Cranksgiving Charity Race 2005

November 19, 2005

FINAL RESULTS
Cranksgiving 2005 completely blew the tops off of all previous Cranksgivings. Last year's showing of a dozen people in the cold November rain wasn't hard to beat, but I'm sure Tone didn't expect over 50 people to show up for his annual Charity race. The goal of this race is to plot your own course to grocery stores located all over the city. Once there, you have to find a certain food item (stuffing, bag of potatoes, cranberry sauce, canned soup, etc), and buy that food item. Those are your checkpoints, and the receipts are your signatures. If you lose a receipt, you get disqualified. It happened to two of the top 5 racers. But the point isn't winning or losing Cranksgiving. And while Australia's Andy White is certainly proud of repeating his 2004 win, the real reward is donating all of the food we buy to a soup kitchen in time for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Here are your final results. The race began at 2:46 in the afternoon, so the winners came in in 59 minutes. I'd like to add that I got most charitable for buying two of everything at each Gristede's AND for stopping to pick up the winner's sack of potatoes after they flew out of his bag on 3rd & 14th. I'm pretty awesome. :)
NAME FINAL PLACE FINISH TIME Andy 1st Male 3:45 Alfred Bobe Jr. DQ - missing receipt 3:45 Brean 2nd Male 3:46 Morgan Hafer DQ - missing receipt 3:46 Ken Stanek 3rd Male & most charitable 3:46 Squid 4 3:50 Chris DQ - missing receipt 3:51 Austin 5 3:51 Orejas DQ - missing receipt 3:51 Jay Bachhuber 6 3:52 Dan Chunk 666 7 3:55 Jamie 8 & 1st Female 3:55 Liam Quigley DQ - no receipts 3:56 JT Hesgrove 9 3:56 Gavin 10 & 1st out of town 3:57 Yuri Cantor 11 3:57 Jack B. 12 3:57 Kym P. 13 & 2nd Female 3:57 Charlie 14 & 2nd out of town 3:58 Tyler Matta 15 3:58 Kansas Chunk 666 16 3:58 Izumi 17 3:59 Charles Brown 18 4:00 Paul Chunk 666 19 4:04 Ben Stewart 20 4:06 Rene' Fan 21 & 3rd Female 4:07 Turner 22 4:07 Arone & Ellen 23 (together) 4:09 Bryan W. 24 4:10 Pete Lang 25 4:11 Toby Miller 26 4:11 Loren Mooney 27 4:12 Frank 28 4:14 Laura Cass 29 4:14 Will 30 4:15 Joe Lawler 31 4:15 Emma Barrett 32 4:16 Andrew Breck 33 4:17 Aaron Grogan 34 4:18 Kate Freitag 35 4:18 Sam F. 36 4:18 Nick Golebiewski 37 4:21 Graham Shimberg 38 4:26 Ashira 39 4:28 Jesse Forest 40 4:32 Belvis 41 4:34 Tom Martin 42 4:38 Cleve Niese 43 4:39 Alissa 44 (started ~45 minutes late) 4:46