Another great race this year, beautiful weekend, and a bunch of good friends hanging out at the Rendezvous. (Thanks Steve Ruth!). This year we had a tie for first place between David Jacobson and Toby MacDermott with a time of 10:51. Third place was John Grace (1 second behind the winners), then Bryan Kirk one second behind John. Robin Betz was the only female competitor this year, and she blitzed the course in 11:42, setting a new women’s record. The previous women’s record was 12:00 by Amy Brown in 1997. Since there was a tie for the overall race, we decided to give the Lord of the Fork trophy (from Jeff Snyder) to Robin this year for her record-setting performance. As usual, there was a beautiful beat down right at the finish line, as one of the competitors crashed through Foreplay and swam over the box line at Climax. Willy Witt once again did a great job as the starter, keeping everybody in line and on time. Thanks also to former race organizer Greg Hoskins for showing up and helping out. Immersion Research kindly provided the race bibs for us and Matt from Pyrhana donated a nice prize for Robin. Thanks also to those who helped set safety. Hope to see everyone next year! Jay Ditty 2005 Russell Fork Race Results 1 Toby MacDermott Tornado 10:51 *tie1 David Jacobson Tornado 10:51 *tie 3 John Grace Spirit 10:52 4 Bryan Kirk Excel 10:53 5 Joe Barkley Corsica 11:35 6 Caleb Paquette Corsica 11:37 7 Robin Betz Pirouette 11:42 K-1 W *course record 8 Jay Ditty Response 11:43 C-1 9 Matt Walker Vortex 11:47 10 Nathan Helms Tornado 11:49 11 Eric Henrickson Tornado 11:56 11 Kyle Wingler Vortex 11:56 13 Greg Hoskins Crossfire 12:03 14 Nick Barron PirouetteS 12:10 15 Ryan Bell PirouetteS 12:12 16 Will Lyons Response 12:14 C-1 17 David Herman Pirouette 12:27 18 Nick Urquhart Crossfire 12:29 19 Willy Witt OverflowX 12:46 20 Eric Nies Scream 12:52 21 Andy Dodson TSlalom 12:53 22 Dalton Creech TSlalom 26:30 (finish-line beat down!)