Wooden Shoe 5K

Wooden Shoe 5K in Clymer, N.Y. — Saturday, May 18.  178 finishers.  Complete results here.

Top males:

1. Peter Boyd, 38, Union City, 16:43

2. Shawn Wiler, 18, Columbus, 17:09

3. Adam Rowe, 32, Ripley, 17:50

Top females:

1. Katie Kuttenkuler, 29, Erie, 19:24

2. Kimberly Turner, 29, Corry, 20:09

3. Rebecca King, 15, Clymer, 20:58

Erin Carlisle Memorial 5K

Erin Carlisle Memorial 5K — Presque Isle State park — Sunday, May 19. 140 finishers. Complete results here.

Top Males:

1. Carter Denne, 23, North East, 16:30 (wow!)

2. Sean Cillessen, 27, Erie, 18:56

3. Zachary Miller, 24, Girard, 19:46

Top Females

1. Anna Kemper, 17, Erie, 24:04

2. Rachel Willis, 17, Erie, 24:05

3. Emily Scavella, 28, Erie, 24:28

Cleveland Marathon

Cleveland Marathon/Half Marathon/10K & 5K— Cleveland, Ohio — Sunday, May 19 (5K was Saturday).  25,000+ finishers, including quite a few Erie-area runners. Complete, searchable results here.

Photo from GoErie Street View (Mike Conway)

The ERC’s Mother’s Day 5K had a BIG turnout with nearly 700 participating in the run/walk on Sunday, May 12.

Results here.

140 photos from GoErie’s Street View photographer, Mike Conway, here.

Top 3 male: Chris Marchant, 46, 20:24; Kevin Slagle, 32, 20:45; Joel Linebach, 14, 20:54

Top 3 female: Aimee Deyoung, 40, 21:41; Dawn Betza, 45, 22:17; Kayla Murphy, 17, 22:24

Also this weekend:

* Women’s Care Center 5K held on Saturday, May 11 drew 126 runners. Results here.

Top 3 male: Joe Eckendorf, 50, 19:18; Simon Deangelo, 19:43; Josh Eckendorf, 22, 20:27

Top 3 female: Dakota Sonney, 15, 23:50; Grace Domino, 24:25; Carrie Vandamia, 36, 24:36

* The Braves Mighty Miler on Saturday, May 11 drew 60+ 5Kers and 21 1K participants. Results here.

Top 3 male(5K): Draven Douglas, 13, 22:40; Tyler McMillen, 13, 22:43; Ron Krystek, 57, 22:57

Top 3 female (5K): Katie Kuttenkuler, 29, 19:43; Erin Trojak, 24, 28:18; Brenda Urban, 29:28

* Oil City YMCA Mayfly 5K on Saturday, May 11 had nearly 100 participants between the walk & run. Results here.

Top 3 males: Matt Peterson , 20, 19:38; Tony Ruth , 52, 19:51; Jason Woolcock , 40, 20:31

Top 3 females: Stacie Stevenson , 25, 20:55; Sara Lander, 19, 23:48; Emily Baughman, 17, 24:29

Nearly 350 participated in the Erie County Bar Association Law Day 5K on Saturday morning in downtown Erie. Runners enjoyed perfect racing conditions and it showed in the results — look at these top race times:

Men:

1. Justin Allen, 24, Erie — 16:31

2. Alexander Zarger, 24, Erie — 16:51

3. Andrew Nowak, 26, Erie — 16:58

Women:

1. Shannon Morton, 29, Erie — 20:04

2. Andrea Patmore, 31, Erie — 20:08

3. Mimi Prather, 14, Meadville — 20:14

Complete race results here.

Runners participating in Saturday morning’s ERC Poker Run (5K)  honored the victims in the Boston Marathon tragedy. Sticker bibs for runners’ backs were made available by the club at the race registration table. Many thanks to Creative Imprint Systems who printed and donated the bibs.

Nearly 200 runners & walkers suffered through ANOTHER cold, windy & snowy 5K (boy, we’ve had our share this year!) at the park, but it sure didn’t slow the front runners down much.

Top 3 men: Justin Allen, Erie, 17:03; Adam Rowe, Ripley, N.Y., 18:06; and Shane Krause, Erie, 18:51

Top 3 women: Kimberly Pebley, Erie, 20;56; Lora Beeton, Washington Twp., Pa., 21:47; and Kayla Murphy, Erie, 22:14.

Complete results here.

More photos at the ERC’s Facebook page.

Plenty of racing options this past weekend with two Presque Isle 5K races and another 5K and a 1/2 marathon just down I-79.

Run for Parkinson’s 5K

Nearly 150 participated in the 5K Run for Parkinson’s on Saturday with Adam Rowe, 32, (Ripley, N.Y.) taking first overall with an 18:09 (5:51 pace) and Kristen O’Brien,  23, (Westminster, M.D.) taking first female with a 22:46 (7:21 pace).

Complete 5K Run for Parkinson’s results here.

