By Vic Revenko
Another great day at the Presidio National Park. We had over 280 participants, including visitors from other counties. We had many young orienteers, including school, scout, and JROTC groups. Of course the usual suspects — our core orienteers — were present. The Presidio orienteering event is held on National Orienteering Day to encourage newcomers to try this thinking-persons sport. Thanks to Nancy Lindeman for the finish-line goodies and publicity. The free samples of HappySqueeze available in the refreshment area were courtesy of Susan Olsen and Happy Family Brands.
Even up to the day of the event, it was unclear if all the control venues would remain intact because of the Doyle Drive project construction. The Start and Finish venues were moved to the Log Cabin area to avoid Fort Scott construction depots. All worked out okay. The course setter, Chuck Spalding, was very creative in designing the courses to avoid all the construction areas, and also used many control sites that were new to the courses. Chuck's comments on the courses after the event were as follows:
- Everyone successfully completed the White course this year!
- The White, Yellow, and Orange courses might have been slightly too long (although everyone completed their course within 3 hours).
- The Long Orange course seems to have been about the right length.
- The Orange course was perhaps too difficult (e.g., too much climb?), considering the number of DNFs on that course. Also, there was some "discussion" about the map's location of control #1 on that course.
- Control #5 on the Orange courses should not have been placed so close to the unfenced edge of the golf course — or the map should have clearly shown the perimeter cart path as being out of bounds. Several people ended up walking on the cart path (with some unpleasant repercussions).
- A few(?) people had some difficulty finding that control because the downed tree was not clearly visible along its entire length.
- Several people lost their punch cards. Is that normal?
(This was Chuck's first time at course setting, and he welcomes feedback about things that could have been better — as well as specific things that were considered good ☺.)
Other than Chuck's comments above, everything worked well, and participants and volunteers said that they had a good time. Thanks to the Presidio Trust for helping with the permit arrangements.
Thanks to the following volunteers for making the Presidio day run well. Without them the day would not have happened.
Registration: Scott Aster and Gary Kraght
Clinics: Dan Greene, George Minarik
Setup: Joe Maffei
Starts: Steve and David Harrison, Jim Fish
Finishes: Damian Swift, Steve Gregg, Deron van Hoff, Greg Ehrensing
Results: Chuck Spalding, Mark Blair
Control Pickup: Steve and David Harrison, Greg Ehrensing, Nancy Lindeman
Congratulations to the winners and all the participants. The results are below.
Lost and Found
Found: A Trimtex headband was left at the Finish. Chuck Spalding (Webmaster's Assistant) has it.
Pl Name(s) Time
White Course (2.7 km, 65 m climb, 13 controls - 27 entries, 55 people)
1 Eugene Wilkinson 29:39
2 Sig & Ben Berven 37:28
3 Jack Barnes 38:43
4 Susan & Simon Chang 39:17
5 Thea Boucher 39:45
6 Henri Ducharme 43:17
7 Bill & Edward Barnes 44:34
8 Claire, Cathy, & Peter 47:23
9 Meri & Samuel Valimaki 50:10
10 Mara Lindo 57:48
11 Sherman Luk + 2 57:59
12 William & Gian-Andrin 59:17
13 Team Dogs 59:25
14 Sophia, Julien, Erica, & Joe Knapp 59:35
15 Alec Makdessian 1:00:03
16 Kelsey & Duffy Bailey 1:01:53
17 Zoe & Cole Amaya 1:02:58
18 Jamie Maclean 1:05:09
19 Diane & Harry Hall 1:11:06
20 Chris, Steph, Anna, & Sara Twiggs 1:12:56
21 Juli Misbach, Victor Hurtano 1:15:50
22 Robert Dineen + 3 1:22:50
23 Jocelyn Cruz, Shelby Max 1:27:39
24 Baylee Brecheen, Ashley Azadeh 1:29:39
25 Michael & Katy Robinson 1:38:32
26 Joan Merriss 1:39:21
27 Libby & Noga Ur, Tal Sheny 2:03:13
Yellow Course (4.0 km, 165 m climb, 12 controls - 41 entries, 82 people)
1 Lucie Boucher 45:22
2 Rory Maclean 55:38
3 Cornelia Coolen + 1 56:45
4 Brian Koga, Joyce Lin 57:36
5 Toshimitsu Kasuga 59:17
6 Fillan Swift 1:00:27
7 Trisha McMahon, Julia McIroy 1:01:21
8 Daniel Sebo 1:03:18
9 Harry & Scott May 1:10:20
10 Stephen & Owen Popper 1:14:22
11 Denis & Anton Kourakin, Anastasia
Kourakina 1:15:37
