Results and News

Some of our speediest club members are part of the Brooks Seattle Running Team, a competitive team co-sponsored by Brooks Sports and the Seattle Running Company. Recent results and photos of team members and other club members are posted below. If you're a current club member and have a great race, please send the results (and a digital photo, if available) to the SRC webmaster (webmaster@seattlerunningcompany.com).

The 6th Annual Tom Wales Memorial 5K was held on Satuday, April 26 at Volunteer Park in Seattle. 257 runners completed the course with a very strong showing from SRC. If this was a cross country race, the men's team score is almost perfect. Phil Kochik and Audrey Western were first overall for male and female. Other results are as follows:

FN            LN             Overall       Place               Time
 Phil         Kochik            1         1 25-29            0:16:03
 Henry        Wigglesworth      3         1 50-54            0:17:21
 Troy         Scott             4         1 30-34            0:19:14
 Patrick      Preston           5         1 40-44            0:19:26
 John         Gayman            6         2 25-29            0:19:38
 Audrey       Western           9    1 10-14; 1 Female       0:19:40
 Megan        Simpson          13         1 20-24            0:20:33
 John         Wallace III      55    11 30-34; 1 Strol       0:24:54
 Gianna       Hughes           59         3 40-44            0:25:02
 Josie        Nutter           139       15 30-34            0:31:00
 Christine    Miller           140        8 35-39            0:31:02
 Gracie       Sterling         173       17 25-29            0:33:22
 Chay         Senebandith      183       18 30-34            0:34:55
 

Troy Scott at Boston Marathon Photo © Troy Scott.

The 112th Annual Boston Marathon was held on April 21. 103 runners finished from Seattle (SRC finishers listed below). 410 from Washington. Were you one of them? Troy Scott was and he finished under 3 hours in 2:57:18 (6:46/mi). That was good for 911th out of 22,000+ runners. Joe Bisignano ran 3:03:53 (7:01/mi) in 1603rd. Dan Laster finished in 3:09:57 (7:15/mi) in 2429th. Mike Podell ran 3:10:20 (7:16/mi), 2482nd. Scot Carr ran 3:21:55 (7:42), 4682nd. Julie Cassata ran 3:22:49 (7:44), 4848th and 585th female. Anne Luce ran 3:46:13 (8:38), 10,981st and 3093rd female. Lane Keough ran 3:47:15 (8:40), 11,281st, 3241st female.

Win Van Pelt ran a PR in 3:08:46, an improvement of 2:41 over his 2006 Seattle Marathon. He contributed this story:
      It is 5:45 AM Runners are emerging from quiet streets making their way to the T which escorts us to Boston Commons where 20,000 plus athletes wait to be picked up and bussed to the start in Hopkinton a 45 min ride away. I sat next to a young man who turned out to be an ultra runner from N. CA. We talked about races and the people we knew in the ultra world. The Seattle marathon has about 2,500 athletes, the Boston has nearly 25,000. In Hopkinton there are huge circus tents with thousands of athletes camped out waiting for the race to begin in the next hour and a half. Just think about it 25,000 athletes hydrating and a limited number of port-a- potties! Rather than waiting in the endless lines....what does a trail runner do? Look for the nearest woods to water the forest. At first I couldn't figure out why there were so many police sitting on their mountain bikes surveying the land. Less patient men and women who didn't want to wait in line were slipping into the woods... standing next to trees and squatting in the forest. The police would race over to apprehend these racers and threaten to take away there race numbers. Mean while other observing athletes would run to the other end of the woods and stand at the trees and squat in the forest and the police would try to run to their end of the forest to apprehend them. To stand back and watch this game of cat and mouse was kind of humorous. Amazing what entertainment one can find while waiting for a race to start.

My first Boston Marathon and it is time to make my way to the start. Like cattle we are grouped in corals by race number which is determined by our qualifying marathon time. The race is about to start. I feel the excitement, adrenaline is rushing through my body, I'm ready!!! The gun goes off, yes this is it!!! I wait, and I wait, and I wait. I swear I saw a turtle pass by :) Nearly 3 minutes pass and we start to shuffle.... The race underway we are all like salmon fighting our way up stream in a narrow river. All I can see is an endless ocean of runners. By mile two I'm now on my 6:55 mile pace for the first half. The night before I had carefully written down each mile pace on my sophisticated masking tape wrist band. Note to self...don't use soluble ink! My sweat in the first two miles had washed away the ink, ugh. Now I had to depend upon simple mathematical calculating and memory. My synapse don't fire quite as well at the end of a race.

