Indian Valley Open Space Preserve
Date: (Sun.) Mar. 12, 2017
Location: Novato, CA
Event Director: 
- 415.895.6039
Course Setter: Tobias Tornqvist
Type: B; Regular 7-course event for beginners through advanced
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=47363) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=390)
Event Write-Up
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About 180 people enjoyed orienteering at the Indian Valley college campus and surrounding hills. They were treated to perfect weather, no competing swim meets, and some very good courses by Tobias Tornqvist. This was Tobias' first time course-setting with BAOC, with hopefully many more to come. The event also had a nice international flavor, with runners from a half-dozen countries participating.
The results are posted below, and you can check out how everyone did. But I'd like to call out several noteworthy performances.
- On Blue, François Léonard devastated the field, leading by over 10 minutes.
- Antoine Finot not only won his Brown course, but then came in second on Green, missing a second win by less than a minute. The Brown and Green courses shared a few controls in common, but this is still most impressive.
- And Anastasiya Gordeeva was top woman on Red, and only a couple of minutes away from an overall win herself.
Several people used Yellow as a second course after first completing a more technical course. This can be an effective training tactic, and perhaps we shall see more of this at future events. And I'd like to give a shout out to Berkeley High. The high-school club organizers are doing something right, as we are seeing more and more Berkeley HS students coming to events and doing well.
Every orienteering event needs a lot of volunteers, and I certainly appreciate the many people who stepped up to help at Indian Valley.
- Scott Aster was my assistant event director, and de facto event director on March 12. We would not have had an event without him.
- Tobias Tornqvist learned course-setting BAOC-style, and provided wonderful courses for everyone. He's got a cute family too, which I'm sure we will be seeing more of at future events.
- Sarah Williams and Judy Koehler helped me at registration.
- Judy Koehler also did multiple Beginners Clinics.
- E-punch was staffed by Jeff Lanam and Rosemary Johnson.
- My wife, Olga Kraght, was instrumental in setting up and taking down everything, and kept me sane in between.
- Mark Burchill, Mel Conrad, and Leslie Minarik helped start people on their courses.
- Greg Ehrensing and Jay Hann organized equipment and made sure everything needed was available.
- Bob Cooley printed enough maps that we did not run out of maps on any of the courses, even with the good turnout.
- And a whole crew helped with control pickup, including Mark Blair, Jay Hann, Steve O'Keefe, Tapio Karras, Anastasiya Gordeeva, Tobias Tornqvist, Olga Kraght, Steve Haas, and Matthias Kohler.
Thank you everyone!
Lost and Found
Two items were left behind at the Indian Valley event. Are either of them perhaps yours?
- A dark blue, hooded, cotton, drawstring jacket, brand name Mossimo Supply Co.
- A black, arm, course description holder
Let know if either of these is yours.
Results
Indian Valley Open Space Preserve
Novato, CA
Sunday, March 12, 2017
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=47363).
