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RACE RESULTS
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Race 1:
Timberline, Jan. 13, 2008.
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Race 2:
Meadows, Jan. 27, 2008.
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Race 3: Ski
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Feb. 17, 2008.
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Race 4:
Meadows, March 9, 2008.
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Race
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Timberline, March 23, 2008.
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Final results were revealed
at the "Rat Attack"
party, Friday, April 11. |

Meadows race. More on our
Recent Photos page.

Drunken Losers team
(sharing 1st place with Ruttin' Rats) |
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LATEST UPDATES
RACE HANDICAP CHARTS:

Roman Chamine has
found a way of converting our race results into useful charts, showing
how our individual handicaps fluctuate over time, from race to race.
Remember: LOWER handicaps are better. The ideal curve would go
diagonally down from top left to bottom right, as we get better.. Contact Roman
at:
Airs98@yahoo.com. Click here for a team chart:
In 2007/2008, we have a total of
130
PACRAT racers just from our own club. That means over half of all the
racers in the PACRAT league are our club members. It also means
that over half of all our members participate in racing. Wow!
In 2007 the
1st placed team was Rattitudes, one of our very
own Mt. High teams, led by Chris Wiley:

In 2008, the highest placed Mountain High team was Rocket Dawgs
(in 3rd place), with Mike Weber as the team captain:

More photos are posted on the
Recent Photos page. Also, see more info about our racing on the
Racing page.
Race-related questions:
Contact our Racing Director, Bruce
Ellison at yuffiet@comcast.net.
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EXPLANATION OF TERMS
POINTS:
Everyone earns
one point just for successfully running the course at least once. You
earn 10 points for a first place in your category. 9 points for second
place. 8 points for third place. This scale is modified if there are
very few people in your category. For example, if there are only 3
people in your category, the first place would receive 10 points, the
second place 5 points, and the third place 1 point.
BONUS POINTS: You
get an additional 3 bonus points every time you improve on your own best
previous result, that is when you improve your best previous handicap.
CATEGORIES: There are 7 categories for men, and 7 for
women. The result of your first race determines which category you
will be in. After that, when you improve to the point that your
result lands in a higher category, you will immediately be moved up into
the higher category (for the following race). But it takes 2 below
par results before you would be moved back down into a lower category.
UP-STRIKE: A letter "U" next to your name indicates that
you have exceeded the results typical for your own category. Receiving
even a single up-strike means you will be moved up to the next category.
DOWN-STRIKE: A letter "D" next to your name indicates a
down-strike. Your result fell short of what is typical for your
category. If you receive 2 down-strikes (in 2 separate races), you
will be moved to a lower category for the following race.
HANDICAP: This number, usually between 1
and 100, shows how much slower you are than the fastest
theoretically possible time on any particular race course. Pace-setters
with known handicaps are used to determine the theoretically fastest
possible time. If a pace-setter's handicap is 10, then a time that
is 10 percent shorter than his would be the fastest possible time.
Everyone else's handicap is then calculated from there.
If your
handicap is 30, it simply means you are 30 percent slower than an
Olympic racer would be. Ideally, you should see this number gradually go
down as you improve.
DNS: "Did Not Show" - if you are absent on the day of the
race. No points are earned.
DNF: "Did Not Finish" - like if you fall and do not
go through all the gates. No points are earned.
NOTE:
The official PACRAT web site is:
www.pacrats.org
You can get to it by clicking on the
PACRAT button on our menu. If you click on the RACING button, you
will see info that relates more directly to our own club members, but
also includes the latest PACRAT news.
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