HCS 2002 Spring Series 5K

Columbia, MD, April 28, 2002

Results courtesy of the Howard County Striders.

The clouds parted for the runners during this warm, humid race. Top runners ran closely for the first mile and a number of fast times were recorded from this elite crew. Bobby Van Allen won by a considerable margin. Julie Thienel won the women's race after running a 23 mile training run the day before. Julie is planning on running the Vermont City marathon in the near future. Julie Thienel's time of 19:37 sets a new women's record for this course, beating Pat Keating's 19:52 set in1999. Tunde Morakinyo, recently returning from the Boston Marathon posted a possible 5K PR at 18:28. New weekly runner, John Jagela, Sr. ran an impressive 18:46. John says he's been a "strider" for a while and thought he'd try out one of the weekly races with his sons, John, Jr. (25:42) and Bobby. Bobby Jagela misjudged the start however and was out warming up when the race started. Steve Zelenak says he had just painted the course 15 minutes before he got there. Who would have thought you could paint on water.

1. Bobby Van Allen             16:44 
2. Ted Poulos                  17:17 
3. Doug Kuderna                17:28 
4. Steve Olenick               17:36 
5. Jason Tripp                 17:50 
6. Seth Brown                  18:13 
7. Tunde Morakinyo             18:28 
8. John Jagela                 18:46 
9. Daniel Jonas                19:07 
10. Julie Thienel              19:37 
11. James Moreland             20:07 
12. Ed Curtis                  20:11 
13. Scott Dagley               20:16 
14. Craig Lebro                20:51 
15. Eric Bell                  20:56 
16. Paul Hsiao                 21:13 
17. Chuck Raper                21:57 
18. Steve Zelenak              22:35 
19. Tom Dagley                 22:56 
20. Scott Ritz                 23:09 
21. Roger Calvert              23:18 
22. Phil Heiliger              24:23 
23. Melodie Bowler             24:25 
24. John Worley                25:00 
25. Al Greuter                 25:05 
26. Dwight Bowler              25:08 
27. John Jagela, Jr            25:42 
28. Maria Kuderna              26:21 
29. Bill Brandenstein          26:33 
30. Marquel Bowler             28:04 
31. Glenn Bell                 29:36 
32. Arleen Dinneen             31:36 
33. Chris Caravoulias          31:39