Muddiest Runners

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There have been over 16,000 finishers of the Leatherman’s Loop in 26 years. Nearly 8,500 different runners are represented in this group.

The estimate for the past few years has been between 40-50% of runners in a given year returning to run a second loop or higher. On the flip side, each year sees 50-60% of the field as brand new runners.

A small selection of the 91 different runners with more than 10 Loops under their belt as of 2012: Adrienne Morgan, Nick Ohnell, Kevin Cotter, Bill Bradsell, Paul Muessig, Carol Kane, Rick Hubbell & Joe Stanley (all 26!), Bob & Doug Goldblatt, Eddie “The Plumber” Donlon, George “Cannonball” Buchanan, Kerry Arsenault, Gerry Sullivan, Mike Paletta, Shirley Iselin, John Krasniewicz, Thomas McShane. (click to enlarge)

Below is a list, to the best of our knowledge, of all loop runners with seven (7) or more finishes to their credit. It is based on the results boards here and the transcribed results here. Thanks to Mel Cowgill for going back and transcribing the results from the poster boards and putting it into a format where we could figure out all this stuff.

There are 277 Runners with 7 or more Loops under their belts listed below (*means ran in the most recent Loop). 112 of these muddiest runners ran in the latest year (2012). Some of the others took the year off while others have moved away or retired their running shoes.

Runner             #Loops
----------------        ------
Rick Hubbell               26*
Joe Stanley                26*

Bob Goldblatt              24*

James Reilly               23*

Doug Goldblatt             22*
Nick Ohnell                22*

Jonathan Federman          20*
John Partilla              20*
Roger Borsett              20

Tim Debany                 19*
John Krasniewicz           19*

Shirley Iselin             17*
Paul Muessig               17*
Geoff Steadman             17*

Gary Esposito              16*
Jim Kapp                   16*
Dan Wiley                  16*
Drew Bradley               16
Robert Hallinan            16

Bill Bradsell              15
Hernando Munoz             15

Kerry Arsenault            14*
Kevin Cotter               14*
Joe Kapp                   14*
James Lavin                14*
Ron Morgan                 14*
Karen Reilly               14*
Tim Benedict               14
Richard Luth               14

George Buchanan            13*
Susan Hoelzer              13*
Michael Markhoff           13*
Adrienne Morgan            13*
Kelsey Nix                 13*
Eddie Donlon               13
Robert Rhatigan            13
Roger Anderson             13

Charlie Iselin             12*
Tim Parshall               12*
Gerry Sullivan             12*
Thomas McShane             12
Donald Smith               12
James Masiello             12
Mike Paletta               12
Frank Rees                 12
Steve Levin                12

Jo Ann Hickey              11*
Gus Lesnevich              11*
John Sabatino              11*
Clinton Smith              11*
Mark Stefanov              11*
Kerry Tomson               11*
John Trunik                11*
Tim Evnin                  11
David Lattimer             11
Phil Tartaglia             11
Michael Tiffany            11
Peter Kircher              11
Jay Ryan                   11
Victor SooHoo              11
Pedro Diaz                 11
Edward Dillon              11
John Berg                  11
Jim O'Keefe                11

Benjamin Anagnos           10*
Robert Cummings            10*
Larry Debany               10*
Tim Ivey                   10*
Dana Jones                 10*
Peter Page                 10*
Kate Paletta               10*
Rolf Paulson               10*
Christopher Post           10*
Gary Ring                  10*
Ric Villarreal             10*
Jason Wein                 10*
Erick Wilson               10*
David Hiester              10
David Ennis                10
Jim Jinkins                10
Bob Sturm                  10
Mark Hamilton              10
Tony Muffatti              10
Charles Ruthman            10
Paul Salerni               10
Richard Bagwell            10
Tom Wuennemann             10
Matthew Sheehan            10
Douglas Doerwald           10
Terry Tarnowsky            10
Mark Blum                  10

