Raccoon Creek State Park
Raccoongaine VIII (Mini-Rogaine)
26 March 2017
It
was an exceptionally nice day at Raccoon Creek, perhaps even a little
warm (in the 60's). The predicted rain held off until about 2:30
pm and even then it was really only a few sprinkles. This year
again there was excellent cooperation for the participants with respect
to parking. Thanks to all the competitors for making an effort at
carpooling.
The
registration limit was reached very early this year (January 11).
We had 23 3-hour
teams and 72 6-hour teams registered; however, three 3-hour team did
not
show up and seven 6-hour teams did not show up - some of the no-shows
were due to injury, others were unexplained. The format was the same
as
in previous Raccoongaines: 50 controls with values of 10, 20, 30, 40,
and 50 (10 controls of each value for a total of 1500 possible points).
The penalty for lateness was 10 points per minute. Four
mystery
controls were not shown on the map (in this case controls 111, 112, 113
and 114) and four other controls (the mother controls, in this
case 137, 115, 103, and 124, respectively) had maps to show where the
mystery controls were. After arriving at a mother control, competitors
could choose to go to the mystery control or not; all mystery controls
were 20-point controls.
This
year there were no issues with control placement. After screwing
up placement of two controls last year, we changed procedures for
marking and vetting and appear to have corrected the problem.
Comments about the races:
This
year first-time Raccoongainer, Shinichi Shimizu tore up the 3-hour
course, even reaching one of the two most northern controls. He
had an impressive 460 points. Tied for second overall at 3-hours
were two of our own club members, Alexis Shank (half of team Your Pace
or Mine) and Ryan Knecht. And another first-time Raccoongainer,
Mark Lattanzi (Running with Samson) was the overall winner of the
6-hour course with 1010 points. Hail to the Chimp (Dave Eaton)
was close behind with 960 points and Topo the Mountain (the Fishers)
were third with 880 points. The scores, particularly on the
6-hour course, were considerably lower than last year. In 2016,
Brian Mayer came close to clearing the course with 1420 points; this
year Brian was slowed down a good bit by carrying his 2-year old
daughter on his back. But because of last year's scores, this
year's map added perhaps 1000 acres to the map and the course was
designed to be harder. I thought it looked harder when I
saw it on paper and when I was putting out the controls, I was
sure it was harder. So for those of you were have been frequent
Raccoongainers and you found that your score was 100-200 points less
this year, it is not just because you are a year older.
The
top three teams on the 6-hour course all reached 31 controls, half of
last year's number. Only eight teams found half or more of the
controls on the 6-hour. The most controls for the 3-hour was 15
by Shinichi Shimizu, which I note is more than half of the 6-hour
teams. The average score for the 3-hour, not counting penalties,
was 182; the average for the 6-hour, not counting penalties, was 497.
Of the most distant controls, 147 and 150 in the north and 134
and 148 in the east, no team reached all of these; however, both
Running with Samson and Hail to the Chimp reached three of the four,
omitting 150.
No
surprise, the most visited control was 101, with 55 visits. The
surprise was that 106 was second most visited (43) and 124 was third
(39). Least visited was 150 with 8 visits, not a surprise either
due
to
its remoteness. Half a dozen controls were tied for
second
least visited with 16. For the mystery controls, it was clear
from the splits that a number of teams found 113 before 103; and at
least a couple may have thought they were at 103 because they did not
continue on to 103. It was definitely a surprise that ten teams
that found 124 did not go to mystery control 114. This is because
114 was barely 70 m from 124.
A
lot of people helped to make Raccoongaine VIII possible. Thanks to
Alexis
Rzewski for designing the courses. Thanks to Dave
Battista for vetting the courses. Thanks to Joe Logan, John Huffman and
Ryan Knecht for controlling parking. Thanks to Sherry Shank, Alexis Shank and
Laurie Opila for dealing with waivers and packets. Thanks
to Laurie Opila, Mary and Paul Sleppy, Giuseppina Mecchia and Joe Logan for preparing food.
Thanks to Joe Logan for putting out the water stops. And thanks to Jen
Livingston and Alexis Rzewski for helping pick up control flags.
Also
thanks to our sponsors: Dick's Sporting Goods for the gift
certificates and discount coupons; Zanfel for their poison ivy
treatments and information; and NuGo for the power bars.
Below are the results by category for Raccoongaine VIII.
