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Lake Herman Recreation Area

Date: (Sun.) Sep. 15, 2024
Location: Benicia, CA
Event Director: - 415.456.8118
Course Setter: Matej Šebo
Type: B; Event for beginners through advanced; free, brief, beginner instruction will be available

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Event Write-Up

By , Event Director

More than 100 people came out to the Lake Herman event, many intrigued by course setter Matej Šebo’s Memory-O courses, others intimidated by them! Even with the short notice of the event occurring, we had a good turnout and nice cool weather to boot!

The Memory-O consisted of having a fragment of the map, showing just the next leg on it, tied to the control. One had to memorize the necessary information and then go out and try to find the marker. As Matej stated in his Course Setter’s Notes, this required people to simplify the map, and remember only the truly-necessary parts needed to make it to the next control. Sometimes we can get mentally overloaded with all the details on the map, and this is a good reminder for us all to concentrate on only what we need to navigate with.

For those not interested/willing to try the Memory-O, Matej designed an excellent Yellow course for beginners, and fun Orange and Brown courses as well.

While the grass was tall, and some areas had star thistles, the vast majority successfully completed their courses. Next year’s schedule places this event in the Spring, when the grass will be short and green, easier perhaps, but without this year’s elephant tracks to help the later starters.

This event would not have happened at all without the support of many people. First, Matej agreed to course set the event, less than a month before it happened! Despite the short notice, he managed to design a great set of courses for us, and updated the map to boot!

Registration ran smoothly as ever, thanks to the crew of Sarah Williams, Chuck Spalding, Matthias Kohler, Steve Haas, and Dennis Wildfogel. A big "Thank you" as well to the entire Carson City JROTC team for helping carry the registration gear all the way to the rather remote event site.

Jeff Lanam struggled at times with bright sun on the laptop screens, but succeeded in handling the E-punch duties with the help of Gary Kraght and Rosemary Johnson.

Newcomer Jade and (veteran) Graham Brew worked the starts throughout the morning, occasionally helped by the Event Director and the Course Setter.

For control pick-up, Daniel Šebo, Werner Haag, Graham Brew, Matej Šebo, and Lubo Šebo collected the gear so quickly we were able to leave the park by 3 PM.

If I’ve missed any helpers, I apologize! This club is wonderful in the way so many members see a need and step up without being asked at events like this.

Now I’m looking forward to the redwoods of Huddart Park on September 29th!

Lost Item

Someone left a jacket at the event. It is hooded, with a stripe design. Please contact me () if it is yours, and we’ll figure a way to get it back to you.




Results

Lake Herman Recreation Area

Benicia, CA
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Thanks to event director Scott Aster and course setter Matej Šebo for a memorable event! Many thanks also to all the volunteers, especially Gary Kraght and Rosemary Johnson, who helped me with E-punch. The youth from Carson High School helped carry all the equipment from the parking lot to our fairly-remote assembly area.

The results below are preliminary, and I have not merged the handful of Sketch-O participants with the other Memory-O participants. However, you can see the merged splits at Attackpoint (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_58672).

Jeff Lanam, E-punch


Yellow Course   Orange Course   Brown Course   Short Memory Course   Short Sketch Course   Long Memory Course

You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget for this event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=546). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)

In RouteGadget, you can enter your route manually or upload a GPS recording and adjust to fit our map. The following tips apply to the GPS method.
RouteGadget Tip #1: After selecting your GPX file, make sure to adjust the time offset between starting your watch at the Start line and leaving the Start Triangle. The offset can have a significant impact on your route accuracy. For most local events, the offset should be set to 0 as we start from the triangle (assuming you started your watch exactly when you started).
RouteGadget Tip #2: After uploading your GPS track to RouteGadget, you can create additional blue adjustment points by right-clicking your track. You can use these points to better align your route with the map, for example, along trails. You can delete extra adjustment points by right-clicking them.

Please tell Jeff Lanam () and the webmasters () if anything needs to be changed.


Preliminary Results

Yellow Course            (2.9 km, 110 m climb, 12 controls)  
                                                      Time   
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind
    1  Sarah Williams              BAOC      41:20           
    2  Jerry Skirvin               BAOC      42:17     0:57
    3  Maeve Bayer-Boss            CHSOC     49:23     8:03
    4  Isai Vazquez & group        CHSOC     54:12    12:52
    5  Jasmine Slater & group      CHSOC   1:01:49    20:29
    6  Harrisha Ampo               CHSOC   1:03:54    22:34
    7  Schirm family               BAOC    1:11:40    30:20
    8  Imagine Swifts                      1:14:36    33:16
    9  Rachel Street                       1:18:41    37:21
   10  Ethan Veuve                         1:22:56    41:36
   11  Randy's group               BAOC    1:23:31    42:11
   12  Gabriel Crounk              CHSOC   1:27:39    46:19
   13  Golden Turtles                      1:34:07    52:47
   14  Hao Wu                              1:43:45    62:25
   15  Chris Southwick                     1:43:56    62:36
   16  Nancy Lindeman              BAOC    2:24:58   103:38
       Jodi Azulai                           MSP             
       Brady Baker                 BAOC      DNF             
       Chloe Suitt-Payne           CHSOC     DNF
       Jade                                  DNF
       MAP                                   DNF

