Today’s header photo is of Ashton Blackwell and Thomas Blackwell with about 1 mile to go in the Richmond Half Marathon.
It was a great weekend of racing with a lot of fantastic performances at the Richmond races. In the Richmond Marathon, David McKenzie led our finishers in 3:06:56 (8th place in the 45-49 AG), followed by Ashley Keating in 3:21:03 (PR; previous best 3:44:18; splits 1:40:36/1:40:27; #6 on the all-time CAR women’s masters marathon performers list), Andrea Delgado in 3:23:22 (PR; previous best 3:31:55) and Jessy Delgado in 4:40:04. Nora Purdin (Matt’s mom) ran 4:48:04 (PR; splits 2:25:30/2:22:34; 4th place in the 65-69 AG). In the Richmond Half Marathon, Laurel LeMoigne led our women’s finishers (and all CAR finishers) in 1:17:08 (PR; 2nd place overall; 1st in the 35-39 AG; #6 on the all-time CAR women’s half marathon performers list), followed by Bailey Wilson in 1:23:53 (PR; 19th overall; 6th 35-39 AG), Mollie Zapata in 1:23:54 (PR; 20th overall; 7th 35-39 AG), Lindsay Wilkins in 1:26:25 (25th overall, 2nd master; 1st in the 45-49 AG), Sharon Snyder in 1:33:08, Elissa Burack in 1:33:14, Elena Wirz in 1:33:38 (PR), Caroline Lauver in 1:42:07 and Marjorie Henriquez in 2:04:33. Thomas Blackwell led our CAR men’s finishers in 1:18:52 (PR), followed by Ashton Blackwell in 1:20:12, David Kent in 1:21:09 (2nd in the 50-54 AG), Trevin Glasgow in 1:21:15 (PR), Jesse Contario in 1:22:05 (10th in the 40-44 AG), Kenny Rayner in 1:22:15, Chris Coffman in 1:26:17, Adam Hale in 1:26:30, Gildas LeMoigne in 1:26:33 (PR; 2nd overall LeMoigne family), Brad Hardin in 1:26:43, Matt Stout in 1:27:12, JD Hala in 1:33:00 (PR), Nic Franklin in 1:34:13 (PR) and Joe Emerson in 1:37:52 (12th in the 55-59 AG). In the Richmond 8k, Marty Pimentel was the first CAR across the finish line in 26:39 (PR), followed by Duncan Goodrich in 28:25 (PR), Matt Purdin in 30:41 (PR), Misha Suresh in 31:50 (PR; 13th overall female) and Michelle Bryceland in 36:49.
In non-Richmond race action, Matt Deters was 2nd overall male in 17:02 and Jenn Dietz was 2nd overall female in 21:26 at the Westminster School 5k. This was the first foray into racing for the sleep deprived Deters/Dietz clan following the arrival 5 months ago of Taylor Ann Deters Dietz.
Congrats to all!
Pics below: Jenn Dietz and Matt Deters at the Westminster Schools 5k with future CAR Taylor who is looking decidedly unimpressed (“Gimme a break. They think they’re so fast, but I’m always a step ahead of them when I’m in the stroller and I can’t even walk yet.”), and Andrea Delgado and Ashley Keating flash their post-race marathon bling following their big PRs in Richmond. Ashley’s 23+ minute PR moved her into the CAR all-time masters top 10 rankings.
