More than 150 orienteers joined us for the first BAOC event of 2026, enjoying beautiful Bay Area January weather, with lush green grass and early wildflowers already in bloom.
Course setters Derek Maclean and Matthias Kohler created fun Beginner and Motala courses. The Motala courses had butterfly loops and varying control sequences to keep everyone thinking, with constant direction changes and up to three maps. It was complicated behind the scenes, but went pretty smoothly on the day.
Greg Khanlarov completed all three Motala loops (7.6 km) in 54 minutes, holding off Paul Roome by just over a minute. Tapio Karras was fastest over two loops by three minutes ahead of a pack of chasers. Peter Graham took clear honors for the 1-loop option with a speedy run. Brian Auchincloss, Quinten Williams, and Keira Graham led a field of 42 entrants on the Beginner course, which toured all seven hills of the park.
Nice work by Jeff Lanam got the event results published quickly despite the complicated format. Jeff, together with John Blakken and Phil Lacroute ably staffed E-punch at the event.
It was a particular pleasure for me to present the 2025 BAOC Service Award to Sarah Williams, our registrar extraordinaire. I'll share more details soon in a separate message.
I'm sure everyone noticed the strong turnout for the kickoff of our Juniors Program. Thanks to Julia Doubson and Petra Sundstrom for leading this. Please spread the word to any others who may wish to join. Julia and Petra have a series of other activities planned for the junior team — the next meetup will be at Point Pinole on February 8.
Thanks to the many volunteers who made the event possible:
- Steve Haas organized the permit at short notice in December.
- Chuck Spalding created all of the website information and the volunteers spreadsheet.
- Setup: Weichun Fong, John Blakken
- Registration and Welcome Team: Sarah Williams, Steve Haas, Chuck Spalding, Dennis Wildfogel
- Beginners Clinics: Nick Corsano, Sheila Cotter, Dan Greene
- Starts Crew: Graham Brew, Kat Lan, Derek Maclean, Michael Catambay
- Refreshments: Kat Lan organized a nice spread of fruit and snacks for the event.
- Control Pickup: Tom De Vre, Theo Verhoeven, Luc Poppe, Eric Rosenzweig, Tapio Karras, Lubomir Šebo
- Hope you all can make it to our next event at Coyote Lake–Harvey Bear Ranch County Park near Gilroy, just two weeks away on January 25.
Beginner Course
(2.6 km, 75 m climb, 16 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Brian Auchincloss 24:28 0:53
2 Quinten Williams 27:47 3:19 2:44
3 Keira Graham 28:13 3:45 2:48
4 Ashley Graham 28:40 4:12 3:51
5 Leonija 29:12 4:44 2:34
6 Bicycle Repair Team BAOC 29:22 4:54 2:15
7 Sheep Tech 31:45 7:17 2:26
8 Team Bergstedt 33:05 8:37 5:36
9 Zach Jasensky 33:51 9:23 5:58
10 Jenner La Fave 33:55 9:27 5:29
11 Tatiana Fedyk BAOC 37:19 12:51 2:37
12 Pancakes 38:27 13:59 3:03
13 Sebastian Fedyk BAOC 39:55 15:27 8:12
14 Shoes 41:13 16:45 9:51
15 John Blakkan BAOC 42:26 17:58 3:39
16 Dawn Sakurai 44:53 20:25 9:58
17 Kalyan Garapaty 46:13 21:45 11:56
18 Nataliya Bondarenko 46:19 21:51 5:08
19 Kosti-Timor family 46:22 21:54 10:18
20 Team Bird 46:43 22:15 6:15
21 Bobcats 47:58 23:30 6:14
22 Valerie Lacroute 48:34 24:06 16:01
23 Maya & Friends 51:12 26:44 4:10
24 Jared & Evan 52:14 27:46 11:33
25 Jussi Tahtinen BAOC 53:30 29:02 9:27
26 Anja Tahtinen 53:31 29:03 9:41
27 Sumegha's 55:31 31:03 10:22
28 Usanmaz 56:18 31:50 11:03
29 Team Perkins 57:04 32:36 11:55
30 Mark Schmidt, Yu-Chen Shen 58:18 33:50 12:41
31 Team Dukart 59:37 35:09 14:44
32 Kautz 1:01:16 36:48 13:58
33 Passinsky & Family 1:01:56 37:28 12:38
34 The Squaky Birdys 1:04:18 39:50 16:51
35 Blud on the Calculator 1:05:08 40:40 20:05
