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Burk Memorial 5K, 2 December 2006.
Stick Sets Record in Burk Memorial 5K.

Sherry Stick, who had not run a club race since August, showed that her time spent running races in Frederick County had served her well, as she finished first overall in the Burk Memorial 5K, becoming the first female runner to crack the twenty minute barrier in doing so.

While the rain forecast for December 2 was not a factor on this sunny day, it was quite windy at the starting line, and sarcastic, biting comments were eventually made about the length of the pre-race instructions and other news items being presented to the field of twenty humans and one fine looking husky.

When the race finally started, Stick blasted to the front, and by the end of the first kilometer, run as an out-and-back segment on Tahoma Farm Road, she had a twenty second lead over Eugene Buckwalter, who was followed by the masters trio of Bill Kelvey, Dave Meckey, and Gary Honeman.

The only thing that happened during the first loop involving the Burk Linear Trail and a frontage road leading back to the starting line was that Stick's lead got bigger. It was was thirty seconds as she finished the first loop, at approximately three kilometers, and by the time she finished the second loop, she had begun lapping runners, and her winning margin over Buckwalter was fifty seconds. For her effort she received a gift certificate from the Treat Shop, once owned by Terry Burk, after whom the race is named.

The Baker sisters from Walkersville reprised their performances during the Fallfest Mile by running together for most of the race before Ashley, a senior math major and secondary education minor at McDaniel College, pulled away from Allison, a 2006 graduate of St. Mary's College, now teaching first grade at Parr's Ridge Elementary School in Eldersburg. For their efforts they received smaller gift certificates. They were joined by Chris Reese, bravely running without Liuda Galinaitis, who finished as the first female masters runner.

Buckwalter finished second overall as the only other runner to break twenty minutes, thirty-five seconds ahead of Bill Kelvey, who won the preceding club race at Runnymede two weeks ago. Dave Meckley finished as the third male, and Gary Honeman, though he was actually the third masters finisher, won the masters award since the other two got open awards.

The next club race is the Dancer Dash 10K, to be held on Sunday, December 10, at 9 am. The race starts from Tech Court, and all runners should try really hard to run fast, since the legendary Leatherman chocolate chip cookies might be consumed by early finishers and greedy finish line workers.