Chicago · Aug. 20, 1989
1st place, 15–17 division. Original plaque/award retained. This is a separate Chicago appearance from the later Lake Shore Drive flat-tire DNF, now believed to be 1990.
Working archive · 1978–1994
The races are records of where I was and what I was learning.
This is a working source archive, not an honors page. It reconstructs the races, teams, travel, training and ordinary logistics of childhood and early adulthood. Contemporary records are linked where they survive; retained plaques, certificates and other physical artifacts are identified separately while scans are pending; firsthand recollections stay labeled as firsthand recollections.
How to read this page
The source matters as much as the result.
Old athletic records are incomplete, inconsistently indexed and surprisingly good at turning one person into two. I competed under both Randy Stone and Randall Stone; the canonical identity here is Randall Carlton Stone. My older brother, Edward Clifford “Ted” Stone, also appears in period results. Those family and age markers help separate our records from unrelated athletes with the same surname.
A contemporary program, result sheet or governing-body database is treated as documentary evidence. A surviving photograph can establish an event and date even when the result sheet is still missing. Personal memories are retained because they explain the life around the result, but they are not relabeled as independent proof.
Recovered records
Recovered records and context anchors, without polishing them into a highlight reel.
| Date | Event | Recorded identity | Record recovered | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 29, 1978 | Junipero Serra Championship Swim Meet · Palo Alto · Laurelwood | STONE RANDY · age 5 · LW | 6-and-under 25-yard butterfly and freestyle entries; listed times 43.60 and 53.60. | 1978 championship program |
| Oct. 11, 1981 | Stanford Great Race 10K | Randy Stone · Sunnyvale · age 8 | Youngest-runner trophy; contemporary report says he had been running for about six months. | California Track & Running News |
| May 6, 1984 | Rapp’s Rinconada Triathlon · Palo Alto area | Event notice / age-rule context | 4-mile run / 7.4-mile bike / 3/4-mile swim; notice says “No Raceday Registration.” Randall’s forced-removal account remains firsthand. | 1984 race calendar |
| Aug. 23, 1987 | Sunnyvale Baylands Classic + Redwood Shores Biathlon | Event schedule / reconstruction anchor | Sunnyvale 5K/10K at 8:00 a.m.; Redwood Shores 400m swim / 4-mile run biathlon at 10:00 a.m. Strong two-event match to the remembered three-race weekend; the third triathlon remains unidentified. | 1987 race calendar |
| Aug. 19, 1988 | Hook & Ladder Run · Palo Alto · 10K | Randy Stone | 38:43 · 1st, men 13–18. | CT&RN results |
| Sept. 23, 1988 | Palo Alto Moonlight Run · 5K | Randy Stone | 18:09 · 1st, men 13–18. | CT&RN results |
| Oct. 9, 1988 | Run for the Animals · Palo Alto · 5K | Randy Stone | 18:46 · 2nd, men 13–18. | CT&RN results |
| 1989 | CCS Finals · Crystal Springs | Randy Stone · St. Francis · grade 10 | 17:46 · 71st. | CCS historical results |
| Aug. 19, 1990 | Chicago Sun-Times Triathlon | Event date/course verified; Randall participation firsthand | Contemporary notice confirms 1.5K Lake Michigan swim, 40K bicycle leg on Lake Shore Drive, and 10K run. This is the leading year for the remembered flat-tire DNF; the DNF row remains open. | Niles-area newspaper |
| Oct. 6, 1990 | Stanford Invitational Cross Country · Division III | Randy Stone · St. Francis | 17:12 · 35th. | Stanford results |
| Nov. 10, 1990 | CCS Finals · Crystal Springs | Randy Stone · St. Francis · grade 11 | 16:42 · 38th. | CCS official historical results |
| 1991 | CIF State Cross Country Championships | Randy Stone · St. Francis · grade 12 | 16:37 · 30th. | Athletic.net historical result |
| Nov. 13, 1991 | CCS Sub-Section · Crystal Springs | Randy Stone · St. Francis · senior | 16:38 · 7th; St. Francis won the team race. | XCStats historical result |
