David's Dream Run 5K Race Report
I ran the David's Dream Run 5K this morning at H-E-B on Market Street in The Woodlands -- the last leg of the Montgomery County Triple.
Speaking of the Montgomery County Triple, 14 runners ran the Conroe Family YMCA Trail Run 5K, Run The Woodlands 5K and this morning's race. Almost everyone that finished the three races were members of The Woodlands Running Club. The complete list is as follows:
1. 51:49 - Jacob Mazone (17:30, 17:12, 17:07)
2. 59:07 - Joseph Mazone (18:15, 23:28, 17:24)
3. 71:14 - Stephen Smith (24:10, 22:48, 24:16)
4. 73:58 - Randy Bradley (25:04, 24:25, 24:19)
5. 74:03 - Ryan Bradley (24:40, 24:33, 24:50)
6. 77:02 - Scott Mayer (28:16, 25:52, 22:54)
7. 80:30 - Katy Lampson (26:31, 26:52, 27:07)
8. 83:58 - Jeff Paul (28:18, 27:58, 27:42)
9. 85:07 - Ron Longtin (28:38, 28:03, 28:26)
10. 86:42 - Sara Lange (28:26, 28:53, 29:23)
11. 104:04 - Ken Johnson (34:55, 34:28, 34:41)
12. 116:50 - Missy Yut (39:32, 38:54, 38:24)
13. 117:07 - Tarrah Mayer (36:23, 45:20, 35:24)
14. Evan Guy (49:42 first two races; No chip time on DD 5K)
Rick Cook had made up the awards and had four with pine cones. The plan was to go with the first male and female overall and masters. We basically were able to do this for the men. But with Liz Berry and Debbie Tripp both not running the event this morning, we had no masters runners in the women's division.
Therefore, we went with the fastest two in both the men's and the women's. The men, of course, turned out to be the same -- Jacob Mazone and his son, Joseph. The women were Katy Lampson and Sara Lange - both representing the Seven Hills Running Club.
Jacob and Stephen Smith are now the only two who have completed the Triple in the Spring '07, Fall '07 and now the Spring '08.
Eight of the 14 completed the Fall '07 Triple -- including the younger Mazone, Lampson, Longtin, Lange, Johnson and Yut.
How did my race go today? Not too bad. It got plenty hot in the latter two miles and the time showed a little bit; however, I wasn't too disappointed.
The splits looked like this:
Mile 1 -- 8:59.97
Mile 2 -- 10:10.57 (19:10.54)
Last 1.1 -- 11:14.52 (30:25.06)
It was my 10th 5K of the year, and my second fastest. There was a day when everything was typically in the 29s, with an occasional 28; however, my focus -- obviously -- has been geared toward the longer events. It was a 15-second improvement over last Saturday (with a marathon underneath my legs in between.) I'll take it.
How did my past and future TIR teammates do?
Katy Lampson, Huntsville - 27:07
Karen Felicidario, The Woodlands -- 29:09 (If I had worked a little harder ...)
Ken Johnson, Huntsville -- 34:42
How did my TIR opponents do?
Scott Mayer, Spring -- 22:55
Stewart Comrie, The Woodlands -- 26:35
Michelle Comrie, The Woodlands -- 28:28
(Tarrah Mayer, Spring -- 35:42; Scott's wife)
Anybody in the "idiot" category today? Yes, The Woodlands' Stan Zapf. What was this guy's crime? He started late - evidenced by his 47-second chip differential - and where he should have been with a stroller. (Basically, race directors need to take these off the course - or somebody needs to contact these races' insurance carriers, which could invalidate their coverage. I may resign my position with HARRA and start causing hell for some of these races and/or start a blog and publicly ID'ing runners who do this and wear headphones. These are clear safety issues.) He was destined to make up time. So what did he do? He ran on the outside of the traffic cones, at one point in the first half mile by impeding traffic. Of course, he had a stroller -- so he was running with a kid in it! Could you call this child endangerment? I could make a case for it. It is just plain stupid -- for what, a 5K?
