From the WRC Newsletter Archives:

• Cherry Blossom 10 Miler
• April 7th, 2002
• Washington DC

The Cherry Blossom 10 Miler saw a number of good individual & team performances. The two men’s open team captained by Todd Martin & Kyle Yost, took fifth and eighth respectively, when nine male runners broke sixty minutes.

Men

• Frank Sprtel 53:16
• Patrick Dudley 55:25
• Kirk Baird 55:26
• Anthony Belber 56:32
• Jon Gardner 57:38
• Gary O’Donnell 57:50
• Henry Grossman 58:10
• Bill Dunn 59:16
• Kyle Yost 59:24
• Chris Galaty 60:06
• Ron McGraw 61:40
• Roberto Rodriquez 62:30
• Paul Durbin 65:19
• Prasad Gerard 66:47
• Robert Trost 70:11
• James Scarborough 75:05

Among the women, Casey Smith, running her first ten miler ever, broke 59 minutes. Says Casey about her race.

“It would have been nice to place. If Lindsay and I hadn’t crossed the line 3 minutes after the gun, we would have done well as a team (if we fielded a full team)”

Women

• Casey Smith 58:49
• Lindsay Goulet 68:24
• Maria Kozloski 68:31
• Sarah Buckheit 70:04