Ian Beck                   9*
Ken Burfeind               9*
Rich Caiola                9*
Jeff Crystal               9*
Anton Deiters              9*
John Grimm                 9*
Ralph Huber                9*
Cheryl Johnson             9*
Glenn McCabe               9*
Tommy Nohilly              9*
Timothy O’Connell          9*
Rick Pingitore             9*
Richard Slingerland        9*
Mark Sutton                9*
Daniel Tomson              9*
Jerry Turk                 9*
Paul Woolley               9*
Gene (Eugene) Black        9
Paul Dorfman               9
Gary Exelbert              9
Edmund Gallahue            9
Joseph Holleran            9
Maria Vlasak               9
Arthur Wagner              9
Jordan Beck                9
Michael Berardino          9
Sallie Jo Boehle           9
Wallie Jahn                9
Mitchell Sanders           9
Mel Cowgill                9
Anthony Volpicelli         9
Carol Kane                 9
John Romeo                 9
Ed Matson                  9
Jack Wynne                 9
Russ Crabs                 9
Chuck Goulart              9
Oscar Vargas               9
Abby Doolittle             9
Frank Schmidt              9
Rich Zuvich                9
David Epstein              9
David James                9
Frank Wippel               9
Janet Piez                 9
Marty Tarnowsky            9
Lisa Loprinzo              9
Katherine Ronan            9
Burton Sachs               9

Patricia Black             8*
Robert Casper              8*
Alan Engelsher             8*
Phillip Ennis              8*
Paul Fost                  8*
John Freeman               8*
John Garibaldi             8*
Nancy Geary                8*
Anthony Heavey             8*
Joan Lynch                 8*
Peter Menzies              8*
Elisabeth Post-Marner      8*
Brad Shoenfelt             8*
John Sullivan              8*
John Baker                 8
John Galvany               8
Douglas Hegley             8
Ruth Littmann              8
Francois Odouard           8
Sarah Polirer              8
Michael Wilbur             8
Russ Corley                8
Michael Gorman             8
Cornelia Mitchell          8
Jamer Breene               8
Ray Floyd                  8
Jeffrey Morris             8
Daniel Assumma             8
Corinne Bellemare          8
Joseph Robidoux            8
Michael Mcgurk             8
Peter Oppenheim            8
Albert Pallotto            8
Gary Williams              8
Keith Benkov               8
Bill Feiler                8
Peter Pochapsky            8
John Singer                8
Christopher Dunn           8
Mark Van Summern           8
Thea Boyle                 8
James Carlson              8
David Nager                8
Christopher Bacich         8
Chuck Kennedy              8
Ross Moore                 8
James Santora              8
Alan Stopek                8
Bruce Kirch                8
Frank Paschke              8

Mehdi Alami                7*
Mark Blandford             7*
Cathi Bosco                7*
Trevor Branch              7*
Bruce Cadenhead            7*
Stephen Cowie              7*
Bradley Daly               7*
James Dunn                 7*
Steve Eidam                7*
Alexis Evanich             7*
Jonathan Evans             7*
Carol Gamez-Citron         7*
Scott Harrison             7*
Pat Heffernan              7*
Traci Lester               7*
Steve Maletz               7*
Terence McGlynn            7*
John O'Leary               7*
Chris Perkins              7*
Michael Riley              7*
Kelley Roche               7*
Philip Sandler             7*
Daniel Sheehan             7*
Robert Shine               7*
Dan Sullivan               7*
Aaron Taylor               7*
Alan Wagman                7*
Christopher Warner         7*
Damien Whelan              7*
William Whitcomb           7*
Lee Anne Zarger            7*
Sarah Blandford            7
Matthew Flanagan           7
Christopher Hojlo          7
Danny Martin               7
Carolyn Subin              7
Bill Vierbuchen            7
Alex Alimanestianu         7
Stephen Bauer              7
Paul Dickie                7
Larry Katz                 7
Joe Sargis                 7
Gregory Stanton            7
Brenda Chapman             7
Colleen Cugine             7
Kristen Daly               7
Jason Freitag              7
Jim Houlihan               7
Steven McLaughlin          7
Harry Roney                7
Robert Smith               7
Robert Stefanik            7
Ted Ufferfilge             7
Stacey Curtis              7
Marco Garced               7
Scott Cynamon              7
Jim Tarzia Jr.             7
Susan Cavataro             7
Jim Donegan                7
William Essmann            7
Manuel Luna                7
Dan Parzych                7
Wayne Theriault            7
Andrew Cunningham          7
Glenn Picone               7
John Bria                  7
Enid Burns                 7
Steven Leone               7
Warren Renninger           7
Mark Sullivan              7
Keith Vosburg              7
Anthony Weiner             7
Doug Gouger                7
Michael Matthews           7
John Hooper                7
Ronald Ott Jr.             7
Burton Ryan                7
Kieran Curley              7
Steven Kane                7
Joe McCann                 7
Peter Formica              7
Alex White                 7
Bob Wheeler                7
Craig Helmrich             7
Michael Azaria             7
Clemente Vargas            7
John Conway                7

If your name does not appear and you think it should, take a look at the transcribed results and the results boards to help us track down your results.

