Let's get this race started! Chris Banks (#12) and Michael Wardian (#1) begin their duel

This year's May may be the strangest for changes in temperatures. It has been extra cool and extra dry until Friday erupted with full-scale rain. Still, when Saturday morning began the 3rd Annual Germantown 5 Miler was greeted with picture perfect race running weather. Only fluffy white clouds surrounded by bright blue skies. With little wind and 55 degrees, runners would be arriving at the finish line with smilingly fast times.

Event record holder Erik Kean (24:45) was not there but first year runner-up Chris Banks (24:55) was there to keep last year's winner Michael Wardian (25:14) company for his title defense. They ran shoulder to shoulder for a good part of the race. At the end, Banks slid by to win by about fifteen meters 25:17 to 25:22. Hot shot Aaron Church (in photo) of South Riding, VA just finishing a couple swift 5Ks, including last week's Plaza America Family 5K was third in a swift 25:50.

Notice that this Germantown, MD race drew the first seven men from Virginia and Pennsylvania. Masters Champion Tim Schuler of Chambersburg, PA run so many races in the are that he could qualify as one of the grandfathered runners considered in the Runner Rankings. His swift 27:16 knocks more than a minute off last year's master record time by Jean-Chris Arcaz of 28:21. Young Paris Caballero (22) of Gaithersburg, MD is a thoroughbred who will be jockeying for even better times than his 27:41 once he gets some more seasoning.

George Buckheit of Fairfax, VA just turned 48 and in the last couple of years seems to have a new lease on his running. His flashy 27:53 bumps off Dan Lawson course record (28:34) for the age group. These guys will be lining up soon for the grandmasters coronation if Chuck Moeser fools his faithful and really has retired. The king is dead; long live the king. Down in Williamsburg, VA prince in waiting Rick Platt was salivating over the demise of Moeser. That is until Stephen Chantry (50) also of that colonial Ville and a recent 2:13 800- meter is also a pretender to the throne. Yet I digress, as Paul Peterson (51)(the bearded one behind Brian Lesko (#152) of Frederick, MD) of Bethesda, MD flashes across the finish line. Lucky thirteenth overall's time of 29:39 broke his own grandmasters course record and throws his hat into the ring.

Patrick Griffith of Alexandria, VA relentlessly pushes aside another course record. He owns the 55-59 record of 30:38, which he set two years ago. He will never touch that record. Mostly because he is now sixty and torched a fine runner Lou Shapiro's record by almost two minutes with his 30:53 finish.

For the women, the top six runners were divided evenly between Maryland and Virginia. All were under thirty minutes. Living in Germantown, Olga Romanova easily handled the field that included two top six ranked runners, Mary Kate Bailey and Jill Krebs. Romanova's five-mile time of 28:02 bested second place Heather Hanscom and Krebs by more than two hundred meters. Both were sub sixty-minute ten milers at Cherry Blossom. Krebs reset her own course record for 20-24 women with a fast 29:03.

Younger women owned the top nine spots. Then bang, bang, bang three top masters running dueled for the crown. All three were under Jane Wikman's course 40-44 record of 35:35. None busted the masters record set by Debbie Flynn (46) of 34:34 in 2003. Frederick's blonde racing star, Bev Black (in photo) won the day in 35:00. Marcie Knapp of Dickerson coming off an age group win at this month's Frederick marathon in 3:32:23 was next twelve seconds later. The eldest of the three, Beth McCann (45), now of Germantown, MD won her five-year division coming in one second behind Knapp.

Alice Franks of Rockville, MD racing 36:36 owned the grand masters winning by more than two minutes over the 50-54 and more than three minutes in her five year division, just a few strides off her own course record 36:13. Carole Kammel (on photo left) finishes third in her age group with 36:03. At seventy-four Lee Glassco took a serious last shot at her 70-74 record 62:04, running 62:13. Next year she should put paid to the 75 and over record.

This year Race Director Danny Talmage (photo below) of Germantown, MD shows he is just more than a pretty face, finishing in 40th place in 35:40.

