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2019 Fall Runner Rankings Better Weather; Record number of Events

Most competitive Fall Ever

(September 3, 2019 – November 10, 2019)

50 Plus Club Best of 2015 Best of 2016 Best of 2017

Best of 2018

Best of 2019 Best of 2020

By James Moreland

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Thirty years ago when I started running, the focus was beginning to shift from a pure sport to a recreational opportunity to stay fit and meet people. Running has always been a secondary sport, largely because the focus is on the individual, not a team. While there is officially only one winner, as men and women’s race are two separate events, everyone in the race can be defined as a winner on their own. The Personal Record defines what the runner did for themselves with the competition being internal. While the world records continue to come, the second level of competition is eroding to the point that older runners are scoffing. Women have become an increasing presence and are dominating in total attendance at the events. Older women, who have been racing for decades, are showing the most improvements. Finally, in the last couple of years, there seems to be some attention from the young people. Most of the time only a small handful of dedicated athletes have stopped the master runner from dominating in races. Running is age based more than any other sport. Only the truly gifted and motivated racers can hope to maintain against young, even for a short while. If you can run as fast as you did last year, you are really better. Five-year age groups were established to even the playing field and de facto create multiple mini events. Runner want to know how they did in their age group. Back in the 80s, runners such as Bill Osburn, who died this year at the age of 95 and Alvin Guttag, who died in 2012 at the age of 94, railed against the discriminatory sixty and older age group. It was as if the five-year age group stopped applying there. Race directors claimed no older runners came to their races. Yet it was the chicken or the egg. An elite eighty-year-old cannot compete against even the average sixty-year-old. Cokey Daman, who passed on September 21 of this year at 100 years of age, held more than a dozen state records. Still, he had no chance against novice runners who might be decades younger than him and listed in the same age grouping. As we reach the oldest runners, even five-year age groups are too much with times slowing yearly by nearly as much as the demi-decade. Race timing has been taken over by the computer. Directors add many useless pieces of data, merely because they can. Much of it is driven to bring in more runners. In the early days, the competition was pure. By the 1980s, the majority of races were charity driven. “Come and donate your money to our worthy cause and we will time your running.” A vast majority of events objected to giving back anything but a pittance to the runners, claiming the event was for the charity. Eventually some events such as the Race for the Cure admitted to this by doing away with the running all together. We just want your money and you can run if you must but we just want your money.

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Racing is getting away from the charities though they still want your money. However, the successful events give back to the runners. For years, many runners were intrigued by the marathon. Many never did know the distance of the race but the mystic brought them out by the thousands. If you ran a 5K, no one was impressed unless you had a fast time. If you finished a marathon, you were special regardless of time. It did not take long until many of these joiners found out that it was partly true. Finishing a marathon is a daunting task. Marathons all over the country were fast on the uptake and quickly added a half marathon to their event. Now you could brag about a finish that you could more reasonably expected to make. Note that the 10K, 8K, and even the common 5K have, in more recent years, been added to marathon, now called a running festival. Many runners are happy to pay for someone to create a course and a sense of comradery that allows them to overcome inertia and get out on the roads. Their races are really training runs. The lore of the loneliness of the long-distance runner is passé. Running is still one of the least expensive sports but do not fool yourself. If you plan to race a lot you may spend thousands of dollars a year. One addicted racer, Bill Stahr, raced 369 times (2014), currently the world record. His gas money alone was in the thousands of dollars. Race entries fees doubled that amount even though many of his races were running club events. Many club events are free or at a very low cost. Still, some clubs have thousands of members yet attract hundreds at best to their event. The newest running model is the Park Run. This started in England and since 2016 has been sweeping across the USA. There are seven such events in the region. They are run virtually every Saturday and they are free. The numbers of runners are leveling off after increasing every year since the turn of the century. The numbers of races continue to climb. The region has many thousands of races. The successful ones, the sustainable ones offer value to the runner. The basics of a good race is good management. The race must have quality control over the distance of the event and the course marshalling of the event. To have the award winners determined, the event must have credible timing equipment. Runners want results quickly and accurately. This is readily possible for even the largest races if the race management is amenable to the integrity of the event. Runners know what they ran. Virtually every runner has a GPS timing device and knows their time and how close the race was to the promised distance. They also want to know how they did in comparison to the rest of the field. Naturally, not everyone understands the mechanisms to get those results; race management should. The results should include at a minimum the runner’s name, age, gender, hometown, and gun time, and be sorted by the gun time.

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Races will at times have many others things such as net time, place in gender, place in division, or a video of the finish. In a survey of Web site quality of close to a hundred racing sites, a mere nine of them got a 90 percent or better rating and just fourteen more received an 80 percent rating. Major races leveled at fifty races. Total race times dropped 20 percent to levels not seen in a decade with 160,404. Total races exploded to the highest ever with 429 and there were one hundred and fifty additional races with no qualifiers, totally nearly ten thousand runners. Races come and go with close to a hundred races disappearing from 2018. The Army 10 Miler is the big daddy of the five races with more than 5,000 finishers. Army cracked the 25,000-runner mark to lead the way. Also, with more than 400 ranked runners, there were three times as many ranked times as the second-best race. When you count Marine Corps Marathon with a 10 percent drop off to 18,510 and their 10K still solid with 6,248, the Corps comes out just short with 24,756. The Baltimore Running Festival’s three events lost 1,000 runners too, down this year to 14,597, though the half and 5K were the other two races with more than 5,000 runners. The three Richmond events moved from the final weekend to be the first race of winter 2020. This season three races had 100 ranked qualifiers, and a meager nine races had fifty or more ranked runners. Those three races, decided the majority of the divisions. Second was the Parks Half Marathon with 134. Third was the king/queen maker Clarendon Day 5K with 108. The Navy-Air Force Half Marathon folded in 2019. Baltimore dropped to about half of Parks with 73. The Hokie Half Marathon stepped to fill the void with 48. The Peroni Crawlin' Crab Half Marathon was fourth with 41. Ten-kilometer races surged to 49 events, one seventh of them contained more than 500 finishers. The biggest 10K, Marine Corps was the least competitive even compared to hilly cross country 10Ks. Anthem Wicked had more than 4,000 runners but the next two were far more competitive. The Veterans Day 10K was top with 67 and the Clarendon Day 10K had 47 with slightly more than 1,000 runners. That race might have been even more competitive but runners were encouraged to do the double and the accompanying 5K came first. The Run in the Parks was on the same course as Veterans and though it gathered about a quarter as many participants, more than 10 percent were ranked runners. The 5 Mile/8K was the weakest distance with just 14 events with Navy and HCA not around. Just like the Jingle Bell Jog 8K in the winter, the Downs Park 5M is distance challenged. This made the Neptune Festival 8K and the 1/5 hill-course Kensington 8K the most competitive races.

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Twenty-one races had more than a thousand finishers down 25 percent from last year. Seven of these were 5Ks with the Clarendon Day 5K leading the way with 108 ranked runners, though it was again the smallest of these races. The Baltimore United Way 5K with 79 pushed past fourth place Community Bridges with 41 as did the hilly Veterans Day 5K with 43 with the same numbers of participants. The Baltimore race was easily the largest 5K race with 5,551 finishers. The 8K was the most competitive distance with 6 percent ranked of their races and a mere 2,825 finishers, a third of last year. The 10M sported 2 percent of their 27,479 finishers. Then came the 308 5K races; growing to 2.75% while quantity edged back up 10 percent to with 68,438 finishers. Though the forty-nine 10Ks rose to 2.70%, they dropped severely by 60 percent to 20,763 finishers, a third fewer than Army by itself. The half marathon had 3.1% of their 16,042 runners (shedding more the 2/3 from 2018) in twenty-eight races (nine fewer). The toughest distance, the marathon, with six races drooped to .6% of their 22,443. Of the race finishers who ran at least one qualifying time, both sexes dropped a bit from last year. Women still topped the men but by much smaller 18 percent with 1,825 to 1,537 different finishers. In total, there were 338 ranked men and 361 ranked women. Additionally, 100 runners qualified for the Elite Division this season, up 10 percent of 2018. The largest age groups are the seniors, women 60-64 with fifty-six (the largest division), 65-69 with forty-seven. For the men, 60-64 with fifty-two was easiest the largest division. In total ranked times, women led easily, steady still with, 2,156 to 1,875. Women had more ranked runners in every division from Open through 65-69 except for the 45-49 which the smallest. From and 70 and older, men led the way. We are posting in blue all the runners with National Class times (80%) of the top-rated time for each division based on their best time in 10K equivalence. The times are based on the youngest in each division except for the 19 and younger, where it becomes the eldest time, which is for the strongest time. There will be some runners who are up to the 80% level by being on the older side of the 5-year division that get missed. However, in this manner, everyone in blue will be at least 80%. *** For this period, all the women’s divisions save the eldest three had at least one National Class racer ranked, a total of 47. In the Open division, there were 21 though three double dipped from other groups. The men were even more impressive with 68 National Class racers, though there were five age groups that had none, including the four eldest divisions. In the Open division, there were 41 though three double dipped from other groups.

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In the “you got to play to win” category, i.e. (you only ran one event) an impressive additional 76 men and 53 women ran a National Class race. The majority were from the open division with 58 for the men and 34 for the women. Four runners made World Class status: 90% Age Grade: Perry Shoemaker, 48, was tops at 96.54%, followed by Lucy McCausland, 65, at 93.88%, Cindy Conant, 58, at 91.24% and Betty Brothers, 72, at 90.74%. Julia Roman-Duval had one qualifier at 89.24%. The closest the men got was Andrew Duncan, 52, at 89.99% for his only qualifier. Honorable mention goes to David Wertz, 43, at 88.98%, also with just one qualifier. The top qualifier was Mark Neff, 57, at 89.57%. Among other qualifiers were the open champion Clint McKelvey, 27, at 88.71%, Christopher Sloane, 36, at 88.36% and Phillippe Rolly, 47, at 88.79%. Below is the 10K equivalent time you need to race to get a National Class ranking.

Age Group Men 10K= Age Group Women 10K=

19 and younger 00:33:24 19 and younger 00:38:01

20-34 00:33:24 20-34 00:37:55

35-39 00:33:42 35-39 00:38:11

40-44 00:34:39 40-44 00:39:03

45-49 00:36:02 45-49 00:40:34

50-54 00:37:33 50-54 00:42:50

55-59 00:39:12 55-59 00:45:33

60-64 00:41:00 60-64 00:48:36

65-69 00:42:58 65-69 00:52:08

70-74 00:45:11 70-74 00:56:10

75-79 00:48:27 75-79 01:00:55

80-84 00:53:37 80-84 01:06:45

85-89 01:01:52 85-89 01:16:40

90-90 01:15:50 90-90 01:35:26

95 and older 01:42:57 95 and older 02:17:03

Runners who win the race or win their division in a race earn an asterisk beside their name. Open runners only get an asterisk for an overall win. The Speed

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Alone is the fastest qualifying time run for each division. In red, it means the division champion ran it. In the past, a runner beating another runner virtually ended a chance for the losing runner to prevail using the Moreland Racing Factor but we noted that time is of importance as well and runners do recover from a subpar event. Thus, we added to the accounting by giving runners a point for every second their best race beats their competitor’s best race. Runner still lose eight points as well as gain eight points depending on which end of the head-to-head, they fall on. We now list the 10K equivalent of each runner’s fastest race next to their spot in the ranking list. Remember; the fastest time is not always the best race and each runner has at least two races to qualify. Now let’s see who made the top.

