Ragged Mountain Running & Walking Shop - Runners of the Week

Runners of the Week (11/20/19)

11/20/2019

-The Albemarle Boys XC team, who won the 5A State Championships!
-The UVa Men’s XC squad, who won the NCAA Southeast Regional Championships!
-Penelope Tingley(10th grade CHS), who finished 3rd overall I’m 18:51 at the 3A State XC Championships!
-Jane Jackson (3:52 and 4th in age group) and Sarah Wymer (3:52), who ran huge p.r.’s at the Richmond Marathon!
-Gabriella Karas, who after a long lay-off from injury, surged her way to first place for the UVa women at the NCAA Regional Championships!
-Jamie Morris, who ran a huge 3:22 p.r. at the Richmond Marathon!
-The Western Albemarle boys XC team, who won the 3A State Championships!
-Lee Nunn, who scored a big 3:54 p.r. at the Richmond Marathon!
-Vicki Turtora who ran a sweet 1:56 at the Richmond Half Marathon!
-Leah Connor, who ran a speedy 1:50 at the Richmond Half Marathon!
-Emily Voss (2:16 Half) and Steve Light (3:33 full), who scored huge p.r.’s at the Richmond races!
-John Moody, who lost 65 pounds before debuting with a 4:29 at the Richmond Marathon!
-Gaby Gorman, who was 5th in her age group with a 3:20 at Richmond.

Runners of the Week (11/13/19)

11/13/2019

-Josh Thomas (4th overall) and Patrick (11th), who had excellent races over the challenging Mountain Masochist 50 Miler!
-Attila Szabo, who broke 5 hours for the first time and scored a huge 4:54 p.r. at the Savanah Marathon!
-Corey Feist and Liza Borches who ran right at 4 hours in their NYC Marathon debut!

Runners of the Week (10/23/19)

10/23/2019

-Tristan Jones, who ran a huge p.r. of 2:53 at the Baltimore Half Marathon, his first sub 3 half!

-Rachel Letteri, who marathon debuted with a sweat 3:56 at the Yonkers Marathon!

-The Smith family who all ran super races at the MDI Half Marathon in Maine! Mary Claire (2:04) and Emily (1:42) won their age groups, while Scott took third in 1:46!

- Natalie Krovetz, Pam Balcke, Wendy Golden, and Ancolirn Tate, who all finished first in their respective age groups at The Chessie Trail Half Marathon! Leslie Bergin and Diddy Morris scored impressive times too!

Runners of the Week (10/16/19)

10/16/2019

-the Albemarle and Western Albemarle boys cross country squads who finished 2nd and 3rd behind mighty Loudon Valley (#3 team in the country), with an amazing 16:04 average time, at the Albemarle Invitational!

-Micheal Guthrie, who after suffering a long term and potentially deadly illness, worked his way back to fitness with a super finish at the Community Bridges 5k!

-Deb Gilbert, who broke 30 minutes for 5K for the first time ever (at the Community Bridges)!

-Christy Leitzel, who ran a fast 4:02 in her marathon debut at Chicago!

-Carter Norbo, who ran a huge 2:45:38 p.r. at the Chicago Marathon!

-Sophie Lambert, who shattered her previous p.r. with a 3:18 at Chicago!

-Courtney Duckworth (14544) who ran a sweet 3:25 p.r. at the Chicago Marathon!

Runners of the Week (10/9/19)

10/9/2019

-Anders Grorud (#1286) who ran a sweet 3:15 in his marathon debut at the Twin Cities Marathon

-Henry Reeves, who qualified for the Boston Marathon in the 80-84 division with a speedy 4:48!

-Jenny Goswami, who qualified for the US Olympic Trials with a nifty 2:43:00 at The Twin Cities Marathon!

Runners of the Week (9/18/19)

9/18/2019

UVA: Third year Rohann Asfaw, who led the Hoos (ranked #20 nationally) to a win in their home opener with a 24:25 victory on Panorama Farms' brand new 8K course.

