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CONTRA LOMA CLASSIC VI
SATURDAY – OCTOBER 4, 2003
CROSS COUNTRY INVITATIONAL
A DISTANCE RUNNERS’ FESTIVAL
Contra Loma Regional Park, Antioch – CA.
The Contra Loma Classic is a mid-season “grass-roots” –
home town feel invitational -- intended to bring high school X-Country
teams together early on in the mid-season so they can get to run a challenging
and fun course to kick off the great fall-sport of Cross Country. Contra
Loma Regional Park (EBRPD) is located in the beautiful rolling California
Delta-Diablo Foothills of Antioch. This meeting place is ideal where Bay
Area, NCS, as well as far away teams in the California Central Valley
can compete.
All races for the day are run on a 2.05 mile challenging-rolly-hilly
course (first 1/4 mile is flat). The area is very scenic, and it is a
great spectators course ( 90% view-able ) and it is a good season starter
invite!
There will be plenty of fine custom medals and trophies. Contra Loma has
a lot of picnic tables and grass space to choose from as well as plenty
of restroom facilities in the area for your day picnic use. AND - There
will be CLC custom-designer T-shirts on sale too.
Both starting/finish areas (separate from each other) for the CLC are
also near the beach front of Contra Loma Reservoir. So when it is hot,
everyone can take a dip into the lagoon-lake beach for a refresher after
their races are over (bring towels !!!). There is plenty of parking for
personal vehicles and busses.
~2003 Tentative Race Schedule~
7:30AM -- PARK OPENS – REGISTRATION BEGINS!
8:15AM 5K OPEN XC TRAIL RACE – NEW EVENT THIS
YEAR! (For Public, Details TBA in flyer/app.)
9:00AM -- OPEN COURSE WALK BEGINS FOR H.S.
9:31AM 2.05m FROSH-SOPH BOYS---------------------------- UNLIMITED
9:52AM 2.05m FROSH-SOPH GIRLS--------------------- --------UNLIMITED
10:15AM 2.05m JV BOYS – Must fill a varsity squad first---- UNLIMITED
10:33AM 2.05m JV GIRLS – Must fill a varsity squad first-- UNLIMITED
10:45AM 1.1m ELEM/MIDDLE/JR. HIGH SCHOOL RACERS
(6th grade and under)------------------------- UNLIMITED
10:45AM 2.05m MIDDLE SCHOOL/JR. HIGH RACERS
(7th & 8th grade only)------------------------- UNLIMITED
10:45AM 2.05m COACHES/PARENTS RACE
11:11AM 2.05m VARSITY GIRLS---------------------------- 7 RUNNER LIMIT
11:34AM 2.05m VARSITY BOYS----------------------------- 7 RUNNER LIMIT
12:00PM 0.01m AWARDS CEREMONY/PICK-UP NEAR BEACH!
(There may be a Girls Frosh/Soph race added, depending on the number
of entries received by the September 27th deadline. If this race does
occur it will be in front of the Girls JV, making every other race pushed
forward my 25-30 minutes. So please consider this time frame in your schedule
of plans.)
ENTRY DEADLINE: Fees/Entries due no later than Saturday, 9/27/03.
Send checks to: Michael Amorosa Make checks
Antioch High School payable to:
700 W. 18th St. Antioch High School
Antioch, CA. 94509 Cross Country
2003 CLC FEES:
$95 FLAT max-fee for a team consisting of both Boys & Girls(2 or more
races)
$55 for a Girls OR a Boys only team.
$10 for individuals only (teams are five or more)
AWARDS:
~Top team in each F/S &/or JV division will receive medals
(10 medals deep max for each team).
~Top three teams in the Varsity races will receive medals
(of course ONLY - 7 medals deep for each team).
~Top 3 non-winning-team individuals in EVERY race will receive medals.
~Custom made trophies to the winning team in each F/S &/or JV race.
~Custom made trophies to the top three winning teams in Varsity races.
~Coaches will be awarded division winner prizes (examples: medals/T-shirts)
in both Mens and Womens (All head coaches will receive a FREE T-shirt
regardless).
COACH AGE GROUPS: (under 24, 25-34, 35-39,40-44, 45-49, 50-59, 60+).
RACE RULES:
You MUST enter a varsity team first before you make or enter a JV team.
However, if you have a talented runner that is F/S and usually runs Varsity,
then you may run the athlete F/S and not have to bring up a JV runner
provided that you have at least 5 runners in the varsity races and that
there is no stacking up in the JV races. The majority of the varsity runners
MUST be faster than the JV runners from your team. Fairness is the key
and this insures accurate and fair race results for all races. Please
enter your top 7 runners in the varsity race. Athletes can ONLY race in
ONE race only, no doubling up! Both varsity races are restricted to a
seven runner limit, all others are unlimited. All code of conduct rules
from the CIF apply at the CLC.
