Photo below: Jackie Concaugh of Alexandria, VA was the 4th female finisher with a time of 36:28.

More than 1,287 finishers celebrated Veteran's Day this Sunday by racing in the Fourth Annual Veteran's Day 10K sponsored, managed, and scored by Capital Running Company (and Washington Running Report). The race took place in West Potomac Park in celebration of Veterans Day.

The wind was a definite factor on this colder-than-normal day. A director of any race in the park, which runs along the Potomac River, expects the wind to be blowing strongly on race day. It was much worse on Saturday, though, with gusts in the thirties.

The extensive awards structure and the cash awards for the top ten attracted a very strong field of racers. And their results did not disappoint. Taking first place honors for the men was Ovidiu Olteanu, 33, from Romania by way of Michigan. His time was 31:20, at a pace of 5:03 (in the wind) and an age-graded percentage of 86.1%. See an explanation of age-graded results below. Right behind him, Russian masters star Andrey Kuznetsov finished just 18 seconds later in 31:38. His age-graded result shows an astounding 92.2%. Kuznetsov is always in the awards in any race he runs and has finished first overall in many races. Rounding out third place was Eric Lavigne from Ashburn, VA in 31:59. The top 17 men were under 35 minutes. Eighth pace overall for the men was masters phenom Chuck Moeser who ran 33:56 with an age-grading of 90%.

First place for the women was Gaithersburg resident Dorota Gruca in a time of 34:27 (age-graded 87%). Second place was Denisa Costescu from Michigan in 34:34. Third place honors went to local elite Meghan McLaughlin in 35:33 who had an age-grading of 84.3%. That is a national class performance! The top ten women were all under 39 minutes. Falls Church's Betty Blank had an age- grading of 81.4% with her time of 41:41. She always finds a way to be an age group winner.

Washington Running Club won the coed team awards with a combined time of 3:22:01, sixteen minutes and 25 seconds ahead of the next team.

Almost all the random awards were donated by the local specialty shoe stores. Please frequent these stores that support your races. Those stores were Fleet Feet of Adams Morgan, Metro Run and Walk, Potomac River Running, Footsteps of Reston, and Gotta Run in Crystal City.

Put this race on your calendar for next year. The date is November 7, 2004.

We hope you had a good time and that many of you had personal bests.

Age-graded results are calculated using tables developed by the World Association of Veteran Athletes (the world governing body for masters track and field, long distance running and race walking). These tables were first published in 1989 and were updated in 1994. The tables can be used in two ways: first, by comparing your time to a standard for your sex and age, you can determine your Performance Level Percent. These percentages can be interpreted as follows:
100% = Approximate World-Record Level
Over 90% = World Class
Over 80% = National Class
Over 70% = Regional Class
Over 60% = Local Class

We are providing these age-graded results, at the request of many of our runners, as a performance comparison. We hope that they will be interesting and helpful for runners of all ages, not only to compare your performances to others, but to track your progress over time. This is a service of Capital Running Company's searchable results.

David Angell and Rob Magin finished 4th and 5th, respectively.
Photo by Alan Penberg.

