2006 Garland Grip: Plenty of Snow!

Results

Sun, Jan  22, 2006 - By Mike Muha

We wanted snow. We got snow. 7 or 8 inches of it arrived the night before the Garland Grip Classic Race, forcing Larry Kinney and crew out grooming at 4:30am. Travelers from downstate who drove up the morning of the race had to fight poor road conditions.

But when we arrived, we found excellent trails conditions for the race.

The course was gently rolling terrain with a few hard curves thrown in for interest. The 2.5 km loop was double-tracked. Corners tended to get a little soft during the race (hey, there was a lot of new snow!) and the tracks on the straight-aways got harder and slightly glazed as skiers raced around the loop. Women and Juniors did two loops for a total of 5km. Men 18 and older did four loops for 10km.

The race started under beautiful sunny skies with temperatures around 24 or 25F. During the race, a mild breeze picked up, occasionally dumping snow from the pine trees on racers. Many or the 118 racers used kick wax that covered the high 20's or low 30's because of the usually high Michigan humidity in the snow. Many of the top racers spent most of their race doublepoling around the course because of the gentle nature of the trail.

Daniela Gebhart nipped Julie Houle by 5 seconds to take first amoung adult women with a time of 19:47. Last year's Michigan Cup winner Tracy Hardin took third in 20:12.

In a photo finish, Cliff Onthank out gunned junior Jesse Smith with a time of 32:48. David Mclean took third in 33:10.

Among Junior Women, Catarina Gulledge had the fastest 5km time of 22:26. Hannah Ciesla and Emily Westerman finished second and third in 23:11 and 24:15, respectively.

In the Juinor Men's 5k, Kyle Endicott was number one in 18:31, followed by Brendon Baic and Kevin Tarczon in 19:09 and 20:12.

It was a great Michigan Cup race!

