Triennial Finger Lakes Trail Relay VII - 1999

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Summary

May 2nd Sunday; 81 runners; 13+ teams

East to West; Caroline (Rt. 79) to Watkins Glen State Park (lower entrance)

Catherine the Great: Jackie Tarrent

Back to the "classic" route. The race date was only announced about six weeks beforehand, but the three years of anticipation and rumor ensured a large and enthusiastic turnout. Race director Daley cooked up a scoring system to favor veterans: cross-country (place) scoring, but times adjusted -1 minute for each year over 40 years of age, before places were computed. This was a completely arbitrary rule, true to Triennial tradition.

Unknown to the organizers (but definitely within the rules), turkey season began the day before the race. Runners on the early stages (before noon) were treated to encounters with men dressed as trees and carrying large shotguns.

 

Teams

  1. Atrocious: captain Joe Daley
  2. Green Goons of High Noon: captain Rick Cleary
  3. High Finger: captain Joe Dabes
  4. Running Linguists: captain John Whitman
  5. Zen Runners (actually the Bottom Feeders in disguise)
  6. Snuggle Bunnies: captain Jeff Buboltz
  7. Trail Tribe: captains: Knewstub brothers
  8. Trail Hags
  9. Mighty Isis
  10. Atalanta's Rose (whatever that means)
  11. LateCummers
  12. TIUTALAM (don't ask): captain Skull
  13. Six Fine Fillies
  14. Trojans (incomplete): captain by default Bob Congdon
 

Stages

Same as Triennial V (1993), but in the reverse direction  

Results

10:17:33

Leg 1        

Place

Name

Time

Team

Notes

1

Slava Ispolatov

01:52:10

Running Linguists

Is that his real name, or a cunning linguistic trick?

2

Jackie Tarrent

01:54:55

Atalantas Roses

Catherine the Great, but who put the lemon juice in her tea?

3

DumpTruck Rossiter

02:04:31

Atrocious

-9 minutes

4

John Bott

02:00:45

Highfinger

 

5

Gillian Sharp

02:08:02

6 Fine Fillies

Firefighter, biathelete, honorable competitor, and even a sense of humor

6

Rick Cleary

02:13:59

Green Goons

-2 minutes (finally 40)

x

Bob Congdon

02:22:35

Trojans

Who let the dogs out?

7

John Stiner

02:23:00

Tiutalam

 

8

Fred Knewstub

02:34:53

Trail Tribe

-10 minutes

9

Tessa Bauer

02:32:04

Mighty Isis

 

10

Walter Doan

02:32:04

Latecumers

Must have been playing with his own dingaling...

11

Steve Hall

02:52:21

Zen Runrs

Started 38 minutes late

12

Jeff Buboltz

02:55:58

Snugglebunnies

 

13

Ann Curran

03:09:50

Trail hags

 
Leg 2        

Place

Name

Time

Team

Notes

1

Herb Engman

01:52:45

Atrocious

-13 minutes

2

Tom Powers

01:48:54

Highfinger

-9 minutes

3

Ron Knewstub

01:52:07

Trail Tribe

-9 minutes

4

Guillermo Metz

01:50:00

Tiutalam

 

5

Dan Walesa

01:51:33

Zen Runrs

 

6

Raju Rohde

01:52:07

Green Goons

 

7

Arthur Bell

02:01:36

Running Linguists

 

8

Patty Albright

02:09:35

Trail Hags

 

9

Tom Blasiak

02:10:09

Latecumers

 

10

Sandy Gregorich

02:10:13

6 Fine Fillies

 

11

Sue Aigen

02:33:35

Atalantas Roses

 

12

Sarah Schug

02:36:34

Mighty Isis

 

13

Mike Palmer

03:20:00

Snugglebunnies

 
         
Leg 3        

Place

Name

Time

Team

Notes

1

Chris Mansfield

01:53:30

Green Goons

 

2

Ron Herried

02:00:21

Tiutalam

 