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=390). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
White Course (2.0 km, 30 m climb, 9 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Carolyn & Jenna 18:57 (2nd course) 2 Ida Tornqvist BAOC 26:03 +7:06 3 Karpelevitch family 26:14 +7:17 4 Leah Bresee 33:59 +15:02 5 Zoe Douglas Palo Alto HS 35:06 +16:09 6 Ben & Mai Anh Ravey 43:49 +24:52 7 Beatrice Schreibstein BAOC 45:23 +26:26 8 Sunflowers 48:16 +29:19 9 Emilie Tornqvist BAOC 1:02:04 +43:07 10 Halliday family BAOC 1:04:26 +45:29 11 Baji Gobburi & team 1:07:42 +48:45 12 Nance Rozencranz, Sue August 1:19:47 +60:50 13 Sophie Gaal, Kate Greenblatt 1:29:11 +70:14 14 Barbara & Pippi Robben BAOC 1:29:40 +70:43 15 Kai Douglas, Zoe Sid 4:23:07 +244:10
Yellow Course (2.9 km, 95 m climb, 11 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Sam Craig 26:39 (2nd course)
2 Sarah Petersen BAOC 27:44 +1:05 (2nd course)
3 Katie Petersen BAOC 27:54 +1:15 (2nd course)
4 Jay Hann BAOC 39:38 +12:59
5 Noah Sommerhein Nydalens SK 40:38 +13:59
6 Donald Taggart 42:34 +15:55
7 Dan & Leanne Ingram CHS NJROTC 43:30 +16:51
8 Anne Pensgaard OK Horten 43:48 +17:09
9 Julia Qiao, Peyton Wang 46:01 +19:22
10 Marsha Jacobs GCO 49:15 +22:36
11 Ellen Smith 50:26 +23:47
12 Lee Holtzman BAOC 53:11 +26:32
13 Amelia Muniz Berkeley High 56:34 +29:55
14 Leila Allen Berkeley High 57:25 +30:46
15 Maya Revitzer, Julia Doubson BAOC 1:02:54 +36:15
16 Zoe Douglas Palo Alto HS 1:05:11 +38:32 (2nd course)
17 Sunflowers 1:06:26 +39:47 (2nd course)
18 Kathy, Carolyn, & Jenna 1:11:04 +44:25
19 Name unknown (Is this you?) 1:12:43 +46:04
20 Jane & Joline Edwards 1:12:51 +46:12
21 DCA1 Challenge Acad 1:15:42 +49:03
22 Claire Qiao 1:19:23 +52:44
23 Team Clarke 1:20:40 +54:01
24 Robin & Eleni BAOC 1:20:55 +54:16
25 Penny Peak, Ronny Gaal 1:22:43 +56:04
26 DCA2 Challenge Acad 1:25:18 +58:39
27 Mark Berchill 1:31:52 +65:13
28 Ian & Kaellie 1:36:34 +69:55
Julia Doubson, Iris Yuan, &
Kayla Brand BAOC MSP
Braden & Andrew Killeen BAOC DNF
Kevin Cox DNF (2nd course)
Washington B JROTC DNF
Orange Course (3.7 km, 175 m climb, 13 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Nick Townley BAOC 47:44
2 Brian Ho Palo Alto HS 1:00:12 +12:28
3 Gemma Fa-Kaji BAOC 1:23:07 +35:23
4 Jose Lopez Club Iberos 1:23:34 +35:50
5 Juan Perez Club Iberos 1:27:05 +39:21
6 Alan Glendinning,
Meg Gerstner BAOC 1:29:27 +41:43
7 David & Natalie Cowan BAOC 1:36:00 +48:16
8 Bill Murphy BAOC 1:43:14 +55:30
9 Nigel Killeen South Ribble OC 1:48:59 +61:15
10 Darian Montalvo CHS NJROTC 1:54:14 +66:30
11 Jacob Ningen 2:04:11 +76:27
12 Baptista family 2:08:35 +80:51
13 Laura Dawson 2:10:33 +82:49
14 Kevin Walker BAOC 2:11:26 +83:42
15 Ban 2:30:32 +102:48
16 Michael Budiansky BAOC 2:36:30 +108:46
17 Teresa Carrillo Club Iberos 2:45:50 +118:06
18 Dan Cox 2:50:03 +122:19
George Jemmott BAOC MSP
Steve O'Keefe BAOC MSP
Anna Bastrana Club Iberos DNF
Attack Squad 23 DNF
Claire Qiao DNF (2nd course)
Eli & Steven Svovoda Berkeley High DNF
