michailidis, 
    Natasha Gelfaud  		175.33
Barbara Straka      		DNF
Sean Mish, Jenny Linder   	DNF


BROWN	2.6km, 165m, expected winning time 60 min

1) Evan Custer   	78.25
2) Joe Papendick  	82.14
3) Mark Blair   	86.19
4) Harold DeMoss  	89.52
5) Mark Rice   		97.34
6) Vivian Lee   	105.42
7) Charlie Graham  	109.33
8) Sean Coady   	111.17
9) Justin Graham  	115.28
10) Nik Weber   	122.37
11) Anneliese Steuben  	149.58
12) Rosemary Johnson 	150.36
Hillary Wolfe   	DNF
Nancy Lindeman  	DNF
Drew Keeling   		DNF
Joe Whitehead, Scott 
   Adam, Lou Whitehead, 
   Teneya Soderman 	DNF


GREEN	3.4km, 240 m, expected winning time 65 min

1) Derek MacLean  	58.40
2) George Minarik 	61.53
3) Ian Ramsey   	85.01
4) Penny DeMoss 	92.41
5) Bill Papendick 	103.48
6) Mike Poulsen  	105.49
7) Sarah Minarik  	110.04
8) Nick Corsano  	110.48
9) Leslie Minarik  	112.26
10) Joe Scarborough  	114.45
11) Bill Straka   	115.11
12) Jeff Lanam  	123.17
13) Greg Lee   		125.29
14) Russel Green  	128.45
15) Aileen Abernathy  	129.31
16) David Barr   	132.52
17) Theo Verhoven  	134.29
18) Michael Fleishman 	141.44
19) Steve Beuerman  	148.49
20) Vic Revenco  	154.09
21) Chad Hendrix  	154.58
22) Chuck Spalding  	162.00
23) Joan Roos   	176.00
Ray Kemp, Shiela 
   Fosters, Tierny 	OT (188.44)
Stew Hintz   		OT (216.43)
Louise Madrid  	 	DNF
Phillip Hoare   	DNF
Susanne Wallenborg 	DNF
Oleg Shakhnovsky  	DNF


RED	4.9km, 280m climb, expected winning time 80 min

1) Gary Carpenter  	92.43
2) Tapio Karras  	98.47
2) Neal Barlow  	98.47
4) Angelica Riley  	112.45
5) Bruce Basset  	121.50
6) Bob Cooley   	124.25
7) Werner Haag  	136.48
8) Trevor Pering  	145.04
9) Scott Aster   	146.20
10) Matthias Kohler  	149.22
11) Peter Graube  	154.27
12) Chris Sherwood  	155.06
13) Mike Chin   	168.22
14) Tod Flak   		174.50
Robert Lewis  		OT (190.01)
Kevin Schoenfeld, 
   Leon Berzins 	DNF
John Marshall    	DNF
Matthew Mattson   	DNF


BLUE	6.4km, 400m climb, expected winning time 90 min

1) James Scarborough  	91.37
2) Bruce Wolfe  	112.04
3) Wyatt Riley   	114.16
4) Magnus Wallenborg 	120.07
5) Syd Reader   	123.52
6) Doug Stein   	130.00
7) Thorsten Graeve  	139.59
8) Steve Gregg  	172.18
Gavin Wyatt-Mair  	OT (182.10)
Eric Rosenzweig 	OT (188.05)
Dan Stoll-Hadaya 	DNF
Van Boughner   		DNF
David Dreyfus  	 	MSP/OT
Panu Haaramo   		Unofficial ~120 min