Bruton High School track and cross country coach and former Queens Lake 5K Run race director Mark Tompkins, 36, of Williamsburg was the overall winner of the 18th annual Queens Lake 5K Run, Saturday morning at New Quarter Park in Williamsburg, under ideal weather conditions (cool, race-time temperatures in the 50s, sunny, and little wind). Tompkins ran a winning time of 16:35, 16 seconds faster than his runner-up time from 2011.
Women’s winner Jennifer Quarles, 40, of Williamsburg, a 6-time Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix champion, ran her fastest time as a Masters runner, winning in 18:59.