The Sez

8/12/01 Chronicle Classic 5-Mile Run COWS Present: Raitters

8/3/01 IAAF World Championships COWS Present: Dudley

7/4/01 Butte to Butte, 10k COW Present: Dudley

7/1/01 Fleet Feet Mile COWS Present: Dudley and Rose

6/30/01 Pacific Crest Half Marathon COWS Present : Raitters

6/30/01 Reeds Lake 5k and 10k COW Present: Low

6/23/01 Shriners 8k COWS Present : Raitters and Dudley

6/16/01 Kalamazoo Klassic 5k Klassic 10k COWS Present: Baby Cow Mayer

6/16/01 Ludington Race COWS Present : Paul Low

6/10/01 Bend Distillary 10 Mile COWS Present : Raitters

6/09/01 Sunburst Marathon COW Present : Paul Low

6/02/01 Diems 5K COWS Present : Paul Low, Blake McDowell

5/28/01 Zippy 5K COWS Present : Dudley, Pod, Raitters, Rose, and Nixon

5/17/01-5/19/01 Mid-American Conference Championships COWS Present : Baby Cow Mayer, Blake McDowell

5/12/01 Riverbank Run 25k COW Present : Paul Low

5/06/01 Lincon Marathon COWS Present : Tim Vanderslut and William Raitter III

5/06/01 Bloomsday 12k COW Present: Mike Dudley

5/05/01 Salmon Run 10k COWS Present : Sarah Raitter, Dylan Mason (Double Salmon Royalty)

4/29/01 Kion 5k COWS Present : Dan Nelson, Todd Rose, Nixon

4/22/01 Compaqu Up and Running 10k COWS Presents : Bill Raitter, Sarah Raitter, Pod, Mike Dudley, Todd "db" Rose, Paul Low, Sean Nixon

4/15/01 Some Gay-ass Ski Race COWS Presents : Dylan Mason

4/15/01 Pear Blossom Run COWS Presents : First Losers Bill and Sarah Raitter

4/1/01 OTC Stairmaster Championships COWS Presents : Mike Dudley

3/24/01 Houlihan's to Houlihan's COWS Presents : Willy and Sarah Raitter, Todd Rose, Bryan Dameworth, Sean Nixon

3/17/01 Shamrock 8K COWS Present : Willy Raitter

3/17/01 Irish Jig COWS Present : Paul "Age Group Medal Winner" Low

3/10/01 Run for the Seals COWS Present : Todd Rose

3/3/01 Linfield Icebreaker (nonfruit race) COWS Present : Raitter and Cow Jr

2/23-2/24/01 MAC Champs 5000m
MAC Champs 3000m COWS Present : Blake McDowell

2/17/01 2001 Winter XC Championships COWS Present: Raitters and Verran

2/16/01 Jack Skoog Invitational Central Michigan University COWS Present: Paul Low

2/3/01Notre Dame's Meyo Invitational COWS Present : Fastest Cow 5000 Ver-ran

1/5/01Cal 10 Miler COWS Present : Raitters

11/12/00Clarksburg 30k COWS Present : Dudley

10/15/00Humboldt Half Marathon COWS Present : Low and Nixon

9/4/00Pac Sun 10K COWS Present: Mike and Nixon

8/25/99 Mary's Run 5 mile COWS present: Mike and Carissa Dudley, Paul Low, Tim Vandervlugt, and Dylan Mason

8/19/99 World Mountain Running Trophy COW present: Paul Low

8/18/99 Air Force Marathon Relay COW present: Bill Raitter, Mike Duldey, Whittney Miller, Time Vandervlugt

8/06/99 Pacific Sun 10k COWS present: Mike Dudley, Bill and Sarah Raitter, Paul Low

8/15/99 Bendistillery 49.5k COW present: Mike Dudley

8/15/99 Bendistillery 49.5k bike and Tie AlmostCOW present: Dylan Mason

8/15/99 Fleet Feet Mile COWS present: Bill and Sarah Raitter

8/15/99 Mount Hood Skibowl Scramble COW present: Paul Low

8/14/99 Run Through Hell 10 Miler COW present: Sean Nixon

8/14/99 Helsinki City Marathon AlmostCOW present: Tim Vanderflute

8/01/99 Alameda Run For The Parks 10k MEN COW present: Bill Raitter

8/01/99 Alameda Run For The Parks 10k WOMEN COW present: Sarah Raitter

7/27/99 1999 COLUMBIA CLASSIC / 15K COW Present: Mike Dudley

7/24/99 The Elephant's Perch Backcountry Run COW present: Paul Low

7/16-18/99 Great Lakes Relay-Open Division COWS Triumphant

7/16-18/99 Great Lakes Relay-Mixed Division COW present: Maija Low (Running for All Terrain Crazies)

7/5/99 Firecracker Mile COW present: Matt Ames

6/26/99 Shriners 8k COWS present: Bill and Sarah Raitter

6/20/99 Grandma's Marathon COW present: Mike Dudley

6/06/99 Reno Air 15k COWS present: Bill and Sarah Raitter

6/05/99 Sunburst Marathon COW present: Paul Low

5/29/99 Dexter to Ann Arbor Half Marathon COW present: Matt Ames

5/15/99 Nokomis Drum Run 5k COW present: Sean Nixon

5/9/99 10k at Fisher's Landing COWS present: Bill and Sarah Raitter, Carrisa Dudley, Dylan Mason, Paul Low

5/8/99 Old Kent Riverbank Run 25K COW present: Mike Dudley

4/25/99 Salmon Run COWS present: Mike "Salmon Run" and Carrisa Dudley, Paul Low, Dylan Mason

4/17/99Pietro's 5k COW present: Trevor Darnell

4/17/99McDonald's Forest 15k COWS present: Paul Low, Dylan Mason, Bill and Sarah Raitter