Here is a link to results showing all classes of 3-hour and 6-hour combined
Here is a link to the splits
And here is a link to the photos that Alexis took
Here is a link to a table showing the number of teams to visit each control
If you want to compare your route to others, you can use RouteGadget to plot it at http://gadget.fredmailey.com/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi
| Raccoongaine VIII |
|
| results |
created by Ór |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 5 | 283 Team KatNap | | 2:52:04 | 200 | 200 | 0 |
| 6 | 399 Eagle Eyes | | 2:54:12 | 170 | 170 | 0 |
| 6 | 393 Thunder & Lightning | | 2:58:47 | 170 | 170 | 0 |
| 16 | 348 Rayden Sorock | WPOC | 3:06:55 | 60 | 130 | 70 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 10 | 350 Hartle Girls | | 2:45:33 | 100 | 100 | 0 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 2 | 371 Your Pace or Mine | WPOC | 2:51:44 | 370 | 370 | 0 |
| 10 | 300 Heading North | | 2:29:15 | 100 | 100 | 0 |
| 13 | 299 Team Persqueeter | | 2:41:04 | 90 | 90 | 0 |
| 15 | 296 Moncho Moncho Man | | 3:01:03 | 70 | 90 | 20 |
| 18 | 466 Team Hazelton | WPOC | 3:06:56 | 0 | 70 | 70 |
| 19 | 282 Bourne to be Wild | | 3:12:55 | -120 | 10 | 130 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 2 | 294 Ryan Knecht | WPOC | 2:55:45 | 370 | 370 | 0 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 4 | 394 Jolly Rogers | | 2:59:00 | 320 | 320 | 0 |
| 9 | 395 The Doddering Gits | | 2:53:39 | 110 | 110 | 0 |
| 10 | 340 Can't Decide | | 2:57:55 | 100 | 100 | 0 |
| 13 | 387 TopoLoco | | 3:09:57 | 90 | 190 | 100 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 1 | 298 Shinichi Shimizu | | 2:54:27 | 460 | 460 | 0 |
| 6 | 266 Rob Wilkison | DVOA | 3:11:39 | 170 | 290 | 120 |
| 17 | 368 Mark Sabich | | 3:06:17 | 30 | 100 | 70 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 20 | 398 Sherry Shank | WPOC | 3:43:30 | -240 | 200 | 440 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 2 | 478 Hail to the Chimp | | 6:03:48 | 960 | 1000 | 40 |
| 7 | 402 Thomas Rycroft | | 5:56:09 | 750 | 750 | 0 |
| 10 | 497 Time Wounds All Heels | SMOC | 5:51:21 | 710 | 710 | 0 |
| 11 | 471 Riley Jane | | 5:40:50 | 700 | 700 | 0 |
| 22 | 465 Scott Dye | | 5:46:04 | 560 | 560 | 0 |
| 27 | 472 MK | | 5:57:01 | 530 | 530 | 0 |
| 30 | 488 Gordon Huang | WPOC | 5:47:46 | 510 | 510 | 0 |
| 33 | 491 Krazy Swede | NEOOC | 5:29:30 | 470 | 470 | 0 |
| 41 | 464 Clint Hartle | | 5:52:02 | 400 | 400 | 0 |
| 47 | 123 Illusion of Controls | NEOOC | 5:25:12 | 330 | 330 | 0 |
| 50 | 229 Team Runoff | | 6:20:11 | 230 | 440 | 210 |
| 54 | 189 Ken Shangle | | 5:39:12 | 180 | 180 | 0 |
| 54 | 192 Son of a Shangle | | 5:45:55 | 180 | 180 | 0 |
| 58 | 191 Sean Sims | | 4:57:31 | 150 | 150 | 0 |
| 60 | 178 Johnson/Witalis | NEOOC | 6:15:07 | 100 | 260 | 160 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 4 | 184 Katrina Weinmann | WPOC | 5:48:37 | 820 | 820 | 0 |
| 13 | 424 Erin Rycroft | | 5:47:24 | 670 | 670 | 0 |
| 20 | 197 Julia Crytzer | | 5:49:14 | 590 | 590 | 0 |
| 480 Lisa Storey | | 5:59:12 | 330 | 330 | 0 |
| 51 | 476 Ann Haas | | 5:14:33 | 220 | 220 | 0 |
Note: Lisa Storey's score was determined from manual punches as she did not take the SI card with her. This is also the reason she has no splits.
