2016 Media Guide - Credit Union Cherry Blossom

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2016 Credit Union Cherry Blossom
Official Media Guide
Contents
Photo: Dennis Steinauer
Health and Fitness Expo and Clinics
Donations to Children’s Miracle Hospitals
Welcome Letters
Honorary Race Chairs
Title Sponsor History
Race Day Media Information
Capitol Hill Competition
Race Director History
Event Background
Charity Donations
Les Kinion Award
Event Timetable
Event
Sponsors
2015 Elite Athlete Results
Press Releases
Open and Age Group Records
2015 Age Group Results
Course Maps
Prize Money History
2015 Team Results
Prize Money Structure
Bonus Payment History
The Runner’s Rite of Spring®
Elite Athlete Bios
Past
Winners’
Notable
Acomplishments
Evolution of the 10 Mile Course
Returning Age Group Champions
Capitol Hill Records
Event Participant Statistics
5K Run-Walk
Champions
PRRO Circuit Information
Kids’ Run
2016 All-Time
Credit Union
Cherry Blossom Media Guide
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Welcome Letters
We are thrilled to be in our 15th year of title sponsorship of the Credit Union Cherry
Blossom Ten Mile Run! This is an amazing running event and credit unions and their
business partners nationwide have enthusiastically united to be a part of it.
The impact of our long-standing partnership is remarkable. Since becoming the title
sponsors in 2002, we have donated over $7.5 million to Children’s Miracle Network
Hospitals, locally and across the country, which treat 10 million children annually.
Credit unions are the among the top three contributors to CMN Hospitals, after Walmart and Costco, having
donated $11.5 million in 2015 alone.
This amount includes generous donations from runners and credit union members, employees and volunteers.
We are very grateful for the generous support from our top business partners, PSCU and CUNA Mutual Group,
both valuable industry business partners who help underwrite the costs of title sponsorship.
And, a big shout out to the hundreds of credit union volunteers who enjoy helping on race weekend at packet
pickup, water stops, corrals, and other stations.
We are also pleased to be partners with a sister run, the Credit Union SacTown Run in Sacramento, California,
and two Freedom Runs for our troops serving in Germany and Kuwait.
Involvement with the race and CMN Hospitals is a prime example of credit unions’ core values – reaching out to
support our local communities. Seeing over 100 credit unions and business partners and thousands of runners
coming together to support the health and wellbeing of children is truly inspiring.
We are honored to be a part of the “Runner’s Rite of Spring”!
On with the Race and Celebration of our 15th Anniversary!
Theresa Mann
Chair of Credit Union Miracle Day Run Committee
President/CEO of The Partnership FCU
Charlie Mallon
Vice Chair, and Chair of CUMF Credit Union Cherry Blossom
President/CEO of Congressional FCU
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2016 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Media Guide
Welcome Letters
On behalf of myself, Deputy Race Director Becky Lambros, the organizing committee and our
2,000 volunteers, we would like to welcome everyone to the 44th running of the Credit Union
Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run and 5K Run-Walk. We call our event “The Runner’s Rite of Spring”
because we feel it represents the reawakening of our Nation’s Capital to the coming of spring and
the blooming of the legendary cherry trees which surround our beautiful course. Whether you are
a runner, a spectator or a member of the media covering the event, we hope you will take a few
moments to savor the trees, the spring air and the splendor of the city.
Since 1973 the event has hosted over 275,000 runners, each with his or her own athletic fantasy —
ranging from simply covering the distance, to posting a personal best time, or to taking home an
award. One of the hallmarks of running is its accessibility to everyone. We are pleased to provide the stage.
We are especially pleased to welcome four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi to the race this year. Meb is the only person
ever to have won an Olympic medal—silver in the marathon in Athens in 2004— as well as the New York CIty and
Boston Marathons. And Meb’s personal story is even more inspiring. From his arrival in America as a refugee from wartorn Eritrea in 1987, to being granted U.S. citizenship in 1998, to becoming the first American to win the New York City
Marathon in 27 years in 2009, to his emotionally charged victory at the 2014 Boston Marathon and his recent Olympic
Trials performance—second at the age of 40—Meb’s life résumé is legendary. Keflezighi will run the 10 mile as a tempo run as part of his initial training for the Rio Olympic Marathon after qualifying
for his fourth U.S. Olympic Team in Los Angeles on February 13. He will join the 6:00 Gold’s Gym pace group and invites
his fellow runners to “break an hour with Meb.”