36 Cecilia Roome BAOC 1:07:11 42:43 27:45
37 Hao BAOC 1:37:57 73:29 33:35
38 Banana Slugs BAOC 1:38:49 74:21 33:08
39 Team Everly BAOC 2:23:18 111:50 42:48
Gan DNF
Harry & Tom BAOC DNF
Liv Sundstrom BAOC DNF
Motala Single (1 loop)
(3.4 km, 75 m climb, 16 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Peter Graham 26:35 0:00
2 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 40:34 13:59 4:14
3 Sarah Williams BAOC 41:36 15:01 1:06
4 Adam Gross 42:00 15:25 3:51
5 George Minarik BAOC 42:01 15:26 3:00
6 Sheila Cotter BAOC 49:43 23:08 8:45
7 Sue Roome South Ribble OC 52:16 25:41 9:44
8 Evan Custer BAOC 54:35 28:00 1:39
9 Anna Staats BAOC 57:01 30:26 16:47
10 Dan Greene (vettor) BAOC 1:02:40 36:05 4:14
11 Neville Fernandes,
Rucha Bedarkar BAOC 1:15:02 48:27 27:43
12 Jeff Lanam BAOC 1:15:21 48:46 17:02
13 Shoes 1:19:39 53:04 19:26 (2nd course)
14 Clara Staats BAOC 1:21:00 54:25 29:10
15 Melinda Gottesman BAOC 1:29:24 62:49 32:59
16 Leslie Minarik BAOC 1:35:28 68:53 28:23
Jay Hann BAOC MSP
T Sundstrom BAOC DNF
Motala Double (2 loops)
(4.8 km, 100 m climb, 23 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Tapio Karras BAOC 40:35 1:30
2 Werner Haag BAOC 43:30 2:55 2:45
3 Boyuan Zhang BAOC 43:43 3:08 7:18
4 Steve Gregg BAOC 44:12 3:37 2:54
5 Quinten Williams 47:05 6:30 8:01 (2nd Course)
6 Chuck Spalding BAOC 50:16 9:41 3:51
7 Martyn Roome South Ribble OC 50:17 9:42 11:20
8 Phil Lacroute BAOC 51:44 11:09 5:22
9 Ginny Wailes BAOC 53:18 12:43 8:11
10 Parrots BAOC 58:10 17:35 11:04
11 Olga Boiarynova BAOC 58:47 18:12 4:21
12 Nick Corsano BAOC 1:01:29 20:54 3:13
13 Enxun Wei BAOC 1:05:58 25:23 18:14
14 Aleksandr Rabinovich 1:13:00 32:25 15:17
15 Bay-Wei Chang BAOC 1:13:18 32:43 17:00
16 Kat Lan BAOC 1:24:22 43:47 6:48
17 Marie De Vre BAOC 1:24:26 43:51 21:12
18 Miroslav Trubelja BAOC 1:26:51 46:16 11:44
19 Rhonda Stieber BAOC 1:26:55 46:20 11:20
20 Zach Jasensky 1:30:08 49:33 23:38
21 QBS BAOC 1:31:08 50:33 9:36
22 Yunying Chiu BAOC 1:36:52 56:17 31:37
23 John Quintrell BAOC 1:55:09 74:34 23:50
24 Jonathan Seder 2:16:06 75:31 41:45
Misha Kreslavsky BAOC DNF
Sasha Sidorov DNF
Motala Triple (3 loops)
(7.6 km, 160 m climb, 39 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Greg Khanlarov BAOC 54:18 0:46
2 Paul Roome BAOC 55:49 1:31 4:46
3 Graham Brew BAOC 58:26 4:08 0:37
4 Ouri Karni BAOC 58:32 4:14 5:42
5 Wayne Staats BAOC 58:45 4:27 3:54
6 Lubomir Sebo BAOC 1:00:01 5:43 1:29
7 Roman Roshchin MSU 1:00:16 5:58 1:25
8 John Richardson BAOC 1:02:25 8:07 1:59
9 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 1:06:54 12:36 1:29
10 Weichun Fong BAOC 1:09:09 14:51 9:00
11 Sean Robinson BAOC 1:09:10 14:52 3:52
12 Jussi Tahtinen BAOC 1:09:46 15:28 4:10
13 Andrej Masalkov BAOC 1:11:41 17:23 6:05
14 Tom De Vre BAOC 1:12:26 18:08 4:24
15 Josh Munic BAOC 1:13:17 18:59 6:08
16 Mattias Mattsson BAOC 1:13:46 19:28 4:14
17 Eric Rosenzweig BAOC 1:14:03 19:45 2:51
18 Matteo Guareschi BAOC 1:14:51 20:33 11:30
19 David Colman BAOC 1:18:01 23:43 5:14
20 BFC BAOC 1:19:45 25:27 9:44
21 Theo Verhoeven BAOC 1:21:19 27:01 5:48
22 Nathan Curtis BAOC 1:22:03 27:45 8:24
23 Tac Sugiyama BAOC 1:23:13 28:55 3:56
24 Michael Robinson BAOC 1:34:16 39:58 1:37
25 Luc Poppe BAOC 1:38:45 44:27 7:33
26 Steve Haas BAOC 1:40:48 46:30 2:24
27 Jumping Rabbits BAOC 1:42:20 48:02 4:10
28 Steve Rodrigues BAOC 2:20:21 86:03 23:58
29 Shengye Wang BAOC 2:30:35 96:17 22:48
Jenner La Fave MSP
Mirjana Spasojevic DNF
Puppy LIC BAOC DNF
Zander & Lia BAOC DNF
Oliver Conradi BAOC DNS
Steve Beuerman BAOC DNS
Taylor Pospisil BAOC DNS
DNF
= Did not finish (one or more controls
missed)
DNS
= Did not start
DSQ
= Disqualified
MSP
= Mispunched (one or more incorrect
controls)
OVT
= Overtime
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