4/17/99Cresent City Classic 10k COW present: Mike Dudley

3/28/99 Some Half Marathon in Flushing COWS present: Matt Ames and Tom Carney

3/28/99 Hanson's 5k COW present: Barry Deese

3/28/99 Houlihan's to Houlihan's 12k COWS present: Bill and Sarah Raitter

3/21/99 50-Plus Fitness Association 8k COWS present: Bill and Sarah Raitter

3/14/99? Corktown 4 mile Run Matt "ahmez" COWS present: Ahmes and Sean Nixon

3/14/99 Portland Shamrock Shuffle COWS present: Bill and Sarah Raitter, Mike and Carrisa Dudley, and Paul Low

3/6/99 Linfield Icebreaker Invitational COWS present: Bill Raitter, Mike Dudley, Dylan Mason, and Paul Low




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News and Announcements

April 30:
News Channel 46 5K as reported by Jacob Michaels: "The Big Sur 5K took place Sunday on a cold, windy, and bright morning on the picturesque and over-priced Monterey Coast. The start of the race verged dangerously close to the annoying: the national anthem was sung on a screeching PA system (at least to my caffeine-deprived brain) before the start, while runners stood and shivered and groaned about the 7:30am start time. And the blue blazer-sporting race officials continually used the phrase "elite runners" as they insisted that hoi polloi keep their distance from these runners and their place up front. Next year I will run the race in my own snazzy blue blazer and yell out "make way, elite" in a pretentious accent whenever passing or being passed.

The race itself: WVTC's Paul Low, a mountain runner (yes, a serious running event everywhere else in the world except in the US), breezed up what everyone else considers a hill on the first mile, with Hoy's Excelsior star and recent 29:48 10k performer Chris Lundstrom, and Adidas Tranports speedster Ben Turman in tow. Lundstrom made a move right after the hill leveled out and led until the dirt path. There Paul surged and left Lundstrom and Turman behind. The gap widened closing in on the last hill and the 2 mile mark when disaster struck. Paul, instead of vearing left and going up the hill and back towards the finish, started heading south. Now what the numerous race volunteers and huge marathon water stop brigade were doing as the top three runners went passed them is unclear. Obviously they could not be bothered to direct runners. Paul later said that upon hitting highway 1 he saw cones to his right which he deduced were course markers. In any case, the damage was done and the top three runners all realized probably at the same time they had gone the wrong way. This meant that Paul's sizable lead turned into the large deficit when he turned around and tried to make up for lost time.

Meanwhile the leader of the second pack, Hoys Ex Chris Ashfield, usually a front runner but fatigued just a bit from his 2:25 Boston effort, seeing the leaders make a wrong turn, immediately surged to take advantage of the mistake up front. Our cagey veterans Todd Rose and Bill Raitter were in this pack and followed Ashfield's move up the last hill. On the hill, the new front pack was caught by Turman and Lundstrom to make for 6 runners heading down the hill and into a rather stiff wind. Nobody wanted to take the lead into the wind, making for a kicker's finish. Turman, Rose, and Lundstrom pulled away from the other 3 runners as they neared the finish. Turman, a former collegiate miler had the most grunt, out-kicking Lundstrom by 1 second in 15:08 for the win. Rose was three seconds back for third. Bill Raitter, after winning his weight in beer at a recent race in Oregon, felt he had no drive to win without beverages on the line. Still he ran an excellent 15:15, good for 5th place. Paul Low, who wound up 7th in 15:32, would have undoubtedly been contending for the win if not for the lost time on his wrong turn. Sean Nixon, again travelling up from Redlands in SoCal as he did for Houlihans, was 16th overall in 15:57, while Juan Torrealba, 19th (16:01) and Aaron Pierson, 21st, (16:04) followed. This team was good enough to beat all comers, and most importantly Adidas Transports, who WVTC was tied for first with coming into the race. This leaves the men's open team in first place, alone, going into the next PA race, the Zippy 5K, the first double point race of the year."

April 30:Dylan Mason Failed to win the 2000 MacDonald Forest 15k placing second to 19 year old, John Lucas of Eugene 55:16 to 56:28

April 16:Mike Dudley ran in the Redbud Calssic 10k; his race report follow. "At least you won't have to change my heading under my picture "back in second." Once again I conquered the title of 1st loser! At the Redbud Classic 10k in Oklahoma City on the 16th (Sun). I did run pretty fast though, 29:41 on a windy day and it was a rolling course. I happened to be first American though, as I lost to Kenyan Patrick Kiptum, and old college rival from Blinn CC and Oklahoma St. U."

April 15:You would think that when a female runner places third overall in a road race that she would more than likely be the first female finisher overall. This did not prove to be the case at Ka-Nee-Ta Mini Marathon on the Warm Springs reservation. William Raitter won the overall title in the men's race with Laura Nelson (second overall) and Sarah Raitter (third overall) as his nearest competitors.

April 8:Not everyone was a winner at the 2000 Pear Blossom 10mi in Medford Oregon. Specifically, everyone other than Ian Solof and Deana O'Neil were, in fact, losers. Amidst the non-winners were SEACOWS Bill and Sarah Raitter who both finished third in their respective gender catogories. This pecularity propted a feature story in the local paper in which Sarah had to assure the interviewer and any prospecive readers that the Husband and wife duo did not specifically try for the double second loser finish.

March 26:After finishing 21st and 43rd in his last two outings, Mike Dudley returned to the familiarity of finishing second place in a major road race, this time, at the Around the Bay 30k in Hamilton, Ontario. Mike was nipped at the tape by local runner, Joseph Ndiritu, 1:32:53.1 to 1:36:42.9.

