Ray Fryan

5th overall, 1st age group – 1st father/ daughter team, time of 19:48

The Gorris Family was out in full force for the Green YMCA Caribbean 5k today.  Luke ran [with pacing and encouragement from Mom and Dad] the 5k in 29:15, and had plenty of gas left in the tank for a strong finish.   Dad had enough gas left in the tank to run 3+ more loops so I was able to run a 5k with my son and an extra 10 miles on my own killing two birds with one stone!

We also saw fellow Team ER’s own Ken Frankenbery and his wife, Karen.  Ken sure did lay down a killer run after being on the IR the last few months.

It was a warm, sunny morning and a decent crowd of maybe 150 or so people. Teamate Mark Gorris was running with his son ( who did great!), and after a 20 minute delay(and several warm ups- police showed up late )- we were off! There were half a dozen younger high school runners who shot off to the lead, following them up the first hill I was so excited to be racing, I looked down and was running a 5:45 pace (way to fast) – I tried to slow, but wanted to keep leaders in sight, hit mile 1 at 6:05 (and that was up hill). I finally settled into a better pace, and started picking off a few of the people in front of me. The temp. was climbing ( 77 degrees when we finished) , but I felt good. Finished strong in 19:40 ( 6:19 pace).Waiting for results to be posted, but 4th overall, 1st in age group, a solid comeback after surgery!

Glad to be back racing, and hopefully will be able to start swimming mid-July.

Ken Frankenbery

Jim Dehner, time 55:30

The race is part of the towpath trilogy and is a fun format where 2 races of different distances start from different points at the same time yet have the same finish line – I ran the 10K – It started on Canal Road and went north for 1 mile then joined up with the towpath – The entire path up there is paved so the footing is good – the course overall is flat and fast – you do cross the 2 cable bridges on the return to the finish – virtually the only “hills” on the course –

Aside from the rain at the start it was a good race –

Since there were only 2 of us in the AG – I was assured of a podium finish 🙂

Jeannie Ritchie –  1st woman overall, time: 20:20

This morning I ran a 5k race called Max’s CDH Awareness.  The parents who lost their son to this birth defect make this race happen every year.  They had a decent turnout with about 250 runners for the 5k.  They also have a race for kids, a lap around the track at Green high School, called Max’s mad dash.  The weather was near perfect for a race–sunny and about 60 degrees.  The race course was set up very nice with no question on where to go.  They also had a vehicle leading the runners.  The start and finish were at the same location with a 100m on the track!  Very nice and fast!  The course was mostly flat with the exception of the last mile-slow uphill about 400m.  The times of everyone were a little slower than normal because it was 3.15  on most of our GPS’s.  Hermes racing chip timed the event and results were right up.
The best part was the jumpy castles, dunk tank and kona cones for the kiddos!  Spectator friendly too- my family got to see me at least 4 times to cheer me on!  That was a plus!  Top 3 overall received tons of nice Tupperware- gift wrapped.  They also had tons of gifts to raffle off and an auction for many awesome gifts!  Very nice race and I highly recommend participating in it.

Jeannie

Jeannie Ritchie –  1st woman overall, time: 20:20

This morning I ran a 5k race called Max’s CDH Awareness.  The parents who lost their son to this birth defect make this race happen every year.  They had a decent turnout with about 250 runners for the 5k.  They also have a race for kids, a lap around the track at Green high School, called Max’s mad dash.  The weather was near perfect for a race–sunny and about 60 degrees.  The race course was set up very nice with no question on where to go.  They also had a vehicle leading the runners.  The start and finish were at the same location with a 100m on the track!  Very nice and fast!  The course was mostly flat with the exception of the last mile-slow uphill about 400m.  The times of everyone were a little slower than normal because it was 3.15  on most of our GPS’s.  Hermes racing chip timed the event and results were right up.
The best part was the jumpy castles, dunk tank and kona cones for the kiddos!  Spectator friendly too- my family got to see me at least 4 times to cheer me on!  That was a plus!  Top 3 overall received tons of nice Tupperware- gift wrapped.  They also had tons of gifts to raffle off and an auction for many awesome gifts!  Very nice race and I highly recommend participating in it.

Jeannie