Awards Listing - No Duplicate Prizes
Age Group Awards Based on Net Times

MALE
Place Num   Name                    Ag City               Time  
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    1    12 Chris Banks             27 Alexandria VA      25:17 
    2     1 Michael Wardian         31 Arlington VA       25:22 
    3     5 Aaron Church            29 South Riding VA    25:52 
MALE AGE GROUP:  01 - 14
    1   348 Kendall Hymes           13 Uniondale NY       46:09 
    2   372 Jimmy Kazunas           10 Germantown MD      49:12 
    3   383 Tommy Johnson           11 Germantown MD      49:15 
MALE AGE GROUP:  15 - 19
    1   287 Alex Rosenberg          15 Gaithersburg MD    31:09 
    2   110 Michael Leaman          15 Germantown MD      36:08 
    3   136 Chris Evans             18 Gaithersburg MD    37:40 
MALE AGE GROUP:  20 - 24
    1   381 Paris Caballero         22 Gaithersburg MD    27:39 
    2   168 Fanuel Chageza          22 Rockville MD       30:41 
    3   252 Christopher Warp        24 Hyattsville MD     31:16 
MALE AGE GROUP:  25 - 29
    1   312 Justin Gindlesperger    26 Chambersburg PA    26:52 
    2   272 Stephen Ketcham         26 Lorton VA          27:01 
    3   350 Eric Egenolf            26 Silver Spring MD   27:34 
MALE AGE GROUP:  30 - 34
    1   341 Mario Marona            32 Germantown MD      31:27 
    2   369 Ron Ely                 34 Germantown MD      35:07 
    3   216 David Porton            32 Germantown MD      35:23 
MALE AGE GROUP:  35 - 39
    1   357 Ed Hickey               37 Madison WI         28:27 
    2   152 Brian Lesko             35 Frederick MD       29:54 
    3   358 Jad Daley               36 Stowe VT           31:08 
MALE AGE GROUP:  40 - 44
    1   288 Tim Schuler             41 Chambersburg PA    27:15 
    2    57 Jean Christophe Arcaz   44 Olney MD           28:51 
    3   170 David Haaga             43 Rockville MD       29:29 
MALE AGE GROUP:  45 - 49
    1   355 George Buckheit         48 Herndon VA         27:52 
    2    62 Albino Castro           45 Brookeville MD     30:44 
    3   359 Andy Firgraw            47 Potomac MD         33:52 
MALE AGE GROUP:  50 - 54
    1   224 Paul Peterson           51 Bethesda MD        29:28 
    2   327 Michael Fitzgerald      50 Hagerstown MD      29:49 
    3   173 Timothy Morgan          54 Damascus MD        31:04 
MALE AGE GROUP:  55 - 59
    1   297 Marc Wolfson            55 Olney MD           33:51 
    2   200 Robert Fontana          55 Potomac MD         40:19 
    3   100 Fred Hauschildt         58 Kensington MD      69:48 
MALE AGE GROUP:  60 - 64
    1    20 Patrick Griffith        60 Alexandria VA      30:52 
    2    50 Imants Celtnieks        60 Wheaton MD         38:19 
    3   206 Michael Burgett         60 Germantown MD      42:56 
MALE AGE GROUP:  65 - 69
    1   111 Walt Rockey             66 Jefferson MD       39:34 
    2   340 Chet Coates             65 Silver Spring MD   40:36 
    3   222 Roger Burkhart          67 Gaithersburg MD    44:01 
MALE AGE GROUP:  70 - 74
    1    44 Robert Smith            71 Comus MD           43:04 
MALE AGE GROUP:  75 - 99