This is a great opportunity for many of our seeded and yellow corral participants to run with an inspirational runner in their
attempt to better the elusive 60-minute barrier. I expect to see a large posse crossing the line with Meb, many with smiles on
their faces after setting new personal records.
We take great pride that the event has served another cause as well — helping sick children receive medical care through the
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Since the Credit Unions became the title sponsor in 2002, the event has raised over
$7.5 million dollars for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
We would be unable to conduct this event without the full cooperation of the National Park Service and the United States
Park Police. We thank both organizations for the opportunity to stage the event on our Nation’s front doorstep.
Sincerely,
Phil Stewart
Event Director
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Race Day Media Information
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eith Peters is the Media Coordinator for the 2016 Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run and 5K Run-Walk. For
race-day media credentials and/or space on media trucks—there will be separate trucks leading the men’s and women’s
races—please contact Keith at [email protected] (cell: 307-690-6803). Space on these trucks is extremely limited, so call Keith to ensure seating. TV crews should also call in advance to secure parking for trucks on race morning.
There will be limited space at the finish for photographers. Please be respectful of race officials and volunteers as they try to
keep the area clear and safe for all involved.
Sarah Turner and Leigh Philibosian are the media contacts for all credit union race-related activities, including the Kids’
Run. Please contact Sarah Turner at [email protected] (cell: 410-262-6480), or Leigh at [email protected]
(cell: 717-439-1576) for more information about the credit union title sponsorship benefitting Children’s Miracle Network
Hospitals across the United States.
One final note: The event’s website features a comprehensive results database, searchable by name and/or age group for
the 10-mile race dating back to 1973, and for the 5K Run-Walk dating back to 2006, when the 5K was upgraded from an
untimed run to a fully-timed and scored event: http://www.cballtimeresults.org
Women’s winner Lisa Weidenbach and 3rd place finisher Kim Jones meet the press after the 1989 race
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Event Background
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or runners in Washington since 1973, the true beginning of spring is marked not by a date on the calendar but by the
running of the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run, also known as The Runner’s Rite of Spring.® See The Runner’s Rite of Spring®
Elite competitors have used the race as a final competitive tune-up for the Boston Marathon two weeks later. Bill Rodgers,
Greg Meyer, and Lisa Larsen Weidenbach all went on to win Boston after their victories here.
For lesser mortals, Cherry Blossom means a chance to doff the warm-up suits, turtlenecks, caps and gloves of winter and
join other runners in a celebration of the season. Here in Washington, the race has become as fixed a rite of spring as the
Easter Egg Roll at the White House or the lighting of the Japanese lanterns on the Tidal Basin.
The staging area for the event is on the Washington Monument Grounds, and the course passes in sight of all of the major
Washington, DC Memorials. While there have been numerous iterations of the 10-mile course over the years, one element
has been constant—The Runner’s Rite of Spring has always been the only truly elite running race to be held in the Nation’s
Capital.
The event serves as a fundraiser for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, a consortium of 170 premier children’s
hospitals across the United States. About one-third of the funds raised support Washington, DC’s own Children’s National
Medical Center. To date, over $7.5 million has been raised for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals across the United
States. The event also funds two $5,000 Road Runners Club of America “Roads Scholar” grants designed to support upand-coming U.S. distance running talent.
Credit Union Miracle Day, Inc., a consortium of credit unions and credit union suppliers, is the title sponsor of the Credit
Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run, 5K Run-Walk and Kids’ Run. PSCU is the lead financial partner of Credit Union
Miracle Day, Inc. Supporting sponsors include Cabot Creamery Cooperative, E-Trade, Gatorade, Gold’s Gym, MarathonFoto, MedStar Sports Medicine, Navy Federal Credit Union, New Balance, Potomac River Running and Suburban Solutions Moving Company.
The event is a proud member of the PRRO Circuit (www.PRRO.org), a five-race non-marathon prize money circuit with
events in Utica, NY; San Juan, PR; Washington, DC; Spokane, WA and Pittsburgh, PA. The circuit is committed to a drugfree sport and funds USADA to conduct drug testing at all circuit events. The winning male and female at Cherry Blossom
are eligible for the $10,000 PRRO Super Bonus if they win the PRRO Championship presented by the Boilermaker Road
Race on July 10, 2016; if they place in the top 10 at the PRRO Championship, they will earn the PRRO Event Champion’s
bonus of $1,500.The first local man and woman will win trips to the PRRO Circuit Championship as well.
