By Gary Kraght
Every year we have a special event at Indian Valley. Sometimes it is special for the interesting diversions the college throws at us, such as swim meets or campus construction. But this year, Indian Valley was special in a very sweet way. This was the event that George Minarik returned to orienteering, completing the White course with his wife Leslie in 5th place. For those who haven't followed the Minarik saga, George had a heart transplant two months ago, following a massive heart attack several months earlier. We wish you all the best, George, and look forward to seeing you, and being inspired by you, at many future orienteering events.
It was a beautiful day, not too hot or cold, and the campus was unusually quiet. Perfect for orienteering, except that the hills were still steep! Pierce Glassner won the White course, with a three-second lead over his brother Joey Glassner. Julia Doubson, fresh from her outstanding performance at the U.S. Interscholastic Orienteering Championships, won the Yellow course by over ten minutes. The Orange course had many speedsters running it as a second course (the Brown course was apparently not long enough and not hilly enough). But of the Orange regulars, Ralf Burgert won in under an hour, with Marie-Josée Parayre in second. Marie-Josée's husband, François Léonard, tore up the Brown course, with a minute lead over Mikkel Conradi. They both ran under 10 minutes a kilometer on a course with 8 percent climb!
It was such a pleasure to put on Indian Valley this year, because of the many great volunteers. Heidi Whalen set the courses, as she has in past years, and produced her best set of courses yet. Scott Aster and Neil Peterson handled registration. Rosemary Johnson and Rex Winterbottom were the e-punch personnel. We had a whole group of people helping with control pickup, including Mark Blair, Graham Brew, Christine Brew, Greg Ehrensing, Carol Schick-Lyda, François Léonard, Mikkel Conradi. Bob Cooley not only printed the maps, but made several iterations of map corrections. Olga Kraght helped immeasurably with setup and takedown, as did others. So many were willing to lend a hand whenever needed, and I thank all of you.
Pl Name(s) Time
White Course (2.2 km, 45 m climb, 9 controls)
1 Pierce Glassner 24:29
2 Joey Glassner 24:31
3 Jamie Maclean 32:24
4 Meri Valimaki 38:55
5 George & Leslie Minarik 40:04
6 Natalie Kreter-Killian, JoAnne
Skinner 49:14
7 Victoria Lee, Darren O'Connor 54:09
8 Keith & Spencer Wycoffe 57:39
9 Giulia Coolen 1:01:59
10 Ally Larman, Tara Shahandeh 1:05:41
11 Alexandra Rabalcaba, Sonja Stott 1:06:17
12 Team O'Condit 1:08:36
13 Team 73 1:08:59
Delena Bratton DNF
Yellow Course (3.1 km, 130 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Julia Doubson 29:06
2 Brent Adams 40:53
3 Masha Konkov 41:52
4 Rory Maclean 43:37
5 Aivo Krilovs 53:13
6 Jon Pearlstone 1:04:38
7 Rosemary Johnson 1:04:44
8 Michele, Jon, Lexee, Christian
Custer-Topai 1:11:25
9 Jia & Martin 1:22:49
10 Mark Burchill, Mel Konrad 1:29:32
11 Scott & Nancy Anderson 1:29:35
12 Bill Lloyd 1:29:38
13 Glassner Family 1:30:29
14 Joan Merriss 1:46:14
15 Jeff, Sonja, Johanna Dickert 2:03:26
Giorgio Panagos DNF
Jong Kim DNF
Second Course
Steve Gregg 25:29
Orange Course (4.1 km, 275 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Deron van Hoff 51:08
2 Ralf Burgert 59:27
3 Marie-Josée Parayre 1:10:07
4 Cornelia Coolen 1:11:14
5 Joe Inkenbrandt 1:14:27
6 Chuck Spalding 1:18:36
7 Bill Whalen 1:21:41
8 Heidi & Bill Cusworth 1:30:46
9 Brad & Natalia Best 1:39:56
10 Paul & Kathy Li 1:40:09
11 David Strong, Spencer Tai 1:48:13
12 Fedor & Danya Karpelevitch 1:49:50
13 Rich & Ty Gampell, Irene Kim 2:02:28
14 Richard Merriss 2:09:54
15 Olga Kraght 2:15:36
16 Steve O'Keefe 2:16:01
Matthew Adams DNF
Austin Lloyd DNF
Second Course
Dennis Wilkinson 37:41
Mikkel Conradi 40:01
Greg Khanlarov 46:13
Tapio Karras 55:11
Cedric Lasfargues 56:44
Graham Brew 59:51
Theo Verhoeven 1:02:17
Brown Course (3.6 km, 295 m climb, 9 controls)
1 François Léonard 33:41
2 Mikkel Conradi 34:47
3 Dennis Wilkinson 37:30
4 Mikko Valimaki 37:53
5 Vesa Ruuska 41:39
6 Tobias Tornqvist 43:02
7 Tapio Karras 43:06
8 Steve Gregg 46:36
9 Matthias Kohler 47:31
10 Greg Khanlarov 54:48
11 Cedric Lasfargues 54:51
12 Werner Haag 54:56
13 Jonas Laucys 56:35
13 Bob Cooley 56:35
15 Derek Maclean 57:49
16 Greg Ehrensing 58:12
17 Steven Harrison 59:15
18 Theo Verhoeven 1:00:59
19 Dan Greene 1:01:54
20 Evan Custer 1:03:47
21 Eric Rosenzweig 1:07:30
22 Bill Papendick 1:13:54
23 David Harrison 1:16:00
24 Vicki Woolworth 1:16:55
25 Mark Blair 1:16:59
26 Christine Brew 1:19:37
27 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 1:19:44
28 Fyodor Konkov 1:21:46
29 Johanna Merriss 1:22:04
30 Pertti Valimaki 1:24:29
31 Carol Schick-Lyda 1:29:18
32 Jay Hann 1:29:44
33 Krists Krilovs 1:31:40
34 Tim Erickson 1:34:47
35 Joe Scarborough 1:54:53
36 Vic Revenko 2:21:12
Jennifer Kerr (GCO) DNF
Graham Brew DNF
Gavin Williams DNF
Stephanie Maclean DNF
Dennis Wildfogel DNF
Joe & Jean van Hoff DNF
Jim Fish DNF
Patty Clemo DNF
Nancy Lindeman DNF
Milpitas NJROTC DNF
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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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