San Francisco – 2005 Results

James Probala, "JennyRunners", 7 hours:

We really enjoyed the event. In retrospect, we would have planned differently by recognizing our training status. The route we took covered roughly 25 miles. If you still have the sheet that contained our times, we would like to correlate them with the distances and elevation gains/losses. (you might have guessed that three of us are engineers). We would like to have some other participants routings to compare.

Jennifer is a marathon and adventure racer and is a Nordstrom Direct manager. Kenny is a marathon runner and volunteer for the Seattle Marathon and is a Boeing engineer. Kelly is an engineer for Boeing and normally uses the hammock and a beer for relaxation and entertainment and paid a price for his training ethics (or lack thereof). Jim (the old guy 58) is a runner want-a-bee and formerly retired Boeing engineer that thinks that we are all in our 20's. Guess I'm a little delusional.

We lost our 10 minutes right at the end when we bypassed E. Columbia and went three blocks too far south on 18th and had to back-track. Oh well 600 points minus 100 isn't so bad.

I think the main thing that helped us to get the points was we had a good route and the fact that we never got lost. If we missed a check point we were only a block off so it was easy to correct ourselves. We were very slow in walking. If we had just upped the pace we could have gotten 100 more points because we were close to three other stations. However, we were really just shooting for 500 points and I am SLOW. :-). I have a right knee problem and I had surgery on my upper torso just 3 weeks ago. So I had endurance problems. We wasted a good hour lounging around Seattle, usually at a Starbucks. lol.

We also made sure we took routes with the least hills and ALWAYS when we could, walked in the shade. The only big hill we took (I honestly did not realize how long and steep this hill was) was ROY walking up from Madison Park to Capitol Hill. I know that you really can't avoid a hill going up to Captiol Hill, but avoiding Roy would have been a priority. Luckily though, it was all in the shade.

I really had fun. Although if we had to do it over again, we would NOT walk up Roy.

[Dean and Steve did two loops, returning to the event center in between. You can find their checkpoint sequence on the timestamp database above.] Could have changed Loop B to stay south of water way (Lake Union) and traveled less distance and collected a few more points. Postrace Loop B: 24,54,38,56,87,27,44,42,57,23,21,39,41,52,finish Distance is actual traveled minus change of elevation.

Steve Gregg, with partner Dean Vergillo, 16 hours:

I learned that my feet and legs definitely cannot handle 16 hours on pavement! Dean and I decided we would walk the uphills, and jog the flats and downhills for as long as we both could handle it. Dean, I think, could have kept running for the entire 16 hours, but my race went more like this:

Start to Control 84 (4 hours in): Feeling fine!

Control 84 to Control 81 (8 hours in): Blisters starting to hurt, but still able to jog.

Control 81 to Control 45 (12 hours in): I cannot run anymore due to both blisters and no leg strength, but still enjoying myself.

Control 45 to finish: What am I doing here???

I am really happy I did not schedule my plane flight out of Seattle until Monday–no way I could have walked more than a few steps anywhere on Sunday. Even Monday my feet really hurt and I was limping through the airport. It wasn't until Friday that my blisters healed enough to let me start running again. If I do this event again it will be the 7 hour option, for sure!

I was surprised to discover that Seattle, even more than the Bay Area, has so many little staircases going up and down the hills. You informed us before the event of the one going east down the hill from control 68, but there were many more. We found several of them on the southwest part of the map that saved us a lot of time, but then lost quite a bit of time leaving 84 when we assumed there would be an unmapped stairway, path, or something going down the hill from the park to 106 but found nothing. We had to backtrack back up to the top of the hill and take the mapped roads going back north. Of course there is no way you can realistically find and map all these stairways and paths but they did introduce a bit of luck into the navigation.

It REALLY helped to have a local partner! Dean knew where a lot of the controls were without even needing to look at the map very much. In particular, at control 107 Dean says "I know where that red phonebooth is" and I thought he was joking at first, but then he pointed out exactly where it was when we were about a block away. At night especially I pretty much just followed Dean straight to everything.

