WEEKEND EVENTS FOR MARCH 30 - 31

There are just a few races happening this Easter weekend:

Kansas City:

Easter Egg 5K,10K & Lil' Bunny Fun Run, Saturday

St. Louis area:   

Blossom Bolt 5K/10K & Sprout Sprint, Chesterfield, Saturday

Devil's Den State Park, Arkansas (south of Bentonville):

Styx & Stones Trail Races (26M & 13.1M), Saturday

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BRIDGE AND DAM 25K, HALF MARATHON, 10K & 5K (posted March 25th)

Despite cloudy skies and temperatures that never made it out of the 30s, turnout increased 17% over last year for the tenth annual Bridge and Dam 25K, Half Marathon, 10K & 5K (Facebook page) in Lake Ozark on Saturday.  The race is organized by and benefits the Lake of the Ozarks chapter of the non-profit Missouri Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA).

There were 367 finishers at this year's race, with increases experienced at every race distance.  Shown below are the number of finishers, by distance, since 2015.

BRIDGE & DAM
NUMBER OF FINISHERS
Distance
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
All-In
-
-
7
10
7
COVID
9
-
-
-
Double-Down
-
-
11
8
7
10
-
-
-
25K
-
-
-
-
-
-
24
18
28
Half Marathon
198
172
155
179
186
231
127
100
105
10K
75
90
119
123
105
139
115
78
91
5K
-
-
124
166
134
162
152
117
143
Total
273
262
416
486
439
551
418
313
367

Bridge & Dam still retains its status as the largest running race in the Lake area, and one of the largest running races in Missouri held outside of a large metropolitan area. 

Race Results

Complete race results can be found here

25K

The overall 25K winner was Tim Glavin of Jefferson City. Tim finished in 1:44:33, nearly six minutes ahead of last year's winner, Jarden Angell of Centralia. 

Finishing behind the top two men was the women's winner, 24 year-old Alexis Krogman of Quincy, Illinois.  Alexis finished in 1:54:43, about 20 minutes ahead of last year's women's winner, Millie Cavanagh of Sedalia.

Both the men's and women's winning times represented new course records. 

The only Lake-area runner whose name I recognize in the results was Dan Beck, who finished in 2:42:02.  (The much-hated Athlinks race results don't list the cities or home states for the finishers, so I may have missed some of our locals.  Please let me know if I missed you.)

Half Marathon

Local runner Tucker Seise brought his overall race victory total to five this year by winning the half marathon, in 1:19:35. This was Tucker's third Bridge & Dam half, after placing 10th overall in 2021 and 6th in 2022.  He switched to--and won--last year's 10K.   

In winning the women's race, Olivia Durant of Shawnee, Kansas broke one of the very few Bridge & Dam records that has stood since the inaugural race in 2015.  Olivia won in 1:23:01, breaking former Lake-area runner Lizzy Handschy's record time by 19 seconds. This was Olivia's second Bridge & Dam women's half victory. She won in 2022, and took second in 2021.

10K

Eddie Grier of Manhattan, Kansas won the 10K, in 39:24, about a minute ahead of Bryan Hollenberg of St. Louis.  This was Eddie's first time at Bridge & Dam, and Bryan's third.  Finishing a few minutes behind them was our top local finisher, Nigher Alfaro,  

The women's race was won by Jamie Fitzpatrick of Sherman, Illinois.  Jamie won in 48:56, shaving over a minute from last year's 50:08.  Only equaling last year's time would have cost her a victory this year, as second-place finisher Hanna Jones crossed the line in 49:20.

5K

Both the men's and women's 5K course records were broken this year.

In the closest finish of the day, Seamus McCarthy of Jefferson City finished two seconds ahead of Camdenton High School sophomore cross country runner Luke Webb.  Seamus' 18:04 finish time broke Cooper Vickers' record of 18:23 that stood for seven years.

Finishing next in line behind the top two men, in a very impressive 19:03, was Alicia Engelbrecht, a 24 year-old former Helias Catholic High School and William Woods University cross country runner. Alicia broke the course record that Cierra Hiland has held since 2017.

For the fourth straight year, the oldest competitor in the 5K was Carol Cange, who at age 84 this year finished the 5K in 56:32.