March 26:The 2000 edition of the Houlihan's to Houlihan's 12k almost qualified as a SEACOW reunion with four participants including recent California transplant, Sean Nixon. Nixon (16th in 39:32) arrived out west just in time to do laundry for Paul Low (4th in 37:35) and Liam Raitter (9th in 38:41). Sarah, following Paul's lead of running just fast enough to recieve $0.00 in prize money finished 4th in 44:32.

March 12: The following race report was written by Dylan Mason who should note that a race report is not an essay. Results can (finally) be found Here.
Bill "everyone's daddy" Raitter won his weight in beer this weekend at the Shamrock run, by winning the 8k, in 24:42 (a PR). Bill ran like an animal, and it can be truly said, no one wanted that beer more than Bill... he was quoted after the race as saying "this is the peak of my running career... I'm retiring tomorrow." 6 cases. wow.
Paul "the Limey" Low won 400$ (US, not pounds) by placing in third the 15k, 46:43 (a very substantial PR). He was worked by Kelly Lambert, 2nd, (formerly of UP?) and Philomon Hannock, 1st, road whore surpreme and generally really fast ass-kicking guy (yes, he's from Africa). (yeah, $400 dollars will buy a lot of beer). Paul was quoted as saying "wow, look what happens when I actually taper." (editor's note-Paul ran 106 miles that week)
Sarah "first loser" Raitter was 2nd in the 8k to (surprise!) Deanna O'neil... winning yet another proud Seacow gift certificate to Jake's. She ran quite well, 28:48, and not far off her PR, pretty good for a 70 mile week. Also, she uncored more of the secret "white lightning" blazing speed that has been recently from Clan Raitter.
Mike Dudley, who was not present, nevertheless had his presence felt - he fed eight people the night before at McCormick and Schmick's, a fancy seafood restaurant in downtown Portland.
Jeremy McWilliams, who ran the 5k solely to win beer, was disappointed to find out that a very fast guy from Eugene went out really fast, and kept going really fast... faster than Jeremy. This guy (Ian Gillespie, possibly English) won in 14:24, Jeremy was a little over 15 (15:29) in a throw in the towel effort.
Dylan Mason PR'd considerably - 48:48 for 15k. Good enough for a stellar 9th place, far out of the money and prizes... But, I beat a real British guy, who, oddly enough, runs with Mick Hill's club in England... His last time on the course was 52 minutes, in '96. Dylan was quoted as saying "well, at least I'm the fastest nerd here from Bend... oh, wait"

March 4: What is the difference between running at a track meet and cleaning your father's garage? Appearantly not as much as most of us would believe. Thus, the opening of the 2000 outdoor track season got underway on Saturday without Dylan Mason Competing. Of the athletes who were present at the Icebreaker, Sarah Raitter Managed to win the 3,000 meter making herself undefeated on the track during this milenium. Others who were not so fortunate included Liam Raitter who finished second in the 10,000 meter with a 31:59.57 and Paul Low who scorched to a 9:32 win in the Steeplechase but then placed second in the 5,000 meter run a few hours later

March 4: Mick Dudley was almost the winner of the Gate River Run this past weekend in the hellish depot of soulless geriatric escapists, florida with a 46:37. Had the top TWENTY men somehow failed to finish, he was right there for the win. Actually, this field was f**king packed!!!
1 1 Dan Browne, 24 44:26 4:47
2 2 Shawn Found, 29 44:36 4:48
3 3 Peter Delacerda, 28 44:39 4:48
4 4 Mark Coogan, 33 44:44 4:49
5 5 Keith Dowling, 30 44:51 4:49
6 6 Jeff Campbell, 28 44:52 4:49
7 7 Scott Larson, 30 44:54 4:50
8 8 Jimmy Hearld, 31 44:56 4:50
9 9 Rod Dehaven, 33 45:13 4:52
10 10 Phillimon Hanneck, 28 45:22 4:53
11 11 Eric Polonski, 29 45:27 4:53
12 12 Wynston Alberts, 28 45:36 4:54
13 13 Danny Gough, 31 45:37 4:54
14 14 Tim Hacker, 37 45:55 4:56
15 15 Brian Baker, 28 46:02 4:57
16 16 Christopher England, 26 46:06 4:57
17 17 Mark Croghan, 31 46:14 4:58
18 18 Steve Plasencia, 43 46:30 5:00
19 19 Jim Jurcevich 46:32 5:00
20 20 Teddy Mitchell, 27 46:36 5:01
21 21 Mike Dudley, 29 46:37 5:01
22 22 David Morris, 29 46:39 5:01
23 23 Scott Bagley, 36 47:12 5:04
24 24 Simon Gutierrez, 33 47:16 5:05
25 25 Tony Cosey, 25 47:17 5:05
26 26 Clint Wells, 24 47:21 5:05
27 27 Kurt Keiser, 26 47:23 5:06
28 28 Joseph Lemay, 33 47:29 5:06
29 29 John Tuttle, 41 47:40 5:07
30 30 Jason Bodnar, 29 47:48 5:08
31 31 Jerry Lawson, 32 48:03 5:10
32 32 John Sence, 30 48:08 5:10
33 33 Matt Thull, 25 48:15 5:11
34 34 Marco Ochoa, 35 48:20 5:12
35 35 Steve Swift, 27 48:28 5:13
36 36 Tom Coogan, 28 48:46 5:15
37 37 Bill Baldwin, 27 49:02 5:16
38 38 Jon Sinclair, 42 49:09 5:17
39 39 Todd Reeser, 26 49:23 5:19
40 40 Mike McManus, 34 49:53 5:22
41 41 Brian Fleischmann, 21 49:54 5:22
42 42 Arturo Barrios, 37 50:24 5:25
43 43 Brad Hudson, 33 50:26 5:25
44 44 Steve Wilson, 41 50:47 5:28
45 45 Mark Vilardo, 26 51:00 5:29
46 46 Lee Yaracs, 16 51:05 5:30
47 47 Carlos Paradelo, 26 51:27 5:32
48 48 Valentin Alvarez, 31 51:29 5:32
49 49 Michael Brooks, 26 51:36 5:33
50 50 Aaron Scheer , 25 51:54 5:35

February 13: Mike Dudley finished 43 in 39:52 at the 2000 winter nationals in Greensboro, NC helping the Army WCAP team to a 9th place overall finish. It should be noted that the Army team finished behind the Hansons' Running stores team.

