The other winners at Hartshorne: Cannon and de St. Croix

Nolan Shaheed set a world record at the Hartshorne miles Saturday, but he wasn’t the top miler there. Not according to the WMA Age-Graded Tables. One of the side contests at Cornell was for best age-graded percentage, and Nolan’s 4:57 at age 60 wasn’t No. 1.  See this age-graded results sheet, prepared by Bill Quinlisk. The top male runner, on an age-graded basis, was David Cannon (M53 4:38.64 93.59%), just ahead of Nolan’s 93.17%. The top women were Maureen de St. Croix (W56 5:54.68 91.25%) and Coreen Steinbach (W58 6:06.76 90.74%).Tom Hartshorne notes that: “This year we gave unrestricted first, second and third ($100 – 50 – 25) to both men and women (for age-graded percentages). It is quite popular with the runners and I will augment the prize money next year.” Presumably, next year’s Age-Graded Tables will reflect the May 2010 revamp of the AGT.

Nick Berra (left) nips Tracy Lokken in the M40 mile. Look for Q&A with Nick soon.

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January 25, 2010

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  1. Julie Hayden - January 25, 2010

    Many people have gone out of their way to ensure that us runners publicly received recognition for our participation in the Hartshorne Mile. All who ran were announced and numerous pictures and comments have been published and displayed. Now it’s our turn to draw attention to the people who all made it happen for us.
    It was many months ago that Tom Hartshorne and Rick Hoebeke started putting this year’s event together. Runners can be demanding people and I know of several instances of Tom “going the extra mile” to make not just the race, but the whole weekend the best possible. Unselfishly Tom forfeits his opportunity to run in this event, instead devoting his energy to being the perfect host.
    When speaking of unselfish, you have to think of one of our greatest friends and promoters, Peter Taylor. It takes Peter approximately 6 hours to drive the 300 plus miles from his Northern Virginia home to announce this race. He heroically overcame a Friday night stomach upset to “call” the races on Saturday, and call them he did with the attention to detail and excitement that Peter alone brings to masters’ track. It was with the greatest pleasure that a new Hartshorne Miler told me that it was the first time his name had ever been announced.
    I gratefully received some generous kind words from many people I had never met before. These included wonderful volunteers who manned the registration desk, paced the races, (Katie Aldridge you are the best!) or held the finish line tape- the many unsung heroes! I know I speak for all Hartshorne Mile runners past, present and future, when I say a heartfelt thank you to you all for a special and memorable weekend.

  2. KP - January 25, 2010

    Nice year you are having Dave. Great 3000 at UW; great Mile last Sat.
    KP

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