Moore and Heyning top Resolution Run list

Gale Moore cut a minute off of last year’s race to place 11th overall female and first female over 50 (Grand Master).  She was given the award of third female Master (40+).  Kim Heyning placed 2nd out of 64 women in the 40-44 group.

Nashville’s New Years Resolution Run was conducted on Saturday, December 31, 2012.  It changed from a Nashville Striders event to an I Run For the Party event.  The course changed to a down and back from downtown Broadway to Music Row.  Gale Moore cut a minute off of last year’s race to place 11th overall female and first female over 50 (Grand Master).  She was given the award of third Master (40+).

There were 1022 finishers, up from 754 last year.  The race website posted results in order of Gun Time.  This place has it in order of Chip Time.  For the results below, I used the placing from the Gun Time.

Name	Age	Plc	SexPL	Time	Pace
Gale Moore	52	1	11	22:36	7:16
Kim Heyning	41	2	32	25:05	8:04
Seth Campbell	22	10	114	25:06	8:04
Michelle Jarrett	40	6	55	26:22	8:29
Jeffrey Thomason	48	20	166	26:51	8:38
Michael Yoders	46	26	193	27:41	8:54
Darryl Baker	46	28	220	28:55	9:18
Tori Weiss	47	22	204	31:27	10:07
Dick Moore	55	15	286	32:11	10:21
Jude Campbell	13	8	223	32:11	10:21
Maribeth Hughes	44	30	299	34:23	11:04
Glenna Winters	40	32	313	34:52	11:13
Don Young	65	4	337	36:48	11:50
Joshua Gochee	31	57	355	38:50	12:29
Claire Campbell	34	104	574	50:29	16:14

 

St. Jude Half Marathon

Natalie Counts hit a PR with her time of 1:48:36 at the St. Jude Half Marathon on December 3rd (2011).  Amanda Smith ran-walked her first first half marathon, and her mom, Tomi Smith, hung with her.  There were 6783 total participants.  Full Results

Name		Age	SexPl	AgePlc	Time	Pace
Natalie	Counts	36		26	1:48:36	8:18
Stephanie	Robinette	42	158	21	1:50:11	8:25
Virginia	Webb	48	1019	86	2:11:08	10:01
Elizabeth	Molder	29	1662	261	2:21:51	10:50
Johnathon	Counts	36		251	2:23:27	10:58
Katie	White	30		330	2:23:28	10:58
Tomi	Smith	47	2400	218	2:35:25	11:52
Amanda	Smith	21	2401	236	2:35:25	11:52
Ashley	Hodge	28	2575	429	2:39:04	12:09

Tomi and Amanda

Steph, Tomi, Elvis, Amanda, Katie, Natalie, Johnathon

Rocket City Marathon

We had an impressive group who ran very well at the Rocket City Marathon in Huntsville Alabama on December 10 (2011).  For ultra distance runner, Zane Smith, this marathon was a short event.  He topped the list with a 3:41:04 running the first half at an 8:03 pace and the latter half at 8:49.  Gale Moore placed the best with a 9th place in the 50-54 female grouping.

Gale Moore and Chris Brown stuck together for the entirety.  Tina Seago accompanied them for a significant portion but dropped out at mile 18 with a leg injury.  Melissa Meador, Amanda Farmer and Cindy Davis spent several miles together.  Meador and Farmer PR’d this marathon by 54 minutes and 65 minutes respectively.  It was Cindy Davis’ first-ever marathon and she fought leg cramps during the last six miles.  Natalie Counts PR’d a half marathon just one week prior to this race and still ran well at this marathon.  Full Results

Name	Age	AgePl	Oall	Time	Pace
Zane Smith	38	27	244	3:41:04	8:25
Chris Brown	40	76	416	3:57:44	9:04
Gale Moore	52	9	417	3:57:45	9:04
Melissa Meador	40	13	516	4:07:24	9:26
Chris Hamm	32	47	524	4:08:26	9:28
Amanda Farmer	30	18	546	4:10:13	9:32
Allison Hill	37	21	602	4:15:40	9:45
Natalie Counts	36	22	622	4:17:56	9:50
Rose Rainey	48	16	635	4:19:49	9:54
Cindy Davis	33	45	744	4:29:13	10:16

Tina Seago, Gale Moore and Chris Brown

Cindy Davis and Missy Meador

Chattanooga to Nashville Relay

On November 5-6, 2011, a team of a dozen runners from Columbia participated in the Ragnar Relay from Chattanooga to Nashville.  This was the second year for virtually the same group.  Last year’s team was Stephanie Robinette, Patrick Carter, Kelly Powell, Norma Powell, Tomi Smith, Rick Harris, Nathan Miller, Ashley Miller, Julie (Williams) Briggs, Becky (Hewgley) Ramer, Shane Wilson and Jason Ward.  This year Jenny Adcox was sub’d in for someone.