February:Cross-country camouflage: Members of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program will be wearing distinctive urban camouflage uniforms at this weekend's cross-country nationals in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sugio, the WCAP sponsor, is supplying the uniforms, which will be worn by athletes including Dan Browne, Jason Stewart, Sean Found, and Mike Dudley.

February 7: Bill and Sarah Raitter shuffled to 5th and 4th palces respectively at the 2000 edition of the Truffle Shuffle in Eugene. Bill crossed the finish line in 20:14 holding off Annette Peters by a good 30 seconds while Sarah ran 23:01, over 10 seconds faster than her winning time from last year.

January: The SEACOWS are spreading, like a rash. In the beginning, members of the SEACOWS resided in the States of West Virginia and Michigan. With the exodus of Sean "a1" Nixon to east Los Angeles, however, the evidence is clear; the SEACOW infestation is becoming a national problem. With representatives in CO, MI, OR, CA, and IL SEACOWS can now be found 5 different states and in all continental time zones.

January: 16 Liam and Sarah ran in the first (and quite possibly the last) Millennathon (yes, you read correctly, I wrote, "millennathon). Sarah finished in 20th place in a in best domestic field heretofore assembled in this millennium with a 1:22:06 while Liam earned a big pile of Todd Rose's dirty laundry in 13th place with a 1:10:23

January 10: Mike Dudley finished his recent tour of Northern California second place finishes with a 49:48 at the California 10 Mile race in Stockton which was good enough for...second place. Having posted previous second place finishes at the Pacific Sun 10K and the Cal International Marathon, Mike has now completed the trifecta of almost wins. Liam Raitter finished in 10th place with a 51:50, one second faster than Steve Votawhas ever run in the 10 miler. Sarah ran well enough to be the fastest female to not win any prize money in forth in 59:25

January ?: Tim Vandervglut ran faster than all commers at a 4 mile race somewhere in Missouri. Is anyone all that surprised?

December 12:WVTC Christmas Relays as reported by Jacob Micheals
Our open women's team was the star of the relays. Sissel B-Heber led off, snuffling with a cold and modestly not expecting much, and found herself clicking off miles at 6 flat, finishing only 20 seconds behind Impala star Carol Keller with a sub 27:00 leg. A startled Kim Woody, not expecting Sissel in quite that fast, scrambled to get the tag-off and immediately found herself chasing not only the Imapalas but also an unexpectedly fast East Bay Striders team. With a 28 something leg, the gap was kept to a minimum, and Kim tagged Jenny Wong for the next leg. Jenny had to contend with a menancing woman in black on her shoulder the entire leg, and ultimately held off this strong Aggie challenge with her 27:20 leg. When Sarah Raitter was tagged for the last leg, she found herself in third, 20-30 seconds behing EBS and the Impalas, with the Aggies just five seconds behind in an unaccustomed 4th. Sarah immediately took off towards the two front runners, pulling away from the Aggie anchor Tenaya Soderman. Sarah made up the gap in to the second mile and steadlily pulled away from the field with her sub 5:50 miles. Her 26 min. flat leg led the women's team to their first victory of the road racing season, about a minute up on Aggie Tenaya, who also passed both the EBS and the Impalas runners.
The men's open team, depleted by sickness, burnout, and injury, still was a formidable assemblage. Bill Raitter, who ran every PA championship road race except for Cal 10, had a strong 22:25 lead-off leg, bettering Chris Phipps of Hoy's Excelsior by 15 seconds, and putting the team in first. Mauricio Maia was our second runner, gamely filling in for a laundry list of felled runners, and ran his heart out, managing a sub 24:30 performance. Unfortunately, he was running against Hoy's Excelsior's Chris Lundstrom, one of the best xc runners in the PA, and Adidas Transports sub 31 min 10K runner Eric Ackermann. WVTC found itself down by 1:45 to Hoy's Excelsior and about 30 seconds to Transports and the end of the second leg. The boozin' and wrestlin' Todd Rose, sick for about 10 days, had self-described "heavy legs", and lost time to the resurgent and stoic-faced Dan Shore of Hoy's Excelsior. By the time Paul Low of Alfalfa, OR, was tagged for the anchor leg, WVTC was down by over 2:30 to Hoy's and 1:30 or so to Transports. Paul appears to have gained time on Hoys' Chris Ashfield and especially Transports' Kenrick Sealy, but the gap was too big and the men's team ended up third, about 30 seconds behind Transports.
For official results, go here.