Male Award Winners

OVERALL
    1 Ovidiu Olteanu       33 M ROYAL OAK MI       00:31:20 
    2 Andrey Kuznetsov     46 M GAITHERSBURG MD    00:31:38 
    3 Eric Lavigne         27 M ASHBURN VA         00:31:59 
    4 David Angell         27 M BLUE RIDGE VA      00:32:40 
    5 Rob Magin            33 M OLNEY MD           00:32:45 
    6 Joseph Cresko        37 M ARLINGTON VA       00:33:08 
    7 Joel Brusewitz       24 M BALTIMORE MD       00:33:20 
    8 Chuck Moeser         52 M STERLING VA        00:33:56 
    9 Dan Lawson           48 M GAITHERSBURG MD    00:34:14 
   10 Max Lockwood         33 M WASHINGTON DC      00:34:17 
MALE AGE GROUP:  1 - 19
    1 Brian Herscher       18 M WASHINGTON DC        39:20   39:42 
    2 Paul Cassens         15 M ARLINGTON VA         41:21   41:27 
    3 Chase Maggiano       19 M MIDDLEBURG VA        41:57   42:10 
MALE AGE GROUP:  20 - 24
    1 Thomas Nelson        24 M ADELPHI MD           34:19   34:21 
    2 Leyi Lin             24 M WASHINGTON DC        37:36   37:38 
    3 Josh Goldstein       20 M COLLEGE PARK MD      38:25   38:33 
MALE AGE GROUP:  25 - 29
    1 Alex Filides         28 M MCLEAN VA            34:43   34:44 
    2 Jon Weiss            29 M POTOMAC MD           36:29   36:29 
    3 Kip Pierson          26 M WASHINGTON DC        38:25   38:27 
MALE AGE GROUP:  30 - 34
    1 Jeffrey Hiott        30 M ARLINGTON VA         36:44   36:46 
    2 Michael Rae          33 M WASHINGTON DC        37:32   37:34 
    3 Robert Osterried     31 M FALLS CHURCH VA      37:34   37:37 
MALE AGE GROUP:  35 - 39
    1 Bill Riester         37 M RICHMOND VA          34:29   34:31 
    2 Pascal Brazey        35 M WASHINGTON DC        34:36   34:38 
    3 Ian Clements         39 M ALEXANDRIA VA        36:03   36:04 
MALE AGE GROUP:  40 - 44
    1 Jean-Christ Arcaz    42 M ROCKVILLE MD         34:25   34:28 
    2 Curtis Southern      43 M URBANA MD            34:35   34:36 
    3 Ted Poulos           41 M MCLEAN VA            34:40   34:42 
MALE AGE GROUP:  45 - 49
    1 Jim Wadsworth        46 M WASHINGTON DC        35:51   35:52 
    2 George Buckheit      46 M RESTON VA            36:57   36:58 
    3 Norton Compton       49 M FAIRFAX VA           36:58   37:03 
MALE AGE GROUP:  50 - 54
    1 Richard Adams Jr     52 M HERNDON VA           37:10   37:12 
    2 Tim Doescher         53 M HERNDON VA           37:25   37:25 
    3 Mick Slonaker        54 M COLUMBIA MD          37:30   37:32 
MALE AGE GROUP:  55 - 59
    1 Patrick Griffith     59 M ALEXANDRIA VA        38:24   38:26 
    2 Bob Chase            58 M FALLS CHURCH VA      39:52   39:56 
    3 Gerard Cabrol        55 M WASHINGTON DC        42:40   42:44 
MALE AGE GROUP:  60 - 64
    1 Steve Forman         63 M MCLEAN VA            43:09   43:14 
    2 Loy Shapiro          62 M SILVER SPRING MD     43:47   43:53 
    3 James Fields         61 M SILVER SPRING MD     45:26   45:52 
MALE AGE GROUP:  65 - 69
    1 Carl Cox             66 M FALLS CHURCH VA      45:40   45:45 
    2 Ken Quincy           66 M VIENNA VA            46:17   46:22 
    3 Richard Williams     67 M ALEXANDRIA VA        46:58   47:03 
MALE AGE GROUP:  70 - 74
    1 Jack Mcmahon         72 M ROCKVILLE MD         47:18   47:22 
    2 Larry Dickerson      72 M BURKE VA             47:34   47:39 
    3 Tom Kenney           70 M GLEN ECHO MD         57:15   58:28 
MALE AGE GROUP:  75 - 79
    1 Dixon Hemphill       78 M FAIRFAX STATION VA 1:06:40 1:06:47 
    2 Marcel Bitoun        76 M WASHINGTON DC      1:10:48 1:11:11 
MALE AGE GROUP:  80 - 99
    1 Walt Washburn        81 M VIENNA VA            58:47   59:32 

