Sunol Regional Wilderness
Date: (Sun.) Apr. 15, 2012
Location: Sunol, CA
Event Director: 
- 408.599.9709
Course Setters: Gary Carpenter, Damian Swift
Type: B; Standard event with courses for beginners through advanced. The wildflowers should be beautiful!
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=20435) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=287&kieli=)
Event Write-Up
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Gone are the days when the Event Director also had to
- 1. Pay park fees up front,
- 2. Set & vet courses,
- 3. Make a master of hand-written map corrections to be copied,
- 4. Hand draw a set of master courses for participants to copy onto their blank maps (on the clock),
- 5. Man the starts & finishes,
- 6. Collect all the controls,
- 7. Check punch cards for correct pin punches,
- 8. Calculate each person's time by hand from Start & Finish times (calculators couldn't subtract hours & minutes), and
- 9. Take home a string of results tabs to prepare a write-up over a period of days while double-checking each result.
These days we have a lot more help, both people-wise & electronic, so you can get your results and event write-up the same day as the event. We had only five weeks to set up this event, and the current BAOC procedures, materials, and people made it possible for this to work.
Over 130 people came out to enjoy a perfect day for running in Sunol: clear skies, temperature in the low 70's, the ground soft from previous days' rain, which had the added benefit of scaring away a horseback riding group that would have competed for parking space and trails.
Sunol's steep, open terrain makes it tough to design challenging, runnable courses, but course setters Damian Swift (advanced) and Gary Carpenter (WYO) came through, as shown by the winning times of close to 1 hour for nearly all the longer courses, and very few DNFs.
Ian Swift was true to his name, winning the White course by a wide margin; his Dad supposedly shadowing could hardly keep up. His also-Swift brother Fillan took the Yellow course in similar fashion. Denis Kourakin won the Orange course by less than a minute over Christine Brew, who was on her second (non-overlapping) course (oaky, Dennis Wilkinson had the fastest time on Orange, but that's way out of his class).
Gavin Williams won the Brown course, while Matthias Kohler beat Karl Mikkelsen by a mere 38 seconds on Green. Matej Sebo, in winning Red, has shown that he has outgrown Junior status and is now regularly outpacing his dad Lubomir.
François Léonard won the Blue course by 1:28 over Dennis Wilkinson with a sprint at the Finish, winning the last 5 legs in a row. François took a surprising short-but-steep route from control 3 to 4, going almost directly over the top of the mountain instead of attempting a lower, contouring route. Nevertheless, Dennis beat him by a almost minute on this leg — hopefully we will see his route choice on RouteGadget.
Thanks to all who helped:
- Course setting/vetting: Damian Swift, Gary Carpenter, Robbie Swift, Fillan Swift
- Pre-runner/Brown course redesign: Dennis Wildfogel
- Registration: James Wilson, Steve Haas
- Starts: Alex Finch, Gary Carpenter, Joan Roos, Vicki Woolworth
- Finishes: Susan Kim
- Refreshments: Nancy Lindeman
- e-Punch/Results: Peter Graube, Dan Greene, Rosemary Johnson, Jeff Lanam, and special thanks to Angela Hunter for filling in when no other help was available, and to Mark Blair for driving back home and returning to the event with spare parts to fix the system.
- Control Pick-up: The Belgian Brew Team (Cedric Lasfargues, Luc Poppe, Theo Verhoeven), Joe Maffei, Damian & Robbie Swift, Greg Ehrensing, Gary Carpenter
- Permit Fees: Steve Gregg
- BAOC Annual Meeting & Elections: Trinka Gillis, Kelly Wells
Thanks to all, and to any others I've accidentally omitted!
Lost & Found
The following items were left at the Sunol event:
- 2 thumb compasses — one with a magnifier
- Sveaskog black water bottle
- Belt bottle carrier Ultimate Torsopacs
- Green Vapur collapsible water bottle
- Black camera pouch with spare 1 GB memory card
- Pink hairband with ribbon
Let know if they are yours.
Results
Sunol Regional Wilderness
Sunol, CA
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=20435).
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=287)).
