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Presidio of San Francisco

Date: (Sun.) Sep. 16, 2012
Location: San Francisco, CA
Event Director: - 415.453.3679
Course Setter: Chuck Spalding
Type: C; National Orienteering Day at the Presidio in San Francisco -- an event for beginners to come out and try orienteering -- and for experienced people to stretch their legs

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Event Write-Up

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Another great day at the Presidio National Park. We had over three hundred participants (a record). We had many young orienteers, including school, scout, and JROTC groups. Several families with tots in strollers also enjoyed the courses. Of course, the usual suspects — our core orienteers — were there as well.

The Presidio orienteering event is held on National Orienteering Day to encourage newcomers to try this thinking-person's sport. It is designed as a classic orienteering event that encourages new individuals, families, and groups. It also has long courses that appeal to runners. Thanks to Nancy Lindeman and Ben Legg for the finish-line goodies, and to Nancy for all the publicity that resulted in the record turnout.

The course setter, Chuck Spalding, was very creative in designing the courses to avoid all the construction areas, and also used many control sites that were new to the courses. Bob Cooley (mapper) and Chuck walked the Presidio before the event to get the map up to date. While doing that they found some of the new control areas that were used.

Unfortunately, there were some errors on the maps for the Orange and Long Orange courses, and in a control description for the latter. The worst error was the control circle for Long Orange #4 was centered several meters SW of the correct point. The control circle for Orange #4 and Long Orange #9 obscured a key route choice to the next control. The control description for Long Orange #7 should have referred to the upper part of the reentrant instead of the lower part. That error was noted at the Start — hopefully everyone saw it. The course setter apologizes for those errors.

Other then the above, everything worked well, and participants and volunteers said they had a good time. Thanks to the Presidio Trust for helping with the permit arrangements.

Thanks to the following volunteers for making the Presidio day run well. Without them the day would not have happened.

Publicity: Nancy Lindeman
Map Corrections and Printing: Bob Cooley
Registration: Scott Aster, Gary Kraght
Clinics: Ben Legg, Tony Pinkham, Rex Winterbottom
Starts: Steve and David Harrison, Kent Hetherwick, Damian Swift
Finishes: Andrew Peterson, Mikkel Conradi, Steve Gregg, Deron Von Hoff, Greg Ehrensing
Refreshments: Nancy Lindeman, Ben Legg
Results: Chuck Spalding
Control Pickup: Steve and David Harrison, Greg Ehrensing, Christine and Graham Brew, Vicki Woolworth

Special thanks to Andrew Peterson for agreeing "on the spot" to help at the Finish, and to Ben Legg and Vicki Woolworth for coming to the event to help even though they didn't run courses.

The results are below. Congratulations to the winners and to all the participants.

Interesting trail on the Long Orange course
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Interesting trail on the Long Orange course

Lost and Found

The following items were left at the event:

will take them to the Calero event on Sunday, Sept. 23. If you won't be there, contact him to arrange transfer.




Results

Presidio of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA
Sunday, September 16, 2012

You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget (introduction; this event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=294)). (See the note below about how to enter your time data.)


  Pl  Name(s)                                           Time   Comment

White Course    (2.2 km, 55 m climb, 11 controls - 20 entries, 47 people)

   1  Liz Coffey                                        18:01
   2  Leander & Gian-Andrin Coolen                      20:03
   3  Andy & Georgia Gersh                              22:33
   4  Patrick Gersh                                     25:25
   5  Jack & William Gardner                            31:38
   6  Elian & Jennifer Davis                            33:30
   7  Olivia & Sherman Luk                              34:19
   8  Kayla Miles, Heather Bertrand                     35:06
   9  Brad & Lisa Melton                                36:14
  10  Jamie Maclean                                     36:17
  11  Shirley Tanase, Michael Aubrey                    38:47
  12  The Krispy Kreams (7)                             39:18
  13  Lena Rioshenentcevo                               40:48
  14  Amira Goble, Silvia Freifeld                      46:11
  15  Evan Mazurov                                      51:50
  16  Marcel, Wing, & Milo Erz, Chu Hui, Kin Tam        54:22
  17  Sabrina Whyte, Danyelle Buchholz                  56:14
  18  Colleen Shannan, Kiera & Meghan Moore,
        Cassie Platt                                  1:01:01
  19  Anton, Masha, & Alexander Kourakin              1:01:27
  20  Alex, Bennett, & Amity Binkert                  1:25:58


Yellow Course   (3.3 km, 105 m climb, 10 controls - 40 entries, 86 people)

