Women in RAAM

RAAM Race Statistics - Women
(From the RAAM website - Updated 2007)
• 76 starts
• 51 different women have started
• 26 women who have DNF’ed their rookie year never came back.
• 1 women DNF’ed twice and never finished
• 3 women who DNF’ed their rookie year came back to finish their second year.
• 21 women have their first finish their rookie year
• 24 women have finished (47%)
• 8 women have finished more than once
• 4 women have finished more than twice (Hogan, Mariolle, Notorangelo, Ritz)
• 38 Officials Finishes (50%)
• 37 DNFs
• 1 Unofficial Finish

Starts - Numbers
• Three years have had no women starters – 1982, 1999, 2004
• Six years have had 1 starter – 1983, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005
• Two years had had 2 starters – 2001, 2006
• 15 years have had 3 or more starters. Last time 3 or more starters before 2007 was 1997

Finishes - Numbers
• Of the years with starters, four have had no finishers – 1983, 2002, 2003, 2007
• Six years with 1 finisher – 1989, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006
• No year has had more than 3 women finishers.

Finish Time Distribution
• 6 finishes under 10d
• 10 finishes in 10-11d
• 8 finishes in 11-12d
• 8 finishes in 12-13d
• 6 finishes in 13-14d
• 1 finish over 14d (Bonnie Alison – 50+)
• Median and Average Finish Time – 11d 112h

Speed Distribution
• 2 finishes over 13mph
• 12 finishes 12-13mph
• 3 finishes 11-12 mph
• 11 finishes 10-11 mph
• 9 finishes 9-10mph
• 2 finishes 8-9 mph
• Median and Average Speed – 10.67mph

Winning Times
• Fastest Winning Time – 9d4h17m
• Slowest Winning Time – 12d20h57m
• Winning Times have an even spread among 9d, 10d, 11d, 12d
• Average winning time is 10d21h.

Rookies versus Veterans
• The average time for a rookie finisher is 12d 8h.
• Take off the two super rookie finishes of Muffy Ritz (9d16h) and Cassie Lowe (10d3d) and the average time of a rookie finish is 12d14h.
• The average time of the 17 veteran finishes is 10d 8h. Only 3 veteran finishes over 11d.

DNF Distribution
• 7 in first 500 miles
• 9 in mile 500-1000
• 10 in mile 1000-1500
• 8 in mile 1500-2000
• 3 past mile 2000

Interesting
• The hey-dey was 1986-1994 with 45 starters and 23 finishes.
• In the past ten years 1998-2007, there have been 14 starters and 6 finishes.
• Before 2007, the last finish over 12d for women was 1992.

Slow Years – They Happen
9 of the 12 slowest times occurred in 3 years – 1984, 1988, and 1991.

1984 was not a good year in general – only 6 men finished (1 unofficial), 13 men DNF’ed, the winning time for men was the 3th slowest ever at 9d13h with only 1982 and 1983 slower. 1984 saw 3 out of 4 women finish with the winning time of 12d20h

1988 again was not a good year in general – 11 men finished, 22 men DNF’ed. Again with a slow winning time for men (7th slowest). 6 women started, 3 finished with a winning time of 12d3h

1991 had 3 out of 4 women finish with a winning time of 12d6h. It was just a slow year for women.