Vernal Velocity Race #1
83 runners enjoyed a nice late winter day while running the Howard County striders weekly series race at Oakland Mills Middle School. Mark Eagles and Frankie Moore won the 1 mile race. Max Crockett and Terri Wytko led the 5k runners.
Volunteers: Melinda Krummerich (race lead), Bill Arbelaez, Melissa Burger, Joan Chall, Tom Haard, Joanne Harington, Paul Hayden, Tracy Hayden, Amanda Idstein, Erika Landree, Mark Landree, Adam Wytko.
1 mile 1. Mark Eagles 5:25 2. Evan Quinn 5:27 3. Vincent Bond 5:30 4. Evan Tian 5:43 5. Joshua Harrington 6:08 6. Fritz Orlofsky 6:09 7. Arnav Gowda 6:10 8. Qiang Tian 6:16 9. Jonathan Harrington 6:18 10. Josiah Williams 6:19 11. Gavin Coons 6:30 12. Frankie Moore 6:38 13. Bella Boats 6:41 14. John Way 6:44 15. Ted Poulos 6:54 16. Griffin Ellinghaus 6:56 17. Jayden Brown 7:01 18. Amanda Beal 7:03 19. Kaylee Beal 7:04 20. Camille Shoemaker 7:09 21. Frances Haard 7:12 22. Hudson Beal 7:30 23. Chloe Hayden 7:48 24. Blair Beal 7:55 25. Anna Williams 8:01 26. Jerrod Williams 8:38 27. Michael Bencivenga 9:10 28. Joseph Bencivenga 9:11 29. Simon Wytko 10:01.8 30. Lincoln Wytko 10:01.8 31. Sharlene Deskins 10:58 32. April Orlofsky 11:14.1 33. Greg Orlofsky 11:14.8 34. Sam Jacobson 13:38 35. Matt Jacobson 13:40 36. Tim Ramsey 15:52 37. Logan Aarons 17:36.2 38. Richard Aarons 17:36.9
5k 1. Max Crockett 18:39 2. Karsten Brown 19:15 3. Lochlann Boyle 20:07 4. Gregg Ford 20:13 5. Chris Lebrun 20:39 6. Phil Lang 21:05 7. John Chall 21:30 8. Angelo Flores 21:48.5(ran long) 9. Terri Wytko 21:48.8 10. Marc Hermstein 21:50 11. Steven Burns 22:10 12. Steve Knoll 22:17 13. Gavin Lebrun 22:39 14. Tammy Liu 22:40 15. Preston Hong 22:52 16. Carlos Flores 22:54 17. Aditha Iyer 23:50 18. Marc Burger 23:55 19. Lucas Rempert 24:04 20. Marsha Demaree 24:21 21. Gopal Kollengode 24:22 22. James Scarborough 25:31 23. Alan Mulindwa 25:54 24. Chris Farmer 26:19 25. Jenifer Lebrun 27:16 26. Karen Young 27:35 27. Judith Weber 27:58 28. Ron Weber 27:59 29. Raymond Ohl 28:00 30. Debbie Ellinghaus 28:20 31. Heather Bencivenga 28:34 32. George Ohl 28:58 33. Ronnie Wong 30:09 34. Sureva King 30:49 35. Vladi Basch 30:59 36. Kevin Yant 31:17 37. Andrew Ryan 32:22 38. Scott Ryan 32:23 39. Yessica Gagliuffi 32:36 40. Hiroko Kunimoto 33:32 41. Karen Kautz 33:51 42. Ethan Jacobson 34:47 43. Cary Jacobson 34:51 44. Wendy Hall 35:47 45. Gail Marston Bailey 51:18
RRCA Club Challenge 10M
Update Feb. 25, 9:25am:
Results have been updated after the removal of some bad scan data. This impacted official finish times for runners between 1h15m and 1h18m. After correction, there was no change in team awards. Any questions can be emailed to the Race Director.
Special thanks to Pete Wergin and Casey Ahr for identifying the discrepancy.
2020 Club Challenge Individual Results
2020 Club Challenge Team Results:
Overall Coed
Overall Female
Overall Male
Under 40 Female
Under 40 Male
Masters Female
Masters Male
Grand-Masters Female
Grand-Masters Male
2020 Club Challenge Photos
2020 had 15 member clubs participate, resulting in 975 qualified runners, and 797 finishers. Click the image below to view number of runners, by club and category
Winter Weekly Series Awards
95 runners came out for the Howard County striders winter series race at Meadowbrook Park. This was a graduation race for the Hibernation to 5k group….congrats to all first time finishers. Mark Eagles and Mary Gorsky were the 5k winners. Adam Wytko and Amanda Hill led the 10k runners.