Legacy Half Finishers

Seven of the eight runners who had finished every Bridge & Dam half marathon (or longer race) since its debut in 2015 returned this year to extend their streaks. (2020 is excluded from the tally since the race was virtual only.)  Jeanne Pfetsch's streak ended this year. Below is the list of the diehards. Their ages appear in parentheses.  The competition to be the very last legacy runner remaining could go on for many years.

Russell Burkett (52) (O'Fallon, MO)
Alisha Eldridge (43) (Eldon)
Ryan Garlock (47) (Lincoln, NE)
Lindsay Garlock (47) (Lincoln, NE)
Lori Hurt (42) (Sedalia)
Kim Ream (41) (Sedalia)
Heather Skouby (54) Eldon

Results for Lake-area runners

Here are the results for our Lake-area runners, by race distance and finish order.  (If I missed anyone, please let me know.)

BRIDGE & DAM
RESULTS FOR LAKE-AREA PARTICIPANTS
Name
City
Finish Time
Age Group
Age Group Place
         

I'll try to complete this table when I have time to do so.  Because the Athlinks results don't show the runners' cities, I'm pretty much going to have to depend on memory of locat runners' names to complete the table.  That means many newer runners will likely be missed.  Athlinks is awful.

         

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Other weekend races:

The Liberty Hospital Half Marathon & 5K had a 17% decline in participation this year compared to last.  The race has shrunk in size by one-third since its peak in 2020.

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Half Marathon
459
753
1,071
1,004
COVID
959
839
709
5K
652
1,009
735
972
759
727
590
  Total 
1,111
1,762
1,806
1,976
1,718
1,566
1,299

No results have yet been reported for the Weldon Spring Trail Marathon & Half.

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BARKLEY MARATHONS (posted March 25th)

At least three records fell at this year's Barkley Marathons.  The most surprising is that there were five finishers of the race.  This is a race where it's not uncommon that no one finishes.  There have been three years when there were two finishers, and two years when there have been three.  To have five finishers in a single year would have been unthinkable. 

For the first time in race history, there was a female finisher. Jasmin Paris, an ultrarunner from Great Britain, finished the five-loop, 100+ mile, 60-hour race with 93 seconds to spare.  This was not her first Barkley attempt.  She finished three loops--a "fun run", in Barkley parlance--in 2022 and 2023.

Jared Campbell broke his own record of three Barkley finishes by completing his fourth.  Had he not done so, John Kelly, a previous two-time finisher, would have tied Jared's record.

Harvey Lewis had navigational issues on his second loop, and failed to finish.

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SHAMROCKSHUFFLE 5K/15K & BEER MILE (posted March 18th)

Three Lake-area runners traveled to Springfield on Saturday for Fleet Feet's Shamrock Shuffle 5K/15K & Beer Mile.  All three competed in the 15K.

Tucker Seise finished in 54:15, taking second overall among the 108 finishers.  Tucker crossed the finish line about three minutes behind the race winner.  Kalise Lischwe finished in 1:30:40, placing 5th (of 16) in the women's 30-39 age group.  Placing 6th in that group was Brittany Parrish, who finished in 1:32:51.

Despite the nice weather, participation was down quite a bit from last year.  There were 108 15K finishers, down 30% from 155 last year, and 239 5K finishers, down 25% from last year.

Complete race results can be found here.

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Other weekend race results:

The St. Patrick's Day Parade Run was the biggest race of the weekend in the state, with 1,889 5-mile finishers, and 603 3K finishers. The number of 5-mile finishers was nearly unchanged from last year's 1,913; the 3K was up 20% over last year. If anyone local competed, let me know, and I'll report it. (The Parade Run results are posted on the awful Athlinks.com website.  Searching through 51 pages of results just isn't happening.)

There were over 1,000 participants at the Creve Coeur St. Paddy's Half Marathon & 5K/10K at Creve Coeur Park on Saturday.  That was way up from about 800 last year.

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ROCK ISLAND ROAD RACE (updated March117th)

Registration is open for the seventh annual Rock Island Road Race, 5K/10K/15K, taking place on Saturday, June 8th.

The race's Facebook page has a link to the registration page.

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