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Union Mills 8K, 5 November 2006.
Brown Hammers Field at Union Mills.
Karsten Brown--who drove from Front Royal, Virginia, to participate in the Union Mills 8K--made the trip a successful one, as he finished with a half-mile win on November 5.
With the race no longer in December and no longer part of the Grand Prix series, a small but sturdy field of 19 runners--including Scott Kohr, who ran early by himself, because he was being harrassed at home for missing church too often--charged up Old Hanover and Deep Run Roads on a really good day--no wind, cool temperatures, and minimal humidity.
At the one mile mark Brown's time of 6:10 gave him a thirty second lead over masters runner Mark Hadley, with a foursome of folks who will never see fifty again--Bob Leatherman, Gary Honeman, James Moreland, and Joe Loveland--twenty to forty seconds behind.
As Brown continued to widen his lead, it became obvious that the winning time would be whatever he could manage on his own. Since this course favors negative splits, it was not surprising that his pace during the latter part of the race dropped significantly. Thus his 4K split of 15:08, over a 6 minute per mile pace, was succeeded by a 4 mile split of 24:00, exactly 6 minutes per mile, and a final time of 29:33, under six minutes per mile and indicating a final 4K time of 14:25.
Hadley finished second, nearly four minutes behind Brown but over two minutes ahead of Leatherman, with Moreland, Honeman, and Loveland nicely spaced, so as not to overwork the finish line crew.
Chrissy Pennington, Westminster's fastest nurse, cruised through the one mile mark in 7:28, thirty-five seconds ahead of Sherry Clower, on her way to finishing eighth overall with a comfortable margin of victory of nearly three minutes. Debbie Arnold, who finished fourth in her family, was the first female masters finisher, a situation which gave her a better choice of the dwindling pile of prizes obtained by race director Chris Reese, who overspent the prize budget in the absence of treasurer-for-life Liuda Galinaitis, who took an unexcused absence to go to a horse show.
| Place | Name | Age | Gender |
Time | Award |
| 1. |
Karsten Brown | 32 | M | 29:33 | first male |
| 2. |
Mark Hadley | 43 |
M | 33:17 | first male masters |
| 3. |
Bob Leatherman | 54 | M | 35:32 | first male 50 and over |
| 4. |
James Moreland | 54 | M | 35:59 | second male 50 and over |
| 5. | Gary Homeman | 51 | M | 36:06 | third male 50 and over |
| 6. |
Joe Loveland | 57 | M | 36:21 | |
| 7. |
Steve Schaeffer | 57 | M | 38:30 | |
| 8. |
Chrissy Pennington | 31 | F | 38:37 | first female |
| 9. |
Klaus Lemke | 46 | M | 40:37 | second male 40-49 |
| 10. |
Sherry Clower | 34 | F | 41:07 | second female |
| 11. |
Heather Arnold | 27 | F | 44:01 | third female |
| 12. |
Scott Kohr | 44 | M | 44:10 | third male 40-49 |
| 13. |
Becky Arnold | 24 | F | 46:12 | |
| 14. |
Paul Arnold | 53 | M | 46:33 | |
| 15. | Debbie Arnold | 54 | F | 49:27 | first female masters |
| 16. | Glenn Smink | 57 | M | 49:28 | |
| 17. |
Bob Sommerville | 58 | M | 49:39 | |
| 18. | Vicky Borders | 49 | F | 49:50 | first female 40-49 |
| 19. | Nancy Myers | 37 | F | 53:44 |