College Park High School girls cross country and track coach Andrea Kaylor, 26, won the women's event in a time of 17:33 while Anne Kate Solversen, 50, of The Woodlands was runner-up in a distant second of 22:13. (Kaylor still looks like she could be in high school.) Kaylor's last big race was her second place finish at Run Thru The Woods on Thanksgiving where she finished behind Flower Mound's Melissa Cook, but defeated The Woodlands' Kim Hager. [It was good to see Joseph Mazone not get chicked by Andrea! She was right behind him at about mile 2.]
Richard Mac Namee, 41, won the Masters division i 19:16 -- a week removed from finishing fifth overall in the Sprint division of the Capital of Texas Triathlon in Austin last Saturday.
It was good - for the third time in four weeks - to see my friends from the Houston Striders -- Frank Halter, 54, and Pam Paling, 40, from The Woodlands. Frank crossed the finish line just before Stephen Smith, to finish with a gun time of 24:20, but Stephen edged him on chip time. Pam was just outside of her top three in age group with a time of 26:07.
It is always, always good to see The Woodlands' Jeff Westergren, 62. He finished in 25:40 today and he is one of those many, many individuals who encouraged me as I was getting started in 2003 during those many Run The Woodlands 5K.
Woodlands Fit was well-represented today as director Rich Cooper, 43, finished in 26:01. Jeff Paul finished in 27:43. (I had Jeff and a couple of others in sight in the first mile, but they finished stronger than me.) I'm sure that there were others.
Bill Dwyer's good friend William Banes is becoming pretty consistent -- 29:10 last week at Run The Woodlands and 29:11 today at David's Dream Run 5K. (Now, if we could just work on Bill on the race course!)
I could write - and analyze - forever. Therefore, I'll stop. For those of you who read the blog that I saw out there today, it was good to see you!
Listening to: "Gunpowder and Lead" - Miranda Lambert
Speaking of the Montgomery County Triple, 14 runners ran the Conroe Family YMCA Trail Run 5K, Run The Woodlands 5K and this morning's race. Almost everyone that finished the three races were members of The Woodlands Running Club. The complete list is as follows:
1. 51:49 - Jacob Mazone (17:30, 17:12, 17:07)
2. 59:07 - Joseph Mazone (18:15, 23:28, 17:24)
3. 71:14 - Stephen Smith (24:10, 22:48, 24:16)
4. 73:58 - Randy Bradley (25:04, 24:25, 24:19)
5. 74:03 - Ryan Bradley (24:40, 24:33, 24:50)
6. 77:02 - Scott Mayer (28:16, 25:52, 22:54)
7. 80:30 - Katy Lampson (26:31, 26:52, 27:07)
8. 83:58 - Jeff Paul (28:18, 27:58, 27:42)
9. 85:07 - Ron Longtin (28:38, 28:03, 28:26)
10. 86:42 - Sara Lange (28:26, 28:53, 29:23)
11. 104:04 - Ken Johnson (34:55, 34:28, 34:41)
12. 116:50 - Missy Yut (39:32, 38:54, 38:24)
13. 117:07 - Tarrah Mayer (36:23, 45:20, 35:24)
14. Evan Guy (49:42 first two races; No chip time on DD 5K)
Rick Cook had made up the awards and had four with pine cones. The plan was to go with the first male and female overall and masters. We basically were able to do this for the men. But with Liz Berry and Debbie Tripp both not running the event this morning, we had no masters runners in the women's division.
Therefore, we went with the fastest two in both the men's and the women's. The men, of course, turned out to be the same -- Jacob Mazone and his son, Joseph. The women were Katy Lampson and Sara Lange - both representing the Seven Hills Running Club.
Jacob and Stephen Smith are now the only two who have completed the Triple in the Spring '07, Fall '07 and now the Spring '08.
