Discussion: Billygoat statistics

J-J's Billygoat statistics for 1979 - 2008 have just been updated on the web. Thinking of moving up in "lifetime points" or in total time on Billygoat courses? Find out where you stand.

I am looking for a single billygoat statistic: start time 2009?

Every BG starts at 11am, I assume Bob knows the tradition.

Although the UNO page doesn't specify, I'll confirm that the start time is 11 AM, as Bob sent out a note to UNO members looking for volunteers and that's what he said.

Thanks coach and JJ.
That's an extra hour over my guess of a 10am start.
It's great that there's a tradition to the BG, but perhaps a little more specificity on the website would help newcomers.
Cheers,
Ian. (P.s. I'm not actually running - too far for me:-)

BG thread started 3/22 (w/o any recent tickles) with start time noted on 4/10 & again 4/22...pesky details:)

Not everyone gets their information from AttackPoint (though they should), and the Billygoat schedule page and the UNO page don't list the start time.

Not quite complete Billygoat results, with the corrections that Alex Jospe is female and Valeriy Doverov is male. And a couple more finishers. There were 78 finishers within the 3.5 hour time limit.

And the course (with my route). As usual, you could skip a control, and go to either of the two #5's.

nice..what top 3 skipped ? it will be interesting to know.. staying home - 15 seems like a good choice

Letter & number in blue in PG's picture indicates whether the runner went Left or Right on #5 and which control they skipped. We were still gathering that info when the picture was taken. As I remember, Eric Nystrom went right and skipped #15.
15 and 7 were the top 2 skips.

From a pure distance perspective, assuming straight line navigation, skipping 15 cut out 430 meters, 7 cut out 370 m, and 4 cut out 390 m (assuming runner went to the Left (northern) #5).

But 15 was almost all trail run (taking the road, driveway route), 4 was also long trail possibilities while 7 was through potentially bland and crappy woods.

7 did take a long time to get there. It was originally my 3rd choice out of 4 I considered, but looks now like it might be best.

In case there isn't an official Route Gadget for the race, you are welcome to enter your routes on mine.

I have an old version that doesn't do forks or skips, so I didn't draw to #5, #7, or #15 (any other skips can't be entered, and these controls need to be combined if entering spilts as well).

sometimes skipping the last checkpoint can be fun right Nick!

hammer , i have my 3rd choice skipping second last ..last one will be good too.. and it can be fun ( if that late in the game one still have opportunities to skip )

Videos from the Billygoat

Start - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FvxO2DfLEo

Third control - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMWYWiD5PQ

Had we been aware of the floating bog on the "trail" under the power lines on the road/trail option between 14 and 15 would have set up there to tape - sounds like some interesting experiences...

Provisional results are temporarily up here, and should appear on the billygoat.org page fairly soon. If anybody has any of the missing information regarding forks/skip, let me know and I'll add it.

My split at #14 is wrong....... I was with GregB at that point. Not sure where the info came from....