Men’s Results 2010 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run Men’s Results 2010 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run Event Director Message 2010 RACE COMMITTEE Event Director Phil Stewart Deputy Race Director/Treasurer Irv Newman More Good Weather and Plenty of Green Race Support Manager Becky Lambros President Welcome to our first “Green” post-race results publication. As part of our Dennis Steinauer 5K Run-Walk initiative to “Green” this year’s event we have saved some trees by bringing Steve Esmacher the results “book” in electronic format. Enjoy the same pictures, stories and Administration and Scoring Kathy Freedman Men’s Results results as before, but without guilt. Rick Freedman Announcer Let me be the first to offer my congratulations to all of our finishers – you Creigh Kelley Kari Keaton will find your names included in this publication. Awards As always, I am deeply indebted to all of my race committee members Nancy Betress Bag Check – especially Deputy Race Director Irv Newman and Race Support Manager Candice Mothersille Timi Rogers Becky Lambros — who toiled throughout the year to make it all happen. Kevin Everette (5K) In a tough economic environment, our title sponsor, Credit Union Command Central Mark Wheatley Miracle Day, raised over $923,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network. In the Communications eight years of the CUMD’s sponsorship, the event has raised over $4 million Kenny Donovan Consultant dollars to help children in need of medical care through the Children’s Jeff Darman Corrals Miracle Network. A significant portion of those funds goes to Washington, DC’s own Children’s Hospital. Rob Wolfe We hope you will “page down” through these pages and savor your accomplishment as well as those of our Drug Testing world-class runners and your fellow runners. We have sprinkled in plenty of photos to help you recapture the Kelly Ashworth Elite Athletes magic of that April morning. Bill Orr Nick Discenza I hope your experience at this year’s event will entice you to join the 6,800 race entrants who use their local Event Design Credit Unions for their financial needs. (Details about joining a Credit Union appear on pages 44 and 45.) Chris Tatreau Expo I also would like to take a final opportunity to thank our 2010 supporting and contributing sponsors: Gatorade, for Leo Gallardo Nina Trocky the Gatorade Endurance Formula; Navy Federal Credit Union, for the special customized water bottles; and Potomac Green Team River Running, our retail sponsor. I’d like to extend a special thanks to DrinkMore water for supplying the water Peter Verasin Historian/Teams contained in the Navy Federal Credit Union bottles, the National Park Service and the U.S. Park Police. 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Their top 25 finishes were also debatably a bit of an elbow— I’m not believing it.” “I just tagged along with Samia,” said high-water marks for the trio, who Wunheralded Stephen Tum Regassa took third in 45:50 and Jaske, 34. “She surged ahead at the end worked together much of the race. edged past the two pre-race favorites three-time race winner John Korir and I thought she had me.” Ray Pugsley, 42, from Potomac Falls, and won the 38th Credit Union Cherry finished fourth in 46:05. Korir, 34, in Joan Benoit Samuelson, 52, the 1984 Va., won the masters division for a Blossom Ten Mile Run on April 11. his third and perhaps last, best attempt Olympic marathon gold medalist, ran second consecutive year, running 52:08 Lineth Chepkurui dominated the to join Bill Rodgers as the event’s only 60:52 to finish 18th in her first Cherry – the same time he recorded last year. women’s race to complete a Kenyan four-time winner, ran gamely with the Blossom race. She beat all 40-year-olds And like Samuelson, another 1984 Los sweep. top trio until fading in the last two and set a U.S. age-group record for 10 Angeles Olympian, John Tuttle, 52, Tum ran 45 minutes 43 seconds, the miles. miles, shattering the mark of 62:01 set won the men’s Grand Master division, fastest 10-mile effort in Washington, Stephen Muange finished fifth and by S. Rae Baymiller in 1994. running 56:39. D.C., since Ismael Kirui set a then- 2006 champion Gilbert Okari, was sixth Samuelson started in the second wave D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty ran 1:05:53. world record 45:38 in the 1995 Cherry in 46:39. with the open men rather than earlier Gerry Ives, 70, ran 1:11:20 to win Blossom race. Running in a pack from Chepkurui, meantime, moved into with the elite women, “and still went his age group by almost 13 minutes. the start, Tum scorched the final mile the lead at Mile 4, passed halfway in out way too fast,” she said. “But I’m Nianxiang Xie, 82, from Rockville, Md., in 4:25 to finally vanquish Lelisa Desisa 25:35 and extended her lead all the delighted to officially get the record. I logged 1:37:28 to win his division; Xie and Tilahun Regassa, two 20-year-old way to the finish. The winning time of would have been ecstatic to break 60 was also the oldest finisher. Ethiopians. The pair earned worldwide 51:51 is her fastest here by more than minutes … but today went okay.” Ben Beach, 60, from Bethesda, Md., acclaim after running 59:59 and 59:17 90 seconds. Almost lost in the hubbub of extended one of the most remarkable for third and first, respectively, in a “I’m grateful to win,” Chepkurui Samuelson’s run was the effort of Nina event records by completing his 38th January half marathon in Abu Dhabi. said. “This is a big, long road race.” Caron, 50, from North Andover, Mass., Cherry Blossom race, this one in Desisa and Regassa “were just waiting Chepkurui, 23, finished fifth at the who finished two places behind St. Joan 1:39:49. On April 19, Beach finished his for the finish,” Tum said. “They were World Cross Country meet in Poland in 61:51 and also under Baymiller’s 43rd consecutive Boston Marathon. talking, working together the whole last month; she was fourth in 2009. record. Yolanda Mercado-Torres, 40, And in the Sweaty Challenge, time.