Point Pinole – BAOC Sprint Championships
Date: (Sun.) Mar. 5, 2006
Location: Richmond, CA
Event Director: 
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Course Setter: Steve Gregg
Type: C; BAOC Sprint Championship, plus White, Yellow, and Orange courses
Related Information
Event Announcement W/Y/O WinSplits (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=5690) Sprint Prologue WinSplits (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=5688) Sprint Chase WinSplits (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=5689) RouteGadget (http://baoc.org/wiki/RouteGadget)
Event Write-Up
by Steve Gregg
The weather at Point Pinole this year provided a prelude for what would turn out to be an all-time record-setting month of March, in terms of both days of rain and total amount of rainfall. It could have been much worse, though. The Prologue was held in almost perfect weather conditions, and the rain didn't start coming down in any significant quantity until near the end of the Chase. Control pickup afterwards was an entire different story, though, as a big storm blew in at around 1 PM and it rained hard for the rest of the afternoon. Big thanks to Mark Blair, Gary Carpenter, Nancy Lindeman, and Jim Fish, who braved the elements to bring all the bags and epunch units back in.
Point Pinole was specifically planned to be BAOCs first-ever "all epunch" local event, with epunch even being used on the White and Yellow courses. The results of this experiment would help us decide if we want to make other local events "all epunch" in the future. The threatening weather turned that into a non-issue, though, as there were a grand total of 15 signups on the White and Yellow course combined. The JROTC groups that usually attend the event stayed home as well. Look for next year's Point Pinole event to be all epunch again, with hopefully better weather and better attendance on the beginner's courses.
Most of our diehard advanced course runners showed up for the sprints, though. With Dan Stoll-Hadayia and Martin Kunz both missing this year, Eric Bone was the heavy favorite coming into the event, and he did not disappoint. Even with a 20 second mistake on control 10, Eric still blitzed the 2.7 km Prologue in 12 minutes flat — well under my estimated winning time. Eric continued to increase his lead over the pack during the Chase, to win the event by a margin of over a minute. Francois Leonard had an excellent second run to finish in second place overall, and Syd Reader took third place. Penny DeMoss once again won the women's competition by a large margin.
There was also a Junior Sprint Championship, held for the first time this year. The threatening weather perhaps kept attendance low on this course as well, but the juniors who did compete appreciated the opportunity to win a medal on an appropriate course for them. Congratulations to Daniel Kopisch, Tristan Delforge, and Garrett Pitsenbarger on the boys side, and to Kristen Pitsenbarger and Joanne Leadbetter for the girls.
A big thank you to everyone who helped out at the event. Dwight Freund, Joan Roos, and Ev and Jean Beuermann all vetted the courses before the event. I have already mentioned the bag pickup folks, who endured the heavy rains in the afternoon. Others who worked in various capacities during the event (either pre-assigned, or off-the-cuff) were Harold and Penny DeMoss, Terry Farrah, Kelly Wells, Vicki Woolworth, Frank Markowitz, Marina Keating, Jeff Lanam, Trinka Gillis, Gary Kraght, and James Wilson. My apologies to anyone I have forgotten who stepped up to help.
Results
2006 BAOC Sprint Championships
Pt. Pinole Regional Shoreline
Richmond, CA
Sunday, March 5, 2006
