Race Report by: Jerry Richard
May 2, 1999 - (scroll down for full results)
You couldn't ask for better weather. It was near 70 degrees at the start with water temperature at 75 degrees. If there's one thing I really like about Crawfishman it's the swim. I would venture to say that the majority of that swim is one long straight point to point shot. It must be in the neighborhood of 800 meters of the 1000 meter swim. The water was perfect for swimming hard and still some wore wetsuits. Unbelieveable. It seemed as though the course was a tad long and Steve, no more orange swim caps with orange buoys. I kept swimming for heads. But really the swim there is so wide open with only slight congestion at the start for the first 100 meters and then it's put it in cruise. The transition area is on grass and easy on the feet. There were plenty of bike racks for the 258 competitors and very well organized by the volunteers. John Deshotel was ushering us at the bike exit/entrance. It was cool at first on the bike and stayed comfortable thoughout the whole 20 mile ride. The course is relatively flat or flat to those from north LA. Out and back with a slight dogleg to ease congestion on the way back. Pretty fast too. The roads were in good shape without too many rough spots and light traffic. The run course is 4 miles out and back though a grassy kind of swampy area along the river and flat. It's usually muggy hot but this year it was actually cool.
It seemed as though every time you started to heat up a cool breeze would cool you down. It was no problem for Chris Eschbach who was first overall with a time of just under 1 hour and 24 minutes. Mike Sooder the winner of the LA Tri in New Roads was a little over a minute behind for second place. Kathleen Schully from Shreveport took the honor of first woman finisher. You north LA triathlete should try this race sometime.
I know most are going to Panama City but do as Kevin Cart from Lake Charles did. Do Crawfishman on the way to a week in Florida. Masters racers Lawrence Cohen and Chuck Farrell were there. Great now I have Chuck Farrell in my age group. It's time to turn 50. The race was well orginzed by Steve, Tommy, return residence and old friends Mark & Kirsty Salvetti and many others. I had the privilege of helping with race day packet preparation the night before and saw it was a real headache. I have more respect for Darcy Becks and all the other assistants blessed with that job, you too Kirsty. This year as you'll see there are actually results. Thanks too Farrell Lebouef. He did have a few problems but as I was leaving he was steadily weeding them out. Seems as though some didn't have their race numbers at the finish. Call it a learning experience for next year. I've done quite a few races the past two years but I can't remember one with nicer weather. It just really cooperated. Oh yea, we were all in awe of John Deshotels shirt from the Tiger Tri in Baton Rouge the day before in which John took top honors. It was a really nice tie dye that made me wish I had doubled up that weekend.
