By Trinka Gillis
The long-delayed Calero event and BAOC 2010 2011 Club Championships finally took place! (Last year's event, which was to be the 2010 Club Championships, had to be canceled because of access issues caused by rain.)
Sunday September 25th was a beautiful day, not too hot and not too cold, with a bit of rain in the afternoon. (We were lucky it was just a little rain! If it had rained any harder, we wouldn't have been allowed to use the car for control pickup.)
Simultaneous with the regular B-meet, Jay Hann held a Junior Training Camp that was attended by more than 50 juniors and parents. He took them through a variety of exercises — creating their own map, reading a map, running three courses of increasing difficulty, following a map with nothing but contours on it, and more. The students were enthusiastic about the exercises, and they were kept busy! He even provided a hot dog and burrito lunch for the whole training group and shared the leftovers with the B-meet participants. This was a huge undertaking on Jay's part, with an impressive result.
Ben Legg, the club Social Director, provided a great selection of snacks to encourage runners to stick around for the awards ceremony. The awards were BAOC T-shirts, with a choice of toys for children or others who didn't want a T-shirt. If you are a first-, second-, or third-place winner in a Club Championship category and didn't get a T-shirt, please contact me at president@baoc.org to claim your prize. (Most of the T-shirts remaining are the Pacheco event shirts.)
Because of the large number of Training Camp participants, all starting courses at the same time, the EPunch table became quite crowded at times. If you are a club member and you notice that your name doesn't appear in the BAOC Club Championship section of the results, please let me know so I can fix it.
Some items were left or found at the event: two water bottles, a 3-legged stool, a compass, a small wad of cash. If these are yours, please describe them in an email to me at president@baoc.org.
We had a fantastic group of volunteers who helped make this event a success. Toby Ferguson and Mark Rice set the courses under the mentoring eye of Tapio Karras. Bjorn Widerstrom was my right-hand man, and all four of these people worked Saturday putting out controls, and all day Sunday at the Start and a variety of other tasks. Prerunners were Bud Laird, Shura Krechetov, Cornelia Coolen, Pierre Delforge, and Jane Delforge. Peter Graube and Marsha Jacobs helped Steve Haas at registration deal with the hordes of Training Camp participants. Werner Haag taught beginner's clinics, and Dan Greene taught an intermediate clinic. Rosemary Johnson, Jeff Lanam, Mark Blair, Wes Erck, and Greg Ehrensing all worked EPunch. Wes Erck distributed awards. Theo Verhoeven, Werner Haag, Bjorn Widerstrom, Alex Finch, and Cedric LasFargues all picked up controls.
Thanks to all the participants and volunteers for making the day so successful!
Trail-O Training Write-Up
Thank you to everyone who tried the Trail-O training at Calero! I hope you enjoy doing the puzzles as much as I enjoy setting them. I had originally planned four controls, but the grasses were higher this year, and the features required to solve the fourth puzzle were not visible.
Here are links for the directions (PDF/55KB), the map (PDF/150KB) that was handed out, and the solutions (PDF/60KB).
Thanks,
Alex Finch
Pl Name(s) Time
Club M-10 (White Course: 2750 m, 180 m climb, 12 controls)
1 Gian Coolen 23:11
Club F-14 (Yellow Course: 2625 m, 140 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Julia Doubson 37:49
2 Sarah Petersen 43:54
3 Katie Petersen 44:47 (unofficial)
4 Masha Konkov 56:17