   1  Marcela Loza, Jose Mendoza                        20:20
   2  Cornelia Coolen                                   29:04
   3  James Aspinall                                    30:51
   4  Gian-Andrin Coolen                                31:50
   5  Daniel Sebo                                       39:53
   6  Stephen & Owen Popper, Lukas & Tom Harding        39:57
   7  Jack Barnes                                       43:18
   7  Fillan Swift                                      43:18
   9  Scott Aster                                       43:58
  10  Anna & Fiona Gersh                                52:09
  11  Bill & Ed Barnes                                  57:22
  12  Yi Wu, David Win, Eli Goldstein, Kai Gee          57:54
  13  Diego Asturias, Adrian Wang, Cathy Tang,
        Roshni Cooper, Dmitry Kashlev                 1:02:49
  14  Steve & Sarah Warto, Wes Auer, Paul Garritson   1:07:28
  15  Stefania Gueorguieva                            1:09:18
  16  Cole, Zoe, & Rebecca Amga                       1:10:50
  17  Susan Chang, Simon Chang-Huang                  1:11:41
  18  Susan Wansing, Sophia Acker, Cara Higgins,
        Claudia Thio, Jackie Lincroft                 1:21:27
  19  Miguel, Rachel, Cathy, Peter                    1:21:31
  20  Kyle & Kinsta Hutchens                          1:21:51
  21  Tom & Linda Reaves                              1:29:34
  22  Luc, Jan, & Pepe Davis                          1:30:17
  23  Kolsoum Hoertkorn, Carmen Marroquin             1:33:15
  24  Adam & Kent Hetherwick                          1:36:10
  25  Evan Nellah, Vincent Tilterton, Tristan Whalen  1:37:44
  26  Vincent & Nathan Polanco                        1:41:26
  27  Laura & John Pattillo                           1:44:49
  28  Kate Tennant                                    1:44:55
  29  Mary Pedon                                      1:49:05
  30  Diane Hall, Debbie Fragola                      1:53:20
  31  Cheyenne Marine, Selena Polanco                 1:55:59
  32  Girl Scouts 779: Laura, Ariana, & Gabriella
        Alvarez                                       2:27:10
  33  Antonio & Blanca Alvarez, Alonso Ramirez        2:29:00
  34  Girl Scouts 779: Patricia Polanco,
        Hilda Gonzalez                                2:37:18
  35  Lucas Carrasco, Natalie Amezcua                 2:39:49

  Second Course

      Frank Slattery                                    35:40  After Orange
      Christine Brew                                    39:58  After Long Orange
      Liz Coffey                                        50:37  After White
      Jack & William Gardner                          1:06:11  After White
      Shirley Tanase, Michael Aubrey                  1:20:52  After White


Orange Course   (4.9 km, 145 m climb, 10 controls - 72 entries, 154 people)

   1  Steve Smirthwaite (Scotland)                      40:33
   2  François Léonard                                  41:09
   3  Marie-Josée Parayre                               43:05
   4  Gary Kraght                                       45:29
   5  Girts Linde                                       47:55
   6  Tony Pinkham                                      47:56
   7  Greg Ehrensing                                    49:10
   8  Denis Kourakin                                    49:35
   9  Libomir Sebo                                      52:19
  10  Mirza Garibovic                                   52:26
  11  Olga Kraght                                       57:15
  12  Irena Stefanova                                   57:17
  13  Flynn Buxton-Walsh (COOL)                       1:01:23
  14  Frank Slattery                                  1:01:44
  15  Ken Considine                                   1:02:05
  16  Washington Team Bravo (JROTC)                   1:06:48
  17  Oliver Knitter                                  1:07:58
  18  Nick Corsano                                    1:08:50
  19  David Moore                                     1:09:26
  20  Elizabeth & John Wilson                         1:09:28
  21  Mike Meagher, Paula Zurowski                    1:11:12
  22  Brad & Natalia Best                             1:11:14
  23  Lowell Team Alpha (JROTC)                       1:11:47
  24  Mark & Cole Compton, Jordan Kimball             1:12:07
  25  Marsha Jacobs                                   1:13:30
  26  Sasha Iakovlev                                  1:14:26
  27  Alex & Chris Kolm                               1:15:17
  28  Jeff Lanam                                      1:16:30
  29  Nathan Binkort, Chris Unkel                     1:18:11
  30  Lowell Team Echo (JROTC)                        1:18:13
  31  Laurel Sipes, Julia McIlroy, Trisha McMahon     1:18:55
  32  Lincoln Team Bravo (JROTC)                      1:20:30
  33  Jennifer Kerr (GCO)                             1:23:25
  34  Brian Tennant                                   1:23:27
  35  Gwen, Hani, Gabriel, & Leila Juha               1:24:07
  36  Shawn Poston                                    1:25:05
  37  Galileo Team Charlie (JROTC)                    1:25:27
  38  Lincoln Team Delta (JROTC)                      1:29:00
  39  Rory Maclean, Nathan Van Eck                    1:30:25
  40  Lincoln Team Foxtrot (JROTC)                    1:31:00
  40  Washington Team Delta (JROTC)                   1:31:00
  42  Peter Pham, Andrew Szeto                        1:31:52
  43  Lowell Team Bravo (JROTC)                       1:32:38
  44  Washington Team Charlie (JROTC)                 1:33:05
  45  Doug Walden, Catherine Betts                    1:34:49
  46  Kurt Opsahl, Kellie Brownell                    1:35:11
  47  Lowell Team Delta (JROTC)                       1:36:17
  48  Greg & Mary-Kay Davis, Nigel Gulstone,
        Mary Low, Was Rhee                            1:37:00
  49  Rosemary Johnson                                1:37:01
  50  Balboa (JROTC)                                  1:37:55
  51  Lowell Team Charlie (JROTC)                     1:38:30
  52  Gabe Walden, Elliot Meldrum                     1:39:24
  53  Washington Team Alpha (JROTC)                   1:40:47
  54  Alfred Yoon, Alec Thilmony, Ying Tsu            1:44:55
  55  Galileo Team Delta (JROTC)                      1:45:00
  56  Joan Roos                                       1:46:24
  57  Galileo Team Bravo (JROTC)                      1:48:10
  58  Judy Koehler                                    1:51:20
  59  Galileo Team Foxtrot (JROTC)                    1:53:15
  60  Chris High                                      1:56:24
  61  Shura Krechetov                                 1:57:17
  62  Galileo Team Alpha (JROTC)                      2:04:05
  63  Nancy Lindeman                                  2:06:48
  64  Michele Paral, Barb Schaffer                    2:06:55
  65  Jean & Joe van Hoff                             2:09:38
  66  Kevin Walker                                    2:10:20

