River Runner Wrap-up

A couple days since the race finish and hopefully all racers, volunteers, and organizers have caught up on their sleep deficit!

Sunday afternoon, the final dogsled team crossed the finish line, driven by Nathaniel Hamlyn of Yellowknife.  He therefore captured the red lantern award and went on to join others at the finishing banquet.

Mushers reported hard and fast trails for the return trip from Mendenhall to Whitehorse.  Surprisingly, the temperature dropped to minus 30 on the Takhini River, perhaps a shock for some since it has been an unusually warm winter in Whitehorse recently.

Sunday evening everyone enjoyed a delicious spread at the Mt. McIntyre Centre finishing banquet.  Draw prizes were given out and then race prizes were awarded.

Darryl Sheepway took home a lovely framed print for his first place finish in the 65 mile skijor class; Nathaniel received his ‘green’ lantern for the final team on the trail; and the top five sled teams finished in the money in the following order:

1st Normand Casavant

2nd Hans Gatt

3rd Ed Hopkins

4th Martine LeLevier

5th Gerry Willomitzer

For his first place, Normand also took home a framed print.  Hans Gatt was chosen for the Vet’s Choice Award, a gift certificate donated by All Paws Veterinary Clinic.  Finally, Mike Simon received the Volunteer of the Year award, a gift certificate donated by Whitehorse Motors.

All of the times for the event will be posted on our website under the RR100 page.  Definitely some records set this year with finishing times 1 1/2 hours faster than last year!

This race could not happen without the help of volunteers – a big THANK YOU – you know who you are!

And also another big thank you to our sponsors – please see their names on the side bar of the website and give them your business.

Stay tuned for the next Yukon Brewing Twister – tentative date set for March 18th.

RR 100 – Overall run times

Here are the overall runtimes. More detailed results (Mendenhall times) coming later.

Nicolas Dory took some great pictures: http://www.nicolasdory.com/portfolio/mushing/river-runner-100-2012/

130Mile sled

1- Normand Casavant- 9:38

2- Hans Gatt- 10:43

3- Ed Hopkins- 11:03

4- Martine LeLevier- 11:15

5-Gerry Willomitzer- 11:31

6-Will van Randen- 12:12

7-Steve Gibbons- 12:14

8-Claudia Wickert- 12:15

9- Alex Rochat- 12:16

10- Luc Tweddell- 12:40

11- Adam Robinson- 13:29

12- Brian Wilmshurst- 13:29

13- Matt McHugh- 13:33

14-Petra Bachhuber 14:30

15- Nathaniel Hamlyn- 16:28

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65Mile Skijor

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Darryl Sleepway- 5:44

Gaetan Pierrard: 7:43

Amelie Janin- 9:13

River Runner 100 Race Update

Well The 2012 RR100 is wrapping up, the weather turned out to be ideal for racing sled dogs and the hard packed fast trail allowed the top placing teams to post some incredibly fast finish times. Volunteers and race organizers are still at the finish line are waiting for the last team to come in, but here are the unofficial results so far:

In the Sled Category, Normand Casavant drove the first team across the finish line at 7:12am to take 1st place in this year’s RR. Hans Gatt took 2nd crossing the finish line at 8:17am, Ed Hopkins finished 3rd at 8:37am, with Martine LeLevier finishing 4th at 8:49am, and Gerry Willowmitzer making the top 5 finishing at 9:05am. The remaining results are as follows: 6th Will Van Randen (9:46am) 7th Steve Gibbons (9:48am) 8th Claudia Wickert (9:49am) 9th Alex Rochat (9:50am) 10th Luc Tweddell (10:14am) 11th Adam Robinson (11:03:01am) 12th Brian Wilmshurst (11:03:02am) 13th Matty Mchugh (11:07am) 14th Petra Bachhuber (12:04am)

In the Skijor Category, Darryl Sheepway finished 1st with a total run time of 5hrs 44min to win this year’s RR Skijor. Gaetan Pierrard was 2nd with a time of 7hrs 43min and Amelie Janin was 3rd with a time of 9hrs 13min.

Congratulations to all the participants for finishing the 2012 RR100, keep posted to the blog for the official finish results which will be posted shortly.

We hope to see everyone out tonight for the 2012 RR100 Finish Banquet at 6pm in the Grey Mountain Room at the Mt. Mac Rec. Center.

Starting order for RR 100

 

Musher’s meeting was held this evening and teams are set for the race tomorrow. According to trail boss Darryl the well-marked trail is fast and good with a few “tricky” spots.

Here is the order in which teams will leave the starting chute at Shipyards Park tomorrow, starting at 3 pm with the three skijorers, followed by the 15 sled teams. Start interval will be 2 minutes between each team.

 

65mile Skijor
#21 Amelie Janin
#22 Gaetan Pierrard
#23 Darryl Sheepway

130mile sled
#1 Ed Hopkins
#2 Hans Gatt
#3 Steve Gibbons
#4 Petra Bachhuber
#5 Claudia Wickert
#6 Martine LeLevier
#7 Brian Wilmshurst
#8 Will van Randen
#9 Gerry Willomitzer
#10 Nathaniel Hamlyn
#11 Normand Casavant
#12 Adam Robinson
#13 Luc Tweddell
#14 Matt McHugh
#15 Alexandra Rochat

Good luck to all the racers!