The (not-so) Great Serum Run was ummm, well..... great! I really had a fun time and I think you guys did as well. I know the dogs definitely did.

I would like to give a special thank you to Tom Dunn, Brian Wey, and Lynn Yarmey, for doing such a great job with recording the start and finish times. I gave them all last minute instructions as to what to do and how to do it and they took charge and handled it wonderfully.

And we couldn't have done it without Tina Dunn and her "kennel girls" --- they volunteered to help out and served as trail marshals as well as our trail cheering squad.

HOWEVER, after going over the day's events this morning (as I was laying in bed doing my best to stop being a slacker and finally getting up at 9:30 AM --- hey, it wasn't my fault, my 6:00 AM alarm clock, Lyka, decided to take the day off), I realized that I screwed up. In all the excitement, I forgot to instruct the trail marshals to direct the 1-mile participants towards a loop along the course. As a result, the one mile course was shorted and actually turned out to be 0.7 miles. Oh well, my bad, but I don't think our dogs minded it a bit as they still had a great time.

Also, the 2-mile course was technically 1.8 miles long, which I already knew when I had previously charted it. However, due to a confusion among the trail marshals, all but the Siberian Brats team were directed to a slightly different route, which shortened their trail down to 1.7 miles (except for Team Yuki Inu - 2, which ended up doing the abbreviated 1-mile course instead).

And again, these were all for fun anyways but since our course timers did such a great job providing accurate timing, I figured we might as well be accurate with everything else. After all, it would be interesting to see how our dogs do next time around (and there will be a next time, right?).

PICTURES

Ah, Joan, your pictures always come out sooo great! Thank you for taking them and thank you for sharing them with the group.

BTW, I'm sure that some of you also took pictures. Can you share them with the group and/or email them to me (or mail them to me on a disk)? I would love to post them on our website, specially action shots of the races. And is there anybody out there that took videos?

Rancy

The (not-so) Great Serum Run

October 28, 2006 - Fairview Park (Costa Mesa, CA)

Race Results

1 Mile Race
Place	Team	Driver	Dog 1	Dog 2	Rig	Time	Avg Pace	Avg MPH
1	Stoli On The Rocks	Mark Waggoner	Stoli	Mishka	Scooter	2:57	4:13	14.2
2	Go Like Hell Racing Siberians	Maggie Wey	Bodie The Coyote	Arrow This Side Up	Scooter	3:17	4:41	12.8
3	Winging It	Susan Parker	Conifer	Caliber	Scooter	3:20	4:46	12.6
4	Siberian Misfits	Kecia Stewart	Remington	Zen	Scooter	3:37	5:10	11.6
5	Mal-Power	Diane Decrona	Amos		Scooter	3:38	5:11	11.6
6	Team Yuki Inu - 1	Cindy Stepp	Sapphire	Nayla	Scooter	4:35	6:33	9.2
7	Polar Pup Express	Kathy Mattes	Chako		3-wheeler	4:59	7:07	8.4
8	Husky Dots	Claire Mardesich	Noah	Duncan	Scooter	5:26	7:46	7.7
9	Three Eyes Blue	Jeff Anderson	Kiera		Canicross	6:08	8:46	6.8
10	Husky Camp's Sibe Ryd	Jon Usle	Yukon	Padua	Scooter	6:21	9:04	6.6
11	Team Yuki Inu - 2	Cindy Stepp	Nayla	Sparky	Scooter	7:09	10:13	5.9
12	Husky Camp's Dream Team	Chuck Usle	Cochise	Kiowa	Sacco	8:08	11:37	5.2
13	Linda	Linda	Holly	Dee	Scooter	8:13	11:44	5.1
14	Malaberian	Paul Byma	Tookla	Molly	Sacco	10:24	14:51	4
DNR	Miko the Magnificent	Lynn Yarmey	Miko		Scooter
DNR	The Couch Potatoes	Tim La Crosse	True	Marga	Sacco
Note:  Actual course distance run = 0.7 miles
2 Mile Race
Place	Team	Driver	Dog 1	Dog 2	Rig	Time	Avg Pace	Avg MPH
1	Siberian Brats	Rancy Reyes	Niko	Lyka	Scooter	8:52	4:56	12.2
2	My Crazy Sibes	Kecia Stewart	Dylan	Kazzie	Scooter	10:03	5:55	10.1
3	Snow Angels	Joan Tommarello	Skyler	Kiana	Scooter	10:54	6:25	9.4
4	Black n' Blue Crew	Matt Mardesich	Joey	Blue	Scooter	10:55	6:25	9.3
5	Nichole Royer	Nichole Royer	Kwest	Kwin	Scooter	12:30	7:21	8.2
DNR	Alpha	Gilbert Arellano	Seqouia	Bear	Scooter
Note:  Actual course distance = 1.8 miles.  However, finishers 2 - 5 ran an abbreviated course of 1.7 miles.  Pace and speed calculated accordingly.