      Lincoln Team Alpha (JROTC)                        MSP      58:19, Punched Y3 for #2
      Lincoln Team Charlie (JROTC)                      MSP    1:38:28, Punched Y3 for #2
      Lincoln Team Golf (JROTC)                         DSQ    Punches unreadable
      Lincoln Team Echo (JROTC)                         DNF
      Galileo Team Echo (JROTC)                         DNF

  Second Course

      Fillan Swift                                      47:23  After Yellow


Long Orange Course  (7.7 km, 260 m climb, 15 controls - 31 entries, 33 people)

   1  Rex Winterbottom                                  52:57
   2  Matej Sebo                                        56:21
   3  Tobias Tornquist                                  57:15
   4  Andrew Peterson                                   58:00
   5  Mikkel Conradi                                    58:15
   6  Vesa Ruuska                                       58:25
   7  Mark Prior                                        58:58
   8  Nikolay Chukanov                                  59:41
   9  Tapio Karras                                    1:00:51
  10  Brendan O'Brien                                 1:06:16
  11  Steve Gregg                                     1:07:09
  12  David Harrison                                  1:08:59  Lost card
  13  Stephen Harrison                                1:11:23
  14  Vladimir Gusiatnikov                            1:12:50
  15  Graham Brew                                     1:13:29
  16  Suzanne Armstrong                               1:15:45
  17  Penny DeMoss                                    1:18:10
  18  Deron van Hoff                                  1:22:14
  19  Greg Favor                                      1:23:35
  20  Geoffrey Sears                                  1:26:53
  21  Stephanie Maclean                               1:29:00  Lost card
  22  Damian Swift                                    1:30:54
  23  Joe Inkenbrandt                                 1:38:52
  24  Christine Brew                                  1:49:57
  25  Laurie Vanderveen, Dan Prudhomme                1:56:03
  26  Tim Erickson                                    1:56:15
  27  Stephanie & Cory Hallem                         2:01:02
  28  Steve O'Keefe                                   2:47:08
  29  Dick Opsahl                                     3:21:52

      Justin Vidol                                      DNF
      Judy Opsahl                                       DNF

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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DSQ = Disqualified (some controls were recorded with two, three, or more punches in the square — in two cases, it's impossible to discern the correct pattern)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)


Note Regarding Entering RouteGadget Data

Since there was no e-punch, the event is set up using the "no results" mode, where competitors need to enter their name, total time, and any cumulative splits that they might have taken. You can draw your route even if you didn't take any splits, just enter your name and total time. Note that if you are uploading a GPS track, you don't need to enter your total time or splits.

Note that RouteGadget requires cumulative splits. Both splits and total time need to be in MMMSS format. For example, 0:57 is entered as "57", 5:43 as "543", and 1:12:32 as "7232". That's easy.