December 5:Mike Dudley finally proved* that alcohol is an androgenic (performance enhancing) substance at the 1999 running of the California International Marathon. His second place finish in a PR 2:14:37 left many in the running community, including doping experts from USATF and the IOC, wondering whether alcohol, specifically Beer from the Kegs at Legend's Public house in Bend, Oregon and the daily consumption thereof Oregon give Mr. Dudley an unfair advantage over his fellow runners, many of whom are mere alcoholics and problem drinkers, not remorseless beer consuming vessles of liver rot. Upon reading the results of this year's CIM, Richard O'plenty, chairman of the USATF board on doping controls said, "Unfortunatly, Mike's race occurred after the 1999 USATF national meeting adjorned, leaving us, as a national governing body, unable to address the role of alcohol as an androgenic agent." "A dialog needs to be established to determine whether or not alcohol will be added to the growing list of banned substances that are recognised both by the USATF and internationally." On the Monday night immeadiately following the marathon, Mike Dudley was unavailable for comment on whether or not his spectacular finish was tainted by the use of, as one reporter described it, "heeping truckloads of hoppy, frosty goodness." It is speculated that, during the time in question, Mr. Dudley was consuming beverages, possibly of a performance enhancing nature, in preparation for the upcoming Olympic marathon trials in May of 2000. Mr. Dudley was also suspiciously unavailable for comment on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
*note: this performance does not actually constitute scientific proof, rather, claims of this sort are generally the result of a type of pseudoscience employed by many "researchers" in exersize physiology wherein the sample size of the studied groups is not large enough to prove anything

December 5:This year, the USATF National Association XC Championships also doubled as the SEACOW XC Championship race with Paul Low finishing first amoung male SEACOWS in 51st overall with a 31:47. Clint(oris) Veran finished in 66th with a 32:24 ahead of Bill Raitter (32:56, 83rd) and Sean Nixon (33:19, 89th.) On a positive note, Sean Nixon actually finished the race. In the women's race, Sarah Raitter claimed the 1999 SEACOW XC Title in 22:35 good for 60th place. Sarah Raitter was also the last SEACOW in this years XC Championship race. When Asked to comment on her performence, Sarah noted, "At first, I thought that I had finished 61st in the race, but then, I discovered that the winner had beed disqualified, thus moving me up into the top 60." "Making that 'top 60' cut has really enhanced my reputation as a runner nationally." "No longer will I be grouped in with all of those slow-ass bitches* that cannot even take top 60 in a national meet."
*note: at no time did Sarah Raitter actually say, "slow-ass bitches"

November:Nothing Really Happened

October 17:At the 1999 edition of the Rumble at the Ranch, Carissa dudley and Paul Low both finished in the first loser position. "It was gratifying knowing that no other losers beat me today. I am the #1 loser here," said Paul Low mintues after finishing the event in second. Both SEACOWS were overtaken during the bike leg of the dualathalon.

October 16:Paul Low was out kicked (big surprise there) into second place at the Lewis and Clark Openby John Dimoff. ulike at Willamette Invitational, no Division III runners beat him today.

October 15:Carrisa Dudley ran hard enough for 2nd at Bend Shevlin Scramble 3.5 miler.

October 11:Paul Low won the 1999 edition of the Bend Bigfoot 10k in a scorching 30:50. A possibly hungover and chronically dehydrated Dylan Mason finished 2nd in 31:33. In the women's race, Sarah Raitter finished second in 35:25 and Carrisa Dudley was right behind in 35:34.

October 11:Army Ten Miler Results: Mike Dudley 9th in 50:07, Bill Raitter 32nd in 52:53 (behind Nick Watson), Tim Vandervlugt 57th in 54:32.

October 2: Bill and Sarah Raitter scored a double win in the open race at the Northwest Classic at Lane CC, a story that, apearantly was worthy of the front of the sports page.

October 2: Three members of the SEACOWS helped the Proletarian Racing Team to a third place finish at the 1999 Willamette XC invitational behind Team Spokane and Humbolt State.

September 25:At the 1999 edition of the Mary's Run 5 miler, Mike Dudley won a close faught race with really fast guy Dan Nelson while leaving Paul Low and Dylan Mason far back on the corse. In the women's race, Carissa Dudley finished second place, sandwhiched in between local legends, Lisa Nye and Laura Nelson.
Yes, it has been a while since the site was last updated, almost a month, in fact. Well, here is just some of what has been going on in the interem.

September 19: Paul Low Placed 42nd overall and 2nd US counter at the 15 edition of the World Mountain Running Chapmionships on Kinabalu Mountain in Saban, Malaysia

September 18: Bill Raitter, Mike Dudley, Time Vandervlugt, and Whitney Miller combined for a winning (or was that whining) effort at the 1999 Airfarce marathon Relay in Dayton, Ohio. Tim Vandervlugt writes: This was a day for a trash talking clinic. The Army All-Star team talked so much trash, there lead off runner beat ours (Whitney Miller) by 1:20. The Army guy actually told Whitney that he had to hurry up and get back so he could grab a beer and watch his team win again. Whitney, knowing what was in store for the "All-Stars" bet the guy a case of beer that the Seacows would win. They guy balked, and said "no way". Next leg; ran by Vandervlugt, not impressive, he lost 7 seconds to the "All-Star team". With that leg completed and the "All-Stars" ahead by almost 1:40 they were getting ugly in their attitudes. Especially since their star runner, the military cross country champion was up next. I went up and started talking to the guy who I ran against. He was anxious to get to the finish area to see his team win. That is where I dropped the bomb on them, and it was a Dudley. I told the army dude that our next runner was a 2:16 marathon runner, a guy named Mike Dudley.... His jaw dropped. He next asked who our final runner was, so I told him it was Bill "summit" Raitter, a hill running sub 31:00 10K runner. From glad to sadness seemed to be the tone in the guys face. Mike put in the best non-money performance of the year, jamming through 6 miles in 29:22. He caught the "All-Stars" champion around that point and noted that the guy surged backward as he passed. Mike put an additional 40 seconds on their hero before handing off to Bill. Bill started off easy, and then punished the "All-Stars" for their sins. As a gesture of good will, since this was the Air Force marathon, Bill stuck his arms out like an airplane for the last 150 meters of the race and flew from side to side down the finishing area. I think he was even making airplane noises.

September 14:Bill "Summit" Raitter ran up Mt. Bachelor faster than several xc skiers.