Club M-14 (Yellow Course: 2625 m, 140 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Rory Maclean 47:40
2 Daniel Sebo 53:09
Second Course
Fillan Swift 43:30
Club F55+ (Brown Course: 3500 m, 110 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Janet Petersen 1:26:48
2 Rosemary Johnson 2:32:42
Marsha Jacobs DNF
Club F65+ (Brown Course: 3500 m, 110 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Judy Opsahl 2:28:37
2 Nancy Lindeman 3:25:16
Joan Roos DNF
Club M65+ (Brown Course: 3500 m, 110 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Bud Laird 1:05:54
2 Joe Scarborough 1:28:02
3 Richard Opsahl 1:54:21
Club F35+ (Green Course: 4850 m, 290 m climb, 14 controls)
1 Marie-Josee Parayre 1:27:04
2 Stephanie Maclean 1:57:02
Club F45+ (Green Course: 4850 m, 290 m climb, 14 controls)
1 Johanna Merriss 1:34:44
Club M50+ (Green Course: 4850 m, 290 m climb, 14 controls)
1 Werner Haag 1:07:52
2 Dan Greene 1:18:32
3 Kent Ohlund 1:30:00
4 Greg Ehrensing 1:42:46
Jeff Lanam DNF
Fyodor Konkov DNF
Club M60+ (Green Course: 4850 m, 290 m climb, 14 controls)
1 George Minarik 1:17:33
2 Steve Haas 1:37:06
Wes Erck DNF
Club M-20 (Red Course: 5800 m, 430 m climb, 15 controls)
1 Matej Sebo 1:44:28
Club M35+ (Red Course: 5800 m, 430 m climb, 15 controls)
1 Dennis Wilkinson 1:35:31
2 Lubomir Sebo 2:08:14
Club M45+ (Red Course: 5800 m, 430 m climb, 15 controls)
1 Deron van Hoff 1:27:48
2 Alex Finch 1:50:22
3 Manfred Kopisch 1:57:15
4 Mark Blair 2:08:04
Derek Maclean DNF
Club Amazon (Blue Course: 6900 m, 500 m climb, 20 controls)
1 Penny DeMoss 2:09:26
Club M-21+ (Blue Course: 6900 m, 500 m climb, 20 controls)
1 Francois Leonard 1:20:09
2 Pierre Delforge 1:30:14
3 Kyle Peter 1:45:28
4 Greg Favor 1:59:43
5 Peter Graham 2:09:54
6 Joe Maffei 2:11:55
7 Peter Graube 2:24:59
8 Theo Verhoeven 2:26:48
Complete Results by Course
Pl Name(s) Time
White Course (2750 m, 180 m climb, 12 controls)
1 Gian Coolen 23:11 M-10
2 Johanna Karras 25:27
3 Jason Traut 28:32
4 John Martin 30:46
5 Fillan Swift 30:59
6 Thea Boucher 32:23
7 Steven Herman 39:39
8 Solomon Marcus 41:10
9 Caleb Marcus 41:14
10 Hope Fa-Kaji 41:59
11 Troy Kaji 42:28
12 Roy Herman 43:59
13 Kylie Thomson 47:23
14 Olivia Ocher 48:34 (estimated Finish)
15 Julia Ocher 48:35 (estimated Finish)
16 Nikolay Alekaseyev 49:08 (estimated Finish)
17 Vera Alekseyeva 50:37
18 Danny Gur 51:07
19 Matan Demayo 51:58
20 Mike Gur 52:24
21 Danny Bray 53:59
22 Adam Boman 53:59
23 Bruce Boman 54:03
24 Susan Bray 54:09
25 Andy & Christine Fawcett 54:22
26 Simon Linter 56:05
27 Ken Brooks 56:12
28 Bobby Lacey 56:14
29 Andrew 56:21
30 Matthew Boman 57:27
31 Lauren Phillips 58:11
32 Mike Philips 58:13
33 Dennis & Molly Wilkinson 59:52
34 Stephanie & Teresa Botto 1:02:16
35 Cameron Wehr 1:02:20
36 Travis Friedrich 1:07:57
37 Joan Merriss 1:08:21
38 Tahiyah Group, TY 1:10:24
39 Tehiyah Group, Rich 1:10:27
40 Tehiyah Group, Jacqueline 1:10:33
41 Tahihah Group, Irene 1:10:51
42 Tehiyah Group, Aviv 1:10:59
43 Misha Iakovlev 1:11:02
44 Eric & Quincy Rosenzweig 1:11:07
45 Selena Polanco, Sophia Zempel 1:12:53
46 Den 10 1:13:55
47 Diane Hall 1:19:25
48 Deepa Ramam 1:39:44
Luke Martin DNF
Steve Lai DNF
Eric Chen DNF
Michael Brooks DNF
Jaideep Padhye DNF
Gargi Padhi DNF
Anton Saydakov DNF
Yellow Course (2625 m, 140 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Julia Doubson 37:49 F-14
2 Sarah Petersen 43:54 F-14
3 Katie Petersen 44:47 F-14, unofficial
4 Eric Chen 46:34
5 Rory Maclean 47:40 M-14
6 Dubes 49:50
7 Daniel Sebo 53:09 M-14
8 Masha Konkov 56:17 F-14
9 Nick & Gaby van Hoff 1:00:48
10 Brian Yuen, Alan Park 1:08:57
11 Cara & Linda Burks, Leda Bracy,
Kellie Grover 1:12:03
12 Debbie Fragola 1:16:34
13 Lisa Himawan, Duorah family 1:17:11
