Sunday, July 29, 2012

2012 RCGC Summer Cross Country Series - Season in Review

2012 RCGC Summer Cross Country Series was the 45th time that the Series was run. Founded in 1968 by Barry Binkley and Don Wahle as a means for young runners to get ready for the Fall Cross Country Season, it is Cincinnati 2nd Longest contribution to the Cincinnati Running scene behind the Thanksgiving Day Race. For the first time since 1986, Stacy Osborne was not the race director and 2012 involved a few people to direct the a race each week until Mike Smith got back from Parts Unknown. It was probably one of the hottest on record as on a few Thursdays, heat and humidity made running quite interesting.
The season saw quite a few highlights as JJ Weber ran a 16:02 the first week to obliterate the old record of 16:40 set by David Bea on 2011. David Bea dominated the Men's Series 4 of the 6 weeks that it was ran. We had three female runners go under 20 minutes with Grace Kelly doing it 3 times. Unfortunately, the last race was cancelled due to the lightning in the area, a first in the 45 year history of the series.
Thank you's go to Mike Smith, Dave Ackerman, Jascia Redwine, Todd Hofacre, and Tom Glasscock for helping with the series for 2012. A special thank you goes to Valley View Nature Preserve for allowing us to host the series on their property. See you in 2013.
2012 RCGC Summer Cross Country Top Male and Female Winners
Race
Date
Top Male
Top Female
1
6/14/12
JJ Weber 16:02
Grace Kelly 19:45
2
6/21/12
David Bea 16:35
Grace Kelly 19:55
3
6/28/12
Mischa McCormick 19:04
Kamaria Walton 21:13
4
7/05/12
David Bea 16:58
Kamaria Walton 21:37
5
7/12/12
David Bea 16:45
Samantha Siler 19:18
6
7/19/12
David Bea 16:58
Olivia Connaughton 19:40
7
7/26/12
No Race due to lightning

Friday, July 27, 2012

RCGC Summer Cross Country Series Race # 7 Recap - A First

The 45th Annual Summer RCGC Cross Country Series held its 7th race at the Valley View Nature Preserve, near Pattison Elementary in Milford this past Thursday July 26. About 40 runners showing up planning to race. There was some thunder and the last lightning leading up to race time was about 6:30 PM. About 2 minutes before the race was to begin, lightning showed up with three strikes in rapid succession to the ground just to the north. At that point, the organizers cancelled the race - a first in the 45 year history of the Series as you need to wait about 30 minutes after seeing the last strike of lightning. Thank you to Mike Smith, Dave Ackerman and Todd Hofacre for coming out and planning to help run Race # 7. See you in 2013.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Cinci Runner Updates - End Of July 2012

Click here to access the Cinci Runners' Updates - End of July 2012. Cinci Runners' Updates is a periodic e-newsletter sent by the Runners' Club of Greater Cincinnati. You can sign up for it to the right on the blog or at the newsletter itself.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

NKU CC series #2 Recap and Results

From NKU Head Cross Country Coach Steve Kruse:
The second installment of the cross country series went off this evening with some good old fashioned midwest summer humidity.  The course was softened by this past week’s thunder storms which also caused the inability to get the course mowed.  Heat will be a companion to these races and still saw a record crowd.  Congratulations to our new course record holders Nolan Gerlach of Hebron, KY (male) and top female Olivia Connaughton of Cincinnati, OH who shaved 43 seconds off her existing course record.   Congratulations to all competitors!  Next week we bump up to 5000 meters for our Championship and summer series finale.  Hope to see everyone next week!
3200 Meters Overall Results
PLACE
TIME
LAST NAME
FIRST
SEX
AGE
DATE
1
11:12:00
GERLACH
NOLAN
M
15
7/24/2012
2
11:17:00
KUHN
MATT
M
19
7/24/2012
3
11:40:00
DWYER
ERIC
M
23
7/24/2012
4
11:43:00
LEMMON
GREG
M
26
7/24/2012
5
11:50:00
HANSER
JACOB
M
18
7/24/2012
6
12:04:00
VAN LANINGHAM
ERIC
M
37
7/24/2012
7
12:26:00
GADDIE
JACK
M
18
7/24/2012
8
12:30:00
BOHL
BRIAN
M
39
7/24/2012
9
12:31:00
CHAPLIN
MARK
M
15
7/24/2012
10
12:34:00
HEILMAN
KENJI
M
40
7/24/2012
11
12:39:00
CONNAUGHTON
OLIVIA
F
12
7/24/2012
12
12:47:00
BAGLEY
CARLEY
M

7/24/2012
13
13:03:00
PALMER
DANIEL
M
15
7/24/2012
14
13:09:00
GERLACH
TRAVIS
M
38
7/24/2012
15
13:23:00
ADKISSON
STEVE
M
54
7/24/2012
16
13:32:00
BARDGETT
MARK
M
48
7/24/2012
17
14:19:00
BAIRD
ALEX
M
13
7/24/2012
18
14:32:00
KOEHLER
BRUCE
M
53
7/24/2012
19
14:36:00
KUHN
DAVID
M
22
7/24/2012
20
14:43:00
HOGYA
EMILY
F
17
7/24/2012
21
15:15:00
ELKINS
BRAD
M
14
7/31/2012
22
15:26:00
NEISER
JARED
M
15
7/24/2012
23
15:28:00
COMER
THOMAS
M
14
7/24/2012
24
15:32:00
FLAIRTY
JENNAH
F
15
7/24/2012
25
15:39:00
NUTLEY
CARA
F
15
7/24/2012
26
15:45:00
LAKES
NORA
F
15
7/24/2012
27
16:00:00
LOOS
DEVON
M
15
7/24/2012
28
16:04:00
NUTLEY
CJ
M
12
7/24/2012
29
16:15:00
MEYERS
GINA
F
30
7/24/2012
30
16:21:00
BANKEMPER
MIKE
M
53
7/24/2012
31
16:22:00
DIERIG
ETHAN
M
11
7/24/2012
32
16:28:00
RUTH
AARON
M
10
7/24/2012
33
16:36:00
MILLER
ABBY
F
39
7/24/2012
34
16:40:00
SAMPSON
ABBIGAIL
F
16
7/24/2012
35
16:44:00
SCHWARBURG
ANTHONY
M
13
7/24/2012
36
16:56:00
NEACK
JESSE
M
33
7/24/2012
37
17:18:00
BACHO
LAUREN
F
16
7/24/2012
38
17:28:00
SWEENEY
MORGAN
F
14
7/24/2012
39
17:34:00
HOFACRE
TODD
M
43
7/24/2012
40
17:48:00
RUTH
MACEY
F
8
7/24/2012
41
18:04:00
HANSER
FRANK
M
40
7/24/2012
42
18:09:00
WICAL
LARRY
M
37
7/24/2012
43
18:23:00
LOOS
DYLAN
M
11
7/24/2012
44
18:40:00
LONG
PAUL
M
55
7/24/2012
45
20:29:00
NUTLEY
STEPHANIE
F
42
7/24/2012
46
20:50:00
KETTERER
AMANDA
F
14
7/24/2012
47
21:32:00
REIHS
JOHN
M
42
7/24/2012
48
22:36:00
PALMER
GARY
M
52
7/24/2012
49
23:03:00
JOHNSON
ANNA
F
14
7/24/2012
50
26:42:00
SPICHER
BENJAMINE
M
8
7/24/2012

DNF
BAIRD
MARK
M
45
7/24/2012