Sunday, April 17, 2011

Team Awards

Here are some team awards.
Difficulty Awards
Amazing Award for the longest and most difficult legs: Dave Greding 25.2 miles with two legs with an overall difficulty of Very Hard and one Hard.
Hills Award for the most combined elevation difficulty: Wade Altom with two Very Hard and one Medium elevation difficulty.
Distance Award for the second longest overall distance: John Stewart for running 21.8 miles with one Very Hard and two Medium overall difficulty legs.

Speed Awards
Speedy Gonzales Award for the fastest overall pace: Nikki Fenske who averaged 8:03 minute miles for her 15.7 miles that she ran. She also receives the Sandbagger Award for estimating a 9:00 minute mile pace, but cutting off nearly a full minute from the "estimate". "I'm not fast, why does everyone think I am fast?!"
Almost Made it Award for the second fastest time: Trevor Kavanagh for running 13.8 miles total at an overall pace of 8:35 minute miles. Just think what will happen if you train Trevor. :-)
Fastest and Most Difficult Award: Wade Altom for averaging an 8:39 mile pace while still running 17.8 miles of mostly hills.
I still can't beat Wade Award: Dave Greding who ran at an 8:50 average pace for all of his 25.2 miles with hills. Some day you'll beat Wade.

Other Awards
Best Van Slave for being all things to Van personnel: Tiffany Pratt. Yep, Van 2 was jealous we didn't have a van slave.
Mercy Award: Tied Wade Altom for switching legs with James Sloan to save James' achilles AND AnneMarie Sloan for filling in Danielle's spot at the last minute without training and then switching with Rebecca to save Rebecca's knees.
Spreadsheet Award for making a better spreadsheet than I had created last year. That says a lot, I was proud of my spreadsheet. Tom Omer
Get Out of My Way Award for sharp elbows hitting participants, spectators and friends: Amy Adams
I'm Just Going to Do This Award for gutting out her last leg, despite her anxiety about her knees and for having team members willing to finish for her. Rebecca Greding
Most Progress Award For making such drastic running progress in such a short period of time and for even tackling Hells Hill at the end of third leg to end her first Ragnar Relay. Laura Wright. Tom Omer is a very close second because of the amazing progress he has made in such a short period of time. I remember the first several times he would come to the running club, he would only do 1/2 or a 1/3 of the club run. Now he's running four times a week and keeping up with Dave and Wade.
Best Estimator Award for running closest to the estimate average pace. Amy Adams who was only 0:03 off her estimate.
Soggy Shorts Award for soaking their shorts naturally: Tied AnneMarie Sloan and Rebecca Greding.
Weird Science Award for 100+ science related discussions during Ragnar: Tom Omer, Tiffany Pratt and Chad Wright.
Nastiest Blister Award: James Sloan (nominated by Amy Adams).
Captain my Captain award to James Sloan for being the BEST 2011 Ragnar captain. Thanks for all your hard work. You made this event incredibly fun and we all had an amazing time. Thanks James!!! (Nominated by Dave Greding)
Best Police Avoidance for dodging a crazy cop who nearly caused a multi-car accident on the Corondo Bridge by making a U-Turn from the far right lane across heavy traffic in all lanes to get to the median. Stupid Cop! Mike Adams.
Run Until You Barf Award: John Stewart. Way to leave it all on the course, John (pun intended) (Nominated by Tom Omer)
High Jump Over a Dead Cat Award: Michael Barnett. Yuck!
Most Entertaining Psychiatric Break-downs: Rebecca Greding (Nominated by Wade Altom)

I updated Tom's spreadsheet, but here are the paces with distance in order. (Tom, can you think of a formula to create some sort of weighted average pace to better compare distance and pace, since shorter distances are easier to have a higher pace?)
1) Nikki 15.7 miles 8:03 pace
2) Trevor 13.8 miles 8:35 pace
3) Wade Altom 17.8 miles 8:39 pace
4) Dave Greding 25.2 miles 8:50 pace
5) James Sloan 20.0 miles 8:50 pace
6) Amy Adams 16.8 miles 8:57 pace
7) Tom Omer 16.0 miles 9:03 pace
8) John Stewart 21.8 miles 10:07 pace
9) Michael Barnett 12.1 miles 10:10 pace
10) AnneMarie Sloan 15.6 miles 10:53 pace
11) Laura Wright 12.4 miles 11:48 pace
12) Rebecca Greding 13.3 miles 12:31 pace

If you all have other awards you want to mention, please do.
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17 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 17, 2011 at 6:30 PM

    I edited the Most Improved award to include Tom Omer as a close second. The new post includes the following: Tom Omer is a very close second because of the amazing progress he has made in such a short period of time. I remember the first several times he would come to the running club, he would only do 1/2 or a 1/3 of the club run. Now he's running four times a week and keeping up with Dave and Wade.

