JTRR Magnificent Mendenhall Mudpuddle Meet 1990 Event Page
| Event Name | Magnificent Mendenhall Mudpuddle Meet |
| Location | University of Alaska Southeast, Auke Lake campus |
| Description |
Distance: 10 miles, with a 2-mile race over part of the same ground Location: start at the corner of Back Loop Road and the University of Alaska Southeast access road behind the library; finish mid-campus, across from the Mourant Building Course: the ten-mile follows Glacier Highway to the Brotherhood Bridge, picks up the bike trail past the post office to James Boulevard, then Mendenhall Loop Road and Back Loop Road to the start line. The two-mile turns the opposite way at Glacier Highway and loops back toward the finish past DeHart's Store. Start Time: 9:00 AM, registration 8:00 to 8:45 in front of the Mourant Building Mostly flat and all on pavement, with some hills in the latter stages. Participants must walk a quarter-mile from the registration tables to the start. Both races are in the Empire Cup Runners Series. Sponsored by Coors Beer. |
| History |
14th running, Saturday 12 May 1990, starting and finishing at the University of Alaska Southeast Auke Lake campus. The Empire reported 87 entrants across the two races. Course: "Mostly the course is flat, and it's all on pavement. There are some hills in the latter stages, so overall it's a real nice race," said organiser Phil Moritz. Runners faced a headwind for the first five miles and hills the rest of the way. Sponsored by Coors Beer; the Southeast Road Runners had measured the course. Despite the name, the preview noted that in thirteen runnings the race had been rained on once. Winners, ten miles. Overall: Rick Thibodeau 55:12. Second: Steve Schmitz 57:57, in his first race of the season, three seconds ahead of Kelly Miller. Women: Shelly James 68:58, despite a blister; Dawn Rider 74:26; Sue Mello 75:35. Miller on the race behind the winner: "I fell off the pace as the lactic acid started building up. At four and a half miles he and Schmitz agreed to run together." He said the leaders went through the first mile in 5:08 or 5:09 and the second in 5:20. Winners, two miles: Sam McPhetres, a Juneau-Douglas High School track and cross country runner, 12:06; Michele Ramsey led the women in 12:53. Gail Coenraad ran it with her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Marnita. Records standing: the Empire gave the ten-mile record as 52:51, set by Guy Thibodeau in 1983, and the fastest by a woman as 62:11, by Kathy O'Connell in 1987. Neither was approached. Correction: "Because of inaccurate results, there was an error in the finish order of Magnificent Mendenhall Mudpuddle Meet in Monday's Empire. Dawn Rider finished second overall among women with a time of 74 minutes, 26 seconds. Sue Mello was third with a time of 75:35. The Empire regrets the error." Rider's row carries the corrected time and a note giving the one first printed. The finish list and the report spell Mello as Mellow; the correction, the 1990 Glacier 10K and the 1990 Governor's Cup all spell her Mello, which is used here. Two finishers could not be named. The paper printed, under its own two-mile list: "NOTE: Two runners' names were not recorded. Runners with bib Nos. 465 and 464 should call 586-5226 8 a.m.-2 p.m." Their bib numbers are the only record of them and are kept here. Chris Phillips and Leslie Weaver tied for fourth among the women aged 30-39, in 86:39. The two-mile: the report calls it an inaugural race and the preview says one "has been added", but the archive's own 1980 Meet holds a two-mile alongside its ten and its seven - so a distance brought back rather than invented. Both readings are recorded because the sources differ. Sources: preview "Mudpuddle Meet set for this Saturday", Juneau Empire; "Race for second in Mudpuddle run" by Richard F. Schmitz, Monday 14 May 1990, page 9, with a photograph of Gail Coenraad and her daughter at the finish; the finish list; and a correction notice printed afterwards. |
| Race Director | DefaultRaceDirector Unassigned |
| Date and Time | 1990-05-12 09:00:00 |
| Relay/Team Events? | no |
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| SERR Event | yes |
| Registration Form | Registration Form |
| information / results | Distance | Entrants | Comments |
| Ten Mile | 10 miles | 54 | |
| Two Mile | 2 miles | 29 | |
| Thank you! | 1 | ||
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