By James Moreland
Sterling, VA
May 26, 2012
For the Washington Running Report
Fun run start .
For the last nine years this special race that starts underneath the ladders of two fire trucks in Sterling, has acted like the official start of the summer season. Raced on Memorial Day weekend the region usually blasts out a ninety degree day to test the runners. The course is a two loop jaunt around the Community Center. After cresting the first long hill at the end of the second mile runners get to run under an uncapped fire hydrant. A quick look at the times will tell you that the first real scorcher of 2012 took its toll on the nearly 500 10K finishers.
Only one event record was broken and that was Christy Dannenberg’s 19 & younger record of 42:22 set in 2004. Race winner Melissa Saunders, 19, took the crown in a very nice 41:21. The elite division for the Runner Rankings is 41:15. Only two others years, both extra hot, had a winner slower than forty minutes.
Katie Clarke, 19, got a late start finishing in 42:58 but her net time of 42:25 was near the former event record. Only one women in the top ten finishers returned from last year, sixth place Mandana Mortazavi, 48 in 45:16. Fourth place Kim Isler was the masters champion in 44:23.
In the men’s race, Ray Pugsley, 43, was the consensus favorite to win it all. Pugsley cruised home in 34:37 for his third win in five tries. He had set the 35-39 record winning in 2006 with 33:29. The next year he was second to Jorge Pardo, 38, who took his record with 33:21. In 2008 he came to for revenge besting Pardo 33:21 with an excellent 33:02 but was again second as Philippe Rolly, 35, won it all in 32:49. All three broke the previous record. The next year Pugsley returned as a master to win it all in 33:02, again. Only one runner older than Pugsley has won the race. That was Linda Foley, 46, back in 2008.
In 2007, runner-up Max Werner, 23 , had the second fastest teen time in 35:41. Today he topped his best Cascades 10K with 35:39. The teen record was set by C.W. Moran with 32:34. The following year he joined Philippe Rolly in a blistering charge down the final hill finishing in an identical time of 30:40. Rolly got the victory by an eyelash, while Moran settled for the 20-24 record. Last year Ethan Pacifico (left) was fourth overall in a solid 37:53. This year he was fifth, improving to 36:57. He still has three more years to try for Werner’s time.
For the older runners, Roland Rust, 60, continues his top ranked spring season with an excellent 40:24 for the second best age graded time, after Pugsley, in tthe event. It makes you realize how good Patrick Griffith was. Griffith is one of three runners, Moran and Rolly, with two age group records. He had a fabulous 38:46 back in 2005 at age sixty.
Four runners from the 50 Plus Club with a combined 161 races run so far this year came out to race. Jim Noone, 67, took another title with a solid 44:18. Bob Gurtler, 77, who normally prefers the 5K with 28 already this year, ran his fifth 10K of the year in 1:06:53. Karen Young, 43, and Bill Stahr, 51, have a combined 35 races each in the 5K and 10K. Stahr, who won his age group in 44:12, ran a record 78 10K races in 2009. Young, who just missed running fifty or more for the third time with 49 in 2001, leads Stahr this year so far 19 to 17.
Awards Listing (No Duplicate Prizes)
OVERALL MALE (GUN TIME)
Place Num Name Lname Age City Time
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1 3 Ray Pugsley 43 Potomac Falls VA 34:37
2 506 Max Werner 23 Potomac Falls VA 35:39
3 346 Douglas Haines 27 Centreville VA 36:28
OVERALL FEMALE (GUN TIME)
Place Num Name Lname Age City Time
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1 422 Melissa Saunders 19 Potomac Falls VA 41:21
2 44 Katie Clarke 19 Sterling VA 42:58
3 251 Mary Beth Chosak 33 Arlington VA 43:21
MALE AGE GROUP: 1 - 19 (NET TIME)
1 336 Ethan Pacifico 16 Potomac Falls VA 36:57
2 118 Patrick Wilson 19 Sterling VA 38:33
