Our annual meeting was held at the Kriege house. It started at 1:15 PM and lasted until 3:00PM. Those in attendance included:
Jim Bordoni Suraj Jagota Dave McIntyre Kat Powell
David Garza Becki Kriege Tom O’Connor Eddie Reyna
Neil Gelblum Aaron Lee Carl Petersen Walt Van Zant
Rich Hahn George Lo Bob Pickens Tom Warfel
Joe Hurtado Norry McAllister
Club Officers
The subject was discussed very briefly. The officers for 2012 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 2/29/12. An e-mail should be sent to club members reminding them that club dues are now payable.
Grand Prix
The captains for the various teams will be Aaron Lee for the open men, Scott Graham for the 60+ men, Eddie Reyna for the 70+ men, and Becki Kriege for all of the women’s teams. Walt will inquire as to whether anyone would like to take the jobs as men’s 40+ and 50+ team captains.
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. 3,500+ point earners will receive a gold award, 2,500+ will receive a silver award, and 1,500+ will receive a bronze award. Club members will receive 40 points for participating in the Valentine race on 2/18/12 and 40 points for participating in the club handicap race in August. 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 tentatively hold our annual handicap race on 9/3/12, Labor Day, 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 if our club committee (those who attend the annual meeting) or Rich and Judy Collins disagree. The Dammit race is scheduled for 8/11 and XC grand prix races are scheduled for 8/18, 8/25, and 9/1. Some club members will be involved with coaching high school XC teams on the Saturdays thereafter. So, alternate dates would most likely have to be August 4th or earlier.
Holy City Race
All will remain the same as last year. Bob Pickens will be the race director. The race will be run on 6/17/12.
Annual Club Award's Dinner
The dinner will be held this year at the Fairbrae Swim Club on 2/18/12. Danny Moon and Kelly Emo will be asked to be the MCs.
Annual Club Valentine Race
Our annual club Valentine race will be run on 2/18/12. 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 change the club rules that club members competing for another club are not eligible to compete in the Cum Sat or Racer of the Year contests or have their marks included in the club records. Club members who have set club records while competing for the club will continue to be listed in the club records for their previous runs but not for the records set while competing for another club. The rules just stated will remain the same for 2012.
We discussed the Wednesday night workouts run on the West Valley College track, beginning at 5:30PM. These workouts consist of 12 x 400 on one week, 6 x 800 on another week, 4 x 1200 on another week, and 3 x 1600 on the 4th week of each cycle throughout the year. Bob Pickens will be in charge of these workouts and will insure that the club clock is available for each workout. Bob has purchased lamps that he places on one of the turns to help light the track during the winter time.
The club president was directed to send an e-mail to the club members, asking for a volunteer to do the scoring for the Racer of the Year contest. This is a fairly time-consuming job.
We voted to add a rule to the Racer of the Year contest. The scorer for the Racer of the Year contest will do his/her best to identify the fastest half marathon and marathon times of club members during each year. However, it is difficult for the scorer to note all times when there are thousands of runners in a marathon/half marathon race or when the marathon/half marathon is run out of the Bay Area. So, club members should report their times to the scorer no later than 30 days after the event. If the time is not reported to the scorer within 30 days and the scorer has missed scoring the time, the result will not be scored in the contest.
Racer of the Year Contest
The following rules will be in effect for this year:
1. Any runner joining the club after 7/1/12 will automatically be placed in the elite division. Runners joining the club between 1/1/12 and 6/30/12 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
the Year contest.
2. There will be 6 divisions for 2012 - an Elite Division (sub-35:00 10K), an A Division (35:00-38:59 10K), a B Division (39:00-41:29 10K), a C Division (41:30-47:59 10K), a D Division (48:00-51:59 10K), and an E Division (52:00+ 10K).
3. Club dues must be paid in order for a score to count. A grace period will be allowed until 2/29/12. 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 as long as all of the championship races that day are the same distance.
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 nor will they be counted in the Cum Sat contest.
12. A club member cannot win more than one plaque 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 Road and Grand Prix races included in the contest. If one of the tied runners competes in a Grand Prix race and the other(s) does not, it will count as a win for the runner that did compete in that race.
16. The scorer for the Racer of the Year contest will do his/her best to identify the fastest half marathon and marathon times of club members during each year. However, if the scorer overlooks a half marathon/marathon time and the club member who ran the time in question, does not notify the scorer of the time within 30 days of the event in which the time was run, the mark will not be included in the scoring for that year.
17. Racer of the Year rules may be changed only at the annual club meeting.
18. 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 Marathon
Fastest Half Marathon on a USATF certified course
03/18/12 Across the Bay 12K (USATF Grand Prix Race)
04/01/12 Sacramento Credit Union 10M (USATF Grand Prix Race)
04/22/11 Zippy’s 5K (USATF Grand Prix Race)
04/29/12 Saratoga/Los Gatos Great Race 4M
05/28/12 Marin 10K (USATF Grand Prix Race)
06/17/12 Holy City Race
xx/xx/12 Scott Bang Road Mile
07/05/12 San Rafael Road Mile
08/11/12 Dammit Run - 5M Los Gatos
08/18/12 Santa Cruz XC Race
We voted to include the Cal Intl Marathon in the contest if it was a Grand Prix race. It was discovered after the meeting that it was not included in the Grand Prix.