High School Boys: Junior Branden Wood, who is quietly having the best cross season a Louisa boy has had since legendary harrier Danny Kane way back in the early 2000s. Wood, who finished third on Saturday's Cavalier Classic at Panorama Farms in 16:01, also ran 10:00 for two miles at the season opening Ragged Mountain Cup. Both times he has finished behind only the double headed Western Albemarle juggernaut of Hawkes & Eliason.

High School Girls: Louisa senior Cierra Caicedo, whose 19:30 runner-up finish at the Cavalier Classic on Saturday reaffirmed her as one of the best runners in all of Virginia 4A (18th at the State XC meet in 2018).

Runners of the Week (7/31/19)

7/30/2019

Ragged Mountain Runners of the Week:
Anne Chapin (3:58 p.r.) and Peggy Mowbray (4:00), who both punched tickets to the Boston Marathon and scored top three places in the 60-64 age group at the Jack and Jill Marathon in Seattle.

Tammy Meeks (on right in second photo), who ran a huge 3:53 p.r. and qualified for Boston with a sweet finish in the 50-54 age group at the Jack and Jill Marathon!

All the folks who came out to race in memory of our beloved Dave Murphy at the First Annual Murphy Mile at the CTC meet!

Runners of the Week (7/24/19)

7/24/2019

Emily Henley, Suzanna Turanyi, and Leah Connor, who swept the two mile at last week’s CTC Track Meet, making them the first ever female trio to take the top three overall spots at a mixed gender CTC distance race!
Jeremy Gray, who was the first across the finish line at The NPR 5K, on the hottest day of the year.
Jennifer Owens, who was the first female to cross the finish line at the NPR 5K!
Jane Jackson, who won the 50-54 age group at the NPR 5K, on the morning of her 50th birthday!
Tom McQueeney, who topped the 80+ age group at the steamy hot NPR 5K!

Runners of the Week (6/26/19)

6/26/2019

*Jamie Collins, Andrea Wright, Scott Smith and Bob Wilder, who competed in the Ragnar Run/Bike Relay in Richmond on Friday night. As a team, they finished 4th overall as they covered 125 miles in 9 hours and 32 seconds!
*Sarah Wymer, who ran an impressive 4:00 debut at the Grandma's Marathon in Duluth!
*Christian McMillen, who ran 50K over the trails around Charlottesville on his 50th birthday!
*Jenny Goswami, who ran a p.r. 2:47 at the Grandma's Marathon in Duluth (pictured here with Boston Bound teammate Cynthia Lorenzoni, who ran 3:56 and placed 5th in the 60-64 age group)
*Shawn Kelley (pictured with his wife Ali), who rocketed to a p.r. 1:16 performance at the Grandma's Half in Duluth

Runners of the Week (6/19/19)

6/19/2019

Lauretta Harbilas and Thomas Adam
(Female and Male champs)
Ian Harrison, who, on his 60th Birthday, set a new course record at the Bruce Barnes Mile for the 60-69 age group with a 5:11!

About Runners of the Week

Runners of the Week has been a Ragged Mountain family tradition since 1982. Each week we select a few individuals (although sometimes we will actually spotlight all of the members of a relay team, like we did when the Western Albemarle Boys DMR indoor squad won the National title in 2008 or an entire team, as we did when the UVa Women won the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships way back in the Winter of 1982) as our “Runners of the Week".

We select a representative from three categories:
Community Runner of the Week, High School Runner of the Week and a UVa Runner of the Week.
The names of these individuals and their remarkable accomplishments, whether they’re amazing times or an incredible personal improvement, are posted on two different display boards at the shop.

Every single Ragged Mountain Runner of the Week will be awarded a classic Ragged Mountain t-shirt (the same design we’ve been using since Neal Gropen designed our shirt when he was our next door business neighbor in 1982).

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