3

John Whitman

02:12:38

Running Linguists

-4 minutes

4

Jim Miner

02:21:25

Highfinger

-10 minutes

5

Jeff Juran

02:14:02

Trail Tribe

-2 minutes

6

Lorrie Marnell

02:26:17

6 Fine Fillies

 

7

Arthur Shaub

02:29:41

Snugglebunnies

 

8

Jim Booker

02:35:44

Atrocious

 

9

Becky Hanna

02:37:56

Mighty Isis

 

10

Brent Alspach

02:50:38

Zen Runrs

 

11

Teresa Sadeghi

03:03:20

Atalantas Roses

 

12

Jennifer Calkins

03:07:00

Trail Hags

 

13

Patty Hahn

05:30:00

Latecumers

Odyseus "endless wandering"

Leg 4        

Place

Name

Time

Team

Notes

1

Casey Carlstrom

02:07:06

Green Goons

 

2

Jason De Vita

02:09:30

Zen Runrs

 

3

Joe Daley

02:17:35

Atrocious

-8 minutes

4

Yvette De Boer

02:02:05

6 Fine Fillies

+10 minutes
Lorena Bobbitt (short cuts)

5

Greg MacGowan

02:20:38

Tiutalam

 

6

Bob Belman

02:23:25

Latecumers

 

7

Paul Beckwith

02:17:55

Highfinger

+10 minutes, -4 minutes

8

Flondell Clark

02:26:24

Trail Tribe

 

9

Barb Bellows

02:21:25

Atalantas Roses

+10 minutes, -4 minutes
Christpher Columbus "most lost"

10

Sarah Broadley

02:35:43

Mighty Isis

 

11

Pat

UNK

Snugglebunnies

 

12

Andrea Apostal

UNK

Running Linguists

 

13

Anna Jolles

UNK

Trail Hags

 
Leg 5        

Place

Name

Time

Team

Notes

1

Joe Dabes

01:18:21

Highfinger

-20 minutes at least

2

Bela Ban

01:06:47

Green Goons

 

3

Caleb Rossiter

01:14:37

Atrocious

-7 minutes

4

Jeff Hanna

01:08:07

Zen Runrs

Albert Speer
"I was only following orders"

5

Harold Schultz

01:25:09

Latecumers

-12 minutes, but he's really 29
ADA "NO HANDICAP"

x

John McMurray

01:25:30

Trojans

Started 10 min. early

6

Blair Balogh

01:16:02

Tiutalam

 

7

Edith Aldrich

01:31:32

Running Linguists

 

8

Gloria Matthews

01:31:41

6 Fine Fillies

 

9

Jeanette Fetchner

01:31:51

Atalantas Roses

 

10

Dan Farr

01:37:53

Trail Tribe

 

11

Karina Kosco

01:49:37

Mighty Isis

 

12

Mike Fitch

01:49:37

Snugglebunnies

 

13

Jeanette McGregran

01:53:56

Trail Hags

 
Leg 6        

Place

Name

Time

Team

Notes

1

Alan Evans

01:29:06

Trail Tribe

 

2

Gary Burdick

01:38:11

Highfinger

-4 minutes

3

Earl Finnemore?

01:51:11

Tiutalam

 

4

Patrick Jenny

01:53:07

Green Goons

 

5

Winton Rossiter

01:58:23

Atrocious

-4 minutes

6

Tim Patronski

01:53:58

Zen Runrs

+5 minutes SCB

7

Earl Steinbach

02:13:42

Latecumers

-18 minutes, +5 minutes SCB

8

Pam Carlucci

02:18:34

Mighty Isis

-3 minutes

9

Ljerka Ukrainczyk

02:16:50

Trail Hags

 

10

Ester Prins

02:21:15

Atalantas Roses

 

11

Cheryl Docherty

02:21:16

6 Fine Fillies

 

12

Jennifer Jacobs

02:21:25

Running Linguists

 