Volunteers: Rene Alonso(race lead), Lynda Allera, Melissa Burger, Joan Chall, Sharlene Deskins, Amanda Idstein, Melinda Krummerich, Kendra Smith, Greg Thomas.
5K 1. Mark Eagles 18:11 2. Patrick Sullivan 18:21.5 3. Angelo Flores 18:21.8 4. Jason Tripp 18:28 5. Evan Quinn 19:20 6. Vincent Martucci Bond 19:54 7. Lochlann Boyle 19:58 8. Quinlan Ballou 20:16 9. Greg Orlofsky 20:21 10. Qiang Tian 20:38 11. Evan Tian 20:42 12. David Mann 20:44 13. Fritz Orlofsky 20:45 14. Mary Gorsky 21:03 15. Kiley Mann 21:05 16. Lucas Rempert 21:50.2 17. Phillip Chen 21:50.5 18. Ted Poulos 22:05 19. Jake Hayden 22:07 20. John Way 22:22 21. Jonathan Harrington 22:26 22. Steven Burns 22:29 23. Evan Tubb 22:54 24. Dan Laukzemis 23:05 25. Gavin Coons 23:25 26. Harry Rowell 23:35 27. Griffin Ellinghaus 23:45 28. Frankie Moore 24:24 29. Kaylee Beal 24:35 30. Amanda Beal 24:36 31. Jayden Brown 25:18 32. Eric Johnston 25:49.2 33. Josiah Williams 25:49.7 34. Joshua Harrington 25:50 35. Vicki Lang 26:13 36. Carol Ernst 26:18 37. Amy Tredway 26:39 38. Matt Bevan 26:41 39. Chris Trunk 26:57 40. Alan Mulindwa 27:06 41. Robert Geisler 27:08 42. Chloe Hayden 27:45 43. Joanne Lee 27:55 44. Eileen Murphy 27:56 45. Claudia Eckstrom 28:04 46. Bill Snelling 28:26 47. Mary Lou Henderson 29:28 48. Sue(Xu) Zhang 29:35 49. Andrea Csordas 29:51 50. Chris Moore 30:23 51. Miya Knippenburg 30:33 52. Thomas Trunk 31:37 53. Erin Harklerood 32:13 54. Jim Harrington 32:27 55. Cindy Cohen 32:54 56. Jim Bitgood 33:05 57. Kevin Yant 33:09 58. John Eckstrom 33:25 59. Erin Williams 35:06 60. Joanne Harrington 36:21 61. Andrew Ryan 38:16.3 62. Scott Ryan 38:16.9 63. Alex Tu 38:48 64. Patricia Franklin 39:35 65. Cody Knippenburg 41:24 66. Wendy Hall 41:57 67. Joyce Johnson 44:25 68. Anne Wood 44:26 69. Jeanette Novak 44:39 70. Gail Marston Bailey 49:31 71. Tim Ramsey 55:48
10k 1. Adam Wytko 36:34 2. Jesse Tubb 42:11 3. Phil Lang 42:48 4. John Chall 43:26 5. Karsten Brown 43:40 6. Amanda Hill 47:44 7. Carlos Flores 47:53 8. Richard Aarons 47:54 9. Steve Meininger 48:26 10. Aditha Iyer 49:27 11. Bridget Celedon 49:49 12. Kirk Gordon 50:27 13. Gopal Kollengode 52:04 14. Marsha Demaree 52:36 15. Eric Burris 52:43 16, John Bratiotis 53:09 17. Marc Burger 54:47 18. James Scarborough 55:32 19. John Ramsey 55:56 20. Anna Hogue 59:14 21. Emily Howe 1:02:19 22. Pamela Yao 1:02:20 23. Yessica Gagliuffi 1:03:31 24. Lisa Cheung 1:13:38
Winter Weekly Series Race #5
73 runners came out for the Howard County striders weekly series race at Longfellow Elementary School. George Kochman and Kiley Mann were the 2 mile winners. Angelo Flores and Terri Wytko led the 10k runners.
Volunteers: Melinda Krummerich (race lead), Marc Burger, Melissa Burger, Joan Chall, Amanda Idstein, Tammy Liu, David Mann, Marnie Mann, Kendra Smith, Greg Thomas.
