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Wardian bests Hawkins, Barresi at Gary Brown Memorial run
Rowan sets 5-mile PR, takes second in women’s standings
Results Awards Photos Set1 Set2
By Kevin Spradlin
TriStateRunnur.com
WILLIAMSPORT, Aug. 22 – Frostburg resident Jaron Hawkins posted on a social networking website late Saturday afternoon that he’s logged only one good year at the annual Gary Brown 5-miler in Washington County.
This wasn’t it.
Hawkins, 26, fell from last year’s first-place finish to third overall in the competitive 28th annual Gary Brown Memorial 5-mile run in Williamsport. Hawkins stopped the clock in 27 minutes and 37 seconds – a full 2:38 slower than last year’s winning effort.
Thirty-five-year-old Michael Wardian – second last year – regained the top spot this time in 25:34, a pace of 5:07 per mile. Matthew Barresi, 26 of Falls Church, Va., was second in 26:03. It was Wardian’s second overall win and fourth top-2 finish in as many tries dating back to 2005.
The Allegany and Mineral County (W.Va.) region featured four more runners in the top 16, led by Woody Snoberger’s eighth-place finish in 30:15 (6:03 pace). More impressively, perhaps, was Cumberland resident Amy Rowan’s runner-up finish in the women’s overall standings.
Rowan, 29, set an all-time personal best at the 5K (3.1-mile) distance last week at 19:48 in Barton. Saturday’s 5-mile time of 33:57 was more than 31 seconds faster than her previous best at the distance in early July in Morgantown.
And to think, Rowan, who turns 30 in mid-September, found the Williamsport race only by chance.
“I ‘Google’ every race there is just to see what’s in the vicinity,” said Rowan, who has hit just 25 to 27 miles per week in training the past two weeks.
“It wasn’t too bad,” she said of the conditions. “It was humid … really hot.”
Rowan wasn’t the only area female to excel. Masters runner Maureen Hall, of LaVale, was second in the women’s masters division and fourth female overall in 35:20 – a mere 11 seconds behind division-winner Laurie Dymond of Chambersburg, Pa.
Contact Kevin at run@mountainMDmarathon.org.
Related Articles: Wardian's Brown run win was no accident
Rowan sets 5-mile PR, takes second in women’s standings
Results Awards Photos Set1 Set2
By Kevin Spradlin
TriStateRunnur.com
WILLIAMSPORT, Aug. 22 – Frostburg resident Jaron Hawkins posted on a social networking website late Saturday afternoon that he’s logged only one good year at the annual Gary Brown 5-miler in Washington County.
This wasn’t it.
Hawkins, 26, fell from last year’s first-place finish to third overall in the competitive 28th annual Gary Brown Memorial 5-mile run in Williamsport. Hawkins stopped the clock in 27 minutes and 37 seconds – a full 2:38 slower than last year’s winning effort.
Thirty-five-year-old Michael Wardian – second last year – regained the top spot this time in 25:34, a pace of 5:07 per mile. Matthew Barresi, 26 of Falls Church, Va., was second in 26:03. It was Wardian’s second overall win and fourth top-2 finish in as many tries dating back to 2005.
The Allegany and Mineral County (W.Va.) region featured four more runners in the top 16, led by Woody Snoberger’s eighth-place finish in 30:15 (6:03 pace). More impressively, perhaps, was Cumberland resident Amy Rowan’s runner-up finish in the women’s overall standings.
Rowan, 29, set an all-time personal best at the 5K (3.1-mile) distance last week at 19:48 in Barton. Saturday’s 5-mile time of 33:57 was more than 31 seconds faster than her previous best at the distance in early July in Morgantown.
And to think, Rowan, who turns 30 in mid-September, found the Williamsport race only by chance.
“I ‘Google’ every race there is just to see what’s in the vicinity,” said Rowan, who has hit just 25 to 27 miles per week in training the past two weeks.
“It wasn’t too bad,” she said of the conditions. “It was humid … really hot.”
Rowan wasn’t the only area female to excel. Masters runner Maureen Hall, of LaVale, was second in the women’s masters division and fourth female overall in 35:20 – a mere 11 seconds behind division-winner Laurie Dymond of Chambersburg, Pa.
Contact Kevin at run@mountainMDmarathon.org.
Related Articles: Wardian's Brown run win was no accident