14 Alex & Suzie Trigonis 1:19:20
15 Meagan Andrakin, Jamie Thomas 1:22:19
16 Connor Fetter, Joey Michael 1:26:19
17 Jonathan Adams, Matt Bloomstein 1:29:09
18 Kate Tennant 1:32:51
19 Dan & Nicholas Cunningham 1:36:00
20 Lara Willing, Alicia Kosman 1:36:43
21 Matthew, Steve Weeks, Stefan
Campbell 1:37:33
22 Kevin & Douglas Chang 1:41:52 (estimated Finish)
23 Felicia & Karen Keller 1:44:40
24 Josh & Pat Grover, Tyler Morris,
Debbie Hug, Sarah Cilker 1:45:34
25 Harry Hall, Patricia Polanco 2:10:47
Glenn Lovelady, Troop 340 DNF
Jocelyn Cruz, Jocelyn Keller DNF
Ashley Azadeh, Baylee Brecheen DNF
Second Course
Christine & Graham Brew 34:05
Gian Coolen 39:14
Adam Boman 41:00
Bruce Boman 42:18
Fillan Swift 43:30 M-14
Anton Saydakov 44:13
Steve Lai 46:23
Michael Brooks 46:36
Harold DeMoss 47:36
Hope Fa-Kaji 1:00:37
Troy Kaji 1:00:37
Andy & Christine Fawcett 1:13:32
Jason Traut DNF
Orange Course (3725 m, 180 m climb, 14 controls)
1 Cornelia Coolen 55:17
2 Christine & Graham Brew 1:25:53
3 Angel Garbarino 1:30:41
4 Olga Kraght 1:39:33
5 Sasha Iakovlev 1:54:55
6 Alan Houser, Helene Gordon 2:07:10
7 Shaun Etherington 2:19:30
8 Derrick Woods 2:29:47
9 Susan Kim 2:34:55
10 Josh Pechner, Shea Duty 2:43:23
11 Cilker group 2:58:10 (estimated Finish)
12 Katrina Etherington 3:20:21
13 Kevin Walker 3:31:59
14 Ashwin Vaidyanathan, Ryan Wu 3:41:51
Gay family DNF
Vin family DNF
Harold DeMoss DNF
Sung & Kirsty Lee DNF
Paul & Kathy Li DNF
Brown Course (3500 m, 110 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Gary Kraght 53:53
2 Bjorn Widerstrom 57:21
3 Dennis Wildfogel 58:16
4 Lucie Boucher 1:03:55 (estimated Start)
5 Bud Laird 1:05:54 M65+
6 Finn Arildsen (Denmark) 1:09:16
7 Ken Considine 1:22:48
8 Janet Petersen 1:26:48 F55+
9 Joe Scarborough 1:28:02 M65+
10 Jane Melia 1:30:46
11 Denis Kouracin 1:39:16
12 Darren Don 1:40:44
13 Erickson, Holmberg, Rusche 1:48:29
14 Richard Opsahl 1:54:21 M65+
15 Michael Behrens 2:02:01
16 Brian Tennant 2:04:28
17 Boris & Mikhail Gorshenev,
Nataliya Merkulova 2:08:52
18 Jennifer Kerr (GCO) 2:09:51
19 Judy Opsahl 2:28:37 F65+
20 Barbara Finch 2:31:39
21 Rosemary Johnson 2:32:42 F55+
22 Richard Merriss 3:16:30
23 Nancy Lindeman 3:25:16 F65+
Joan Roos DNF F65+
Marsha Jacobs DNF F55+
Second Course
Derek Sibilia 1:27:41
Johanna Merriss DNF
Green Course (4850 m, 290 m climb, 14 controls)
1 Werner Haag 1:07:52 M50+
2 George Minarik 1:17:33 M60+
3 Dan Greene 1:18:32 M50+
4 Marie-Josee Parayre 1:27:04 F35+
5 Kent Ohlund 1:30:00 M50+
6 Johanna Merriss 1:34:44 F45+
7 Steve Haas 1:37:06 M60+
8 Sofia Persson 1:40:37
9 Greg Ehrensing 1:42:46 M50+
10 Stephanie Maclean 1:57:02 F35+
11 Jason Hogan 2:08:07
12 Judy & Tom Cronin 2:34:03
Wes Erck DNF M60+
Jeff Lanam DNF M50+
Fyodor Konkov DNF M50+
Derek Sibilia DNF
Red Course (5800 m, 430 m climb, 15 controls)
1 Deron van Hoff 1:27:48 M45+
2 Dennis Wilkinson 1:35:31 M35+
3 Matej Sebo 1:44:28 M-20
4 Alex Finch 1:50:22 M45+
5 Nikolay Chukanov 1:54:58
6 Misha Lipatov 1:56:27
7 Manfred Kopisch 1:57:15 M45+
8 Mark Blair 2:08:04 M45+
9 Lubomir Sebo 2:08:14 M35+
Derek Maclean DNF M45+
Shura Kretchetov DNF
Igor Sazonov DNF
Nigel Gulstone, Won Rhee DNF
Frederick Lee DNF
Blue Course (6900 m, 500 m climb, 20 controls)
1 Francois Leonard 1:20:09 M-21+
2 Pierre Delforge 1:30:14 M-21+
3 Kyle Peter 1:45:28 M-21+
4 Greg Favor 1:59:43 M-21+
5 Cedric LasFargues 2:09:04
6 Penny DeMoss 2:09:26 F-Amazon
7 Peter Graham 2:09:54 M-21+
8 Joe Maffei 2:11:55 M-21+
9 Russell Neilson 2:19:51
10 Peter Graube 2:24:59 M-21+
11 Theo Verhoeven 2:26:48 M-21+
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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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