The Race is Over! Thankfully for me!

Well we had 34 runners and walkers, mostly runners however, (30 and 4) to be exact. However you will note that there are only 33 finishers, because one guy showed up, did not register, and then ran the race anyway got his time at the line, and bolted!

I ran the first mile! Nudging ahead of walker Silma Villasenor (speed walker extraordinarie) which allowed me to socialize with the RL Queen manning the water booth (many thanks) and then I walked for awhile, then ran along Nippersink, then walked through Parkview, and ran from the Library to the finish line, so maybe 2 miles running total, considering the crap shape I was in, I was pleased. Oh did I mention, that an ambulance followed me the whole way (true story)!

The results are here and here! The highlight for me was that our Village Engineer Erika Frable won the womens category and finished 8th overall as well! Public Works employee/speed demon Ross Hosking shattered the 30 minute mark! Karsen Green a 16 year old from Gurnee, who was about 6'5' churned out 3- 5 minute miles to win the race.

Round Lake resident was Mike Vanata, followed by Al Villasenor, and then Barry Swan rounded out the top 3 for the village resident race! My daughter ran with one of her friends and tormented him the whole way round, and then out sprinted him at the end to show him was boss.

I am also grateful to Ramona Ruskuls one of my colleagues from my day job, who took the time on Sunday to drive from Arlington Heights to race with me. So now I can have her talk smack to me at work, delightful! By the way thats her in the picture with me.

    Place    Name                    City               Bib No Age     Age Group        Time      Pace
  1    Karsen Green            Gurnee  IL            228   16     1 M  0-99      17:02.0    5:30/M
  2    Steven Kleine           Gurnee  IL            223   18     2 M  0-99      17:18.8    5:35/M
  3    Keith Brzezinski        Lakeville  IL         222   45     3 M  0-99      18:42.5    6:02/M
  4    Ray Levernier           Crystal Lake  IL      224   38     4 M  0-99      19:07.3    6:10/M
  5    Kevin Kerrigan          Spring Grove  IL      207   39     5 M  0-99      19:22.2    6:15/M
  6    Gardiner Wade           Round Lake Beach  I   220   27     6 M  0-99      21:38.3    6:59/M
  7    David Lomax             McHenry  IL           227   35     7 M  0-99      22:16.0    7:11/M
  8    Erika Frable            Spring Grove  IL      202   38     1 F  0-99      22:16.3    7:11/M
  9    Thomas Vaughn           Waukegan  IL          219   50     8 M  0-99      23:22.9    7:32/M
 10    Michael Vanata          Round Lake  IL        218   38     9 M  0-99      23:40.7    7:38/M
 11    Rick Wade               Highland Park  IL     226   57    10 M  0-99      24:38.3    7:57/M
 12    Al Vilasenor            Round Lake  IL        230   39    11 M  0-99      24:50.8    8:01/M
 13    Daniel Hartsteren       Kenosha  WI           221   53    12 M  0-99      26:26.2    8:32/M
 14    Mike Solomon            Lake Villa  IL        215   50    13 M  0-99      26:50.8    8:39/M
 15    Carlos Avila            Round Lake Heights    198   21    14 M  0-99      27:21.7    8:49/M
 16    Clint Rodriguez         Antioch  IL           213   32    15 M  0-99      27:36.0    8:54/M
 17    Barry Swann             Round Lake  IL        216   35    16 M  0-99      27:49.4    8:58/M
 18    Ana Caballero Rodri     Antioch  IL           199   31     2 F  0-99      28:05.8    9:04/M
 19    Kiki Dafnis             Round Lake  IL        201   29     3 F  0-99      28:53.5    9:19/M
 20    Renee Nichols           Naperville  IL        212   27     4 F  0-99      29:09.5    9:24/M
 21    Michael Freisinger      Round Lake  IL        203   30    17 M  0-99      29:17.8    9:27/M
 22    Elizabeth Kolek         Gurnee  IL            209   20     5 F  0-99      29:45.2    9:36/M
 23    Ross Hosking            Grayslake  IL         206   37    18 M  0-99      29:50.6    9:37/M
 24    Jen Kober               Round Lake  IL        208   35     6 F  0-99      30:09.6    9:44/M
 25    Denise Gentes           Round Lake  IL        204   17     7 F  0-99      34:38.7   11:10/M
 26    Rob Craig               Round Lake  IL        200   17    19 M  0-99      34:42.5   11:12/M
 27    Miriam Swann            Round Lake  IL        217   39     8 F  0-99      35:14.7   11:22/M
 28    Ramona Ruskuls          Arlington Heights       2   27     9 F  0-99      35:34.9   11:28/M
 29    Lori Hagi               Ingleside  IL         225   27    10 F  0-99      38:19.0   12:22/M
 30    Silma Villasenor        Round Lake  IL        229   39    11 F  0-99      41:02.8   13:14/M
 31    Mayor Bill Gentes       Round Lake  IL          1   47    20 M  0-99      44:48.7   14:27/M
 32    Anne Aleksich           Grayslake  IL         197   17    12 F  0-99      49:09.1   15:51/M
 33    Corey Miskell           Grayslake  IL         211   26    13 F  0-99      49:09.6   15:51/M

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped, set the course up and policed it for us!