13

Andy Ryder

02:23:43

Snugglebunnies

 

x

Regis Carver

02:24:16

Trojans

Man as Mountain

         
TOTALS        

1T

Green Goons

20 points

   

1T

Highfinger

20 points

1st masters

 

3

Atrocious

23 points

2nd masters

 

4

Tiutilam

27 points

   

5

Trail Tribe

35 points

   

6

Zen Runrs

38 points

   

7

Running Linguists

41 points

   

8

6 Fine Fillies

44 points

1st female

 

9

Late Cumers

50 points

   

10

Atalanta's Roses

52 points

2nd female

 

11

Mighty Isis

59 points

3rd female

 

12T

Trail Hags

68 points

4th female

 

12T

Snugglebunnies

68 points

   
         

BEST TIME

     

Ammendend Results

PRESS RELEASE: Atrocious Declared Victor -- Surprise Trade of Disgraced Booker Leads to Victory -- Dabes Hospitalized for Apoplexy

Ithaca, NY, May 11 -- Finger Lakes Triennial Trail Run VII Director Joe Daley shocked the Central New York Running Community today with the announcement that under longstanding but little known special authorities, he had been forced to declare Atrocious the victor in the hard-fought and hard-calculated battle in early May. "My hands are tied," said a shaken Daley, after mobs had gathered outside a number of his 100 properties to protest the decision. "The rules are the rules -- that's what America is all about...if some people don't like it, they can move to Serbia, so I can bomb them."

According to Daley, he was forced to award the victory to the revered Atrocious team when notified by Atrocious lawyer Jeff Furman that Atrocious had by a majority vote traded Jim Booker to the Running Linguists for John Whitman. Under the Triennial Rules, trades consumated within two weeks of the event result in the trade of the performances as well. As a result, Atrocious gave up an 8th place finish on the Lick Brook leg, and received a 3rd in return. The new final score was Atrocious 18, Green Goons 20, High Finger 21. High Finger had been penalized a point for Joe Dabes' incessant whining in the aftermath of the race. Informed of the ascension of Atrocious and his team's decline into third place, Dabes had an apoplectic fit while running for his keyboard. He is recovering nicely in Tompkins County Eldercare.

Atrocious runner Caleb Rossiter initiated the trade of Booker for Whitman, out of disgust that Booker had let the Snuggle Bunnies beat him on his leg. When asked by reporters if he felt that he was betraying Booker, who had run his congressional campaign in Allegany County and run every step of the county with him during that recent campaign, Rossiter said: "It's not personal, Sonny, it's strictly business. I can't abide a man being beaten by the Snuggle Bunnies." Whitman eagerly accepted his promotion to Atrocious. "I've been a running linguist long enough. It's time to join the big leagues. I can't wait for 2002, and I'll die before I let a Snuggle Bunny beat me."

[Editor's note: there are rumors that Whitman was convinced to waive his no-trade rights as captain of the Linguists, when certain facts concerning the true reasons for his frequent trips to Japan, linked with his stock holdings in certain vending-machine concessions, were on the verge of appearing in the Drudge Report...]

 

Recollections

Caleb Rossiter writes:

"I had always wanted to try the fabled Texas Hollow leg, where I had heard of hand over hand climbing...unfortunately, I had not been training too hard and resembled a mobile can of Chunky soup, and couldn't get my hands very far over my head. After a snappy start, romping along Cayuta lake, there it was: the straight climb onto the first ridge...not too bad, as I held onto fourth; then after a long down hill, came the the even tougher climb to the top of the Hollow...still not too bad, as I moved into third...but the interminable downhill started to blow my legs out, and I was in fourth again at the bottom...climbing back out was brutal, but I walked (literally) away from my opponent, crawling indeed hand over hand the last stretch, and then at the top, wildly sprinted away to hold him off....and that was irrelevant: turned out the lowlife was just running it for fun, without a team...wish he'd told me earlier. I carried out the run perfectly to match my training: I arrived at a roar, with nothing left, the runner's dream...


Author: Dump Truck, cyrus621 (at) telfort.nl

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