Bedwell Bayfront Park
Date: (Sun.) Jun. 15, 2014
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Event Director: 
- 650.281.5280
Course Setter: Phillip Hoare
Type: C; Variety of courses for beginners to advanced
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=31541) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=341)
Event Write-Up
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Nice weather, fun courses from a first-time course-setter, good turnout, lots of volunteers—what’s not to like! Especially if you ignore an early computer problem (which the e-punch team addressed in plenty of time), a couple of minor issues with map supply, and lots of stickers in people’s shoes and socks afterwards.
About 115 people turned up early Sunday (we must have had 30–40 people start before 10 AM, when the starts were supposed to begin). Don’t know whether the fact that it was Fathers’ Day helped or hurt, maybe a little of both.
Phillip Hoare did a fine job in his first effort at course setting, creating six courses that took people all over the park. I heard lots of positive feedback afterwards. There were a couple of minor complaints, but that seems to be standard for all of our events.
Wolf Rodemich finished first on White by a huge margin, while Paul Berenberg easily won Yellow. Yesterday’s star in the Šebo family was Daniel, who finished first on Orange. Brown had the closest finish, with Lauren Knight finishing 44 seconds ahead of Krists Krilovs. Werner Haag won Green, and François Léonard turned in an awesome performance to take Red, covering the 8.4 km course in 41:38.
Yellow proved to be the most popular course, as well as the only one where I underestimated the number of maps we needed. (We adapted by asking a few finishers to return their maps for re-use.) It looked like we also ran out of Brown maps, but that turned out to be due to one competitor inadvertently taking four copies of the map. (One late runner was forced to choose between Orange and Green instead of his preferred Brown.)
Lots of volunteers helped with everything at the event. They included Ev and Jean Beuerman, Matthias Kohler, Chuck Spalding, Nancy Lindeman, Peter Graube, Dan Greene, Gary and Olga Kraght, Jeff Lanam, Rosemary Johnson, Steve Gregg, François Léonard, Marie-Josée Parayre (and friend), Fyodor Konkov, and probably one or two more that I’ve forgotten. Other than a little unfounded worrying about having enough people for control pick-up, getting more than enough volunteers was easy. Thanks to all of them.
Results
Bedwell Bayfront Park
Menlo Park, CA
Sunday, June 15, 2014
White Course Yellow Course Orange Course Brown Course Green Course Red Course
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=31541).
You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget. (Use of RouteGadget is explained here. RouteGadget for this event is here (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=341).)
White Course (1.7 km, 9 controls)
Pl Name Time
1 Wolf Rodemich 18:19 2 Chris & Wolf Rodemich 28:32 3 Katie Gruender 28:38 4 Sarah Willrich 38:22 5 Willow Hsu 38:23 6 Mila Kasan 48:52 7 Beatrice Roget 50:02 8 Becky & David Wilrich 57:47 9 Jennifer Hsu 58:01
Yellow Course (2.7 km, 12 controls)
Pl Name Time
1 Paul Berenberg 23:18 2 Fiona Krantz 26:56 3 Markus Gruendler 27:38 4 Audi, Sam, & Mike Steele 31:47 5 Jenny Ow 35:04 6 Harold DeMoss 36:15 7 Victoria Bommarito 37:33 8 Yvonne Tran 38:15 9 Kevin Luong, Jimmy Chung 39:31 10 Adam Fore 41:48 11 Emma Hoare 44:10 12 Evan Mazurov 44:36 13 Justin Nguyen 44:51 14 Kate & Rachel Tennant 45:04 15 Niklas Mattsson, Lisa Angback 45:07 16 Kipnis Dynasty 46:20 17 Anton, Daniel, Adam, Niki, Sasha 47:35 18 Aivo Krilovs 50:51 19 Sarah Bobek 51:12 20 Hassan family 53:42 21 Misha Iakovlev 1:17:15 22 Nathan Kramer 1:26:42 (estimated Finish)
Jamie Maclean DNF
Snow Leopards DNF
Orange Course (4.2 km, 16 controls)
Pl Name Time
1 Daniel Å ebo 37:43 2 Denis Kourkakin 40:23 3 Sam Coradetti 40:24 4 Sharyn Trevllyan, Karl Yorston 1:10:51 4 Theo Verhoeven 1:10:51 6 Erin Magers 1:11:02 7 Sasha Iakovlev 1:23:49 8 Kristen St John 1:27:47
Alexei Novikov DNF
Anastasia Kurakina DNF
Masha Konkov DNF
Second Course
Victoria Bommarito 1:00:45
Brown Course (4.4 km, 18 controls)
Pl Name Time
1 Lauren Knight 40:52 2 Krists Krilovs 41:36 3 Nick Corsano 44:53 4 Evan Custer 50:16 5 Kim Vanberkel 52:22 6 Irena Stefanova 1:09:34 7 Brian Tennant 1:14:40 8 Olga Kraght 1:19:33 9 Ken & Emily Considine 1:20:32 10 Rosemary Johnson 1:43:45 11 Jeff Lanam 1:44:07 12 Team Rabbits 2:01:36 13 Liu & Bentley 2:11:24
Rory Maclean DNF
Green Course (6.0 km, 19 controls)
Pl Name Time
1 Werner Haag 46:04 2 Greg Ehrensing 48:06 3 David Harrison 49:47 4 Gary Kraght 53:47 5 Chuck Spalding 54:49 6 Marie-Josée Parayre 56:14 7 Gary Carpenter 1:04:25 8 Dan Greene 1:04:54 9 Ben & Zack Considine 1:19:35 10 Julia Doubsen 1:38:14 11 Steve Beuerman 1:46:24 12 Camam 2:22:57 13 All We Do is Win 2:37:06 14 George Dorian 2:49:23
Red Course (8.4 km, 22 controls)
Pl Name Time
1 François Léonard 41:38 2 Bill Edwards 44:22 3 Matej Šebo 45:30 4 Mikkel Conradi 48:30 5 Andrei Kraemer 51:18 6 Lubomir Šebo 54:49 7 Steve Gregg 57:12 8 Misha Kreslavsky 57:46 9 Stephen Harrison 1:05:05 10 Derek Maclean 1:06:32 11 Penny DeMoss 1:09:29 12 Kipley Fiebig 1:12:49 13 Lori Huberman 1:16:01 14 Peter Graube 1:21:49 15 Luc Poppe 1:30:14 16 Fyodor Konkov 1:32:42
Stevanie Gueorguieva DNF
Second Course
Theo Verhoeven 1:37:52
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)