What a great first season for Roadkill Racing. When Mike suggested that we try and put a team together for the Upstate Series, I really didn’t have a lot of hope that we could field a 5 man team. We ended up having 9 runners compete for RKR throughout the series with a core group of 7 that did at least 3 of the races. We managed to win a race (and some wonderful Genny Lite) and I think we made a good showing in the other races. I want to thank all of you for making this fall so much fun.
The final race of the series, was actual 2 races in one. It was the Upstate Cross Country Series Championship race, and the USATF Niagara 8k Cross Country Championship race. This makes the scoring and placing a little strange, but basically only Mike and were scored in the USATF race because we are members, but we all scored in the Upstate Series race. Also only people who had run in at least 1 of the previous Upstate races could score for the Upstate Championship, but USATF members could score in the USATF race regardless of their involvement in earlier races. Basically what that means is we didn’t have to compete against Stotan Racing. Below I’ve posted the results for the Upstate race results only. If you want to see all the results and the various scoring permutations go
here.
We ended up in 4th place, I thought we might have eeked out a 3rd place finish, but GVH ran Jim Derick in the open class instead of Masters and they ran Dave Bischoff in the Open II team instead of Masters. I’m not sure of the wisdom of that move since they lost the Masters race by 10 points and would have won it if either of those guys ran in the Masters division. Particulary confusing is Dave’s inclusion on a Open II team that didn’t even have 5 runners.
We had some really great performaces, starting with Mike jumping into the #1 spot for RKR closely followed (.9 seconds) by yours truly. We then had Tyle, Travis, and Rob finish about 15 seconds apart followed soon after by Chanse. Ryan’s stomach had an untimely disagreement with a powerbar that forced him to DNF. I also should mention that Rob ran much of the race wtih his shoe untied. Luckily it did stay on his foot for the duration of the race, but I’m sure it did not help his time any.
I can’t wait until next year’s xc season, but before then their will be plenty of individual competition. Mike, Travis and I are all doing various Thanksgiving day races. Mike is abandoning his family to run the Race with Grace 10k in Hilton, while Travis and I are heading back to our home towns to run in a hill 4 and 5 miler. Tyle is heading back to the world of NCAA competition for his last winter and spring track seasons at UR, and Rob is training for a Marathon in January. I’ll be doing The
RIT Open Indoor Track Series and I hope to see some of you there.
Thanks again for making this such a fun XC Season. Roadkill! Racing! Roadkill! Racing! Roadkill! Splat!
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—————–MEN’S OPEN TEAM RESULTS—————–
# |
Team |
Points |
1. |
Syracuse Open I |
33 |
2. |
Gen Valley Open I |
40 |
3. |
High Noon Open I |
57 |
4. |
Road Kill Open I |