RACE COURSE:
The entire 2.05 mile course is either run on grass, dirt trails, or gravel
trails. The first 1/4 mile is dirt-gravel flat, the last 1/2 mile is down
hill dirt trail converting into a flat 150 yard finish on the grass near
the beach. The rest of the course is either maintained dirt or gravel
fire trails (vehicle width).
T-shirts: There will be custom T-shirts for sale -short sleeved and long
sleeved.
MEET DIRECTOR:
If there are any questions, call any time!!
Mike Amorosa ~ Head Cross Country Coach for Antioch High School
Home Phone: (925) 757.2328 cell (925) 209-7353
AHS Phone: (925) 706.5300 [email protected]
OR
[email protected]
DIRECTIONS:
Going east on State Route 4, take the Lone Tree Way/A St. Exit, make right
(head south) on Lone Tree Way. About 3 miles, make right on Golf Course
Rd. The entrance is 2 miles from this point. Make second right on Fredrickson
Ln. Follow signs into park.
Coming from the east, take SR 4 into Brentwood, make left on Lone Tree
Way. Take Lone Tree Way into Antioch, make left turn at Golf Course Rd.
and follow directions above.
From Sacramento, Take I-5 south to SR 12, go west towards Rio Vista. At
SR 160, make left (south) towards Antioch (turns into SR4). Get off at
the Lone Tree Way/A St. Exit. Make a left (head south) on Lone Tree Way
and go about 3 miles to Golf Course Rd. Make right on Golf Course Rd.
Make second right on Fredrickson Ln. Follow signs into park.
CLC course directions....
Wheeled 5-10-98 with a foot wheel meter.
Done by Coaches Mike Amorosa & Coach Amanda Dillon
The start is on top of the grassy rise NE of the park resident trailer.
You’ll find a sandstone outcropping on the ground. Line this up
with the small cottonwood SE of this sandstone. The cottonwood is the
tree closest to the gravel trail. Gravel trail is south of the start.
The course proceeds SE into dirt parking lot, then takes a hard right
along the border of the parking lot. Then it heads left heading East into
the other dirt parking lot, then it takes a hard left around the perimeter
of this second parking lot. then it goes towards the trees that are next
to the picnic tables and a restroom. then it goes up through the gate
entrance up the switch back up to the roller coaster and then goes right/west
(backwards on regular course). When it comes down the hill, you head for
the varsity hill, but then you make a hard right at the lake edge and
go around varsity hill and proceed backwards on the regular course. Go
up the varsity hill in the backwards direction, and come down varsity
hill towards the beach. Finish directions next paragraph.
FINISH: From the finish, at two cottonwood trees near the waterfront,
west of the beach. These two trees are situated at the last two picnic
tables near each cottonwood. The two cottonwoods are directly north/south
of each other, west of the two horse shoe pits, and directly next to 2
picnic tables. The finish shoot can be directed straight towards the beach.
The finish is about 100 yds from the small cottonwood that turns off from
the gravel trail. So when one finishes the course, one hits this small
cottonwood and then goes left heading towards the beach into the finish
as described above.
.5 mile to go: At the 11th regular metal pole on west side of the downhill
portion of the trail, this is where the .5 mile to go, or the 1.55 mile
mark is.
1 mile to go is at the connector trail going over the towards the fence
line, near the 2 pine trees that are on the other side of the fence. The
actual mark for the mile is about 10 ft. from the main fence trail or
you can go from the metal fence bars: count north from the metal fence
pole that lines up with the owls box/nest near the live pine tree, then
count north to the 7th pole and this is where the 1 mile to go (or the
1.05 mile) is on the connector trail.
1.5 mile from finish: (or 1.55 into course) it is the 13th metal pole
from the (two) double wood post on the roller coaster on the south side
of the trail.
Coming out of gate, proceed directly North w/ BR on right (9030 ft),
w/ fruit tree on the left of the BR. then go directly to road, make left
(or right into course) at the last parking isle w/ 3 maple trees along
roads edge.
Next go along edge of parking lot towards the right head towards the
next parking lot heading west and at the NO Parking sign on left of lot
this the 2.0 mile mark FROM the finish line. This sign is in the middle
(to left of course) of the adjacent parking lot, it is the third dirt
lot or 3rd overflow lot out of 5.
Top of hill start: this start is 93 yards from (280ft) from the No Parking
sign.
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