Club Prediction 5k Turns into 4k!
Front runners in the ever challenging annual Chips Prediction Run 5k found a new way to make the event more demanding….at least in terms of “winning.” The front 4-6 runners in the field decided to make a right turn onto Moffet just after the mile mark rather than continue ONWARD to the turn marks just past the 1.25 mile point on the course. Thus the first finishers this year turned near national class times of low 15 minutes, but then…they ran about a full kilometer less than the measured course and less than they expected for their “predicted finish times.” Immediate past high dunger, Tony Lafferty, properly directed all the runners behind his position in the field, and thus the winning “prediction errors” were still very close to measured time with a best prediction only 8 seconds off, and most of the prediction winners finishing around 25-29 minutes.
Several of the junior runners in the field said they “knew” the turn was wrong, but followed their adult “role models.” This made for a great object lesson on making their own decisions and going with what they KNOW is right…rather than “following the crowd!”
2006 Club Board Elected!
High Dunger (aka, President): John Blue
Vice High Dungeress (aka, Vice President): Jennifer Rousseve
Treasurer: Tony Smith
Scribe: Nancy Mitchum
Historian: Abe Underwood
Membership Coordinators: Jenny Hitchings & Johanne Christmas
Youth Coordinator: George Paddeck
Equipment Coordinator: Dennis Scott
Race Team Coordinator: Gina Mandy
Enquirer Editor: Sara Heintz
Volunteer Coordinator: Shanna Fanning
Cal 10 Miler in Stockton, Sunday January 8, 2006
(From Linda Hall)Cal 10 Report: We had a great day for the Cal10 10 miler in Stockton on Sunday. It was a beautiful, sunny day but cool with a pretty significant head wind going out. That wind did help out on the way back! Lots of Chips were there and were prominent among the age group winners. This year the race was not a part of the PAUSATF grand prix series so the field was smaller than previous years. However, the new Fleet Feet of Stockton sponsored some pretty nifty black jackets with the race name and logo on them and the age groups were 5 year divisions going three deep. Among those who placed in the age groups were:
Heather Bracken (She was our Chips Senior woman of the Year and lived up to this award by getting first place in her division and winning a jacket. nice black jacket. Great work Heather!!!!!!!)
Linda Frazier
Linda Hall
Jim Fischer
Joel Contreras
Ernie Takahashi
Gordon Hall
Other chips who ran included: Mario Sanchez, Susan Frazier, and Gary Lotspeich. Apologies to those I missed.
PAUSATF Grand Prix Series:
Several people mentioned to me that they were disappointed that this race was not included in the Grand Prix series this year. If you are unhappy about this, I suggest that you send a message to LDR committee chair Tyler Abbott (email
tabbott@gguol.ggu.edu) and express your dissatisfaction about this change. Here is what happened. At the PAUSATF LDR committee meeting, the sentiment was expressed that Cal10 in January was too close to CIM and people needed some time off in January. Some people wanted the Cal10 race director to put the race later in the season and stated that a bid at the earlier date would not be accepted by USATF. The race director did not want to change the date, so no bid was submitted this year. However, now some folks are unhappy with the PAUSATF road race schedule because the grand prix races don't start until March and then tend to be bunched together. If you are unhappy with any aspect of this, let the LDR committee chair Tyler Abbott know about it. You should know that Chips are allowed to have 3 voting reps at each PAUSATF LDR committee meeting. They are usually held after some of the grand prix races. Recently, I have been the only Chips rep there. So if we want our voices heard, it would help to have more folks at the meetings. This is an issue that the new Chips Board may want to discuss and respond to.
