A perfect summer morning for a fast 5k greeted runners in Bergen, New York on Saturday, August 10. The race director, Eric Boyce, does a great job of enticing really fast runners to his hometown event. This year the race also served as the USATF Niagara 5k road championship. Female repeat champion (3x) Maegan Krifchin took home over $900 with her winning time of 16:22. The overall winner, Michael Fout, ran a scintillating 14:27, just missing the course record by three seconds and a $200 bonus.
Runners had to be under a 5:38 per mile pace to even make the top 50. 367 people completed the distance, 8:00/mile would buy you no more than a 211th place finish! In most area 5k's that kind of time would place a runner in at least the top 40%.
Our local Sal's oldsters did great, led by Mike Weinpress's 3rd place in age group, 21:30, a 6:56 pace. Eileen ran a 25:32, Jan McCullough a 25:49 (about the same time as last year when she won the age group, this year finishing 8th), Joanne Katz nearly pr'd with a 27:21, 8:49 pace. Pete Leonard was 2nd with a 23:31 (7:35 pace), not bad for being 2 weeks shy of 70!
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