| Mar. 27, 1992 | Stanford Track & Field Challenge · 5000 m | Randy Stone · St. Francis | 16:28.51 · 4th. | Stanford results |
| June 7, 1992 | Vineman Triathlon · Santa Rosa | Randall Stone | 1:59:52 · 1st, men 15–19. | CT&RN results |
| Sept. 12, 1992 | Huntsville / Muskoka ITU Triathlon World Championships · Junior Men | Randall Stone · USA · born 1973 | 2:10:57 · 63rd. World Triathlon Athlete ID 50106. | World Triathlon |
| May 23, 1993 | Columbia Triathlon · Centennial Lake Park, Maryland | Randall Stone | Surviving race photograph establishes the event and date. I remember this as the 1993 Team USA qualifying race; the published result and qualification sheet remain open. | Personal photographic archive |
| July 18, 1993 | Donner Lake Triathlon · Truckee | Randall Stone · age 20 | 2:15:16 · 11th overall · 1.5K swim / 40K bike / 10K run. | CT&RN results |
The table is deliberately conservative. A race is not promoted from memory to “documented” merely because the memory is specific. Context-only rows are labeled as such. Retained awards and certificates are tracked separately until they are digitized and transcribed.
Personal archive · scans pending
The wall and the desk are part of the evidence trail.
Several results that are still hard to recover online are tied to original awards or certificates that remain in the personal archive. They are identified here as retained physical artifacts until readable photographs or scans are added.
Carlsbad · 1992
1st place, 18–19 division. Original plaque/award retained. The period result sheet is still being sought.
USTS Las Vegas · 1992
1st place in division; remembered as the USTS National Championship. Original plaque/award retained. The award and year-end USTS standings are priority scan/search targets.
Tri-Fed · 1993
Triathlon All-American. Original Triathlon Federation USA certificate retained. A readable scan will become the primary archive object even if the federation’s complete 1993 honors list remains offline.
Tandem Up & Running · 1989
3rd place. The surviving award is a foot-massage roller that is still used under the home-office desk. The exact division and finishing time remain open until the 1989 result sheet or award details are recovered.
Artifact rule
When an award is digitized, the archive will preserve the full object: inscription, event logo, sponsor, date, division language, signatures and reverse-side markings, not merely extract a result and discard the provenance.
Magazine archive · 1993
Triathlete no. 113 is now a concrete archival target.
I remember appearing in a couple of 1993 issues of Triathlete, including what I remember as a featured-amateur item around August. The publication identity matches that memory: the ISSN record identifies Triathlete (Allentown, Pa.), and historical publication accounts place circulation, production and printing in Allentown after the 1986 merger.
UMass Boston’s League of American Bicyclists collection physically holds issues 113–114 and later 1993–94 issues. Its date range makes no. 113 the leading August 1993 target. The search is broader than the profile itself: table of contents, photo captions, race reports, USTS standings, rankings, Team USA material, equipment photographs and results pages may all carry Randy or Randall Stone.
1987–1988 reconstruction
Three races in one weekend is no longer a free-floating memory.
I remember completing a triathlon, a biathlon and a 10K in one weekend, deliberately exploiting compatible start times. The strongest calendar match found so far is Sunday, August 23, 1987: the Sunnyvale Baylands 5K/10K started at 8:00 a.m., and the Redwood Shores Biathlon started at 10:00 a.m.
The missing third race is still open. An IronKids event in Foster City or Redwood Shores is a plausible hypothesis, but the search is not confined to the Peninsula: I raced throughout Northern California, so contemporary schedules are being checked across the broader North State for the surrounding 1987 and 1988 weekends.
The record around the result
The useful history is not just the finishing time.
