2004 Results and Race Photographs
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2004 Team Results / Ultra Results / Photos
What would it take to win this
year?
Last year five Cornell grad students, the Social Scientists,
won the inaugural Canandaigua Relay in 6:48:09. What would it take to win
this year?
Team ODR, five over-40 guys from the Oven Door Runners (an informal running group in Rochester) blew away the course record by almost 40 minutes with a Masters Men record 6:08:30. The triumph of experience over youth would have been a great story but that wasn't fast enough to take the race.
The Social Scientists came up from Ithaca to defend their title with a couple new runners and a faster pace. The Cornell scholars held on against a fast closing Team ODR to prevail in 6:05:48, more than 42 minutes faster than 2003. That wasn't enough either.
Megan Hyland of Rochester put together a team with 5K speed to burn: Matt's Girlies. The four young women consistently run 18 and 19 minute 5Ks and Matt has 17 minute credentials. How would flat 5K speed and twenty-something youth translate to 50 miles with 3500' of gain and loss? As it turned out, the answer is "very well." Matt's Girlies broke the old record by more than an hour with a 5:45:13, a new Open Mixed record. But even that wasn't enough.
Team White & Clark, three older runners from the Buffalo area, showed they were serious when Steve White opened with a 6:16 average for the first 10.2 mile leg. Trevor White flew with a 6:08 average for the big climb up the Coye Road hill and back down to the lake. Jim Clark made the 800' Bopple Hill climb and drop into Bristol Springs in a strong 7:20 average, giving the team a 10-minute lead over Matt's Girlies at 17.1 miles. They scarcely slowed as they extended their lead to 23 minutes at the finish. Their time of 5:21:46 (6:26 average pace) was more than 1:26 faster than last year's best.
What will it take to win in 2005? Which team will be the first under 5 hours?
| 1. | White & Clark (Open Men) Steven White, Trevor White, Jim Clark |
East Aurora | 5:21:46! | 1st Open Men* |
| 2. | Matt's Girlies (Open Mixed) Megan Hyland, Karen Blodgett, Matt Blodgett, Christina Keck, Audra Knapp |
Rochester | 5:45:13 | 1st Open Mixed* |
| 3. | Social Scientists (Open Men) Scott Condie, Joe Price, Shad Morris, Wes Sine, Steve Sauer |
Ithaca | 6:05:48 | 2nd Open Men |
| 4. | Oven Door Runners (Masters Men) Clyde Sumner, Mark Harrison, John Melville, David Newman, Ted Thull |
Henrietta | 6:08:30 | 1st Masters Men* |
| 5. | Who Moved My Beer (Open Men) Steve Phillips, Robert Dedrick, Brock E. Barry, Eric J. Domroes, Will Wagner |
Avon | 6:49:24 | 3rd Open Men |
| 6. | Corning Pacers (Open Mixed) Mary Wenck, Jeff Knutson, Robert Kern, David Morgan, Monika Wood |
Corning | 6:54:52 | 1st Masters Mixed* |
| 7. | Retrofits (Masters Mixed) Terry Bluhm, Susan Robinette, John Blanchard, Joseph Taille |
Pittsford | 6:56:18 | 2nd Masters Mixed |
| 8. | Just in Time (Open Mixed) Glenn Widor, Chris Clark, Tammy Lamagra, Anne Lambert, Terri Urzetta |
Fairport | 6:57:14 | 2nd Open Mixed |
| 9. | Cheshire Cats (Open Mixed) Jim Kerr, Christina Eldridge, Polly Mayne, Jan Putnam |
Canandaigua | 7:00:23 | 3rd Open Mixed |
| 10. | BB & The Mystery Machine (Open Men) Joe Hibberd, Angela McGinnis, John Perhamus, John O'Hagan, Ken Bridman |
Canandaigua | 7:04:44 | |
| 11. | Mudhens (Open Mixed) Michael Keefer, Chris Frank, Heather Frank, Scott Rasmussen |
Rochester | 7:14:37 | |
| 12. | Crosswinds (Masters Men) Rebecca Andrus, Robert Andrus, John T. Hicks, Ed Martin, Ed J. Leahy |
Canandaigua | 7:16:44 | 2nd Masters Men |
| 13. | Game Farm Girls (Open Women) Mindi Morris, Ali Condie, Anna Halverson, Janna Hay, Jennie Sanders |
Ithaca | 7:16:46 | 1st Open Women* |
| 14. | Chicken & Biscuits (Open Mixed) Kimberly Hill, Leif Albright, Stacy Pond, Jennifer Mandanas, Julie Koski |
Corning | 8:36:44 | |
| ! = New relay record. * = New category record | ||||
2004 Ultra Results / Photos / Team Results
The race starts in
Vine Valley.
