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Hanford's Prize list
Wed, 04/02/2008 - 1:38pm
Okay, so after thinking this over for a few days I've decided to post this.
It's great to see events like Hanford award women a great amount of money. The race itself is great and I have attended it three years in a row. Yet, this year the prizes and money paid out don't add up for the women and I can't help but wonder if we were short changed. I don't want to convey greediness but here's my reasoning:
Typically there's not enough cat 3/4s to place seperately so the money and prize list runs 10 deep.
As a cat 4 I placed 8th and received 100 bucks and a shirt
As a cat 3 I placed 5th and won 200 smackers
This year as a cat 2 I placed 6th and got 50 dollars and a shirt.
I saw the prize list and it looked something like this:
280 1st
130 2nd
90 3rd
? 4th
? 5th
50 6th
40 7th
? 8th and so on.
This dosen't add up incrementally to $2000 even if you say that a safe guess for 4th was 75 dollars. From my understanding, primes are separate of the prize list????
Someone enlighten me,
Thanks,
C
That's understandable ... my gut instict still thinks that even with primes (which were hard to hear) that apparently ranged from 1 100 dollar one to some 25s and 50s that the total prize list hit closer to $1000, not $2000. I don't see how the the prizes award last year were higher? I believe last year the prize list for the women's category was $2000 and the awards reflected that more so.
I don't think there were any private prime donations during this race nor do I feel that they gave more primes away this year than they did last year. Last year I recall 2 deep primes, $100 primes, and I even got a 60 dollar prime; and the top ten finishers still walked away with generous winnings.
Thanks for your feedback, the plot thickens,
C
Primes that are arranged for in advance ( ie before race day) are part of the prize list under the rules. Primes that are donated on the spot ( on race day) are not part of the prize list.