By Gary Carpenter
This was the 25th anniversary of the first BAOC event held at Point Pinole on April 6, 1997. Steve Gregg made the map and was the Course Setter and the Event Director for the inaugural event. Steve continues to set courses here 25 years later, and he decided to set this year's courses as close as possible to the 1997 courses.
We had decent weather on event day. The forecast originally was for rain beginning around noon, but the front slowed down and we had cool, cloudy weather, and no rain at all.
We were expecting ~200 participants, but only 118 showed up. Maybe some were concerned about the early rain forecast.
Eleven runners from 1997 returned to test their map-reading skill and running speed against their 25-year-younger selves: three on the Orange course, and eight on the Long Orange. The Long Orange "Turn-Back-Time Award" goes to Steph Maclean who beat her 1997 time by nearly 15 minutes. Runner-up was Tapio Karras, who shaved 11 seconds off his 1997 time. Dennis Wildfogel and Gavin Wyatt-Mair were 2 and 6.5 minutes over their 1997 times, respectively. On the Orange course, Jeff Lanam beat his 1997 time by 15 minutes.
Okay, enough about the old-timers. Overall winners were Clara Staats (White course), Penny DeMoss (Yellow course), and Yana Konovalenko (Orange course). Erin Schirm won the Long Orange, edging out Sairgey Pisarchyk by 5 seconds, in a time that was comparable to James Scarborough’s (unofficial) winning time from 25 years ago. The complete results are listed below.
We couldn't put on orienteering events without lots of help. As you can see, we had a fantastic volunteer-turnout year. Thanks so much.
Event Volunteers
Set Up: Graham Brew, Gavin Wyatt-Mair, Jeff Lanam
Beginner Clinics: Steph & Derek Maclean
Registration: Sarah Williams, Steve Haas
E-Punch: Jeff Lanam, George & Leslie Minarik, Mark Blair
Starts: Graham Brew, Matej Sebo, Rex Winterbottom, Vicki Woolworth
Control Pick Up: Marie-Josée Parayre, François Léonard, Matej Sebo, Parag Gupta
Take Down/Cleanup: Steve Gregg, Matej Sebo, Jeff Lanam, Gavin Wyatt-Mair, Amy Winston, John Crowther
Course Setter: Steve Gregg
Vetter: Evan Custer (Evan was the vetter 25 years ago)
Webpage Updates: Chuck Spalding
Financial: Sharon Evans
Insurance: Dan Ingram
Event Coordinator: Graham Brew
Map Printing: Bob Cooley (Bob printed maps and ran Long Orange in 1997)
East Bay Parks Personnel
Special Event Reservations: Shannon Punt and Karen
Point Pinole Supervisor: Rob Deikman, Rangers Brett, and Shawn
White Course (3.1 km, 45 m climb, 10 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Clara Staats BAOC 49:27
2 Team Saunterer 59:03 9:36
3 Julian Conradi BAOC 1:18:50 29:23
4 Oliver Conradi BAOC 1:23:30 34:03
5 Gwendolyn Moy BAOC 1:33:32 44:05
6 Niyant Sithamraju 1:54:13 64:46
Yellow Course (3.5 km, 50 m climb, 11 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Penny DeMoss BAOC 33:42
2 Stan Barrett,
Ingred Peterson BAOC 35:38 1:56
3 Kian Gupta 37:02 3:20
4 Jenny Zheng BAOC 43:36 9:54
5 Anna Staats BAOC 54:03 20:21
6 Piotr Pisarchyk BAOC 54:55 21:13
