Point Pinole Regional Shoreline
Date: (Sun.) Mar. 18, 2007
Location: Richmond, CA
Event Director: 
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Course Setter: Steve Gregg
Type: C; White, Yellow, and Orange courses; Prologue-Chase two-part sprint -- part of the Sprint Series, with a club championship to be held at Indian Valley May 19th.
Related Information
Event Announcement WinSplits for White–Orange (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=7268) WinSplits for Sprint Prologue (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=7267) WinSplits for Sprint Chase (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=7283) RouteGadget - Introduction RouteGadget - Prologue & WYO (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=89&kieli=) RouteGadget - Chase (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=90&kieli=)
Event Write-Up
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The Bay Area suffered through a very dry winter in 2007, and as a result, the terrain was hard and fast at Point Pinole this year. For the first time ever, I had trouble driving some of the epunch poles deep enough into the ground when setting out controls the day before the event. The weather was also quite pleasant the day of the event, and as a result, we had a good crowd of enthusiastic orienteers in attendance. In particular, a large JROTC group from San Francisco showed up again this year, but now that I have learned to set a appropriately easy Yellow course for them, we got all the kids registered and through their courses without a hitch. The group of Hu, Huang, and Isaree from Washington HS won the 3.4 km course, with a time of 31:32. Other winners on the "non-sprint" courses were Jamie Caplinger on White, and Rick and Ann Norbutas on Orange.
Since Point Pinole was not the official BAOC sprint championships this year, I decided to experiment with a different format than in previous years. The chase was a "handicap race", with the slower runners starting first, and the faster runners trying to catch them. This made for a very interesting scene at the finish line, with unanticipated winners, and most people running harder than usual throughout the race, as they knew that faster runners were hot on their heels. Congratulations to the top three finishers Manfred Kopisch, Jason Hogan, and Stephanie Maclean.
To no one's surprise, Eric Bone had the fastest time on both the Prologue and Chase courses. He won the Prologue by over a minute (running 14:05 for the 2.9 km course), and although the nature of the Chase compressed the time gaps between runners substantially, Eric also won the 2.7 km Chase in an almost identical time of 14:06. Close behind Eric in the Chase were Francois Leonard at 14:12, and Martin Kunz at 14:18.
A big thank you to everyone who helped out at the event. Dennis Wildfogel and Greg Khanlarov vetted the courses before the event, which is a particularly important job in a sprint race. Others who worked in various capacities during the event (either pre-assigned, or off-the-cuff) were Harold and Penny DeMoss, Ruth Kadel, Trinka Gillis, Bjorn Widerstrom, Jeff Lanam, Evan Custer, Martin Kunz, Ev and Jean Beuerman, Alan Hauser, Peter Graham, Jason Hogan, and Russell Neilson. My apologies to anyone I have forgotten who stepped up to help.
