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Triennial VIII was successfully run on Saturday 04-May-2002. Conditions were perfect: temperatures about 10deg. C at the start, rising to 18deg. C during the day, very light warm winds, gorgeous blue sky, relative humidity of about 50% at the start, falling to 25% during the day. The trail was nice and muddy from rains earlier in the week. The bright sun on the trees made the white blazes a bit difficult to see... as intended!  

Results

Awards

Catherine the Great

Tom Powers: 8 minute win on the mountain stage W2

Mike Selig: 9 minute win on E3

Earl Steinbrecher Jr.: 7 minute win on W3
It's difficult to decide between these, but I give the nod to Powers because of the difficulty of his stage.

Christopher Columbus

Andrew Ryder, E2

Spike Lee "Do the Right Thing"

Dennis van Kerkhoeve, E2

Most Eager Virgin

Katie Stettler, W2

Most Eager Virgins

Kelly and Jody Sanderson, E2

AARP Distinguished Service Awards

Joe Dabes

John McMurray

Recollections

Photos

• Atrocious celebrating a famous victory (522Kb, JPEG)
• Atrocious cooking the books in preparation for famous victory (538Kb, JPEG)

Of historical interest

Here is the Information Sheet and Entry form as a downloadable PDF file, and the Instructions to Captains as a PDF file or as an web page. Here are the age and gender handicaps.

Here are the terms of engagement in a nutshell:

1. Teams of six runners; categories include open, female, male, mixed, atrocious, bestial, crazed, and undecided.
2. On Saturday 04th May we ran three stages west to east, from Watkins Glen to Upper Buttermilk State Park, Ithaca; and three stages east to west, from Route 38 (between Harford and Dryden) to Upper Buttermilk State Park, Ithaca. This is the golden spike method.
3. This is the entire trail as described in Maps M-15 through M-18 available from the Finger Lakes Trail Conference, and the spur trail from Lick Brook to Upper Buttermilk.
4. Cross-country scoring system, six stages total, age and gender handicap start following the Virgil Mountain Half-Marathon guidelines. Older / female runners will start before the official start time, with an advantage depending on age and gender. Theoretically, everyone should have finished together on each leg ("simultaneous orgasm"), and especially at the finish, but as in other aspects of life, the ideal was rarely approximated, let alone achieved.

Don't forget our qualifying standards. Any of the following qualify you:

1. Completion of any previous Triennial;
2. Pre-run the section of the trail you will run on race day (provide date) -- sign the trail register!
3. Completion of any FLRC 20k or longer trail race since Triennial VII (1999);
4. Completion of trail races of comparable difficulty (only for non-local runners), please provide details.

In addition we require that you have a sense of humour and that you firmly believe that anything that happens to you, good or bad, is either your doing or your karma, but not ours!.  

Teams

1. Atrocious: captain Dump Truck
2. Coolaramajamas: captain Earl Steinbrecher Jr.
3. MABLIMFNIP (!! don't ask !!): captain Skull
4. Bottom Feeders: captain Tim Patronski
5. Air Guys, a.k.a. Masters w/o Tights: captain Paul Beckwith
6. Arbalzar Harriers: captain Dennis van Kerkhove (Rochester, NY)
7. Team Snugglebunny: captain Andrew Ryder
8. Green Goons of High Noon: captain Chris Mansfield
9. Bestial High Finger MudderFloppers: captain Joe Dabes
10. The Raw Stubs: captain Ron Knewstub
11. Mud Lovin' Mamas: captain Linda Grossman
12. Traildogs: captain John Zevan
13. Le Coq (tres) Sportif: Alan Evans
14. Mighty Isis: captain Tessa Bauer DuMont
15. Mad Dogs and Englishmen: captain Jim Miner
16. Bubbles (Tribute to a Fish): captain Harold Schultz

Stages

Note: see Instructions to Captains for details.

West to East stages

Stage W-1 (Satterly Hill): Start around 0800 from the lower entrance to Watkins Glen State Park (NY14) to the entrance to wildlife sanctuary, Texas Hollow Rd., near Bennettsburg. 14.3 miles mostly uphill, including Excelsior Glen, Satterly, Burnt, and South hills. About 4 miles on (mostly dirt) roads.

Stage W-2 (Texas Hollow - Connecticut Hill): Start around 1045 from Texas Hollow Rd. to Connecticut Hill radio tower. 15.8 miles including climbs out of Texas Hollow and Cayuta Outlet. For the real Mountain (Wo)man!

Stage W-3 (Connecticut Hill - Treman Park -- Lick Brook): Start around 1400 from Connecticut Hill radio tower to the Golden Spike. 14.4 miles mostly downhill, except final ascent of Lick Brook.

Stage E-1 (Hammond Hill). Start around 0800 from NY38 at Star Stanton Road, between Harford & Dryden to Old 76 Road, town of Caroline. 13.6 miles across the grain including Hammond Hill, Robinson Hollow, and Potato Hill.

Stage E-2 (Shindagin Hollow): Start around 1045, from Old 76 Road at McGrath Road, town of Caroline, to Travor Road, Town of Danby. 13.7 miles across the grain, including climbs out of Old 76, Shindagin Hollow, Wilseyville valley, and Danby valley. "The valleys of fear".

Stage E-3 (South Danby / Michigan Hollow): Start around 1345 from Travor Road, Town of Danby to the Golden Spike. 15.5 miles across the grain, including climb out of Michigan Hollow, long downhill to finish. About 2.5 miles on dirt roads.

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