Tri State
Three dozen ring in New Year with Resolution Run finish
LAVALE – Daniel Barbe said he was “tired out” after completing the inaugural New Year’s Day Resolution Run on Thursday in LaVale.
Presumably, he was also more than a little cold. Barbe, 6, of Springfield, W.Va., joined 35 others in celebrating the turn of the calendar to the year 2009 by completing the low-key 2.62-kilometer run at Country Club Mall despite temperatures being in the mid-20s.
He placed 20th overall in 18 minutes and 48 seconds, good for a pace of 11:33 per mile over the 1.63-mile loop course. The route, which included two tough hills, was partly covered by snow from the previous night’s winter storm. Read More
A day for setting goals
Lowe, Persina run to victory at Al Lewis 10-miler
KENSINGTON, Md., Jan. 3 – Alexandra Steinberg Barrage hit the 9-mile mark of the Al Lewis 10-mile run in Kensington on Sunday in about 68 minutes. She knew, then, she had little time to waste if she were to achieve her goal of negative splits.Mission accomplished.
“Just barely,” said the 33-year-old from Arlington, Va., as she headed to her pre-positioned water bottle shortly after crossing the finish line in 76 minutes and 20 seconds. “I was just trying to survive.” Read More
Brown, Messore take Santa Trot 5K titles
ROMNEY, W.Va. – After the 2nd annual Hampshire County Santa Trot 5K run on Saturday, most of the 44 participants trekked from the warmth of the expansive Hampshire Wellness and Fitness center to their vehicles to begin their journey home.
Not Karsten Brown. After placing 50th in November’s JFK 50-mile ultramarathon and then, a week later, finishing eighth in the Northern Central Trail Marathon, Brown, 34, of Front Royal, Va., won the deceptively challenging 3.1-mile run in 17 minutes and 38 seconds, besting runner-up Matthew Barnes, 30, of Fort Ashby, W.Va., by 80 seconds.
And then Brown went for a run. After all, he had a half marathon in Fredericksburg to prepare for the next day.Read More
Main Street Mile - a fun experience no matter what
WESTMINSTER, April 15 - Main Street Mile race director Beth Weisenborn waited an extra day before sending out a thank-you letter to event volunteers.
She needed the additional 24 hours to wrap her mind around an event that should have gone terribly wrong - but didn’t.
The weather on Wednesday for the 7 p.m. downhill race was abysmal, at least for a community event where warm temperatures and cold ice cream await finishers back at the fire hall.Read More
Mountain Maryland Marathon Women Preview
CUMBERLAND - Kari Brown, Amy Rowan, Brittney Rooks. Jennifer Sober, Kelly Gruber. These women are no strangers to a long distance run.
Each of them are competing in the Mountain Maryland Marathon Festival on Sunday. The marathon and half marathon races have a combined 7:30 a.m. start beginning on Harrison Street in downtown Cumberland.
Brown, of Bedford County, Pa., and a teacher at Cresaptown Elementary School, has completed the John F. Kennedy 50-mile Ultramarathon five times and has completed multiple 100-milers. On Good Friday, she and her husband, Rande, ran the entire marathon course - mostly along the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail - plus another 24 miles afterward to complete an “easy” 50-mile jaunt. The run was her last long run leading up to the Mountain Maryland Marathon presented by Life Fitness Management Read More
Johns getting better, little by little
MacGray, Johns take Spring is Here! 10K titles
CUMBERLAND – The cold, the hills and blustery wind all were more challenging than expected for Cumberland resident Rhonda Johns.
On the other hand, everything was just perfect on Saturday during the 2nd annual Spring is Here! 10K road race. Johns, 23, set a course record over the 6.2-mile event in 51 minutes and 14 seconds – eclipsing former record-holder Maureen Hall’s 51:43.
Johns, preparing to make her 13.1-mile debut on April 19 at the Mountain Maryland Half Marathon, has steadily progressed during the first quarter of 2009. On Feb. 14, she averaged 8:29 per mile over a challenging 10K course in southern Bedford County, Pa. On March 7, she set a personal best in the 5K distance at Rocky Gap State Park with a 7:53 pace and, three weeks later, ran 23:58 – a 7:43 pace – over a 5K course at Mexico Farms.Read More
Chandler, Sober lead field in Great Escape
CUMBERLAND – Allegany County resident Tommy Chandler was ceremoniously knighted on Saturday after winning the Great Escape 5K run at Mexico Farms south of Cumberland.
But Chandler was king for a day largely because the true anointed one, Jaron Hawkins, volunteered to type the race results instead of taking his usual place at the top of them. Regardless of the reason, it was good enough for Chandler.
The 26-year-old high school cross country and track coach raced to an early lead from the start and held on to lead the 77-runner field in a time of 18 minutes and 19 seconds. Tom Ruckert was second over the 3.1-mile paved, loop course in 18:27. Rob Smith, 44, of Cumberland, placed third in 19:01. Chandler had planned to race and leave immediately afterward but stuck around to receive his trophy after earning his first-ever first-place finish in a road race Read More
Start of a marathon comes with the idea of it
One of my most memorable races of all time was the Marathon of the Roses. This race was designed to run from York, PA, the white rose city, to Lancaster, PA, the red rose city. What a great idea for a race.
These are two towns that can trace their lineage to England, with the War of the Roses in the 13th century between the houses of York and England for the throne. There is not any evidence that this name for these battles of the aristocracy was ever used until Sir Walter Scott coined it in literature. Nor would there be much evidence that the current houses, at least their U.S. city counterparts, partnered much more civilly many centuries later.Read More
LAVALE – Daniel Barbe said he was “tired out” after completing the inaugural New Year’s Day Resolution Run on Thursday in LaVale.
