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 The 2008 series includes:
Age Graded Placing Results for this year's Snoqualmie Valley Cup will be calculated using the World Masters Athletics (WMA) age-grading tables. Age grading is a handicapping system intended to level the playing field based on age and gender. USATF LDR (USA Track and Field, Long Distance Running) is in full support of age grading and has worked to encourage its adoption nationwide. Click here to age grade your own result from a recent race. Age grading lets you compare your best efforts at different ages, revealing improvements that might not be so obvious otherwise. It allows you to race your friends or family, regardless of age. It allows you to set goals based on a new standard of accomplishment...And it might just reenergize your running. Prizes: Male and Female Overall Winners:
(selected from participants that completed a 5K or 10K event at each venue):
Paige Denison - email Dean Vergillo- email Frederick Motteler and Gail Hall named Snoqualmie Valley Cup Top Runners for 2008! by Paige Denison  Once again, top local running talent showed up to compete for the Snoqualmie Valley Cup at this year's Duvall, Fall City and Carnation Summer Run Series. New for the Cup this year was the addition of age grading, letting runners compare their best efforts at different ages; essentially leveling the playing field. Results for this year's Snoqualmie Valley Cup were calculated using the World Masters Athletics (WMA) age-grading tables. These tables use statistics gathered over many years of performances by runners of all ages.Following the July 4th "Run for the Pies" in Carnation, fleet footed Masters Runners Frederick Motteler and Gail Hall were named Top Male Runner and Top Female Runner. They were each awarded a $200 cash prize and free entry into all three 2009 events along with the Snoqualmie Valley Cup trophy. About 80 runners participated in all 3 events and a $50 cash prize lottery winner was selected from those racers. A very pleased Richard Chase celebrated his lottery winnings before an appreciative crowd of Pie Runners. This is the 2nd Snoqualmie Valley Cup trophy for Club Northwest Runner Gail Hall. She was ranked 11th nationally as a marathoner in the 90's, participated in several Olympic Time Trials and has been on two U.S. National Teams. Frederick Motteler has always been in the top three for the Cup and was tied in points with stand out Eric Garner following the Pies Run - the tie-breaker was age graded pace and Motteler's pace just inched out Garners for the upset. Motteler was "very pleasantly surprised" by the win. He has found age grading to be a positive motivator in his running. The Club Northwest (CNW) Masters Team Runner's goal is to "keep running as long as possible". Snoqualmie Valley Cup 2008 top 3 age-graded runners:
The series included:
The series winners were determined by age graded place within their gender. Runners with the lowest combined places in all three races were declared winners. Runners had the option of competing in either a 5K or 10K, with the same points awarded no matter what distance they ran. Age graded pace was the tie-breaker. All runners are invited to "Run for the Cup" in 2009 and celebrate the great outdoors in the beautiful Snoqualmie Valley!  Eric Garner and Sarah Riddell named Snoqualmie Valley Cup Top Runners for 2007!  Top Runners showed up to vie for the coveted Snoqualmie Valley Cup at this year's Duvall, Fall City and Carnation Summer Run Series. Following the July 4th "Run for the Pies" in Carnation, running greats Eric Garner and Sarah Riddell were named Top Male Runner and Top Female Runner. They were each awarded a $200 cash prize and free entry into all three 2008 events along with the Snoqualmie Valley Cup trophy. This is a repeat performance for two time All-American Eric Garner, a standout in his years at the University of Washington and the first person to run a sub-4:00 mile on Washington soil, with a memorable 3:58.93 time among a long list of other feats. Garner is in top form this year and paced other fleet footed competitors to excellent times in the Valley Series. Collegiate Runner Sarah Riddell runs for the University of Victoria and coaches the Issaquah Gliders. Her father, Dr. Stan Riddell, is her running coach and she is grateful for his support. Riddell, an English major, hopes to teach and coach at the high school level in the future. The series winners were determined by place. Runners with the lowest combined places in all three races were declared winners. Runners had the option of competing in either a 5K or 10K, with the same points awarded no matter what distance they ran.
Event Contacts  2006 Snoqualmie Cup Winners and Runners Up: Frederick Motteler, Paul Abdalla, Eric Garner (Top Male Runner), Andrea Wohlgemuth, Gail Hall (Top Female Runner), missing from picture: Adria Vondra.
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