Here is the control order and some statistics for The Islanders:

Loop 1:
Control order: HH-39-21-41-52-48-25-68-46-101-28-64-82-84-106-33-66-37-63-HH
Start: 4:00pm, Finish: 11:40pm, Time spent =7:40 (includes ~30 min. for dinner at control point 84, Westcrest Park), 920 points
Route distance (actual, not straight line) = 25.8 miles, Pace = 3.4 mi/hr, 120 pts/hr

Loop 2:
Control order: HH-43-81-107-23-57-42-54-24-34-HH
Start: 5:34am, Finish 7:54am, Time spent =2:20 (no breaks), 430 points
Route distance = 9.7 miles, Pace = 4.2 mi/hr, 184 pts/hr

First of all, it was fun! I would do it again. Thanks for the 3 hour option as that was about as much as my knees could take.

* What was the highlight of your experience? The level of organization and attention to detail on the part of your team. The low point? The weather. Couldn't you turn down the heat?

* What did you learn about yourself? That I'm generally an optimist, and that I can't seem to read across a sheet of paper in a straight line.

* What was the most beautiful or interesting spot you visited? Arboretum Waterfront Trail.

* What would you do differently next time? Sign up for the 7-hour or 16-hour. Could you make more spots available in those categories the next time around?

We were definitely the least experienced orienteers in the entire field. All we wanted was to get in a long (20+ mile) run and see the sights of Seattle, as we're from up here on Whidbey and when we come to Seattle we're either feverishly looking for bike parts at Recycled Cycles, running laps of Discovery Park, or racing the Marathon, none of which are conducive to taking in the sights and sounds of the city. Your event looked like a great way to get in this run and have fun doing it, and it was.

We set up our route mostly to get as many miles of relatively continous running as possible, and so we headed north since we figured the downtown checkpoints would be a bit hectic from a traffic and red light/green light standpoint and we're not as familiar with areas south of downtown. We figured we'd try to go as far north as we could before we had to turn around and were hoping to get to #102 up on the Burke Gilman but we spent about 20 minutes at #81 because we were hopelessly lost looking for a pagoda (clue for #82, of course)* so we couldn't make it that far before we had to come back. In the end, the points were a bit of an afterthought since we were having such a good time running around the neighborhoods. On our way back we realized we didn't have many places to get points since our idea of a long loop back past Green Lake and through Interbay had been overcome by events, but we knew from our Seattle Marathon course experience exactly what the road was going to be like getting from the U over to #42 so we kind of hammered it home that way. That gave us a little bit of leeway to knock out a few more checkpoints on our way in, but not enough so that we could go get #57 or #34 and really get over the top. So, in the end, we got the points we got at probably the lowest rate (points per mile run) in the race but we had a blast getting each and every one.

The COC guys right behind us on points were certainly better navigators, better orienteers, and better route planners. To them we say chapeau. We'll apply the lessons learned from their route to next year's event, and hopefully get into the 7-hour field so we have a chance of doing the full-round route!

Thanks for a great event.

* Matt added later, in explanation of the pagoda mistake: We'd folded the paper right at the 81/82 line but it wasn't folded quite straight and we had sunscreen irritating our eyes (at least we'll make that claim in hindsight) so we thought we were looking for a pagoda. At the intersection in question, we didn't see anything remotely pagoda-like, so per the rules we asked a lady walking down the street. She kindly directed us to the Japanese garden down Lake Washington Blvd. as the nearest pagoda of any sort, and we dutifully headed off that way losing precious elevation with every step. It wasn't but seven or so minutes down the road when we came to the realization that something was seriously wrong. We're rank amateurs at this game, but we're not THAT bad with directions, so we stopped and reconnected with the map, identifying our location on the Blvd., and decided we'd gone astray and needed to loop back through the neighborhood. We traced streets on the map, heads down, for ten minutes making our way back up and around the hill. Once we decided we were in the no kidding right place, we looked up, and to our surprise we were right back where we started at the intersection where we'd stopped the kind lady for help. In a great mood, let me tell you. At that point, Charley demanded a look at the clue sheet to see the exact description of this pagoda at checkpoint 81 and, lo and behold,... The rest, as they say, is history.