With sanctions from USA Track & Field and the Road Runners Club of America, the Runner’s Rite of Spring is also an official activity of the nation’s greatest springtime celebration—The National Cherry Blossom Festival. The 2016 Festival commemorates the 104th anniversary of the gift of the cherry blossom trees and the enduring friendship between the United
States and Japan.
Finally, The Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run is committed to environmental and social sustainability and
has recently earned Gold certification from the Council For Responsible Sport for its many environmentally and socially
responsible initiatives (http://www.councilforresponsiblesport.org/).
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Event Timetable
Friday, April 1 & Saturday April 2
Health & Fitness Expo - see Health and Fitness Expo
and Clinics
Sunday, April 3
DCUC 10-Mile Freedom Run, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait
8:15 a.m.
Expected arrival of men’s 10-mile race winner
Dr. Bear kicks off pre-run festivities at Kids’ Run site
Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile, 5K Run-Walk
and Kids’ Run Schedule
8:40 a.m.
Start of 5K Run-Walk
Independence Avenue between 15th and 17th streets
6:30 – 7 a.m.
Gold’s Gym warm-up adjacent to awards stage on
Washington Monument Grounds
8:57 a.m.
Expected arrival of men’s 5K Run-Walk winner
7:10 a.m.
Credit Union welcome remarks and presentation of
colors
Start/Finish line on 15th Street at Jefferson Drive
8:59 a.m.
Expected arrival of women’s 5K Run-Walk winner
7:18 a.m.
Start of elite women’s 10-mile race
7:22 a.m.
Introduction of Children’s Miracle Network Champions
7:29 a.m.
Start of 10-mile race for wheelchair participants
7:30 a.m.
Start of elite men’s 10-mile race and yellow wave runners
7:33 – 7:53 a.m.
Red, blue, orange, green and purple waves start at
regularly scheduled intervals
8 a.m.
Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run start line
closes
9 a.m.
Gold’s Gym pre-race warm-up for Kids’ Run begins
9:30 a.m.
Kids’ Run start
9:45 a.m.
5k Run-Walk course closes
10:15 a.m.
Awards ceremony begins at awards stage on Washington Monument Grounds
10:18 a.m.
10-mile course closes
8 p.m.
10-mile and 5K results posted on race website (www.
CherryBlossom.org)
Saturday, April 16
CU Freedom Run, Wiesbaden Germany
8:09 a.m.
Expected arrival of women’s 10-mile race winner
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Press Releases
Copies of pre-race press releases can be found on the event website (http://www.cherryblossom.org/aboutus/pressreleases.php). Here’s a list of releases that have been issued to date in regards to the 2016 race:
44th Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Field Features Past Champion, Fast Challengers and American
Heroes (March 31, 2016)
Joan Benoit Samuelson to Run 2016 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run (March 16, 2016)
Meb Keflezighi Commits To 2016 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run (March 15, 2016)
2016 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run Offers $10,000 Bonus for Setting American Record (March 2,
2016)
2015 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Run Earns Gold Certification From The Council For Responsible Sport
(January 11, 2016)
Applications For 2016 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run and 5K Run-Walk Lottery (November 24,
2015)
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ith the advent of Nike as title sponsor in 1984, $13,400 in prize money was offered for the first time, paid equally to
the top-seven men and women. A complete history of the evolution of prize money and record bonuses is detailed in
the race history section of this guide. See Prize Money History
A total of $40,000 in prize money, plus a possible $3,500 in bonuses, will be awarded in 2016 in equal amounts to the top
10 international men and women as detailed below. Time bonuses include $1000 for 1st sub-46:00 male; $750 for 2nd sub46:00 male, $1000 for 1st sub-52:00 female; and $750 for 2nd sub-52:00 female.
At the awards ceremony for this year’s race, the total amount of prize money paid since 1984 will surpass $1 million.
Place
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
Men
$8000
$4000
$2000
$1500
$1000
$900
$800
$700
$600
$500
Women
$8000
$4000
$2000
$1500
$1000
$900
$800
$700
$600
$500
A total of $25,000 in prize money will be awarded in 2016 to the top 10 U.S. men and women as detailed below. “Double
dipping” is permitted, so anyone finishing in the top 10 overall and in the top 10 among U.S. runners may collect both the
open and the U.S. awards.
