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Stanford University Campus

Date: (Sun.) Apr. 9, 2006
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Event Directors: - 415.948.5593,
Course Setter: Stanford Orienteering Club
Type: C; White, Yellow, Sprint, and two Mystery-O courses

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Event Write-Up

By Marina Keating

We had another great event today at Stanford with 175 participants, slightly fewer than last year, but a great turnout considering the weather forecast. I'm not sure where the rain went, but I'm not complaining. Peter Graham, Russell Neilson, and Alex Saltman did a terrific job setting fun, interesting courses that everyone seemed to enjoy. The strategically placed water hazard between controls 6 and 7 on the Sprint made for some very mud-spattered sprinters at the end of the race.

Mark Prior won the Sprint with a very convincing time of 16:29, Mikkael Conradi was second in 18:35, and Rex Winterbottom was 23 seconds behind with a time of 18:58.

On the White course, Sheila Shea and Andy Quon came in first, with Laura McVey, Aditi Joshu, and Alexa Strutner second, and the team of Sami Strutner, Haley Utley, and Jean Tyan close behind in third. Yellow was the most popular course with sixty participants. Julia Song and Howard had the fastest time here, with Daniel Kopisch in second, and Barbara Straka in third. The race for the first two spots in the Short Mystery-O was the tightest of the day with only 7 seconds separating the first place team of Mikkael Conradi and Lauren Knight and second place Donatas Zigmantas. Bill Straka was third.

The Sprint didn't seem to take much out of Mark Prior and Steve Gregg, since they came in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Long Mystery-O a few minutes behind winner Mattias Vangbo.

I had a great day, I hope you all did too. As well as seeing some great runs, it was wonderful to see the excited newcomers who had such a great time on White that they couldn't wait to go out again and do Yellow.

As usual things could not have gone so well without the help of a large number of people. Thank you very much to the following: Ev and Jean Beuerman who did their usual great job on registration, Bill and Barbara Straka who helped out on registration (Bill also spent some time doing starts), Nancy Lindeman, Jim Fish, and Joe Maffei who showed up extra early and were there to help get things organized, Joe also helped out with results and control pickup, while Nancy did starts and Jim did finishes, Paul SanGiorgio did an early run to check that all the Sprint controls were still in place, and helped with results and control pickup. Tony Pinkham, Steve Gregg, Ido Green, and Jeff Lanam did starts, Bob Cooley did his usual great job with the maps, Alan Glendinning was very helpful and flexible when it came to picking up various pieces of equipment from him, Harold and Penny DeMoss did tent transport. Special thanks to Chuck Spalding who, as well as helping out in various ways today, patiently answered my questions and gave me lots of good advice in the weeks leading up to the event, and special thanks also to Alex Saltman and Russell Neilson who helped out today in many different ways.

The results are below. Please let me know if you feel any corrections are needed.


Results

Stanford University Campus

Palo Alto, CA
Sunday, April 9, 2006


  Pl  Name(s)                                      Time

White Course     (1.6 km, 11 controls, 30 participants)

   1  Sheila Shea, Andy Quon                       14:03
   2  Laura McVey, Aditi Joshi, Alexa Strutner     19:58
   3  Sami Strutner, Haley Utley, Jean Tyan        20:41
   4  Jessica Kirshner                             21:04
   5  Jeremy Kirshner                              21:40
   6  Danielle & Adam Strauss                      25:32
   7  Raman, Batraj, Pratap, & Vikram Singh        30:25
   8  Tachung Wu, Tsoya Chiang, Morgan Wu,
        Dylan Jones                                48:20
   9  Kennard, Jennifer, Riley, Ben, & Kirby
        White                                      49:55
  10  Taylor Swihart, Priscilla Merino           1:53:18

      Eric Bragas, Jr, Eric Bragas                 DNF

  Second Course

      Rex Winterbottom                              8:19
      Jeremy Kirshner                              17:10


Yellow Course    (3.0 km, 11 controls, 60 participants)

