Clam Beach 5K

10:00AM, Sat., 6/28/14

Directed by “Tanya Trump” <4trumps@suddenlink.net>

Thank you to everyone who came out to race today! We had 20 more people than last year with a lot of new faces and two new memberships. Thankfully the rain from the last few days cleared out and left us with an overcast, yet very humid, morning to run.

Thank you to all of my volunteers. It is so great to have so many people who are always willing to help. Mj, Tara, and Tracy took care of registration, Tracy also worked with me at the finish line making sure the “colors” were correctly awarded for the challenge criteria, Rich Baker helped with set up and collected tags, Gary Timek did our timing, Alma Zechman was at the turn around with water and encouragement, Sherry Myers made sure I had enough bib numbers, Kaia Morris came early to help set up, and Connor Trump put out the mile markers and carried heavy stuff to the start.

If you earned a “color award” and did not receive your pin, let me know. I will have extra pins with me at the 4^th of July run. Track me down! J Tanya

5K

According to Performance

Place Name Age/G Time Table Bib#

1 Cody Thompson 37M 17:51 Red 65

2 Kellen O’Neill 15M 18:09 Red 70

3 Reed Richard 45M 18:17 Red 57

4 Andrew Jones 37M 18:35 Red 50

5 Nicholas Brichta 15M 18:54 Red 71

6 Spencer Rogers 38M 18:56 Red 55

7 Morgin Coonfield 16F 19:04 BLUE 835

8 Thomas Nolan 20M 19:11 White 33

9 Brian Ward 32M 19:13 White 34

10 John Zinselmeir 66M 19:26 BLUE 432

11 Kush Rawal 16M 19:52 White 830

12 Adam Falk 29M 20:15 Green 51

13 Dave Ryan 57M 20:23 Red 47

14 Greg Goldsmith 52M 20:40 Red 2000

15 Yoshi Uemura 59M 20:59 Red 53

16 Connor Trump 15M 21:04 White 426

17 Steve Mangiapane 42M 21:07 White 64

18 Laura Chapman 51F 21:51 BLUE 58

19 Yvette Ferreira 40F 22:10 Red 840

20 Richard Roybal 37M 22:11 Red 836

21 Will Barbee 13M 22:26 Red 837

22 Paul Slow 52M 22:29 White 72

23 Karen Kidwell 29F 22:43 White 431

24 Robert Hillyer 23M 23:11 Orange 37

25 Jeremy Powers 28M 23:37 Orange 40

26 John Carson 56M 23:52 White 59

27 Jill Frizzell 42F 23:54 White 846

28 Jadon Bruckner 11M 24:13 Red 838

29 Amber Thompson 37F 24:52 White 62

30 Jen Foesig 41F 25:22 White 46

31 Brian Ferguson 61M 25:23 White 845

32 Jasper 17M 25:30 Orange 41

33 Caitlin Scown 31F 25:35 Green 49

34 Tedd Childs 43M 25:54 Orange 842

35 M. Scott Walstrom 42M 26:20 Orange 428

36 Peter Martin 54M 26:36 Orange 68

37 Sarah Sanders 34F 26:37 Orange 73

38 Michael O’Neill 45M 26:51 Orange 69

39 Erika McNamara 35F 27:00 Green 44

40 Tom Martin 67M 27:30 Green 66

41 Cathy Larripa 60F 27:44 Red 36

42 Rick Park 68M 28:06 Green 834

43 Damian Dinan 08M 28:36 Red 48

44 Stacy Baty 31F 28:47 --- 45

45 Michelle Voyles 54F 29:11 Green 39

46 David Rodriguez 48M 29:25 --- 74

47 Yolynn St. John 42F 29:29 Orange 61

48 Sherry Myers 58F 30:15 White 829

49 Daniel Lipiec 58M 30:24 --- 831

50 Dennis Wardlaw 33M 31:32 --- 43

51 Harry Pyke 73M 31:42 Green 35

52 Diqui Lapenta 48F 32:07 Orange 67

53 Kim Bergel 48F 32:21 Orange 63

54 Chris Aberson 45M 32:42 --- 844

55 Zayne Morris-Slattery 07M 32:52 White 841

56 Miles Slattery 43M 32:53 --- 843

57 Forrest McNulty 16M 34:39 --- 427

58 Ashlynn Barbee 10F 34:49 Green 839

59 Mj Goble 49F 36:28 --- 425

60 Sherrie Sample 51F 36:47 --- 38

61 Robin Wickham 49F 39:13 --- 42

62 Lavender Weburg 12F 42:48 --- 833

63 Lynn Lawrence 80F 46:00 --- 60

64 Myrna Weburg 75F 46:16 --- 832

65 Maia Morris-Slattery 06F 48:48 --- 429

66 Kaia Morris 42F 48:48 --- 430

67 Evelyn Rogers 04F DNF --- 52

68 Juliet Rogers 38F DNF --- 56

69 Westley Rogers 02M DNF --- 54

P. S. CLAM BEACH 5K CHALLENGE

Like my old buddy Jack Nicholson in "The Shining," "I'm Ba-ack!" And meanwhile, it seems, the running life has managed very well without me. On a perfect Clam Beach day, with a little cloud-cover (though not enough to keep me from getting a bit of a sunburn), and no wind to speak of, things went pretty much according to form. Cody Thompson took the overall first, making it look easy with a 17:51. Did he even notice the hill? I asked him if he was still the half-mile record holder at Arcata High -- yes, it seems young Joe Lopez fell just a tick short of Cody's record at this year's recently-completed state HS championships. Cody, now 37, has held the record for some 20 years! Meanwhile, Morgin Coonfield, another state meet star at the ripe old age of 16, dominated the women with a sparkling 19:04. She never makes it look easy -- always seems to be working very hard, but the results have justified her efforts. Her coach, Jason Lewis, is only one of many to comment on her work ethic. Eating only a few seconds' worth of her dust was our 67-year-old All-American, John Zinselmeir, at 19:26 garnering a "blue" pin, the highest award given for RRCA age-group performance at this meet. Also noteworthy was Karen Kidwell, at 22:43 high among the women, and fresh from her triumphant shepherding of 102 debut runners at the Grasshopper Peak Redwoods Run. Meanwhile, as Tanya Trump handed out the color-coded award pins, I made the mistake of sitting down for a spell, out of the reach of Cody, who had promised to help me back up. My efforts to pry my bones off the tarmac occasioned a snippet of comment from the podium, but all was forgotten in the glow of my "green" award--proof positive that, like our verdant Humboldt flora, I'm still on the "right side of the dirt."

-- Rick Park <woodlarkmusic@gmail.com> wrote on Sat, Jun 28, 2014