Men:
1. Grey Wedeking
2. Mike Rabdau
3. John Zerolis
4. Laurent Dujois
5. Broiler
6. Sure King
7. Joel Metz
8. Bean Jordan
9. Jason Whitehead
10. Richie Ditta
11. Bernie Corace
12. Aaron Lipke
13. Brue Syvertsen
14. Allie Tyler
15. Dave Mairs
16. Mike Eno
17. Matte Hanon
18. Chris Buchanan
19. Peter Laursen (Copenhagen!)
20. Josh Mills
21. Taj Pegues
22. Ginger Saybolt
23. Cricket Leggett
24. Fred Gorsira
Women:
1. Sarah
2. Christy Fallin
3. Bridget May
4. Rook Campbell
5. Celeste Cooper
6. Lindsay Blue-Smith
7. Maria Schur
Well the good Reverend Jim Kaiser did indeed put on a very fine race, covering the theme of "Heavy Metal", with checkpoints such as: King, Diamond, Iron, Maiden, Stone, Temple (pilots! thats not metal! argh!), Priest, Lynch, Black (sabbath!), etc etc. generally a metal theme indeed. The course started out at Timbuk2, of course, and from there went SOMA, then immediately up into the Russian/Nob/Telegraph Hill regions - I managed to completely overshoot the first checkpoint at 666 King (yeah jim, i know you said it, but dammit, you said "the first checkpoint is king!" so we left! doh! :) ), and wasted 10-15 minutes of my time going all>/b> the way to the Embarcadero. What a waste. The downtowny stuff was time-consuming, as many of the checkpoints were right close together, but on different hills. But once we escaped from Child alley and headed out for Rose, its was headed towards being a routers dream.
The "second half" of the alleycat (where iI made all my time up) was paradise for me, though. Out to Civic, then Dolores Park, then up the big 17th St hill... And once at Temple (the chicken limbo checkpoint! visible spandex = chicken limbo, and lucky me had none, so that saved some time...) those who knew took the quick flat route across Mars/Corbett/Clayton/Greystone to Iron alley. As i was riding up there, i saw some other racers coming back down Corbett, which just didnt make any sense cause i knew the next checkpoint (based on the manifest) had to be on Diamond somewhere (King Diamond! duh!), so why go back down Corbett? Better to run along the crest of the hill and drop down where you need to... I was right - next checkpoint was Diamond @ Diamond Heights, which meant a quick jaunt along Graystone/Clayton/Upper Market/Diamond Heights, then it was on to Paradise (just further down Diamond Heights) and from there we headed for Orange. Once again, routing won out, as my path down Chenery proved faster than other peoples routing down Mission or whereever... and from there, a straight shot back to T2. I moved form being about 25th through the 1st checkpoint to being 7th and the finish. not too bad. One more vote for clever routing over out-and-out speed.
The party, of course, was great, with bands and even a kissing booth courtesy of Cupid Couriers, which managed to raise enough money to raffle off a ticket to CMWC! So Grey and Sarah are going to Philly, plus one other person who i can't recall right now, and the rest of the crowd will have to wait for Global Gutz or the Mountain Lion to get their chance at a ticket....