08.21.08
Posted in Back in the Day, Road Races, Mr. Noise, Clubs, Bakersfield Track Club, Bakersfield Distance Project at 10:28 pm by Administrator
a reader wrote me today and was wondering what the course record was on the course. from the btc website, former driller joel cardoza ran 15:41 in 2006. i seem to remember that this time maybe suspect however.
the reader also inquired about the age of the race. he thought it was a new race but it has been around for awhile. i think it got started in the late 80s and i definitely ran it in the early 90s.
in fact, ten or more years ago it was the last race that i ran for the most part. i won the overall point series and it was my last race i seriously ran. in 2006, my son christopher won the series and it was the first race he ever won.
the btc summer series started out as the darryl easter memorial handicap series. darryl easter died at a young age and left behind several young children and a wife. i ran with darryl and he put on some local races back in the 80s too.
my earliest memories of this series was that it was run in winter and was held on sunday afternoons. the race also started up the road a bit. the finish was uphill near the tunnel where the bike path leads to now.
the bike path didnt exist back then either. the race was up what was called rattlesnake gulch and then back down. it was all uphill and then downhill. the turnaround was almost to the road at the top of the hill. the road the race was on wasnt much of a road.
it was dirt with a lot of rocks and ruts. watching ones footing was key and many an ankle was turned on the old course. it was a pure strength runner’s course back in the day.
later the race moved to tuesday nights and the start was moved too. i still believe it is the hardest 5k course around.
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06.17.08
Posted in Road Races, Schools, Results, Upcoming, CSUB, North, Ridgeview, Clubs, Bakersfield Track Club, Bakersfield Distance Project, Bakersfield at 11:13 pm by Administrator
another big crowd showed up for the second of six races in the btc summer series. tonight, i had a negative 8 minute handicap so i figured i could run and shoot pictures. basically i would run till i saw someone to shoot and then i would run/jog again. some of the photos are pretty bad but hopefully mr. ralls got some better ones.
i ended up in the top ten, so i was able to watch most of the runners come in. i think johnathan wykoff won and probably blew his handicap tonight. brian solis (ridgeview) and ryan lucker (csub) ran well and beat there previous efforts and lina (csub) blew by me like i was standing still with a half mile to go.
ridgeview had a good size group at the race and csub was well represented too. quite a few drillers made it out as well. all and all a good run.
btw the gal pictured is renee (a 2008 graduate of csub).
more photos HERE
race info HERE
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06.13.08
Posted in Road Races, Schools, Upcoming, Golden Valley, Liberty, Clubs, Bakersfield Distance Project, Noise Flash!!!, Bakersfield at 9:40 am by Administrator
i had to almost beat chris out of bed this morning but after i feed him, he was almost alive. we meet at david’s house and loaded up the two vehicles and they left town a little after 7am.
the team is:
vam matre and edquist’s dads will be driving the support vehicles.
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06.12.08
Posted in Road Races, Schools, Results, Upcoming, McFarland at 10:58 pm by Administrator
before the race, i spoke to jesus gomez (mcfarland class of 2008) and asked him where he was running in the fall. he said he may be at BC in the fall.
I also spoke to galvin gonzales (former mcfarland great) and he told me he is planning on running a 6 mile race in fresno on father’s day. he also said he was thinking of running his first marathon, with an eye towards running the on in fresno in november,
the race went off as planned and in the end it was galvin in first with jesus coming in 3rd. the rest of the top 9 was mcfarland’s 2007 varsity squad. followed by a mcfarland junior higher and then my son christopher.
nearly twenty runners went under 20 minutes and quite a few were younger than high school. so it looks like the mcfarland machine’s future looks bright.
the next race is june 24th. dont miss it!
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06.11.08
Posted in Road Races, Schools, Results, Upcoming, McFarland, Clubs, Bakersfield Distance Project at 1:35 pm by Administrator
Here are the results of the first McFarland 5k Series #1. The weather was warm, around 95 degrees and windy. We had about 50 total runners. We did have a few outside runners from Bakersfield. We are at Lake Tahoe this weekend and I have at least three high school teams that will come to the next race on June 24th.
