Archive for July 3rd, 2008



Pretty Good Range

Heather Griffith (Louisville, KY) has pretty good range.  She typically does ultra marathons up to and in excess of 100 miles.  On Saturday, June 28, she won the Todd Crawford Foundation 5K in Louisville, KY, a race held as a fundraiser to find a cure for paralysis.  On the two loop course, Heather ran extremely even splits with her second loop just a little slower than the first as she was directed off course slightly.  She rebounded to win the title of overall female champion with a time of 19:27.

No Trouble Here

           

Rick Moyer (Reading, PA) ran the Double Trouble 30K Trail Run in Morgantown, PA on June 22.  Rick’s splits were very even for the two 15K loops at around 1:38 and 1:42 for a finish time of 3:22:26 good for 38th place overall out of 320 competitors.

Running for a Purpose 

Helene Strutko (Harvey’s Lake, PA) won the women’s division of the 2nd Annual Damon S. Young Memorial 10K on June 21 in
Tunkhannock, PA.  The race is held to benefit the Damon S. Young Memorial Scholarship.  On a Sunny day in the 80’s, the course started out with a mile and a half flat along the river, then turned to dirt trail with a steep climb to the mountain top at about the 4.7 mile mark.  The last 1.5 miles was very steep downhill back to the start/finish.   The course provided the most challenge to Helene that day as she fought hard and won by over three minutes.