Thank you for an extremely fun event! I loved visiting all those different parts of Seattle; I feel I got to know the city so much better! I had really not much idea about the topography and how everything was related. If you could do the same kind of event in Boston that would probably make me much better-informed about my own city!

It was fun going with John. We benefited from his knowledge of the city. It was funny when sometimes he was like, oh yeah, i know how to get there, but then in the end I was doing the fine orienteering to get there.

John Lee, "Peace", 16 hours:

This race was fun, well run, and well planned. It was just what we were looking for. While Steve and I are pretty competitive at heart, and would like to win, participating is what it's all about. I enjoyed it very much and look forward to next year.

Last night I received a phone call from a man – Al – who had found my lost bag. [Jack had lost his bag on the course –Ed.] He and his son were driving to Sears Saturday and saw it on the side of the road under a bush. Every item was still in the bag. Not so much as a dollar was missing. I picked it up last night. Al would not accept a token reward for his trouble. A great ending to a great event.

Thanks for the fun!!

Steve Hager, "Where's Waldo", 7 hours:

Highlight - Finishing!

Low Point - Lost wallet and had to back track

I think our team all had an enjoyable time, to varying degrees. We entered on a lark, after I read the P-I article and talked everybody else into it over dinner one night. None of us are runners, so we walked the entire time. We stopped for ice cream along the way and enjoyed walking through the different neighborhoods. If we do it again, I think some members of our team would try to plan a route with fewer hills, while I would opt for interesting locales/routes. Two items we wished we had brought were a magnifying glass (to help read the map), and a highlighter (to mark the map). Three hours was a good length of time for us novices and non-serious competitors.

As one of the participants in yesterday's 3 hour navigation challenge, I want all who are responsible to know that the marvelous job that you did gave our team much pleasure and gratification.

Sorry I have not contacted you since the race. I ended up in the hospital Saturday Night. 10 blocks from the finish, my body basicaly caved in on itself. My whole body was cramping, even my eyelids. The blood tests showed an extreme imbalance in my Calcium, Creactin, and Potasium levels. They delivered me in an ambulance, since I needed imediate attention. This could be potentialy fatal for someone less fit than myself.

4.5 hours, 4 literes of fluids, injections of muscle relaxers and Calcium seemed to have done the trick. To add insult to injury, I got food poisening on monday night. My body, in its weekend state has had some trouble dealing with a foreign bacteria. I am feeling better today, but will take some time to recover.

I believe this is a result of my efforts leading up to your event. Brandon and I were taking it fairly easy on Saturday. I should not have had such an extreme response to a moderate effort.

This was a great event! The heat was the low point of the event, but not under anyone's control. The highlight and what I learned about myself was finding out how mentally tough I (we were) was in gutting it out the last few checkpoints after being so tired from running in the heat, but being able to get 3 more checkpoints within the last 1/2 hour or so, and coming in at 2:59:59!

The most frustrating checkpoint was the one by Mt. Baker park-the sign at the turnaround. We lost about 10minutes looking for the sign. I was standing right by it by a car and finally Lisa saw it!

You guys did an awesome job organizing this event! I know it's hard to do, but it would have been nice to get something for third place. Don't mean to sound greedy, but usually in running races and volleyball tournaments I play in, prizes go at least 3 deep. Maybe you can get some bigger sponsors next year now that they've seen how well you did this year.

What about t-shirts for next year? I'd be willing to pay a higher entry fee to get a t-shirt (especially a technical t-shirt).

we certainly enjoyed ourselves, especially given our newfound talent for urban navigation. Our combined years of experience living here served us well, not to mention the relative fitness of our team. I calculated our total mileage at about 17.25 using Mapquest. Not bad for 7 hours of walking. It's a rough estimate, since the site calculates driving mileage, not walking, but I think it's close. I'd be curious to find out what other teams come up with using the same method.

As for checkpoint values, we were curious what the method was. It seemed a bit random to us, considering the following values: CP 43 vs CP 107 vs CP 59. Now 43 was pretty well hidden. We bee lined it, only because a member of our team happened to know exactly which fire hydrant was referred to (he house-sits near there), but I can imagine others having a lot more trouble with it. 107 was a cinch though, just a matter of going the distance, which wasn't bad considering its proximity to 81. Good job on that one, by the way, it was well worth its 80 pts. 59, by contrast, was quite isolated. We elected to bypass it, weighing this against its value. Judging by the time-stamp chart, many others made the same decision.