Coach Ayon
RESULTS- Summer Series #1 @ McFarland, Ca.
1. Galvin Gonzalez Open men 15:43
2. Alfonso Cisneros High School male 16:46
3. Jesus Gomez Open men 16:53
4. Gerardo Alcala High School male 16:59
5. Eddie Garcia High School male 17:04
6. Marco Perez High School male 17:04.1
7. Marco Camargo High School male 17:20.2
8. Eduardo Bautista High School male 17:46
9. Pedro Sanchez High School male 17:46.3
9. Erik Garcia Middle School male 17:59
10. Christopher Anderson High School male 18:10
11. Bryan Calvo High School Male 18:14
12. Leo Perez High School male 18:29
13. Abel Mota Open 19:26
14. Bernardo Garcia Middle School male 19:39
15. Abran Ayon Elementry male 19:41
16. Danny Garcia Elementry male 19:42
17. Cristian Ballardo Elementry male 19:43
18. Gonzalo Mulato Middle School male 20:13
19. David Perez Elementry male 20:38
20. Corina Garcia High School Female 21:10
21. Isaac Mota Elementry Male 21:43
22. David Trillo Open Male 22:30
23. Samantha Ortiz Elementry Female 23:02
24. Yasmin Felipe Elementry Female 23:03
25. Sonia Holguin Elementry Female 23:03.4
25. Ismael Bautista Middle School Male 23:16
26. David Roderick Elementry Male 23:42
27. Dianizta Diaz Elementry Female 25:05
28. John Wilson Open Male 25:26
29. Roland Banks Open Male 26:46
30. Matt Roderick Jr.. Open Male 29:32
31. Akran Alhamidi Middle School Male 30:42
32. Matt Roderick Sr. Open Male 31:00
33. Clara Roderick Elementry Female 31:02
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Posted in Training, Road Races, Schools, BHS, High School, Results, Upcoming, The Colonel, McFarland, Clubs, Bakersfield Distance Project, Noise Flash!!! at 7:01 am by Administrator
chris and i went up to mcfarland to run this race. we got lucky with the weather and tried to forget how much gas cost and headed to race.
the race course is a about two miles south of the high school, west of 99. we found out that the mcfarland team runs from the school to this course as a warmup each day. we were able to spot the race because of the sea of red warming up at the entrance of the almond orchard.
coach ayon and his team warmly greeted us and told us about the course. it was basic a rectangle that ran through and around the orchards. these orchards are where the team runs daily unless it drives out of town to run in the hills.
the good thing about running in the orchards is that there is some shade and the distances are known because the fields are laid out in nice even half mile and mile intervals.
the race was a quick one and galvin won it in a sub 16 performance. at least 10 runners were under 18 minutes and my son, chris ran 18:15 for the 5k course.
hopefully more bakersfield runners will run the other races in this series this summer.
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04.25.08
Posted in Road Races, Results, Clubs, Bakersfield Track Club, Bakersfield Marathon Walkers, Bakersfield Distance Project, Noise Flash!!! at 3:53 am by Administrator
i walk a lot on the bike path and most of the runners i see are women and i noticed that in the past two long distance races that there were more women competing then men.
at the rio bravo ten miler there were 41 women to 34 men. at the kern trail 15 miler there were 13 women to 11 men and a women won overall.
in the kern trail ten miler, the men were 59 to the women’s 57.
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04.20.08
Posted in Back in the Day, Road Races, Mr. Noise, Results, Clubs, Bakersfield Track Club at 3:31 pm by Administrator
i ran the rio bravo 10 miler when i was in high school (early 80s) and it used to be an out and back course that started at the picnic grounds behind the kern river golf course.
it ran through the orange orchards and was mainly downhill out and uphill coming back. interestingly there was 4 or 5 cattle fences and they were all locked so one had to climb over them.
also there were a couple more creek crossing too. the creek crossing had planks across them but often everyone ran through them.
lastly, there were cows on the course and sometimes they wouldnt move or they ran along in front of you. with cows came their cow patties too.
in the old days, a lot of runners broke 60 on the course too. on the out and back course one had to climb over 8 fences and cross the creek 6 times.
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