Pl Name(s) Time
White Course (3.0 km, 60 m, 10 controls)
1 Michael Hall 23:08
2 Serena Ioane 37:47
3 Gabrielle Delforge-Melia 47:42
4 Lisa Nguyen, Bradley De Leon,
Justin Anderson 49:59
5 Barbara Robben, Anders Fox 54:27
6 Troop 1053 1:02:45
7 Robert, Grace, & Miguel Olson,
Delora Austin 1:03:08
8 Lisa, Nancy, Charles, Peter 1:34:42
Darrick McClure DNF
Yellow Course (3.3 km, 65 m, 11 controls)
1 Jon Bonwick 26:49
2 Gavin & Carl Williams 41:12
3 Alan Kren, Margaret Longstreth 41:48
4 Juliette Delforge-Melia 47:58
5 Mark & Roberta Pitsenbarger,
Diane Hall 1:22:01
Philipp Kopisch DNF
Orange Course (3.6 km, 70 m, 12 controls)
1 Piers Newbery 25:19
2 Jon Bonwick 27:30
3 Bob Strauss 31:42
4 Joe Maffei 32:14
5 Brian Kirshner 34:48
6 Vicki Woolworth 36:50
7 Alan Kren, Margaret Longstreth 38:23
8 Jane Melia 38:42
9 Gary Kraght 39:50
10 Howard DeMoss 40:50
11 Daniel & Rick Norbutas 41:03
12 Jim Fish 41:07
13 Fred Ciaramaglia 45:52
14 Marina Keating 46:19
15 Erin Magers 46:29
16 Frank Markowitz 48:12
17 Chris Murray 48:55
18 Jennifer Kerr 54:01
19 Lnda Nancyman 57:22
20 Alan Houser 57:23
21 Jason Hogan 1:07:18
22 Nancy Lindeman 1:11:54
23 Alexali Brubaker 1:16:20
24 DV Outdoors 1:21:56
25 Devon Minarik, Carrie Trowbridge 1:31:40
Junior Sprint Championship (3.3 km, 70 m, 12 controls)
1 Daniel Kopisch 24:23
2 Tristan Delforge-Melia 33:33
3 Garrett Pitsenbarger 35:48
4 Kristen Pitsenbarger 40:03 (#1 girl)
5 Suzy Murphy 42:11 (not a junior)
6 Joanne Leadbetter 44:39 (#2 girl)
Sprint Results
Prologue Course: 2.7 km, 30 m climb, 12 controls
Chase Course: 2.6 km, 60 m climb, 15 controls
Prologue Chase Overall
Pl Name Time Pl Time Pl Time (*)
1 Eric Bone 12:00 1 13:23 1 25:23 0
2 Francois Leonard 12:43 3 14:01 2 26:44 1
3 Syd Reader 12:30 2 14:32 6 27:02 (1)
4 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 12:57 4 14:23 4 27:20 0
5 Bret Sarnquist 13:59 7 14:27 5 28:26 2
6 Pierre Delforge 14:18 9 14:17 3 28:35 3
7 Rex Winterbottom 13:33 5 15:09 8 28:42 (2)
8 Mikkel Conradi 13:50 6 15:17 9 29:07 (2)
9 Russell Neilson 14:10 8 15:00 7 29:10 (1)
10 Matthias Kohler 14:34 10 15:38 10 30:12 0
11 Tapio Karras 14:42 11 15:46 11 30:28 0
12 Andrejus Masalkovas 15:21 13 16:04 12 31:25 1
13 Chris Roper 14:53 12 16:37 13 31:30 (1)
14 Peter Graham 16:02 15 17:28 16 33:30 1
15 Bruce Wolfe 16:15 16 17:22 15 33:37 1
16 Derek Maclean 15:57 14 18:01 17 33:58 (2)
17 Kent Ohlund 16:45 18 17:19 14 34:04 1
18 Donatas Zigmantas 17:36 21 19:06 19 36:42 3
19 Penny DeMoss 16:40 17 20:06 23 36:46 (2)
20 Manfred Kopisch 18:45 26 18:34 18 37:19 6
21 Dan Greene 17:38 22 19:53 21 37:31 1
22 Mutsumi Sugizaki 17:00 19 20:45 27 37:45 (3)
23 Gary Carpenter 17:19 20 20:36 25 37:55 (3)
24 Mark Blair 18:35 25 19:23 20 37:58 1
25 George Minarik 18:17 24 20:01 22 38:18 (1)
26 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 17:57 23 20:34 24 38:31 (3)
27 Bob Strauss 19:29 28 21:29 28 40:58 1
28 Pete Olsten 20:38 33 20:43 26 41:21 5
29 Marie-Josee Parayre 19:04 27 23:57 33 43:01 (2)
30 Bob Cooley 19:57 29 23:26 30 43:23 (1)
31 Chad Davis 20:02 30 23:43 32 43:45 (1)
32 Alex Saltman 20:18 31 23:29 31 43:47 (1)
33 James Wilson & Zion 22:29 36 22:07 29 44:36 3
34 Joe Scarborough 21:22 34 24:56 34 46:18 0
35 Terry Farrah 23:17 38 28:25 35 51:42 3
36 Bjorn Widerstrom 21:39 35 31:40 37 53:19 (1)
37 Trinka Gillis 25:27 40 28:48 36 54:15 3
Joe Maffei 20:28 32 DNS
Marina Keating 23:00 37 DNS
Stephanie Maclean 24:39 39 DNS
Jennifer Kerr 32:05 41 DNS
Jeff Lanam 37:33 42 DNS
Guosas Martisius 42:24 43 DNS
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(*) = Places gained(lost) in the Chase (Prologue Pl - Overall Pl)
DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DNS = Did not start