Terry's reply: More difficult checkpoints were not necessarily more highly valued. First, we gave high values to places we wanted you to see. Schmitz Park, Vashon Island, and the Burke Gilman Trail were in this category, as well as Volunteer Park and Pike Place Market. Second, we wanted 3 hour teams and slower 7 hour teams to have the thrill of hitting a high-value checkpoint. Third, we tried to distribute the point values to create strategy and route choice dilemmas. For example, close to the event center we gave high point values at #107, #81, and #63 to balance the density of points just northwest of the event center. In retrospect, we went overboard here, encouraging most mid-speed 3 hour competitors to go east when it was more interesting and scenic to the northwest. Following from your comments, John, it would have been an improvement to swap the values for #59 and #81, especially since #59 was so pretty.

For 16 hour competitors, the Vashon dilemma worked just the way we wanted it to. Some teams went to Vashon and some didn't, and neither had a clear advantage. Has anyone done a closer analysis to see whether it was better to go to Vashon or to stay on the mainland?

[John continues:] Finally, I have two additional suggestions. First, I was disappointed to see how few teams made it to Vashon. Maybe it would be better to incorporate Bainbridge next time, as there is a downtown ferry. Certainly Winslow has plenty of opportunity for checkpoints, not to mention the rest of the island. Or perhaps add checkpoints in between start and the ferry, making it more worthwhile. Far be it for me to say, since we didn't make it that far, but I would like the variety, not to mention the built-in rest period, of the ferry ride. Secondly, I'd like to see more need for a compass. Seattle is possessed of several wooded parks, it seems they would make excellent areas for checkpoints of this nature (no pun intended). Suggested areas include Interlaken, Seward, Discovery, Carkeek, and Woodland Parks, not to mention the Arboretum.

Just wanted you to know how much Peter, Sonya and I enjoyed the night and day. It was great fun for Peter and I to do something as a team and Sonya enjoyed the ride and stops we made. I liked the Central district the best as I like that part of town, but don't know it as well as the other places we went. The walk over Yessler with the Smith tower and Mt Rainer views is a great Seattle secret. I don't usually think big about walking Seattle because of the freeways and the hills, but this event opened my mind. The next weekend we, oops drove, to Leschi and walked to Seward park and back. It is a lot of fun doing urban walks walks as you see all the details of a neighborhood. At the Seward park walk I became more aware of the tiny public accesses along lake washington and we saw some interesting wild life including a turtle, nice water lilies and birds with red faces and chests.

Thanks for a great event and a wonderful time.

Feedback:

1. Allow a leader to preregister a team up without naming the team members. That way a leader can scrounge a team up knowing that there is spot for everybody. Then let the team members sign their release forms at the event.
2. Have water available at the finish (as well as or in place of just gatorade).
3. Provide a clue sheet for all team members so everyone can participate more fully, but print one on a special color to be the official results sheet.
4. More points for hard-to-find clues, or at least put an asterix next to them. We had a devil of a time finding the bell in Freeway Park. We probably lost about 7 minutes and had completely explored the park by the time we found it. Even when we got to it, two of our four members ran right by it without seeing it hidden away in the indentation. I remember in the orientation speech, you had said the clues were all "obvious".

Jeff Lewis, "Louie Louie", 16 hours:

This was my fourth rogaine and the first for my brother David. He wasn't sure until the last week that he would be able to race. In fact, he was a bit intimidated by the article about ultra-runners that appeared in the paper; what's the pint of flying over from France to race, just to get blown away? I've done rogaines in Arizona and central Washington and was looking forward to trying one in a city like Seattle, where we could get water and food, and not worry about cussing at boulders, cacti and logs in the middle of the night. So, I told him we probably wouldn't do much running, anyway...that we just needed to be able to keep a steady pace through the full sixteen hours. Our goal was a brisk walk: average four miles per hour.

