Big Bear 12-hour trail race Griffith, Baniak lead half dozen runners in XC event

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Area runners fare well in Big Bear 12-hour trail race
Griffith, Baniak lead half dozen runners in XC event

By Kevin Spradlin
TriStateRunnur.com

BRUCETON MILLS, W.Va., July 17 -- Area runners Jason Griffith, Joe McQuade and Todd Mowery swept places three through five on Saturday during the Big Bear 12-hour Trail Running Race around Big Bear Lake nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Preston County.

Griffith, 40, of Short Gap, W.Va., finished third in the multiple lap trail race in which teams relay run (or solo) during a 12-hour time period. Each team's final placing is determined by the number of laps around the 6.5-mile loop. The race started at 7 a.m. and each runner's final lap was started before 7 p.m.

Joe McQuade, of Cumberland, finished fourth overall and Mowery, of Ellerslie, placed fifth.

Griffith updated friends and family through Facebook during stops in random breaks.

"Six miles (39 miles) in just under 7 hours," Griffith wrote near the 2 p.m. mark. "Taking a break, may be done. Legs are shot and it's hot. If I feel better, I'll try to do one more loop. MJ (wife Mary Jane Baniak) is on her sixth now."

Two hours later, Griffith had another update.

"Ran Mary Jane's seventh lap with her," he said. "She just headed out for one more! I am gassed. She's kicking my (expletive)!"

Baniak finished second overall. Kari Brown, of Bedford County, Pa., and a Cresaptown Elementary School teacher, was fifth in the women's division. Griffith said she and husband Rande brown "left early, or would have both been first or second."

Complete results will be posted as soon as they become available.

Joe McQuade,Jason Griffith and Todd Mowery