They finished in 30 hours 26 minutes placing 77th out of 105 mixed open teams.  Last year’s result was 29:45.  Full Results

Patrick Carter was asked to give some highlights.  Here is his email response:

Our official team  name was “Night Train” however Van #2, also known as the “fun van” became unofficially known as “Occupy Ragnar”-we were protesting the elite 1% of runners.   We caused quite a stir in Nashville with some of the real Occupiers. 

I got shafted again and ran up Monteagle.  I spanked it according to Kelly Powell.

Costumes were the brainchild of Tomi.  We each tried on different wigs and had fun with it.

 Stephanie was selected to be Vanna White during the safety meeting because when a volunteer was requested we literally pushed her into service.  She did a fine job and should be commended on her ability to hold a sign without getting too shaky.

Special thanks to Ashley’s mother who fed us delicious lasagna in the middle of the night and let us crash at her house for a while.

We watched and laughed at many you tube videos including but not limited to the honey badger.

Kelly didn’t change as much this year and did NOT get one honk in response to what we wrote on his door “Honk if you think I’m sexy”.  Rick had many admirers in response to what was written on his door “I like men, little men”.

Anyway we had a blast, ran fast and are now contemplating Key West Ragnar 2013.

Anderson 7:08 pace at Nashville 1/2 Marathon

The Nashville Half Marathon on November 12, 2011, started next to the Hard Rock Cafe and followed a route through the best of Nashville. It includeed the Gulch, Music Row, encircling downtown, running along the Cumberland River to Shelby Park, crossing the steep Woodland Bridge, and finishing at Hard Rock.  The weather was moderate with a bit of wind.  The finishing medal was all the rave.

There were 1745 finishers, 60% of which were women, and the I-Run-The-Party event included free beer at the ensuing party at Riverfront Park.  Full Results.

Brad Anderson covered the course at an average pace of 7:08 per mile and placed 6th out of 101 in the 25-29 males.  Jerry Houston and Tom Winters also placed high in their respective age groups. 

Name	Age	AgePl	SexPl	Time	Pace
Brad Anderson	27	6	31	1:33:25	7:08
Mark White	29	20	126	1:47:08	8:11
Allison Hill	37	10	58	1:50:16	8:26
Jerry Houston	57	7	182	1:51:11	8:30
Heather Diles	36	21	139	1:57:42	9:00
Kristen Daugherty	26	68	304	2:10:19	9:57
Tom Winters	62	6	465	2:15:16	10:20
Barbara Mitchell	43	43	461	2:20:19	10:43
Jennifer Fleming	37	72	471	2:21:08	10:47
Susan Mihalek	58	10	528	2:24:24	11:02
Eric Endsley	30	87	586	2:37:35	12:02
Jacqueline Hemphill	50	26	713	2:41:53	12:22
Melissa Downing	32	145	836	3:00:05	13:45
Leigh Huckaba	44	104	928	3:17:14	15:04
Laura Irwin	40	105	934	3:18:00	15:07
Leigh Anne Mefferd	33	176	971	3:32:09	16:12
James Mefferd	33	105	690	3:32:10	16:12
Vicky Hunter	52	55	1000	3:42:43	17:01
Daniel Johns	31	107	698	3:43:42	17:05
Amber Johns	31	179	1001	3:43:43	17:05
Deborah Johns	54	58	1020	3:54:05	17:53
Anthony Downing	34	108	701	4:00:13	18:21
Caitlin Hawley	25	194	1025	4:00:15	18:21
Brett Hawley	26	101	702	4:00:17	18:21

Daniel and Amber Johns

Boulevard Bolt 5-Mile brings 8200

Marcy Owens

Running and walking a 5-Mile race on Thanksgiving morning is a great way to prepare for the meal that will come later.  At least 8200 people think so because this is how many met at Belle Meade Boulevard in Nashville on November 27, 2011.  As a result $1.6 Million was donated to homeless charities.

Only the first 2500 preregistered runners get a timing chip, so there may be others from this area who participated but were not timed.  The finish results only have 2195 finishers.  Full Results

Name	Age	AgePl	SexPl	Time	Pace
Greg Martin	54	32	352	39:16	7:52
Richard Pelfrey	31	74	605	43:46	8:46
Sharon Vaughn	52	17	402	47:17	9:28
Marcy Owens	22	67	624	52:20	10:28
Krista Delk	33	126	801	58:53	11:47
Mary Joe Davis	51	53	988	1:35:06	19:02

Leach 11 hours at Ironman Florida

Christian Cahill, Bob Boehm & Duane Leach

Bob Boehm, Christian Cahill and Duane Leach competed in the Florida Ironman on November 5, 2011.  Duane Leach biked 20.4 mph and ran a 4:12 marathon to finish in 11:02:26.   It was a top 8% finish in age group and this time puts Leach at the top of the local leader board where Mike Waugh was previously sitting with his 11:13:00 time from 2003.  See Maury Ironman Stats at Pages on right>>

Leach’s goal was 12 hours and he followed a 39-week program purchased from Ben Greenfield in pursuit.  Leach commented, “I never in my wildest dreams considered 11 hours within reach.  Throughout the race I was just smiling because of the cushions I was building to break 12 hours.  I was completely surprised to find myself running 9:08 miles for the first 11 miles.  It wasn’t until 11-miles to go that I decided to calculate the prospect of an 11 hour finish.  I calculated that holding a 10-minute mile pace would get it, so I began pursuing it.  I was getting weary but somehow I gained two minutes to spare by the time I finished.  Unfortunately my watch time was four minutes faster than the official time.  Not sure what happened to my watch.”  Leach was on the verge of collapsing at the finish and was wheel-chaired to the medical tent for observation (no I.V. given).

