Mark Buschman blazed to a dominant first place finish at the Metric Marathon. His time of 1:35:05 was more than two minutes ahead of fellow racing team member, Peter Keating (1st Master, 1:37:23). Jason Tripp finished in fourth place overall (1:39:41, 2nd 35-39), and Mark Miller was 8th (2nd Master, 1:44:10).
On the women's side, Donna Wecker finished well ahead of all her competitors, with a time of 1:57:31 -- 4 and a half minutes ahead of 2nd place!
In the metric 5k, John Chall finished 5th overall (1st 50-54, 18:47) with Bobby Gessler not far behind in 7th (2nd 50-54, 18:56). Pat Wilkerson and Robyn Humphrey finished 1-2 in the female masters category, posting times of 20:05 and 20:11, respectively. Janeth Scott ran 20:53 for 6th place overall and second in the 40-49 age group.
Down south in Richmond, Mike Colaiacovo had a great 8k race, running 27:08 and finishing as the top master runner.
Pictures, articles, and full results of the metric marathon are available here: http://striders.net/races/metric/2011/