12 Ken, Liz, Emily, & Buffy Considine 1:17:47
13 Chris Gori 1:17:55
14 Richard Merriss 1:19:12
15 Blithe Brandon, Stacy Marinos 1:25:43
16 Anne Gorby 1:26:24
17 Ted & Cal Holman 1:29:56
18 Karen Chamberlain, Courtney
Heatherington 1:31:21
19 Gabe Walden, Alec Thilmony 1:42:56
20 Joe & Graham Murray, Max Driscoll 1:45:52
21 Jamie Thomas, Jocelyn Keller 1:46:28
22 Brad & Lisa Melton 1:47:55
23 Alfred Yoon, Tristan Whalen,
Christopher Blyskal 1:48:18
24 Jordan Kimball, Cole Compton 1:50:55
25 Sedona, Sierra, & Todd Berg,
Susan & Nancy Lindeman 1:51:14
26 George Aster 1:56:19
27 Julie Beley, Leslie Yuen 2:00:05
28 Rob Perret, Donna Stephens 2:00:06
29 Kolsoum Hoertkorn, Cookie Marroquin 2:05:14
30 Melissa Whang, Ying-Tsu Loh 2:09:28
31 Brad & Alex Wetmore 2:17:09
32 Sara Kelley, Debbie Fragola 2:25:00
33 Glenn & Evan Serre, Ting Kao 2:32:00
34 Jemma Serre, Megan Love 2:34:25
Wilkinson family DNF
Sarah Cheng, Spencer Chu DNF
Sasha Tarasov, Annie Moultray DNF
Josh Templet DNF
Gus Callaway DNF Lost Card
Second Course
Claire, Cathy, & Peter 1:49:20
Henri Ducharme DNF
Orange Course (5.3 km, 215 m climb, 12 controls - 58 entries, 119 people)
1 Magnus Haakestad 55:53
2 Nikolay Chukanov 55:58
3 Derek Mclean 1:02:03
4 Gary Kraght 1:02:05
5 George Minarik 1:04:04
6 Rafael Boucher 1:10:48
7 Girts Linde 1:12:09
8 Stephanie Maclean 1:19:30
9 Boaz Ur 1:29:00
10 Mikhail & Boris Gorshenev,
Nataliya Merkulova 1:34:53
11 Lowell Team Delta 1:37:39
12 Saburo Fujiwora 1:42:14
13 Rosemary Johnson 1:42:38
14 Lowell Team Foxtrot 1:42:47
15 Jeff Lanam 1:43:22
16 Nick, Jean & Joe van Hoff 1:46:35
16 Terry Gleason 1:46:35
18 David Strong, Spencer Tai 1:53:52
19 Olga Kraght 1:56:34
20 Kirsty & Sung Lee 1:59:54
21 Lowell Team Bravo 1:59:55
22 Paul & Kathy Li 2:03:22
23 Lowell Team Alpha 2:14:43
24 Jim Fish 2:15:30
25 Washington Team Charlie 2:18:20
26 Washington Team Alpha 2:21:05
27 Stephanie Connelly, Cory Hallam 2:25:35
28 Wes Erck, Jeff Stein 2:26:53
29 Lowell Team Gulf 2:27:12
30 Stu Lerner, Dick Gunn 2:34:34
31 Lowell Team Charlie 2:34:44
32 Sree Vallath + 2 2:35:58
33 Nigel Gulstone, Mary Low 2:37:28
34 Lincoln Team Delta 2:37:40
35 Lowell Team Echo 2:40:43
36 Lincoln Team Alpha 2:45:53
37 Kevin Walker 2:54:20
38 Rosemary Davies 2:54:26
Washington Team Bravo MSP #1
Cornelia Coolen DNF #1
Lincoln Team Charlie DNF #2
Galileo Team Charlie DNF #5
Galileo Team Bravo DNF #5
Galileo Team Delta DNF #5
Finn Arildsen DNF #1, #8
Lincoln Team Bravo DNF #3, #4
Galileo Team Echo DNF
Washington Team Foxtrot DNF
Washington Team Echo DNF
Galileo Team Alpha DNF
Trinka Gillis DNF
Washington Team Delta DNF
Mira Chokshi, Daidipa Patwa DNF
Derrick Woods +2 DNF
Oliver Meldrum DNF Lost Card
Second Course
Michael Robinson 1:19:55
Daniel, Matej, & Monika Sebo 1:27:30
Eugene Wilkinson DNF Lost Card
Long Orange Course (7.1 km, 325 m climb, 14 controls - 26 entries, 28 people)
1 Jonas Kjäll 46:58
2 Dennis Wilkinson 58:42
3 Francois Leonard 1:00:37
4 Steve Gregg 1:03:42
5 Deron van Hoff 1:09:45
6 Tapio Karras 1:11:33
7 Lubomir Sebo 1:13:04
8 Stephen Harrison 1:14:12
9 Yves Boucher 1:14:43
10 Eric Rosenzweig 1:16:30
11 Penny DeMoss 1:16:38
12 Lou Lederer 1:21:26
13 David Harrison 1:24:58
14 Dan Greene 1:27:04
15 Joe Maffei 1:29:08
16 Mark Blair 1:31:50
17 Marie-Jose Parayre 1:32:03
18 Bjorn Widerstrom 1:38:43
19 Peter Olsten 1:41:15
20 Joe Inkenbrandt 2:08:41
21 Phillip Hoare 2:14:00
22 Brandon Forrest 2:17:54
23 Erickson & Holmberg 2:27:40
24 Fred Loebl 2:49:16
25 Mike Meager, Paula Zurowski 2:54:20
Johanna Merriss DNF Lost Card
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Entering your route in RouteGadget:
Since there was no e-punch, the event is set up using the "no results" mode, where participants need to enter their name, total time, and any cumulative splits that they might have taken. Note that if you are uploading a GPS track, you don't need to enter your total time or splits.
You can draw your route even if you didn't take any splits — just enter your name and total time. Note that RouteGadget requires cumulative splits. Both splits and total time need to be in MMMSS format. For example, 0:57 is entered as "57", 5min43s as "543", and 1hr12min32s as "7232". That's easy.
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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