89 |
5. |
Junk Yard Open I |
134 |
6. |
Alternative Open I |
185 |
7. |
Gr Buffalo Open I |
198 |
———————–MEN’S OPEN RESULTS———————–
# |
Name |
Age |
Team |
Time |
Points |
1. |
Doug Maisey |
23 |
High Noon Open I |
26:22.92 |
1 |
2. |
Dave Rappleyea U |
25 |
Gen Valley Open I |
27:17.98 |
2 |
3. |
Chip O’Hara |
29 |
Syracuse Open I |
27:23.64 |
3 |
4. |
Joe Bazler |
26 |
High Noon Open I |
27:33.22 |
4 |
5. |
Dave Bradshaw U |
32 |
Gen Valley Open I |
27:36.76 |
5 |
6. |
Marty Nicholson U |
23 |
Syracuse Open I |
27:54.19 |
6 |
7. |
William Hoyne U |
28 |
Syracuse Open I |
27:56.50 |
7 |
8. |
Steve Hicks |
27 |
Syracuse Open I |
27:57.62 |
8 |
9. |
Sean Curry U |
19 |
Syracuse Open I |
27:59.86 |
9 |
10. |
Chad Byler U |
27 |
Gen Valley Open I |
28:17.33 |
10 |
11. |
Ryan Pauling U |
34 |
Gen Valley Open I |
28:21.58 |
11 |
12. |
Jim Derick U |
45 |
Gen Valley Open I |
28:32.19 |
12 |
13. |
Nick Scalfone |
25 |
High Noon Open I |
28:34.49 |
13 |
14. |
Michael Insler U |
27 |
Road Kill Open I |
28:48.67 |
14 |
15. |
Joshua Perks U |
36 |
Road Kill Open I |
28:49.50 |
15 |
16. |
Andrew Weishaar |
33 |
High Noon Open I |
28:51.60 |
16 |
17. |
Brendan Glover U |
28 |
Gen Valley Open I |
28:54.24 |
|
18. |
Chris Hine U |
27 |
Gen Valley Open I |
29:01.11 |
|
19. |
Tyle Stelzig |
22 |
Road Kill Open I |
29:08.20 |
19 |
20. |
Travis Kroot |
21 |
Road Kill Open I |
29:17.12 |
20 |
21. |
Rob Castor |
24 |
Road Kill Open I |
29:23.05 |
21 |
22. |
Brent Bartlett |
30 |
Junk Yard Open I |
29:26.33 |
22 |
23. |
Andy Crawford U |
28 |
Gen Valley Open I |
29:30.40 |
|
24. |
Clinton Blacksmith |
25 |
High Noon Open I |
29:31.30 |
23 |
25. |
Eric Choudhary U |
24 |
High Noon Open I |
29:35.92 |
|
26. |
Brad DePoint |
28 |
Junk Yard Open I |
29:45.40 |
25 |
27. |
Matt Oberst U |
30 |
Junk Yard Open I |
29:54.69 |
26 |
28. |
Joe Campagna U |
30 |
Syracuse Open I |
29:57.59 |
|
29. |
Josh Harter U |
35 |
Gen Valley Open I |
30:00.23 |
|
30. |
Chanse Hungerford |
22 |
Road Kill Open I |
30:19.64 |
|
31. |
Neil Adige |
23 |
High Noon Open I |
30:35.43 |
|
32. |
John Clements |
27 |
Junk Yard Open I |
30:38.47 |
30 |
33. |
George Young |
29 |
Junk Yard Open I |
30:58.24 |
31 |
34. |
Jeremy Wattles |
27 |
Syracuse Open I |
31:21.47 |
|
35. |
Terry Robbins |
40 |
Alternative Open I |
34:10.51 |
33 |
36. |
Mark Raczka |
50 |
Gr Buffalo Open I |
34:12.60 |
34 |
37. |
Nicholas Brodnicki |
24 |
Gr Buffalo Open I |
34:44.69 |
35 |
38. |
Dave Sauter |
43 |
Alternative Open I |
35:18.43 |
36 |
39. |
Matt Caton |
47 |
Alternative Open I |
36:23.37 |
37 |
40. |
Jake Clements |
31 |
Junk Yard Open I |
37:44.05 |
|
41. |
Paul Smarsh |
51 |
Alternative Open I |
38:25.58 |
39 |
42. |
Charles Reller |
54 |
Alternative Open I |
38:51.00 |
40 |
43. |
Ludovic Raymond |
32 |
Gr Buffalo Open I |
39:21.17 |
41 |
44. |
Adam Gillis |
31 |
Syracuse Open I |
39:29.49 |
|
45. |
Rich Meehan |
40 |
Alternative Open I |
40:52.85 |
|
46. |
Phil Scaffidi |
42 |
Gr Buffalo Open I |
41:00.09 |
43 |
47. |
Joe Spencer |
55 |
Alternative Open I |
41:05.55 |
|
48. |
Brian McElroy U |
49 |
Gr Buffalo Open I |
45:49.79 |
45 |