Bartlebaugh wins 10K
Sunday, 18, 2004
By Darby Cornelius
For the Citizen Patriot
Winners came two-by-two Saturday in the 10K at the America's Physique Running Festival in Spring Arbor, the sixth event in the Citizen Patriot Running/Walking Series.
Matt Bartlebaugh, 20, of Napoleon barely won the men's 10K, crossing the line just before 19-year-old Tim Marshall of Jackson. The two ran together the whole time, using the race as a tempo training run. Both turned in times of 34 minutes, 29 seconds.
Bartlebaugh, a runner at Michigan State University, also won the 10K two years ago. He runs 100 miles per week during the summer as training for cross country in the fall.
"It was nice to get out there and do a little tempo run," he said. "This is just practice. I'll have to run a lot faster in November."
Marshall recalls competing against Bartlebaugh in 5K races in high school.
"I used to beat him in high school all the time," Marshall said. "This is the first 10K race I've ever run, and I've had bad shin splints. I felt good, though."
Marshall runs for Cowley College in Kansas. This was his first summer race.
The women's 10K finish almost mirrored the men's, with Shelley Krall, 32, barely beating friend and running partner Deena Covey, 30. Both are from Adrian and travel to area races with the Lenawee County Running Club.
It was no surprise to Covey that Krall inched past her at the end.
"We stayed together until the end," Covey said. "She can always outkick me. I know that."
Krall's time of 40:23 was her personal best by nearly a minute.
"I felt really good, really strong," Krall said. "We had a nice pace going. It's so much easier when you're running with someone."
Both women ran the 10K last year, but they finished further back. Covey won the Rose Run 10K in June.
"We've run a lot of 10Ks this year," Covey said. "We train together year-round."
Lansing's Nathan Usher, 21, demolished the competition in the 5K, crossing the line in 15:24 for a new course record.
"I set the course record two years ago, but I broke that today," he said. "It's a well-maintained, fairly flat course."
Usher, also a runner for Michigan State University, said he expected to win. He ran alone the whole race.
Justin Grow, 19, of Hanover, finished more than a minute behind Usher at 16:46.
"I was second last year, too," he said. "I felt like I was going to puke the whole last mile. I almost lost it kicking in."
University of Michigan runner Lesley Jurasek, 20, of Concord, won the women's 5K in 19:03. She spent last week at training camp in North Carolina with her dad's Albion High School cross country team.
"This race was kind of tough after a week of hard training," Jurasek said. "I didn't give myself any time to recover before running it."
She was the lone woman at the front of the pack, so she paced herself with the guys.
"Running alone is so much tougher than running in a pack," she said.
More than 400 people participated in the event, according to race directors Mike Woolsey and Mark Olson.
|