Monday, October 3, 2011

Nesius and O'Neill repeat as AIDS Run champions

2011 Big Bend Cares AIDS 5KOn Sunday afternoon, 2 October 2011, I was waiting with some volunteer race workers in Tom Brown Park by the entrance to the Cadillac Trail. We were waiting for the athletes in the third annual Big Bend Cares AIDS Run to get back from the turnaround on the Goose Pond Trail. We were waiting for quite some time.


"Shouldn't they be back by now?" asked one of the volunteers.


"Yes," I opined.


Micheal NesiusBlame it one a poorly staffed turnaround, blame it on a leader and defending champion who ran past the turnaround, blame it on whomever or whatever you like, but the fact was that 67 runners were headed up the Goose Pond Trail and weren't likely to stop before they got to Weems Road, if then. Fortunately, a cyclist got the field headed back toward Tom Brown Park, a two-loop course was hastily modified to a one-loop course, and the event was saved. Sort of. At least everyone ran finished something--probably not quite three miles, and certainly not as long as five kilometers.


Paual O'Neill2010 AIDS run champion Michael Nesius was first across the line in the revised race, running 16:30 for the distance (whatever it was). Nesius was over 400 meters ahead of the runner-up, Lincoln High freshman cross-country runner Jaryd Walton. Walton was coming off a personal best 18:51 5K cross-country run the previous day at the Gulf Coast Cross Country Stampede in Pensacola. The first female finisher was Paula O'Neill, who was also the first master, placing seventh overall in 21:52. The first male master was Mark O'Neill, eighth overall in 22:30.


Results, 2011 Big Bend Cares AIDS Run
  1. Jaryd Walton16:30 ~ Michael Nesius (M, 26)
  2. 18:18 ~ Jaryd Walton (M, 15)
  3. 20:12 ~ David Harrell (M, 26)
  4. 20:36 ~ John Evans (M, 27)
  5. 20:58 ~ Mark Rumenik (M, 18)
  6. 21:46 ~ Andres Gutierrez (M, 22)
  7. 21:52 ~ Paula O'Neill (F, 50)
  8. 22:30 ~ Mark O'Neill (M, 50)
  9. 22:49 ~ Ryan Wood (M, 23)
  10. 23:00 ~ Kyle Rogers (M, 25)
  11. 23:13 ~ Bill Sanders (M, 53)
  12. 23:18 ~ Kyle Rumenik (M, 21)
  13. Megan Coury23:29 ~ Hans Kollar (M, 17)
  14. 23:37 ~ Ben Wright (M, 37)
  15. 23:42 ~ Megan Coury (F, 27)
  16. 23:53 ~ Jeff Coleman (M, 56)
  17. 24:28 ~ Kevin Cantrell (M, 25)
  18. 24:30 ~ Bennett Chesser (M, 47)
  19. 24:53 ~ David Darst (M, 68)
  20. 25:07 ~ Kevin Eberhardt (M, 23)
  21. 25:55 ~ Carlos Fernandez (M, 40)
  22. 26:07 ~ Tom Boutwell (M, 42)
  23. 26:17 ~ Max Bussey (M, 8)
  24. Meaghan Pickles26:30 ~ Meaghan Pickles (F, 29)
  25. 26:38 ~ Vladislava Turbina (F, 19)
  26. 26:56 ~ Kenneth Higgins (M, 37)
  27. 27:17 ~ Kelsey King (F, 21)
  28. 27:26 ~ Elizabeth Bussey (F, 37)
  29. 27:48 ~ Alex Wolfe (M, 21)
  30. 28:19 ~ Tabatha Browning (F, 28)
  31. 28:32 ~ Erin Floyd (F, 27)
  32. 28:41 ~ Nicole Lee (F, 32)
  33. 29:31 ~ Natalie Ruiz (F, 19)
  34. 29:43 ~ Kevin Darden (M, 46)
  35. 29:49 ~ Brian Newman (M, 42)
  36. 29:50 ~ Leigh Eskin (F, 22)
  37. 29:52 ~ Anna Strimaitis (F, 27)
  38. 29:53 ~ Caroline Stahala (F, 34)
  39. 29:54 ~ Olu Dawodu (M, 24)
  40. 29:54 ~ Courtney Harrison (F, 20)
  41. 29:55 ~ Kayla Green (F, 19)
  42. 29:55 ~ Fallon McKain (F, 19)
  43. 30:20 ~ Kelly Ash (F, 35)
  44. 34:11 ~ Allyse Francis (F, 19)
  45. 34:15 ~ Jennifer Jacques (F, 26)
  46. 35:01 ~ Amber Smalley (F, 27)
  47. 35:27 ~ Taidu Abuba (M, 27)
  48. 35:28 ~ Dianelis Sonora (F, 21)
  49. 36:14 ~ Camille Knight (F, 21)
  50. 36:23 ~ Martha Gruender (F, 52)
  51. 36:40 ~ Elliott Fox (M, 18)
  52. 36:47 ~ Charlee Mahler (F, 19)
  53. 37:18 ~ Angela Rivera (F, 26)
  54. 37:50 ~ Gemma Cairns (F, 21)
  55. 37:57 ~ Tammy Hornbaker (F, 51)
  56. 37:57 ~ Denis Burns (M, 42)
  57. 37:58 ~ Allison Goncalves (F, 23)
  58. 37:58 ~ Serena Welcome (F, 22)
  59. 37:58 ~ Abby Reynolds (F, 24)
  60. 39:45 ~ William Mock (M, 19)
  61. 39:59 ~ Mike Neff (M, 42)
  62. 39:59 ~ Summer Heydenreich (F, 18)
  63. 40:40 ~ Melissa Johnson (F, 32)
  64. 40:40 ~ Averey Ash (F, 11)
  65. 41:16 ~ Carol Ness (F, 58)
  66. 41:20 ~ Chris Hornbaker (M, 56)
  67. 43:21 ~ Amanda Morden (F, 23)

Big Bend Cares AIDS Run Champions, 2009-2011
DateMenWomen
18 October 2009
19:17 Chase Harris
23:11 Lynn Massimore
17 October 2010
19:09 Michael Nesius
23:42 Paula O'Neill
3 October 2011
16:30* Michael Nesius
21:52* Paula O'Neill
* The 2011 course was short.


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Posted by Herb Wills at 3:44 PM
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2 comments:

  1. eccentricCalfRaisesOctober 5, 2011 at 1:40 PM

    Thanks for the blog Herb,

    The turn around on the Goose pond trail was staffed, it was about 50-100 meters before Weems road... since the Goose is 5k out-and-back, the race was probably about 3miles

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  2. Herb WillsOctober 5, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    I may be confused as to what the course was supposed to be. At least some runners thought that it was a two-loop course. That's what was run in 2009 and 2010, with a turnaround just beyond the playground. I don't know if the runners were told this at the starting line, or if these were veterans of the first two AIDS runs who assumed the course hadn't changed. There was also a water table set up that would have come at the end of the first loop of a two-loop race (i.e., about midway), or after a one-loop race was entirely over. Admittedly, what was run was a one-loop course. I'm not a fan of GPS measurement, but Paula O'Neill's unit clocked the course at 2.92 miles.

    Herb.

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