3/5-6 Race Reports

WAHOOO... WAHOOO... WAHOOO... WAHOOO... WAHOOO! Yes, that summarizes the results for this weekend:

• Jennifer Hannen handily finished as the 1st female overall (as in 11+ min) in the Crystal Coast Half Marathon, running a time of 1:27:54. Our other teammates from RRO, Chris Reighn and Ralph Smith, finished 3rd and 10th respectively... GREAT JOB! (results) 
• Sean also easily won the Get Your Rear in Gear 5K, finishing ~30sec ahead of the 2nd place runner. Rusty and Dave M. went 1-2 in their age group, and Erica finished 2nd in hers... TOTAL DOMINATION! (results) 
• The WakeMed Distance Festival also went well for RRO / FAST Coaching. James won the 5K, running a PR (and his first sub-18 5K). It was a close race, with only 4sec separating the first three runners. However, James was able to take the other runners on the final uphill and hold them off to the finish. The 10K proved to be another exciting race. Brad B. was first across the line for us, taking 3rd in his age group (for some reason, they have a 20-29 age group when most others are in 5 year increments). Marty (3rd AG) and Anthony Greco (5th AG) were next, both running strong. I narrowly out-sprinted the third place woman to finish as the 2nd female overall (we have the same finishing time... and the same first name). Rita (3rd AG) and Walt (11th AG) both ran well, as did Mark Blum (and he didn't believe us when we told him he'd finish in under an hour)! Our friends Lisa, Joey, John T., and Gary also ran great races... NICE JOB! (5K results; 10K results)
• Mike Chappell rounded out the day of awesome performances with a PR in the St. Patty's Run Green 8K, grabbing 4th in his age group. John Royal (1st Master's) and John Garrity (7th AG) also raced well. Mike said he saw some of our other teammates from RRO out there... these results are a lot harder to search through (it took 5min for all ~1800 runners to go through the start) so I'm not sure who raced... AWESOME! (results)
• And, in the most awful (as in ridiculously hard) sounding event of the weekend... Team RRO rocked the Umstead Marathon. Sam Brown (4th) and Dwayne Patterson (9th) finished in the top 10, and Gregg Jackson (12th), Rob Hamilton (19th), and Jim Micheels (22nd) all finished in the top 25. Jerry Beckman (30th), David Meeker (47th), and Chris Squires (48th) ran sub-4hrs, and Ashby (80th) and Wendy (83rd) Ray ran well. Our training partner, Matt Marum, finished 20th... CONGRATS Y'ALL! (results)