Miles for Mercy 5K

Ninety-two finishers completed the Miles for Mercy 5K on Sunday morning with warm, but windy conditions.  Top honors: Joseph Hunt, 32, Erie, with a 20:55 (6:20 pace) and Dawn Betza, 45, Erie, with a 24:27 (7:25 pace).

Complete Miles for Mercy 5K results here.

Thunder Run 5K

Just down I-79, Meadville hosted the Thunder Run 5K on Saturday morning with more than 100 finishers completing the race.

Results here.

Prep for Pittsburgh 1/2 Marathon

Dan and I drove down to Sandy Lake, Pa., to Goddard State Park (about an hour down I-79) to participate in the Prep for Pittburgh 1/2 marathon. It was a nice race and we’d definitely do it again. As I was warned (AFTER I signed up), it was far from flat. There were plenty of hills, but they weren’t as bad as I had built them up in my head (I made mountains out of rolling hills) and I found the course to be a nice change of pace and  a chance to use different muscles and challenge myself to run a 1/2 on something other than a totally flat course.  That said, I was totally cursing the race director when I came upon a fairly big hill just after the 12-mile marker.

There were less than 100 participants, so Dan & I did well.  Dan was 13th overall and took 2nd in his age group with a 1:34 (7:13 pace). I was 20 minutes behind him, finishing with a 1:55:11, but got 1st place in my age group. Sucks to be a guy, eh?

We didn’t see anyone else from Erie there, but here are complete results. 

By the way…. the Prep for Pittsburgh course has permanent wood mile markers that say HM (see photo below)…and you can see the course here…so you could drive down and run it anytime. There’s a prologue at the beginning to make up the extra mile. But…you could skip it and just run around the lake for a nice 12 miler.

It’s a nice paved trail that would also be fun to bike. There are restroom facilities with running water and dogs are welcome (on a leash…pick up after them).  It’s much like Presque isle’s Multipurpose trail, but with more hills…and, it would seem, less traffic. But, I can’t say that for sure because I’ve never been there in the summer.  It’s also mostly shaded by trees.

The ERC’s Winter Series (Turkey Trot, New Year’s Day 5-Miler & St. Patrick’s Day) results are up now:

28K (10K, 5M, 10K) here.

Top Male Overall – Josh Sibbald

Top Male Master Overall – Mike Lawrence

Top Female Overall – Shannon Henley

Top Female Master Overall – Heather Cass

18K (5K, 5M, 5K) here.

Top Male Overall -  John Trucilla

Top Male Master Overall – Gregory Schiller

Top Female Overall – Jenny Turak

Top Female Master Overall – Liz Rinderle

Those who completed the ERC’s Winter Series today definitely earned the chairs they were awarded (see above) after running on icy courses for both the New Year’s Day run and today’s St. Paddy’s Day run.

*sigh*  Yep, it was another snowy/icy race at the park today. But by the time the 10K started at 10 a.m., some of the ice/snow had begun to melt and there were bare spots on the course.  After the turn around, on the bay side, racers were blasted with a nasty headwind.  I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for spring. Ugh.

Despite the snow, cold and wind,  more than 786  people finished one of the three (10K, 5K and 2 mile walk) events. Some even did two races and took Jim Lang’s Winter Distance Festival challenge, completing both the 5K & the 10K.

Complete race results can be found here (Distance Festival results to come soon).

And Mike Conway of the GoErie Street View Crew was there, too.

* See nearly 102 pictures from the 5K here.

* See 75 photos from the 10K here

Results from today’s March Forth Against Crime 5K at Presque Isle State Park are available here from Big White Trailer timing.

Top finishers were ….

Male — Dino Montagna with an 18:18; Pat Krott with a 19:11; and John Trucilla with a 20:38

Female — Katie Kuttenkuler with a 21:03; Allison Jeric with a 23:03; and Kelly Hilling with a 24:58.

It was another icy race on Sunday morning for the Erie Runners Club’s Valentine’s Prediction Run at the Rotary Pavilion. I had predicted my pace at 8:22, but changed it to 8:50 once I saw the course as we drove in. I should’ve left it alone because I ended up running an 8:19 pace, thanks to my ice cleats (once again…they saved my butt!).

Results for the race can be found here in two formats — overall and by pace prediction.

Remember, that the point of this race was to predict your pace, so the chocolate prizes went to those who came closest to accurately predicting their pace (be that 11-minute miles or 6-minute miles).

The Hubs was just 2 seconds off his predicted pace, which was good enough to score the BIG BAG of sponge candy. Wahoo! Even though I was 21 seconds off, I still won some chocolate as there were a lot of prizes and you had to be present to win.

A few photos:

Blatantly stolen borrowed from Jenny Turak’s FB page 

The hustle and bustle of the last weekend before Christmas sure didn’t seem to slow down any of the nearly 300 runners who showed up for the Mistletoe Mile race in North East on Sunday evening.

Top three men were:

* Ryan Smathers, 18 — 4:45 (wow!)
* Ben McAuley, 19 — 5:01
* Justin Elchynski, 20 — 5:12

Top three women were:

* Jenny Turak, 27 –  7:13
* Leann Parmenter, 46 — 7:18
* Ali Petrall, 18 — 7:42

See complete results here.