Winter running weather doesn’t get any better than this!  With a race-time temp. of  42 degrees sunny skies and light winds, 45 runners took on the rolling hills of Wildwood Park for race #1 of this year’s Winter Series.

Taking first place was Shiremanstown’s Dave Crown in 19:02.   Coming in second overall was HARRC’s own Becki McClintock in a swift 19:20.  Our overall winners took home fleece blankets as prizes.   Taking third overall, and the last of the sub-20 gang,  was  Masters’ standout Gary Grobman in 19:35.  Seventeen-year-old Megan Earley was the second overall female with an impressive time of 23:45.

Runners were treated to post-race food provided by Cornerstone Coffeehouse, Pennsylvania Bakery, and Giant Food.  Following distribution of awards and random prizes, everyone departed home to log in their daily mileage and clear their calendars for the upcoming January and February races.

Thanks to ALL runners for coming today and their generous donations to DVS of Cumberland and Perry Counties.   We’re off to a great start.   Wake your neighbors and bring your friends for races #2 and #3 in the series!

Today’s fun facts:…  Today was Carl Spangler’s 773^rd race……. Ed Pague GPS’ed the course as 3.1 miles and we believe him……we learned that gift-wrap ribbon doesn’t support a string of Christmas ornaments very well…….the longest-distance-traveled award goes to Robert Arnold from Monroeton……the most fiercely-contested age-group was male 50 – 59 with ten runners….. and .we set a new dog-participation record today with 2 Hungarian Vizslas and one Murphy Pietras.

 Results:

1. Dave Crown – age 21 – 19:02
2. Becki McClintock  - age 27  - 19:20
3. Gary Grobman  - age 54  - 19:35
4. Chad Cooper  - age 35  - 20:40
5. Reuben King  - age 46  - 20:49
6. Michael Hughes  - age 38  - 22:13
7. Ed Pague  - age 57  - 22:26
8. Sammy Smith  - age 13 – 22:40
9. Mike Smith – age 45  - 22:41
10. Paul Moretz – age 44 – 22:47
11. Robert Arnold – age 18  - 22:59
12. Carl Spangler – age 47 – 23:34
13. Megan Earley  - age 17  - 23:45
14. Ted Crawford – age 59  - 23:46
15.  Bill Hathaway  - age 34– 24:04
16.   Robert Finkel age 56 - 24:13
17. John Heycock  - age 53  - 24:20
18. Ashley Liddle – age 26  - 24:42
19. Jessica Stokes  - age 26  - 24:45
20. Andrew Morgan  - age 11 – 24:46
21. Matthew Doll – age 25  - 24:47
22. Scott Morgan  - age 41  - 24:49
23. Tom Pietras / Murphy  - age 51  - 25:10
24. Dave Lebo  - age 48 – 25:16
25. Pete Murray  - age 52  - 25:21
26. Tom Earley  - age 45 – 25:24
27. Richard Lengler – age 50 – 25:42
28. Sarah Wickenheiser – age 24  - 26:01
29. Jim Donahue – age 48 – 26:12
30. Yvonne Lodovici – age 48 – 26:33
31. John Shingara – age 36 – 26:48
32. Christine VanAsten – age 35 – 27:32
33. Emma Yingst – age 9 – 28:30
34. Bonnie Yingst – age 45 – 28:32
35. Brad Bechtel – age 44 – 28:35
36. Jen Ney – age 39 – 29:21
37. Dawn Comley – age 43 – 30:31
38. Lisa Nancollis – age 42 – 30:37
39. Dana Shingara – age 43 – 30:45
40. Ian Moretz – age 9 – 31:07
41. Howard Davison – age 59 – 31:11
42. Rick Showers – age 51 – 32:16
43. N. Clair Clawser – age 61 – 32:52
44. Emily Read – age 51 – 38:38
45. Steve Whittle – age 55 – 44:06 (thanks for being the “sweep”)

Reindeer Run:

-Emma Yingst
-Aidan Moretz
-Sarah Smith
-Sadie Smith