3 508 Zawad Chowdhury 18 Potomac Falls VA 38:43
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 1 - 19 (NET TIME)
1 499 Samantha Phillips 19 Potomac Falls VA 48:13
2 459 Kayla Grimmett 18 Sterling VA 48:23
3 283 Barbara Rion 19 Sterling VA 49:00
MALE AGE GROUP: 20 - 24 (NET TIME)
1 505 Kyle Kinnally 24 Ashburn VA 36:52
2 450 Matt Weber 21 Sterling VA 37:46
3 493 Tim French 20 Sterling VA 44:05
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 20 - 24 (NET TIME)
1 129 Emily O'Connor 22 Sterling VA 47:15
2 211 Erica Raggio 21 Sterling VA 50:41
3 307 Lauren Cummings 23 Olympia WA 53:05
MALE AGE GROUP: 25 - 29 (NET TIME)
1 119 Sean Wilson 25 Sterling VA 37:39
2 22 Mike Tosto 28 Sterling VA 41:14
3 306 William Fastenau 25 Olympia WA 43:11
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 25 - 29 (NET TIME)
1 453 Kristina Keller 29 Cleveland OH 45:11
2 514 Amanda Gould 29 Centreville VA 46:40
3 213 Heather Hanks 29 Clifton VA 48:08
MALE AGE GROUP: 30 - 34 (NET TIME)
1 87 Dennis Haeberle 31 Reston VA 42:10
2 18 Caldwell Clarke 33 Leesburg VA 42:19
3 370 Andy Gingrich 32 Centreville VA 42:42
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 30 - 34 (NET TIME)
1 105 Alison Slade 31 Odenton MD 46:00
2 491 Laura Portillo 30 Potomac Falls VA 46:37
3 466 Melanie Bell 30 Potomac Falls VA 49:37
MALE AGE GROUP: 35 - 39 (NET TIME)
1 327 Robert Osterried 39 Sterling VA 40:28
2 181 Robert Antonellis 36 Sterling VA 42:37
3 32 Thomas Luke 36 Potomac Falls VA 45:21
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 35 - 39 (NET TIME)
1 27 Keisha Voigt 39 Sterling VA 47:17
2 80 Kristy Persons 36 Potomac Falls VA 47:19
3 365 Laura Sibley 39 Potomac Falls VA 49:41
MALE AGE GROUP: 40 - 44 (NET TIME)
1 270 Alan Sherman 40 Silver Spring MD 37:06
2 431 Rob Meadows 40 Lansdowne VA 39:50
3 97 Bin Mu 43 Reston VA 40:14
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 40 - 44 (NET TIME)
1 295 Kim Isler 44 Oakton VA 44:20
2 529 Karen Young 43 Boyds MD 48:15
3 98 Jie Zheng 41 Reston VA 48:58
MALE AGE GROUP: 45 - 49 (NET TIME)
1 358 Craig Hymes 49 Reston VA 39:22
2 538 Ed Milenski 45 Potomac Falls VA 39:36
3 509 Mark Fanelli 48 Reston VA 41:46
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 45 - 49 (NET TIME)
1 533 Mandana Mortazavi 48 Leesburg VA 45:12
2 428 Annie Downer 48 Herndon VA 50:26
3 193 Cj Schwartzrock 45 Sterling VA 51:35
MALE AGE GROUP: 50 - 54 (NET TIME)
1 532 Bill Stahr 51 The Plains VA 44:10
2 168 Gregory Gould 51 Sterling VA 45:14
3 354 Alan Riggs 54 Lovettsville VA 50:42
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 50 - 54 (NET TIME)
1 382 Pamela Thomas 52 Sterling VA 53:15
2 169 Laurie Gould 51 Sterling VA 54:07
3 187 Suzanne Cooper 51 Sterling VA 55:50
MALE AGE GROUP: 55 - 59 (NET TIME)
1 163 Ken Krehbiel 58 Washington DC 46:12
2 345 Keith Hosman 57 Dale City VA 48:45
3 424 John Klemens 55 Potomac Falls VA 49:47
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 55 - 59 (NET TIME)
1 465 Kathie Brumbaugh 55 Herndon VA 1:03:09
2 218 Laura Carter 55 Sterling VA 1:11:55
3 225 Connie Boswell 55 Sterling VA 1:15:59
MALE AGE GROUP: 60 - 64 (NET TIME)
1 207 Roland Rust 60 Bethesda MD 40:23
2 258 Bill Koetter 63 Ashburn VA 55:30
3 482 Halle Overhamm 61 Germany 1:03:06
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 60 - 64 (NET TIME)
1 313 Jaine Summers 61 Annandale VA 1:07:42
MALE AGE GROUP: 65 - 69 (NET TIME)
1 290 Jim Noone 67 Fairfax VA 44:15
2 390 Patrick Brown 67 Reston VA 55:22
FEMALE AGE GROUP: 65 - 69 (NET TIME)
1 387 Pat Welch 67 Vienna VA 1:00:58
MALE AGE GROUP: 70 - 99 (NET TIME)
1 411 Chan Robbins 74 Arlington VA 53:58
2 507 Ken Quincy 74 Vienna VA 1:00:14
3 474 Bruce Wayne 75 Potomac Falls VA 1:05:16
MALE FIRST TIME RACER: NET TIME - NET PACE 1 - 99
1 186 Son Huynh 33 M South Riding VA 48:38
FEMALE FIRST TIME RACER: NET TIME - NET PACE 1 - 99
1 211 Erica Raggio 21 F Sterling VA 50:41
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