Orange Course            (3.7 km, 125 m climb, 16 controls)  
                                                      Time   
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind
    1  Gary Kraght                 BAOC      54:39           
    2  Isai Vazquez                CHSOC     57:05     2:26  (2nd course after Yellow)
    3  Alexander Wells             CHSOC   1:11:24    16:45
    4  Phillip Hoare               NAVX    1:13:58    19:19
    5  Vivi Mellew                 CHSOC   1:14:17    19:38
    6  Amelya LaRocca              CHSOC   1:26:24    31:45
    7  Peters                      BAOC    1:30:22    35:43
    8  Bay Chang                   BAOC    1:34:30    39:51
    9  Marie De Vre                BAOC    1:40:22    45:43
   10  Lliam Reeder                CHSOC   1:50:14    55:35
   11  Josef Estrada               CHSOC   1:50:17    55:38
   12  Christine Neyman                    1:55:17    60:38
   13  Olesya Zinkova                      1:55:20    60:41
   14  Annie Halliday              BAOC    1:58:19    63:40
   15  Junka                               2:10:52    76:13
   16  Neva Mellow & group         CHSOC   2:21:46    87:07
       Jeff Street                 BAOC      MSP             
       Ellen Fulton                          DNS             

Brown Course             (3.1 km, 110 m climb, 15 controls)  
                                                      Time   
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind
    1  Kyle Halliday               BAOC      30:50           (2nd course after Short Memory)  
    2  Steve Gregg                 BAOC      33:35     2:45
    3  Randy's group               BAOC      38:35     7:45  (2nd course after Yellow)
    4  Werner Haag                 BAOC      38:40     7:50
    5  Rex Vokey                   BAOC      44:59    14:09
    6  Matthias Kohler             BAOC      46:29    15:39  (2nd course after Short Sketch)
    7  Chris Haney                 BAOC      46:45    15:55
    8  Jerry Skirvin               BAOC      48:37    17:47  (2nd course after Yellow)
    9  Stephanie Maclean           BAOC      49:04    18:14
   10  Dennis Wildfogel            BAOC      52:43    21:53
   11  Matthew Blain                         59:32    28:42
   12  Johanna Merriss             BAOC    1:05:49    34:59
   13  Roopa McNealis              BAOC    1:09:03    38:13
   14  Miroslav Trubelja           BAOC    1:09:05    38:15
   15  Evan Custer                 BAOC    1:18:58    48:08
   16  Kevin Hinkley, Terri Hunt   BAOC    1:26:42    55:52
   17  Jay Hann                    BAOC    1:37:48    66:58
   18  Shengye Wang                BAOC    1:38:04    67:14
   19  Neville Fernandes           BAOC    1:41:11    70:21
   20  Meghan Henry                BAOC    1:41:38    70:48
   21  Katy Robinson               BAOC    1:41:46    70:56
   22  WAK                         BAOC    1:56:19    85:29
   23  Cardiff Crushers            SWOC    2:14:19   103:29  (South Wales)
       Rosemary Johnson            BAOC      DNF             
       Mirjana Spasojevic                    DNS             

Short Memory Course      (3.0 km, 115 m climb, 13 controls)  
                                                      Time   
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind
    1  Daniel Šebo                 BAOC      27:14           (2nd course after Long Memory)  
    2  Kyle Halliday               BAOC      31:57     4:43
    3  Jeffrey Kabel               BAOC      44:45    17:31  (2nd course after Long Memory)
    4  Lubomir Šebo                BAOC      49:12    21:58  (2nd course after Long Memory)
    5  Steve Haas                  BAOC      53:41    26:27
    6  Emily Ellsworth             BAOC      59:48    32:34  (2nd course after Long Memory)
    7  Sean Robinson               BAOC    1:03:45    36:31
    8  Chuck Spalding              BAOC    1:14:26    47:12
    9  Nazar                               1:19:15    52:01
   10  Jasmine Slater & group      CHSOC   1:24:12    56:58  (2nd course after Yellow)
   11  Hui Shi                             1:50:25    83:11
       Nick Kyte                   BAOC      DNF             
       Rex Vokey                             DNF             (2nd course after Brown)
       Tharu & Paul                BAOC      DNF

Short Sketch Course      (3.0 km, 115 m climb, 13 controls)  
                                                      Time   
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind
    1  Matthias Kohler             BAOC      44:41           
       Jeff Lanam                  BAOC      DNF             

Long Memory Course       (4.8 km, 190 m climb, 19 controls)  
                                                      Time   
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind
    1  Daniel Šebo                 BAOC      45:20           
    2  Graham Brew                 BAOC      47:36     2:16
    3  Ouri Karni                  BAOC      48:02     2:42
    4  Brian Ritchken              BAOC      48:33     3:13
    5  Carl Hoel                   BAOC      49:34     4:14
    6  François Léonard            BAOC      49:49     4:29
    7  Lubomir Šebo                BAOC      52:46     7:26
    8  Tom De Vre                  BAOC      53:48     8:28
    9  John Richardson             BAOC      59:06    13:46
   10  James Roney                 BAOC      59:40    14:20
   11  Tapio Karras                BAOC    1:02:59    17:39
   12  Jeffrey Kabel               BAOC    1:05:09    19:49
   13  Tac Sugiyama                BAOC    1:07:43    22:23
   14  Weichun Fong                BAOC    1:12:52    27:32
   15  Josh Munic                  BAOC    1:18:19    32:59
   16  Kathleen Lan                BAOC    1:20:42    35:22
   17  Derek Maclean               BAOC    1:25:57    40:37
   18  Emily Ellsworth             BAOC    1:34:53    49:33
       Marie-Josée Parayre         BAOC      MSP             

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DNF = Did not finish (one or more controls missed)
DNS = Did not start
MSP = Mispunched (one or more incorrect controls)