Open Men Hokie Half Marathon 1:05:27, 10K = 29:42 It really just comes down to the one special second. The top runners are so close and so competitive it is nearly impossible to separate them. Clint McKelvey won it all at the Clarendon Day 5K in 14:26 a mere whisper ahead of Carlos Jamieson’s 14:27. That makes McKelvey the champion even though a short time later he got a relative hosing when Jamieson won it all in the 10K in 31:10. That was exactly the same time Zachary Hines ran his 10K as runner-up and yet his marvelous 14:48 at the 5K leaves him in sixth place. McKelvey sauntered home at the 10K in 33:36. That time would put him back toward the end of the line. The week before, he lost to former champion Jeremy Ardanuy at the Dulles Day 10K on the Runway, 32:00 to 32:22. Ardanuy would win the Baltimore Marathon in 2:27:17. Ardanuy makes a case for eleventh place as he finishes about a minute behind race winner at the Parks Half Marathon, Christopher Sloane, 1:08:10 to 1:09:14. Sloane was in a wild, crazed three-way tie by time with Patrick Hanley and Thomas Adam. Fourth place Sloane matched third ranked Hanley exactly in 14:41 losing the photo finish for third overall in the Clarendon 5K race. Sloane came back with a third overall 31:26 in the 10K but losing to Hine. Sloane had a Moreland Racing Factor of 123 to Hanley’s 103 but cannot quite get past that millisecond loss. Thomas Adam had a MRF of 97 though he finished way back in 15:04. Why? He came roaring back to earn fifth place with the fastest Army 10 Miler qualifier in 50:55. That beat his rival Hanley who was next in 51:18. Then came Jamieson who just held off eighth ranked Mark Hopely, 51:45 to 51:46. Hopely ran Clarendon in 15:06. Ninth ranked Jordan Tropf was home at Army in 51:48 with tenth ranked Stewart Reich right behind him in 51:51.

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Seventh ranked Tyler Muse did not lose. With three wins he slips ahead to his place, winning the Charm City 20M in 1:48:31 to match Reich’s rating exactly. Muse added a Baltimore Half Marathon triumph in 1:09:06 to beef up his placement. Intertwinement continues as twelfth ranked Keith Carlson defeats Reich at the Veterans Day 10K with an overall win, 31:35 to 31:59. Twentieth ranked James Heilman ran 32:05. Thirteenth place Brandon Burleigh gathered in two overall wins, including the Bill Steers 4M in 19:44. Joshua Sutterfield is up next with a slew of other racers at Clarendon. His time for the 5K was 15:08. Close is the name of the game as Craig Morgan finishes his Clarendon Day 5K in 15:11 to take fifteenth place. Alex Doran garners sixteenth in 15:13. Maybe his shirt was thicker to allow him to hit the finish line sooner because he bested seventeenth ranked Dustin Whitlow (also 15:13) and eighteenth ranked Schaffer Ochstein (15:14). Twenty-first ranked Matthew Celsa flew home in 15:20, ninth in his age group at this super race, ahead of twenty-third ranked Austin McGinley (15:23). Adam LaFemina carved a spot for nineteenth with a third overall at the Run for the Parks 10K in 31:54 run on the same course as the Veterans Day race the following week. This year both races were blessed with good weather. In other years, runners have had wind challenging days for greatly disparate times at these two events. Back at Army, we have another challenge. McGinley finished in 53:13 with a net time also of 53:13. Lukasz Olenginski lingered at the start for two seconds and finished in 53:14. However, because his net was 53:12 and because the race uses net time for their placement, Olenginski earns twenty-second place. This is even though he did not cross the finish line until a second after McGinley. Forty-five made the Open division with six coming from other divisions with Michael Wardian eldest at forty-five. A total of one hundred and sixty-seven men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 33:24

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 McKelvey, Clint* 27 Arlington, VA 30:06 88.76%

2 Jamieson, Carlos* 32 Silver Spring, MD 30:09

3 Hanley, Patrick 23 Arlington, VA 30:38

4 Sloane, Christopher** 36 Gaithersburg, MD 30:38

5 Adam, Thomas 33 Charlottesville, VA 30:38

6 Hine, Zachary 31 Kensington, MD 30:52

7 Muse, Tyler*** 26 Bel Air, MD 31:12

8 Hopely, Mark** 31 Fredericksburg, VA 31:09

9 Tropf, Jordan* 27 North Potomac, MD 31:10

10 Reich, Stewart* 27 Columbia, MD 31:12

11 Ardanuy, Jeremy**** 26 Baltimore, MD 31:25

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12 Carlson, Keith* 22 Washington, DC 31:35

13 Burleigh, Brayden** 27 Midlothian, VA 31:33

14 Sutterfield, Joshua 27 North Bethesda, MD 31:34

15 Morgan, Craig** 28 Falls Church, VA 31:40

16 Doran, Alex 22 Arlington, VA 31:45

17 Whitlow, Dustin 33 Alexandria, VA 31:45

18 Ochstein, Schaffer 25 Arlington, VA 31:40

19 LaFemina, Adam* 24 Brambleton, VA 31:54

20 Heilman, James* 24 Lutherville, MD 32:05

21 Celsa, Matthew 23 Sterling, VA 31:59

22 Olenginski, Lukasz 26 Washington, DC 32:02

23 McGinley, Austin 25 Reston, VA 32:01

24 Toney, Harrison* 26 Richmond, VA 32:11

25 Schindler, Charlie* 29 Severna Park, MD 32:07

26 Pane, John 27 Washington, DC 32:07

27 Mance, Steve* 35 Washington, DC 32:14

28 Daughtridge, Omari** 33 Fort Washington, MD 32:16

29 Gash, Langston** 22 Edgewood, MD 32:22

30 Kiplagat, Abraham 35 Richlands, VA 32:25

31 Deters, Matt* 34 Fairfax, VA 32:22

32 Hopper, Roger** 28 Norfolk, VA 32:29

33 Reed, Trever 25 Washington, DC 32:28

34 Schroeder, John 31 Washington, DC 32:33

35 Hoyal, Peyton 30 Charlottesville, VA 32:45

36 Kelly, Thomas 30 Washington, DC 32:47

37 Barrett, Sean 34 Arlington, VA 32:51

38 Kaminski, Zach* 27 Elkton, MD 33:00

39 Hassett, Matt 29 Washington, DC 32:56

40 Wardian, Michael* 45 Arlington, VA 33:18

41 Pirch, Christopher 39 Spotsylvania, VA 33:21

42 Boltjes, Travis* 40 Washington, DC 33:30

43 Brodeur, Andrew* 29 Bethesda, MD 33:33

44 Morkama, Desta Beriso* 34 Arlington, VA 33:40

45 Sachs, Adam* 25 Columbia, MD 34:12

19 & Younger Men Smithfield Hog Jog 5K 16:09, 10K = 33:41 As usual, the division is tiny, matching the submasters with just nine qualifiers. Lots of teens race but very few get two qualifiers, Sean Starkloff earns the title mostly because his two wins were against other qualifiers such as fourth ranked Varun Mishra. At the Sneakers on the Ground 5K to start October, he dispatched

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Mishra, 16:42 to 16:56, as they finished second and third overall. That by itself would not have been enough as third ranked Kevin Ehrfott won it all twice at the Fletcher's Cove Parkrun 5K with a fastest time of 16:39. Runner-up Caleb Wright had set the standard with an overall win at the Chatham Sartomer 5K in 16:32. Then came the Baltimore United Way 5K and Starkloff surged to the top in a second overall 16:18. Mishra matched his 16:56 from before and sixth place Adam Kenet ran 17:35. Donovan Foley slips into the fifth spot with his fine Veterans Day 5K in 17:32 on a hillier and a bit longer course. Foley made the fastest non-5K qualifier when he won at the Run for the Parks 10K in 36:45 a week earlier. Nine runners made the division. A total of one hundred and ninety-four men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 33:24

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Starkloff, Sean** 18 Belcamp, MD 34:00 78.63%

2 Wright, Caleb** 17 Danville, VA 34:29

3 Ehrgott, Kevin** 19 Washington, DC 34:44

4 Mishra, Varun** 19 Baltimore, MD 35:19

5 Foley, Donovan*** 19 Chantilly, VA 36:34

6 Kenet, Adam* 19 Baltimore, MD 36:41

7 Canales, Fernando** 17 Woodbridge, VA 36:49

8 Thamby, Jonathan* 18 Aldie, VA 38:03

9 Sidebotham, Cameron* 13 Fredericksburg, VA 38:52

35-39 Men Clarendon Day 5K 14:41, 10K = 30:38 How competitive is the swift Clarendon Day races? Christopher Sloan takes the division title in 14:41. Runner-up Steve Mance ran a fine 15:27 and yet was ninth in his division. Sloane did the double, racing the 10K to a third overall 31:26. Mance ran 33:26. Sloane is a hard worker and kept busy throughout September, finishing the month winning it all at the National Capital 20M in 1:54:52. He had started the month winning it all at the Parks Half Marathon in 1:08:10, ahead of fifth ranked Charlie Ban (1:15:58). Third ranked Abraham Kiplagat recorded the next best half, finishing third overall at the Hokie Half Marathon in 1:11:27. Fourth place Christopher Pruitt complied five wins, including a second overall at the Baron "Deuce" Braswell II Run against Teen Violence 5K in 15:59. He would have three overall wins in all. Ban would close on him with a fine Veterans Day 10K in 33:24 on the final day of the season.

