Our annual meeting was held at Walt Van Zant's house. It started at 1 PM and lasted until 4:00PM. Those in attendance included:
Pauline Beatty Kelly Emo Dave McIntyre Kat Powell
Scott Bang Rich Hahn Danny Moon Eddie Reyna
Jeff Bedolla Joe Hurtado Madelyn Moon Paul Rodriguez
Jim Bordoni Joe Johnson Tom O’Connor Walt Van Zant
Chris Cassell Dennis Kurtis Carl Petersen
Stan DeMartinis Aaron Lee Bob Pickens
Club Officers
The subject was discussed very briefly. The officers for 2008 will be Walt Van Zant as president, Joe Hurtado as treasurer, and Dick Chimenti as webmaster.
Club Dues
The club dues will remain at $20 per member and $30 for a family. The dues for students will also remain at $1. Nobody is eligible to receive an award in any club contest unless he/she has paid their yearly dues. All should strive to pay their dues by 2/2/08. An e-mail should be sent to the club members with a reminder and the address of where the dues may be mailed.
Grand Prix
The captains for the various teams will be Aaron Lee and Missy Sudan for the open men and women, Al Murray and Kelly Emo for the 40+ men and women, Tom O’Connor and Kat Powell/Pauline Beatty for the 50+ men and women, Joe Hurtado for the 60+ men, and Eddie Reyna for the 70+ men.
Runner of the Year Contest
The rules will stay the same. Runners will earn one point for every mile that they run plus 20 points for every club workout that they attend and run the warmup and/or volunteer to help with the workout. 4,000+ point earners will receive a gold award, 3,000+ will receive a silver award, and 2,000+ will receive a bronze award. Club members will receive 40 points for participating in the Valentine race on 2/16/08 and 40 points for participating in the club handicap race in August or September. Club members who help with the club workout (timing or some other duty) will receive 30 points rather than 20 points for that Saturday workout. Also, members who compete in a Grand Prix race on a Saturday will earn 20 points.
Club Handicap Race
We will hold our annual handicap race on 8/16/08, a Saturday morning, this year. The race will start and finish in front of the Collins' home and will be followed by a breakfast. The date is subject to change as we have to confirm the date with the Collins’, determine the date of the Santa Cruz XC race, and determine the date of the Dammit race.
All will remain the same as last year. Bob Pickens will be the race director and Pauline Beatty will assist him. The race will be run on 6/15/08.
Annual Club Award's Dinner
The dinner will be held this year at the Los Gatos Lodge on 1/26/08. Danny Moon and Kelly Emo will direct the event.
Annual Club Valentine Race
Our annual club Valentine race will be run on 2/16/08. We will start together and hold competition as 4-man teams. The winning team will be based upon the team with the lowest total of finishing places.
Other Items
We discussed whether to buy additional old uniforms but decided against it because Danny has a sufficient supply of the new-style uniform.
We voted 9-8 to change the name of the club from West Vally Joggers & Striders to WVJS.
We voted 13-5 to change the 4/19/08 workout from 12 x 600 to a step-up and step down relay.
We voted to just have 2 all-courses days each year – one in June and the other on the last Saturday workout of the year.
We agreed that Kat Powell would make periodic writeups of club members and give to our webmaster for posting on our website.
Racer of the Year Contest
The following rules will be in effect for this year:
1. Any runner joining the club after 7/1/08 will automatically be placed in the elite division. Runners joining the club between 1/1/08 and 6/30/08 will be placed in the elite division until we can get a good line on them.
a) Most club members will be classified as to division at the annual club
meeting. In general, the runners rated will include those who competed in
the Cum Sat contest during the prior year. Those who are club members as
of January 1 but are not classified at the annual meeting will be classi-
fied by the club president after their first competition in the Racer of
they Year contest.
2. There will be 6 divisions for 2007 - an Elite Division (sub-37:00 10K), an A Division (37:00-39:59 10K), a B Division (40:00-42:29 10K), a C Division (42:30-44:59 10K), a D Division (45:00-48:59 10K), and an E Division (49:00+ 10K).
3. Club dues must be paid in order for a score to count. A grace period will be allowed until 2/2/08. If dues are paid after that date, then just the races run on the date of the payment or later will be included in their scoring total.
4. WVJS members who compete for another club may not compete in this contest.
5. The runners will include in their total score the scores from their best 8 races.
6. Grand prix races will be scored as double races. That is, if a member finishes as the top club member in his/her division, he/she will receive 2 x 25 points or 50 points.
7. Runners must compete in at least 7 separate races in order to receive an award, including a plaque. As an example, a runner might score 200 points because he/she ran in four double-point races but he/she would not be eligible for an award because he/she did not compete in 7 different events.
8. If a USATF LDR championship race is held on the same weekend as a Racer of the Year race, the USATF championship race will become the designated race in the Racer of the Year contest.
9. We will determine the number of gold, silver, and bronze awards for each division after we see how many competitors that we have in each division. All who compete in at least 7 races will receive at least a bronze award.
