Inaugural Evans Stair Running Competition

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Results of the Inaugural Evans Stair Run (April 3rd, 2003)


The following table lists the results from the first stair run. An explanation of the starting and ending points, and notes on the timing, appear at the end.

Position
 Name
 Time (1)
 Time (2)
 Time (3)
1
 Soroosh Yazdani
48.50
 48.42
2
 Yossi Farjoun
 51.25
51.33
3
 Mike Burns
51.86
 51.75
4
 Scott Morrison
54.64
 54.78
5
 Mike Scarpulla
 55.71
56.13
6
 Charlie Smart
 58.26
58.26
7
 Josh Rembaum
 59.25
60.19
8
 Peter Pribik
61.30
 61.04
9
 Max ???
 61.22
61.45
10
 Jared Weinstein
 61.27

11
 Chris Tuffley
62.03
 61.84
12
 David Farris
 62.45
63.11
13
 Kevin Hare
 64.55
64.80
14
 Peter ???
 66.91
67.08
15
 Mike ???
71.90
 71.50


The race proceeds up the south-western stairwell of Evans, from the 1st floor to the 10th floor. The starting line is a prominent mark across the floor, about 4m back from the first set of 3 steps. The finish line is the line of the door on the 10th floor -- the door was propped open. Timing was done with 3 stopwatched, started as close as was possible. One was kept on the 1st floor, and with a countdown from 5 gave the signal to start a runner each minute. The other 2 watches were held at the 10th floor, with one judge standing just inside the door, and one just outside. Times (1) and (2) above were taken using the same watch, by Scott Morrison and Kevin Hare respectively. Time (3) was taken using the other watch, by Ben Webster. Unfortunately we missed one time, for Jared, on the second watch. Happily the ordering given the watches agree in every case, although the margins for places 8 through 11 are very small! Time (1) is consistently just smaller than Time (3), which is in turn consistently smaller than Time (2). Human error and all that. If you really care (future record challengers?), we'll claim Time (3) as definitive - so the record stands at 48.42s.

Contact Scott Morrison (scott at-sign math dot berkeley dot edu) or Soroosh Yazdani (syazdani at-sign math dot berkeley dot edu) for more information.

There were suggestions for an endurance event - running as many laps as possible in an hour, using the elevators to descend... Perhaps we'll organise that sometime! :-)

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