2009 Almgren Memorial Mayday Race Results
(May 3, 2009)

The Princeton "Psych et al" were the winners of the 33rd annual Fred Almgren memorial race trophy, winning with a time of 2:40. This year (2009), there were 11 teams competing. The race ended at Washington Road, and was 25.1 miles long.

This was the soggiest race in years, due to almost steady rain, but the towpath was in remarkably good shape. One team's fourth leg was delayed by 7 minutes, as their designated runner took off in the wrong direction and had to be replaced.

In addition, the clock timing the end of the race broke before the times could be adjusted, so the final times reflect our consensus best guesses.

The results are presented below in a series of tables :

  • TABLE 1 : 2009 teams and overall times
  • TABLE 2 : Team split times
  • TABLE 3 : 2009 Participants and their times

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    TABLE 1 : 2009 teams and overall times

    1. Princeton "Psych et al"        2:39:58 
    2. Rutgers Physics A              2:44:48 
    3. Rutgers Math Team A		  3:02:42 * 
    4. Rutgers Physics α	          3:07:08 *
    5. Princeton Math Team A	  3:07:25 * 
    6. Princeton Psych "Ibid"	  3:21:06  
    7. Rutgers Math Team B            3:30:36 
    8. Princeton Plasma Physics       3:30:51 
    9. Team Carter                    3:36:15
    10 Team Asha                      3:43:23 
    11 Princeton Stately Team         3:45:21
    


    TABLE 2 : Team split times (at ends of legs)

    TEAM                    5-mile 10-m. East     BWell  Griggs-  Kingston  End
    NAME		        lock   lock Millstone Mills  town     locks    Alexander
    
    PU "Psych et al"	24:13 52:46 1:13:00  1:25:36 1:52:50 2:19:39 2:39:58
    Rutgers Physics A	24:35 48:05 1:13:20  1:24:56 1:52:20 2:21:06 2:44:48
    Rutgers Math Team A	25:54 53:30 1:18:01  1:37:56 2:08:19 2:38:12 3:02:42 * 
    Rutgers Physics α       28:58 61:03 1:25:16  1:39:46 2:10:25 2:43:48 3:07:08 *
    Princeton Math Team A   24:55 55:56 1:27:41  1:41:56 2:12:45 2:43:17 3:07:25 *
    PU Psych "Ibid"	        27:53 62:40 1:30:43  1:46:06 2:26:26 2:56:16 3:21:06 
    Rutgers Math Team B	30:35 62:22 1:28:39  1:50:00 2:21:36 3:05:36 3:30:36 
    PU Plasma Physics	33:20 68:53 1:40:28  2:00:41 2:35:26 3:07:22 3:30:51 
    PU Team Carter		30:33 61:02 1:28:58  1:47:20 2:24:29 3:03:42 3:36:15
    Team ASHA               28:20 62:05 1:37:08+ 2:01:28 2:35:28 3:11:24 3:43:23
    Princeton Stately Math	32:20 67:55 1:30:06  1:47:00 2:28:13 3:12:22 3:45:21
    
    + Asha started the next leg at 1:45:00, after a runner went the wrong way
    * Times for Rutgers Physics α and Princeton Math Team A on the last leg adjusted using GPS data.
    * Time for Rutgers Math Team A on the last leg adjusted by consensus
    # PU Psych "Ibid", Rutgers Math Team B and PU Plasma Physics adjusted using camera clock
    


    TABLE 3 : 2009 Participants and their times

    
    Place / Team / Leg # and Runner		    time	
    
    1. Princeton Psych "et al"
            1. DeForest McDuff                  24:13
    	2. Steven Bergsieker		    28:33
    	3. Anthony Caponiti		    20:14
    	4. Julia Morton			    12:36
    	5. Rob Cooper			    27:14
    	6. Giri Parameswaran		    26:49
    	7. Audrey Sederberg		    20:19 
    
    2. Rutgers Physics A
            1. Molly Josephson                  24:35
    	2. Brett Salmon			    23:30
    	3. Ed Lochocki			    25:15
    	4. Drew Morris			    11:36
    	5. Asha	Singh			    27:24
    	6. Iskander Ziyatdinov		    28:46
    	7. Sean Yeager			    23:42 
    