The late 4PM start severely limited the options on the course. Vashon was a high priority, just for the novelty, and Volunteer Park was also high on our list as a place near our childhood home. I planned our route to proceed SE, try to hit the ferry at 6:15 and return at 7:50, and push hard to cross Denny Way before the 11:15 cutoff. I also planned for us to hit Foster Island at 5AM, then cleanup as many close controls as we could to finish at 9AM. I guess the main objective was to not have "dead time", where we were stuck walking past controls but not allowed to score them. Given these parameters, it seemed like we really had not much choice for the route we planned, as follows...

...To the Ferry (63-37-66-33-106-84-35): We planned to skip 82 as it was too remote. We botched 66...I didn't like the vague "turnout" description David was reading to me and navigated to the junction with Lake Washington Blvd, never recognizing the other junctions. This cost us 90-points. Crossing the Duwamish was awful; a team just ahead of us (Body by Supply) went wrong-way up the offramp, but we went right-way up the southbound onramp and got stuck watching freeway traffic over our shoulders while hiking/jogging south well past the road we planned to take. We learned after the race that the other team apparently found a lower bridge that we never saw, and was able to access the road we couldn't reach. We tried to make up time by shortcutting up the hill along a powerline, but the trail we looked for just wasn't there, and the blackberries and thistles grew thicker, so we turned around half way up the hill. Lost a half hour and some blood, then rushed onward to barely make the 6:55PM ferry. We passed Team Peace just before 35; had they been one minute later, they would have missed the ferry.

...Vashon Island: while crossing to the island, we realized that given our late crossing and our fatigue, we needed to reduce our plans, so we dropped 106 and 61. We were going to try for 85-86-103, but had only forty minutes. We had to make the 7:50 ferry, and we assumed it was on schedule. Leaving the ferry, we took our time up the hill (to stretch our aching legs, and to watch behind a memorable belly dancer), then pushed hard to get just two controls and back to the ferry with five minutes to spare. Team Body by Supply was getting off the ferry we thought we would get on. Unfortunately, we then learned the ferries were late (this one was going to Southworth!) and we were stuck delaying 45-minutes. This put alot more pressure on us to get to Denny Way before the cutoff.

...to Seattle Center (22-64-28-101-46-68-25-67-48-52-38): During the ferry ride we decided to drop 67 and 48 if needed, to make Denny Way on time. While I had been pulling David during the heat of the first few hours, at this point he caught a second wind and had to pull me. David is one of the most competitive people I have ever known, and once he got into this race, nothing was going to slow him down. We pushed a steady pace hoping we would not have to drop 101 or 52, and picked up to a run at 68 to barely make Denny Way on time. Our mother graciously met us at the McDonalds across from the Space Needle, providing clean shirts and socks, as well as food and beverage refills. I was beat and dehydrated and starting to blister, and David wasn't doing much better. After about an hour, we headed for Queen Anne Hill.

...to Foster Island (56-44-27-45-53-65-51-32-59): due to blisters and fatigue we made a slower pace, over Queene Anne Hill. We dropped 87, mostly because it was not clear from the map how to approach and it looked like it could be a frustrating deadend. I Had to stop at the Ballard Safeway for a deli snack, so we lost another half hour there at 2:30AM. We chose to drop 26-58-104 and proceed direct to 53. We also chose to drop 36-47-62-55-102-69 after Green Lake (we simply did not have the speed or energy). After 65, we added 51 (but dropped 31) before heading through UW and arriving at 59 just 25-minutes behind our planned arrival time at Foster Island.

...finishing up (107-81-34-23-57-42-24-54-21-39): followed our planned route with two esceptions: we dropped 43 (lack of time) and added 41. Unfortunately, we never found 41; the maze of walls in Freeway Park made it essentially unmapped, and with less than 25-minutes to go, it looked like we could loop around and end up losing more points with a late finish. So, even though we were less than 50 yards from 41, we bailed and hustled up the hill to finish with 3-minutes to spare.

We had a great time and look forward to future races. I was surprised how hard the urban environment was on my feet (ditto Steve Gregg's comments); my feet were trashed for a week. I was also surprised at how many points we totaled, due mostly to David's competitiveness (we just kept going). During the four-hour quarters of the race, we scored 570, 400, 260, and 570 points...pretty much the profile we had planned.