The division splits will be as follows:
Elite Div (Sub-35:00)
Bang,Scott
Bordoni,Jack
Breit,Kevin
Gomez,Juan
Kimura,Jon
Patterson,Aaron
Pickens,Bob*
Pina,Jose
Prince,Adam
Tompkins,Matt
Weru,John
*elected to go up
A Division (35:00-38:59)
Camet,Ken
Davis,Brian
Fahey,Tom
Garza,David
Harris,Jean
Jagota,Suraj
Jensen,Jorn
Kriege,Mike
Kurtis,Dennis
Lief,Andy
Matthews,Mike
McAllister,Norry
Nast,Rob
Nguyen,Tommy
Nolan,Matt
O’Connor,Tom
Ostrowski,Marc
Palos,Roberto
Pina,Jose Jr
Reinking,Casey
Smith,Mike
Souza,Tim
Wiklund,Magnus
Williams,Andy
B Division (39:00-41:29)
Anderson,Dan
Bradley,Geoff
Bordoni,Jim*
Conroy,Brian
Cornwell,Kari
Delyani,Dino
Dunn,Bill
Gelblum,Neil
Graham,Scott
Hayes,Todd
Kiyono,Ron
Kriege,Becki
Kriege,Mary
Lee,Aaron
Lo,George*
Murray,Al*
Park,Kristina
Piazza,Dave
Rohrer,Jeff
Sudan,Missy
Taylor,Paul
Woodruff,David
C Division (41:30-47:59)
Bednar,Carol
Bedolla,Jeff
Chimenti,Dick
Cornwell,Dwight
Emo,Kelly
Frye,Catherine Goldman,Mark
Hahn,Rich
Howe,Jim
Hurtado,Joe
Isaacson,Mark
Jacobson,Grant
Jacobson,Rob
Johnson,Joe
Kishi,Glenn
Knuckey,Des
Krey,Mike
Kriege,Matt
Lemco,Ellie
Martin,Fred
McIntyre,Dave
Nast,Liz
Richard,Marian
Rohrer,Heather
Rosenblum,Ida
Schmitt,Bob
Takeuchi,Norm
Wong,Helen
D Division (48:00-51:59)
Beatty,Pauline
Jackson,Alvin
Kennedy,Rosanna
Lord,Bob
Low,Brian
Moon,Danny
Norlander,Dave
Petersen,Carl
Pickens,John
Rodriguez,Pablo
Rostege,Tim
Stiller,Rich
Tran,Uyenthi
Williams,Sean
Zelinski,Danielle
E Division (52:00+)
Bloesch,Ken
Blue,Christine
Cassell,Chris
Collins,Rich
Dodson,Bill
Kananen,Rick
McAllister,Nicky
McMahon,Mike
Morrison,Marcia
Noble,Dena
Noel,Ken
Packwood,Don
Petersen,Kristian
Reyna,Eddie
Riley,Georgia
Riley,Tim
Tuck,Carl
Van Zant,Walt
Warfel,Tom
Wood,Glynn
Club financial records for the last couple of years are shown below.
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2010 |
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2011 |
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Bank Balance at Beginning of Year |
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8,478.30 |
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$9,013.94 |
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Income for Year |
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Club Dues |
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$1,770.00 |
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$1,866.00 |
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Net Grand Prix Winnings |
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Income |
$1,172.00 |
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$1,597.50 |
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Expenses |
-$1,579.00 |
-$407.00 |
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-$1,365.00 |
$232.50 |
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Club uniform Sales |
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$152.00 |
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$849.00 |
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Fee for Lupus Run |
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$2,100.00 |
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$2,100.00 |
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Holy City net profit (loss) |
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$65.00 |
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-$228.81 |
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Club Banquet |
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Collections |
$2,043.00 |
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$1,160.00 |
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Expenses |
-$1,968.88 |
$74.12 |
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-$701.00 |
$459.00 |
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$3,754.12 |
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$5,277.69 |
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Use of Club Funds for Year |
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Cost of Annual Awards |
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$605.26 |
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$407.83 |
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Purchase of Uniforms |
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$1,113.20 |
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$2,080.00 |
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Valentine Race Cost |
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$107.00 |
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$140.00 |
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Donation to Bang Mile |
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$250.00 |
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$224.10 |
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Net loss re LDR Awards Dinner |
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$139.00 |
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Misc Expense |
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$17.02 |
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$15.00 |
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Printing of Club Bulletins |
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$182.00 |
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$186.30 |
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Payment for use of WVC |
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$805.00 |
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$2,660.00 |
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-$3,218.48 |
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-$5,713.23 |
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Bank Balance at End of Year |
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$9,013.94 |
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$8,578.40 |
N.B. $840 of the $2,660 WVC expense is attributable to 2010.