Entries will be accepted race day for the 5K (see details below). The half marathon starts at Barksdale Field at 1 p.m. The 5K starts behind W & M Hall at 1:10 p.m.

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The 27th annual Anheuser-Busch Colonial Half Marathon starts at 1:00 p.m. with the 5K starting ten minutes later at 1:10 p.m. from William and Mary Hall. Entries limited to 1,300 (half marathon) and 500 (5K). Entries closed for half marathon as the cut-of has been reached. Runners can still register for the 5K, which is a $30 race day. Registration is between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon, inside William and Mary Hall.

Additional info: There is a 2-hour and 30-minute time limit for half marathon and a 45-minute time limit for 5K (for official times). Packet pickup is race day from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at William and Mary Hall (including race day entry for 5K).

The Runner's expo is race day from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the concourse (upper) level of William and Mary Hall. Runners may change from the half marathon to the 5K, but will not receive a refund. Runners may not change from the 5K to the half marathon. There are long-sleeve T-shirts to all entrants. There is $2,000 in total prize money: ($500-300-200 to top three men and women overall).

27th Annual Race
In its 26 previous years, there have been only three winners with William and Mary track ties for the Anheuser-Busch Colonial Half Marathon. That is surprising, since the prestigious 13.1- mile race has been organized since its inception by the William and Mary track team, along with the William and Mary athletic department. That may change this year, as 11-time All-American Matt Lane, the best distance runner in William and Mary history, will return to Williamsburg as the men's race favorite. There are also two former William and Mary female distance runners, Cheryl Bauer and Jackie Kosakowski, who should be in the mix for the women's top three prize-money spots.

The three previous William and Mary race winners were all in the very early years of the race, which started in 1979. Steeplechase standout Jim Shields won the 1981 Colonial Half in 1:10:03, while distance ace Ira Meyers was victorious the next year in 1:08:36. For the women, the only William and Mary track runner to win was Kathy Ellen Scherer (who years later married former William and Mary track coach Dave Watson) in 1980 with a time of 1:26:40. Although she competed as an undergraduate for Notre Dame, Alison Holinka was a William and Mary grad student in 2001, when she won in 1:17:34. Holinka, now in Chapel Hill, NC, was one of the pre-race favorites this year, but got injured this week. A William and Mary track runner, Pete Breckinridge, holds one age-group record with a 1:11:46 at age 19 in 1989 for the men's 19-and-under record.

The 27th annual Colonial Half Marathon is set to start Sunday at 1:00 p.m. at Barksdale Field on Jamestown Road, traverse an out- and-back course on the Carter's Grove Country Road with a loop through Kingsmill and the Busch Corporate Center, then return to campus and finish just over an hour later inside William and Mary Hall.

There will be a field of 1,300 runners in the featured 13.1 miler, and an additional 300 in the accompanying 3-mile on- campus run that starts at 1:10 p.m. from behind William and Mary Hall. Entries for the half marathon closed earlier this month, but entries will be accepted between 10 a.m. and noon Sunday morning for the 3 miler. All late registration, race number and T-shirt pickup, as well as a race health and fitness expo will take place Sunday morning inside William and Mary Hall, with parking at the William and Mary Hall parking lot and on campus.

There will be traffic restrictions during the race time (between 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.), especially on Jamestown Road at Griffin Avenue, and on Newport Avenue at South Henry Street and South Boundary Street, as well as throughout the William and Mary campus. The scenic half marathon course is famous for its challenging terrain, with countless hills.

The men's course records are 1:04:39 by former Virginia Tech coach Steve Taylor in 1991 on the old Colonial Parkway course, and 1:05:22 by Azat Rakipov of Belarus in 2005 on the current Carter's Grove/Kingsmill course. The women's race and course record is 1:15:02 in 2002 by three-time champion (2002-04) Anna Pichrtova of Waynesboro and the Czech Republic, who later ran a 2:32:37 marathon.

