Sunol Regional Wilderness 2012

By Werner Haag

Gone are the days when the Event Director also had to

1. Pay park fees up front,

2. Set & vet courses,

3. Make a master of hand-written map corrections to be copied,

4. Hand draw a set of master courses for participants to copy onto their blank maps (on the clock),

5. Man the starts & finishes,

6. Collect all the controls,

7. Check punch cards for correct pin punches,

8. Calculate each person's time by hand from Start & Finish times (calculators couldn't subtract hours & minutes), and

9. Take home a string of results tabs to prepare a write-up over a period of days while double-checking each result.

These days we have a lot more help, both people-wise & electronic, so you can get your results and event write-up the same day as the event. We had only five weeks to set up this event, and the current BAOC procedures, materials, and people made it possible for this to work.

Over 130 people came out to enjoy a perfect day for running in Sunol: clear skies, temperature in the low 70's, the ground soft from previous days' rain, which had the added benefit of scaring away a horseback riding group that would have competed for parking space and trails.

Sunol's steep, open terrain makes it tough to design challenging, runnable courses, but course setters Damian Swift (advanced) and Gary Carpenter (WYO) came through, as shown by the winning times of close to 1 hour for nearly all the longer courses, and very few DNFs.

Ian Swift was true to his name, winning the White course by a wide margin; his Dad supposedly shadowing could hardly keep up. His also-Swift brother Fillan took the Yellow course in similar fashion. Denis Kourakin won the Orange course by less than a minute over Christine Brew, who was on her second (non-overlapping) course (oaky, Dennis Wilkinson had the fastest time on Orange, but that's way out of his class).

Gavin Williams won the Brown course, while Matthias Kohler beat Karl Mikkelsen by a mere 38 seconds on Green. Matej Sebo, in winning Red, has shown that he has outgrown Junior status and is now regularly outpacing his dad Lubomir.

François Léonard won the Blue course by 1:28 over Dennis Wilkinson with a sprint at the Finish, winning the last 5 legs in a row. François took a surprising short-but-steep route from control 3 to 4, going almost directly over the top of the mountain instead of attempting a lower, contouring route. Nevertheless, Dennis beat him by a almost minute on this leg — hopefully we will see his route choice on RouteGadget.

Thanks to all who helped:

Course setting/vetting: Damian Swift, Gary Carpenter, Robbie Swift, Fillan Swift

Pre-runner/Brown course redesign: Dennis Wildfogel

Registration: James Wilson, Steve Haas

Starts: Alex Finch, Gary Carpenter, Joan Roos, Vicki Woolworth

Finishes: Susan Kim

Refreshments: Nancy Lindeman

e-Punch/Results: Peter Graube, Dan Greene, Rosemary Johnson, Jeff Lanam, and special thanks to Angela Hunter for filling in when no other help was available, and to Mark Blair for driving back home and returning to the event with spare parts to fix the system.

Control Pick-up: The Belgian Brew Team (Cedric Lasfargues, Luc Poppe, Theo Verhoeven), Joe Maffei, Damian & Robbie Swift, Greg Ehrensing, Gary Carpenter

Permit Fees: Steve Gregg

BAOC Annual Meeting & Elections: Trinka Gillis, Kelly Wells

Thanks to all, and to any others I've accidentally omitted!

Lost & Found

The following items were left at the Sunol event:

2 thumb compasses — one with a magnifier

Sveaskog black water bottle

Belt bottle carrier Ultimate Torsopacs

Green Vapur collapsible water bottle

Black camera pouch with spare 1 GB memory card

Pink hairband with ribbon

Let me know if they are yours.

Pl  Name(s)                               Time

White Course  (2.1 km, 60 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Ian Swift                             30:53
   2  Nataliya Bondareko                    40:57
   3  Kajsa Vangbo                          44:09
   4  Jakob Vangbo                          45:24
   5  Minami team                           46:00
   6  Team Karpelevitch                     53:13
   7  Gemma Fa-Kaji                         54:05
   8  Troop 31089                           55:12
   9  Akhil Bhamidipati, Aadeesh Shastry  1:00:03
  10  Misha Iakovlev                      1:11:53
  11  Evan Mazurov                        1:11:56
  12  Janet Kan, Kelvin Ng                1:17:01
  13  Inkenbrandt/Mueller                 1:19:31
  14  Masha, Anton, & Alexander K         1:19:58
  15  Troop 12 - The Lost Patrol          1:59:54

      Troop 12 - Roadkill                   DNF
      Jong Kim                              DNF

Yellow Course  (2.5 km, 110 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Fillan Swift                          30:28
   2  Natalie Kim                           33:27
   3  Hope Fa-Kaji                          40:32
   4  Davy Williams                         41:45
   5  Stefanie Gueorguieva                  41:59
   6  Daniel Sebo                           46:04
   7  Team Debruyn                          46:56
   8  Aivo Krilovs                          50:05
   9  Andrew Kim                          1:12:52
  10  Seng team                           1:17:56
  11  Ernesto Duque                       1:25:41
  12  Brad & Alex Wetmore                 1:57:24