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 3 | 475 Topo the Mountain | | 5:54:41 | 880 | 880 | 0 |
| 17 | 139 Two Nuts | BROC | 4:46:29 | 630 | 630 | 0 |
| 32 | 486 Victorious Seekers | | 5:43:22 | 480 | 480 | 0 |
| 43 | 489 Scrambled Legs | WPOC | 6:08:03 | 380 | 470 | 90 |
| 44 | 461 Half Minds | | 5:42:02 | 360 | 360 | 0 |
| 51 | 218 I Do (Cherish You) | | 5:25:30 | 220 | 220 | 0 |
| 59 | 224 Give Me Just One Night | | 4:31:09 | 120 | 120 | 0 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 1 | 425 Running With Samson | | 6:00:50 | 1010 | 1020 | 10 |
| 4 | 470 Todd Pownell | NEOOC | 5:54:11 | 820 | 820 | 0 |
| 8 | 483 William Plessinger | | 5:50:34 | 740 | 740 | 0 |
| 12 | 499 Wandering Rocks | | 5:35:43 | 690 | 690 | 0 |
| 18 | 183 The Black Swamp Boys | | 5:42:13 | 620 | 620 | 0 |
| 23 | 188 Polish Sausage | | 5:54:30 | 550 | 550 | 0 |
| 24 | 190 Bob Turanchik | NEOOC | 5:54:57 | 540 | 540 | 0 |
| 27 | 495 Mountain Meisters | | 5:36:48 | 530 | 530 | 0 |
| 31 | 500 Andy Mowrey | WPOC | 5:35:57 | 500 | 500 | 0 |
| 33 | 195 Over the Hills | | 5:48:58 | 470 | 470 | 0 |
| 36 | 496 Yaki Barak | WPOC | 6:09:44 | 450 | 550 | 100 |
| 38 | 469 Help, I'm Lost | | 5:32:50 | 440 | 440 | 0 |
| 38 | 467 Cold Zone | | 5:56:25 | 440 | 440 | 0 |
| 46 | 441 John Huffman | WPOC | 5:53:21 | 340 | 340 | 0 |
| 61 | 196 Doug Crytzer | | 2:45:10 | 60 | 60 | 0 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 24 | 479 Olga Huber | | 6:16:48 | 540 | 710 | 170 |
| 48 | 477 Average Jo | NEOOC | 5:52:25 | 300 | 300 | 0 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 6 | 490 Wonderful Adventure Racers | | 5:53:40 | 810 | 810 | 0 |
| 8 | 449 ThunderRoad | | 5:50:24 | 740 | 740 | 0 |
| 15 | 498 Bee Ringers | | 5:43:57 | 650 | 650 | 0 |
| 15 | 492 Team Spang | WPOC | 5:44:24 | 650 | 650 | 0 |
| 36 | 487 Rogue Penguin | | 5:58:06 | 450 | 450 | 0 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 19 | 124 Jerry Agin | WPOC | 5:52:09 | 610 | 610 | 0 |
| 20 | 182 Stephen Johnson | NEOOC | 6:01:08 | 590 | 610 | 20 |
| 27 | 493 Boulder Bob | NEOOC | 5:51:07 | 530 | 530 | 0 |
| 33 | 485 Fred Mailey | NEOOC | 5:47:50 | 470 | 470 | 0 |
| 40 | 494 Hot Harrys | WPOC | 5:55:47 | 430 | 430 | 0 |
| 45 | 462 Chuck Borchart | | 6:06:09 | 350 | 420 | 70 |
| 48 | 481 Mad Welshman | NEOOC | 5:38:53 | 300 | 300 | 0 |
| 63 | 199 Pops Shangle | | 6:43:05 | -200 | 240 | 440 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 54 | 198 Moms Shangle | | 5:39:15 | 180 | 180 | 0 |
| Name | Club | Time | Score | Gross Score | Penalty |
|---|
| 14 | 463 Glacial Speed | | 5:47:17 | 660 | 660 | 0 |
| 24 | 185 Ouroboros | WPOC | 5:41:51 | 540 | 540 | 0 |
| 42 | 484 Team Lyons | | 4:57:13 | 390 | 390 | 0 |
| 53 | 193 Finks | DVOA | 5:42:20 | 210 | 210 | 0 |
| 57 | 474 Happy Campers | | 5:42:48 | 170 | 170 | 0 |