Tom Cotner had shared with me the importance of running the tangents, the straightest line in the course. Only I couldn't see the course with an ocean of runners. So I cleverly looked ahead at the telephone poles to determine the direction of the course. At the 1/2 I heard Tom yell ...go Win! It is motivating to hear a familiar voice. At mile 15 I heard a roar in the distance... what is this? We are only 1/2 way there and what's this noise? It was the Wellesley College students....cheering at the top of there lungs. I had to smile....it was an amazing feeling to hear the cheers and see the enthusiasm and smiles of sooo many college students out supporting the runners.

Mile 16 On the course I saw the Rick Hoyte team. Dad now about 62 years old, a retired marine....pushing his son who is a paraplegic in a race wheel chair. If that isn't inspiration I don't know what is!

Mile 22 after heart brake hill I started to feel my legs screaming at me. At mile 24 I thought I was hallucinating...right in front of me was Minnie Mouse.... running! Someone had dressed up as Minnie Mouse with the dress and the ears ..everything. I said legs...come on.... you can't let Minnie beat you! The last two miles I was focusing on each stride, pump the arms, swivel the hips, extend my stride...I repeat .my mantra. over and over......"I have more than enough". I cross the finish line, I'm happy I did it.......what a race!

I hope you are having some great adventures! I would love to hear about them.

The 22nd Annual Big Climb for Leukemia was held in the Columbia Tower on March 16. Here is a report from SRC member, Henry Wigglesworth: Yesterday, in the 22nd Big Climb for Leukemia, I placed fourth overall in the 69-floor stairclimb up the Columbia Tower. My time was 8:01, one second faster than my time last year. I was first in my age group (50-54). I also did the stairclimb two additional times yesterday and my times were 8:40 and 8:44, good for 10th and 12th place overall. My team, which inlcuded SRC member Simon Barbe, took first place, as we successfully defended our title from last year.

The 24th Annual Henry Weinhard's St. Patrick's Day Dash was held on March 16 in Seattle. With 8,322 timed finishers and probably another 7,000 untimed finishers, a few SRC runners completed the 3.58 mile route. Here are the names that matched up. If there are more, please email us!

FN        LN       OVERALL   DIVPL     SEXPL     TIME
Ben       Sauvage     9         1/593     9/3915    17:46
Chris     Ashfield    45        9/646     44/3915   19:35
Jeff L    Phillips    58        6/593     55/3915   20:08
Ashley    Nichols     83        1/128     7/4402    20:46
Steve     Angell      174       8/226     151/3915  22:11
Brian     Crawford    307       45/646    262/3915  23:27
Miles     Yanick      589       55/439    501/3915  25:09:00
Maris     Lemba       681       21/833    114/4402  25:32:00
John      Wallace III 783       103/646   640/3915  25:59:00
Darcy     McLaughlin  815       26/833    148/4402  26:05:00
Adam      Lamb        1052      79/359    842/3915  26:50:00
Arne      Hales       1206      5/1992    952/3915  27:21:00
Robert    Frary       1697      29/139    1265/3915 28:38:00
Lisa      Eagle       2510      144/833   786/4402  30:24:00
Quentin   Ertel       2934      289/593   1954/3915 31:13:00
Dan       Williams    5472      520/646   3046/3915 36:10:00
Thomas    Brooks      6748      523/593   3451/3915 39:49:00
Tracy     Brown       8256      456/464   4356/4402 1:04:02

