The Longest Day

Appropriate to it’s name, The Longest Day 5K & 10K featured sunny twilight weather, continuing this year’s trend of good racing conditions (and who would have thought after so inauspicious a start to the year?). Consequently, there were again several PB’s (9?) and good performances amongst the 21 VFAC racers. Brad Cunningham started things off in the longest race, letting a couple of runners stay with him until halfway, before pulling away to win with a PB of 34:06. The 5K, a Timex Series event, resembled a VFAC workout at times, as the men placed 3rd through 8th, 9 of the top 17 men and 4 of the top 8 women! Highlights in the 5K were: Jay MacDonald 15:25 PB, 3rd overall male, $125 Peter Holmes 15:42 PB, 4th overall male, $75 Graeme Wilson 15:53, 5th overall male, $50 Ynuk Bosse 15:58, 6th overall male Paul Krochak 16:00, 7th overall male Phil Dickens 16:13 PB, 8th overall male Mike Wood 16:26 PB Phil Oreopoulos 16:41 Kapil Anand 17:08 PB Jo Astoria 18:09 Jesse Popov 18:13 PB Chessa Adsit-Morris 18:49, 4th overall female, $75 Chris Taplin 18:52 Janette Purdham 19:07 PB, 5th overall female, 2nd overall masters female Helen Ritchie 19:21, 6th overall female, 3rd overall masters female Rebecca Reid, 19:43 PB, 8th overall female, 5th overall masters female