Race Day - Stage Two
Race Day - Stage One
B2V Schedule
0530: PA1 Conroy and BM3 Lesley depart to Baker School for presentation with Student Runner.
0700: Follow Vehicle driven by AUX Blanchette and AUX Laborde departs Command Room enroute to follow vehicle check-in at 1000.
0740: Shuttle Van #1 Team meets in Command Room. Team #1 consists of ENS Ekmark (2) and LT Bruns (3), OSC Mendez (Alt. #1) runners with team catchers and other support staff.
0800: Shuttle Van #1 departs Hilton enroute to starting line.
1015: LT Fenstemacher checks in at starting line (stage 1)
1040: Shuttle Van #2 Team meets in Command Room. Team #2 consists of LTJG Kim (4), OSC Hearn (5) and LT Brooks (6) with team catchers and other support staff, as well as MST3 Scates (Alt. #2).
1100: Shuttle Van #2 departs Hilton enroute to Stage 4.
1240: Shuttle Van #3 Team meets in Command Room. Team #3 consists of SN Olson (7), and OS1 Foster (8), with team catchers and other support staff along with the 2nd F/V Shift driven by AUX Muller and AUX Uy.
1300: Shuttle Van #3 departs Hilton enroute to Stage 7.
1600: Shuttle Van #4 Team meets in Command Room. Team #4 consists of LT Duncan (10), LT Bavencoff (11) and CWO Sesman (12) with team catchers and other support staff, as well as CWO Martincavage (Alt. #3).
1620: Shuttle Van #4 departs Hilton enroute to Stage 10.
1845: Shuttle Van #5 Team meets in Command Room. Team #5 consists of EM1 Dirschel (13), LTJG Williams (14) and LT Hiltz (15) with team catchers and other support staff.
1900: Shuttle Van #5 departs Hilton enroute to Stage 13.
2200: Shuttle Van #6 Team meets in Command Room. Team #6 consists of LT Loveless (16), OS1 Terrill (17) and LT Greenbauer (18) with team catchers and other support staff, as well as SN Arant (Alt. #4).
2215: Shuttle Van #6 departs Hilton enroute to Stage 16.
Sunday, 18APR10
0100: Shuttle Van #7 Team meets in Command Room. Team #6 consists of LT Godkin (19) and LTJG Young (20) with team catchers and other support staff.
0115: Shuttle Van #7 departs Hilton enroute to Stage 19.
~0500: Coast Guard Baker to Vegas Team crosses finish line for the third time inside the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. All hands keep communications open with command center to be there when the team crosses the line.
1700: Team debrief in Command Room.
1800: Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Reception held in Hilton Conference Room. PLEASE wear your team shirts for the team picture.
~2000: Conclusion of Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Reception.
Monday, 19APR10
~1000: Command Room disassembled.
~1200: Shuttle vans return enroute to Sector LA-LB (with none breaking down…LTJG Williams and LTJG Kim).
Team Meeting
First order of business is the team meeting in room 341 at 2000. For all of those enjoying the pool, it is on the same floor. See there soon!
Let's get this party started!
The race, originally started as a competition between the Los Angeles Police
Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, has grown into an international running event with more than 260 agencies participating. The race begins on the outskirts of Baker, Calif,. and finishes inside the LasVegas Hilton Casino and Convention Center in Las Vegas. Although the race has grown since its original conception, the fundamental ideals of the race continue: teamwork, camaraderie, physical fitness and competition.
The Coast Guard team includes more than 75 Active Duty, Reserve and Auxiliary Coast Guard members. The race is incredibly dynamic as it takes place in the flat Mojave Desert, high altitude mountains and the urban environment of Las Vegas. Additionally, the race is run through the night, so temperatures range from in the 90s at the start of the race down to the 30s at night. Because of this dynamic and complex 120-mile race, the support personnel for the race are imperative. They fulfill roles such as command center watchstanding, communications support, vehicle support,
catchers for the runner, public affairs and many more.
In addition to the run, our team is also sponsoring a 10th grader from Baker
High School. Our adopted runner will be wearing our team t-shirt and will be involved in a relay of 20 other student runners from Baker High School to the starting line of the Challenge Cup Relay.
This year our team is especially honored to be running in memory of the crew of CG-1705. We have a tribute to them on our team t-shirts as well as the CG-1705 crew being listed on the official race baton. This race baton is used by all of the teams through the duration of the race, and includes in-the-line-of-duty deaths from all of the agencies involved. Lastly, the crew will be featured in the closing ceremonies program in a video tribute with other fallen officers from federal, state and local agencies participating in the race. As fallen Guardians, the crew of CG-1705 will truly be our motivation, and will be with us there in spirit.
We hope you can follow us through the race tracking system or by blog posts by visiting the team's website: www.Team1790.us/.
The runners for Coast Guard Team 1790 (Official team number 161) for the
2010 Baker to Vegas team are:
LT Carter Fenstemacher
ENS Jake Ekmark
LT Brian Bruns
LTJG Min Kim
OSC Leslie Hearn
LT Theresa Brooks
SN Justin Olson
OS1 Eddie Foster
CWO Scott Epperson
LT Greg Duncan
LTJG David Bavencoff
CWO Ricky Sesman
EM1 John Dirschel
LTJG Josh Williams
LT Jim Hiltz
LT Greg Loveless
OS1 Tiffany Terrill
LT Richard Greenbauer
LT Brian Godkin
LTJG Stephanie Young
OSC Josh Mendez
MST3 Dave Scates
CWO Jack Martincavage
SN Meagan Arant
Very Respectfully,
Team Captains LTJG Stephanie Young and BM3 Mike Lesley
5 days and a wake up!
We are less than a week away now and I know everyone is getting excited. On our FaceBook page photos seem to be developing out of the woodwork from our previous years.
A little something different this year is the 1790 team sponsoring a high school athlete from Baker High School. Sophomore Francisco plays football and baseball and from our understanding, he needs to borrow all of his equipment for practice and games. I remember all of the sports I played in high school and the only thing we had to purchase were swimsuits for water polo and the swim team, a mitt for softball (though there were plenty to borrow if need be) and uniforms for cheerleading. Everything else was provided – bats, bases, helmets, etc. Oh yeah, and we didn’t have to fork out hundreds of dollars in sport fees either. But then again, this was almost 20 years ago and times have changed! We are all so very excited to be able to help a fellow athlete achieve his goals and reach his dreams.
So far close to $200 has been raised for Francisco. I plan on heading to Sports Authority Monday morning to purchase the equipment his coach has passed along to us. Thank you to everyone who has donated! I know this will help him out.
So what is the school doing? Is this a charity case? Well, these are athletes, and they have put together their own relay of sorts from Baker High School to the B2V start line – approximately 20 miles. Francisco will don a CG team shirt and run his leg of the relay Saturday morning before we set off on our relay later that day. Should be a great time for all!