2 mile 1. George Kochman 11:35 2. Mark Eagles 11:54 3. Evan Quinn 12:29 4. Evan Tian 13:06 5. Ethan Brown 13:12 6. Quinlan Ballou 13:16 7. Vincent Bond 13:39 8. Fritz Orlofsky 13:48 9. Phillip Chen 13:52 10. Ted Poulos 13:56.4 11. Josiah Williams 13:56.9 12. Jake Hayden 14:05 13. Kiley Mann 14:06 14. Dwane Morgan Jr. 14:10 15. Claire Sivitz 14:14 16. Brian Sivitz 14:15 17. John Way 14:29 18. Frankie Moore 14:36 19. Dan Laukzemis 14:55 20. David Morgan 15:04 21. Jayden Brown 16:03 22. Kaylee Beal 16:08 23. Lucas Ballou 17:41 24. Ben Stein 17:51 25. Chris Moore 18:06 26. Chloe Hayden 18:11 27. Paul Hayden 18:14 28. Blair Beal 18:29 29. Cindy Cohen 18:35 30. Jerrod Williams 20:14 31. Jim Bitgood 22:12 32. John Ramsey 22:33 33. Andrew Ryan 22:49 34. Scott Ryan 22:50 35. Sari Chapman 23:00 36. Sharlene Deskins 25:01 37. April Orlofsky 25:41 38. Katie King 26:48 39. Michelle Dickinson 26:49 40. Maggie Orlofsky 27:01 41. Greg Orlofsky 27:03 42. Matthew Sebring 27:25 43. Daniel Sebring 27:26 44. Jeanette Novak 29:14
10k 1. Angelo Flores 38:12 2. Zach Valentine 38:31 3. Jesse Tubb 38:49 4. Karsten Brown 41:07 5. John Chall 42:59 6. Josh Weiss 43:40 7. Terri Wytko 45:41 8. Steve Meininger 46:32 9. Steve Knoll 46:38 10. Carlos Flores 48:05 11. Harry Rowell 48:07 12. Xuesong Wang 48:12 13. Aditha Iyer 50:13 14. Lucas Rempert 50:56 15. Bridget Celedon 51:01 16. Bill Brown 51:05 17. Faye Weaver 51:15 18. Kirk Gordon 51:30 19. Gopal Kollengode 51:58 20. Yihua Zheng 52:06 21. Chris Farmer 53:16 22. Eric Burris 53:39 23. Scott Holz 54:01 24. Marsha Demaree 54:06 25. Alan Mulindwa 55:10 26. James Scarborough 55:32 27. Ronald Schmidt 1:03:50 28. Yessica Gagliuffi 44:37(ran short 4miles)
Winter Weekly Series Race #4
81 runners came out for the Howard County striders weekly series race on a cold, windy day at Hammond Middle School. Mark Eagles and Kiley Mann were the 1 mile winners. Adam Wytko and Tammy Liu led the 5k runners.
Volunteers: Melinda Krummerich(race lead), Marc Burger, Joan Chall, Jim Harrington, Joanne Harrington, Greg Howard, Amanda Idstein, Eric Johnston, Annette Lanham, Kendra Smith.
