Wade Wins Masters in Shamrock Sportsfest 8K
Houstonian Sean Wade was 8th overall in Saturday's Shamrock Sportsfest 8K in Virginia Beach, Virginia; however, the former Olypmian from New Zealand won his first Masters' race with a time of 25:18.80, beating his closest opponent, Villa Rica, Georgia's John Tuttle, by nearly a minute, to earn a $500 pay day.
The top five (5) men's Masters' runners were as follows:
8 20021 Sean Wade, M, 40, USA/NZL .......................... 0:25:17.70 5:09 0:25:18.70
15 20023 John Tuttle, M, 47, Villa Rica, GA ................... 0:26:13.40 5:20 0:26:15.70
21 20029 John Piggott, M, 40, Williamsburg, VA ........... 0:26:57.90 5:29 0:26:59.80
28 23440 Rob Hinkle, M, 41, Yorktown, VA ................... 0:27:26.70 5:35 0:27:29.00
29 20030 Stephen Chantry, M, 51, Williamsburg VA ..... 0:27:28.80 5:36 0:27:30.80
The story in today's The Virginian-Pilot indicated that runners were running into a "teeth of a headwind".
Wade finished 8th in a field where six of the first seven runners were Kenyans who are training here in the States in places such as West Chester, Pa., Chapel Hill, N.C. and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Finishing 12th was 29-year-old Benson Osoro (Kenyan/Ann Arbor), who finished 2nd at the Bison Stampede in Austin this past November.
While looking to see if Wade's biggest competition in his first two national Masters races, Rick Fuller, from Eugene, Oregon, was running at the Oregon Preview yesterday, I did see that Dan Browne (of the Nike Oregon Project) won the 3,000 meters in 8:13.00 while Oregon sophomore Galen Rupp was fourth, a second behind, in 8:14.20.
The top five (5) men's Masters' runners were as follows:
8 20021 Sean Wade, M, 40, USA/NZL .......................... 0:25:17.70 5:09 0:25:18.70
15 20023 John Tuttle, M, 47, Villa Rica, GA ................... 0:26:13.40 5:20 0:26:15.70
21 20029 John Piggott, M, 40, Williamsburg, VA ........... 0:26:57.90 5:29 0:26:59.80
28 23440 Rob Hinkle, M, 41, Yorktown, VA ................... 0:27:26.70 5:35 0:27:29.00
29 20030 Stephen Chantry, M, 51, Williamsburg VA ..... 0:27:28.80 5:36 0:27:30.80
The story in today's The Virginian-Pilot indicated that runners were running into a "teeth of a headwind".
Wade finished 8th in a field where six of the first seven runners were Kenyans who are training here in the States in places such as West Chester, Pa., Chapel Hill, N.C. and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Finishing 12th was 29-year-old Benson Osoro (Kenyan/Ann Arbor), who finished 2nd at the Bison Stampede in Austin this past November.
While looking to see if Wade's biggest competition in his first two national Masters races, Rick Fuller, from Eugene, Oregon, was running at the Oregon Preview yesterday, I did see that Dan Browne (of the Nike Oregon Project) won the 3,000 meters in 8:13.00 while Oregon sophomore Galen Rupp was fourth, a second behind, in 8:14.20.
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