Great Sandbagger 10K Race August 6, 2005
Temp. 67 F. at the start of the hilly out and back race. Thirteen would-be prevaricators took a shot at the traveling trophy, first won in 1970. Patty Ferguson took off first with a designated time of 62 minutes. Alan Benjamin who sandwiched the race into a long training run was last off the line with a designated time of 45:30. The way it should work, theoretically, is that people predict their race times accurately and everyone would finish together around the same actual time. However, this race stimulates inflated predicted times, read slower than ability would indicate times, so the slowest predicted time leaves the start line first, and the fastest predicted time leaves last. The first runner across the finish line wins the Great Sandbagger Trophy. Such an eventuality means that the winner gets to put his or her name on the trophy, adds some bauble or feature to the trophy, and must insure that the trophy appears at the race the following year. Oscar Chavez won having run 10.5 minutes faster than predicted. The fastest real time was turned in by Harvey James in 44:05, but he finished 5th. Special thanks goes to Anne Hessler for timing and to Julia and Alex Chavez for help at the finish line.
Dick Hessler, race director.
1. Oscar Chavez 35:21 46:51 Real Time
2. Jason Rollins 39:28 53:58
3. Patty Ferguson 40:57 57:27
4. Abby Lane 41:32 57:02
5. Harvey James 41:35 44:04
6. Andy Vecellio 41:40 53:10
7. Emily Crow 41:52 56:22
9. Steve Lightner 44:16 47:46
10. Glen Phaup 45:23 48:53
11. Allan Benjamin 46:10 46:10
12. Rob Foss 46:36 49:06
13. Joe Duncan 47:39 61:09