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Point Pinole Regional Shoreline

Date: (Sun.) Mar. 16, 2014
Location: Richmond, CA
Event Director: - 925.862.2978
Course Setter: Steve Gregg
Type: C; Middle-distance courses for beginners and experienced orienteers

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Event Write-Up

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I'm sorry it's taken so long to do this event write-up. Unfortunately, the week after the event I broke both wrists, so I've been laid up for a couple of weeks. I am attempting to do this write-up using speech recognition software.

We had fantastic weather this year, sunny and mild with a light breeze off the bay. The great weather brought out a lot of participants (approximately 180), encouragingly many of the participants were new to Orienteering and seemed to have a great time at the event. There were several Girl Scout groups this year​—​I was told that after one group finished the White course one of the Girl Scouts said to her mother "Mom can I make this my sport?".

Sarah Minarik brought a large group of friends who appeared to have a lot of experience in various running events; however, I believe this was the first Orienteering experience for most of them. They seemed to enjoy it, and we hope to see them again at future Orienteering meets. Thank you, Sarah, for introducing some new young athletes to Orienteering!

This year, course setter Steve Gregg designed five point-to-point courses. In addition to traditional White and Yellow courses, Steve set three advanced-level courses of varying lengths. Due to terrain limitations at Point Pinole, the control placements on the advanced courses were typically of Orange level of difficulty. Steve designed the advanced courses to test a competitor's ability to run hard between controls and navigate accurately at high-speed. There is an old saying in orienteering "If the navigation seems too easy, you're not running fast enough."

The White course winning time of 29:43 was posted by the group of Angela Reed, Monica Hamlett, and Alex Coari. Katie Barrow took second place with a time of 37:38. Marie and Frankie Johnson finished in third place.

The Yellow course winner was Beth Dameron at 28:34, followed very closely by Rick Boyer at 28:50. Third-place finisher Maria Sophia Fedyk was not far behind at 31:00.

The advanced courses were very competitive, and the winning times were fast as predicted by course setter Steve Gregg.

Volunteers

E-punch Crew: Rosemary Johnson, Steve Gregg, and George Minarik
Registration: James Wilson and Sarah Williams
Starts: Gary and Olga Kraght, Sharon Evans and Dan Vannatter
Beginner Clinics: Terry Gleason
Pre-Runner: Christine Brew
Control Retrieval, Equipment packing, and Clean-up: Peter Graube, Nancy Lindeman, Greg Ehrensing, Tapio Karras, and Werner Haag
Map Printing: Bob Cooley
Webpage Updates: Chuck Spalding

Lost & Found

The following items were left at the event:

or call Gary Carpenter to arrange return.




Results

Point Pinole Regional Shoreline

Richmond, CA
Sunday, March 16, 2014

White Course   Yellow Course   Short Orange Course   Middle Orange Course   Long Orange Course


Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=29636).

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=332).)

Note: I have used the January 2014 membership report to identify club membership. So, if you expect to see BAOC next to your name and see a blank instead, this means that your membership needs to be renewed. I decided to do this because, since we no longer get a bulletin, it's tough to know when to renew. I may not do this for every event, so only when I specifically mention this will this be a reminder. (If you have a question regarding membership, you should contact the .) – , E-Punch Director


White Course    (2.6 km, 50 m climb, 10 controls)
  Pl  Name(s)                           Club     Time
   1  Angela Reed, Monica Hamlett,
        Alex Coari                               29:43
   2  Katie Barrow                               37:38
   3  Marie & Frankie Johnson                    41:07
   4  Troop 779                                  42:33
   5  Braden & Andrew Killeen           BAOC     45:35
   6  Qarly Canant                               46:57
   7  Dean, Gia, & Tony Stavropouls            1:02:25
   8  Nadine Silva                             1:03:41
   9  Audrey & Andy Johnson                    1:06:39  (estimated Finish)
  10  Guinea Pigs: Julia & Katrina             1:07:50
  11  Leanne Langan, Diane R Hall       BAOC   1:21:01
      Girl Scout Troop 62134                     DNF
      Josh Rizzolo, Quincy Chan                  DNF
  Second Course
      Stephen G-B                       BAOC     10:42
      Harold DeMoss                     BAOC     31:30


Yellow Course   (2.5 km, 50 m climb, 10 controls)
  Pl  Name(s)                           Club     Time
   1  Beth Dameron                               28:34
   2  Rick Boyer                                 28:50
   3  Maria Sophia Fedyk                         31:00
   4  Harold DeMoss                     BAOC     32:32
   5  Gemma Fa-Kaji                     BAOC     33:33
   6  Jamie Maclean                     BAOC     34:03
   7  Olivia Hattersley, Jen Burket,
        Chieh Tung                               35:17
   8  Bertrand Racine, Lina Urbain               37:40
   9  Else Dittmer                               44:04
  10  Sharon Evans                      BAOC     48:17
  11  Camam Team                                 57:40
  12  Narwhal                                    57:49
  13  Abby, Nicole, & Skip Rooney              1:01:40
  14  Edward Bentley                           1:04:27
  15  Toni & Ian Hanrahan               BAOC   1:06:55
  16  Andrew & Diane Mau                       1:09:42
  17  Mark, Chennee, Anna Marie, &
        Winston Spiller                 GCO    1:50:07
  Second Course
      Katie Barrow                               39:36


