Indian Valley Open Space Preserve
Date: (Sun.) Jan. 30, 2005
Location: Novato, CA
Event Director: - 415.895.6039
Course Setter: Ian Tidswell
Type: B; White, Yellow, Orange, & Brown courses; longer advanced course by reservation only
Write-up by Gary Kraght
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A bright sunny day greeted 170 orienteers at Indian Valley in Novato, after a week of rain and a two-year hiatus from the park. The management of Indian Valley Open Space Preserve had previously denied a use permit, but we were able to return by limiting most courses to Indian Valley College land, with one advanced course roaming into Indian Valley Open Space Preserve, and into Ignacio Valley Open Space Preserve, just over the ridge from the college.
Not only was the weather perfect, we had no injuries, no late finishers, (almost) no complaints, and not too many DNFs. There was an early mixup of Brown and Orange control numbers that affected two Brown runners (whose results have been corrected), and several early Orange starters (whose results have not been corrected). Note to future course-setters: when two controls are in close proximity, be very careful about how the control numbers are printed on the master map.
Except on Yellow, there were no close contests on any course. Each course was dominated by a truly superior performance. On Red, Eric Bone showed why he is a stalwart of the U.S. Team in running 10 min/km over very steep and often brushy terrain, with a lead over Vladimir Gusiatnikov of over 9 minutes. Brown was aced by Mikkel Conradi in 41 minutes, also close to 10 min/km, who led his closest competitors by over 10 minutes. Mikkel needed more exercise, so he completed Orange as a second course. The Orange course winner was Heidi Whalen, with a 9 minute lead over Freya Ritter from Germany. The first four finishers on Orange were women. On Yellow, the team of Michael Hall, Chris Pinney, and Mark Haw nipped ahead of Mieke Bloomfield and the team of Elissa Wiebalk and Trevor Meeks, less than a minute behind. And John Turner showed his sprinting form on White, finishing in under 20 minutes, with a 6 minute lead over David Kovar.
Many volunteers combined their efforts to produce a very good orienteering event. I'd especially like to thank Rich Gibson and Chris Bramhall of the Marin County Open Space District for working with the club to bring orienteering back to Indian Valley. Ian Tidswell set interesting and challenging courses, with Mark Prior providing vetting services. The volunteer honor roll includes Bill Papendick, Matthias Kohler, Shirley Pierce, Joe Maffei, George & Leslie Minarik, Harold & Penny DeMoss, Judy Koehler, Evan Custer, Trinka Gillis, Thorsten Graeve, Scott Aster, Heidi Whalen, Jay & Aaron Frantz, Jim Hayes, Eric Bone, Terry Farrah, Deron van Hoff, Mattias Vangbo, and Alak Ghosh. Thank you, everyone! And see you at Indian Valley next year.
Results
Indian Valley Open Space Preserve Novato, CA Sunday, January 30, 2005 Pl Name Time White Course (1.7 km, 75 m climb, 9 controls) 1 John Turner 19:45 2 David Kovar 26:12 3 Chauncey Krail 28:55 4 April de la Cruz, Alex Ramirez 38:54 5 Ana Nunez 39:25 6 Gina Christopher 40:06 7 Thomas, Anna-Sofie, & Bill Whalen 41:35 8 Chris Vallindras 43:22 9 Jim, Nancy, Clayton, & Mae Puckett 45:25 10 Silva Garrity, Kaia, Robin, & Lia Vanderahe 51:40 11 Asher Wolf 56:30 12 Xena Wolf 57:50 13 Lars, Chance, & Seth Crail 73:56 14 Faith & Ron Gillis 100:24 John Resngit, Anthony Valera DNF (lost card) Yellow Course (2.5 km, 80 m climb, 7 controls) 1 Michael Hall, Chris Pinney, Mark