1 mile 1. Mark Eagles 5:49 2. Vincent Bond 5:52 3. Evan Tian 5:59 4. Quinlan Ballou 6:00 5. Ethan Brown 6:03.4 6. Tyler Brown 6:03.7 7. Greg Orlofsky 6:06 8. David Mann 6:10 9. John Way 6:14 10. Joshua Harrington 6:15 11. Fritz Orlofsky 6:16 12. Aditha Iyer 6:22.2 13. Evan Tubb 6:22.9 14. Kiley Mann 6:27 15. Qiang Tian 6:29 16. Elliot Casson 6:32 17. Gavin Goons 6:35 18. Frankie Moore 6:38 19. Phillip Chen 6:41 20. Jonathan Harrington 6:47 21. Claire Sivitz 6:48 22. Brian Sivitz 6:49 23. Josiah Williams 7:01.4 24. Griffin Ellinghaus 7:01.8 25. Jayden Brown 7:15 26. Kaylee Beal 7:22 27. Amanda Beal 7:23 28. Claire Ravel 7:29 29. Chris Moore 8:49 30. Gregg Brown 9:24 31. Atticus Sentman 11:03 32. Sadie Sentman 11:07 33. Kate Amara 11:08 34. Sharlene Deskins 11:13 35. Wyatt Valentine 11:21 36. Louise Valentine 11:23 37. Oliver Bailey 11:36 38. Alex Bailey 11:37 39. Roger Calvert 12:06 40. Hattie Bailey DNF 41. Lindsey Bailey DNF
5k 1. Adam Wytko 18:13 2. Zack Valentine 18:32 3. Jesse Tubb 19:05 4. Lochlann Boyle 21:16 5. Josh Weiss 21:26 6. Richard Aarons 21:38 7. John Chall 22:34 8. Shannon Sentman 22:52 9. Tammy Liu 23:58 10. Marc Hermstein 24:04 11. Kirk Gordon 24:06 12. Sam Martin 24:19 13. Jeffrey Weaver 24:21 14. Bill Stahr 24:34 15. Lucas Rempert 25:04 16. Gopal Kellengode 25:21 17. Chris Martin 25:26 18. Kelli Gress 25:39 19. Chris Farmer 25:56 20. Yihua Zheng 26:17 21. Thomas Trunk 26:35 22. Alan Mulindwa 26:58 23. John Bratiotis 27:14 24. James Scarborough 27:17 25. Chris Trunk 27:38 26. Steven Burns 27:45.1 27. Garrett Burns 27:45.6 28. Karen Young 27:58 29. Pamela Yao 29:20 30. Cindy Cohen 32:25 31. Carey White 32:42 32. Haydee Herrera 34:25 33. Samuel Koralov 34:28 34. Jean Grady 38:42 35. Linda Kuligowski 38:43 36. Jeanette Novak 47:46 37. Gail Marston Bailey 48:31 38. Jumaya Grant 48:53 39. Claudia Grant 48:58 40. Faye Weaver 48:59
Winter Weekly Series Race #3
An excellent turnout of 85 runners came out for the Howard County Striders weekly series race at Burleigh Manor Middle School. Mark Eagles and Frankie Moore were the 5k winners. Adam Wytko and Courtney Mann led the 5 milers.
Volunteers: Pattie Laun (race lead), Linda Allera, Bill Arbelaez, Melissa Burger, Joan Chall, Jewel Devries, Amanda Idstein, Melinda Krummerich, Christine Merenda, Kendra Smith, Greg Thomas.
5k 1. Mark Eagles 19:11 2. Jesse Tubb 19:14 3. Evan Quinn 19:48 4. James Blackwood 19:49 5. Vincent Bond 20:07 6. Grady Wolfe 21:16 7. Quinlan Ballou 21:30 8. Greg Orlofsky 21:47 9. Jake Hayden 22:13.1 10. Evan Tubb 22:13.6 11. Ted Poulos 22:28 12. Fritz Orlofsky 22:32 13. Frankie Moore 23:01 14. Jonathan Harrington 23:04 15. Dwayne Morgan Jr. 23:05 16. David Morgan 23:07 17. Evan Tian 23:15 18. Claire Sivitz 23:36 19. Brian Sivitz 23:38 20. Kiley Mann 23:43.2 21. Mary Gorsky 23:43.7 22. Joshua Harrington 23:59.6 23. Josiah Williams 23:59.9 24. Jayden Brown 24:32 25. Griffin Ellinghaus 24:48 26. Frances Haard 24:49.3 27. Tom Haard 24:49.9 28. Robert Quinn 24:57 29. Evan Calvert 27:09 30. Alan Mulindwa 27:22 31. Gavin Coons 28:15 32. Pamela Yao 28:17 33. Chloe Hayden 28:41 34. Ronnie Wong 29:29 35. Kaylee Beal 29:40.0 36. Amanda Beal 29:40.7 37. Chris Moore 30:18 38. Jim Harrington 32:33 39. Lorreta Farb 33:13 40. Gregg Brown 33:55 41. Sharlene Deskins 35:47 42. Wyatt Valentine 39:16 43. Zach Valentine 39:17 44. Kareem Chambers 40:17 45. Camille Shoemaker 40:18.0 46. Mia Pearl Morgan 40:18.8 47. Nkiru Okpaleke 41:54 48. Roger Calvert 42:50 49. John Winkert 43:30 50. Jeanette Novak 44:54 51. Gail Marston Bailey 48:16 52. Tim Ramsey 54:36
5 mile 1. Adam Wytko 30:25 2. Karsten Brown 33:18 3. Courtney Mann 33:36 4. John Chall 35:35 5. David Mann 36:01 6. Richard Aarons 36:20 7. Nick Anderson 36:22 8. Henry Shoemaker 37:31 9. Lochlann Boyle 37:32 10. Dennis Albright 37:57 11. Steven Burns 38:14 12. Rashavan Sullivan 38:34 13. John Way 38:56 14. Kirk Gordon 39:49 15. Joel Williams 41:12 16. Marc Burger 41:42 17. Bill Brown 42:25 18. James Scarborough 43:54 19. Marsha Demaree 44:36 20. Eric Johnston 44:44 21. Ankur Holz 45:44 22. Scott Holz 45:51 23. John Ramsey 46:42 24. Eric Burris 47:48 25. Kim Williams 48:03 26. Christine Schauerman 48:08 27. John Bratiotis 48:09 28. Chris Farmer 48:35 29. Lucas Rempert 49:11 30. Allie Downey 52:53 31. Amy Eschman 52:57 32. Aleah Eschman 52:58 33. Haydee Herrera 54:36
Winter Weekly Series Race #2
45 runners came out on a sunny, breezy December afternoon for the second Operation Iceberg Winter Series Races at Thunder Hill Elementary School. Three distances were offered. The two-mile winners were Mark Eagles and Mia Talley. The 10K winners were Steven Burns and Marsha Demaree. The 15K winner was Zach Valentine.