September 6: Fast runnin' Mike dudley, Paul Low, and Bill Raitter, not to mention some shuffling by Sarah Rattier allowed the West valley track Club to win both the men's and women's team races at the Pacific Sun 10k in Marin, California. The resulting festivities culnimated in three of the before mentioned people making there way back to Oregon with the help of Greyhoud Buslines Incorporated.

September: Sean Nixon ran and won 8 or 9 races including the Rhodes 5k Steeplechase over Matt Mayer.

September: Barry Deese moved to Colorado Springs; further evidence that the virus that is the SEACOWS is growing.

August 15: Bill Raitter finnaly had the opportunity to show off his blazing foot speed with a 4:29 mile, good for 13th at the Fleet Feet mile in Downtown Sac. Sarah Raitter finished 8th with a 5:19.5, a time that would have the 14 to 19 year old age group, almost.

August 15: Mike Dudley silenced his doubters with a crushing 8 minute victory over a packed field at the Bendistillery 49.5k. After leading for most of the race, Mike cartwheeled through the finish in 2:56:07, 8 minutes up on Western States 100 mile winner, Scott Jurek.

August 15: AlmostCOW Dylan Mason teamed up with toby Scott to win the accompanying 49.5k bike and tie event in 2:32:54.

August 15: Paul Low ran up and down the ski hill and the Mount Hood Skibowl west park over six minutes faster than everyone else on his way to breaking the course record by 90 seconds. In reviewing his performance, the word "clinic" comes to mind.

August 14: Sean Nixon ran 54:45, good for 3rd at the Run Through Hell. In his words, "I took third. I lost everyone at 6 miles and at seven started getting back together. My last mile was in 5 mins I caught Donakowski (4th) and almost got (Guy) Murray (2nd). they were running together until the last mile. I should have went earlier and I could have gotten Murray.

August 14: AlmostCOW Tim Vanderflugt ran 2:42 at the Helsinki City Marathon good for 19th overall and 4th on the National Guard Team.

August 13: Bill and Sarah Raitter ran in a 5k at the California State Fair. Both won, Sarah, in 18:05 and Bill, in what I believe, is the fastest time ever run within the state of California, 15:50.

August 7: 4 Seacows (both Dudley's and Raitter's) and a future cow competed in this past weekends Smith Rock Run in Terrebone. Mike competed first in the 15k. On a rolling course with major competition, he beat future Seacow Tim Vanderfag by a little over 3 minutes for not only 1st place, but also a course record of 48:19! In the accompanying 8k (or 7.5k) the duo of Raitter's pulled out victories on the less than accurate course. Bill's 23:39 may be a new 7.5k WR but it's not verified yet by Coach Fro. Sarah ran away from Carisa to win in 27:53 to Carisa's 29:45. All 3 beat the former CR's by days but Carisa's record breaking performance will never show up in the books since she was the first loser.

August 1: Bill and Sarah Raitter ran at the PAUSATF grand prix event Alameda Run For The Parks 10k. Bill was 4th with a 31:08 while Sarah finished 13th in 37:59

July 27: Mike Dudley ran to a massive victory over the best domestic field that could be assembled in the Columbia Gourge. His time was 47:17.

July: Sean Nixon has apperantly been winning many a small, inconsequential road race in the Great Lakes region.

July 24: Paul Low won the Elephant's Perch Backcountry 16.5 miler.

July 16-18: Last weekend was the third straight year that a SEACOW team has participated in the Great Lakes Relay. The big difference this year was that they actually won after two years of, well, not winning. Barry Deese has provided a writen account that can be found here.

July 18: Also this weekend, Bill Raitter and Mike Dudley represented the USA National Guard at the Puerto Rican National Half-Marathon Championships near San Juan. On a hilly course with a 110 degree heat index, Bill placed 11th overall with a 1:13:??. Mike ran well enough to spend monday morning doing Bill's laundry.

July 18:Paul Low also spent monday morning getting better aquainted with the washing machine after placing forth in the Mount Trask Assult behind a doughnut fueled Dylan Mason. It should be noted that, although Mason crossed the finish line four minutes in front of him, Low ran approximately 2 miles faster than everyone else in the race due to a misplaced arrow on the course.

July 20: At the 1999 Couples classic, the tandem of Carisa Dudley and Paul Low trimphed over the duo of Sarah Raitter and Dylan Mason. Dylan should note that Mr. Low prefers his dress shirts to be removed from the dryer after exactly 13 minutes then pressed with the iron set at 127 degrees celcius and sprayed conservativly with a .01 molar starch solution.
While lots of SEACOW racing and other assorted frolicking has been going on this summer, the news and announcements has no exaclty been keeping pace. This is partially due to the webmaster not following the SEACOW mission statement and working too much. Anyway, here is a quick rundown of the last six weeks as they come to mind.

July 5: Matt Ames got worked by his little brother on the way to running 4:26.2 (9th) at the 16TH ANNUAL CLAWSON FIRECRACKER MILE

July 4: Bill Raitter worked a packed field at the Spark Your Heart 5k in Bend Oregon with a 15:52. Lisa Nye finished second overall.

July 4: Mike Dudley added the title of "Mister Madras" to his list of titles by winning the Madras Firecracker 10k in 29:57. Carisa Dudley was second.

June 26: Bill Raitter was 3rd in 24:49 and Sarah Raitter was 9th in 31:08 at the Shriners 8k.

June 25: Paul Low DNF'ed after pulling a large lead and getting lost at the Wasatch Steeplechase.

June 20: Mike "GMB" Dudley was 22nd in 2:22:05 at the Gramdma's Marathon, 47 seconds BEHIND Guy Murry.

June 6: Bill Raitter was 5th in 49:45 and Sarah Raitter was 4th in 58:21 at the Reno Air 15k

June 5: Paul Low was 2nd in 2:32:19 at the Sunburst Marathon.

