Buffalo Chips Weekly News Update

From Linda Hall (Formal results are not up as of 2:15 p.m. on Monday 17 Oct.)
Humboldt Redwoods Half-Marathon and other Options…

First I want to mention that the Super Senior Women's team (Barbara Miller, Linda Hall, and Johanne Christmas) won a $50 team prix\ze for our first place finish at the Heritage Oaks 10k in September. (and Barbara Miller won $500 for her outstanding age graded performance in that same race). Yah team. The supersenior women are again in first place in the USATF series and way ahead of all the others this year

This weekend at Humboldt was a perfect day for the Half marathon. It was sunny and cool. The redwoods were beautiful. We had a great chips turn out and several groups remarked to me about how many chips they saw at the pasta feed the night before and wearing chips gear during the race. I did not have a pen with me so I do not have the times for everyone, but here are some highlights and lists of folks I saw running (apologies to those I missed):

Half Marathon Chips Men:
Dennis Early
Bill Pequinot
Doug Braasch
Joel Contreras
Monty Schacht
Mario Sanchez
Dennis Scott
Mike Schwartz
(at least one other chip male whose name I don't know)

Half Marathon Chips Women
Maggie Ward (age group 5th place medal
Barbara Miller (second in USATF 60-69), first in age group awards (65-69)
Linda Hall (age group 5th place medal.....6:04 faster than last year with a finishing time of 2:08:15.....hurrah, still getting faster)...Sorry I don't have anyone else's times, yet)
Nova Poff
Ann Burkhart
Kate Sutherland
Carolyn Leung
Lesa Halvert
Claire Hanamoto
Johanne Christmas

In addition, this year for the first time (that I am aware of) they had a 5 k race in conjunction with the half and full marathons. Chip Larry White placed first in his age group in that race (and there was more than one person in that age group!). Congratulations Larry! Larry like the rest of us got a great blue shirt with an original flying bird of prey artwork on it. Very cool.

Many of us enjoyed the fresh burritos at the natural foods place in Willets (on the way up and/or on the way home) and a cool orange Foster's Freeze (or a hot fudge sundae for those, like Bill Pequinot, who really worked hard and is trying to qualify for Boston)

Run to the Sun, Hawaii in March…

Herb Tanimoto is heading out for this challenging run in March of 2006, and he is looking for any other Chips that might be interested in taking on this event. It can also be done as a 3 person relay. Contact Herb directly….check the Chips roster or 530 885-3066

In the WORLD RACING Scene…

Haile Gebrselassie set a course record of 2:06:20 at Amsterdam this past Sunday, but while he won by more than 2 minutes, he did not get a new world best time for this distance. He had nobody at all close to him the last 10-15 km, and he did slow in the second half compared to Tergat’s second half at Berlin where he ran UNDER 1:02 for that 21 km. Haile turned the second 21 km on Sunday in a bit over 1:04, so…the best time was missed even if he got a new PR and CR on the day !

Beijing International Marathon…
Two Chinese women dueled it out over the last kilometer to finish only 10 seconds apart with both crossing in the 2:21:xx territory ! The lead male at 2:06 was misdirected in the last kilometer and while recording the victory apparently missed about 800m of the actual course (the women ran the full course).