-:- 1999 CRAWFISHMAN TRIATHLON RESULTS - AGE GROUP
- PLACE - SWIM BIKE RUN TOTAL NAME AGE GROUP ALL TIME TIME TIME TIME Top Female Finishers Kathleen Schully **** 30 16:27 54:39 31:14 1:42:20 Lucia Colbert **** 32 16:30 1:00:17 26:11 1:42:58 Kathleen Foley **** 44 15:50 57:07 31:48 1:44:45 - PLACE - SWIM BIKE RUN TOTAL NAME AGE GROUP ALL TIME TIME TIME TIME Women 15 and Under Erinn White 1 233 18:15 1:24:34 42:58 2:25:47 Katie Boudreaux 2 235 18:18 1:24:34 44:29 2:27:21 Women 16 To 19 Laura Jo Leininger 1 106 13:07 49:02 51:56 1:54:05 Cackey Miltengerger 2 139 14:59 1:05:54 37:13 1:58:06 Amanda Zahn 3 158 14:54 1:08:45 37:21 2:01:00 Women 20 To 24 Christina Eschbach 1 93 15:07 1:04:43 32:30 1:52:20 Lisa Walhang 2 146 16:29 1:09:36 33:39 1:59:44 Lisa Dunn 3 204 26:40 1:12:19 32:32 2:11:31 Lisa Bergeron 4 241 25:50 1:27:58 36:34 2:30:22 Women 25 To 29 Shelly Stevens 1 110 17:55 1:04:04 33:24 1:55:23 Cindie Hill 2 118 19:27 1:00:09 36:22 1:55:58 Angela Casagrande 3 154 20:15 1:09:43 30:34 2:00:32 Michelle Ginsburg 4 171 22:32 1:11:17 30:15 2:04:04 Maria Martinez 5 183 21:42 1:11:39 32:43 2:06:04 Christie Young 6 217 21:13 1:15:39 37:22 2:14:14 Katherine Walters 7 226 23:32 1:17:20 40:07 2:20:59 Shelly Calkins 8 238 30:07 1:21:22 37:52 2:29:21 Susan Riso 9 239 21:31 1:25:32 42:27 2:29:30 Toby Tournillon 10 240 26:33 1:27:17 35:49 2:29:39 Lisa Schoen 11 251 33:48 1:25:24 45:29 2:44:41 Amy Simoneaus 12 255 27:07 1:35:40 48:40 2:51:27 Women 30 To 34 Jopi Duke 1 50 19:39 59:36 26:33 1:45:48 Pam Tate 2 73 18:40 1:01:43 28:39 1:49:02 Susan Ruch 3 76 20:04 1:02:25 27:00 1:49:29 Jennifer Braswell 4 81 19:14 1:02:49 28:10 1:50:13 Elizabeth Hebert 5 113 14:59 1:05:41 35:10 1:55:50 Natalie Bradberry 6 131 18:48 1:03:24 34:51 1:57:03 Marie Farris 7 147 19:19 1:08:44 31:42 1:59:45 Nancy Wier 8 159 19:28 1:06:29 35:39 2:01:36 Jessica Hemb 9 178 23:44 1:08:48 32:52 2:05:24 Kate Mason 10 180 18:58 1:15:04 31:42 2:05:44 Tiffani Tranchina 11 182 22:26 1:10:33 33:01 2:06:00 Celeste Broussard 12 194 22:56 1:10:55 35:23 2:09:14 Andrea Difranco 13 199 20:49 1:11:14 38:24 2:10:27 Holly Dewet 14 211 18:50 1:12:46 40:45 2:12:21 Celeste Mule 15 216 22:45 1:12:09 39:07 2:14:01 Millie Corrigan 16 232 23:39 1:27:45 32:45 2:24:09 Lea Richerson 17 253 28:39 1:30:27 51:31 2:50:37 