Twenty members from our club and team competed in the third annual "Love 'em or Leave 'em Valentine's Day Dash", held on February 10 at Green Lake. Over 1600 runners completed the 5K race. Results are as follows:

place     first        last         age      sex       divp      sexp      time
    6     Ben          Sauvage       38        M       3/170     6/545     16:16
    18    Bjorn        Begelman      23        M       6/149     18/545    17:11
    24    Gwen         Greiner       38        F       1/338     2/1091    17:26
    32    Noah         Heidenreic    13        M        3/27     26/545    18:11
    34    Chris        Ashfield      31        M       10/170    28/545    18:14
    40    Andrew       Nestingen     36        M       11/170    33/545    18:27
    52    Erika        Daligcon      32        F       3/338     8/1091    18:51
    56    Ashley       Nichols       15        F        1/35     10/1091   19:03
    59    Jeff         Phillips      37        M       18/170    48/545    19:17
    64    Travis       Keany         25        M       15/149    53/545    19:32
    81    Christopher  Davis         28        M       20/149    65/545    20:17
   108    Elizabeth    Stahl         40        F       5/205     23/1091   21:07
   121    Krista       Mirhoseini    44        F       6/205     27/1091   21:28
   148    Charles      Fields        33        M       31/170   106/545    21:51
   362    Lindsay      Call          11        F        8/35    136/1091   25:20:00
   527    Edward       Johnson       66        M        5/18    298/545    27:18:00
   572    Lisa         Eagle         27        F       96/381   251/1091   27:51:00
   689    Tim          Stensen       55        M       32/50    350/545    28:50:00
   939    Guo          Li            32        M      122/170   409/545    31:00:00
   1546   Heidi        Jimenez       29        F      357/381   101/1091   47:29:00
   

Tempe, Arizona was the site of the 5th annual P.F. Chang's Rock 'N' Roll Arizona Marathon and Half Marathon on January 13. Ben Sauvage and Trish Steidl, both Brooks Seattle Running Team members, were the second and third Washingtonians across the finish line. Ben ran 2:38:48 (6:04/mi), good for 32nd place. Trish ran 2:54:17 (6:39), good for 22nd Female.

The 29th Annual Nookachamps Winter Runs were held on January 12 in Mount Vernon, WA. Jeff Phillips and Dylan Hopper ran the half marathon. Jeff placed 13th overall in 1:26:52 and Dylan placed 38th overall in 1:32:44. Kathy Rogers and Mike Quinlan ran in the 10K race. Kathy was the 3rd overall female in a time of 43:01. Mike was 52nd overall in a time of 53:33.

At the January 12th Bridle Trails Winter Running Festival in Kirkland, WA, Greg Crowther won the 50K Solo Race for the second consecutive year and third time overall with a mud-slowed time of 3:44:18. Miles Ohlrich placed 3rd with a time of 4:07:53. Scott Jurek finished in 5th place in 4:45:24. John Novak, 12th, 5:24:34; Francis Agboton, 14th, 5:27:00; Glen Mangiantini, 22nd, 5:39:12; Mary Hanna, 2nd Female, 5:39:35; Chris Hawkins, 36th, 6:16:59 were among the 44 finshers in the 50K Solo Race.

Mark Davies finished in 2nd place (by only 1 second) in 30:20 in the 5.2 Mile Race. John Wallace III, 15th, 41:56 and Nina Penner, 10th Female, 48:18 were among the 74 finishers in the 5.2 mile race.

Matt Fieckenstein was top SRC runner in the 10.4 Mile Race, finishing 13th overall in a time of 1:14:47. Heriberto Rodriguez, 21st, 1:18:22; Stuart Johnson, 25th, 1:20:38; Julie Cassata, 5th Female, 1:22:01; Travis Kriplear, 30th, 1:23:46; Paul Funk, 33rd, 1:24:15; Cliff Watson, 35th, 1:24:39; Andy Martin, 44th, 1:31:03; Roberta Carlson, 12th Female, 1:39:13; Laura Houston, 17th Female, 1:46:27 were among the 73 finishers in the 10.4 mile race.

Half of the 50KM Pairs had SRC members. Crosby-Helms/Hanks were 3rd overall and the first female team in a time of 4:12:40. DeSilva/DeSilva was 4th in 4:35:29 and Ackley/Bogesvang was 6th in 5:05:42.

Several SRC members were also part of 50KM Teams. Eric Bone and his team finished 1st overall in a time of 3:30:45. Allen Skytta, Owen Connell, Tonya Hoffman and their team finished 4th in 4:03:12. Simon Barbe, Noah Heidenreich, Michael Mendenhall, and their team finished 8th in 4:10:40. John Liechty and his team finished 14th in 5:39:33.

For results and news from previous years, please see the pages listed below...

• 2007 results/news archive

• 2006 results/news archive

• 2005 results/news archive

• 2004 results/news archive