Newport Results (marathon and half)

Our mini-team at Newport scored well today. Lydia Quesada, running the first half-marathon of her life, placed second in her age group. Her mentor, Neal Benson, also was runner-up in his.

Michele Clemo ran her first half-marathon since being injured in an auto/pedestrian accident (she was the one on foot) last fall. Russell Wingard celebrated his birthday, which fell on Thursday, with his first marathon since this one a year ago.

Today was reason to celebrate for me as well. I didn’t go the planned distance, but was fine with half of it at age 74. There is no cure for the common birthday.

OUR NEWPORT RESULTS

(with official times and paces, including those for recent alumni -- *)

Neal – half in 2:14:25 (10:16 pace)

Bill – half in 1:51:51 (8:33s)

Michele – half in 2:25:16 (11:06s)

*Gina Clifton – half in 2:14:30 (10:16s)

*Dan Kerrigan – marathon in 4:32:24 (10:24s)

Lydia – half in 2:14:27 (10:16s)

Russell – marathon in 3:54:03 (8:56s)

Joe – walked half in 3:13:31 (14:44s)

OTHER RECENT RUNS

(those reported to me)

Jean – Monday 10K race in 1:04:26 (10:23s)

Tatiana – Monday 10K race in 1:07:48 (10:55s)