Women 35 To 39 Susan Millen 1 105 21:18 1:03:07 29:40 1:54:05 Teri Dyess 2 115 21:45 1:02:58 31:13 1:55:56 Ann Mc Lindon 3 121 20:34 1:06:55 28:38 1:56:07 Robin Anderson 4 123 17:20 1:05:12 33:39 1:56:11 Janel Mumme 5 129 21:52 1:02:32 32:25 1:56:49 Theresa Galvis 6 174 25:47 1:06:07 32:47 2:04:41 Devorah Feldman 7 188 22:09 1:09:59 35:15 2:07:23 Brigid Glorioso 8 208 19:23 1:13:09 39:29 2:12:01 Rene Alonzo 9 230 21:36 1:16:58 45:06 2:23:40 Wendy Berch 10 254 25:37 1:37:08 47:54 2:50:39 Women 40 To 44 Susan Boudreaux 1 61 18:22 59:49 29:09 1:47:20 Marianne Bushman 2 68 19:39 1:00:46 27:53 1:48:18 Karen Woodley 3 101 17:18 1:04:38 31:31 1:53:27 Pam Green 4 124 20:59 1:03:16 32:04 1:56:19 Bonnie Lavie 5 136 21:05 1:04:15 32:18 1:57:38 Margaret Beer 6 209 20:13 1:17:23 34:39 2:12:15 Women 45 To 49 Anne Veazey 1 80 17:55 1:02:48 29:29 1:50:12 Patti Sears 2 127 17:27 1:04:42 34:30 1:56:39 Angela King 3 150 19:06 1:07:37 33:20 2:00:03 Fillis Friedman 4 212 29:12 1:14:11 29:05 2:12:28 Vicky Watts 5 222 34:17 1:09:11 33:15 2:16:43 Lisa Williamson 6 236 20:33 1:34:20 33:00 2:27:53 Nona Sanders 7 242 24:46 1:23:48 43:39 2:32:13 Pat Labarrere 8 256 28:42 1:29:58 52:47 2:51:27 Linda Bouchereau 9 257 27:33 1:37:44 49:36 2:54:53 Women 50 To 54 Carolyn Sutton 1 221 26:51 1:10:53 38:28 2:16:12 Judy Crowson 2 246 26:28 1:22:44 45:01 2:34:13 Sandra Hebegger 3 250 29:42 1:26:42 47:23 2:43: Women 55 To 59 Yvonne Lee 1 185 24:15 1:13:37 29:14 2:07:06 Women 60 To 64 Bev ( BeviSalvetti 1 258 25:01 1:35:38 55:14 2:55:53 ************************************************************************** - PLACE - SWIM BIKE RUN TOTAL NAME AGE GROUP ALL TIME TIME TIME TIME Top Male Finishers Chris Eschbach **** 1 12:42 42:23 28:51 1:23:56 Mike Sooder **** 2 12:45 44:11 28:06 1:25:02 Darren Horn **** 3 13:43 51:51 25:44 1:31:18 - PLACE - SWIM BIKE RUN TOTAL NAME AGE GROUP ALL TIME TIME TIME TIME Men 15 and Under Matt Stogner 1 72 13:00 1:04:53 31:01 1:48:54 Austin Prator 2 138 13:34 1:10:08 34:17 1:57:59 Jared Strecker 3 189 13:28 1:11:07 42:59 2:07:34 Mark Richard 4 195 13:49 1:11:58 43:42 2:09:29 Robbie Leininger 5 196 14:26 1:11:20 43:45 2:09:31 Phillip Delahoussaye 6 249 27:19 1:26:45 47:04 2:41:08 Men 16 to 19 Jonathan James 1 28 12:58 1:00:58 28:02 1:41:58 Jerry Taylor 2 41 14:38 58:31 31:02 1:44:11 Shane Thompson 3 126 23:18 1:02:41 30:39 1:56:38 Richard Rachal 4 134 : 1:29:26 27:59 1:57:25 Greg Ritter 5 156 24:42 1:05:38 30:33 2:00:53 Hannes Kronbichler 6 165 23:01 1:04:02 35:44 2:02:47 ChristopheTrew 7 247 30:53 1:27:22 36:07 2:34:22 Men 20 to 24 Bradly Muirhead 1 12 18:15 54:00 23:46 1:36:01 Michael Harris 2 14 15:58 56:05 24:46 1:36:49 Scott Morioka 3 85 