Place	Bib	Last Name	First Name	City	Time	Rank
Female 13 & Under - 5 Km
1	1061	Patterson	Britta	Cadillac	0;33;27	31
Female 14-15 - 5 Km
1	1086	Westerman	Emily	Traverse City	0;24;15	16
2	1041	Patterson	Kaitlyn	Cadillac	0;26;49	23
3	1051	Timm	Alexandra	Bay City	0;27;53	25
4	1065	Dornbusch	Kara	Traverse City	0;28;11	26
5	1060	Wunsch	Adele	Traverse City	0;29;31	27
Female 16-17 - 5 Km
1	1010	Gulledge	Catarina	Roscommon	0;22;26	11
2	1087	Ciesla	Hannah	Traverse City	0;23;11	14
3	1085	Tiffany	Bridget	Traverse City	0;26;05	20
4	1081	Bradley	Sarah	Traverse City	0;26;48	22
Male 14-15 - 5 Km
1	1076	Baic	Brendan	Walloon Lake	0;19;09	2
2	1082	Brennan	Mac	East Jordan	0;21;12	7
3	237	Harris	Kirk	Traverse City	0;22;32	12
Male 16-17 - 5 Km
1	1083	Endicott	Kyle	Traverse City	0;18;31	1
2	45	Tarczon	Kevin	Traverse City	0;20;22	6
Female 18-19 - 5 Km
1	1050	Harris	Michaela	Traverse City	0;22;04	9
Female 30-39 - 5 Km
1	1054	Houle	Julia	Brieghton	0;19;52	4
2	1015	Mikolajczyk	Kelly	Willoughby	0;24;20	17
3	1058	Stevenson	Gwenn	Oxford	0;37;54	36
Female 40-49 - 5 Km
1	1008	Gebhart	Daniela	Richards Landing	0;19;47	3
2	1013	Hardin	Tracy	Cheboygan	0;20;12	5
3	1016	Baic-Berkshire	Ivanka	Traverse City	0;21;59	8
4	1020	Vajda	Judy	Traverse City	0;23;36	15
5	1044	Cavaletto	Joann	Ann Arbor	0;24;57	19
6	1055	Upton	Fran	Roscommon	0;27;37	24
7	1056	Patterson	Diane	Cadillac	0;33;29	32
Female 50-59 - 5 Km
1	1018	Rachitskaya	Olga	Russell	0;22;12	10
2	1080	Peterson	Gussie	Midland	0;23;01	13
3	1068	Dawson	Karen	Farmington Hills	0;24;46	18
4	1017	Mueller-Brumbaugh	Carole	Rockford	0;26;38	21
5	1011	McGraw	Harriet	Petoskey	0;31;16	29
6	1070	Shier	Cathy	Marlette	0;33;25	30
7	1084	Dorian	Gretchen	Brutus	0;35;18	34
8	1052	Timm	Cheryl	Bay City	0;36;22	35
9	1014	Weir	Debi	Rapid City	0;40;57	37
Female 60-69 - 5 Km
1	1074	Murray	Jean	Mt Pleasant	0;31;05	28
2	1012	Caldwell	Beth	Ann Arbor	0;35;00	33
Male 18-19 - 10 Km
1	46	Smith	Jesse	Traverse City	0;32;49	2
2	169	Carps	Bryan	Traverse City	0;48;29	56
3	121	Upton	JJ	Roscommon	0;52;58	66
Male 20-29 - 10 Km
1	240	Kuhl	Steve	Brieghton	0;33;13	4
2	79	Stevens	Andrew	Lansing	0;35;30	8
3	196	Zehnder	Jake	Harbor Springs	0;39;47	26
4	48	Tarnow	Aaron		0;45;06	48
5	235	Stevens	Andrew	Lansing
10	177	Goodman	Glenn	Bellaire	0;40;54	33
Male 40-49 - 10 Km
1	36	Maclean	David	Ludington	0;33;10	3
2	40	Paull	Denny	Cheboygan	0;33;23	6
3	249	Muha	Mike	Wixom	0;35;36	10
4	165	Bladel	Randal	Grainger	0;36;08	12
5	234	Berndt	Detlef	Richards Landing	0;37;37	17
6	198	Green	Jamie	Gaylord	0;38;57	21
7	16	Seamon	Michael	Mt Pleasant	0;39;15	22
8	157	Barton	Bruce	Homer	0;39;21	24
9	1	Vajda	Matt	Traverse City	0;39;40	25
Male 30-39 - 10 Km
1	49	Byar	Christian	Spring Lake	0;33;16	5
2	76	Fanslow	Dave	Ann Arbor	0;35;14	7
3	181	Smigiel	Stephen Jr	Cedar Springs	0;35;35	9
4	39	Foltz	Jonathon	Boyne City	0;36;20	13
5	73	Todd	Dell	Grand Rapids	0;36;27	14
6	78	Vreeken	Steven	Rochester Hills	0;37;17	15
7	190	Kalember	Jeff	Gaylord	0;37;44	18
8	166	Caldwell	Ben	Whitmore Lake	0;39;16	23
9	27	Smith	Bob	Roscommon	0;40;08	28
10	156	Moore	Joel	Harbor Springs	0;40;53	32
11	192	Luomaranta	Laurs	Sault St Marie	0;41;02	36
12	194	Kanaby	Larry	Bad Axe	0;41;04	37
13	74	Feldkamp	Tim	Ann Arbor	0;41;48	40
14	3	Kurz	Mark	Indian River	0;41;52	41
15	149	Burgess	Steve	Howell	0;47;26	53
16	186	Snyder	Jeff	Kalkaska	0;47;30	54
17	176	Moore	Jeff	Northville	0;47;38	55
18	248	Freed	Mark	Mt. Pleasant	0;49;00	58
19	37	Thielfoldt	Devan	Troy	0;49;57	60
20	193	Ernst	Dale	Sandusky	0;50;04	61
Male 50-59 - 10 Km
1	28	Onthank	Cliff	Traverse City	0;32;48	1
2	152	Peterson	Curt	Midland	0;36;07	11
3	6	Camp	Don	Grand Haven	0;37;30	16
4	160	Weingartz	Chris	Petoskey	0;37;52	19
5	13	Dawson	Ken	Farmington Hills	0;38;16	20
6	197	Kaltz	William	Pinckney	0;39;50	27
7	188	Cale	Douglas	Bloomfield Hills	0;40;35	29
8	173	Kessler	Randy	Milford	0;40;43	30
9	161	Kostrzewa	John	Traverse City	0;40;50	31
10	233	Fultz	Dick	Roscommon	0;41;00	35
11	179	Luce	Robin	Central Lake	0;41;30	38
12	191	Tervo	Mikko	Sault St Marie	0;41;34	39
13	189	Timm	Larry	Bay City	0;43;53	44
14	171	Hardin	John	Cheboygan	0;44;18	45
15	187	Weir	Rick	Rapid City	0;44;33	47
16	184	Rynalski	Frank	Bay City	0;45;49	51
17	178	Brumbaugh	Ernie	Rockford	0;47;05	52
18	57	Ruffner	Spencer	Tecumsah	0;48;56	57
19	183	Gambert	George	Bellaire	0;49;04	59
20	159	Johnson	Max	Brutus	0;50;30	62
21	172	Kraai	Rick	Holland	0;51;34	65
22	12	Sexton	Ron	South Lyon	0;53;04	67
23	175	Geiger	John	Saginaw	0;53;08	68
24	174	McGraw	Vaughn	Petoskey	0;57;12	70
25	236	Ahrenberg	Bill	Cheboygan	0;57;33	71
26	87	Uhrig	Wolfgang	Troy	1;19;18	77
27	153	Lannen	Charles	South Boardman
28	185	Brundage	Bill	Traverse City
Male 60-69 - 10 Km
1	155	Mendyk	Marv	Harbor Springs	0;40;55	34
2	2	Haefner	Bill	Clarkston	0;42;28	42
3	164	Johnson	Peter	Whitehall	0;43;32	43
4	182	Smigiel	Steve	Ada	0;44;27	46
5	151	Clary	Ed	Amherst	0;45;37	50
6	195	Herbers	Gary	Kalkaska	0;50;43	63
7	163	Drysdale	Ray	Albion	0;51;32	64
8	7	Wells	Richard	Hamtramick	1;01;25	74
9	41	Rafael	Garcia	Elmira	1;02;15	75
10	30	Pomeret	Ed	Bloomfield Hills
Male 70 & Over - 10 Km
1	150	Borgnes	Arne	Bloomfield Hills	0;45;16	49
2	167	Caldwell	John	Ann Arbor	0;54;36	69
3	180	Matson	William	Saginaw	0;57;57	72
4	158	Sturtevent	John	Roscommon	0;57;59	73
5	85	Stevenson	Marvin	Rochester Hills	1;11;07	76