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Almaden QuickSilver — Golden Goat

Date: (Sun.) Nov. 20, 2005
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Directors: - 650.248.9595, - 408.348.1282
Course Setter: Vladimir Gusiatnikov
Type: Extra long and strenuous courses; NO BEGINNER COURSES


Note: See the final Write-up and Results here.


Preliminary Event Write-Up

By Jim Waite

The Tenth Annual Golden Goat is over. Everyone has safely made it out of the woods. The winners were Martin Kunz and Penny DeMoss, for the Goat; and Pierre Delforge and Gina Christopher, for the Kid. Full results are below. They are subject to corrections.

The Goat course was too long. The course setter's estimate for the best time was correct. Under ideal conditions, Vladimir guessses it would have taken Martin about 1 hour and 54 minutes. Martin skipped Controls 6 and 7, which was the most popular skip.

The course setter's best skip is 3 and 15, unchanged after the race. Both of those saved major climb. A straight-line route from 3 to 4 is 130 m of climb.

The Goat statistics updated for the route taken by the winner are 10.9 km, 17 controls. The climb is being updated, but is believed to be in the high 900s (i.e., the 6, 7 skip saved barely any climb).

However, the course was indeed too long. Vladimir thinks he should have aimed, and future course setters should strive, to set a Goat course that most of the Green and Red club runners are able to finish in under 3 hours. This was not accomplished.

The first half of the Goat course was enjoyed by most. However, the major challenge came in the second half with all the climb. Vladimir thinks that it would have been ideal to have the finish around Guadalupe Reservoir, but this would have required a shuttle back to the parking.

The course setter believes that Control 3 was the best Kid skip.

Here is the order of top Goat runners at two intermediate points in the race, with some approximate times.

After Control 5, first major trail junction:

  1  Mattias Vangbo              35'
  2  Roy Malone                  35'
  3  Thorsten Graeve             35'
  4  Steve Gregg                 35'
  5  Martin Kunz                 36'
  6  Russell Neilson             36'
  7  Steve Haas                  37'
  8  Mattias Eriksson            37'

At Control 10:

  1  Martin Kunz              68:53
  2  Matthias Kohler             77'
  3  Penny DeMoss                80'
  4  Roy Malone                  84'
  5  Mattias Vangbo              86'
  6  Steve Gregg                 86'
  7  Mattias Eriksson            87'
  8  Kent Öhlund                 89'
  9  Thorsten Graeve             90'
 10  Andrejus Masalkovas         94'
 11  Russell Neilson
 12  Wendell Doman
 13  Lehigh, Jaehn
 14  Peter Graham
 15  Mark Blair
 16  Tapio Karras

There will be a full writeup, but we cannot promise it before Thanksgiving. Courses will be on Attackpoint before then.

The time limit applied to official finishers was four hours. A late starter on the Goat is listed twice in the Results, once with his actual time, the other, with the official time.



Preliminary Results

2005 Golden Goat — Almaden Quicksilver County Park

San Jose, CA
Sunday, November 20, 2005

Note: See the final Results here.

The time limit applied to official finishers was four hours. A late starter on the Goat is listed twice in the Results, once with his actual time, the other with the official time.

Preliminary Results


Goat                                              Time      Skip   Fork

   1  Martin Kunz                                123:05     6,7     B
   2  Mattias Vangbo                             147:58    15,17    A
   3  Steve Gregg                                154:32     9,15    A
   4  Thorsten Graeve                            155:16    14,15    A
   5  Penny DeMoss (#1 female)                   160:00     6,7     B
   6  Matthias Kohler                            160:04     6,7     B
   7  Andrejus Masalkovas                        167:45     9,16    -
   8  Mattias Eriksson                           171:50     3,9     B
   9  Roy Malone                                 178:01     6,7     B
  10  Wendell Doman                              180:00     9,15    B
      Mikkel Conradi (actual time)               180:49     9,15    A
  11  Peter Graham                               193:20     6,13    B
  12  Kent Öhlund                                197:07     6,7     B
  13  Russell Neilson                            197:36     9,15    A
  14  Steve Haas                                 205:35     6,11    B
  15  Lehigh, Jaehn                              205:45     6,7     B
  16  Tapio Karras                               215:48     3,9     B
  17  Mark Blair                                 230:38     4,5     B
  18  Peter Graube                               232:53     9,15    B
  19  Theo Verhoeven                             234:01     6,15    B
  20  Mikkel Conradi (official time)             238:12     9,15    A

      Phil Mosbacher                    (OVT)    251:00     9,18    B
      Nad Nubthar                       (OVT)    259:00     4,5     B
      Dan Holman                        (OVT)    265:00     3,15    A

      Ian Tidswell                                 DNF
      Harold DeMoss                                DNF
      Deron VanHoff                                DNF      4,5
      Derek Maclean                                DNF      2
      Holmes, Teesdale, Tapscott, Smith, Fisher    DNF      6,7
      Josephy, Jacobs, Murphy, Maxwell             DNF      4
      Kelly Wells                                  DNF      6,15    A
      Dan Greene                                   DNF      9,11
      David & Sharon Egbert                        DNF      6


Kid                                               Time      Skip

   1  Pierre Delforge                            123:05     17
   2  Manfred Kopisch                            149:57      -
   3  Chad Davis                                 160:11      1
   4  David Jorgensen                            178:03     17
   5  Fyodor Konkov                              178:13     17
   6  Parag Gupta                                179:26      6
   7  Tommer Wizansky                            185:15      6
   8  Brad Wetmore                               187:28      6
   9  Alak Ghosh                                 193:28      6
  10  Gina Christopher (#1 female)               199:30     17
  10  John Turner                                199:30     17
  12  Pinkham, Keller                            210:24      3
  13  Jennifer Kerr                              235:30      3

      Clima, McKeegan                   (OVT)    250:00      3
      Team Ocho                         (OVT)    260:00     18
      John & Chuck Falkenroth           (OVT)    261:00      6
      Luc Poppe                         (OVT)    268:00      6
      French, Lindeman, Fish            (OVT)    328:54      3

      Turk, Ghelfi, Milne, Adams                   DNF
      Frank Markowitz                              DNF
      Thumann, Dumond                              DNF
      Leon Zheng                                   DNF
      Ross, Hardcastle                             DNF
      Oleg Shakhnovsky                             DNF       6

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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
OVT = Overtime (finished after course-closing time)