You can love me if you wanna
But I do declare
If I get restless
I've gotta move somewhere
I'm a roadrunner, baby

Junior Walker and the All-Stars, 1966

Rankings
Best of 2007 - Women's Division
Best of 2007 - Men's Division

The numbers rose again in 2007. There were nearly 100 more races (772) in 2007 with nearly 12,000 ranked times. More than a third of a million races were run. In the table below, you can easily see running is alive and well: 123 of those races were major, meaning they had more than 500 finishers; 50 had more than 1,000 finishers.

2007	Major	Total	Percent	Ranked	Runners
Winter	25	152	5.04%	2505	49662
Spring	34	188	2.79%	2951	105585
Summer	36	213	4.36%	3355	76877
Fall	28	219	2.77%	2999	108419
Total	123	772	3.80%	11810	340543

The percent column reflects the number of ranked runners compared to the total runners in all the races for that period.

Total men's times increase 11% with 52% of those times run by runners with two qualifying ranking periods. Total women's times closed the gender gap with a 43% increase from last year to represent 45% of the total times in races. Forty-four percent of their times qualified for the year end rankings, while 41% of the men's times qualified. More than 300 men and 256 women made the standard.

As with last year, the largest division was the Open Women with, again, 66 qualifiers. The Men's Open division had 49, to make a total of 115 in the Open division. This year the men's age groups enlarged; three divisions had more than 40 qualifiers. Women 40-49 accounted for 75 runners.

In the Elite division, Michael Wardian led all runners win 12 overall victories. Ryan Carroll was second with ten. For the women, Julia Smith (39) led all women with 12 victories. Belainesh Gebre (19) and Sherry Stick (29) were next with 11. In the age group battles, 18 men and 12 women had 15 or more victories.

Name	           Age	Wins
Poulos, Ted	   46	49
Wong, Ronnie	   61	47
Williams, Richard  72	40
Shapiro, Lou	   66	39
Graf, Tami	   71	38
Pointer, Maurice   52	34
Nelson, Dee	   64	29
Platt, Rick	   57	25
Noone, Jim	   63	24
Williams, Jane	   60	24

To qualify for the Runner Rankings for the whole year, a runner must be ranked with two races each in at least two periods. Many racers change age group during the year. A runner can use an older age group ranking as the "second" ranking period to qualify for the year. However, they may not use a younger age group to qualify for the older division. It is possible to be ranked in both divisions for those with one younger group ranking and two or more in the older division.

The "Speed Alone," reported at the beginning of each section, is the fastest qualifying time run for each division. In red, it means the division champion ran it.

Rankings Information
For a full explanation of how the rankings are compiled, please see
Rankings - General Information

The current qualifying standards for the 10K:

Age Group	   Men	           Women
Open		   34:20	   41:15
19 & Under	   38:20	   46:05
35-39		   36:40	   44:10
40-44		   38:20	   46:05
45-49		   39:45	   48:45
50-54		   42:00	   51:45
55-59		   43:55	   54:30
60-64		   49:45	   62:05
65-69		   52:50	   75:00
70-74		   56:20	   89:40
75-79		 1:32:30	 1:39:00
80 & over	 1:45:00         1:50:00

The periods for the 2008 ranking year:

Winter runner rankings, November 19, 2007 - March 7, 2008, reported May-June 2008

Spring runner rankings, March 8 - May 18, 2008, reported July- August 2008

Summer runner rankings, May 19 - September 1, 2008, reported November-December 2008

Fall runner rankings, September 2 - November 16, 2008, reported January - February 2009

Best of 2008, reported March - April 2009