G/D Walden BAOC DNF
Julia Qiao, Peyton Wang DNF (2nd course)
Kai Douglas, Kayla Brand DNF (2nd course)
Robin & Eleni BAOC DNF (2nd course)
Rosemary Johnson BAOC DNF
Sam Craig DNF
Zoe Douglas Palo Alto HS DNF (3rd course)
Brown Course (3.7 km, 215 m climb, 14 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Antoine Finot 51:49
2 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 52:54 +1:05
3 Chuck Spalding BAOC 53:29 +1:40
4 Elliott Jones 55:05 +3:16
5 Katie Petersen BAOC 55:44 +3:55
6 Toru Furusawa BAOC 1:00:48 +8:59
7 Steve Haas BAOC 1:01:29 +9:40
8 Brian Ho Palo Alto HS 1:03:44 +11:55 (2nd course)
9 Sarah Petersen BAOC 1:06:39 +14:50
10 Hope Fa-Kaji BAOC 1:10:27 +18:38
11 Dan Greene BAOC 1:12:19 +20:30
12 George Minarik BAOC 1:16:01 +24:12
13 Johanna Merriss BAOC 1:18:44 +26:55
14 Evan Custer BAOC 1:19:32 +27:43
15 Irena Stefanova BAOC 1:24:43 +32:54
16 Mark Blair BAOC 1:37:07 +45:18
17 Jeff Lanam BAOC 1:43:28 +51:39
18 Terry Gleason BAOC 1:50:03 +58:14
19 Vic Revenko BAOC 2:26:14 +94:25
Bob Cooley BAOC DNF
Carl Kiyota, Joe Miller DNF
Dagfinn Follesdal OSI Norway DNF
Leslie Minarik BAOC DNF
Nancy Lindeman BAOC DNF
Green Course (4.3 km, 285 m climb, 17 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Michael Sommerhein OK Horten 59:42
2 Antoine Finot 59:45 +0:03 (2nd course)
3 Daniel Å ebo BAOC 1:05:09 +5:27
4 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 1:13:23 +13:41
5 Greg Ehrensing BAOC 1:16:24 +16:42
6 Jeffrey Kabel BAOC 1:17:54 +18:12
7 Julia Doubson BAOC 1:18:05 +18:23
8 Matthias Kohler BAOC 1:18:19 +18:37
9 Stephanie Maclean BAOC 1:31:17 +31:35
10 Olga Kraght BAOC 1:43:09 +43:27
11 Carl Williams BAOC 1:47:18 +47:36
12 Kevin Cox 1:55:18 +55:36
13 Davy Williams BAOC 2:00:44 +61:02
14 Gary Carpenter BAOC 2:09:00 +69:18
15 Drew Cannon BAOC 2:12:54 +73:12
16 Judy & Tom Cronin BAOC 2:34:02 +94:20
Donald Taggart DNF (2nd course)
Matt, Rick, & Eric DNF
Red Course (5.5 km, 360 m climb, 22 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Tapio Karras BAOC 1:13:40
2 Kyle Halliday BAOC 1:14:24 +0:44
3 Anastasiya Gordeeva BAOC 1:17:17 +3:37
4 Graham Brew BAOC 1:18:40 +5:00
5 Penny DeMoss BAOC 1:33:24 +19:44
6 Fyodor Konkov BAOC 1:36:54 +23:14
7 Derek Maclean BAOC 1:38:17 +24:37
8 Theo Verhoven BAOC 1:49:02 +35:22
9 Luc Poppe BAOC 1:56:44 +43:04
10 Lisa Hughey, Harris Mason BAOC 2:20:53 +67:13
11 Marina Keating BAOC 2:39:19 +85:39
Eric Rosenzweig BAOC DNF
Blue Course (7.1 km, 440 m climb, 23 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 François Léonard BAOC 1:07:23
2 Aron Walker BAOC 1:18:48 +11:25
3 Matej Å ebo BAOC 1:20:15 +12:52
4 Kyle Peter BAOC 1:26:23 +19:00
5 Jorgen Schnack AOK Denmark 1:27:05 +19:42
6 Paul Ort BAOC 1:35:23 +28:00
7 Jose Garcia Club Iberos 1:38:50 +31:27
8 Greg Khanlarov BAOC 1:44:45 +37:22
9 Nikolay Chukanov BAOC 2:01:03 +53:40
10 Greg Favor BAOC 2:08:13 +60:50
11 Eric Robertson,
Ginny Laforme BAOC 2:15:05 +67:42
12 Joe Maffei BAOC 2:16:44 +69:21
Stan Barrett BAOC DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)