7 Roney family 1:05:02 31:20
8 Eric & Kelly 1:06:47 33:05
9 Hao Wu 1:13:51 40:09
10 Katie Smith 1:14:25 40:43
11 Yael Baruch 1:14:40 40:58
12 Team Saunterers 1:19:38 45:56 (2nd course)
13 Nicholson 1:23:42 50:00
14 Milo Dwyer BAOC 1:24:25 50:43
15 Fists of Fury BAOC 1:25:55 52:13
16 Goodwin 1:26:45 53:03
17 Team Lilac 1:39:17 65:35
18 Leta Krechetov, Amalia,
& Ada BAOC 1:43:50 70:08
19 Susan Lindeman,
Todd & Everly Berg BAOC 2:13:57 100:15
Orange Course (3.3 km, 55 m climb, 9 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Yana Konovalenko 31:10
2 Lauren Knight BAOC 33:34 2:24
3 James Roney BAOC 34:35 3:25
4 Klimov BAOC 37:06 5:56
5 Mark Schneider BAOC 38:59 7:49
6 George Minarik BAOC 39:35 8:25
7 Vicki Woolworth NAVX 39:47 8:37
8 Johanna Merriss BAOC 44:04 12:54
9 Jeff Lanam BAOC 46:36 15:26
10 Jussi Tahtinen BAOC 49:05 17:55
11 Leslie Minarik BAOC 49:40 18:30
12 Marsha Jacobs GCO 51:31 20:21
13 Amy Winston RMOC 53:13 22:03
14 Randy Robinson GCO 54:01 22:51
15 Savitrti Khalsa BAOC 55:40 24:30
16 Terry Gleason BAOC 1:00:08 28:58
17 John Marold BAOC 1:01:52 30:42
18 Sarah Williams BAOC 1:07:12 36:02
19 Jennifer Kerr GCO 1:36:39 65:29
20 Arthur Glassman 1:45:41 74:31
Mirjana Spasojevic MSP
Long Orange Course (6.5 km, 90 m climb, 17 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Erin Schirm BAOC 32:17
2 Sairgey Pisarchyk BAOC 32:22 0:05
3 François Léonard BAOC 35:11 2:54
4 Yurii Konovalenko BAOC 36:16 3:59
5 Wayne Staats BAOC 38:36 6:19
6 Mark Prior BAOC 40:01 7:44
7 Mikkel Conradi BAOC 40:08 7:51
8 Greg Khanlarov BAOC 40:26 8:09
9 Taylor Pospisil BAOC 43:19 11:02
10 Graham Brew BAOC 44:47 12:30
11 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 47:09 14:52
12 Tom De Vre BAOC 49:29 17:12
13 Tapio Karras BAOC 49:59 17:42
14 Andrej Masalkov BAOC 51:29 19:12
15 John Crowther RMOC 53:35 21:18
16 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 54:28 22:11
17 Eric Rosenzweig BAOC 54:39 22:22
18 Matej Sebo 55:32 23:15
19 Tac Sugiyama BAOC 57:02 24:45
20 John Richardson BAOC 57:04 24:47
21 Theo Verhoeven BAOC 58:12 25:55
22 Jason Reed BAOC 59:45 27:28
23 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 59:46 27:29
24 Deron van Hoff BAOC 59:54 27:37
25 Gavin Wyatt-Mair BAOC 1:00:45 28:28
26 Erica Reed BAOC 1:02:58 30:41
27 Derek Maclean BAOC 1:03:46 31:29
28 Sheila Cotter BAOC 1:04:12 31:55
29 Stephanie Maclean BAOC 1:04:35 32:18
30 Chun Wu 1:05:38 33:21
31 Gregory Moy BAOC 1:06:13 33:56
32 Scott Sampson, Tom Meyer BAOC 1:09:25 37:08
33 Shura Krechetov BAOC 1:10:19 38:02
34 Olga Kraght BAOC 1:13:23 41:06
35 Chuck Spalding BAOC 1:15:01 42:44
36 Zander Rosenzweig BAOC 1:15:08 42:51
37 Irena & Nick Stefanova BAOC 1:21:57 49:40
38 G & M BAOC 1:22:34 50:17
39 Stephen Haas BAOC 1:24:40 52:23
40 Mark Blair BAOC 1:38:09 65:52
41 Max & Tracey 1:45:52 73:35
42 Rhonda Stieber BAOC 1:46:51 74:34
43 Miroslav Trubelja 1:46:55 74:38
44 Weichun Fong BAOC 1:59:46 87:29
45 Ashwin & Chase BAOC 2:00:34 88:17
46 Alex & Cali BAOC 2:02:29 90:12
Randy Snook 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
RouteGadget
AttackPoint