Suggestions:

1. print description of each feature on both maps; put the answer choices only on the answer sheet. This would aid in all competitors better interpretting the map's very fine details.
2. Avoid 1st Ave bridge. Use control placements to steer competitors away to a safer bridge, or research the best/safest crossing level and ad a note on the map.
3. Maybe go 4/8/18-hours with a 2PM start, to open up more options for Vashon.
4. Carefully avoid locations like Freeway Park that are effectively unmapped; they favor those who have prior familiarity with the location and can quickly navigate to the control without a map.
5. Make magnifying glasses mandatory equipment (Is that a jewelers loupe Eric is using to read the map on the website??)

Doug Bass, "Body by Supply Corps", 16 hours

Looking at your route today, I see that it took you over 3 hours to get from #46 to #81 ... and then another 3+ hours to get down to #43. Guessing the story behind it ... it looks like you were getting behind schedule, so you found yourselves way south of Denny Way at the 11:15 cutoff. Had to head north without collecting any points along the way. Then, by the time you got to #81, you were so wiped out that you decided to take a 3 hour nap ... somewhere?

How was it that you got behind? And where did you take that nap? There has to be a good tale there!

– Terry

The trip from 41 to 81 to 43 was almost exactly as you described it. On the ferry coming back from Vashon (approx 9:30 PM) we knew that there's no way we'd be getting anywhere near Denny Way by 11:15, so we decided to try to maximize our points before the cutoff, then just take our time getting ourselves across the line.

We timed it almost perfect as we were able to stop at 7-11 and still get all the points we wanted. Leaving 46 we were both REALLY tired and Matt's ankles were giving him trouble. We proceeded slowly and stopped for a rest along the bridge. Matt slept while I planned out what points I thought we could get. My plan was 81-107-23 then get to 57 by 5 AM (hopefully arriving early so we could nap until then). For the last 3 hours I thought we'd go 57-42-24-54-41-52-48-67-39-21-34-43-finish. A bit ambitious I guess, but that's how we ended up 3 hours away from Denny Way at 11:15 in the first place. Besides, there were lots of chances to cut that route short if need be.

Anyway, after about 15 minutes I woke Matt up and we were on our way. The trip up Madison was adventurous as we got to experience Seattle's club scene first hand at about 2 AM. I was just praying not to get hit by a drunk driver, but in the end there were no scares at all. I did however find that after about 10 hours my navigation skills were greatly diminished. I think Matt was getting sick of me saying, "I think it's this way. Let's check over here." He didn't want to go one step out of the way, and I can't blame him.

Eventually we stumbled onto 81 and headed out (very slowly) towards 107. Unfortunately, nothing along the road matched what I expected to see based on the map. I must have gotten turned around somewhere. Eventually I sat down on a grassy section near a street lamp in a housing community to take another look at the map. Matt laid down and went straight to sleep. I didn't have the heart to wake him up, especially because I still couldn't find where we were, so instead I slept too. We slept for a couple hours and probably would have for longer if not for a car that kept driving by. I figured we must have looked like a couple of homeless guys crashed on the side of the road. Once we got up, it was Matt's turn to do some motivating. I was ready to quit because I figured we'd get last no matter what. Plus I was feeling bad from a sinus infection I'd had since the previous week. To top it all off, my nose started bleeding which made it very difficult to breathe.

I started fealing better as we got going and I think Matt recovered quite a bit thanks to our nap. We ended up without having to rush and getting several more points along the way.

So that's our not-so-elequently told story. A great experience, but I should have let Matt write it. I wonder how different it might have sounded.

I'm looking forward to next year's race, but I'll be looking for a new teammate. Matt's moving to Virginia at the end of the year. That's Navy life.

Veteran teams are teams with all members 50+ in age. Team numbers shown in parentheses.

