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Browns Valley Open Space Preserve

Date: (Sun.) Feb. 25, 2024
Location: Vacaville, CA
Event Director: - 510.681.6181
Course Setter: Richard Thorsted
Type: B; Our second visit to this new map of a "smaller Morgan Territory", with bigger rocks and fewer trees, will offer the standard 7 courses, from Beginner to Advanced; beginners are welcome and can learn about orienteering at free Beginner Clinics

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Event Write-Up

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Thanks to all who came to Browns Valley!

Last fall, we had attendance in the range of 60 people. This spring, we may have eclipsed 100.

Behind the scenes, there was some strife. But come event day, we got to enjoy some orienteering. Never give up. Never surrender.

George Minarik had to surrender. He was ready to go as course consultant, but our course setter Richard Thorsted had a difficult schedule, but still wanted to set the courses. We waited, and waited, and then George had to go on vacation.

Andrejus Masalkovas, hero of the Cal-O-Fest 2023 for saving the Golden Gate Park event by course setting, stepped in as vetter/course consultant. He gave feedback on Richard Thorsted’s interesting courses that explored different routes than the fall event.

And then... we discovered a problem... somehow, mysteriously, the Blue course was 10 km, and the Brown course was 5 km. Something going on with the scale...

So the Friday before, 1 day before control placement, 2 days before the orienteering, all courses had to be redesigned, using the existing control points Richard scouted.

Not wanting to induce panic and discourage attendance, I didn’t want to put up last-minute course stats. However, many people then came ready to do Blue — we had like 25 people wanting to do Blue (by comparison, at the better-attended Coyote Lake event, there were 13 people on Blue) and we had printed 15 Blue maps. So we hand-drew two Blue maps on existing Red maps and a few others did Red instead. That boosted Red participation from 5 to 7 people. Sorry about the lack of Blue maps.

But perhaps the biggest snafu was the lack of access to the school campus, which we paid for in advance. After multiple phone calls to school district numbers that failed to reach anyone, I tried Vacaville police. They called the city public works department, and somehow they got someone to show up and let us in, which finally gave us bathroom access, about 1 hour later than we were supposed to be in. (At our fall event, we went through the same process, and had no issues with having someone show up and let us in at the scheduled time.)

So sorry about that.

Give us credit for the awesome weather though. Although the ground drying out a bit made the cow-pockmarked trails and hillsides a bit more ankle-twisty.

Still, the lack of star-thistle was glorious.

Thanks to all of our helpers!




Results

Browns Valley Open Space Preserve

Vacaville, CA
Sunday, February 25, 2024

White Course   Yellow Course   Orange Course   Brown Course   Green Course   Red Course   Blue Course

Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=95398) and on Attackpoint (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_57328).

You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget for this event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=535). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)

Please tell Jay Hann () and the webmasters () if anything needs to be changed.


White Course                   (1.2 km, 75 m climb, 9 controls)  
                                                      Time      Time  
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Henry Tracey                          26:11              1:18  
    2  Josh Badger                           26:13     0:02     1:20
    3  Ursula Alwans                         26:42     0:31     1:07
    4  Joe Young Group                       41:30    15:19    11:40
    5  Lillian & Karen Group                 45:54    19:43     9:12
    6  Mighty Monkees          Troop 7062  1:24:00    57:49    24:25
       Rebecca Lindholm                      DNF                      

Yellow Course                (1.9 km, 130 m climb, 12 controls)  
                                                      Time      Time  
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Richard Treadwell                     47:21              3:49  
    2  Paul Treadwell                        47:30     0:09     3:48
    3  Jenna Thorsted              BAOC      49:32     2:11     6:45
    4  Melissa Bonilla             CHSOC   1:18:18    30:57    22:07
    5  Haight & Holtzen Group              1:27:54    40:33    13:37
    6  Michael Jacobson                    1:28:13    40:52    13:30
    7  Gera Group                          1:41:06    53:45    13:36
    8  Darwin Deniro                       1:52:33    65:12    37:04
    9  Bernat Group                        1:53:19    65:58    24:54
   10  Rory Deniro                         1:54:33    67:12    34:30
   11  Reiff Group                         1:55:43    68:22    34:43
       Oliver Robinson             BAOC      DNF                      
       Scott Aster                 BAOC      DNS                      

Orange Course                (2.8 km, 140 m climb, 13 controls)  
                                                      Time      Time  
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Richard Treadwell                   1:01:31              2:38  2nd course  
    2  Paul Treadwell                      1:02:08     0:37     2:57  2nd course
    3  Uryansky Group                      1:17:08    15:37     2:02
    4  Joe Young Group                     1:32:05    30:34    11:47  2nd course
    5  Calloway Group                      1:35:03    33:32     7:46
    6  Luis Cervantes              CHSOC   1:36:05    34:34    15:43
    7  Rebecca Dun                         1:48:35    47:04    19:31
    8  Shelburne & Wang Group              2:01:09    59:38    23:59
    9  William Nguyen              BAOC    2:03:01    61:30    13:26
   10  Ian Lewis De Alba           CHSOC   2:19:13    77:42    28:04
   11  Leta Krechetov              BAOC    2:29:32    88:01    12:39
   12  Sturgeon Group                      2:41:15    99:44    31:26
   13  Katy Robinson               BAOC    2:45:09   103:38    11:06
       Amelya LaRocca              CHSOC     DNF                      
       Ryah Newton                 CHSOC     DNF
       Jazzy Avila                 CHSOC     DNS                      