Short Orange Course   (3.5 km, 60 m climb, 17 controls)
  Pl  Name(s)                           Club     Time
   1  Sarah Minarik                              30:53
   2  Hope Fa-Kaji                      BAOC     33:34
   3  Natalie Kim                                37:08
   4  George Minarik                    BAOC     43:13
   5  Tatiana Fedyk                              45:28
   6  Ruth Bromer                       BOK      46:18
   7  Jay Hann                          BAOC     46:37
   8  Marsha Jacobs                     BAOC     49:40
   9  Nigel Killeen                              53:11
  10  Rosemary Johnson                  BAOC     57:18
  11  Susan Kim                         BAOC   1:04:39
  12  Aivo Krilovs                             1:05:48
  13  Jessica Morris                           1:07:46
  14  Steve O'Keefe                     BAOC   1:08:48
  15  Greg & Kate Kashperskiy                  1:13:38
  16  Matan Hamam                              1:25:18
  17  Judy Koehler                      BAOC   1:31:02
  18  Sara Wegner                              1:35:59
  19  Kalia Carter                             1:36:05
  20  Elsa Dittmer                             1:40:54
      Penelope Woodwark                          DNF
      Kevin Walker                      BAOC     DNF
      Alexander Osel                             DNF
      Chris Gori                                 DNF
      Sylvirames                                 DNF
      Alex Coari                                 DNF


Medium Orange Course  (4.4 km, 80 m climb, 24 controls)
  Pl  Name(s)                           Club     Time
   1  Dennis Wildfogel                  BAOC     35:06
   2  James Wilson                               40:33
   3  Lauren Knight                     BAOC     41:12
   4  Greg Ehrensing                    BAOC     41:21
   5  Chuck Spalding                    BAOC     43:50
   6  Gian Coolen                       BAOC     46:24
   7  Daniel Sebo                       BAOC     47:09
   8  Julia Doubson                              50:09
   9  Victor Frolov                              52:15
  10  Chris Brew                        BAOC     52:43
  11  Evan Custer                       BAOC     54:59
  12  Johanna Merriss                   BAOC     55:11
  13  Vincent Leonard                          1:00:54
  14  Davy Williams                     BAOC   1:03:41
  15  Matthew Mattson                          1:06:02
  16  Jeff Lanam                        BAOC   1:13:15
  17  Artur & Sergey Kashperskiy               1:14:21
  18  Olivia Hattersley, Monica Hamlet,
        Jen Burket, Chee Tung                  1:19:10
  19  Max Jennings, Alexi Urban-Racine         1:31:12
      Emmet Hegarty                              DNF
      Fyodor Konkov                              DNF
  Second Course
      Stephen Harrison                  BAOC     35:05


Long Orange Course    (5.6 km, 100 m climb, 30 controls)
  Pl  Name(s)                           Club     Time
   1  Francois Leonard                  BAOC     30:04
   2  Matej Sebo                        BAOC     31:57
   3  Stephen Granger-Bevan             BAOC     32:58
   4  Lubomir Sebo                      BAOC     37:25
   5  Greg Khanlarov                    BAOC     37:27
   6  Tapio Karras                      BAOC     38:04
   7  Mikkel Conradi                    BAOC     38:29
   8  Gavin Williams                    BAOC     41:09
   9  Werner Haag                       BAOC     44:11
  10  Kent Ohlund                       BAOC     44:16
  11  Derek Maclean                              45:12
  12  Stephen Harrison                  BAOC     45:54
  13  Penny DeMoss                      BAOC     46:20
  14  Lori Huberman                     BAOC     48:36
  15  Cornelia Coolen                   BAOC     49:45
  16  Gary Kraght                       BAOC     52:31
  17  Laura & Miguel Clark                       53:05
  18  Pavel Anisimov                             53:34
  19  Ralf Burgert                      BAOC     54:20
  20  Joseph Huberman                   BOK      54:59
  21  Peter Graube                      BAOC     56:37
  22  Joe Inkenbrandt                   BAOC     58:14
  23  Mattie Coolen                     BAOC     58:28
  24  Gavin Wyatt-Mair                           59:09
  25  Stephanie Maclean                          59:10
  26  Dan Greene                        BAOC     59:25
  27  Ben Hallsted                      BAOC     59:50
  28  Joe Maffei                        BAOC   1:00:17
  29  Krists Krilovs                           1:04:24
  30  Addison Nuding, John Tilsch              1:05:43
  31  Olga Kraght                       BAOC   1:07:42
  32  Matthias Kohler                   BAOC   1:08:51
  33  Oface                                    1:13:28  (estimated Finish)
  34  Marina Keating                    BAOC   1:13:34
  35  Andy Cretcher                            1:13:38
  36  Pete Erwin                               1:14:28
  37  Geoff Sears                       BAOC   1:14:57
  38  Armstrong & Verstraete                   1:15:05
  39  Scott Sampson                            1:17:17
  40  Sheeter, Sara, Carolyn                   1:23:02
  41  Tim Erickson                             1:24:36
  42  Dan Dwyer, Jean Zoch,
        Jess Walter, Jackie Wong               1:25:50
  43  David Hallsted                    BAOC   1:34:26
  44  Olga Kolomemsky                          1:36:32
  45  Terry Gleason                     BAOC   1:39:11
  46  Jennifer Kerr                     GCO    1:51:58
  47  Kim Vincent                              1:54:19
  48  Nancy Lindeman                    BAOC   2:24:27
      Marie-Josee Parayre               BAOC     DNF
      Jens Leersen                               DNF
      Steve McGee                                DNF

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