Volunteers: Melinda Krummerich (race lead), Joan Chall, Denise Hyde, Kendra Smith, Greg Thomas, Adam Wytko
2M 1 Mark Eagles 0:11:34 2 Josiah Williams 0:14:09 3 David Koralov 0:14:19 4 Harry Rowell 0:14:41 5 Luis Diaz 0:14:47 6 Dan Laukzemis 0:14:53 7 Eric Johnston 0:15:55 8 Mia Talley 0:16:18 9 Alan Mulindwa 0:17:01 10 Ben Stein 0:17:08 11 Angelos Diaz 0:17:21 12 Brent Talley 0:17:25 13 John Chall 0:19:00 14 Ronnie Wong 0:19:20 15 Samuel Koralov 0:19:26 16 Christopher Blackwood 0:19:33 17 Leonid Koralov 0:19:52 18 Bill Arbelaez 0:20:17 19 Haydee Herrera 0:20:43 20 Veronica Lucero 0:21:09 21 JP Blackwood 0:22:54 22 James Blackwood 0:22:55 23 Sharlene Deskins 0:23:38 24 Cindy Cohen 0:24:58 25 Meredith Bailey 0:26:28 26 Anastasiya Blackwood 0:28:48 27 Jeanette Novak 0:28:54 28 Keira Griffiths 0:29:23 29 Richard Griffiths 0:29:30 30 Daniela Arias 0:29:47 31 Gail Marston Bailey 0:32:08
10K 1 Steven Burns 0:46:41 2 Adithya Iyer 0:47:00 3 Steve Meininger 0:47:22 4 Joel Williams 0:51:50 5 Marsha Demaree 0:59:07 6 Emily Howe 0:59:51 7 Ronald Schmidt 1:01:20 8 Carol Weslowski 1:01:34
15K 1 Zach Valentine 1:03:48 2 Karsten Brown 1:05:30 3 Gopal Kollengode 1:20:28 4 John Way 1:24:19 5 Kirk Gordon 1:28:01 6 James Scarborough 1:29:34
Winter Weekly Series Race #1
21 runners came out for the Howard County Striders Winter Weekly Series Race at Northfield Elementary School. Mark Eagles and Tammy Liu Hermstein were the 5k winners.
Volunteers: Kendra Smith(race lead), Melissa Burger, Joan Chall, Amanda Idstein, Conrad Orloff, Greg Thomas, John Way, Adam Wytko.
5k 1. Mark Eagles 19:30 2. Alex O'Connell 20:22 3. John Chall 21:11 4. Ankur Holz 22:41 5. Harry Rowell 23:01 6. Lucas Rempen 23:37 7. Marc Burger 23:54 8. Marc Hermstein 24:02 9. Joel Williams 24:10 10. Alan Mulindwa 25:41 11. Chris Farmer 25:43 12. John Ramsey 26:20 13. Scott Holz 26:36 14. Eric Johnston 27:16 15. John Bratiotis 27:22 16. Tammy Liu Hermstein 27:23 17. Hiroko Kunimoto 28:46 18. Karen Young 30:34 19. Ronnie Wong 36:48(ran long) 20. Jeanette Novak 46:21 21. Gail Marsten Bailey 48:56