Pl Name(s) Time
White Course (2.1 km, 60 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Ian Swift 30:53
2 Nataliya Bondareko 40:57
3 Kajsa Vangbo 44:09
4 Jakob Vangbo 45:24
5 Minami team 46:00
6 Team Karpelevitch 53:13
7 Gemma Fa-Kaji 54:05
8 Troop 31089 55:12
9 Akhil Bhamidipati, Aadeesh Shastry 1:00:03
10 Misha Iakovlev 1:11:53
11 Evan Mazurov 1:11:56
12 Janet Kan, Kelvin Ng 1:17:01
13 Inkenbrandt/Mueller 1:19:31
14 Masha, Anton, & Alexander K 1:19:58
15 Troop 12 - The Lost Patrol 1:59:54
Troop 12 - Roadkill DNF
Jong Kim DNF
Yellow Course (2.5 km, 110 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Fillan Swift 30:28
2 Natalie Kim 33:27
3 Hope Fa-Kaji 40:32
4 Davy Williams 41:45
5 Stefanie Gueorguieva 41:59
6 Daniel Sebo 46:04
7 Team Debruyn 46:56
8 Aivo Krilovs 50:05
9 Andrew Kim 1:12:52
10 Seng team 1:17:56
11 Ernesto Duque 1:25:41
12 Brad & Alex Wetmore 1:57:24
Second Course
Minami team 1:06:07
Orange Course (3.2 km, 160 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Denis Kourakin 47:21
2 Fedor Karpelevitch 54:12
3 Team M&M 57:45
4 Gus Callaway 1:13:56
5 Joan Roos 1:17:36
6 Sasha Iakovlev 1:21:14
7 Paul & Kathy Li 1:23:23
8 Meg Gerstner 1:27:47
9 Austin Lloyd 1:30:00
10 Van Boughner, Steve Ahuero 1:34:03
11 Lyubov Solomakha 1:38:15
12 Jan Vanhoutte 1:42:32
13 Team Euros 1:48:25
14 Barbara Straka 2:00:09
15 Vamsi Returns 2:04:04
16 Team Aiwans 2:11:24
17 Vercruysse family 2:27:50
18 Lermusi family 2:27:57
19 Recalculating team 3:15:02
Moulton Lowell DNF
Daniel Kim DNF
Second Course
Dennis Wilkinson 29:46
Christine Brew 48:14
Fillan Swift 59:44
Jim Fish 1:31:41
Brown Course (2.4 km, 160 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Gavin Williams 43:47
2 Jonas Laucys 46:13
3 Mark Blair 52:02
4 Arne Olsson 54:36
5 Scott Aster 55:55
6 Krists Krilovs 56:09
7 Evan Custer 56:11
8 Amelia Archer 1:03:55
9 Stefan Stefanov 1:04:55
10 Alan Glendinning 1:06:43
11 Irena Stefanova 1:07:48
12 Terry Gleason 1:12:30
13 Jeff Lanam 1:13:35
14 Trinka Gillis 1:14:56
15 Tim Erickson 1:24:18
16 Jim Fish 1:29:03
17 Rosemary Johnson 1:31:21
18 Nick Corsano 1:31:50
19 Vic Revenko 1:33:16
20 Michelle Daher 1:37:15
21 William Straka 1:54:22
22 John Marold 2:07:48
23 TJ Nicholson 2:22:34
24 Nancy Lindeman 2:56:19
Green Course (4.1 km, 315 m climb, 15 controls)
1 Matthias Kohler 1:00:02
2 Karl Mikkelsen 1:00:40
3 James Wilson 1:02:33
4 Greg Ehrensing 1:20:05
5 Cornelia Coolen 1:22:13
6 Dan Greene 1:23:43
7 Joe Inkenbrandt 1:24:35
8 Vicki Woolworth 1:32:49
9 Steve Haas 1:33:21
10 Robi Mulford 1:34:04
11 Marie-Josée Parayre 1:37:37
12 Phillip Hoare 1:39:30
13 Johanna Merriss 1:57:34
14 Flynn Buxton-Walsh 1:58:38
15 Jason Hogan 2:00:14
16 Judy & Tom Cronin 2:01:47
17 Mark Rice 2:29:07
Wes Erck, Jeff Stein OVT
Red Course (5.4 km, 380 m climb, 17 controls)
1 Matej Sebo 1:02:08
2 Mark Prior 1:04:45
3 Mattias Vangbo 1:08:53
4 Jonas Libell (GCO) 1:11:40
5 Ralf Burgert 1:19:21
6 Lubomir Sebo 1:22:48
7 Theo Verhoeven 1:24:44
8 Shura Kretchetov 1:28:37
9 Graham Brew, Christine Brew 1:38:03
10 Manfred Kopisch 1:41:49
11 Eric Rosenzweig 1:43:34
Luc Poppe DNF
Blue Course (6.0 km, 470 m climb, 18 controls)
1 François Léonard 1:02:36
2 Dennis Wilkinson 1:04:08
3 Vesa Ruuska (KangSK) 1:10:26
4 Greg Khanlarov 1:22:45
5 Alex Finch 1:23:14
6 Andrej Masalokov 1:24:44
7 Misha Kreslavsky 1:25:03
8 Cedric Lasfargues 1:32:10
9 Brendan O'Brien 1:35:08
10 Peter Graham 1:35:20
11 Greg Favor 1:45:59
12 Peter Graube 1:50:19
13 Joe Maffei 2:10:55
14 Wendell Doman 2:18:42
Frederick Lee DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
OVT = Overtime (finished after course-closing time)