14:36 1:05:48 30:42 1:51:06 Aran Degenhardt 4 161 16:25 1:07:13 38:10 2:01:48 Klint Beckendorf 5 223 33:24 1:04:32 39:19 2:17:15 Men 25 to 29 Oscar Ramirez 1 4 13:35 47:59 30:13 1:31:47 Kevin Cart 2 5 16:17 45:48 30:13 1:32:18 Charles Stewart 3 13 16:19 47:52 31:53 1:36:04 Ben Tuety 4 16 17:03 54:20 25:57 1:37:20 Neil Robichaux 5 18 16:46 50:00 31:00 1:37:46 Boo Freeman 6 20 16:50 55:31 26:41 1:39:02 Chad Harris 7 22 16:50 53:36 29:16 1:39:42 Bobby Burleigh 8 31 16:25 57:46 28:25 1:42:36 Charles Ward 9 55 20:22 56:27 29:45 1:46:34 Jason Grubbs 10 57 18:38 1:00:35 27:53 1:47:06 Keith Mcdermott 11 58 22:32 57:26 27:13 1:47:11 Glenn Augustine 12 62 19:35 1:00:58 26:50 1:47:23 Ernie Bodie 13 79 18:04 1:02:16 29:44 1:50:04 Trey Reinhardt 14 89 20:13 1:00:29 31:21 1:52:03 Ed Midden 15 96 15:34 1:05:05 32:22 1:53:01 Will Young 16 99 22:51 1:04:24 26:03 1:53:18 Robert Reuther 17 104 23:06 1:04:07 26:44 1:53:57 Charles Hollinger 18 107 22:10 59:13 32:56 1:54:19 Paul Angelica 19 108 18:25 1:03:31 32:52 1:54:48 David Garner 20 122 25:02 1:01:17 29:51 1:56:10 Wayne Noveh 21 128 23:29 1:02:36 30:35 1:56:40 Chris Echezabel 22 130 19:47 1:03:32 33:34 1:56:53 Glen Landrum 23 133 20:39 1:06:09 30:28 1:57:16 Daniel Maurin 24 135 24:05 1:02:05 31:26 1:57:36 Henry Glade 25 167 20:04 1:05:18 37:44 2:03:06 Walter Averett 26 181 26:32 1:06:22 32:57 2:05:51 Matthew Mitchell 27 187 20:33 1:13:56 32:47 2:07:17 Jason Phillips 28 205 28:17 1:10:50 32:33 2:11:40 Randy Krupp 29 214 24:20 1:11:13 37:43 2:13:16 Thomas Chymiy 30 218 24:16 1:17:04 33:54 2:15:14 Eric Lemoine 31 228 22:26 1:10:50 48:08 2:21:24 Todd Lemoine 33 231 29:33 1:16:20 38:13 2:24:06 Chris Riso 34 243 23:34 1:22:05 46:41 2:32:20 Men 30 to 34 James Stephenson 1 6 14:30 52:49 25:21 1:32:40 Joseph Lee 2 8 13:15 54:28 26:16 1:33:59 Joey Lee 3 11 15:44 54:50 25:20 1:35:54 Jim Holmes 4 29 14:29 59:28 28:18 1:42:15 Stephen Douglas 5 33 14:44 59:50 28:33 1:43:07 Greg Kujawa 6 34 16:30 58:02 29:02 1:43:34 CARL " SQUDupre' 7 35 19:24 54:50 29:29 1:43:43 Walker Holiday 8 38 17:59 55:29 30:36 1:44:04 Gerd Wyestemann 9 45 16:34 57:57 30:34 1:45:05 William Crawford 10 47 18:52 58:19 28:06 1:45:17 Benjamin Hughes 11 48 17:08 57:42 30:29 1:45:19 Carlos Carrasco 12 53 18:08 59:40 28:25 1:46:13 Dale Duronslet 13 60 18:28 1:00:57 27:54 1:47:19 Tony Taffaro 14 63 21:33 56:30 29:33 1:47:36 Todd Gilbertson 15 66 21:04 59:02 27:54 1:48:00 Tim Saviello 16 67 18:10 1:01:44 28:21 1:48:15 Randall Mitchell 17 71 18:27 59:07 31:11 1:48:45 Tommy Boudreaux 18 75 19:06 1:03:01 27:21 1:49:28 Rod Martinez 19 90 19:13 1:03:47 29:04 1:52:04 Paul Hill 20 94 20:51 55:44 36:16 1:52:51 Jerry Sintes 21 98 23:08 1:01:53 28:09 1:53:10 