Weekend Results

This was a great weekend for racing in Huntsville as the Nike Fleet Feet Racing Team took 11 of the top 12 places at the Cookie Dash 5km, including all of the top 9 and overall male, female and masters male awards!  The effort was lead by Brandon York who repeated as overall winner, lowering his mark from last (15:47) year down to 15:41 this year.  Eric Charette and Kevin Betts were also on the men's podium, finishing 2nd and 3rd overall.  Donald Bowman was 4th overall and men's master while Kathy Youngren ran away with the women's overall title in 20:51.

Photo by Gregg Gelmis

This race had over 500 registered (max capacity) and had 468 official finishers.

Official Results

1 Brandon York 15:41
2 Eric Charette 17:33
3 Kevin Betts 17:42
4 Donald Bowman 17:48
5 Greg Reynolds  17:56
6 Erik DeBolt 17:59
7 Marty Clarke 18:09
8 Sean Allan 18:14
9 Dink Taylor 18:28
11 David Purinton 18:40
12 Tim Pitt 19:31
22 Kathy Youngren 20:46

This Weekend

This weekend is the hottest ticket in town, the Cookie Dash 5km.  The CD5k course is held in south east Huntsville and involves running around two cones and a cul-de-sac, making it tough to post fast times.  The Nike Fleet Feet Racing Team will be represented by many volunteers and in the race by HTC Gran Prix points leader Greg Reynolds, followed by Erik DeBolt, Sean Allan, Donald Bowman, Marty Clarke, David O'Keefe, Shane O'Neill, Tim Pitt, David Purinton, Dink Taylor, Brandon York, Kathy Youngren and Eric Charette.

Good luck to the entire team where ever your fleet feet take you!

Weekend Results

A great weekend of running included a new world best marathon time of 2:03:02 by Kenya's Geoffrey Muta and a new American Record time of 2:04:58 by Ryan Hall at the Boston Marathon. Not to be out done, the Nike Fleet Feet Racing Team posted some very good times as well.

728 Tim Vinson - 2:52:29
1197 Dink Taylor - 2:57:46
1507 Shane O'Neill - 2:59:54
3541 Eric Patterson - 3:13:05
9445 Lisa Rawlings - 3:36:11 (PR by 35 seconds)
13208 Madelyn Patton - 3:49:22
15231 Linda Scavarda - 3:56:25

Full Results Here

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Back in Huntsville, Greg Reynolds was the overall winner of the YMCA Healthy Kids Day 5km in a time of 18:13.

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This Weekend

For a select few runners, this weekend marks the culmination of a long journey and countless hours of training.  What started possibly as long as 18 months ago with a qualifying marathon will come to fruition on Monday as they board the buses in Boston and head west toward Hopkinton, MA to compete in the legendary Boston Marathon.  While nearly ALL of our team members made the qualifying standards, only few chose to enter and test their limits against the best runners in the world.  Shown below are the team members and their bib numbers if you want to follow along on Monday morning. 

Tim Vinson - 325
Dink Taylor - 1545
Shane O'Neill - 1639
Eric Patterson - 3669
Dana Overton - 8965 (Injured)
Linda Scavarda - 13971
Lisa Rawlings - 15502
Suzanne Taylor - 17089
Madelyn Patton - 18317

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Elsewhere, Eric Charette will be running the fast, downhill course that is the Salt Lake City Marathon.  Eric will be pacing Anne Noble as she looks to be amongst the top female runners in the field. 

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Good luck to all of you where ever your fleet feet take you!

Army Ten Miler Team 2011 for Redstone Arsenal

Congrats to the members of the Nike Fleet Feet Racing Team from Huntsville who were selected to represent the Redstone Arsenal on the 2011 Army Ten Miler Team on October 9th.  None of the competitive positions ran less than about 65 minutes to make the team but one person that ran right at 70 minutes. This will be the fastest two teams they have ever had.

From the Fleet Feet Elite Team

• George Heeschen
• Brad Schroeder
• Brandon York
• Rob Youngren

From the Racing Team

• Erik DeBolt
• Randy McFarland
• Tim Pitt
• Brett Wilks