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Just nine runners made the division. Fifty-eight men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 33:42

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Sloane, Christopher**** 36 Gaithersburg, MD 30:38 88.36%

2 Mance, Steve* 35 Washington, DC 32:14

3 Kiplagat, Abraham** 35 Richlands, VA 32:25

4 Pirch, Christopher***** 39 Spotsylvania, VA 33:20

5 Ban, Charlie 37 Washington, DC 33:24

6 Sherwood, James** 37 Falls Church, VA 34:44

7 Cable, Trevor** 36 Williamsburg, VA 34:49

8 Hershberger, Marcus* 36 Baltimore, MD 35:00

9 Peterson, Alexander 36 Falls Church, VA 34:53

40-44 Men Clarendon Day 5K 15:18, 10K = 31:55 Travis Boltjes is a fan of the Park Run, scoring multiple overall wins at four of the five local venues during the year. However, since turning forty, he has turned his eyes towards the bigger races. Early on, he won the St. Charles Festival 5K in 16:16. Third ranked Benn Thomas won it all as well only at the accompanying 10K in 35:54. Then in back to back weeks Boltjes had top three finishes in 8Ks, best at the Kensington 8K in 26:40. His best race came at the Army 10 Miler where he was fifth in his age group at 55:40, ahead of runner-up Randall Meyers (56:56). Only three of the top ten in this group Army were local racers this year. Myers would add a fine 2:47:36 at the Marine Corps Marathon to match Thomas. Thomas had also run a powerful Clarendon 5K in 16:29 to stay close. Fourth ranked Victor Flemming ran three 5Ks. His worse placement, top master, was at his fastest one, the Smithfield Hog Jog 5K in 16:44. In the other two, he was the overall winner. Fifth place Steven Moore ran the fastest of the Park Runs (College Park) to victory in 16:55. Three of the other four Park Runs are flat as well but Fletcher’s is on gravel, Anacostia is on the river and gets windy, and Kensington (where Moore was second overall in 17:31) is a double out and back with just a touch of cross country added in. Brendan Lily lands in sixth with two solid half marathons. The first was the GPS run by the Baltimore Road Runners on the trail. It is also a double out and back. The race proceeds about a quarter of the way uphill followed by nearly half back past the start and down to the bottom of the hill. The final few miles are a gentle but definitely uphill finish. He won in 1:21:40. At that point, it left him behind

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eighth place Steve Monnier (1:19:29), ninth place Ryan Hadley (1:21:28), and tenth place Nick Hamlin (1:21:35) who finished in a bunch at the Parks Half Marathon. Lily broke free of them two weeks later, racing the Baltimore Half Marathon in 1:18:04. Seventh ranked Vinnie DeRocco is even more impressive now as a master runner with an overall win at the Veterans Day 5K in 17:08 and the rolling Perfect 10 10K in 36:20. On flat courses such as the Run for the Parks, he was considerably faster, besting Ryan Hadley, 35:48 to 36:10. Hamlin ran the Rockville 10K in 36:23. Nineteen runners made the division. Sixty-eight men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 34:39

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Boltjes, Travis*6 40 Washington, DC 33:30 82.74%

2 Myers, Randall 43 Arlington, VA 34:15

3 Thomas, Benn***** 40 Arlington, VA 34:23

4 Flemming, Victor*** 40 Smithfield, VA 34:54

5 Moore, Steven*** 41 Kensington, MD 35:17

6 Lilley, Brendan** 43 Baltimore, MD 35:25

7 DeRocco, Vinnie***** 40 Leesburg, VA 35:36

8 Monnier, Steve* 42 Catonsville, MD 36:04

9 Hadley, Ryan 40 Silver Spring, MD 36:10

10 Hamlin, Nick* 40 Rockville, MD 36:23

11 Dahlem, Jim** 42 Gaithersburg, MD 36:24

12 Burger, Jeff** 43 Bel Air, MD 36:37

13 Rietscha, Ed** 42 Williamsburg, VA 36:56

14 Ketcham, Stephen* 40 Fairfax Station, VA 37:06

15 Genetti, Eric 43 McLean, VA 37:49

16 Rohlf, Michael 44 University Park, MD 37:47

17 Hunter, Robert** 44 Virginia Beach, VA 37:59

18 O'Malley, E.J.** 44 Stafford, VA 38:00

19 Perkins, Matt** 40 Washington, DC 37:54

45-49 Men Army 10 Mile 54:51, 10K = 33:00 Philippe Rolly was second of the three runners south of 17 minutes at the Race to Beat Cancer 5K. That is not the Rolly we know who already this winter has produced a sub 16:00 5K. And his Army 10 Miler is even better than that as he won handily in 54:51. The closest qualifiers were eighth ranked Hasan Hobbs in 1:00:39 (4th AG) and ninth ranked Jicheng Liu 1:01:23 (6th AG). Still, even with an

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eighteen second difference in Rolly’s best race, Michael Wardian had too much fire power. Wardian takes the title with a Moreland Racing factor of 93. Rolly was 65. Wardian did not have the best race but he did have the next five. His Baltimore Marathon in 2:35:09 was his second runner-up overall at the marathon. He also won it all on the challenging Kensington 8K course in 26:15. At the Parks Half Marathon, his victory in 1:17:38 means that Wardian bested third ranked Matt Boyd (1:18:29), fifth ranked David Storper (1:20:15) and sixth ranked Martin Lanz (1:20:29). He also recorded the fastest 10K at the Dulles Day 10K on the Runway in 34:10, well ahead of fourth ranked Todd Bibb who had the next fastest 10K at the Run for the Parks 10K in 35:42. Boyd ran the 10K Run Through History in 35:46 for second overall but also had a couple of 5Ks ahead of Bibb, including the Deuce Braswell 5K in 17:01. Bibb’s best three races were 10K all at a faster pace than any of his 5Ks, though all six were wins. Places six through ten were all within five seconds. The only runner out of the immediate Washington Metro area was seventh ranked Chuck Inman who ran the Anthem Wicked 10K as top master in 36:28. Tenth place goes to Danny Bennett who ran the Downs Park 5M in 28:56. The division has twenty-five qualifiers. A total of seventy-two men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 36:02

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Wardian, Michael*6 45 Arlington, VA 33:18 86:59

2 Rolly, Philippe** 47 McLean, VA 33:00

3 Boyd, Matt*** 49 Fredericksburg, VA 35:30

4 Bibb, Todd*6 48 Centreville, VA 35:42

5 Storper, David*** 46 Bethesda, MD 36:04

6 Lanz, Martin 46 Bethesda, MD 36:31

7 Inman, Chuck*** 47 Chesapeake, VA 36:28

8 Hobbs, Hasan* 45 North Potomac, MD 36:30

9 Liu, Jicheng** 48 Ellicott City, MD 36:26

10 Bennett, Danny*** 49 Dunkirk, MD 36:29

11 Naff, Michael** 49 Arlington, VA 36:39

12 Worm, Toby** 46 Smithfield 36:47

13 McNary, William* 47 Bethesda 37:14

14 Shadrick, Brian* 46 Ellicott City 37:18

15 Zeller, Shawn* 45 Washington 37:22

16 Harrington, Jeff* 49 Lynchburg 37:28

17 Baier, Patrick** 45 Kensington 38:10

18 Mullally, Mathew*** 48 Kensington 38:15

19 Cole, David** 46 Arlington 38:29

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20 Lynn, Greg*6 45 Hayes 38:46

21 Schmehl, Eric* 48 Manchester 38:53

22 Titus, Paul* 49 Waynesboro 39:00

23 Sheils, Duncan** 45 Richmond 39:11

24 Lee, Bronson 46 Washington 39:18

25 Dixon, Alan** 48 Washington 39:32

50-54 Men Veterans Day 10K = 33:57 Mark Landree is sporting a new PR with his 16:40 at the Donate Life Family 5K for third overall. As with his Downs Park 5 Mile, the second fastest race of the period, rumors are swirling about distance. He ran the five mile in 27:48. Landree did chop off close to four minutes off his AS Metric Marathon from 2018. Still, that race rates as three minutes per 10K slower than his 5K. Runner-up Alex Hetherington is not new to the division. He began the fall spanking eighth ranked Gene Park at the Parks Half Marathon, 1:17:55 to 1:25:49. As a military man, he found himself racing a swift Army 10 Miler in 1:00:55 ahead of fifth ranked Pete Wergin. Two weeks later, he was besting sixth ranked Daniel List at the Marine Corps Marathon, 2:50:37 to 2:57:45. List was best at the High Bridge Half Marathon in 1:20:45 that matched Hetherington’s marathon. With so many races, especially 5Ks a few yards off and times can be wildly disparate. Third ranked Dennis Billings ran the Falcon & Bruin 5K in 18:24. Two weeks later, he won it all at the Chaos 5K in 17:00. Colin Munsey ran a solid Virginia 4 Mile in 23:59 that would have had him in eighth place. He ended the fall running the Nail the Rail 9M in 54:27, virtually the same pace, for an overall win. It earned him fourth place. Rob Santoni gains seventh place with his best of two halves, the Monster Mash Half Marathon in 1:24:28. Jim Ryan takes ninth place at the Community Bridges 5K in 18:39. Twenty-four runners made the division. A total of seventy-three men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 37:33

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Landree, Mark*** 50 Catonsville, MD 34:46 86.43%

2 Hetherington, Alex*** 52 Vienna, VA 35:21

3 Billings, Dennis**** 50 Woodbridge, VA 35:28

4 Munsey, Colin** 53 Pearisburg, VA 36:25

5 Wergin, Pete* 53 Gaithersburg, MD 36:39

6 List, Daniel* 54 Midlothian, VA 36:38

7 Santoni, Rob** 53 Kingsville, MD 38:19

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8 Park, Gene* 51 Rockville, MD 38:56

9 Ryan, Jim** 53 Charlottesville, VA 38:54

10 Crago, Stephen 51 Vienna, VA 39:09

11 Bohse, Stephen 52 Columbia, MD 39:13

12 Chasse, Craig** 50 Reston, VA 39:26

13 Pelletier, Paul*6 54 Williamsburg, VA 39:33

14 Lagendyk, Wilco*** 53 Vienna, VA 40:16

15 Downie, Kevin*8 50 Kensington, MD 40:34

16 Block, Brian* 51 Pikesville, MD 40:31

17 McCaffery, Richard 51 Catonsville, MD 40:39

18 Phillips, Colin***** 50 University Park, MD 40:39

19 Kerzel, Steve*** 53 Westminster, MD 41:01

20 Barnes, Paul* 51 Alexandria, VA 41:10

21 Greene, Craig 54 Manassas, VA 41:16

22 Rippey, Brad 53 Fredericksburg, VA 41:31

23 Maldonado, Alejandro** 50 Washington, DC 41:47

24 Brown, David** 50 Fulks Run, VA 41:45

55-59 Men Clarendon Day 5K 17:05, 10K = 35:38 Mark Neff marches forward for the inevitable crown with an early season win ahead of fourth ranked Robert Whitridge at the Parks Half Marathon, 1:20:22 to 1:28:02. New member and sixth ranked Mario Zuniga contributed a half marathon on either side of the season. He first ran the scenic Freedoms Run Festival Half Marathon in 1:28:26. A month later to start November, he followed with the Battlefield Half Marathon in 1:27:21. The following day Whitridge held him at bay with a marvelous Rockville 10K in 38:40. Neff made sure nobody had a chance to steal his crown by sealing the win at the fastest 5K in the area, the Clarendon 5K in 17:05. Third ranked Hernan Garbini boasted two overall wins among his seven victories. His best race was the Community Bridges 5K in 17:52. There were some questions of distance at the Downs Park 5M that was won by runner-up David Phipps in 29:17. Tenth ranked Matt Mace beat eleventh ranked Michael Bohse, 32:06 to 32:33. There was no doubting the credentials for Phipps when he won at the Baltimore Marathon in 2:56:50. In an oddity, Akintunde Moarkinyo notched the fastest 10 miler among qualifiers even though he finished the Army ten miler as ninth in his age group with 1:04:54 to gain the fifth spot. That was a big-time recovery from his season-opening Parks Half Marathon in 1:30:54. Joe Eary is next in sixth with a solid Megan Bradley Memorial 5K in 19:03. Also in his three wins, was the magical ride down from Mount Savage at the Great Alleghany 15K in 1:00:45.