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  2. UnknownApril 17, 2011 at 7:31 PM

    Added a new award. Now the original post includes the following: Soggy Shorts Award for soaking their shorts naturally: Tied AnneMarie Sloan and Rebecca Greding.

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  3. UnknownApril 17, 2011 at 7:53 PM

    Added yet another award. Now the original includes the following: Weird Science Award for 100+ science related discussions during Ragnar: Tom Omer, Tiffany Pratt and Chad Wright.

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  4. LauraApril 17, 2011 at 8:33 PM

    Haha, so funny! Thanks James! And you have no idea how many science discussions those people had - like ALL THE WAY HOME from San Diego! Probably more even than I know because I kept nodding off.

    Oh, and I am bummed with my overall average pace...I blame it all on Hell Hill. I'm pretty sure my pace on that last leg was 25:00! At least I finished!

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  5. UnknownApril 17, 2011 at 8:56 PM

    Laura, If you look at each leg it is your second one that is the worst one. I think it was the time you waited for Dave. Didn't you say your pace for that run was the best you ever had?? Unfortunately, the way Ragnar works we don't get credit for the exchange until the exchange happens. Here is the breakdown: Your first one you had a 10:19 pace, second a 12:51 pace and last one with Hell Hill was 11:25. You should feel happy, you did great.

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  6. LauraApril 17, 2011 at 9:39 PM

    My 2nd leg was one of those last minute leg changes. Who else had one of those? I know there were several people in our van.

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  7. rebeccaApril 17, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    Love, love, love your award list, James! What a crazy fun race.

    My pace is not amazing, but I'm just so grateful that I finished the whole thing. My knees will be back and better than ever in 2012!!!

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  8. AmyJuneApril 17, 2011 at 11:25 PM

    I would like to nominate Mike for the "thanks for not killing us on Coronado bridge award" and James for the "nastiest blister award".

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  9. DavidApril 18, 2011 at 8:33 AM

    "Captain my Captain" award to James for being the BEST 2011 Ragnar captain. Thanks for all your hard work. You made this event incredibly fun and we all had an amazing time. Thanks James!!!

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  10. UnknownApril 18, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    I added three more to the original post as follows. Nastiest Blister Award: James Sloan (nominated by Amy Adams).

    Captain my Captain award to James for being the BEST 2011 Ragnar captain. Thanks for all your hard work. You made this event incredibly fun and we all had an amazing time. Thanks James!!! (Nominated by Dave Greding)

    Best Police Avoidance for dodging a crazy cop who nearly caused a multi-car accident on the Corondo Bridge by making a U-Turn from the far right lane across heavy traffic in all lanes to get to the median. Stupid Cop! Mike Adams.

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  11. TomOApril 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM

    One of our longest 'weird science' discussions on the way home had to do with developing a proper difficulty rating to compare legs taking into account distance, elevation, and weather. If and when I come up with something, I'll post it. Might take some time, though.

    In the meantime, I think the biggest monkey wrench when comparing paces was time not running: waiting at traffic lights and making late exchanges.

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  12. TomOApril 18, 2011 at 12:50 PM

    I propose John Stewart for the 'Run Until You Barf' award (anyone in Van 2 vomit?). Way to leave it all on the course, John (pun intended).

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  13. MichaelApril 18, 2011 at 1:09 PM

    I award myself "High Jump Over a Dead Cat" award.

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  14. wadeApril 18, 2011 at 4:50 PM

    not sure what to make of the award for me having a faster pace than dave. i don't think either of us knew there was a competition. we all know the only person who was interested in having the fastest overall pace was aa.

    my award is: most entertaining psychiatric break-downs: rebecca greding. hopefully we'll be seeing some of that at the video night.

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  15. rebeccaApril 19, 2011 at 7:20 AM

    Thanks, Wade. Happy to entertain. Wow, I win soggy shorts and psychiatric break-downs. What will next year bring . . . ?

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  16. nikkiApril 19, 2011 at 1:49 PM

    I nominate Van 1 as the annointed van.............we did have Jesus in it afterall.

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  17. LauraApril 23, 2011 at 12:00 AM

    Chad needs an award for being able to park the van in tiny spaces without even getting out to check his distances. Superior use of rear-view mirrors.

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