Preliminary results for top 10 men and women New River Trail 50k, Fries, VA 10/9/2010

Wow!

A ton of life energy was exposed and shared today during the 3^rd running of the New River Trail 50k in Fries, VA! We had 130 finishers all under the 7-hour time limit! Congratulations to you all! And a million thanks to our many selfless and energetic volunteers and partners at VA State Parks…it takes a real team effort to create this event.

Twenty four year old Kate Brun set a new CR at 3:49:15, Jenny Anderson followed as runner up meeting her personal goal of sub 4:00 with 3:59:0 and Melissa Ball chased her close with 3:59:42. All 3 women bettered Jenny’s 2009 CR!

On the guy’s side, Chris Motta, 26 led the pack with a 3:33:36 win, with Doug Covington, 41 at 3:39:47 and Dwight Shuler, 46 was next.

As I write, I will keep this post brief, as I am almost hallucinating with being tired and with celebration of what seems like a very successful run for many folks. George and I are staying in Fries again tonight and I am still w/o cell reception or Internet access. If this post goes up this evening, it is because I have pirated Internet access from somewhere in Galax where I am soon to visit in order to seek out some wine.

At this point I have no cell reception and expect that if in years past folks will be inquiring about left items and un-collected drop bags. The staff of New River Trail State Park has these items that were left on course or at S/F and tomorrow evening when I post here again I shall share “lost item fetching” details.

For now here are the unofficial results through the 10^th woman. If the format is funky, I apologize; full results will be posted by 8pm Sunday 10/10 on www.ncnr.org/nrt50k.html. I will be submitting a race report and results ASAP for publication in the next possible edition of www.ultrarunning.org

place	time	name		age
1	3:33:36	christopher motta	m	26
2	3:39:47	doug covington	m	41
3	3:46:49	dwight shuler	m	46
4	3:47:51	jonathan savage	m	44
5	3:49:15	kate brun	f	24
6	3:51:15	keith mrochek	m	37
7	3:51:46	mark rostan	m	41
8	3:59:05	jenny anderson	f	36
9	3:59:08	bobby aswell jr	m	47
10	3:59:42	melissa ball	f	29
11	4:01:30	jeremy alsop	m	27
12	4:02:11	paul wardzinski	m	55
13	4:02:55	erika thompson	f	23
14	4:03:12	ling dao	m	33
15	4:07:39	jason overbaugh	m	35
16	4:12:18	chad randolph	m	44
17	4:14:29	rick gray	m	49
18	4:15:37	joe schlereth	m	60
19	4:16:51	ron garsik	m	38
20	4:18:56	rob french	m	52
21	4:19:28	chris jordan	m	26
22	4:19:46	jonathan masenga	m	30
23	4:19:50	amy walters	f	31
24	4:20:38	jonathan adcock	m	28
25	4:21:02	doug blackford	m	63
26	4:21:27	ashley long	f	29
27	4:22:28	lisa marie kloberdanz	f	30
28	4:23:40	betsy chew	f	39
29	4:25:01	beth frye	f	41
30	4:25:43	meredith bazemore	f	35