It is possible, for example, if you ran under “Bob Smith” one year and “Robert Smith” or “R. Smith” in other years we might not have caught the different spellings and joined them up. It’s also possible that we totally butchered the spelling of your last name (we apologize!) on some of the entries or during the transcription from the results boards. We have done our best to catch these mistakes but sometimes they slip through.  Drop us a note pointing us to any information you find that supports your claim.

[Another possibility is if you changed you name due to change in marital status. Unless we were invited to the wedding, it's pretty hard for us to know that! Let us know where to look in the results and we'll link up your different names.]

We won’t just add your name on your say so — we need some evidence to back up your claim. Help us out by checking the results boards and the transcribed results. It is all there (well, except one photo of a results page from 1995, but those are in the transcribed results). Note: if you ran under someone else’s bib (Bandit/Turkey) we will not adjust the results to reflect those runs.

There are an additional 126 runners with 6 Loops plus another 181 runners who have run 5 Loops. This makes 557 runners who have run 5 or more Loops. We have a list of these runners so if you think you are close to 7 or just want to know how many Loops we have tracked for you, get in touch. (Don’t expect a quick answer if you get in touch in late March or April though! )

As a complement to the numbers above, these are the longest active streaks for Leatherman’s Loop runs as of after the 2011 Loop (still working on this list along with a better way to display the streaks):

26 Consecutive (since 1987)
Joe Stanley
Rick Hubbell

20 Consecutive (since 1993)
John Partilla (20 Loops Total, First in 1993)

17 Consecutive (since 1996)
Shirley Iselin (17 Loops Total, First in 1996)

15 Consecutive (since 1998)
John Krasniewicz (19 Loops Total, First in 1987)

14 Consecutive (since 1999)
Ron Morgan (14 Loops Total, First in 1999)

13 Consecutive (since 2000)
Kelsey Nix (13 Loops Total, First in 2000)

12 Consecutive (since 2001)
Tim Debany (19 Loops Total, First in 1993)

11 Consecutive (since 2002)
Dan Wiley (16 Loops Total, First in 1996)
Joe Kapp (14 Loops Total, First in 1997)
George Buchanan (13 Loops Total, First in 1990)
Mark Stefanov (11 Loops Total, first in 2002)
Kerry Tomson (11 Loops Total, first in 2002)

10 Consecutive (since 2003)
Paul Muessig (17 Loops Total, First in 1995)
Dana Jones (10 Loops Total, First in 2003)
Rob Cummings (10 Loops Total, First in 2003)

9 Consecutive (since 2004)
Tommy Nohilly (9 Loops Total, First in 2004)

8 Consecutive (since 2005)
Bob Goldblatt (24 Loops Total, First in 1987)
Paul Fost (8 Loops Total, First in 2005)
Anthony Heavey (8 Loops Total, First in 2005)
Joan Lynch (8 Loops Total, First in 2005)

7 Consecutive (since 2006)
Steve Eidam (7 Loops Total, First in 2006)
Alexis Evanich (7 Loops Total, First in 2006)
Jonathan Evans (7 Loops Total, First in 2006)
Pat Heffernan (7 Loops Total, First in 2006)
Chris Perkins (7 Loops Total, First in 2006)
Kelley Roche (7 Loops Total, First in 2006)
Robert Shine (7 Loops Total, First in 2006)

Longest interrupted streaks as of 2012 Loop:

Bob Goldblatt (12 Loop streak 1987-1998, 23 total)
Drew Bradley (14 Loop streak 1991-2004, 16 total)
Nick Ohnell (14 Loop streak 1995-2008, 21 total)
Roger Borsett (13 Loop streak 1997-2009, 20 total)
Jonathan Federman (7 Loop streak 1998-2004, 19 total)
Bill Bradsell (14 Loop streak 1994-2007, 16 total)
Gary Esposito (8 Loop streak 1997-2004, 15 total)
Hernando Munoz (7 Loop streak 1998-2004, 15 total)
Jim Kapp (15 Loop streak, 1996-2010, 15 total)
Geoff Steadman (8 Loop streak, 2003-2010, 15 total)
Susan Hoelzer (12 Loop streak, 1999-2010, 12 total)
Carol Kane (9 Loop streak, 1999-2007, 9 total)
Alex Alimanestianu (7 Loop streak, 2004-2010, 7 total)
Greg Stanton (7 Loop streak, 2004-2010, 7 total)
David Lattimer (11 Loop streak, 2001-2011, 11 total)

If you believe we have made an error, please get in touch and we will correct it if we can verify the mistake. Any help you can provide is appreciated!