10. Performances will not count in road races unless the runner is an official entrant in the race.
11. WVJS members who compete for another club will not be included on the all-time lists for our various Saturday courses.
12. A club member cannot win more than one award for a year. Winning the Racer of the Year plaque takes priority. Therefore, if a runner wins both the Racer of the Year and Cum Saturday plaques, then he/she will receive the Racer of the Year plaque and the second-place finisher in the Cum Sat contest will receive the Cum Sat plaque.
13. A runner’s time will not count as part of the Cum Sat contest or on the all-time list unless it is run on the date of the designated event.
14. A runner can elect to be moved to a higher division but should do so early in the year so that the scorer does not have to spend a lot of time rescoring the contest.
15. If there is a tie for first place in any division, the tie will be broken by comparing the performances of the tied runners in the Grand Prix races in which they both competed in head-to-head competition.
16. Racer of the Year rules may be changed only at the annual club meeting.
17. The following events will be included in the contest:
Fastest mile on the two designated dates
Fastest 5K on the track on two designated dates
Fastest Farwell
Fastest
Fastest Half Marathon on a USATF certified course
Cumulative Saturday contest
03/01/08 Nor
03/16/08 Across the Bay 12K (USATF Grand Prix Race)
04/06/08 The Great Race - 4 Miles -
04/20/08 Zippy’s 5K (USATF Grand Prix Race)
05/26/08 Marin 10K (USATF Grand Prix Race)
06/01/08 Don Bowden Mile (USATF Grand Prix Race)
06/15/08
07/13/08 Jungle Run 10K
08/16/08 Dammit Run - 5M -
08/30/08
09/21/08 Banana Chase 5K (USATF Grand Prix Race)
10/26/08 Hollister Road Mile
11/09/08
The division splits will be as follows:
Elite Div (Sub-37:00)
Agesen,Ole
Bang,Scott
Bordoni,Mike
Candello,Jeff
Chow,Bryan
Davis,Brian
Hsu,Ken
Hyde,Larry
Jensen,Jorn
Kimura,John
Kriege,Mike
Kurtis,Dennis
Lief,Andy
Matthews,Mike
Murray,Al
Nast,Rob
Piazza,Dave
Pickens,Bob
Prince,Adam
Tompkins,Matt
Toney,Mike
White,Mike
Williams,Andy
A Division (37:00-39:59)
Allie,Matt
Anderson,Dan
Blancas,Ron
Bordoni,Jim
Conroy,Brian
Dunn,Bill
Fogolin,Johanna
Gerhardt,Amanda
Gerhardt,Floyd
Howe,Jim
King,Michael
Kriege,Becki
Lee,Aaron
McAllister,Nory
Melendez,Laura
Mimaroglu,Alp
Moore,Mike
O’Connor,Tom
Prabel,Frank
Rohrer,Jeff
Rosales,Ben
Russell,Ray
Smith,Mike
Souza,Tim
Spink,Katy
Woodruff,Dave
B Division (40:00-42:29)
Anderson,Jim
Baumgartner,Cecil
Bedolla,Jeff
Chimenti,Dick
Delyani,Dino
Fergus,Dave
Furst,David
Goldman,Mark
Hayes,Todd
Hurtado,Joe
Johnson,Joe
Kiyono,Ron
Kolesnik,Mike
Krey,Mike
Kriege,Matt
McIntyre,Dave Mitchum,Art
Schmitt,Bob
Stefanidis,Dimi
Taylor,Paul
Wiklund,Magnus
Zelinski,Danielle
C Division (42:30-44:59)
Bednar,Carol
Campbell,Gail
Casillas,Jose
Chamberlin,Steve
Dahlkoetter,Joann
Emo,Kelly
Hahn,Rich
Isaacson,Alice
Isaacson,Mark
Johnson,Joe
Kriege,Mary
Lee,Jonathan
Magill,Jim
Moon,Danny
Nast,Liz
Pasos,Mark
Petersen,Carl
Richard,Marian
Rostege,Tim
Takeuchi,Norm
Wong,Helen
D Division (45:00-48:59)
Benham,Mandy
Cassell,Chris
Francis,Sue
Gavin,Ed
Hellen,Rosa
Kananen,Rick
Krieg,Gina
Low,Brian
McMahon,Mike
Norlander,Dave
Pickens,John
Powell,Kat
Rodriguez,Paul
Stiller,Rich
Tran,Uyenthi
Wachs,Chris
Warfel,Tom
White,Jake
E Division (49:00+)
Beatty,Pauline
Blue,Chris
Collins,Rich
DeMartinis,Stan
Erickson,Elaine
Hurtado,Ruby
Lobbes,Roger
McPhail,Annette
Moon,Madelyn
Morrison,Marcia
Myers,Jim
Napier,Ken
Noble,Dena
Noel,Ken
Packwood,Don
Peterson,John
Reyna,Eddie
Riley,Tim
Singleton,Ed
Tran,Tin
VanZant,Walt
Wood,Glynn