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Eighth ranked Jon Leiding was one of the many who enjoyed a good ride at the Governor's Land 5K in 19:21. Ninth ranked George Anhang was next in 19:24 at the Fast and Fierce 5K. Twenty-seven runners made the division. A total of eighty-four men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 39:12

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Neff, Mark*** 57 Derwood, MD 35:38 89.57%

2 Phipps, David** 55 Severna Park, MD 36:56

3 Garbini, Hernan*7 57 Charlottesville, VA 37:16

4 Whitridge, John* 57 Gaithersburg, MD 38:40

5 Morakinyo, Akintunde* 55 Columbia, MD 39:03

6 Zuniga, Mario* 55 Front Royal, VA 39:38

7 Eary, Joe*** 59 Ridgeley, WV 39:22

8 Leiding, Jon***** 57 Virginia Beach, VA 40:22

9 Anhang, George* 56 Washington, DC 40:28

10 Mace, Matthew 59 Arnold, MD 40:29

11 Bohse, Michael 55 Columbia, MD 40:50

12 Arcaz, Jean Christophe** 58 Rockville, MD 41:06

13 Hirsche, Evan*** 55 Washington, DC 41:22

14 Mason, Ken 56 Potomac, MD 41:06

15 Scott, RJ*** 55 Danville, VA 41:33

16 Smith, William** 57 Roanoke, VA 41:45

17 Harfst, Rich* 56 Annandale, VA 41:00

18 Campbell, Scott** 55 Washington, DC 42:06

19 Williamson, Duane* 56 Warrenton, VA 42:02

20 Keaton, David* 59 Rockville, MD 42:12

21 Alberg, Ken** 58 Suffolk, VA 42:29

22 Poulos, Ted*6 57 McLean, VA 42:28

23 Wilson, James 57 Annapolis, MD 42:27

24 Collins, Timothy* 58 Williamsburg, VA 42:40

25 Welch, Kevin 55 McLean, VA 42:42

26 Barankowski, Aaron 58 Virginia Beach, VA 42:41

27 McLaughlin, Terry* 59 Spotsylvania, VA 42:58

60-64 Men Executive Stampede 5K 18:52, 10K = 39:21

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Maurice Pointer is back on top with the three best races in the division. He rode two half marathons and a marathon to victory as well as showing a fine Army 10 Miler in 1:06:12. Eleventh ranked Christopher Ryan was next there in 1:12:30. Still, it was all the track work during the summer that allowed him the speed to win the division on his first race of the fall, the Executive Stampede 5K in 18:52. Runner-up Robert Whitaker crushed the top 65-69 man Jim Thornton at the Greensprings Miles for Smiles 8K by two and half minutes in 32:03. He also beat runner-up Richard Grant at the Yorktown Battlefield 10 Miler by nearly 4 minutes in 1:07:56. He earns his place slicing between the two at the Governor's Land 5K in 19:17. Third ranked Manuel Rivera won all eight of his races. The king of the Fletcher's Cove Parkrun 5K was best at 20:02, except when he tried out the PR making Clarendon Day 5K and ran a sparkling 19:20. Former champ Pete Gibson popped a fine Peroni Crawlin' Crab 5K in 20:04 to start October. A week later, he closed on Rivera with his Smithfield Hog Jog 5K in 19:27. Fifth ranked Bill Pearlman missed the 80 percent age grading by a mere second. He finished third overall at his fastest race, the West End Spooky Sprint 5K in 19:40. Indeed, he was even an overall winner at the Chose Peace 5K in 19:57. Sixth ranked Ian Harrison ran the Bill Steers 4M in 26:17 to edge Michael Regan who was best at the Rock your Socks 5K in 20:10. Mark Smith registered a win at the Baltimore United Way 5K in 20:14 to finish in a close by eighth place. Ninth place Preston Evans bolstered his Ashland Harvest 10K in 43:05 with a solid 1:14:30 at the Virginia 10 Mile behind Pearlman’s 1:11:36. Tenth ranked Thomas Barry finished the Bow Wow & Meow 5K in November with 20:40. That was quite an improvement after his Governor's Land 5K in 22:53.

Fifty-two runners made the division. A total of one hundred and eighty-four men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 41:00

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Pointer, Maurice***** 64 Baltimore, MD 39:21 86.53%

2 Whitaker, Robert*** 61 Yorktown, VA 40:14

3 Rivera, Manuel*8 64 Washington, DC 40:20

4 Gibson, Pete** 63 Murfreesboro, NC 40:34

5 Pearlman, Billy**** 60 Roanoke, VA 41:01

6 Harrison, Ian** 60 Crozet, VA 42:02

7 Regan, Michael*** 62 Towson, MD 42:04

8 Smith, Mark*** 62 Catonsville, MD 42:12

9 Evans, Preston** 63 Madison Heights, VA 43:05

10 Barry, Thomas* 61 Williamsburg, VA 43:07

11 Ryan, Christopher* 60 Washington, DC 43:37

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12 Mergler, Fran* 60 Bel Air, MD 43:51

13 Chall, John**** 62 Crownsville, MD 43:46

14 Lovegrove, David*** 63 Fredericksburg, VA 44:07

15 King, Jack* 61 Henrico, VA 44:02

16 Murray, Will* 63 Williamsburg, VA 44:38

17 Cini, Peter** 61 Alexandria, VA 44:51

18 Bergdahl, Brian* 61 Stafford, VA 44:41

19 Kearney, Michael* 63 Mount Airy, MD 45:06

20 Adams, Mark** 60 Gaithersburg, MD 44:57

21 Atkinson, Jeffrey* 60 Pasadena, MD 45:11

22 Johnson, Gene** 62 Burke, VA 45:21

23 Bevan, Matthew 61 Silver Spring, MD 45:20

24 Hartman, Charlie* 61 Centreville, VA 45:28

25 McShea, Patrick* 60 Virginia Beach, VA 45:58

26 Wilson, Bryan**** 60 Staunton, VA 46:21

27 O'Brien, Don** 61 Westminster, MD 46:23

28 Mattingly, Scott* 60 Catonsville, MD 46:28

29 Nam, Jay** 60 California, MD 46:35

30 Peck, Henry* 62 Baltimore, MD 46:35

31 Haymore, Randall** 60 Danville, VA 46:41

32 Gordon, Kirk*** 63 Glenn Dale, MD 46:37

33 Wriston, Dave** 64 Lynchburg, VA 46:54

34 Rosasco, Mark** 60 Severna Park, MD 46:54

35 Topp, Kevin* 64 Tabb, VA 47:10

36 Tinta, Elias 61 Rockville, MD 47:08

37 Black, Ron* 64 Fairfield, PA 47:07

38 Abelt, Chris* 63 Williamsburg, VA 47:07

39 Riemenschneider, Neal* 64 Winchester, VA 47:13

40 Peterson, Jeff 63 Fredericksburg, VA 47:25

41 Nelson, Michael***** 60 Arlington, VA 47:34

42 Hofacker, Will* 63 Henrico, VA 47:38

43 Kesselring, Bruce* 64 Springfield, VA 47:42

44 Price, Bill 60 Chesapeake, VA 47:44

45 Altman, Steve* 64 Williamsburg, VA 47:50

46 Basham, Terry** 60 Fredericksburg, VA 47:48

47 Gardner, Corky* 64 Richmond, VA 48:03

48 Westfall, Tim* 61 Norfolk, VA 48:22

49 Brunais, Richard* 61 Stafford, VA 48:32

50 Walser, Dave** 61 Lusby, MD 48:30

51 Smith, Robert* 61 Baltimore, MD 48:42

52 Michael, Gary 64 Churchville, VA 49:47

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Galax Autumn Days 5K 17:55, 10K = 37:22 Jim Thornton opened the fall with the third fastest race, finishing third overall at the Hare & Tortoise New Quarter Park 5K in 20:36. By the end of September his closest rival, Richard Grant had raced the Neptune Festival 8K in 34:37. That same morning, Thornton ran the Greensprings Miles for Smiles 8K in 34:24 and the battle was on. Then in Mid-October Thornton hammered the second-best race, the World Class Freedom Run 8K in 33:31. The following week, the two racers met for the only time in the fall at the Governor's Land 5K and Thornton vanquished Grant, 19:52 to 20:47 to take the crown. Eighth ranked Jim Duffy finished in 22:13 Third ranked Steve Sakry set down a very nice 10K Run Through History in 44:47 in October for his once a month race. Fourth place Tom Nolan had a three-race season as well saving his best for November, racing the Veterans Day 10K in 44:42. That major race passed Sakry’s Deuce Braswell 5K in 21:27 by a whisker. Those two races were the only major races in the top 21 events at 11th and 12th place. Luckily for Sakry he had a swift Cow Run 5K in 21:06 for his November entry to earn his place. For some reason Duane Rosenberg abandoned the College Park Park Run 5K. He missed one of the ten races held during the fall. While he won all ten of his 5Ks, including six faster than 22 minutes, when he met sixth ranked Bill Loomis at the Parks Half Marathon he got clipped, 1:42:43 to 1:45:38. Rosenberg nearly matched his event PR running 21:33 just two weeks after the half to take fifth place. Loomis was strongest with a big win at the Lower Potomac River 10 Mile in 1:15:46. Seventh place Eugene Myers ran the Baltimore United Way 5K in 22:03 a week after a very good Army 10 Miler in 1:16:15. Former champion Paul Ryan takes ninth place with a pair of wins at the Fletcher's Cove Parkrun 5K, best at 22:33. Tenth ranked Paul Bousel is having an outstanding year. He won the new PRR Fall Classic 10K in 47:17. Thirty-two runners making the division. A total of one hundred and four men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 42:58

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Thornton, Jim*6 65 Toano, VA 41:27 82.95%

2 Grant, Richard** 67 Suffolk, VA 43:05

3 Sakry, Steve** 67 Stafford, VA 44:01

4 Nolan, Tom* 67 Kensington, MD 44:42

5 Rosenberg, Duane*10 66 New Carrollton, MD 44:57

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6 Loomis, Bill** 65 Silver Spring, MD 45:35

7 Myers, Eugene*** 67 Columbia, MD 45:53

8 Duffy, Jim* 67 Poquoson, VA 46:21

9 Ryan, Paul** 68 Arlington, VA 47:02

10 Bousel, Paul**** 66 Alexandria, VA 47:17

11 Lampazzi, Alfred* 65 Springfield, VA 47:21

12 Parsons, Roland** 68 Petersburg, VA 47:32

13 Rossiter, Spider** 68 Washington, DC 48:32

14 Krehbel, Ken 66 Washington, DC 49:08

15 O'Keefe, Tim** 66 Middletown, MD 49:20

16 Dreizen, Howard** 65 Baltimore, MD 49:20

17 Rogers, Ron** 67 Riner, VA 49:25

18 Wills, John*** 67 Virginia Beach, VA 49:35

19 Washington, Larry 68 Rockville, MD 49:43

20 Bachman, Gene* 66 Virginia Beach, VA 49:55

21 Deviese, James 68 Yorktown, VA 49:57

22 Platt, Rick 69 Williamsburg, VA 49:54

23 Armour, Elwood** 68 Street, MD 50:21

24 Goldberg, Joel 66 Silver Spring, MD 50:28

25 Astrop, Rob* 67 Richmond, VA 50:39

26 Scruggs, Billy** 65 Hurt, VA 50:41

27 Southwood, Michael* 65 Fairfax, VA 50:41

28 Edgerton, Dave 65 Chesapeake, VA 50:41

29 Gullo, Jim* 65 Williamsburg, VA 51:00

30 Lopez, Felix* 66 Lynchburg, VA 51:50

31 Guendelsberger, John 68 Arlington, VA 52:13

32 Leach, Ben 66 Virginia Beach, VA 52:20

70-74 Men Parks Half Marathon 1:35:59, 10K = 43:33 Jim Wright quietly appeared on the scene and crushed the field for one of the most dominate wins of the year. He opened with a year’s best time at the Parks Half Marathon in 1:35:59. Eighth ranked Rob Klein ran a credible 1:52:19 but was far behind. In fact, fourth ranked John Elkin does the next best half, racing the Chessie Trail Half Marathon in 1:50:46. Slim racers like Wright usually do better as the race gets longer. Still, he added the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition 5K in 22:02 and that was faster than third place Dale Abrahamson could run at the Run for the Bulls 5K (23:01). Wright capped off his season, winning the big Baltimore United Way 5K in 21:21. Runner-up Bill Hart looked obvious with his House of Ghent 10K in 47:20 to lead the division. His Anthem Wicked 10K was the next best in 48:52. In November,

