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for a general description of the race and its history.
The course is entirely contained within the New Jersey
"Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park."
TABLE 1 : Key to 1998 teams
PUA = Princeton Math - Team A
PUB = Princeton Math - Team B
PUC = Princeton Math - Team C
AMA = Princeton Applied Math - Team A
AMB = Princeton Applied Math - Team B
RUA = Rutgers - Team A ("Scarlets")
RUB = Rutgers - Team B ("Knights")
RUC = Rutgers - Team C ("Nobles")
TABLE 2 : Overall result
Position Team Total time Average pace per mile
1 PUA 2:33.08 6.06
2 RUA 2:59.08 7.08
3 AMA 3:07.07 7.27
4 PUC 3:16.58 7.51
5 PUB 3:23.06 8.05
6 RUC 3:29.11* 8.22
7 AMB 3:38.22 8.42
8 RUB 3:57.56** 9.31
TABLE 3 : Split times
Leg # PUA PUB PUC AMA AMB RUA RUB RUC
1 19.52 25.04 28.13 21.01 29.05 24.59 24.59 31.39*
2 46.10 1:03.43 1:02.28 52.37 1:02.35 55.01 50.44 1:04.32
3 1:10.10 1:35.56 1:35.39 1:25.11 1:32.18 1:25.58 1:49.05** 1:42.32
4 1:25.02 1:55.16 1:51.15 1:42.12 1:53.5? 1:40.56 2:02.4? 1:59.0?
5 1:48.03 2:29.38 2:24.44 2:08.12 2:37.08 2:05.09 2:35.38 2:27.08
6 2:12.32 3:00.37 2:53.10 2:36.40 3:11.1? 2:32.18 3:06.17 2:55.52
7 2:33.08 3:23.06 3:16.58 3:07.07 3:38.22 2:59.08 3:53.58 3:22.31
? Split times at end of leg 4 estimated for teams: AMB, RUB, RUC
Split times at end of leg 5 use 10mile lock for AMA, RUA teams
Split times at end of leg 6 estimated for teams: AMB
* RUC handicap 6.40 minutes for staggered relay at Kingston
** RUB handicap 3.58 minutes for staggered relay at Blackwells Mills
TABLE 4 : Individual times
Leg # PUA PUB PUC AMA AMB RUA RUB RUC
1 19.52* 25.04 28.13 21.01 29.05 24.59 24.59 31.39
(6.01) (7.35) (8.33) (6.22) (8.49) (7.34) (7.34) (9.35)
2 26.18 38.39 34.15 31.36 33.30 30.02 25.45* 32.53
(5.59) (8.47) (7.47) (7.11) (7.37) (6.50) (5.51) (7.28)
3 24.00* 32.13 33.11 32.34 29.43 30.57 58.21 38.00
(5.43) (7.40) (7.54) (7.45) (7.05) (7.22) (13.54) (9.13)
4 14.52* 19.20 15.36 17.01 21.4? 14.58 17.4? 16.3?
(7.05) (9.12) (7.25) (8.06) (10.2?) (7.08) (7.5?) (7.3?)
5# 23.01* 34.22 33.29 26.00 43.1? 24.13 32.5? 28.0?
(6.35) (9.49) (9.34) (7.26) (12.2?) (6.55) (9.4?) (8.0?)
6# 24.29* 30.59 28.26 28.28 34.1? 27.09 30.39 28.44
(6.17) (7.57) (7.17) (7.18) (8.4?) (6.58) (7.52) (7.37)
7 20.36* 22.29 23.48 30.27 27.1? 26.50 47.41 26.39
(5.34) (6.05) (6.26) (8.14) (7.2?) (7.15) (12.53) (7.20)
* denotes winner of leg.
# some teams (eg, AMA)
Individual times ending with '?' are estimated.
TABLE 5 : 1998 Participants
Leg # RUA RUB RUC
1 Nick Taussig Nick Taussig Jean Taylor
2 Joe Hannon Keston Smith Chuck Weibel/Sagun Chanillo
3 Dave Radnell David Nacin Maurice Hasson
4 Rick Desper Cliff Smyth Walter Ashbacher
5 Tom Bullock Ryan Martin Ben Muckenhaupt
6 Paul Dreyer Petr Cizek Xiaochun Rong
7 Rob Doran Elizabeth Licholai Xiaodong Sun/Rick Desper
Leg # PUA PUB PUC
1 Scott Anderson Don Priour Steve Miller
2 Scott Anderson Liz Stuart Marc-Andre Lafortune
3 Jason Rhodes Catherine Brown Joel Shapiro
4 Daniel Sanders Lisa Barrow Diane Whitmore
5 Vamsi Madhav Manjul Bhargava Emma Carberry
6 Matthew Kerr Daniel Sanders Vamsi Madhav
7 Peter Hegarty Peter Hegarty Matthew Kerr
Leg # AMA AMB
1 Toufic Suidan Anna Gilbert
2 Cliff Meyer Stephane Seuret
3 Peter Mucha Pierre Raphael
4 Lea Popovic Ingrid Daubechies
5 Toufic Suidan Tessy Papavasilou
6 George Tzanetakis Manuel Sales
7 Fabrice Planchon George Tzanetakis
TABLE 6 : Breakdown of course (25.1 miles)
List of intermediate access points courtesy of NJ Park Service.
Even years
Leg # Distance(m) Description of leg, intermediate access points
0 0.0 Washington Rd.
0.6 Harrison St.
1.0 Millstone Aqueduct
1 3.3 Washington Rd. - Kingston Lock (Route 27)
1.9 Route 518 (Rocky Hill)
2.9 Little Valley
2 4.4 Kingston Lock (Route 27) - Griggstown Lock
0.7 Griggstown Causeway
3 4.2 Griggstown Lock - Blackwells Mills Rd.
4 2.1 Blackwells' Mills Rd. - East Millstone
2.1 Weston Causeway
2.7 Zarapath (Pillar of Fire)
5 3.5 East Millstone - 10-Mile Lock (Footbridge)
2.3 South Bound Brook Lock
6 3.9 10-Mile Lock (Footbridge) - 5-Mile Lock (Spillway)
1.6 Demott Lane
7 3.7 5-Mile Lock (Spillway) - Landing Lane Bridge
Maintained by: Charles Weibel,
weibel @
math.rutgers.edu
, last modified May 11, 1998