Female Award Winners

FEMALE 
    1 Dorota Gruca         32 F GAITHERSBURG MD    00:34:27 
    2 Denisa Costescu      27 F ROYAL OAK MI       00:34:35 
    3 Meghan McLaughlin    24 F VIENNA VA          00:35:33 
    4 Jacqueline Concaugh  28 F ALEXANDRIA VA      00:36:28 
    5 Cathy Pugsley        34 F STERLING VA        00:36:46 
    6 Irina Suvorova       32 F GAITHERSBURG MD    00:37:59 
    7 Lory Gray            23 F ALEXANDRIA VA      00:38:00 
    8 Patty Fulton         37 F SILVER SPRING MD   00:38:26 
    9 Laura Freix          42 F CENTREVILLE VA     00:38:50 
   10 Monica Grillo        39 F ARLINGTON VA       00:38:59 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  01 - 19
    1 Erin Conroy          19 F HAWTHORNE NY         39:42   39:48 
    2 Jacqueline Wolfert   19 F WASHINGTON DC        42:06   42:39 
    3 Devin Sloss          17 F WASHINGTON DC        43:46   44:00 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  20 - 24
    1 Jenny Mlinarcik      24 F ALEXANDRIA VA        39:20   39:24 
    2 Lauren Yost          23 F ARLINGTON VA         44:04   44:19 
    3 Kelly Ferraro        22 F WASHINGTON, DC DC    44:08   44:24 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  25 - 29
    1 Kelly Field          27 F WASHINGTON CT        42:47   42:51 
    2 Meaghen Norton       25 F CHANTILLY VA         42:44   42:57 
    3 Renee Trombley       25 F ARLINGTON VA         43:39   44:08 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  30 - 34
    1 Janet Urbanski       33 F FREDERICK MD         39:04   39:07 
    2 Marta Miranda        34 F ALEXANDRIA VA        43:28   43:41 
    3 Ann Grillo           31 F ARLINGTON VA         43:37   43:47 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  35 - 39
    1 Cathy Friedel        39 F SOLOMONS MD          39:50   39:53 
    2 Kerry Rodgers        35 F WASHINGTON DC        40:16   40:19 
    3 Rebecca Nathan       38 F ARLINGTON VA         40:54   41:00 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  40 - 44
    1 Vanessa Cox          42 F LAUREL MD            39:25   39:28 
    2 Win Persina          43 F WASHINGTON DC        40:34   40:36 
    3 Leslie Minnix-Wolfe  42 F HERNDON VA           40:39   40:41 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  45 - 49
    1 Patti Shull          45 F ASHBURN VA           39:58   39:59 
    2 Karen Marchant       49 F SPRINGFIELD VA       45:08   45:24 
    3 Liza Recto           47 F LEXINGTON PARK MD    46:08   46:20 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  50 - 54
    1 Betty Blank          50 F FALLS CHURCH VA      41:39   41:41 
    2 Rosamond Gray        51 F FORESTVILLE MD       44:49   44:52 
    3 Suanne Shocket       50 F MANASSAS VA          47:27   47:36 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  55 - 59
    1 Alice Franks         55 F ROCKVILLE MD         44:26   44:38 
    2 Claudia Crawford     56 F STAFFORD VA          49:58   50:12 
    3 Jacqueline Rupp      55 F LISBON MD            54:12   54:34 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  60 - 64
    1 Jane Metzler         62 F FALLS CHURCH VA      51:41   51:57 
    2 Sharon Wright        60 F WASHINGTON DC        56:08   56:45 
    3 Brita Askey          60 F WASHINGTON DC      1:09:22 1:10:18 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  65 - 69
    1 Jamie Wollard        65 F N.BETHESDA MD      1:04:20 1:04:55 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  70 - 74
    1 Jacqueline O'Neil    72 F WASHINGTON DC      1:08:51 1:09:53 
    2 Lee Glassco          72 F MCLEAN VA          1:13:16 1:14:02 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  75 - 79
    1 Sister Maria         79 F WASHINGTON DC      1:49:55 1:49:55 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  80 - 99
    1 Hedy Marque          86 F ALEXANDRIA VA      1:10:04 1:10:14 

See full results of the Veterans Day 10K. See our Photo Gallery.