Results
Point Pinole Regional Shoreline
Richmond, CA
Sunday, March 18, 2007
White, Yellow, and Orange Courses
Pl Name(s) Time
White Course (3.1 km, 60 m climb, 10 controls)
5 Kyle, Joey, & Carol Tran 54:02
6 Galena, Artem, & Peter Skorokholov 56:45
7 Michael & Mike Long 1:06:20
8 Tish Souza 1:08:07
9 Chris Laughlin 1:09:25
10 Barney Troop 2824 1:22:55
11 Brigitte Troop 1954 1:57:05
Yellow Course (3.4 km, 65 m climb, 12 controls)
1 Hu, Huang, Isaree (Washington Charlie) 31:32
2 Liao, Frias, Wong (Galileo Team 1) 33:25
3 Tatiana Fedyk 35:02
4 Fab Four 35:26
5 Xiao, Ma, Lum (Lincoln Team 1) 35:40
6 Chen, Hornbostel, Qin (Lowell Team 1) 36:59
7 John & Margaret Erickson 37:06
8 Chris Broekhoff 37:11
9 Lafuente, Lui, Tam (Lincoln Team 2) 37:48
10 Chan, Le, Chen (Skills Not Kills) 40:32
11 Carl & Gavin Williams 41:38
12 Le, Lo (Lowell Team 4) 44:34
13 Yim, Yam, Yu (Balboa Alpha) 45:09
14 Yee, Lo (Washington Alpha) 45:23
15 Arroyo, Singh, Osman (Lowell Team 3) 46:25
16 Wong, Ramos, Huang (Washington Bravo) 46:51
17 Guan, Pan, Kann (Lowell Team 2) 48:14
18 Ryan, Cliff, & Kris Grutze 53:39
19 Barbara Robben 57:15
20 Janet Kan 1:01:35
21 Jurgen Luwald 1:09:38
22 Sim, Patel, Truno 1:11:27
23 Zhong, Ho, Chen (Balboa Bravo) 1:11:50
24 Garza, Tigua, Huang 1:14:50
25 Ann Jordan, Michael Hay 1:14:54
26 John & James Pelster 1:15:40
27 Doan Kon-Liao Lee 1:28:02
Wan, Wang (Lincoln Team 3) MSP
Judy Toothaker MSP
Orange Course (3.2 km, 60 m climb, 11 controls)
1 Rick & Ann Norbutas 31:02
2 Michael Rodriguez 31:10
3 Frank Markowitz 39:31
4 Jay Hann 40:07
5 Greg Ehrensing 40:39
6 Ben Bellows, Simon Wakeman 40:55
7 Erin Magers 44:10
8 Anastassia Fedyk 46:08
9 Leslie Minarik 47:45
10 Jennifer Kerr 47:56
11 Trinka Gillis 47:57
12 Alan Houser 49:13
13 Hollien Fischer 52:40
14 Valeria Fedyk 53:48
15 Leif Kirschenbaum 54:13
16 Jim Fish 54:43
17 Michael & Cheryl Werner 57:51
18 Terri Hunt, Kevin Hinkley 58:02
19 A, J, & S Banach 58:22
20 Taylor Shaw, Joanne Thiel 1:05:01
21 Roget & Rajagopal Sitaraman 1:13:20
22 John Quintrell 1:17:18
23 Andrew Schluchte, Joanne Leadbetter 1:33:03
24 Matt Sheehy 1:40:24
25 Carmen & Suzy 1:46:56
26 Deer Valley Outdoors 1:54:25
27 Nancy Lindman 2:01:38
Megan Misencik MSP
Umcp Team MSP
Sprint Courses
The Point Pinole Chase Sprint is now also on RouteGadget. Use this link for an introduction, or go directly here (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi) to draw your route.
By default, the animation shows the Chase as an independent race. To run the Chase as it happened, with the competitors started from slowest to fastest based on their Prologue results, you need to turn off the "Mass start" option next to the "View animation" button.
Special thanks to Ruth Kadel, who did most of the splits file editing so that both animations would run correctly on RouteGadget. If only we had used a regular start unit instead of control #0...
I adjusted Evan's start time to be as if he had run the Chase as part of the "handicap race" format. Evan had run the course earlier on his own so that he could help with e-punch.
To see other RouteGadget events world-wide, visit this site (http://www.routegadget.net/).