Eight of the 14 completed the Fall '07 Triple -- including the younger Mazone, Lampson, Longtin, Lange, Johnson and Yut.
How did my race go today? Not too bad. It got plenty hot in the latter two miles and the time showed a little bit; however, I wasn't too disappointed.
The splits looked like this:
Mile 1 -- 8:59.97
Mile 2 -- 10:10.57 (19:10.54)
Last 1.1 -- 11:14.52 (30:25.06)
It was my 10th 5K of the year, and my second fastest. There was a day when everything was typically in the 29s, with an occasional 28; however, my focus -- obviously -- has been geared toward the longer events. It was a 15-second improvement over last Saturday (with a marathon underneath my legs in between.) I'll take it.
How did my past and future TIR teammates do?
Katy Lampson, Huntsville - 27:07
Karen Felicidario, The Woodlands -- 29:09 (If I had worked a little harder ...)
Ken Johnson, Huntsville -- 34:42
How did my TIR opponents do?
Scott Mayer, Spring -- 22:55
Stewart Comrie, The Woodlands -- 26:35
Michelle Comrie, The Woodlands -- 28:28
(Tarrah Mayer, Spring -- 35:42; Scott's wife)
Anybody in the "idiot" category today? Yes, The Woodlands' Stan Zapf. What was this guy's crime? He started late - evidenced by his 47-second chip differential - and where he should have been with a stroller. (Basically, race directors need to take these off the course - or somebody needs to contact these races' insurance carriers, which could invalidate their coverage. I may resign my position with HARRA and start causing hell for some of these races and/or start a blog and publicly ID'ing runners who do this and wear headphones. These are clear safety issues.) He was destined to make up time. So what did he do? He ran on the outside of the traffic cones, at one point in the first half mile by impeding traffic. Of course, he had a stroller -- so he was running with a kid in it! Could you call this child endangerment? I could make a case for it. It is just plain stupid -- for what, a 5K?
College Park High School girls cross country and track coach Andrea Kaylor, 26, won the women's event in a time of 17:33 while Anne Kate Solversen, 50, of The Woodlands was runner-up in a distant second of 22:13. (Kaylor still looks like she could be in high school.) Kaylor's last big race was her second place finish at Run Thru The Woods on Thanksgiving where she finished behind Flower Mound's Melissa Cook, but defeated The Woodlands' Kim Hager. [It was good to see Joseph Mazone not get chicked by Andrea! She was right behind him at about mile 2.]
Richard Mac Namee, 41, won the Masters division i 19:16 -- a week removed from finishing fifth overall in the Sprint division of the Capital of Texas Triathlon in Austin last Saturday.
It was good - for the third time in four weeks - to see my friends from the Houston Striders -- Frank Halter, 54, and Pam Paling, 40, from The Woodlands. Frank crossed the finish line just before Stephen Smith, to finish with a gun time of 24:20, but Stephen edged him on chip time. Pam was just outside of her top three in age group with a time of 26:07.
It is always, always good to see The Woodlands' Jeff Westergren, 62. He finished in 25:40 today and he is one of those many, many individuals who encouraged me as I was getting started in 2003 during those many Run The Woodlands 5K.
Woodlands Fit was well-represented today as director Rich Cooper, 43, finished in 26:01. Jeff Paul finished in 27:43. (I had Jeff and a couple of others in sight in the first mile, but they finished stronger than me.) I'm sure that there were others.
Bill Dwyer's good friend William Banes is becoming pretty consistent -- 29:10 last week at Run The Woodlands and 29:11 today at David's Dream Run 5K. (Now, if we could just work on Bill on the race course!)
I could write - and analyze - forever. Therefore, I'll stop. For those of you who read the blog that I saw out there today, it was good to see you!
Listening to: "Gunpowder and Lead" - Miranda Lambert
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1 Comments:
No need to resign so that you can raise hell about that- I would do it in a second!
Have you called the race directors on it yet?
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