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#519 overall Invitational sectionOfficial

Alden E Besse

Bib 274 · M9 · Invitational section · Group L · Wave start 8:12

Invitational runners qualified for this wave by finishing in the top 750 of a prior Dipsea.

Actual time

1:32:22

Clock 1:19:23 · time-based place #951

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The PDF includes the interpretation, deltas, race timeline, position-through-the-course chart, and segment-by-segment splits shown below.

Official place

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#519

Top 37% of 1,398 finishers · head start applied

Official clock time

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1:19:23

Gun-to-tape from your wave start at 8:12

Actual run time

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1:32:22

Time on foot · time-based place #951 of 1398

Your official place uses the head-start handicap: every Group L runner left 13 minutes after scratch, so the official clock measures finish order. Your actual time is the raw stopwatch from when you crossed the start to when you crossed the finish — that's what we use below to ask "how did you do versus runners who started with you, and how would you have stacked up in the other wave?"

INV Group L — your wave

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#17

of 18 runners who started in INV Group L with you (ranked by actual time)

If you ran this time in DR Group L

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#13

Your 1:32:22 slotted into the 46-runner DR Group L field (they ran the same handicap but started 27 min after you)

INV section overall

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#513

of 544 INV runners, by actual time

M overall

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Top 77%

#739 of 960 by actual time

Age 9 (L)

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Top 41%

#8 of 17 by actual time

Position through the course

Official

Position at each official checkpoint, ending at finish-line place.

Top-35 gap

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You were 26:29 behind 35th place (Alex F Varner) on the normalized finish clock.

Top 35 finishers earn the famed black shirt. Final results may revise this list.

Top-100 gap

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You were 21:37 behind 100th place (Hank Beyer) on the normalized finish clock.

Top 100 finishers earn a ranked bib for next year's race. Final results may revise this list.

Segment splits

OfficialComputed
SegmentSegment timeCumulativePositionΔ from prev
Start to Top of Stairs
Downtown start, sprint to Old Mill Park, up the 671 Dipsea stairs.
8:598:59#85
Stairs to Windy Gap
Suicide / Hauke Park climb to Windy Gap.
8:0217:01#11732
Windy Gap to Muir Woods
Fast descent into Muir Woods and Redwood Creek.
8:1425:15#19174
Muir Woods to Cardiac
Dynamite climb up to Cardiac, the high point of the course.
38:381:03:53#516325
Cardiac to White Gate
Swoop descent and rolling terrain to White Gate.
17:381:21:31#5171
White Gate to The Stile
Steep Ravine down, then Insult Hill back up.
8:421:30:13#5192
The Stile to Finish
The Moors and final descent to Stinson Beach.
2:091:32:22#519±0

Overall finish distribution

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Actual-time distribution

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Top finishers (top 3)

Official
Top finishers in the 2026 Dipsea preliminary results.
PlaceNameBibSex/AgeGroupActualCompare
#1Chris Lundy3F55J (15m)1:00:42vs
#2Edward R Owens6M32Z (1m)48:29vs
#3Julia R Maxwell Bailey442F30Q (9m)57:02vs

Top 35 finishers earn the famed black shirt. Final results may revise this list.

Nearby finishers

Official
Finishers placed near Alden E Besse.
PlaceNameBibSex/AgeGroupActualActual ΔCompare
#514Les Sollner278M13U (6m)1:24:55-7:27vs
#515Eric M Spector405M79AAA (25m)1:44:05+11:43vs
#516David Leipsic621M61M (12m)1:31:14-1:08vs
#517John P Cassidy335M46W (4m)1:23:17-9:05vs
#518Emma F Broderick1247F33Q (9m)1:01:21-31:01vs
#519Alden E Besse274M9L (13m)1:32:22
#520Dave Covey650M65J (15m)1:34:42+2:20vs
#521James Beyer1501M58P (10m)1:02:45-29:37vs
#522Hector Sigurdsson583M17Y (2m)1:21:45-10:37vs
#523Emily Richards1337F23P (10m)1:03:00-29:22vs
#524Nikko Kuwabara1620M12T (7m)1:00:00-32:22vs