May 29 Matt Ames, on the comeback trail following a stress fracture, ran in the Dexter to Ann Arbor Hlaf-marathon finishing 7th in 1:12:15.

May 20 Another SEACOW sweep of the Jungle Run at COCC track. On the men's side, a Mike Dudley (1st) Bill Raitter (2nd) finished in front of a trail blazing (re: wrong turnin') Paul Low. In the women's race, Carrisa Dudley won the overal title plus the national championship plus a ravishing sleeveless t-shirt. Sarah Raitter was third.

May 15 Sean Nixon won "the Drum Run in Okemos. It was designed to raise money for a Native American Education Center called Nokomis. It was (his) first race in a while so for the first three quarters of a mile (he) stayed with the leaders, some guy who looked 40 (but was really 27) and some high schooler. Then (he) picked it up and won by 30 seconds, got a backpack, whoohoo!" Sean Later comented, "I figured out the easy way to get out of the award ceremony, complement the race director on a nice event. The local media was there, they had a truck that drove in front of me and filmed the entire race, I should've picked my nose or scratched my nuts alot just to make my mother proud. After the race the news stations interviewed me and they didn't ask me the infamous Michigan Runner question, 'How was the course?' I never know how to answer that, almost all raod race courses suck, they're on pavement, and I don't look at the scenery."

May 15 Mike Dudley ran the 8k leg of the 5 man PPP championship team in 22:30 helping the Hutch's Cycling team to an eight minute victory over their nearest competitor.

May 13Team USA (Dylan Mason and Bill Raitter) narrowly defeated team Eurotrash (Mick Hill and Paul Low )at the 1999 edition of the COCC 6 mile relay. After 22 laps neck and neck (with about 50 lead changes), victory for team USA was assured when Raitter ran away from Low during the penultimate lap oly to have Mason extend the lead over Hill. In the coed division, Mike Dudley and Anne Patton finished first and subsequently, third overall.

May 9 SEACOW sweep at the 10k at Fisherman's Wharf with Paul Low narrowly beating Bill Raitter (30:36 to 30:37) for the top position and Dylan Mason in third with a 30:43. Carrisa Dudley finished third in the women's race with a 37:20.

May 8 Mike "Salmon Run" Dudley finished 5th American and 9th overall at the US National 25k Championships at the Old Kent Riverbank Run in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Despite the high finish, he is Guy Murry's Bitch.

April 25 Bill and Sarah Raitter raced in Monterey, CA, Bill was forth in 15:14 and Sarah was 5th 17:47.

The big news, however this weekend was at the Runningfit Trail Marathon. SEACOW Tom Carney was 3rd in 3:08 and Sean Nixon Tied Sarah Raiter on the SEACOW alltime list in the Marathon with a DNF

Big local race in Bend, OR this Sunday...The Salmon Run 10k saw a SEACOW sweep on the men's side with Mike Dudley running a suspiciously quick 29:51 to claim the overall title and a stunning salmon shaped plate/beer drinking vessel. First looser was Paul Low back in 30:44 with Dylan Mason (31:05) doing everyone's laundry back in third. In the women's race, Carrisa Dudley placed second with a 37:05 thereby winning a stunning country fair ribbon.

Last weekend was a busy one for the SEACOWS as mike Dudley flew all of the way down to "The Big Easy" for a big easy style 31:16 for the Cresent City Classic 10k (good for 24th place) Over on Corvallis, Paul Low (52:47) anihilated the existing course record on the way to leading Dylan Mason and Bill Raitter a SEACOW sweep of the McDonald's Forest 15K. Meanwhile, in grand Rapids, Michigan, Trevor Darnell continued his comback with a 16:07 at the Pietro's 5k.

Finally, results from the KalHaven Trail Relay...

as reported by nixon: we had too much to drink. Ahmez was hurting the next day along with the rest of us. Well, there was no real competition at the relay. the trail was expaneded and the last part goes into town on pavement. We won in 3:04:57, th old record on the shorter course was 3:07:08. Mayer has a stress fracture so he biked with us. Darnell, Deese, (who ran 2 legs) Ahmez, Ford and myself ran. It hurt we were up too late. Ahmez stayed in K'zoo one more night and we hung out with Mayer he was hurting too much so we just stuck around.

as reported by deese: ...how the relay went, I woke up in the morning with Ahmez snuggling up to me in a puddle of beer or something. He didn't recall how he got there. We managed to make it to the start line. Ford was able to instantaneously open a huge lead (I recommend him as a Sea Cow member, he was a real good sport). I ended up running the most because everyone else was too hung over. And believe me, I didn't feel too swift myself. I nearly fell asleep during my 6 mile run. I leaned my head on Matt's shoulder while he rode the bike next to me and closed my eyes. I'm sure the other guys had similar experiences during their runs. We finished the 33 miles in 3:04:57, a course record and a win by over an hour. Oh yeah, Ahmez ended up puking in his warmup. I think we're ready for that Great Lakes Relay. That Kal-Haven race was a testiment to performing under less than ideal health conditions.
Several SEACOWS ran in a relay race along the Kalhaven Trail on saturday April 10, 1999. No word on their perormance; however,the prerace preparaions included Matt and Ahmez passed out (possibly together) and a very inebriated Nixon and Barry Deese phoning Bend at 12:00 pst (that is 3:00 am edt) so that they could repeat the same things three or four times.

Big race this weekend for veteran cow Bill R. The race was a 14.5 mile jaunt through the repressed but highly wealthy indian gaming facility known as Kah-nee-ta. The major factor was not competion (20 runners total) but the freak snow storm which combined itself with cold temperatures and wind chills that would make penguins stay inside. With the world record in sight for the 14.5 mile distance the cow pressed forward but shifted into survival mode when the purple helmet becam slightly TOO purple! Cow pulled the victory off in 1:22 and change. Bill was quoted after the ordeal, he stated, "That was the @#$# worst race on the planet!" He then pluged his wet frost bitten body into a hot mineral spring.

