Video of most of the finishers (first group, middle, and final) have been posted (an updated compilation video will be coming soon).
Preliminary photo Albums of the start, 1mile, and finish are now posted (they will be updated with captions etc, in the near future).
| Countdown Time | Elapsed Time | |||
Place |
Name of Runner | at Start | at Finish | |
1 |
Luke Dahl | 17:00 | 00:01 | 16:59 |
2 |
Thierry Michel | 12:45 | 00:04 | 12:41 |
3 |
Dave Hansen | 17:50 | 00:04 | 17:46 |
4 |
Joe Catanzarite | 14:30 | 00:10 | 14:20 |
5 |
Leon Maldonado | 14:10 | 00:10 | 14:00 |
6 |
Eric Rignot | 14:00 | 00:12 | 13:48 |
7 |
Paul Stella | 18:20 | 00:23 | 17:57 |
8 |
Malcolm Wright | 15:30 | 00:25 | 15:05 |
9 |
Akiko Hayashi | 16:00 | 00:26 | 15:34 |
10 |
Nina Potts | 20:00 | 00:48 | 19:12 |
11 |
Michael Mischna | 15:00 | 01:11 | 13:49 |
12 |
Mark Ryne | 17:50 | 01:20 | 16:30 |
13 |
Abi Biswas | 18:48 | 01:29 | 17:19 |
-- |
exact 0:00 | -- | 00:00 | -- |
14 |
Vachik Garkanian* | 14:57 | -00:22 | 15:19 |
15 |
Bruce Moision | 13:30 | -00:32 | 14:02 |
16 |
Larry Young | 13:00 | -00:38 | 13:38 |
17 |
Evgeniy Sklyanskiy | 10:30 | -00:50 | 11:20 |
| Notes | Place is determined by Countdown Time at Finish. | |||
| Winner is runner with lowest nonnegative Countdown Time at Finish. | ||||
| Runner's predicted time equals Countdown Time at Start.* | ||||
| Elapsed Time is the runner's actual time for running 2 miles. | ||||
| * Vachik Garkanian left the starting line 3 seconds later than his actual | ||||
| prediction of 15:00. So 14:57 became his de facto predicted time. | ||||
Some race trivia:
1) More than half of the runners finished within half a minute of their predicted times.
2) Last-place finisher Evgeniy Sklyanskiy was the fastest runner by more than minute over the rest of the field. He started last and never caught anyone, but he sure was gaining on everyone rapidly at the end.
3) Second-place finisher Thierry Michel was Mr. Consistency based on previous race results. Thierry's performance in the recent Smog Jog translates to an equivalent time of about 12:35 for 2 miles, he predicted 12:45 for the Know Your Pace Race, and his actual time was 12:41.
(Tongue-in-cheek) protests of Luke's victory:
Luke's victory in this race was not without controversy. First we entertained a protest from Luke's dog. A careful review of the video reveals that Luke crossed the finish line a fraction of a second ahead of his dog, and both finished before the beeper sounded to signal when the countdown clock reached 0:00. So both Luke and his dog finished in the same time rounded to the nearest second, but clearly the dog finished slightly closer to 0:00 on the countdown clock and should have been declared the winner of the race. However, we could not find any evidence of a paw print on the stack of waivers submitted before the race, and therefore Luke's dog was declared ineligible and this protest was denied. Sorry, doggie, you can't win our races if you don't do the paperwork!
Next we considered a protest from all of the other human runners in the race. Based on his 1-mile split time of 6:28 in the Smog Jog six weeks earlier, Luke was clearly capable of finishing the Know Your Pace 2-mile race in about 14 minutes, yet his winning prediction for this race was a leisurely 17:00. Clearly Luke predicted the pace at which his dog would run, not the pace that he himself was capable of running. And after all, this was the Know Your Pace Race, not the Know Your Dog's Pace Race! However, this protest was also denied. For one thing, several other runners in this race also predicted times that were significantly slower than the times they were capable of running, and this strategy is perfectly legal. Second, even granting the premise that Luke's dog had a more accurate sense of pace than any of the human runners, Luke was the only human runner in the race who had the good sense not to outpace his dog by more than a half step. Indeed, all but two of the runners who finished 2nd through 9th in this race made the fatal mistake of overtaking and passing Luke's metronomic dog somewhere during the race. So, any way you slice it, Luke is still the winner!
Determining Evgeniy's closing speed:
Here's a challenge for all JPL engineers with some free time on their hands. Evgeniy Sklyanskiy finished this race last, but with the fastest elapsed time for covering 2 miles and an amazing burst of speed as he approached the finish line. The questions are: What was Evgeniy's closing speed at the finish? How accurately can it be determined from the video? How does it compare to the closing speeds of other runners in the race? Send your solutions to sam@jplrunners.org. Given that we all work at JPL, I'll be particularly interested in seeing solutions based on measuring Doppler!
VOLUNTEERS: Big thanks to the large turn out of volunteers that helped keep the race running smoothly: Rhea Borja (race director), Sam Dolinar, Kamal Oudrhiri, Kelly Perry, Feiming Morgan, Jim Weiler, Baris Erkmen, Thierry Michel, Larry Young, Mark Ryne, and Melora Larson