Michael Barnes 22 114 18:18 1:03:57 33:37 1:55:52 Bert Michael 23 116 21:39 1:05:38 28:39 1:55:56 Craig Taffard 24 119 21:56 1:01:43 32:20 1:55:59 Troy Geauthreaux 25 132 19:20 1:05:57 31:55 1:57:12 Jeff Osborne 26 148 24:35 1:06:35 28:35 1:59:45 Brad Woodall 27 163 22:13 1:06:22 33:52 2:02:27 Chris Godell 28 175 19:15 1:08:06 37:27 2:04:48 Lance Bullock 29 184 21:02 1:12:15 32:55 2:06:12 Michael Cooley 30 192 24:58 1:09:31 33:43 2:08:12 Brian Nagy 31 197 22:49 1:10:57 35:51 2:09:37 Joel, Jr. Escamilla 32 203 25:54 : - - 2:11:15 Billy Stout 33 213 25:58 1:12:29 34:26 2:12:53 John Pucket 34 227 27:51 1:18:53 34:32 2:21:16 Jeffrey Clark 35 244 34:27 1:25:31 33:33 2:33:31 Lee Killian 36 245 25:25 1:34:47 33:39 2:33:51 Men 35 to 39 Donnie Jarrell 1 7 16:13 51:14 26:01 1:33:28 Bill Salaun 2 10 15:28 55:03 25:17 1:35:48 Gary Grilliot 3 15 20:44 53:56 22:19 1:36:59 Luken Hartlage 4 19 17:06 57:32 24:19 1:38:57 Pen Clark 5 21 18:19 55:11 26:12 1:39:42 Chris Prator 6 27 15:39 58:00 27:55 1:41:34 David Mackovjak 7 36 18:37 1:00:20 24:55 1:43:52 Ben Coffman 8 37 21:45 56:34 25:43 1:44:02 Steve Morse 9 39 16:23 59:48 27:56 1:44:07 Jerry Gonzales 10 42 17:38 57:06 29:30 1:44:14 Joe House 11 46 18:14 55:24 31:29 1:45:07 Dwayne Ferris 12 51 18:15 56:40 31:07 1:46:02 Barry Goodspeed 13 52 18:01 58:30 29:37 1:46:08 Stephen Saucier 14 56 18:50 59:04 28:53 1:46:47 David Carrone 15 59 22:02 56:21 28:52 1:47:15 Jim French 16 69 19:16 1:00:08 29:00 1:48:24 Michael Balint 17 78 18:31 1:03:21 28:00 1:49:52 Kenneth Digeronimo 18 84 20:24 : 1:50:58 1:50:58 Jean-paul Lanaux 19 87 17:17 1:02:21 32:14 1:51:52 Clif Majoue 20 92 20:16 1:02:24 29:33 1:52:13 Donald Wiener 21 120 18:05 1:05:49 32:05 1:55:59 Kenneth Hays 22 125 19:11 1:06:28 30:54 1:56:33 Michael Scardino 23 141 23:57 1:03:40 31:28 1:59:05 Jude Bourque 24 142 18:25 1:08:37 32:12 1:59:14 Richard Schmidt 25 145 23:16 1:06:53 29:33 1:59:42 Jeff Warwick 26 149 15:13 1:07:15 37:21 1:59:49 Mike Lecompte 27 166 20:59 1:05:59 35:56 2:02:54 Mike Maurin 28 169 29:42 1:02:15 31:40 2:03:37 Ivan Castillo 29 172 24:27 1:06:54 32:43 2:04:04 Michael Babin 30 179 25:14 1:06:41 33:33 2:05:28 Khai Nguen 31 191 25:02 1:09:56 33:13 2:08:11 Robert Knight 32 198 25:50 1:09:51 34:26 2:10:07 Steve Johnson 33 207 24:11 1:10:17 37:31 2:11:59 Henry Hudson 34 220 29:10 1:06:07 40:51 2:16:08 Kyle Cason 35 225 26:28 1:17:09 35:57 2:19:34 Men 40 to 44 Lawrence Cohen 1 9 14:10 43:40 37:05 1:34:55 Ben Hewett 2 23 16:05 57:05 27:04 1:40:14 Rusty Bernard 3 26 20:26 52:44 28:19 1:41:29 Mike Beifus 4 43 18:38 57:59 27:56 1:44:33 David Millen 5 49 17:30 1:00:03 27:54 1:45:27 Dennis Mutell 6 64 21:38 57:56 28:12 1:47:46 John Morvant 7 70 19:52 