Happy Routes,
Tapio
Pl Name Time
Sprint Prologue (2.9 km, 20 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Eric Bone 14:05
2 Benjamin Legg (ORCA) 15:17
3 Syd Reader 15:21
4 Francois Leonard 15:22
5 Martin Kunz 15:35
6 Russell Neilson 15:55
7 Tapio Karras 16:18
8 Wesley Willett (RENT) 17:23
9 Andrejus Masalkovas 17:29
10 Derek MacLean 17:39
11 Rex Winterbottom 17:41
12 Matthias Kohler 18:00
13 Brad Wetmore 18:46
14 Kent Ohlund 18:59
15 Dan Greene 20:05
16 George Minarik 20:25
17 Peter Graham 20:47
18 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 21:27
19 Anand Varma (RENT) 21:47
20 Bob Cooley 23:04
21 Eric Rosenzweig 23:25
22 Bjorn Widerstrom 23:30
23 Pete Olsten (GCO) 24:10
24 Marie-Josee Parayre 24:27
25 Evan Custer 25:42
26 Manfred Kopisch 26:10
27 Joe Scarborough 28:09
28 Bob Strauss 28:15
29 Oleg Shakhnovsky 29:16
30 Terry Farrah 30:13
31 Rick Baraff 31:24
32 Jeff Lanam 32:16
33 Stephanie Maclean 32:20
34 Jennifer Kerr (GCO) 33:58
35 Jason Hogan 34:20
36 Sean Campbell (RENT) 37:09
37 Steve Beuerman 37:41
38 Robert Lewis 44:16
Sprint Chase (2.7 km, 50 m climb, 18 controls)
1 Eric Bone 14:06
2 Francois Leonard 14:12
3 Martin Kunz 14:18
4 Benjamin Legg (ORCA) 14:59
5 Syd Reader 15:12
6 Rex Winterbottom 15:20
6 Wesley Willett (RENT) 15:20
8 Russell Neilson 15:48
9 Andrejus Masalkovas 16:41
10 Matthias Kohler 16:59
11 Tapio Karras 17:08
12 Derek MacLean 17:24
13 Brad Wetmore 18:13
14 Kent Ohlund 18:19
15 Peter Graham 19:25
16 Manfred Kopisch 20:36
17 George Minarik 20:41
18 Dan Greene 20:49
19 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 21:40
20 Pete Olsten (GCO) 21:53
21 Bob Cooley 22:51
22 Eric Rosenzweig 23:49
23 Marie-Josee Parayre 24:57
24 Bob Strauss 25:43
25 Stephanie Maclean 27:50
26 Jason Hogan 28:48
27 Jeff Lanam 30:10
28 Rick Baraff 32:28
29 Terry Farrah 32:34
30 Bjorn Widerstrom 33:15
31 Jennifer Kerr (GCO) 37:15
32 Evan Custer 37:23
33 Oleg Shakhnovsky 39:07
34 Steve Beuerman 39:36
35 Robert Lewis 39:46
36 Sean Campbell (RENT) 47:53
Joe Scarborough MSP
Anand Varma (RENT) MSP
Sprint Prologue + Chase (5.6 km, 70 m climb, 28 controls)
(The times below are not the sums of the two respective times above, because of the handicapped start sequence that was used for the Chase.)
1 Manfred Kopisch 37:39
2 Jason Hogan 37:41
3 Stephanie Maclean 38:44
4 Bob Strauss 40:41
5 Rex Winterbottom 40:52
6 Pete Olsten (GCO) 40:57
7 Jeff Lanam 41:08
8 Wesley Willett (RENT) 41:11
9 Peter Graham 41:52
10 Martin Kunz 41:56
11 Francois Leonard 42:04
12 Matthias Kohler 42:12
13 Andrejus Masalkovas 42:27
14 Kent Ohlund 42:34
15 Brad Wetmore 42:40
16 Benjamin Legg (ORCA) 42:56
17 Robert Lewis 42:59
17 Derek MacLean 42:59
19 Bob Cooley 43:01
20 Syd Reader 43:05
21 Russell Neilson 43:07
22 Eric Bone 43:15
23 George Minarik 43:27
23 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 43:27
25 Eric Rosenzweig 43:38
26 Marie-Josee Parayre 43:43
27 Dan Greene 43:58
28 Tapio Karras 44:04
29 Rick Baraff 44:18
30 Steve Beuerman 45:08
31 Terry Farrah 45:35
32 Jennifer Kerr (GCO) 46:32
33 Bjorn Widerstrom 52:59
34 Oleg Shakhnovsky 53:04
35 Sean Campbell (RENT) 54:08
36 Evan Custer 54:54
Joe Scarborough MSP
Anand Varma (RENT) MSP
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MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)