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Women's points |
Berryville Orchard 5K | Mystery Distance Run | Family Run 5K Valentine's 3.4 Miler | Jim Barnett Pk. 3 Miler | Claymont Ramble |
Bobby Lockhart's dominating performance in this year's Winter Series proved that the rest of us are but mere joggers by comparison. In the six races won by the young high schooler, his average margin of victory was a whopping 58 seconds! Not even an early exit from the One Hour Track Run in December could hinder Bobby's inevitable march to victory. Clearly Bobby (pictured at right) has a bright future ahead of him-- and a whole lot of slower runners behind him.Vying for second place among the men were Dustin Sweeney and Neal Riemenschneider, who battled back and forth all winter long. Teenager Sweeney, having gained a great deal of speed over the past year, defeated the veteran Riemenschneider in three out of their five Winter Series matchups. The two were head-to-head in the point totals going into the last race, but unfortunately Neal was not able to attend the Claymont Ramble, leaving second place wide open for Dustin. However, Neal had accumulated enough points to hang onto a fourth place series finish. 
The Series' other close matchup between Bill Senseney and Jim Shaughnessy (pictured at left) went right down to the wire. Shaughnessy was looking strong until he was sidelined by plantar fasciitis just prior to the penultimate Winter Series race. Determined to hang onto his two-point lead over Senseney, he laced up his shoes for the Claymont Ramble-- and aggravated his injury in the middle of the race. Jim's eventual 11th place finish left him in 5th place for the Series, a heartbreaking single point behind Neal Riemenschneider. Bill Senseney's solid showing at the Ramble enabled him to leapfrog over Neal into the Series' third spot.Newcomer Patrick Farris and SVR stalwart Paul Grosz were the only men to participate in all eight Winter Series races. Perhaps a scientific study of these two durable specimens should be conducted! The Webmaster wonders what their secret is. To see how the men's points were handed out on a race-by-race basis, download this Microsoft Excel 95 spreadsheet. Obviously the spreadsheet can be viewed in any version of Excel dating from 1995 or later; it also might be viewable in Microsoft Works. Check out the Women's Points page to download a similar spreadsheet for the women. Special thanks to all of the race directors and volunteers for doing a fabulous job, and to Neal Riemenschneider for compiling the results and points! Be sure and read Neal's Winter Series Analysis. And now, the points: |
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name Bobby Lockhart Dustin Sweeney Bill Senseney Neal Riemenschneider Jim Shaughnessy Randy Wingfield Brian White Ryan Bayne Paul Grosz Karsten Brown Steven Dobbin Stan Brooks Patrick Farris Eric Chandler Richard Kerby Myron Kremer John Rice Robie Cone Tim Darr Crawford Horne Chris Northrup Mark Vann Paul Hyde Eric Wagner Bill Osuch John Smeby Mark Stickley Ted Poulos Sandy Tudhoe Sean Maloy Jared Prunty Lenny Sweet Sam Appl Denny Myers Chris Northrup, Jr. Mitch Radella Trey McDonald Denny Robertson John Moore Tim Tomblin Eldon Winston Imants Celtniek Robert Dolan Giles Avery Larry Woodland Tom Bjorkman Rick Owens Vic Ware Brandon Bayne Greg Elwood Glen Luttrell Kent Wilhelmi Brandt Williamson Barry Demangone San Hawrot Bruce Turnball Bob Arslan |
pts. 199 197 172 170 169 153 152 130 123 109 94 93 92 88 88 72 71 69 64 62 56 52 43 42 39 34 30 29 28 26 26 26 25 25 25 25 24 24 23 22 21 19 19 18 18 16 15 15 14 14 14 14 12 11 11 11 10 |
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Winter Series Point System Demystified! The system is simple, really. For each race, the victor gets 30 points, the runner up gets 29, third place gets 28, and so on down the list of finishers. All participants in each race are assigned points, regardless of whether or not they are club members. But here's the catch-- if a person runs all eight races, he or she loses the points from the one race in which they placed the lowest. Therefore, only a person's best seven races count. An example: let's say that a runner-- Karsten Brown, for instance-- runs all eight Winter Series races. And let's say that in those races, he comes in 15th, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 29th, and 1st. For each 1st place finish, he would be awarded 30 points; for his 15th place finish, he would get 16 points; and the 2 points he got from his 29th place finish would be discarded. Therefore, his final point total would be 196. (Which would still not have been enough to beat Bobby Lockhart or Dustin Sweeney this year!)  Dustin Sweeney at the Stickman's Family Run 5K, 30 January 1999 |
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