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Abrahamson upset him at the Yorktown Battlefield 10 Miler, 1:19:31 to 1:24:42. Their MRF score would have slightly favored Abrahamson, 24 to 22 before adding in the massive 31 second difference in their best race’s 10K equivalence, which favored Hart and earned him the runner-up spot. The next three runners earned their places at competitive 5Ks. Fifth place Wilson Trueheart ran Donated Family Life 5K in 24:14 for his best of eight finishes. Two seconds off is not much to push John Dicarlo back to sixth place, He ran the Governor's Land 5K which is an honest course that does not seem like it should be so fast, but it is. Seventh ranked Joseph Stirt had six wins but none faster than his Community Bridges 5K in 24:22. None of the three racers were able to race as fast in their other races though Stirt was the most consistent. Twenty-six runners made the division. A total of seventy-seven men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 45:11

Pl Name ge Hometown 10K=

1 Wright, Jim*** 70 Gaithersburg, MD 43:33 83.01%

2 Hart, Bill** 71 Virginia Beach, VA 47:20

3 Abrahamson, Dale*** 70 Yorktown, VA 47:51

4 Ekin, John** 71 Lexington, VA 50:15

5 Trueheart, Wilson***** 70 Baltimore, MD 50:33

6 Dicarlo, John*** 70 Virginia Beach, VA 50:37

7 Stirt, Joseph*6 71 Charlottesville, VA 50:50

8 Klein, Rob* 70 Washington, DC 50:58

9 Ratzenberger, Jim** 70 Vienna, VA 52:01

10 Attavian, Bruce* 70 Hagerstown, MD 51:44

11 Lengle, James** 70 Arlington, VA 52:13

12 Cassidy, Michael 70 Oakton, VA 52:45

13 Wong, Ronnie*** 73 Catonsville, MD 52:40

14 Davidson, Graham*** 70 Westminster, MD 53:36

15 Brouwers, Pim** 71 Silver Spring, MD 54:34

16 Verdirame, Joseph** 70 Suffolk, VA 54:56

17 Jones, Calvin* 71 Suffolk, VA 54:58

18 Patterson, John***** 70 Gaithersburg, MD 55:02

19 Hensel, Donald* 74 Gaithersburg, MD 55:08

20 Hebert, Charlie* 71 Springfield, VA 55:15

21 Inanloo, Parviz** 74 Springfield, VA 55:41

22 Haines, Bill* 70 Reisterstown, MD 55:51

23 Daly, Mike* 73 Williamsburg, VA 57:05

24 Scott, William***** 72 Greenbelt, MD 57:28

25 Reid, Timothy** 70 Great Falls, VA 57:57

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26 Gray, Jack 71 Suffolk, VA 58:06

75-79 Men Veterans Day 5K 23:58, 10K = 50:00 Jim Noone still has the goods and remains undefeated but his fall did not begin until mid-October when he ran the cross-country course Glory Days Open Grill 5K in 24:57. Gregory matched up nicely winning the Lower Potomac River 10 Mile in 1:27:03. A week later, Gregory gained the lead, winning the Spook Hill Cider & Wine 4 Mile in 32:00. The next week in the rain at the Monster Dash 5K, Noone ran 24:32. At the start of November, Gregory pushed his lead, winning the Terry Burk Memorial 5K in 24:25. Noone could not gain ground at the normally fast course Run for the Parks 10K in 51:36. Then on the final day, Noone broke through at the only major race for these titans. His Veterans Day 5K in 23:58 earned him another crown. Third ranked Ed Lynch got his spot racing the Great Goblin Gallop 5K in 26:25. Larry Arata may have over raced a bit as his best race by far of eight was his first, the Hare & Tortoise New Quarter Park 5K in 27:41. Fifth place Igor Lvovskyi had a disparity excuse as well, though his best race, the Rockville 10K in 58:12, was his last event. He started his season with a half marathon and then ran three challenging cross-country courses in inclimate weather. Harold Ingram garners sixth place with a solid Friends of the Family Resource Center 5K in 28:05. His Lewis Gale Half Marathon in 2:09:27 was twenty seconds faster than Lvovskyi’s Parks Half Marathon. Malcolm O’Hagan gained a dozen places on the last day with a fabulous Veterans Day 10K in 59:10, up to seventh place. Eighth place Jack Rugh was right on his heels, winning the Brain Aneurysm Awareness 8K in 46:51. Ninth goes out to Ronald Kellum for his Yorktown Battlefield 10 Miler in 1:38:51. Tenth place Richard Behnke finished the Veterans Day 5K in 28:43.

Thirty-six runners made the division. A total of one hundred and seventeen men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 48:27

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Noone, Jim**** 75 Fairfax, VA 50:00 77.53%

2 Gregory, Art**** 75 Ijamsville, MD 50:56

3 Lynch, Ed** 75 Roanoke, MD 55:06

4 Arata, Larry***** 75 Williamsburg, VA 57:45

5 Luovskyl, Igor**** 75 Derwood, MD 58:12

6 Ingram, Harold**** 76 Henry, VA 58:35

7 O'Hagan, Malcolm* 79 Chevy Chase, MD 59:10

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8 Rugh, Jack** 77 Vienna, VA 59:26

9 Kellum, Ronald*** 75 Hampton, VA 59:29

10 Behnke, Richard 75 Vienna, VA 59:54

11 Snyder, Frank*6 76 Gaithersburg, MD 1:00:00

12 Churchman, John* 76 Arlington, VA 1:00:24

13 Greene, Joe** 77 Fredericksburg, VA 1:00:53

14 Barry, David** 76 Severna Park, MD 1:02:57

15 Shapiro, Lou* 78 Silver Spring, MD 1:04:02

16 Barber, Sonny 78 Falls Church, VA 1:04:25

17 Brown, Walter 75 Montgomery Village, MD 1:04:49

18 McNew, Lonnie* 77 White Hall, MD 1:04:59

19 Walsh, Tom 76 Norfolk, VA 1:06:21

20 Williams, Carter* 77 Smithfield, VA 1:06:16

21 Frankenheim, Jerry 76 Germantown, MD 1:08:00

22 Gorsica III, John**** 79 Waynesboro, VA 1:08:09

23 Quirk, Rory* 76 Washington, DC 1:08:29

24 Skelton, Lowell*** 79 Moneta, VA 1:10:05

25 McDowell, John 76 Pasadena, MD 1:11:17

26 Fingerhut, Earle* 77 Potomac, MD 1:11:46

27 Howison, David** 78 Lexington, VA 1:12:17

28 Berry, Doug* 76 Norfolk, VA 1:14:03

29 Browder, Richard* 77 Port Haywood, VA 1:14:20

30 Niebuhr, George 76 Nellysford, VA 1:16:35

31 Strassberger, John 75 Williamsburg, VA 1:18:51

32 Ord, Keith 76 Potomac, MD 1:22:13

33 Phillips, Derek 75 College Park, MD 1:23:40

34 Janow, Lawrence* 77 Amherst, VA 1:25:13

35 Griest, Norman 77 Purcellville, VA 1:25:36

36 Levin,Theodore 75 Pikesville, MD 1:29:33

80-84 Men Spook Hill Cider & Wine 4 Mile 35:04, 10K = 56:04

The Get Ready! Get Set! Get Fit! 5K in a race full of older runners. This fall it decided the title between two former winners. John Elliott is the champ, winning in 28:12, while Stan Neumann is the runner-up with his fine 28:28. Later in the year, Elliott ran the Terry Burk Memorial 5K in 29:15. That course is a net downhill but not as much as in the past. In its fourth iteration, the former first 150 meters of downhill is gone and tacked on to the outward climb in the middle part of the course. Next up are the dukes of the Park Run. Third ranked Ron Chiariello ran the Kensington Park Run for seven of his eight wins, finishing best in mid-October

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with 29:43. Thomas Spasojevich, champion from 2018, won six times at the Deep Run Park Run with his best in 30:15 for fourth place. Fifth place Maynard Weyers is back and winning, finishing the Run for Remembrance 5K in 31:29. Later in the season he would get caught by his PRR= rival Ken Quincy at the Veterans Day 5K, 32:59 to 35:25. Quincy settles into sixth place with his best effort at the brand new Fall Classic 10K in 1:07:42. Ed Chaney takes seventh place, running the Superhero 5K in 34:35. Seventeen runners made the division. A total of fifty-seven men ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 53:37

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Elliott, John** 81 Columbia, MD 58:50 74.76%

2 Neumann, Stan 80 Timonium, MD 59:23

3 Chiariello, Ronald*8 80 Rockville, MD 1:01:59

4 Spasojevich, Thomas*6 81 Richmond, VA 1:03:06

5 Weyers, Maynard* 83 Alexandria, VA 1:05:40

6 Quincy, Ken** 82 Vienna, VA 1:07:42

7 Chaney, Ed* 83 Frederick, MD 1:08:42

8 Goodridge, Tom** 80 Annapolis, MD 1:15:49

9 Polinski, Joseph** 81 Smithfield, VA 1:17:34

10 Terrell, Charles* 80 Newport News, VA 1:18:55

11 McKee, Michael** 81 Charlottesville, VA 1:19:16

12 Reynolds, Jim* 83 Solomons, MD 1:23:35

13 Leonard, Michael 81 Silver Spring, MD 1:17:03

14 St. Clair, Bailey 80 Glen Arm, MD 1:17:17

15 Schwartz, Bill* 81 Glen Arm, MD 1:17:39

16 Conn Jr., Harry** 82 Powhatan, VA 1:28:08

17 Bayrer, Ralph* 80 Washington, DC 1:33:36

85-89 Men Get Ready! Get Set! Get Fit! 5K Run 45:30, 10K = 1:34:30 Division winner Lee Krementz was the only one of last year’s sixteen qualifiers to return, save for Joseph Rutkowski who moved on to win the 90 and older division. Krementz was eleventh last year racing the Get Ready! Get Set! Get Fit! 5K Run in 45:00. Though slowing to finish in 45:18, which was still much better than third ranked Stan Bogash who ran 48:27. Runner-up Gilbert Rosenthal was much closer, racing the Mercy Run to Remember 5K in 45:33. The last three are all eighty-eight. William Radcliffe ran the Jug bay 5K in 49:24 for fourth place. Bruce Roth ran twice, improving at the Lorton Station Veterans 5K to 53:52 to

