5-Mile 2-Person Relay
23 teams took on the Howard County Striders 5 mile two person relay Friday evening at the Wilde Lake High School track. Runners took turns alternating 1/4 mile laps until 5 miles was reached. A couple runners took on the 5 miles by themselves. The team of Terence Baptiste and Sean Caskey were the winning team,
Volunteers: Melinda Krummerich (race lead), Marc Burger, Melissa Burger, Kendra Smith.
5 mile 1. Terence Baptiste / Sean Caskey 24:58 2. Pete Wergin / Peter Bandettino 25:56 3. Nicole Dawson / Thomas Ryba 26:28 4. Mark Eagles / Matthew Ervin 28:14 5. Adam Sachs / Miranda Edo "Sachsy & I know it" 29:09 6. Dan Frank / Samantha Frank 29:39 7. Lincoln Wytko / Terri Wytko 29:50 8. Jesse Tubb / Seth Robinson 30:27 9. Evan Tubb / Jack Nutaro 30:32 10. Bruce Worley / Mark Worley 30:47 11. Bram Arrington / Jennifer Austin 30:57 12. Hafiz Shaikh / Chad Booth 31:03 13. Andrew Pontius / Jim Pontius 31:08 14. Anna Chien / Tim Hwu 34:15 15. Steve Turner 35:17 16. Scott Oaksmith / Kaitlyn Oaksmith 35:24 17. Emily Bonham / Roger Stott 35:35 18. Jacob Hwu / Sophia Hwu 36:07 19. Marsha Demaree / Matt Bevan "M & M" 36:20 20. John Chall 36:32 21. James, Christopher, J.P. Blackwood 37:39 22. Brian Stott / Clara Stott 37:52 23. Jessica Contreras / James Scarborough 39:17
Friday Night XC Series #1
5K - Oakland Mills HS 1 Sebastien Breton 17:07 2 Doug Mock 17:08 3 Adam Wytko 17:27 4 Conrad Orloff 17:39 5 Jeff O'Toole 17:56 6 Wren Kucler 18:02 7 Robin Kucler 18:35 8 Mike Hause 18:38 9 Brian Shadrick 18:41 10 Ben Thomas 18:57 11 George Kochman 19:04 12 John Brun 19:33 13 Maggie Winstead 19:39 14 Brian Fleming 19:46 15 Jicheng Liu 19:49 16 Frankie Moore 19:59 17 Dustin Yourstone 20:01 18 Rachel Roberts 20:15 19 Steve Bohse 20:30 20 Evan Tian 20:37 21 Qiang Tian 20:39 22 Adithya Iyer 20:46 23 Anthony Patterson 21:01 24 Tobias Hall 21:22 25 Eva Dimitrova 21:34 26 Michael Bohse 21:41 27 Josiah Williams 21:42 28 Nicholas Howard 21:46 29 Sarah Hill 21:48 30 Xuesong Wang 21:52 31 John Chall 22:09 32 Sydney LeBrun 22:12 33 Bruce Worley 22:30 34 Anne Logan 22:43 35 Jack Arrington 22:50 36 Jemmel Green Jr. 23:03 37 Mark Worley 23:21 38 Robert Quinn 23:25 39 Jeffrey Weaver 23:31 40 Reilly Wagner 23:54 41 Gopal Kollengode 24:04 42 Joseph Wensus 24:09 43 Ankur Holz 24:19 44 Andrew Manney 24:22 45 Tammy Liu 24:25 46 Griffin Ellinghaus 24:28 47 Joaquin Twoteeth 24:32 48 Andrew Pontius 24:34 49 Bill Stahr 24:41 50 Jason Weddington 24:44 51 Marc Burger 24:45 52 Joel Williams 24:55 53 Faye Weaver 25:26 54 Alan Robson 25:29 55 Sophia Hwu 25:59 56 Anatasia Stepanova 26:04 57 Huifei Chen 26:09 58 Jim Pontius 26:11 59 Anna Chien 26:42 60 Ryan Collins 26:45 61 James Scarborough 27:00 62 Yihua Zheng 27:06 63 Eric Johnston 27:20 64 Tomoki Weddington 28:05 65 Charlotte Lamp 28:15 66 Lily Decker 28:16 67 Aimee Goldman 28:20 68 Debbie Ellinghaus 28:21 69 Brian Keys 28:23 70 Kenneth Ho 28:41 71 Jacob Hwu 28:42 72 Tim Hwu 28:43 73 Lincoln Wytko 28:44 74 Brooks Chrest 28:45 75 Liam Luthardt 29:11 76 Karen Young 29:52 77 Josh Pennsy 30:07 78 Ashley Sanchez 30:23 79 Simon Wytko 30:29 80 Terri Wytko 30:30 81 Andrew Ellinghaus 31:29 82 Mary Niland 32:10 83 Charlie Arrington 32:15 84 Jerrod Williams 32:17 85 Bram Arrington 32:18 86 Emily Elkonoh 32:35 87 Brandon Ho 33:04 88 Jemmel Green Sr. 33:34 89 Nitya Sharma 34:43 90 Ben Mertes 35:26 91 Andy Kay 36:47 92 David Kay 36:50 93 Sue Zhang 38:14 94 Amanda Idstein 40:32 95 Deya Dimitrova 40:53 96 Tracey Hoffman 44:55 97 Paul Lee 47:11 98 Tim Ramsey 53:20
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