3 Cows participated in this past weekends Pear Blossom 10 miler in Medford. Lovely 37 degree weather plus a nice wind greeted and motivated all participants. As soon as the gun was fired something happened which happens at 90% of U.S. road races--a black man shot to an early lead. Thankful of the fact that he was an Amercan, Mike Dudley overtook him at the half mile mark. Despite a constant flow of snot out of his nose and a sickly sounding caugh, he ran solo to the finish (51:18) to remain undefeated in the streets of Oregon. Sarah Raitter spotted an early lead to 2 women and coninued to fall back but ran a fine time for the conditions of 1:00:21 to finish 3rd. Carisa Dudley, running her first race over a 10k in near a year ran 1:04:01 to finish 6th.

At the 1999 edition of the Willamette University Invitational, the west coast SEACOWS were present in (almost) full force. In the women's 3000m urn, Sarah Raitter got gapped early before outlasing all but one of her copetitors on the way to a huge PR of 10:05. Moments Later in the men's 5000m run, Bill Raitter made it through a less than scorching 3600m on the track before pulling up and makings some lame-ass complaint about being deathly lll for the past week. Up front, Mike Dudley was bitchified (once more) by Peter Flemming, 14:47 to 14:51. The real story of the race, however, was back in forth place where Dylan Mason (who is not yet a true SEACOW due to the tardines of his inagural essay) failled in his effort to break the 15 minute barrier. His time: 15:00.00. No shit! The men's steeplechase saw Paul Low putting on a clinic in the event with a win in the 9:14 range. By the way, the clinic was in poor hurdling form...

(Barry Deese) Ran the Hanson's 5k this weekend. Those 40-50 mile weeks have paid off. A couple guys showed up who were decent...Rich Stark (two-time defending champion) and some guy from Equador (a 2:24 marathon guy) who recently moved to Michigan. I figured they were both in better shape than I was, so I controlled the race and kept a snails pace through 2 miles. Then I just used my blazing footspeed over the last 1/2 mile and pulled 8 seconds on them and raced on to glorious victory in a steller 15:31!! Easiest $105 I've made in a while.

Matt Ames ran 1:08:08 for a 1/2 Marathon in Flushing on 3/28/99. Says Ahmez about his victory, "There wasn't a whole lot of competition. The next guy ran 1:15. I was clear at 1/2 mile. It was pretty boring."

Bill and Sarah Raitter ran in the Houlihan's to Houlihan's 12k on 3/28/99. Since neither of them knows official times or places, the results will probably be posted in a few days.

Bill and Sarah Raitter ran fast at the 50-plus FItness Organization 8K in Palo Alto, CA on 3/21/1999. Sarah was 4th with a 28:22 and Bill was 6th in 24:51, a new road PR.

Trevor Darnell has apperantly won a 5k on the Jackson areawith a 16:30ish performance.

Ahmez and I (Sean Nixon) went to the St. Paddy's Day parade. It was a 4 mile race with a long stretch down MI Ave in detroit. Matt drafted off an M10 guy and Hanson into the wind, they dropped me around two and I think I threw in a 12 min mile. At about three ahmez pulled ahead of Hanson he couldn't respond. He won in low 20's I think 20:13 I finished fifth about 1 1/2 mins back, I beat another M10 guy, not a big accomplishment when your that far back. I forgot a few things about racing:

1. It hurts, it should hurt

2. You should always try to keep contact, never say you'll catch them later

3. If there is a long straightaway into the wind, don't get caught in the open.

4. In road races there is always one yahoo that goes out way too hard, I should have known that when he surged up a bridge at about 3/4 of a mile into it.

5. 2nd blows, fifth swallows and takes it up the ass.

Deese met us after the race with Gar and Carney and we all drank -heavily.

Portland Shamrock Shuffle results for the SEACOWS...

In the 5k race, Carisa Dudley placed 2nd with a 18:22 while Paul Low completed that sweep of 5K second place finishes losing to a neon-clad FILAphile in 15:03 on a hillyass course though downtown Portland.

A few minutes later in the accompanying 8k race, Mike Dudley (24:11) took home the bacon (literally) by winning the 100 dollar first prize at a posh downtown eatery that told us that we could either wait for the 5 pm dinner hour or spend the whole 100 at the bar right then. Bill Raitter placed 5th in 25:16 and Sarah Raitter took forth in the womens race with a 29:45.

All in all, the Bend SEACOWS took home 250 dollars worth of restaurant gift certificates which is precicely 25% of the total prized offered at this particular race. Did team red lizzard beat that prizes percentage quotent?

Race photos will be posted as soon as we can figure out how to use winmail.dat files on these weak-ass community college hp's or when Curtiss sends the pictures back using a less up-to-date picture format.

The 1999 edition of the Linfield Icebreaker saw a SEWACOW domination of the men's distance events with a 2 (Mike Dudley, 30:31), 4 (Dylan Mason, 31:40), 5 (Bill Raitter, 32:00) finish in the 10,000 meter run and a win for Paul Low in the 3,000 meter Steeplechase over a packed field (time unknown but, nevertheless, slow).

After a starlingly good performance at the Cental Collegate Conference Championships (2nd in 14:47 (pr) and 3rd 8:47) Matt Meyer ran like a mere mortal at the MAC meet placing 8th in the 5k and a less than worthwhile 9th in the 3k.

Selected Icebraker Resuls

3000m Steeplechase: 1st, Paul Low, 9:33
10000m run: 2nd, Mike Dudley, 30:21; 4th, Dylan Mason, 31:41(pr); 5th, Billy Raitter, 23:00

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