    3. Rutgers Math A
            1. Mike Ratner                      25:54
    	2. Scott Schneider		    27:36
    	3. Dan Staley			    24:31
    	4. Rodrigo Matus-Nicodemus	    19:55
    	5. Phil Matchett Wood		    30:23
    	6. Greg Salmon			    29:53
    	7. James Dibble			    24:30 *adjusted 
    
    4. Rutgers Physics α
            1. David Jacob                      28:58	
    	2. Eric Tanalski	 	    32:05
    	3. Piers Coleman		    24:13
    	4. Evgeny Andriyash		    14:30
    	5. Jean Francois Fortin		    30:39
    	6. Dieter van den Bleeken	    33:23
    	7. Adam Falkowski		    23:20 *
    
    5. Princeton Math A
            1. Micah Warren                     24:55
    	2. Shoibal Chakravarty		    31:01
    	3. Hao Shen			    31:45
    	4. Dacheng Xiu			    14:15
    	5. Toufic Suidan		    30:49
    	6. Kevin Wilson			    30:32
    	7. Hao Fang			    24:08 *
    
    6. PU Psych "Ibid"
            1. Hilary Bergsieker                27:53	
    	2. Chand Chandrasekaran		    34:47
    	3. Keith Sayles			    28:03
    	4. Mary Steffel			    15:23 *adjusted using camera
    	5. Matt Trujillo		    40:20
    	6. Rob Cooper/Anthony Caponiti      29:50
    	7. Chris Moore			    24:50 
    
    7. Rutgers Math Team B
            1. Jinwei Yang                      30:35
    	2. Arran Hamm			    31:47
    	3. Christine Menhart		    28:17
    	4. Binnaz Kucuk			    21:21
    	5. Francesco Fiordalisi		    31:36
    	6. Ben Muckenhoupt		    44:00
    	7. Jay Williams			    25:00 
    
    8. Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
            1. Jessica Baumgaertel              33:20
    	2. Martin Griswold		    35:33
    	3. Amanda Lundberg		    31:35
    	4. Dan Lundberg			    20:13
    	5. Dave Smith			    34:45
    	6. Colin Parker		 	    31:56
    	7. Luc Peterson			    23:29 
    
    9.  Team Carter
            1. Leah Isseroff                    30:33
    	2. Bruce Koel			    30:29
    	3. Linda Hung			    27:56
    	4. Adam Koel			    18:22
    	5. Don Johnson			    37:09
    	6. Kristen Marino		    39:13
    	7. Sahar Sharifzadeh		    32:33 
    
    10. Team Asha
            1. Prashant Jadhav                  28:20
    	2. Siddharth Wagh		    33:45
    	3. Chitra Narayanan		    35:03
    	4. Siddharth Wagh		    17:28
    	5. Debajyoti Nandi		    34:00
    	6. Amit Priyadarshi		    35:56
    	7. Ankit Sarda			    32:00
    
    11. Princeton Stately Math:
            1. Jeroen and Morgan Tromp          32:20
    	2. Keiko Kawamuro                   35:35
    	3. Michael McBreen		    22:11
    	4. Xu Yang			    16:54
    	5. Ali Pezeshki			    33:13
    	6a. Yongzhong Xu		    26:04
    	6b. Phillip Whitman		    18:05 (44:09 for all of leg #6)
    	7. Beth Jarvie/Craig Confoy         33:00
    
    
    Thanks
    Thank you to Ingrid Dauchechies for organizing the picnic, and to Alice Chang, Paul Yang, Xiang Zhou, Pin Yu and Sam Ruth for helping
    Thanks also go to the many timers of this year's race! They were: Chuck Weibel, Luc Nguyen, Bobby Demarco, Andrew Baxter, Melanie Matchett-Wood, Susan Robison and Carolyn Calderbank
    Maintained by: Charles Weibel, weibel @ math.rutgers.edu, last modified May 4, 2009