This was Bob Boehm’s third Ironman, Christian Cahill’s sixth and Duane Leach’s first (and only he says).  There were 2700 race participants that came from all 50 states and 37 countries.  The ocean was almost wave-less; the temperature started at 50 degrees and climbed to 70 degrees; the wind was 10-15 mph.  Full Results.  Duane’s Ironman Blog.

	AGE PLACE	SWIM	BIKE	MPH	RUN	PACE	FINISH
Duane Leach	17/205  M50-54	1:08:08	5:28:56	20.4	4:12:45	9:38	11:02:26
Robert Boehm	44/205  M50-54	1:16:46	5:38:11	19.9	4:40:47	10:43	11:50:16
Christian Cahill	296/426 M40-45	1:18:40	6:01:41	18.6	5:37:03	12:51	13:17:24

Cindy Davis tops at M’boro Middle Half

Cindy Davis ran an 8:13 pace at the The Middle Half marathon in Murfreesboro on October 15, 2011.  According to the split records Davis was sitting on an 8:12 pace at 6.3miles, so she held an even pace throughout.  Stephanie Robinette was 3 minutes behind Davis and place 5th in her age group.   Full Results

NAME	AGE	DivPl	SexPl	TIME	PACE
Cindy Davis	33	6	30	1:47:37	8:13
Stephanie Robinette	42	5	43	1:50:37	8:27
Christy Horner	32	27	103	1:57:44	9:00
Jerome Perry	54	31	334	2:02:03	9:19
Tyler Horner	33	48	343	2:02:54	9:23
Patrick O’Neil	33	51	381	2:05:40	9:36
Shannon Morgan	36	50	200	2:07:36	9:45
Virginia Webb	48	14	199	2:07:36	9:45
Brandy Crowell	32	52	223	2:09:22	9:53
Carrie Hight	24	12	254	2:10:52	10:00
Brittany Mealer	25	41	277	2:12:06	10:06
Heather Hardison	33	67	292	2:13:14	10:11
Blake Hight	26	42	497	2:14:24	10:16
Lori Mizer	40	54	321	2:15:54	10:23
Karen Gobble	32	89	407	2:22:09	10:51
Tomi Smith	46	40	536	2:31:53	11:36
Jonathan Gobble	32	108	661	2:32:17	11:38
Amy Maguire	40	107	628	2:38:56	12:08
Rhedona Rose	49	52	636	2:39:47	12:12
Jill Jones	35	156	706	2:47:10	12:46
Daniel Johns	31	121	758	2:50:35	13:02
Amber Johns	31	155	734	2:50:37	13:02
Wanda Jones	56	16	770	2:54:36	13:20
Carolyn Anderson	58	17	773	2:54:40	13:20
Deborah Johns	54	61	918	3:31:16	16:08

Cindy Davis is 4th from left

Nettleton, Hartsfield 2-3 at NashVegas Tri

In the Tommy Nettleton versus Chris Hartsfield competition, Tommy Nettleton evened the score to 1-1.  Nettleton placed 2nd overall and Hartsfield placed 3rd overall in the sprint distance NashVegas Triathlon on September 10.

Bob Boehm and Duane Leach competed in the Half Iron distance event in preparation for their upcoming Ironman commitment and placed well in their respective grouping.  Christine Schmalzer of Summertown competed in the Olympic distance.

The Start 2 Finish management group from Memphis conducted three triathlons of different lengths at the same time at Ashland City, TN.  They did a superb job and the venue was very nice.  The run course for the longer two races included the Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail (Rails To Trails), and its ease, scenery and shade were a pleasure.

Full Results

Sprint	Div	Place	Swim	Bike	MPH	Run	Pace	Total
Tommy Nettleton	Overall	2	7:26	36:47	22.84	21:53	7:04	1:07:22
Chris Hartsfield	Overall	3	6:57	38:19	21.92	22:16	7:11	1:08:49
Olympic
Chistine Schmalzer	F40-44	8	30:42	1:31:51	16.28	1:06:22	10:42	3:13:10
Half Ironman
Robert Boehm	Clyde	2	32:31	2:50:09	19.75	2:01:08	9:15	5:26:07
Duane Leach	M50-54	3	31:31	2:56:56	19.00	2:05:28	9:35	5:36:46

 

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