Bay Area Ultrarunners/Jim Skophammer 12 Hour College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA July 21, 2001 NAME AGE LOC DIST (mi) ----------------------------------------- Jean Paul Mazaud 49 CA 70.0911 Peter Bennink 47 WA 68.3512 Kyong Y Martin* 46 CA 65.8657 Paul Duffau 38 CA 65.6172 Richard Pon 50 CA 62.6346 Stephen Derenzo 59 CA 58.4093 Eric Poulsen 49 CA 58.4093 Bernd Leupold 59 CA 56.9180 David Pelavin 43 CA 53.1897 Jeff Martin 54 CA 51.2013 Gary Smith 45 AZ 50.2071 James "Echo" Edmonson 58 CA 49.4615 Mike Tselentis 74 CA 44.9876 Dan Baglione 70 CA 42.7506 Clydeine Zink* 50 CA 41.0107 Stephanie Mazaud* 39 CA 40.2651 Paula Pelavin* 15 CA 34.0513 Mattias Klintenberg 32 CA 33.0571 Rita Schildknecht* 37 CA 29.0804 Amanda Shepherd* 36? AZ 26.3463 Conditions for this year's race turned out to be much more pleasant than last year's biting wind and fog, as we changed location, coming down the hill from Skyline College to the College of San Mateo. The campus is beautiful, halfway up the Peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose. The track gives a breathtaking view off the backstretch over much of the Bay Area. The race started at 7:30 AM with fog overhead, no wind and temperatures in the high 50's or low 60's, and might have reached 70 during the day, in serious contrast to previous years with temperatures of 100+ during the day. The fog cleared around 11:00 AM, and we were treated to a bright sunny day with a light breeze for the rest of the race. Jean Paul Mazaud journeyed up from Carmel looking for the win. He started out and had lapped most of the field in the first mile or two, though Peter Bennink, down from Washington, cruised along in second less than half a lap down and looking good. The lead widened to a couple laps, then gradually closed again over the first few hours. Peter took the lead briefly before Jean Paul picked up the pace again and pulled away for the win, with a nice finishing kick the last few laps to get 70 and the win for the day. There were a number of other highlights in the men's race. Paul Duffau, doing his first ultra, wanted to try for 100K and he got it easily, looking strong all day. Richard Pon wanted 100K and he got it as well, though he looked a little stiff-legged near the end. Eric Poulsen race-walked the entire way to a 58+ mile total. David Pelavin did his first run at or over a half-marathon(!) and smiled all the way to 53+ miles. Mike Tselentis and Dan Baglione, our 70+ division, spent much of the day chatting happily with each other as they went around the track. On the women's side, Kyong (Suki) Martin and Rita Schildknecht were training for an upcoming hundred, so had run ten miles before coming over to the race! Suki wanted at least 65 miles to make a 75-mile day, so they pushed the pace early and often. In the day's only 'incident', we had to remind Suki that pacers were not allowed for the race leader. She decided that since it was a training run anyway, she'd rather have the pacer than the win, so bowed out of the contest for the overall win, though she did win the women's 40+ division, being the only entrant (we'd said at the pre-race briefing that those not going for the win or a record, or in an age group with no other entrants, could have pacers along for company--if you'd rather just have a good long run than be in a serious race, we're fine with that.) With Kyong's bowing out, Clydeine Zink was the women's overall winner, cruising along well and ultimately holding off Jean Paul's wife Stephanie Mazaud by three laps for the win. Two other highlights of the women's race: David Pelavin's 15-year-old daughter Paula decided that with a late scratch of another entrant, she'd like to walk/run for awhile and see what she could do, having never gone over 8 miles. She walked steadily along, jogged occasionally, decided to go for 20 miles, then for a marathon, then 50K, and finished with an excellent 34+ miles. Amanda Shepherd came up from Arizona to help Gary Smith. After about 10 miles pacing along with Gary, we decided that she might want to be an official entrant, so we gave her a number and sent her on her way, and she got in a marathon for the day! One final note: Richard Pon brought his 11-year-old son David to the race as his handler. David, having never been to a race like this, took right to it. He was everywhere--helping his Dad, manning the aid station, giving encouragement and knowing comments to anyone that needed them. At the awards ceremony we decided to present him with a plaque for 'Head Crew Chief' for all his work, and he got the loudest applause of anyone. Thanks, David--you were a joy! Next year's race is tentatively scheduled for July 20th. We hope we'll see you out there with us! Cheers, Dave Combs & Brian Horwitz, RDs 7/25/01