Haw 45:55 2 Mieke Bloomfield 46:23 3 Elissa Wiebalk, Trevor Meeks 46:46 4 Fadi Mouallem, Andres Solomonoff 56:04 5 Mike & Jesse Boss 63:13 6 Bill & Dayna Wiebalk 66:36 7 Galena Shakhnovsky 69:13 8 Jim Hayes 70:33 9 William, Mary, & Tim Shea 71:41 10 Colin Carroll, Corrie Broge 71:44 11 Jay & Aaron Frantz 74:00 12 Jacob Simonds, Yei-Fang Fang 79:15 13 Sean Conner, Melissa Farley 90:21 14 Diane & Harry Hall 92:13 15 Nathan & Julie Bills, Wayne Pardi 93:25 16 Mark Spiller, May Cheng 104:34 17 N. Landau, K. Mackenzie 108:00 Eileen Candelaria DNF (lost card) Second Course Bill Whalen 27:00 Jim Puckett 32:16 John Turner 33:34 Gina Christopher 50:20 David Kovar 52:55 Ana Nunez 80:01 Orange Course (3.8 km, 220 m climb, 11 controls) 1 Heidi Whalen 52:31 2 Freya Ritter 1:01:30 3 Marie-Josee Parayre 1:02:40 4 Sharon Evans 1:16:35 5 Liam McAllister 1:29:45 6 Karen Cook 1:29:50 7 Craig Benson 1:30:56 8 Marina Keating 1:31:14 9 Susan Ryan 1:34:09 10 Trinka Gillis 1:37:11 11 Greg Ehrensing 1:40:20 12 Jackie Wong 1:49:26 13 Igor Ruderman 1:49:55 14 Julia Pushkar 2:06:23 15 Asimina Arvanitaki 2:06:44 16 Alak Ghosh 2:12:11 17 Denise & Kevin Harrington, Joel & Linda Ebright 2:13:36 18 Terry Englehart 2:13:58 19 Laura Slattery 2:15:27 20 Michelle Rhee 2:45:56 21 Nicole, Bob, Travis, & Trevor Wager, Virginia, Mary, Susan, & Conner Hood, Michelle & Zander Dragony 3:03:21 Chris Valindras, Steve O'Keefe DNF Frank Markowitz DNF Brian Kirshner DNF Abigail Freeman DNF Suresh Yanamadala DNF Jason Umhoefer DNF Karen & Brad Rehder DNF Second Course Mikkel Conradi 45:48 Brown Course (3.8 km, 220 m climb, 10 controls) 1 Mikkel Conradi 41:11 2 Dan Rathbun 52:49 3 Peter Graham 55:51 4 Dan Dwyer 57:25 5 Jim Waite 57:55 6 George Minarik 59:00 7 Michael Behrens 1:05:35 8 Gary Kraght 1:08:11 9 Joe Scarborough 1:08:29 10 Yelena Krasnov 1:10:15 11 Bjorn Widerstrom 1:10:30 12 Matt Strother 1:13:51 13 Anneliese Steuben 1:14:59 14 Laurence Paik 1:18:05 15 Andrew Barrows 1:18:36 16 Alex Saltman 1:19:55 17 Efren Alba 1:20:05 18 Joe Maffei 1:21:31 19 Misha Lipatov 1:21:32 20 Doug Masiel 1:26:16 21 Hugh Magen 1:27:01 22 Alan Glendinning 1:27:17 23 Sigrun Ritter 1:29:11 24 Anke Ritter 1:29:13 25 Russell Neilson 1:30:27 26 Vladislav Skvortsov 1:35:37 27 Oleg Shakhnovsky 1:38:13 28 Harold DeMoss 1:39:11 29 Bill Wright 1:40:44 30 Mark Spiller 1:41:27 31 Ilya Katsnelson, Alex Solomotnicov 1:45:18 32 Phillip Hoare 1:55:41 33 Theo Verhoeven, Luc Poppe 1:56:51 34 Sean Campbell 2:03:28 35 David Egbert 2:04:18 36 Chad Davis 2:05:25 37 Laura McKeegan, Rob Clima 2:05:48 38 Alan Houser 2:18:09 39 Jim Fish 2:19:15 40 Terry Gleason 2:28:05 41 Judy Koehler 2:33:35 Terry Farrah DNF Leslie Minarik DNF Meg Gerstner DNF Yulia Yukina DNF James Wilson DNF Shea group (4 adults) DNF Jay & Scott Hann DNF Stephanie Maclean DNF Red Course (5.4 km, 420 m climb, 16 controls) 1 Eric Bone 54:59 2 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 1:04:04 3 Francois Leonard 1:04:07 4 Mattias Eriksson 1:07:56 5 Tapio Karras 1:09:33 6 Mattias Vangbo 1:09:50 7 Steve Gregg 1:10:45 8 Matthias Kohler 1:12:47 9 Thorsten Graeve 1:14:21 10 Siegfried Ritter 1:16:59 11 Kent Ohlund 1:18:37 12 Rex Winterbottom 1:19:07 13 Penny DeMoss 1:25:52 14 Derek Maclean 1:26:37 15 Chuck Spalding 1:36:47 16 Gary Carpenter 1:38:39 17 Evan Custer 1:40:55 18 Mark Blair 1:44:12 19 Bob Cooley 1:45:00 20 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 1:48:11 21 Bill Papendick 1:52:51 22 Deron van Hoff 1:55:43 23 Joan Roos 3:01:58 24 Jennifer Kerr 3:12:40 _______________ DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)