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take fifth place. In sixth place, Michael Foley ran in the only major race of the division, finishing the Peroni Crawlin' Crab 5K in 56:09. National Class times (80%) = 1:01:52

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Krementz, Lee 86 Havre De Grace, MD 1:34:30 54.23%

2 Rosenthal, Gilbert 85 Arnold, MD 1:35:01

3 Bogash, Stan 87 Reisterstown, MD 1:41:04

4 Radcliffe, William* 88 Mitchellville, MD 1:43:03

5 Roth, Bruce* 88 Woodbridge, VA 1:52:22

6 Foley, Michael 88 Portsmouth, VA 1:57:08

90 & Older Men Get Ready! Get Set! Get Fit! 5K Run 44:41, 1:33:13 Robert Gralley adds still another year racing the Baltimore Half Marathon after age ninety, slowing slightly to 4:26.18 to earn the runner-up spot in the division. Joseph Rutkowski joins the division with a fine Get Ready! Get Set! Get Fit! 5K run in 44:41 to win his first title. It would have won him the 85-89 division this year. National Class times (80%) = 1:15:50 for 90-94; 1:42:57 for 95 and older

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Rutkowski, Joseph 90 Baltimore, MD 1:33:13 65.08%

2 Gralley, Robert 93 Parkville, MD 2:00:50

Open Women Army 10 Mile 57:00, 10K = 34:45 Sometimes the big Richmond races come in the fall, sometimes the winter. A few of the favorites ran at Richmond but that does not help them this fall as it was in the first week of winter 2020. The Army 10 Miler is always in the fall and it usually has a lot to say about who is who in the rankings. Maura Linde bounced back from last year’s Army with a third overall in 57:00. That was just enough to deny Perry Shoemaker, 48, from being the oldest Open title winner. Shoemaker ran fourth overall in 57:43. Laurel LeMoigne used everything she had for the fall, finishing in 1:00:16 to take third place, ahead of tenth ranked Kelley Allison (1:01:03) as well as fourth ranked Maura Carroll (1:01:37). Shoemaker won her other two events, including the Perfect 10M in 1:00:31.

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LeMoigne secured an overall win at the 5K in November but the time was unremarkable. Linde won it all at the speedy Clarendon 5K in 16:45. Carroll was third overall in 17:23. That time keep her ahead of fifth ranked Margaret Johnson (17:25) and sixth ranked Caitlyn Tateishi (17:28). Johnson went on to the run the event 10K in 38:30 while Tateishi returned the favor by winning it all in 37:36. Johnson also won it all at the Run for the Parks 10K in 36:46. She also beat eighth ranked Stephanie Berger at the Run for Remembrance 5K with an overall win, 17:48 to 17:57. Seventh ranked Selvi Rajagopal was third overall at the Marine Corps Marathon in 2:50:42. Liz Starks ran 3:01:20. Just as important she bested Silvia Baage (1:22:09) with her third overall finish at the Parks Half Marathon in 1:20:47. Eighteenth ranked Starks ran 1:22:29. Berger pushes Baage back another place to ninth as she squeaked by her at the Clarendon Day 5K, 17:29 to 17:30. Baage would run the 10K in 38:01. Twelfth ranked Kerry Toney had two fine 10 milers, including an overall win at the Cap Trail 10M in 1:01:38. Christie Wetzel ran a very good Army 10 Miler in 1:01:55 to stay ahead of 19th ranked Nora Raher (1:02:15), 20th ranked Michelle Capozzi (1:02:41), and 21th ranked Erin Melly (1:02:55). Then Wetzel finished third overall at the Veterans Day 10K in 36:58, ahead of Melly’s 37:34, to take eleventh place. Linde won it all in 34:41, even faster than last year’s time that gave her the runner-up spot in 2018. Natalie Patterson takes thirteenth place with two overall wins, including the major race Prince William Half Marathon in 1:22:12. Next in fourteenth place, Ann Mazur Robb is third overall at the Virginia 4 Mile in 23:16. Jillian Smith is right on her heels denying Liz Reynolds (17:50) fifteenth place with her Clarendon Day 5K in 17:48. Seventeenth place is awarded to Meggan Grams for winning it all at the National Race to End Women's Cancer 5K in 17:56. The division has fifty-five qualifiers, 14 that came from other divisions with Perry Shoemaker, eldest at forty-eight. A total of two hundred and six women ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 38:01 World Class status (90%) for Open = 33:42

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Linde, Maura** 26 Sykesville, MD 34:15 88.56%

2 Shoemaker, Perry** 48 Vienna, VA 34:41

3 Le Moigne, Laurel* 34 Springfield, VA 36:13

4 Carroll, Maura 30 Arlington, VA 36:12

5 Johnston, Margaret** 29 Silver Spring, MD 36:16

6 Tateishi, Caitlyn* 32 Washington, DC 36:22

7 Rajagopal, Selvi 32 Columbia, MD 36:29

8 Berger, Stephanie 26 Arlington, VA 36:24

9 Baage, Silvia** 38 Rockville, MD 36:26

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10 Kelley, Allison 27 Charlottesville, VA 36:41

11 Wetzel, Christie 32 Falls Church, VA 36:58

12 Toney, Kerry* 24 Richmond, VA 37:02

13 Patterson, Natalie** 27 Fredericksburg, VA 37:09

14 Mazur Robb, Ann 34 Charlottesville, VA 37:04

15 Smith, Jillian 24 Washington, DC 37:04

16 Reynolds, Liz 25 Rockville, MD 37:08

17 Grams, Meggan** 23 Hagerstown, MD 37:20

18 Starks, Liz 39 Huntingtown, MD 37:16

19 Raher, Nora* 24 Centreville, VA 37:25

20 Capozzi, Michelle 27 Leesburg, VA 37:40

21 Melly, Erin 23 Washington, DC 37:34

22 Atabek, Natalie** 28 Bethesda, MD 38:19

23 Wright, Shannon* 26 Charlottesville, VA 38:08

24 Fallon Wallace, Barb* 45 Alexandria, VA 38:15

25 Callan, Chelsea* 30 Washington, DC 38:15

26 Ford, Delores*** 37 Danville, VA 38:20

27 Bigaibal, Alayna 24 Fairfax, VA 38:28

28 Pollack, Jillian 30 Arlington, VA 38:38

29 Weschler, Gabi** 28 Henrico, VA 38:27

30 Gruendel, Jacqueline 44 Clifton, VA 38:27

31 Fox, Harriet 32 Washington, DC 38:41

32 Narayan, Shreya* 20 Baltimore, MD 38:54

33 Burke, Cassidy* 24 Bethesda, MD 38:54

34 Vane, Chelsea 24 Ellicott City, MD 38:58

35 Slaby, Gina** 38 Callaway, MD 39:01

36 Wilson, Saki** 28 Norfolk, VA 39:05

37 Makarevich, Elena 41 Gaithersburg, MD 39:07

38 Hartman, Angela* 33 Hyattsville, MD 39:09

39 Just, Caryn 31 Baltimore, MD 39:23

40 Tischler, Rachel 22 Mechanicsville, VA 39:31

41 Craig, Ashley* 32 Lynchburg, VA 39:48

42 Beal, Amanda 39 Ellicott City, MD 39:46

43 Pickett, Lindsay* 36 Clarksville, MD 39:57

44 Stoltenberg, Erica 32 Arlington, VA 40:06

45 Caton, Eryn* 37 Falls Church, VA 40:03

46 Loeb, Frances 26 Washington, DC 40:11

47 Dietz, Jenn 34 Fairfax, VA 40:15

48 Kasal, Jacqueline 26 Washington, DC 40:21

49 Digregorio, Megan 31 White Marsh, MD 40:28

50 Dzibela, Tracy 42 Fredericksburg, VA 40:41

51 Perlingeiro, Fabiana** 42 Virginia Beach, VA 40:44

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52 Moran, Jennifer 41 Virginia Beach, VA 40:46

53 Musa, Skylar** 27 Alexandria, VA 40:48

54 Hopely, Emily 33 Fredericksburg, VA 40:53

55 Rebechi, Melanie 28 Baltimore, MD 41:00

19 & Younger Women Rhythm and Roots Reunion 5K 18:19, 10K = 38:08 The Jean family has three racers, Thorin, Soreena, and Cannon. The Thornton-Fillyaw family has three as well, Tamryn, Tanise, and Terrica. Terrica, 13, got her first of six age group wins at the competitive Clarendon Day 5K in 20:08 well ahead of her eighth ranked sister Tanise, 15, who ran 22:53. That was holding up well until Soreena, 17, the overall winner, beat her sister Cannon, 14, at the always fast Governor’s Land 5K 19:57 to 22:39. On the final day, Terrica had her fastest of three overall wins at the Run for Research 5K, again besting her sister, in 19:52 to take the teen title. Hannah Altizer won it all at the Hokie 5K in 20:40. A month later, she takes the third spot with her third overall at the Galax Autumn Days 5K in 20:10. Fourth ranked Taylor Myers won the Race to Beat Breast Cancer 5K in 20:30. The queen of the Fletcher’s Park Run, fifth ranked Kerstin Fagerstrom produced her fastest time in September with a dominating win in 20:35. In 2019 so far, she has won 80 percent of the time, never finishing worse than second place. Sixth place goes to the fastest of a half dozen runners 12 and younger. Kailyn Brunson, 10, was second overall at the Poor Nun Run 5K in 20:54. Ninth ranked Lily Garavito, 10, joins Brunson as an 80 percent age grader. Seventeen runners made the division. A total of two hundred women and seven ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 37:55

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Thornton-Fillyaw, Terrica*6 13 Adelphi, MD 41:22 80.74%

2 Jean, Soreena** 17 Williamsburg, VA 41:32

3 Altizer, Hannah** 19 Blacksburg, VA 41:59

4 Myers, Taylor** 17 Harrisonburg, VA 42:41

5 Fagerstrom, Kerstin** 16 Arlington, VA 42:51

6 Brunson, Kailyn** 10 Baltimore, MD 43:31

7 Polun, Danielle** 11 Timonium, MD 43:52

8 Thorton-Fillyaw, Tanise**** 15 Adelphi, MD 44:10

9 Garavito, Lily** 10 Ashburn, VA 44:33

10 Wells, Ysabel** 13 Virginia Beach, VA 45:19

11 Ware, Liz** 19 Virginia Beach, VA 45:33

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12 McDonald, Kavina** 16 Solomons, MD 45:54