By my teens, national racing meant flying alone with a bicycle and equipment, using a sponsor-supported checking account to pay travel and race expenses, and negotiating whatever an airline counter decided a bicycle box was worth that day. I remember bicycle “special handling” charges as high as $90 each way. Sometimes I persuaded an agent to reverse the charge; sometimes I paid it.
The transaction could become absurd when an agent demanded a credit card to guarantee a check. My answer was literal: “Credit card? I’m fourteen years old. I don’t have a credit card.” The archive retains that story because the logistical independence was as formative as the race schedule.
I remember the 1993 Team USA setup including a new-concept Zipp frame and carbon-fiber wheels. The exact model, wheel configuration and Continental tire specification remain open until photographs, catalogs or sponsor records pin them down.
New England · summer 1993
Training was also a way of seeing the country.
After the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center camp, I remember flying from Burlington, Vermont, to Boston in the nineteenth seat of a nineteen-seat commuter plane, then staying with former Team USA member Jeff Titone’s family in New Hampshire. They were extraordinarily generous hosts. Jeff and I rode the New Hampshire hills, swam open water in the Atlantic, ate lobster caught that afternoon, and crossed into Maine for ice cream.
On August 3, 1993, Jeff and I ran the Yankee Homecoming 10-Miler in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The event date and distance survive in the historical record; my individual finishing time is still being sought. What I remember most clearly is worrying that ten miles was an unnecessary stretch less than three weeks before the Manchester World Championships.
Race strategy · incomplete records
A finish could matter even when the race did not.
My coach, Ron Smith, sometimes wanted me to protect the run leg in races that were not important to the season. His first instruction was occasionally not to run at all and simply record a DNF. The ranking systems made that costly, however, so I often finished the run deliberately easier when the race itself did not score heavily.
My recollection is that I recorded only two DNFs in the competitive triathlon years: the 1984 Rapp’s race, when officials physically removed me because of age, and a Chicago Sun-Times Triathlon after a flat tire on Lake Shore Drive. The Chicago DNF is now most likely August 19, 1990: a contemporary notice independently confirms that date and the 40K bicycle leg on Lake Shore Drive, although my individual DNF row remains open. The separately retained 1989 Chicago first-place award establishes that these were different appearances.
Still being reconstructed
The missing records are now specific search targets.
Childhood multisport
Rapp’s 1983 and 1984, including entry/DQ/press material rather than assuming a missing finisher row disproves the firsthand account; Russian River; Diamond Hills/Antioch biathlons; IronKids California and Arizona, including the 1986 nationals; Don Pedro appearances; Bay to Breakers television footage; and the 1987–88 three-race-weekend reconstruction.
National triathlon circuit
Wildflower long and short course; additional Vineman appearances; 1989 Chicago age-group results and the probable 1990 DNF booklet; 1992 Carlsbad; USTS Las Vegas/national standings; USTS San Diego; Seafair; Bud Light and Coca-Cola sponsor-era records; Leon’s; Alcatraz Challenge and Escape from Alcatraz; Ontario biathlon; and the Lake Placid-area race.
Schools and press
1993 Triathlete nos. 113–116; Tri-Fed/Transition Times year-end honors; Foothill College cross-country MVP, track and Dean’s List 1992–93; Mercury News, Peninsula Times Tribune, Los Altos Town Crier and Sunnyvale-area coverage; Sunnyvale Community Players programs.
Newspaper and race archives are being searched under Randall Stone, Randall C. Stone, Randy Stone and Randy C. Stone, with Sunnyvale, St. Francis, Foothill and family references used for disambiguation.
Why keep it
These experiences belong in the biography because they formed the person.
I do not need every result emphasized, and I do not want the archive turned into a parade of old medals. The value is cumulative. Swimming at five, running as a child, getting thrown out of a triathlon for being too young, traveling alone, solving equipment failures, managing sponsor money, training with older athletes, living inside airports and transition areas, and learning when to push and when to back off all became part of how I approach work, family, public service and difficult situations later.
The archive exists to preserve that chronology accurately enough that the stories do not have to become grander with age in order to remain worth telling.