Registration closes at midnight tonight!
This past spring, I was visiting Washington D.C. and asked the hotel concierge for suggestions on where to run the next morning.
“Well,” she said. “A lot of people run around the Mall, but the Cherry Blossom Run is tomorrow and it might be crowded.”
“Oh!” I said. “A race! Maybe I could run that.”
I could see the smirk form on her face before she looked up from the map she was doodling on.
Folsom’s Kevin Pool, 28, ran a personal best at the Twin Cities Marathon on Sunday but his 2:19:34 finish time was a tantalizing few seconds shy of the sub-2:20 Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time he was looking for.
It was good enough for a 12th place overall.
Auburn runner Brad Poore, 33, was also a top finisher, coming in 17th overall with a 2:22:05.
Rumor has it that local running empresario Michelle La Sala also ran a personal best at Twin Cities, in 3:06:31. La Sala is better known to many of you as the Race Director of the SacTown 10.
La Sala was the fastest Sacramentan listed in the results.
The overall race winners were Kenyan Sammy Malakwen in 2:13:11, and Ethiopian woman Yeshimebet Bifa with a 2:28:24.
Jesse Barragan took 3rd in the 50K despite a bad stumble that had him walking the last mile or so. (Photo courtesy of Scott Sandow)
Sunday’s Run on the Sly trail races continue a long tradition of August trail racing along Jenkinson Lake in El Dorado County. This year, more than 600 runners completed the various races.
In the 50K, Palo Alto’s Cameron Berg ran away with the overall win in a smoking 3:57 on that hilly course.
The next three in were locals. These were Lincoln’s Michael Fink, finishing in 4:17 (only a couple minutes off his age group course record), Folsom’s Jesse Barragan, with 4:30, and the women’s winner Jen Pfeifer, of El Dorado, in 4:33.