While at William and Mary, Matt Lane had PRs of 28:28.97 (10,000 meters), 13:25.38 (5,000 meters, then the fourth fastest American collegiate time ever), 7:48.02 (3,000 meters) and 3:42.55 (1,500 meters). He was an NCAA All-American three times in cross country, and four times each in indoor and outdoor track, mostly in the 5,000 meters. Lane just missed the Olympics twice, placing fourth in the U.S. Olympic Trials in both 2000 and 2004. Last October, he moved up to the marathon distance with a debut 2:17:32 for 14th place at the Chicago Marathon. He is using the Colonial Half as a tune-up for April's Boston Marathon.

Lane's wife Erin (Sullivan) was a former Stanford runner, who was a two-time Footlocker High School Cross Country champion. Although battling some recent injuries, she should be among the women's favorites. The top two women are former William and Mary runner Cheryl (Bauer) Anderson and former Campbell University runner Heather Lee, a Canadian. Both are capable of sub-6:00 pace (1:18's), and their previous race together shows how close it could be. At a Richmond race last November, Anderson was fifth, and Lee was sixth, in the same time of 27:04 at the nTelos 8K. Jackie Kosakowski is another former William and Mary runner who could be in the top three, but she doesn't have the distance base of the other women.

The other men's race favorite is Paul Kiprono Bor, a 31-year-old Kenya based out of Chapel Hill, NC. In the past year, Bor ran a 2:17:45 at the Hong Kong Marathon, was eighth (in 29:29) at the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10K in Richmond last April, and just this past Sunday, ran an impressive 1:02:37 to win the Austin (TX) Half Marathon. Others in the men's mix should be Michael Wardian, 31, of Arlington, Chris Banks, 27, of Alexandria, Kenyan Patrick Rotich, 26, of Virginia Beach, and Ethiopian Sentayehu Mamo, 22, of Silver Spring, MD. The top local runners should be John Piggott, 40, of Williamsburg (the men's Masters favorite) and Jennifer Quarles, 33, of Williamsburg. The women's Masters favorite is Tammy Slusser, 40, of Monroeville, PA, who won the 2004 Richmond Marathon in 2:56:40. At the Colonial Half, Slusser has a first (1:16:51 in 1993), a second (1:19:27 in 1992) and two thirds (1:18:51 in 1994 and 1:23:40 in 2005).

Note updated info below on Paul Kiprono Bor (Bor is last name, new #17, replacing Susan Graham-Gray for that race number), Sentayehu Mamo (Mamo is the last name for race #5), Cheryl Bauer Anderson (Anderson is the last name, race #15), and Susan Graham- Gray (canceled, due to illness, former race #17).

Elite Runners
Elite Men

#3 - Chris P. Banks, age 27
#11 - Kenneth E. Bohan, age 43
#17 - Paul Kiprono Bor (Kenya), age 31
#9 - Matthew K. Dinan, age 19
#8 - Dean Fields, age 27
#13 - Brendan Gaffney, age 24
[Unseeded #] - Bert Jacoby - age 23
#1 - Matt Lane, age 28
#5 - Sentayehu Degefa Mamo (Ethiopia), age 22
Adam Otsott (canceled - injured)
#7 - John Piggott, age 40
#4 - Patrick Rotich (Kenya), age 26
#10 - Patrick Shaw, age 29
#6 - William J. Tarantino, age 22
#2 - Michael Wardian, age 31
Unseeded Numbers

Brian Clark, age 52
Adam M. Matheson, age 26
Rick Platt, age 55
Daniel R. Quarles, age 35
Don Slusser, age 54

Elite Women

#15 - Cheryl Bauer Anderson, age 24
#17 - Susan Graham-Gray, age 37 [canceled - flu]
#20 - Megan P. Holden, age 36
Alison Holinka (canceled - injured)
Jackie Kosakowski
#16 - Erin Lane, age 24
#14 - Heather Lee (Canada), age 25
#19 - Jennifer D. Quarles, age 33
#18 - Tammy Slusser, age 40
Unseeded Numbers

Deborah J. McLaughlin, age 40

Call Rick Platt at (757-229-7375) or E-mail. or check the Web site (including course map and further information on hotels, etc.)