HCS Y2K Prediction Run 8K
Columbia, MD
Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000
Conducted by Howard County Striders

The most difficult trick of timing this January 1 may not have been rolling the digital clocks over from 1999 to 2000. For the 113 runners at the Howard County Striders Resolution 8k, the most difficult timing feat was finishing the appointed distance at exactly 11 am - without benefit of any timing devices. In spite of being up late the evening before, most runners finished amazingly close to the appointed hour, and 26 of them completed the 8 km (or 4.97 miles) within plus or minus 20 seconds of 11 am. Mike Bosch of Pasadena, MD, proved the most accurate, crossing the finish line only 0.13 seconds before the hour. (Curiously, his bib number was 1013.) Mike credited his success to "feeling bad and being out of shape" as well as stopping to tie his shoes. For his incredible temporal precision, Mr. Bosch won an engraved Danbury desk clock and a Muggsy the Millenium Mutt stuffed dog.

Race director Dave Tripp offered two other awards. For finishing the farthest from 11 am (nearly 22 minutes!), Mary Beth Soverns earned a talking Christmas wreath. For being the first to submit the correct answers (in writing) to a seven-question "quiz," Nancy Burns won a second Millenium Mutt and 2000 pennies. "I'm donating them to UNICEF," she quipped.

Dave and Judy Tripp have staged the Resolution Run on January 1 for "at least the last 20 years." Unlike most millenium events, the 2000 version of the Resolution Run actually outdrew the 1999 version - by 8 participants. The field included a wide variety of runners, ranging from 9-minute-a-mile "Penguin Pacers" to the Maryland Class 3A State Cross Country Team from River Hill. All of them gathered after the event at the Jeffers Hill Neighborhood Center for cider, orange juice, fruits, and 10 dozen Dunkin' Donuts.

TOP FINISHERS (those within 20 seconds of 11 am)
Steve Zelenak           10:59:40.84
Mike Styczynski         10:59:41.26
Seth Geoghegan          10:59:41.94
Tom Green               10:59:42.89
Steven Grufferman       10:59:43.25
Bruce Worley            10:59:43.64
Rebecca Huesman         10:59:44.09
David Swimm             10:59:44.26
Ed Donovan              10:59:46.53
Gordon Rusinko          10:59:47.63
Jim Noctor              10:59:48.80
Denise Hyde             10:59:52.53
Peter Salmon-Cox        10:59:53.80
Tom Brown               10:59:54.99
Rusty Toler             10:59:58.28
Evan Thomas             10:59:59.05
Jeff Bosch              10:59:59.87     
Raymond Beitzwell       11:00:06.95
Noah Wood               11:00:10.72
John Wheatland          11:00:13.13
Andrea Almand           11:00:14.52
Robert Knaus            11:00:15.16
James Moreland          11:00:15.89
Zachary Heidepreim      11:00:17.73
Steve Chu               11:00:18.23
Vincent LaMonte         11:00:19.91

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