  Second Course

      Minami team                         1:06:07

Orange Course  (3.2 km, 160 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Denis Kourakin                        47:21
   2  Fedor Karpelevitch                    54:12
   3  Team M&M                              57:45
   4  Gus Callaway                        1:13:56
   5  Joan Roos                           1:17:36
   6  Sasha Iakovlev                      1:21:14
   7  Paul & Kathy Li                     1:23:23
   8  Meg Gerstner                        1:27:47
   9  Austin Lloyd                        1:30:00
  10  Van Boughner, Steve Ahuero          1:34:03
  11  Lyubov Solomakha                    1:38:15
  12  Jan Vanhoutte                       1:42:32
  13  Team Euros                          1:48:25
  14  Barbara Straka                      2:00:09
  15  Vamsi Returns                       2:04:04
  16  Team Aiwans                         2:11:24
  17  Vercruysse family                   2:27:50
  18  Lermusi family                      2:27:57
  19  Recalculating team                  3:15:02

      Moulton Lowell                        DNF
      Daniel Kim                            DNF

  Second Course

      Dennis Wilkinson                      29:46
      Christine Brew                        48:14
      Fillan Swift                          59:44
      Jim Fish                            1:31:41

Brown Course  (2.4 km, 160 m climb, 13 controls)

   1  Gavin Williams                        43:47
   2  Jonas Laucys                          46:13
   3  Mark Blair                            52:02
   4  Arne Olsson                           54:36
   5  Scott Aster                           55:55
   6  Krists Krilovs                        56:09
   7  Evan Custer                           56:11
   8  Amelia Archer                       1:03:55
   9  Stefan Stefanov                     1:04:55
  10  Alan Glendinning                    1:06:43
  11  Irena Stefanova                     1:07:48
  12  Terry Gleason                       1:12:30
  13  Jeff Lanam                          1:13:35
  14  Trinka Gillis                       1:14:56
  15  Tim Erickson                        1:24:18
  16  Jim Fish                            1:29:03
  17  Rosemary Johnson                    1:31:21
  18  Nick Corsano                        1:31:50
  19  Vic Revenko                         1:33:16
  20  Michelle Daher                      1:37:15
  21  William Straka                      1:54:22
  22  John Marold                         2:07:48
  23  TJ Nicholson                        2:22:34
  24  Nancy Lindeman                      2:56:19

Green Course  (4.1 km, 315 m climb, 15 controls)

   1  Matthias Kohler                     1:00:02
   2  Karl Mikkelsen                      1:00:40
   3  James Wilson                        1:02:33
   4  Greg Ehrensing                      1:20:05
   5  Cornelia Coolen                     1:22:13
   6  Dan Greene                          1:23:43
   7  Joe Inkenbrandt                     1:24:35
   8  Vicki Woolworth                     1:32:49
   9  Steve Haas                          1:33:21
  10  Robi Mulford                        1:34:04
  11  Marie-Josée Parayre                 1:37:37
  12  Phillip Hoare                       1:39:30
  13  Johanna Merriss                     1:57:34
  14  Flynn Buxton-Walsh                  1:58:38
  15  Jason Hogan                         2:00:14
  16  Judy & Tom Cronin                   2:01:47
  17  Mark Rice                           2:29:07

      Wes Erck, Jeff Stein                  OVT

Red Course  (5.4 km, 380 m climb, 17 controls)

   1  Matej Sebo                          1:02:08
   2  Mark Prior                          1:04:45
   3  Mattias Vangbo                      1:08:53
   4  Jonas Libell (GCO)                  1:11:40
   5  Ralf Burgert                        1:19:21
   6  Lubomir Sebo                        1:22:48
   7  Theo Verhoeven                      1:24:44
   8  Shura Kretchetov                    1:28:37
   9  Graham Brew, Christine Brew         1:38:03
  10  Manfred Kopisch                     1:41:49
  11  Eric Rosenzweig                     1:43:34

      Luc Poppe                             DNF

Blue Course  (6.0 km, 470 m climb, 18 controls)

   1  François Léonard                    1:02:36
   2  Dennis Wilkinson                    1:04:08
   3  Vesa Ruuska (KangSK)                1:10:26
   4  Greg Khanlarov                      1:22:45
   5  Alex Finch                          1:23:14
   6  Andrej Masalokov                    1:24:44
   7  Misha Kreslavsky                    1:25:03
   8  Cedric Lasfargues                   1:32:10
   9  Brendan O'Brien                     1:35:08
  10  Peter Graham                        1:35:20
  11  Greg Favor                          1:45:59
  12  Peter Graube                        1:50:19
  13  Joe Maffei                          2:10:55
  14  Wendell Doman                       2:18:42

      Frederick Lee                         DNF

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