Jessica Moore (35) of Silver Spring, MD wins her age group in 34:19

FEMALE
Place Num   Name                    Ag City               Time  
===== ===== ======================= == ================== ===== 
    1     6 Olga Romanova           24 Germantown MD      28:02 
    2    10 Heather Hanscom         27 Arlington VA       28:45 
    3     2 Jill Krebs              24 New Windsor MD     29:03 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  01 - 14
    1   277 Lauren Bogart           01 Gaithersburg MD    41:17 
    2   384 Katie Johnson           11 Germantown MD      49:00 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  15 - 19
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  20 - 24
    1     8 Marni Kruppa            24 Alexandria VA      29:32 
    2   840 Diana Pool              24 Carrollton MD      29:46 
    3   150 Chrissy Murphy          23 Woodbine MD        45:22 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  25 - 29
    1     4 Vanessa Hunter          29 Arlington VA       30:18 
    2   219 Mari Hornyak            27 Germantown MD      36:51 
    3    43 Danielle Tapocik        29 Germantown MD      39:50 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  30 - 34
    1     9 Mary Kate Bailey        30 Arlington VA       29:22 
    2   103 Karen Guilds            33 Gaithersburg MD    38:22 
    3   843 Kristin Mcgee           32 Germantown MD      38:49 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  35 - 39
    1   177 Jessica Moore           35 Silver Spring MD   34:15 
    2   332 Renee Weidman           39 Clarksburg MD      36:01 
    3   296 Carole Kammel           36 Rockville MD       36:03 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  40 - 44
    1    52 Beverly Black           44 Frederick MD       34:58 
    2   256 Marcie Knapp            43 Dickerson MD       35:07 
    3   130 Christine Purtilo       43 Silver Spring MD   37:36 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  45 - 49
    1   328 Beth Mccann             45 Germantown MD      35:10 
    2   352 Paula Galliani          45 Gaithersburg MD    38:03 
    3    11 Sarah Buckheit          45 Herndon VA         38:29 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  50 - 54
    1   175 Carol English           50 Germantown MD      39:11 
    2   143 Jeanne Larrison         50 Chesapeake Beac MD 49:12 
    3   162 Paula Jenkins           53 Germantown MD      50:54 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  55 - 59
    1    38 Alice Franks            57 Rockville MD       36:30 
    2    40 Joan Tapocik            57 Germantown MD      41:00 
    3    55 Claudia Crawford        58 Germantown MD      42:09 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  60 - 64
    1   326 Jeanette Novak          61 Damascus MD        58:31 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  65 - 69
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  70 - 74
    1    45 Lee Glassco             74 Mclean VA          62:13 
FEMALE AGE GROUP:  75 - 99

Same shoes, same serious stride as Chris Banks (#12)(though you can only see the two) comes off the shoulder of Michael Wardian (#1) to capture the title from last year's winner

Team Results

          Coed Team Results - Running Club (score 4 by net time)
                     (at least one man and one woman)

  1. 127:45 MCRRC PHOTONS            (31:57)
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  1  29:29  DAVID HAAGA             M 
  2  31:04  TIMOTHY MORGAN          M 
  3  32:14  RONALD BLACK            M 
  4  34:58  BEVERLY BLACK           F 
  2. 142:34 MCRRC PARTICLES          (35:39)
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  1  34:15  JESSICA MOORE           F 
  2  35:37  DANNY TALMAGE           M 
  3  36:12  WAYNE CARSON            M 
  4  36:30  ALICE FRANKS            F 
  5 (41:32) SYLVIA GEORGE           F 
  3. 168:21 MCRRC WAVES              (42:06)
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  1  38:28  BRIAN WHITE             M 
  2  43:04  ROBERT SMITH            M 
  3  43:21  ANGELA STONE-MACDONALD  F 
  4  43:28  JILL LINDSTROM          F 
  5 (49:12) JEANNE LARRISON         F 
  6 (69:48) FRED HAUSCHILDT         M 

                
            Coed Team Results - Corporate (score 4 by net time)
                     (at least one man and one woman)

  1. 165:37 GOHO THOROUGHBREDS       (41:25)
===================================
  1  39:51  PETER O'CONNELL         M 
  2  40:45  CHRIS DUPKANICK         M 
  3  40:47  STEVE SMITH             M 
  4  44:14  DONNA TAYLOR            F 
  2. 205:52 GOHO COLTS               (51:28)
===================================
  1  49:13  AMY SMITH               F 
  2  50:03  MARY MCCUNE             F 
  3  51:42  WILLIAM HASS            M 
  4  54:54  RICK HASS               M 
  5 (57:26) AMBROSIA GRIFFIN        F 

2005 Race Results
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