13 Hawkins, Hannah** 11 Arlington, VA 45:42

14 Capizzi, Juliana** 16 Washington, DC 45:38

15 Borowski, Willow*** 10 Edgewood, MD 45:59

16 Lemke, Hailey** 12 Fredericksburg, VA 46:07

17 Pontzer, Joy*** 17 Glen Burnie, MD 47:16

35-39 Women Parks Half Marathon 1:15:45, 10K = 34:14 Silvia Baage had an unusual fall season. She opened the season effectively winning the division at the Parks Half Marathon in 1:22:09 just ahead of runner-up Liz Starks (1:22:29). It was a race for the elite. However, Caroline Bauer (1:22:40) did not get in a second qualifier. Even more significant is the prohibitive favorite Julia Roman-Duval, who crushed the field in 1:15:45, did not either. This year the Richmond Half Marathon that has in the past been in the fall (and sometimes TWICE) is in the winter 2020 ranking period. Thus Roman-Duval’s monster 1:14:58 for third overall is big time help for the winter but leaves her out of fall 2019. Baage waited less than two weeks before rushing to Arlington for the 10K/5K double at the star maker Clarendon races. As expected, her opening 5K in 17:30 helped to secure her title and was faster than her 10K. However, while many doublers wilted in their second race, Baage won it all in 38:01. Guessing she had the endurance now, she pounced on the field, winning the National Capital 20M in 2:15:39. Starks raced even further as division winner at the Marine Corps Marathon in 3:01:20. Third ranked Rachel Corigliano won outright in both of her races though her half marathon win, ahead of all the men as well, was a somewhat pedestrian 1:33:59. She did run an 18:17 at the longest name race Two by Four 5K against Childhood and Canine Cancer 5K. Fourth place Dolores Ford had three overall wins. Her middle race was a satisfying Autism Awareness 5K in 19:06. Her best race was in the unique distance Nail the Rail 9M in 57:18. Fifth ranked Gina Slaby broke the tape a couple times as well. Her best race was the St. Charles Festival 10K in 39:01. Amanda Beal was at the Parks Half Marathon with a credible 1:28:59 but it was her season ending Veterans Day 10K in 39:46 that earned her sixth place in the division. The cult race, parachute drop Great Allegany 15K is still hanging in there though every year the numbers decline. This year seventh ranked Lindsay Pickett won it all there in 1:01:27. Eryn Caton won it all at the Run for the Schools 5K in 19:14 to take eighth place.

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Twenty-one runners made the division. A total of ninety-two women ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 38:11

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Baage, Silvia*** 38 Rockville, MD 36:26 84.81%

2 Starks, Liz* 39 Huntingtown, MD 37:16

3 Corigliano, Rachel** 38 Brambleton, VA 38:04

4 Ford, Delores*** 37 Danville, VA 38:20

5 Slaby, Gina** 38 Callaway, MD 39:01

6 Beal, Amanda 39 Ellicott City, MD 39:46

7 Pickett, Lindsay* 36 Clarksville, MD 39:57

8 Caton, Eryn** 37 Falls Church, VA 40:03

9 Merchant, Renee** 38 Norfolk, VA 40:18

10 Garri, Kristin* 36 Washington, DC 40:30

11 Ackerman, Rachel 36 Washington, DC 41:12

12 Singleton, Erica** 36 Chevy Chase, MD 41:09

13 Miller, Michelle* 38 Gaithersburg, MD 40:51

14 Greszler, Rachel 37 Bethesda, MD 41:29

15 Polychrones, Tiffany** 35 Scottsville, VA 41:45

16 Doty, Megan*** 36 Virginia Beach, VA 42:04

17 Lemos, Kristen** 38 Bethesda, MD 42:39

18 Comfort, Claire 36 Washington, DC 42:43

19 Braner, Elyse* 35 Arlington, VA 42:49

20 Bergman, Laura** 37 Winchester, VA 43:02

21 Smith, Margaret* 39 Baltimore, MD 43:20

40-44 Women Donate Life Family 5K 18:13, 10K = 37:56 Jackie Gruendel ran a powerful Clarendon Day 5K in 18:28 as she finishes up her time in the youngest masters division. That time earns her third place while a new master Susie Stephen was third overall at the longer 10K event that morning, finishing the 10K in 38:08. Sherry Stick wins the whole shooting match with her overall at the Donate Life Family 5K on 18:13. Note that neither of the top two qualified for the open division. Stephen was runner-up. Stick had another overall win but the Run Through the Grapevine, that was a 10K this year for the first time, is a tough course. Likewise, Stephen ran the Marine Corps Marathon (marathons are always tough for qualifying) barely missing the open standard with her time of 3:13:15. Hard but not impossible as fourth ranked Elena Makarevich was second overall at the Baltimore Marathon in 3:03:00. Gruendel ran her second race at the Army 10 Miler in 1:05:06 ahead of tenth ranked Gaby

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Gorman (1:08:58) to match Makarevich’s rating exactly. The first nine ranked runners made the open standard at least once. The three-way battle for fifth was close. Fabiana Perlingeiro raced three fast 5Ks with two overall wins and a second overall. Her best race was the Race at the Cape 5K in 19:34. Meanwhile, Tracy Dzibela matched that with two overall wins at the 5K and a second overall at the 10K Run Through History in 41:06. Jennifer Moran was right there with her second overall at the Peroni Crawlin' Crab Half Marathon in 1:30:12. Her top masters at the Anthem Wicked 10K in 40:50 was a special race. Perlingeiro was faster at this point but Dzibela takes fifth place as her fourth race was the fastest of the ten combined races. She was tops at the Parks Half Marathon in 1:30:03. Using the Moreland Racing Factor Perlingeiro edges Moran for sixth by a single point 57 to 56. Both of these ladies completed two races between 40:44 and 40:50 in 10K equivalence. Eighth ranked Pam Wheeler won it all at the Screech's Night Owl 5K in 19:44. Ever so close Kenny Fitzgerald is ninth, racing the Veterans Day 5K in 19:46 for second overall. Twenty-seven runners made the division. A total of one hundred and five women ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 39:03

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Stick, Sherry** 41 Sykesville, MD 37:56 82.86%

2 Stephen, Susie** 40 Alexandria, VA 38:08

3 Gruendel, Jacqueline** 44 Clifton, VA 38:27

4 Makarevich, Elena***** 41 Gaithersburg, MD 39:07

5 Dzibela, Tracy**** 42 Fredericksburg, VA 40:41

6 Perlingeiro, Fabiana*** 42 Virginia Beach, VA 40:44

7 Moran, Jennifer*** 41 Virginia Beach, VA 40:46

8 Wheeler, Pam**** 40 Bel Air, MD 41:05

9 Fitzgerald, Jenny** 40 Woodbridge, VA 41:09

10 Gorman, Gaby* 44 Charlottesville, VA 41:27

11 Huerta, Amy** 44 Fredericksburg, VA 41:55

12 Hayden, Dana** 42 Fredericksburg, VA 41:51

13 Finnegan, Alison** 43 Rockville, MD 42:12

14 Ward, Stacy** 40 Bel Air, MD 42:22

15 Stylianaski, Anna* 41 Parkville, MD 42:20

16 Fridrichova, Jana** 40 Hagerstown, MD 42:44

17 Clor, Elizabeth** 41 Chantilly, VA 42:52

18 Thompson, Crystal* 40 Washington, DC 42:53

19 Collins, Rachel** 40 Ellicott City, MD 42:50

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20 Bordner, Misty* 41 Front Royal, VA 42:59

21 Myers, Tiaisha*** 41 Fredericksburg, VA 43:37

22 Johnson, Kerry** 42 Virginia Beach, VA 43:34

23 Tabibi, Tina-Lynn 41 Arlington, VA 43:37

24 Stafford, Aimee** 44 Alexandria, VA 44:29

25 Themistos, Laurie** 42 Washington, DC 45:02

26 Gilliam, Sara** 42 Stafford, VA 45:02

27 Deanehan, Julia* 42 Baltimore, MD 45:01

45-49 Women Army 10 Mile 57:43, 10K = 34:41 The division scattered like seagulls at the beach as Perry Shoemaker returned for claim her title. The division shrunk in half as only 19 women were ranked, the lowest total in many years. Shoemaker did a test run for ten miles at the Perfect 10 to end September. Her overall winning time of 1:00:31 on the rolling hills of Reston still did not quite prepare us for her Army triumph, fourth overall, in 57:44. It matched her spring Cherry Blossom 10M time of 57:30 on the slightly short course nearly exactly. Her victory parade at the Monster Dash 5K two weeks later in McLean was in the rain. She was again first overall. This time in 18:12. Barb Fallon Wallace aged up and won it all at the Race to Beat Cancer 5K in 18:46. The following week, she joined the throngs of runners looking for a PR at the Clarendon Day races. She won at the 10K in 38:15 to take the runner-up spot, nearly thirty seconds faster than in 2018. The half marathon has become the distance of choice for many and especially for women. Third ranked Kari Liisi Linask started it opening week with an excellent Parks Half Marathon in 1:35:55. She would later have a solid Marine Corps Marathon in 3:31:33. Fourth place Hilary Cairns squeezed in two halves between Liisi Linask’s events. First, Cairns won at the Prince William Half Marathon in 1:36:37 to close out September. Two weeks later, she joined thousands at the Baltimore Running Festival, racing the half in 1:38:25. Julie Sapper edged into fifth places with a couple of swift 5Ks, including the Race for Every Child 5K in 21:16. After that, it was mostly halves again. Cynthia Robbs had two other race wins but it was her High Bridge Half Marathon in 1:39:09 that earned her sixth place. Eighth place Brenda Stuart ran the Hokie Half Marathon in 1:41:48. Ninth ranked Monica Sanchez ran a virtual tie to that at the Shenandoah Half Marathon in 1:41:52. Cathy Ross stayed ahead of the two of these halfers with her best of four wins, the Brain Aneurysm Awareness 8K overall win in 35:43 to take seventh place Nineteen women qualified for the division. A total of one hundred and five women ran at least one qualifying event.

