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Predicted Time 4-mile, 16 March 2008.
Weisgerber Captures Predicted Time Run in Rookie Effort.

On a really rotten day for running, middle school runner William Weisgerber, in his first day of running as a WRRC member, won the annual Predicted Time Run over a small but wet field at the Tech Court course near Westminster.

With so few runners registered only a few minutes prior to race time that it looked like everyone would get a prize, the field finally reached double digits, and after very brief pre-race comments from the race director, the runners, minus watches, sloshed onto the course.

As he has so often in recent races, Karsten Brown started fast, built a huge lead at the turnaround, and then lengthened it. Not only did he finish over four minutes ahead of second place John Way, the small difference between his actual and predicted times indicated that he would probably place well in the only factor that counts in this type of race.

After Way finished with even a better prediction than Brown's, their hopes were shattered when William Weisgerber, at 13 the youngest by far in the race, finished as the third actual runner, but with a difference of only three seconds, about the time needed for a good yawn.

Since the gap in predicted times was almost twenty minutes, the early finishers hopped into their warm, dry cars to wait for the remainder of the field. As is often the case in predicted time races, high finishers were among this group, as first Skip Fennell and finally picnic czar Bob Sommerville cruised in with top five finishes.

The rain which had been omnipresent throughout the early part of the morning of course had subsided by the time of prize distribution, with Weisgerber getting his choice of frozen cakes and pies first, followed by a negotiation amongst the next four finishers for the remaining items.