It is often remarked that the marathon is best approached as a 20 mile run
followed by a 10K race. The corollary for the run around Canandaigua Lake is
it is best thought of as a 60K run followed by a 20K race. It can be a
long day if approached in the reverse order.
The opening 10.2 miles to Onanda Park is seductive. It is so easy to wind up the pace, pulled along by the relay runners. But, while the relay runners get to recover several hours before their next leg, the solo runners proceed immediately up the Coye Road hill, hammer their quads getting back down to the lake and then a short mile later face the haute category Bopple Hill. Five out of the top ten at Onanda Park were not in the top ten at the finish.
Andrew Rice took the race out fast and opened up a 9-minute lead over Todd Baum at 10.2 miles. Daniele Cherniak, last years overall winner, was another minute back but was not feeling well and dropped out. Rice powered over the Coye and Bopple Hills and extended his lead to 15 minutes at Bristol Springs (17.1 miles) and pulled out to 19 minutes over Baum at 22.9 miles. Then the momentum began to shift. Would Rice be able to hold on for the win?
At Sunnyside, 27.5 miles down, the momentum shifted and Baum had pulled back one minute. Over the 6 mile haul to the 364 & Vine aid station, Baum ran 30 seconds a mile faster and cut the deficit to 12 minutes with 17.5 miles to go. At Vine Valley, with 12 miles to go, Rice's lead was down to 5 minutes. The inevitable happened and by the Deep Run aid station with 4 miles to go, Baum led by 8 minutes.
At the finish, Todd Baum had the course record with an evenly paced 6:47:36 and his second win in the Western New York Ultra Series. Andrew Rice held on to finish in 7:01:52, more than 9 minutes under last year's record and more than an hour faster than his third place effort in 2003.
Other notable performances were:
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Nicole White's run through the field from 21st place at 10.2 miles to 7th at the finish. |
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Dennis McDougall's 3rd overall in 7:44:17 which took almost two hours off the Veteran Men's record. |
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Bill Fornoff's 8:49:06
top ten finish at age 61. |
| 1. | Todd Baum, 46 | Fayetteville | 6:47:36! | 1st Open Men* |
| 2. | Andrew Rice, 38 | Canandaigua | 7:01:52 | 2nd Open Men |
| 3. | Dennis McDougall, 54 | Union City, PA | 7:44:17 | 1st Veteran Men* |
| 4. | David Kim, 43 | Webster | 7:58:34 | 3rd Open Men |
| 5. | Richard Kruse, 50 | Newark, DE | 8:01:45 | 2nd Veteran Men |
| 6. | Lawrence Creatura, 38 | Mendon | 8:27:08 | |
| 7. | Nichole White, 33 | East Aurora | 8:38:48 | 1st Open Women |
| 8. | Dave Smith, 50 | Williamsville | 8:46:39 | 3rd Veteran Men |
| 9. | Bill Fornoff, 61 | Jarrettsville, MD | 8:49:06 | 1st Veteran Men* |
| 10. | David Borowski, 43 | Auburn | 9:06:08 | |
| 11. | Keith Gregoire, 38 | Depew | 9:08:49 | |
| 12. | David Weiss, 55 | Corning | 9:15:04 | |
| 13. | Mark Lavner, 48 | Fairport | 9:17:52 | |
| 14. | Brent Slough, 21 | West Point | 9:25:10 | |
| 15. | Jim Palmeri, 62 | Rochester | 9:25:36 | 2nd Veteran Men |
| 16. | Josh Littman, 30 | New York | 9:25:40 | |
| 17. | Patrick Singh, 45 | Forest Hills | 9:25:41 | |
| 18. | Anita Fromm, 33 | Edwards AFB, CA | 9:26:30 | 2nd Open Women |
| 18. | Diane Jozefski, 40 | Rochester | 9:26:30 | 2nd Open Women |
| 20. | John Prohira, 50 | LeRoy | 9:27:10 | |
| 21. | Brian Hooker, 25 | Rochester | 9:36:00 | |
| 22. | Joe Packard, 40 | Victor | 9:51:43 | |
| 23. | Tim Hammell, 41 | East Aurora | 9:59:15 | |
| 24. | Jim Dempsey, 51 | Bristol, CT | 9:59:16 | |
| 25. | Walter Schuttler, 53 | Seymour, CT | 10:12:50 | |
| 26. | Rand E. Nielson, 52 | Sandy, UT | 10:53:29 | |
| ! = New ultra record. * = New category record | ||||
2004 Photos / Ultra Results / Team Results
Photographer Andrea Randt donated her time to photograph the race. Click here to see her 184 photos of the race.
Karen Suitor has posted photos from the Martha Stewart Aid Station. Click here to see her 19 photos.
Click here to see some photos Barry Erickson took while roving the course. Includes nice snaps of the Martha Stewart Aid Station.
Here's a link to Finish Line photos that Tom and Barry took. There are finish photos of most runners.
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