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National Class times (80%) = 40:34 World Class status (90%) for age 45 = 36:03

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Shoemaker, Perry*** 48 Vienna, VA 34:41 96.54%

2 Fallon Wallace, Barb** 45 Alexandria, VA 38:15

3 Liisi Linask, Kaari 45 Rockville, MD 43:21

4 Cairns, Hilary* 49 Washington, DC 43:40

5 Sapper, Julie*** 47 Rockville, MD 44:17

6 Robbs, Cynthia*** 49 Chesterfield, VA 44:48

7 Ross, Cathy**** 48 Burke, VA 45:21

8 Stuart, Brenda* 48 Springfield, VA 46:00

9 Sanchez, Monica** 46 Falls Church, VA 46:02

10 Sober, Jen** 46 McHenry, MD 45:54

11 Schweighardt, Taimi 49 Alexandria, VA 46:29

12 Whitestone, Yuko 47 Springfield, VA 46:27

13 Ramsey, Stephanie*** 47 Virginia Beach, VA 46:55

14 Gittelman, Alison* 47 Chantilly, VA 46:59

15 Hicks, Rebekah* 48 Floyd, VA 47:11

16 Bibb, Wendy** 48 Centreville, VA 47:17

17 Fava, Tre 45 Fairfax, VA 48:00

18 Schwartz, Jennifer 48 Rockville, MD 48:15

19 Casey, Jennifer* 45 McLean, VA 48:23

50-54 Women Prince William 5K 19:30, 10K = 40:36 In days of yore, runners aiming for the Marine Corps Marathon used the DCRRC National Capital 20M as proof that they were indeed ready to roll. Stefani Watterson did even more, winning her division at the Parks Half Marathon in 1:32:01 a few steps behind world class racer Cindy Conant and ahead of fifth place Paula Pels (1:43:30). At the 20 miler, Watterson was second overall in a very nice 2:25:50. Come marathon day she ran away from the competition with a superb 3:13:26 just missing the open standard in the rankings. That got her the runner-up spot. At the Veterans Day 5K, Alisa Harvey finished third overall. A runner asked, “She’s somebody famous, isn’t she?” She is indeed. This former Olympic class racer in the 800M also owned the American masters record for the indoor mile. She has won her division too many times to count. Add one to that number as she ran an open class time of 19:30 to an overall victory at the Prince William 5K. At one point in her career, Denise Knickman ran more than fifty races in a year. Now she is more selective and she wins most of the time. She used a method

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similar to Watterson, a first week race. In this case an overall win at the Mercy Run to Remember 5K in 20:48. Then while Watterson did the twenty, Knickman won it all at the GPS Freeland 15K in 1:07:03. Knickman is best known for her ten-mile triumphs. She was ready for her marathon a week early and was tops at the Baltimore Marathon in 3:18:37 to take third in the division. Fourth ranked Shannon Smith had a couple of 5Ks in the mid 21s but come October she did what few women of any age have done, she bested Harvey at the Army ten miler, 1:11:05 to 1:11:23. Shannon also owned the fastest 10K in the division, running the Marine Corps 10K in 44:30. Pels would race the Kensington 8K in 35:36. The next day Amy Sachs earns sixth place winning it all at the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition 5K in 21:45. Seventh place Anita Freres is back on the scene earning her spot racing the Community Bridges 5K in 21:58. Eighth ranked Deb Jockin won the 10K Run Through History in 46:36 a week before ninth ranked Kelly Borkman raced the big Anthem Wicked 10K in 46:25, finishing as second master. Jockin was tops at the Deuce Braswell 5K in 22:19 while Borkman did not fare as well in her second event, the Peroni Crawlin' Crab Half Marathon in 1:50:35. Thirty-two runners made the division. A total of one hundred and forty-four women ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 42:50

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Harvey, Alisa** 54 Manassas, VA 40:36 88.63%

2 Watterson, Stefani*** 50 Alexandria, VA 41:21

3 Knickman, Denise*** 51 Baltimore, MD 42:27

4 Smith, Shannon** 53 Washington, DC 42:43

5 Pels, Paula* 52 Bethesda, MD 45:12

6 Sachs, Amy*** 54 Ellicott City, MD 45:17

7 Freres, Anita* 54 Vienna, VA 45:44

8 Jockin, Deb** 53 Fredericksburg, VA 46:28

9 Borkman, Kelly* 53 Virginia Beach, VA 46:25

10 Taylor, Ruth*** 51 Ijamsville, MD 46:48

11 Liu, Tammy** 52 Ellicott City, MD 46:58

12 Blakney, Luz* 51 Oak Hill, VA 47:03

13 MacKintosh, Brenda**** 54 Springfield, VA 47:05

14 Kopacz, Margaret**** 54 Chesapeake, VA 47:12

15 Fraker, Ann** 53 Stevenson, MD 47:16

16 McCleary, Erin** 53 Washington, DC 47:42

17 Beard, Shelli 50 North Potomac, MD 47:48

18 Malone, Amy* 51 Pasadena, MD 47:50

19 Strauch, Debi* 52 Ashburn, VA 48:12

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20 Ung, Mardiny** 52 Elizabethtown, PA 48:18

21 Hengel, Patty* 50 Odenton, MD 48:13

22 Cline, Carla** 53 Norfolk, VA 48:37

23 Welsh, Teri* 51 Timonium, MD 48:37

24 Leavitt, Moira 53 Annapolis, MD 48:54

25 Demaree, Marsha 54 Marriottsville, MD 49:22

26 Ducker, Claudia** 51 Annapolis, MD 49:23

27 Person, Kimberly 54 Alexandria, VA 49:28

28 Kammel, Carole* 51 Rockville, MD 49:37

29 Borges, Kimberly** 52 Virginia Beach, VA 49:53

30 Green, Kaye** 51 Smithfield, VA 49:58

31 Garrett, Shannon 51 Alexandria, VA 51:04

32 Tersak, Diana* 52 Alexandria, VA 51:11

55-59 Women Parks Half Marathon 1:31:51, 10K = 41:30 The duo of women that could qualify for the men’s 55-59 just became a trio. They were led by Cindy Conant and her world class times, including an excellent Parks Half Marathon in 1:31:51 to take the title in the first week. Starting in late October, she added three fast 5Ks. She was the overall winner twice and second overall at the Monster Dash 5K in 21:08. Kelly Brown débuted with a very nice Dulles Day 5K on the Runway in 20:33. In mid-October, last fall’s queen, Kendall Tata, would also add an overall win and a second overall placement in slower 5Ks. Her Community Bridges 5K was her fastest race in 20:28. The next day Brown pushed past her into the runner-up spot with a marvelous Army 10 Mile win in 1:10:47. Fourth ranked Julie Hayden, 59, is already itching to get to the next division. Her overall win at the Ashburn Fire & Rescue 5K in 21:39 was a better race than this fall’s 60-64 champion. Fifth ranked Mary Morgan may have got a little help from the notoriously unstably distanced Down’s Park 5M that she ran in 36:23. Her Metric Marathon in 2:22:00 was a much slower race but that rarely raced distance is perhaps the hardest distance to gauge talent. Sixth place goes to Kelly Dworak who ran another rarity, the Charm City 20M, in 2:41:44. She went even further south for the Virginia 10 Mile six days later and could be expected to slow a tad as she did, finishing in 1:19:51. Seventh ranked Sushila Nanda races so much that as expected her times were all over the map. Even with its little hill, the Clarendon Day 5K is a PR making course and Nanda had her fastest race there in 22:20. Eighth ranked Suzanne Porter has known to dabble in the half marathon but this season was best at the 10K, running a 46:52 at the Vets on Track 10K. That was a minute faster than Nanda’s best, the Fall Classic 10K in 47:52. Ninth ranked Kathy Cea will be

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turning sixty in the winter. She upset Nanda (50:16) and Hayden (48:09) at the Run for the Parks 10K in 48:00. Thirty-seven runners made the division. A total of one hundred and thirty-six women ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 45:33 World Class status (90%) for age 55 = 40:29

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Conant, Cindy***** 58 Kensington, MD 41:30 91.24%

2 Brown, Kelly** 55 Ashburn, VA 42:32

3 Tata, Kendall*** 57 Stanardsville, VA 42:37

4 Hayden, Julie***** 59 Ashburn, VA 45:05

5 Morgan, Mary* 55 Pasadena, MD 45:53

6 Dworak, Kelly** 57 Carlisle, PA 46:29

7 Nanda, Sushila*** 58 Arlington, VA 46:30

8 Porter, Suzanne*** 58 Annandale, VA 46:52

9 Cea, Kathy*** 59 Gaithersburg, MD 48:00

10 Persina, Win**** 58 Washington, DC 48:43

11 Kerr, Eleanor* 59 Hyattsville, MD 49:06

12 Kuhn, Margaret 57 Riverdale, MD 49:04

13 Bailey, Mary Jo* 58 Williamsburg, VA 49:24

14 Coburn, Jane* 56 Catlett, VA 49:35

15 Butler, Renee* 58 Bethesda, MD 49:36

16 Komesarook, Ellen 55 Washington, DC 50:13

17 Hackman, Christine***** 55 Arlington, VA 50:25

18 Mundt, Vicky 56 Annapolis, MD 50:24

19 Layson, Lynda* 59 Severn, MD 50:33

20 Manos, Karen* 59 Clifton, VA 50:38

21 Smith, Dana* 56 Annapolis, MD 50:54

22 Black, Beverly** 59 Fairfield, PA 51:00

23 Shin, Jill 58 Alexandria, VA 51:41

24 Phillips, Norma* 59 Williamsburg, VA 52:01

25 McAlevy, Mary Grace 55 Fairfax, VA 52:11

26 Remy, Carol 59 Westminster, MD 52:09

27 Boyle, Cecile* 59 Manassas, VA 52:23

28 Gonson, Darla 55 Arlington, VA 52:20

29 Donovan, Kathy* 59 Virginia Beach, VA 52:40

30 Henry, Karen* 56 Bel Air, MD 53:08

31 Johnston, Cynthia 56 Takoma Park, MD 53:08

32 Foy Jones, Valor** 56 Newport News, VA 53:28

33 Easter, Carolyn** 55 Washington, DC 53:30

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34 Norman, Eveline 55 Centreville, VA 53:20

35 Hyland, Charlotte 57 Falls Church, VA 53:51

36 Mason, Karen* 56 Columbia, MD 54:10

37 Horkan, Miho 56 Rockville, MD 54:14

60-64 Women

Run for the Parks 10K 45:20

Last fall’s champ Hosni Haghigian was even faster this year at the Community Bridges 5K in 22:43. She was just a lunge slower at the Pepsi 10K in 48:42thn in 2018. That just got her runner-up. Carolyn Harrison had a similar House of Ghent 10K in 49:23 that had earned her sixth place before. However, she sliced five minutes off her Peroni Crawlin' Crab Half Marathon to a swift 1:47:52 to help her move up. Neither had a chance because Deedee Loughran is back in town. She roasted the division at the Army ten miler in 1:15:47. Fourth ranked Angela Cason was there, finishing fifth in 1:19:29. That and her best in division Parks Half Marathon in 1:46:36 was almost enough to take the third spot. Harrison waited until November to secure that spot, racing the Yorktown Battlefield 10 Miler in 1:18:54. The next three spots were all close. Robin Goodwin finished her first of three wins at the Executive Stampede 5K in 23:38. Carole Rosasco matched that exactly with an overall win in a race where sixty is young, the Get Ready! Get Set! Get Fit! 5K Run. Val Indye registered her best race at the Spook Hill Cider & Wine 4 Mile in 30:45. Indye takes fifth adding in two second place overall races, including the Superhero 5K in 23:41. Goodwin lands in sixth place with her Baltimore United Way 5K in 23:41. That leaves Rosasco in seventh as her Cats and Bats 5K was a little slower in 25:04. Catherine Baker ran a little slower this time at the Prince William Half Marathon in 1:49:37 and was ushered back to eighth place. Ninth ranked Daniela Micsan upset a former champion, Mary Lowe Mayhugh, at the Veterans day 5K, 24:07 to 24:21. Mary Gentry slides in between the two for tenth place with her Patriot Run 10K in 50:23.

Fifty-six runners made the division. A huge total of two hundred and three women ran at least one qualifying event. National Class times (80%) = 48:36

Pl Name Age Hometown 10K=

1 Loughran, Deedee** 61 Reston, VA 45:20 86.95%

2 Haghighian, Hosni** 61 Charlottesville, VA 47:18

3 Harrison, Carolyn**** 63 Virginia Beach, VA 47:25

4 Cason, Angela* 63 Damascus, MD 47:46

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5 Indye, Val*** 63 New Market, MD 49:14

6 Goodwin, Robin*** 61 Baltimore, MD 49:12

7 Rosasco, Carole* 60 Severna Park, MD 49:12

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