Jon-John run well in Drake Relays masters events
My bad. While fawning over Penn this week, I neglected to point out that masters –and good ones — were competing at Drake this weekend, too. Mark Cleary organized several races (and DNS’d in one of them). The winning times were pretty fair — 2:01 in the 800 and 4:19 in the mile. I know the miler. Never heard of the half man.
The 800 saw an unfamilar name clean the field’s clock on Thursday. Check this out:
Section 2
1 Jon Hoogensen Pinecone Flyers 2:01.77
2 Eric Parker Unattached 2:09.19
3 Tom Novak Unattached 2:09.53
4 Scott Smith Unattached 2:09.72
5 Jamie Brown Unattached 2:09.74
6 Patrick Eastman Lundgren Ford 2:11.33
7 Greg Hancock Unattached 2:11.75
8 Paul Gorden Unattached 2:16.70
In the mile, a more well-known champion took first Saturday afternoon:
Event 76 Men 1 Mile Run Masters
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Name Year School Finals
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Finals
1 John Hinton Fleet Feet 4:19.38
2 David Bailey Bowerman AC 4:31.19
3 Peter Hegelbach Fleet Feet-Boulder 4:33.44
4 Kevin Paulk Bowerman AC 4:37.17
5 Tim Wakeland Unattached 4:40.58
6 Brett Darrington Unattached 4:46.92
— David Nash Unattached DNF
Who’s Jon H? He’s apparently a former Iowa State stud, who clocked 1:53 for a Big 8 Conference title in 1986, when he was a teammate of hurdles legend Danny Harris.
His only 800 online result before today is one from January 2000, when he did 2:02.57, apparently indoors, at an Iowa State open meet.
In August 2003, at age 39, Jon he did a 5K in 17:08. Aging works that way sometimes.
When not coming out of the woodwork, he apparently is an investment banker in West Des Moines. He was quoted in a January 2004 Associated Press story on then Demo prez candidate John Edwards.
John Hinton of North Carolina, the M40 1500 world champ in Puerto Rico in 2003 and the national champ at 1500 in 2004, ran a 1:57.4 half last season at age 42. Too bad he didn’t take on the other Jon.
Hinton’s mile best last year was 4:15.46, so he’s in shape early.
2 Responses
Ken,
The way I saw it there was a big bump and pushing at the far middle turn of the anchor leg!! the officials were postioned almost exactly where the infraction occured ! no doubt about the dq.
the 60 year old NY Pioneer team got 2nd in the over 60 4×100 I ran the second leg against Marion Harrison. it was a great weekend, Tolson would have won the 65 100 meter. I will talk to him about coming out of retirement and running with us next year see you soon
Rich
I think I may have a photo of him on the awards stand when he was getting interviewed. I will look and post a link back to this message.
Ed M37 HJ
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