Presumably, he was also more than a little cold. Barbe, 6, of Springfield, W.Va., joined 35 others in celebrating the turn of the calendar to the year 2009 by completing the low-key 2.62-kilometer run at Country Club Mall despite temperatures being in the mid-20s.
He placed 20th overall in 18 minutes and 48 seconds, good for a pace of 11:33 per mile over the 1.63-mile loop course. The route, which included two tough hills, was partly covered by snow from the previous night’s winter storm. Read More
A day for setting goals
Lowe, Persina run to victory at Al Lewis 10-miler
KENSINGTON, Md., Jan. 3 – Alexandra Steinberg Barrage hit the 9-mile mark of the Al Lewis 10-mile run in Kensington on Sunday in about 68 minutes. She knew, then, she had little time to waste if she were to achieve her goal of negative splits.Mission accomplished.
“Just barely,” said the 33-year-old from Arlington, Va., as she headed to her pre-positioned water bottle shortly after crossing the finish line in 76 minutes and 20 seconds. “I was just trying to survive.” Read More
Brown, Messore take Santa Trot 5K titles
ROMNEY, W.Va. – After the 2nd annual Hampshire County Santa Trot 5K run on Saturday, most of the 44 participants trekked from the warmth of the expansive Hampshire Wellness and Fitness center to their vehicles to begin their journey home.
Not Karsten Brown. After placing 50th in November’s JFK 50-mile ultramarathon and then, a week later, finishing eighth in the Northern Central Trail Marathon, Brown, 34, of Front Royal, Va., won the deceptively challenging 3.1-mile run in 17 minutes and 38 seconds, besting runner-up Matthew Barnes, 30, of Fort Ashby, W.Va., by 80 seconds.
And then Brown went for a run. After all, he had a half marathon in Fredericksburg to prepare for the next day.Read More
Main Street Mile - a fun experience no matter what
WESTMINSTER, April 15 - Main Street Mile race director Beth Weisenborn waited an extra day before sending out a thank-you letter to event volunteers.
She needed the additional 24 hours to wrap her mind around an event that should have gone terribly wrong - but didn’t.
The weather on Wednesday for the 7 p.m. downhill race was abysmal, at least for a community event where warm temperatures and cold ice cream await finishers back at the fire hall.Read More
Mountain Maryland Marathon Women Preview
CUMBERLAND - Kari Brown, Amy Rowan, Brittney Rooks. Jennifer Sober, Kelly Gruber. These women are no strangers to a long distance run.
Each of them are competing in the Mountain Maryland Marathon Festival on Sunday. The marathon and half marathon races have a combined 7:30 a.m. start beginning on Harrison Street in downtown Cumberland.
Brown, of Bedford County, Pa., and a teacher at Cresaptown Elementary School, has completed the John F. Kennedy 50-mile Ultramarathon five times and has completed multiple 100-milers. On Good Friday, she and her husband, Rande, ran the entire marathon course - mostly along the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail - plus another 24 miles afterward to complete an “easy” 50-mile jaunt. The run was her last long run leading up to the Mountain Maryland Marathon presented by Life Fitness Management Read More
Johns getting better, little by little
MacGray, Johns take Spring is Here! 10K titles
CUMBERLAND – The cold, the hills and blustery wind all were more challenging than expected for Cumberland resident Rhonda Johns.
On the other hand, everything was just perfect on Saturday during the 2nd annual Spring is Here! 10K road race. Johns, 23, set a course record over the 6.2-mile event in 51 minutes and 14 seconds – eclipsing former record-holder Maureen Hall’s 51:43.
Johns, preparing to make her 13.1-mile debut on April 19 at the Mountain Maryland Half Marathon, has steadily progressed during the first quarter of 2009. On Feb. 14, she averaged 8:29 per mile over a challenging 10K course in southern Bedford County, Pa. On March 7, she set a personal best in the 5K distance at Rocky Gap State Park with a 7:53 pace and, three weeks later, ran 23:58 – a 7:43 pace – over a 5K course at Mexico Farms.Read More
Chandler, Sober lead field in Great Escape
CUMBERLAND – Allegany County resident Tommy Chandler was ceremoniously knighted on Saturday after winning the Great Escape 5K run at Mexico Farms south of Cumberland.
But Chandler was king for a day largely because the true anointed one, Jaron Hawkins, volunteered to type the race results instead of taking his usual place at the top of them. Regardless of the reason, it was good enough for Chandler.
The 26-year-old high school cross country and track coach raced to an early lead from the start and held on to lead the 77-runner field in a time of 18 minutes and 19 seconds. Tom Ruckert was second over the 3.1-mile paved, loop course in 18:27. Rob Smith, 44, of Cumberland, placed third in 19:01. Chandler had planned to race and leave immediately afterward but stuck around to receive his trophy after earning his first-ever first-place finish in a road race Read More
Start of a marathon comes with the idea of it
One of my most memorable races of all time was the Marathon of the Roses. This race was designed to run from York, PA, the white rose city, to Lancaster, PA, the red rose city. What a great idea for a race.
These are two towns that can trace their lineage to England, with the War of the Roses in the 13th century between the houses of York and England for the throne. There is not any evidence that this name for these battles of the aristocracy was ever used until Sir Walter Scott coined it in literature. Nor would there be much evidence that the current houses, at least their U.S. city counterparts, partnered much more civilly many centuries later.Read More