Eldorado Hill Challenge - 3/2/2013 | |||||
Sancho Panza played squire to no one in today's first Eldorado | |||||
Hill Challenge, capturing the highest flag of all 11 runners in the | |||||
one hour distance race. Panza covered 7.2 miles of the hilly | |||||
Goldstream Valley course in 59:16. He was followed by Ed | |||||
Debevec at 6.6 miles in 58:04 and Graham Reynolds at 6.3 | |||||
miles(after penalties) in 1:00:45. Anna Merrill won the women's | |||||
division covering 6.1 miles in 57:13, followed by Jane Lanford at | |||||
6.0 miles in 57:37 and Katie Graff at 5.8 miles in 58:43. Runners | |||||
exceeding one hour were assessed a distanc penalty of one | |||||
tenth mile per minute. While runnable, Friday's snow slowed | |||||
runners somewhat on the trail section of the course, and the | |||||
summit flag(7.6 miles) remained unclaimed. | |||||
Distance | |||||
Before Penalty | After Penalty | ||||
1. | Sancho Panza | 59:16.25 | 7.2 | 7.2 | |
2. | Ed Debevec | 58:04.09 | 6.6 | 6.6 | |
3. | Graham Reynolds | 1:00:45.45 | 6.4 | 6.3 | |
4. | Luke Reece | 56:57.28 | 6.2 | 6.2 | |
5. | Anna Merrill | 57:13.23 | 6.1 | 6.1 | |
6. | Jane Lanford | 57:37.17 | 6 | 6 | |
7. | Owen Coskey | 59:31.41 | 6 | 6 | |
8. | Yoshi Nishiyama | 55:31.03 | 5.8 | 5.8 | |
9. | Katie Graff | 58:43.27 | 5.8 | 5.8 | |
10. | Bob Vitale | 1:00:29.72 | 6 | 5.8 | |
11. | Trent Hubbard | 1:03:27.17 | 6 | 5.2 |