57:39 30:56 1:48:27 Bill Edwards 8 74 22:06 57:06 30:04 1:49:16 Tom Dailey 9 82 19:16 1:02:27 29:05 1:50:48 Paris Gautreaux 10 83 22:21 57:46 30:49 1:50:56 Don Dodd 11 88 21:03 1:04:02 26:49 1:51:54 John Thompson 12 95 16:52 1:03:39 32:27 1:52:58 Gary Lucciona 13 102 21:58 1:03:41 28:08 1:53:47 Archie Talbot 14 103 23:51 1:00:23 29:37 1:53:51 Bud Weiss 15 111 21:31 1:05:10 28:45 1:55:26 Ron Hardee 16 117 19:17 1:06:02 30:38 1:55:57 Rick Montgomery 17 137 23:25 1:07:46 26:30 1:57:41 Lenny Culicchia 18 140 21:31 1:02:59 34:32 1:59:02 Dean Thomomas 19 144 21:40 1:04:24 33:38 1:59:42 Wayne Waguespack 20 152 22:55 1:08:22 28:53 2:00:10 Bill Stiles 21 153 20:23 1:06:34 33:22 2:00:19 Rick Lange 22 160 23:41 1:03:11 34:52 2:01:44 Joseph Schaneville 23 170 19:34 1:07:50 36:16 2:03:40 Kenny Coleman 24 173 21:59 1:07:46 34:23 2:04:08 Scott St. Romain 25 177 21:45 1:11:18 32:20 2:05:23 Bob Rose 26 202 22:05 1:14:00 35:08 2:11:13 Joe Mossey 27 206 24:03 1:08:18 39:37 2:11:58 Steve Burgess 28 234 28:54 1:21:08 36:56 2:26:58 Charles Dismukes 29 252 28:01 1:32:35 50:01 2:50:37 Men 45 to 49 Chuck Farrell 1 17 14:24 45:04 38:10 1:37:38 Jim Lane 2 24 18:23 43:29 38:39 1:40:31 Jerry Richard 3 25 19:24 53:47 28:10 1:41:21 Byron Tate 4 40 18:24 57:08 28:36 1:44:08 Ron Land 5 54 20:29 46:08 39:54 1:46:31 Hank Miltenberger 6 86 17:24 1:05:32 28:31 1:51:27 Frank Mihlon 7 91 21:55 1:04:35 25:35 1:52:05 John Bevington 8 97 18:34 1:03:44 30:51 1:53:09 Jim Wier 9 151 18:48 1:07:50 33:31 2:00:09 Andrew Burglass 10 155 20:32 1:03:52 36:19 2:00:43 James Robinson 11 162 18:50 1:06:10 36:58 2:01:58 Tom Forbes 12 164 20:50 1:06:37 35:05 2:02:32 Cook Thibodeaux 13 176 25:34 1:05:33 33:50 2:04:57 James Remont 14 190 22:48 1:12:30 32:21 2:07:39 John Fanning 15 200 20:18 1:15:48 34:38 2:10:44 Terry Verret 16 201 30:11 1:09:45 30:50 2:10:46 Hunter Watts 17 219 32:10 1:10:37 32:53 2:15:40 Michael Smith 18 224 27:10 1:20:14 31:42 2:19:06 Phil Gioia 19 237 20:28 1:31:37 37:02 2:29:07 Men 50 to 54 Leo Beaulieu 1 77 19:07 1:03:37 26:46 1:49:30 Robert ( BGruner 2 100 18:35 1:02:15 32:29 1:53:19 Mice Misenheimer 3 143 20:04 1:03:56 35:26 1:59:26 Larry Doyle 4 157 20:03 1:06:02 34:52 2:00:57 Michael Sunseri 5 193 22:44 1:16:11 29:41 2:08:36 Vladislav Colangelo 6 210 23:24 1:08:01 40:53 2:12:18 Men 55 to 59 Jimmy Flemming 1 65 16:37 58:59 32:18 1:47:54 Al Seicshnaydre 2 109 23:14 1:02:45 29:21 1:55:20 Odis Howze 3 112 18:19 1:03:03 34:22 1:55:44 Fletcher Sutton 4 215 27:02 1:07:38 38:45 2:13:25 Men 60 to 64 Pete Miller 1 168 23:16 1:03:33 36:19 2:03:08 Arthur Delaup 2 186 27:30 1:03:33 36:09 2:07:12 Men 65 and Over Ed Bulliard 1 248 21:49 1:20:16 54:17 2:36:22 TOTAL FINISHERS 258