 

16 hour Men:	(2) Doug Bass & Matthew Holman, "Body by Supply Corps" – all the way from Hanford, California. (3) Scott McCoubrey & Brandon Sybrowsky, "Seattle Running Company" – both accomplished ultra-runners. (5) Dean Vergillo & Steve Gregg – Dean's team cleaned up at our sister event, the 6-hour Bremerton Metrogaine. Steve is a crack orienteer from the Bay Area. (6) Jeff & David Lewis, "Louie Louie" – Seattle natives now living in the Bay Area & France. (20) Targo Tennisberg & Marcello Napolitano, "Old Europe" – Marcello is sharing his real time blog of the Night & Day with us. (24) Jeffrey Sloane & Robin Pang, "Intense Casuality" – Jeff - Independent, cautious and agile. Intensely driven, knows what he wants and creative about getting there. Rob - Laid back, likes everyone. Slow and methodical about most things. Motto-'It is what it is!'
16 hour Mixed:	(1) Heidi Bohn & Bill Cusworth, "The Islanders" – from Whidbey Island (4) John Lee & Barb Bryant, "Peace" – Barb's team won last month's Big Muddy Rogaine. (26) Karen Kost, Nate Aschenbrenner, Jim Boehmer, & Julie Calhoon, "Wankers & Spankers" (31) James Kilbourn, Ruth Carlon & Dominic Solari, "Fabian's Spider Bite" (35) Shannon Saylor & Charles Hawley, "We'd Rather Be Naked!"
7 hour Men, Mixed, & Veteran Men, prizes awarded to top two teams:	(8) Nick Corsano & Liz Butterfield, "Midnight Ramblers" – Adults from the Legendary Troop 757, representing Girl Scouts of San Francisco Bay Area and the Bay Area Orienteering Club. (10) Eric Riggers & Erin Roach, "'Scuse Me, So Rude" (11) Heather Mittelstaedt & Curt Mueller, "Naughty & Nice" (18) Andi, Anna-Maria, & Max Strasser, and Dana Heller, "Past Your Bedtime" – at ages 1 and 3, Anna-Maria and Max are our youngest participants. (21) Steve Needham, David Leers, & Peter Takamori, "Portable Paint" (22) Jeremy Ditto, John Connor, & Jenny Uehisa, "Team Montrail" (19) Steve Hager & Jack Jones (veteran team), "Where's Waldo?" (25) Jennifer Probala, Jim Probala, Kelly Spawn & Kenny Miyamoto, "JennyRunners" (29) William Carter, Kelly Fischbach, Phanida Pfingsten & William Thier, "The Wanderers"
7 hour Women & Mixed Veteran	(7) Meghann McLinden & Megan Madsen, "M&Ms" – Senior Girl Scouts from the Legendary Troop 757, representing Girl Scouts of San Francisco Bay Area and the Bay Area Orienteering Club. (33) Ellen Taylor, Angela Romig, & Carrie Fergusson, "The Bullettes" (9) Joan Weisberg & Doug Beyerlein (veteran team), "Team Inspiration" – Doug says he knows Seattle's secret shortcuts.
3 hour Open:	(12) Dwight & Joe Freund, "Talkin' Eds" (14) Alan Yamamoto, Bill Henry, Lisa Redburg, & Loreen Sako, "Greenlake Grinders" (15) Robert & Anne Brown, "Off the Map" (16) Jared, Janet, and John Roach, Chinda Hopkins, and John Hrones, "Chaotic Network". (30) Lee Eggebroten (36) Elyse Bloxham & JP Greene, "Margaritaville" – We are both 32 years old and first time metrogainers. We live in Seattle and our goal is to learn a little about each other and to take the first step to more serious racing. (37) Matthew Simms & Charley Lewarne, "South Whidbey Endurance" – South Whidbey Endurance (aka "SWEAT") - a diverse group of athletes from Whidbey, Mukilteo, and Bellingham who share a common passion - training hard. (38) Chris Vincent & Ken Molsberry, "SAMPO" (40) Nicholas Weber & Clayton Marcheen, "The Madkawboys" – DIAGRAM OF THE MADKAWBOYS: AGE 23 AND 25, CANADIAN AND AMERICAN, NO PREVIOUS RACE EXPERIENCE, BUT WE GET LOST MASTERFULLY, WE HOPE TO