Brown Course                 (3.1 km, 145 m climb, 12 controls)  
                                                      Time      Time  
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Wayne Staats                BAOC      29:00              1:26  2nd course  
    2  Werner Haag                 BAOC      39:28    10:28     0:26
    3  Tyler Williams              BAOC      43:36    14:36     4:53  2nd course
    4  Stephanie Maclean           BAOC      51:31    22:31     4:59
    5  Yana Konovalenko            BAOC      53:00    24:00    14:38
    6  Kostia Turcheniuk                     53:07    24:07     3:32
    7  Michael Robinson            BAOC      57:03    28:03     6:28
    8  Andres Pena Tauber                  1:01:18    32:18     8:44
    9  Jerry Skirvin               CHSOC   1:04:09    35:09     8:58
   10  Taelyn Ailes                CHSOC   1:07:02    38:02    15:21
   11  Johanna Merriss             BAOC    1:10:14    41:14    14:25
   12  Nick Corsano                BAOC    1:18:20    49:20    15:36
   13  Joseph Geddes               BAOC    1:32:14    63:14    11:28
   14  Evan Custer                 BAOC    1:32:47    63:47    10:18
   15  Jeff Lanam                  BAOC    2:16:54   107:54    36:28
       Dennis Wildfogel            BAOC      DNF                      
       Laura & Rob Group           BAOC      DNF
       Mirjana Spasojevic                    DNS                      
       Miroslav Trubelja           BAOC      DNS

Green Course                 (4.1 km, 180 m climb, 16 controls)  
                                                      Time      Time  
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Tapio Karras                BAOC    1:05:01              2:44  
    2  Matt Marlow                         1:07:51     2:50     5:22
    3  Tac Sugiyama                BAOC    1:11:43     6:42     1:41
    4  Steve Gregg                 BAOC    1:14:30     9:29     3:00
    5  Eric Rosenzweig             BAOC    1:15:34    10:33     4:04
    6  Derek Maclean               BAOC    1:18:50    13:49     5:08
    7  Greg Lennon                 QOC     1:20:58    15:57     3:06
    8  Marie-Josée Parayre         BAOC    1:26:36    21:35    15:36
    9  Kyle Poland                 GCO     1:30:49    25:48     8:06
   10  Kathleen Lan                BAOC    1:34:45    29:44    14:18
   11  Kathleen Lennon             QOC     1:36:15    31:14     8:01
   12  Josh Munic                          1:38:23    33:22    12:31
   13  Isai Vazquez                CHSOC   1:45:51    40:50     6:47
   14  Shura Krechetov             BAOC    1:56:27    51:26    23:41
   15  Sean Robinson               BAOC    2:01:15    56:14    24:04
   16  Jasmine Slater              CHSOC   2:13:50    68:49    15:59
   17  Olga Kraght                 BAOC    2:25:38    80:37    38:01
       Gary Kraght                 BAOC      DNF                      
       Kevin Hinkley, Terri Hunt   BAOC      DNF
       Laurel Larson Group         BAOC      DNF
       Dylan Perez Sanchez         CHSOC     DNS                      

Red Course                   (5.2 km, 290 m climb, 22 controls)  
                                                      Time      Time  
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Brian Ritchken              BAOC    1:17:18              4:47  
    2  Julia Doubson               BAOC    1:17:32     0:14     0:50
    3  Lubomir Sebo                BAOC    1:26:51     9:33     9:03
    4  Tyler Williams              BAOC    1:48:52    31:34    12:40
    5  Theo Verhoeven              BAOC    2:15:21    58:03     4:58
    6  Kris Andersen               GCO     2:21:09    63:51    24:17
    7  Gavin Wyatt-Mair            BAOC    2:39:24    82:06    17:51

Blue Course                  (6.0 km, 375 m climb, 26 controls)  
                                                      Time      Time  
   Pl  Name                        Club      Time    Behind     Lost
    1  Yurii Konovalenko           BAOC    1:08:51              0:48  
    2  Mark Sinks                  BAOC    1:21:40    12:49     0:00
    3  Wayne Staats                BAOC    1:22:32    13:41     2:31
    4  François Léonard            BAOC    1:28:15    19:24     3:30
    5  Jeffrey Kabel               BAOC    1:30:46    21:55     2:38
    6  Tom De Vre                  BAOC    1:48:04    39:13     4:38
    7  Andrej Masalkov             BAOC    1:49:07    40:16     4:44
    8  Sam Barker                  BAOC    1:52:39    43:48    12:47
    9  Josef Estrada               CHSOC   2:08:34    59:43    14:06
   10  Emily Ellsworth             BAOC    2:10:08    61:17    24:25
   11  Weichun Fong                BAOC    2:14:07    65:16    22:53
   12  Raynar Malasaga             CHSOC   2:18:32    69:41    10:11
   13  Chris Haney                 BAOC    2:19:43    70:52    18:56
   14  Gili Elias            ASA Tel-Aviv  2:20:02    71:11     9:19
   15  Noah Bean                   CHSOC   2:28:14    79:23    21:22
   16  Kristin Bremm               NAVX    2:29:46    80:55    17:03
   17  Johan Grobler               NAVX    2:30:01    81:10    19:00
       Grooman & McHugh Group      GCO       DNF                      

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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DNS = Did not start