   1  Julia Song, Howard                           36:10
   2  Daniel Kopisch                               36:45
   3  Barbara Straka                               36:47
   4  Evonne Shea, Paul Taylor                     38:32
   5  Sherry Chang, Calvin Wang                    39:27
   6  Mike Whelply, Joyclin Hashimoto              43:47
   7  Anita, Reshma, Sanjay, Ramana                45:30
   8  Nancy Lindeman                               46:17
   9  Juliet Davoren                               46:54
  10  Paul Pratt                                   47:16
  11  Susan, Hannah, & Philipp Kopisch             52:18
  12  Aditi & Laura                                54:58
  13  Galena Shakhnovsky                           59:10
  14  Diane Hall, Avery Swihart                    59:42
  15  Jean Tyan, Haley Utley, Sami Struther,
        Sandy Mc Vey                               59:49
  16  Bill Ashworth, Dave Renau, Emma Shelton,
        Max Barnes                               1:00:20
  17  Samantha, Danielle, Steve, Andrea          1:03:05
  18  Raman, Batraj, Pratap, & Vikram Singh      1:08:20
  19  Scott & Deb McQueen                        1:11:26
  20  Shanbhag Mitali, Boinapally Srikar         1:26:24
  21  Eileen McKenna, Ian Davoren                1:30:50
  22  Kelsey Smith                               1:31:25
  23  Mark, Judy, Rowan, Karen, & Zanny Zellers,
        Jane Hayes, Cameron Aishin               1:36:00
  24  Cati Munic, Michelle Leberknight           1:58:30

      Eric Bragas, Jr, Eric Bragas                 MSP

  Third course

      Rex Winterbottom                             17:01


Sprint Course    (3.3 km, 14 controls, 41 participants)

   1  Mark Prior                                   16:29
   2  Mikkel Conradi                               18:35
   3  Rex Winterbottom                             18:58
   4  Steve Gregg                                  20:11
   5  Francois Leonard                             20:33
   6  Brian Hart                                   21:36
   7  Tapio Karras                                 22:25
   8  George Minarik                               23:03
   9  Matthias Kohler                              23:13
  10  Ian Tidswell, Michael Coleman                23:59
  11  Chuck Spalding                               25:07
  12  Mutsumi Sugizaki                             25:15
  13  Wendell Doman                                25:24
  14  Denis Wildfogel                              25:47
  15  Ido Green                                    26:52
  16  Donatas Zigmantas                            27:07
  17  Eric Rosenzweig                              27:27
  18  Frank Markowitz                              28:29
  19  Sarah Minarik                                28:50
  20  Lauren Knight                                30:00
  21  Theo Verhoeven                               30:36
  22  Ragnar & Emil Borg                           31:03
  23  Hannah & Nancy Lippe                         36:26
  24  Jim Fish                                     37:42
  25  Shura Krechetov                              38:50
  26  Bill Straka                                  40:47
  27  Steve Beuerman                               41:32
  28  Oleg Shakhnovsky                             41:40
  29  Cecil Conkle                                 51:21
  30  Angie & Jim Peckham                        1:24:58

      Neal & Shirley Pierce                        MSP
      Leslie Minarik                               MSP
      Tony Pinkham                                 MSP
      Henrique, Rita, Daniel                       MSP


Short Mystery-O  (3.8 km, 10 controls, 16 participants)

   1  Lauren Knight, Mikkel Conradi                26:43
   2  Donatas Zigmantas                            26:50
   3  Bill Straka                                  40:56
   4  Paul Pratt                                   56:04
   5  Nancy Lindeman                               58:24
   6  Steve Beuerman                               58:44
   7  Jaakko & Jukka Karras                      1:00:45
   8  Cecil Conkle                               1:05:27
   9  Shirley Pierce                             1:14:03
  10  Seder Witcoff                              1:17:23

      Marina Keating                               DNF
      Jeff Lanam                                   DNF
      Vincent, Ashley, & John                      DNF


Long Mystery-O   (7.0 km, 19 controls, 28 participants)

   1  Mattias Vangbo                               39:57
   2  Mark Prior                                   43:24
   3  Steve Gregg                                  43:56
   4  Steve Haas                                   51:55
   5  Matthias Kohler                              52:21
   6  Chuck Spalding                               52:38
   7  Oren Rigbi                                   54:37
   8  Theo Verhoeven                               56:16
   9  Dan Greene                                   57:41
  10  Ian Tidswell, Michael Coleman                58:15
  11  Manfred Kopisch                              58:22
  12  Penny DeMoss                               1:03:05
  13  Wendell Doman                              1:05:00
  14  Francois Leonard                           1:05:05
  15  Rod Jaehn                                  1:06:15
  16  Paul SanGiorgio                            1:07:36
  17  Joe Maffei                                 1:14:04
  18  Michael Fleishman                          1:17:18
  19  Marie-Josee Parayre                        1:17:59
  20  Eric Rosenzweig                            1:18:17
  21  Bill Strauss                               1:21:01
  22  Phillip Hoare, Janet Stein                 1:23:31
  23  Trinka Gillis                              1:29:16
  24  Jim Fish                                   1:35:51

      Daniel & Dave Beyer                          MSP

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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)