Presidio of San Francisco
Date: (Sat.) Jul. 31, 2021
Location: San Francisco, CA
Event Director: 
- 415.531.3627
Course Setter: Deron van Hoff
Type: C; Sprint courses at the Main Post Parade Ground on SATURDAY
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=76169) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=486)
Event Write-Up
By , Event Director and Course Setter
Thanks to everyone who came out and enjoying the Presidio on this first official event of 2021! Here is hoping to many more opportunities as venues start allowing permitted events.
Thank you to our group of volunteers who made the event possible:
- Starts: Steve Gregg, Chuck Spalding, James Roney, Clara Staats
- Assembly Area Setup: Graham Brew
- E-punch: Jeff Lanam, Scott Aster
- Registration: Steve Haas
- Beginner’s Clinics: Graham Brew
- Control Pickup: Steve Gregg, James Roney, Chuck Spalding, Tapio Karras
- Maps: Bob Cooley
- Equipment: Jay Hann, Gary Carpenter
- Website: Chuck Spalding
- Insurance Coordination: Marina Keating
- Presidio Trust: Christie Schantz, Will Rocha, Jake
A special shout out to James Roney, a new member of our club who reached out early to volunteer, and to young and up-and-coming star Clara Staats, who worked Starts very proficiently. Thanks for your awesome help during the event.
We had 11 starts on Yellow, 24 starts on Green, and 22 starts on Blue, so a nice distribution across the three courses offered.
Chuck Spalding finished first on Yellow (as a second course), with John and Harry Richardson a close second. Joe and Julien and the Lebreton family finished in nearly a dead heat for third. (The Yellow course shared controls with the Green and Blue courses, so running Yellow second had an advantage—offset by the physical disadvantage of having run a previous course.)
On the Green course, Wayne Staats bested the rest in a good time of 13:24. From the time splits and RouteGadget, it appears Wayne took the correct route from Green 1 to Green 2, avoiding a route through a Forbidden Hedge that many mistakenly took in their haste. (It looks like the route through the Forbidden Hedge saved about 20 to 30 seconds, but would have resulted in disqualification in a competitive event.) Andrew Petersen and Graham Brew finished in second and third. (All three of those guys ran Green after running the Blue course. There were no shared controls, so no benefit was obtained, and they had the physical disadvantage of having already run a longer course.)
The long course of the day, Blue, was won by François Léonard in 22:09. Wayne Staats finished in second despite some less than ideal routes, including running off the map from Blue 3 to Blue 4. 😊 It's nice to be fast! And Ann Marie Cody finished in third with a very good time of 28:03.
Thanks again all for a very successful and low stress event. I look forward to seeing you at one of the upcoming venues!
Results
Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Yellow Course Green Course Blue Course
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=76169).
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=486). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
Please tell if anything needs to be changed.
Yellow Course (1.9 km, 20 m climb, 12 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Chuck Spalding BAOC 14:40 (2nd course)
2 John & Harry Richardson BAOC 14:49 0:09
3 Joe & Julien 15:58 1:18
4 Lebreton family 15:59 1:19
5 Jenny Zheng BAOC 22:44 8:04
6 William Murphy BAOC 23:01 8:21
7 Mattsson family 38:08 23:28
8 Nancy Lindeman BAOC 40:13 25:33
9 Turner 49:53 35:13
10 Paul & Greyson Lanzi 50:02 35:22
11 King family 1:56:06 101:26
Green Course (2.7 km, 25 m climb, 14 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Wayne Staats 13:24 (2nd course)
2 Andrew Petersen BAOC 15:24 2:00 (2nd course)
3 Graham Brew BAOC 15:52 2:28 (2nd course)
4 Tapio Karras BAOC 16:18 2:54
5 Taylor Pospisil BAOC 17:30 4:06 (2nd course)
6 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 17:34 4:10
7 Jamie Maclean BAOC 17:55 4:31
8 James Roney BAOC 19:22 5:58 (2nd course)
9 Derek Maclean BAOC 20:06 6:42
10 Rory Maclean BAOC 20:56 7:32
11 Chuck Spalding BAOC 21:14 7:50
12 Stephanie Maclean BAOC 23:36 10:12
13 Beiduo Rao BAOC 23:49 10:25
14 Steve Haas BAOC 27:45 14:21
15 George Minarik BAOC 29:27 16:03
16 Evan Custer BAOC 31:59 18:35
17 Jeff Lanam BAOC 33:12 19:48
18 Rhonda & Ellen BAOC 34:50 21:26
19 William Murphy BAOC 35:45 22:21 (2nd course)
20 Scott Aster BAOC 36:00 22:36
21 Anna Staats BAOC 40:41 27:17
22 Eron Flory BAOC 47:26 34:02
23 Clara Staats BAOC 52:16 38:52
Gary Carpenter BAOC DNF
Blue Course (4.4 km, 60 m climb, 22 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 François Léonard BAOC 22:09
2 Wayne Staats BAOC 25:49 3:40
3 Ann Marie Cody BAOC 28:03 5:54
4 Graham Brew BAOC 28:09 6:00
5 Andrew Petersen BAOC 29:00 6:51
6 Steve Gregg BAOC 29:33 7:24
7 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 29:34 7:25
7 Taylor Pospisil BAOC 29:34 7:25
9 James Roney 32:31 10:22
10 Joe & Julien 37:22 15:13 (2nd course)
11 Lebreton family 40:10 18:01 (2nd course)
12 Beiduo Rao BAOC 40:31 18:22 (2nd course)
13 Irena Stefanova BAOC 41:56 19:47
14 John Richardson BAOC 42:36 20:27
15 Johanna Merriss BAOC 49:30 27:21
16 Olga Kraght BAOC 53:06 30:57
17 Gary Carpenter BAOC 58:37 36:28 (2nd course)
18 Evan Custer BAOC 58:50 36:41 (2nd course)
19 Vin Noah BAOC 1:01:05 38:56
20 Diy Ang BAOC 1:02:30 40:21
21 Rhonda & Ellen BAOC 1:18:36 56:27 (2nd course)
Brook Staats BAOC DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)