There is also a $10,000 American Record bonus (fastest time beating the U.S. men’s 10-mile record of 46:13 or the U.S.
women’s-only record of 52:12), to be split equally if both records are broken.
2016 American Development
“Double-dipping” is allowed with
International Prize Money
Place
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
Men
$5000
$2500
$1500
$1000
$800
$600
$400
$300
$200
$200
Women
$5000
$2500
$1500
$1000
$800
$600
$400
$300
$200
$200
The Washington Metropolitan Area Team Championship Division offers $1,000 to the first place men’s team and the first
place women’s team. Teams can be drawn from Running Club Store Teams or Running Club Teams.
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Elite Athlete Bios
Male Athletes
#05 Kipruto, Silas (31)
DOB: 9/26/84
Residence:
Citizen of: KEN
Lifetime PRs: 27:28/ 2:15:37/ 59:39/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 5th, ‘15 Quad-City
Times Bix 7 Mile (33:37); ‘14 Meia-Maratona Internacional de Lisboa EDP (1:00:17); 2nd, ‘13 Vattenfall
Berliner Halbmarathon (1:00:12); 4th, ‘13 Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half Marathon (1:00:52);
2nd, ‘13 Quad-City Times Bix 7 (32:19) 2nd, ‘13 TD Beach to Beacon 10k (28:09).
#07 Langat, Philip (25)
DOB: 4/23/90
Residence:
Citizen of: KEN
Team: Adidas
Lifetime PRs: 27:28/ 2:27:57/ 1:00:04/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ 2016 Performances: 5th, Athletics Kenya Nairobi X-C (28:29); 7th, African X-C Champs (27:13).
Previous Top 10 CUCB Finishes: 7th, ‘15 (43:53/46:45).
#09 Debela, Terefe
Residence:
Citizen of: ETH
Lifetime PRs: -/ -/ 44:25/15k PRs in last three years: -/ -/ -
Team: Nike
#13 Gedefa, Tolossa (34)
DOB: 1/1/92
Residence:
Citizen of: ETH
Team: Nike
Lifetime PRs: 28:16/ -/ 1:04:39/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 3rd, ‘15 Cooper River
Bridge Run (29:29) 10th, ‘15 BolderBOULDER 10k (30:01). 2014 results: 5th, ‘14 Credit Union Cherry
Blossom 10 Mile (46:38); 1st, ‘13 Bay to Breakers 12k (35:01); 7th, ‘ 13 Bolder Boulder 10k (30:16);
2nd, ‘13 Crazy 8’s 8k (22:50).
2016 Performances: 1st, Shamrockin Run 8k (22:40) PB.
Previous Top 10 CUCB Finishes: 5th, ‘14 (46:38).
#17 Landry, Christo (29)
DOB: 4/29/86
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Team: Mizuno
Lifetime PRs: 28:25/ 2:14:30/ 1:14:18/25k PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 2nd, ‘15 Gate River
Run 15k (44:14); 5th, ‘15 Mt. SAC Relays 5000m (13:36.69 PB); 2nd, ‘15 Fifth Third River Bank Run
25k US Championships (1:15:02); 20th, ‘15 USA Outdoor Championships Men’s 10,000m (29:40.49);
3rd, ‘15 Peachtree Road Race 10k (29:05); 4th, ‘14 Gate River Run 15K Championships (43:59); 6th,
‘14 Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile (46:41 PB); 2nd, ‘14 Fifth Third River Bank Run 25k (1:14:18
AR/PB); 1st, ‘14 Peachtree Road Race 10k (28:25 PB); 2nd, ‘14 Quad-City Times Bix 7 Mile (33:32);
2nd, ‘14 Faxon Law New Haven Road Race 20K (1:01:27); 8th, ‘14 .US 12K National Road Racing
Championships (34:42); 5th, ‘13 Gate River Run 15k (43:46) 5th, ‘13 Fifth Third River Bank Run 25k
(1:15:00 PB); 12th, ‘13 USA Athletics Championships Men’s 10,000m (29:38.82); 5th, ‘13 Medtronic
Twin Cities Marathon (2:14:44 PB); 4th, ‘13 .US National Road Racing Championships 12k (34:40 PB).
2016 Performances: 3rd, Gate River Run 15k (44:42); 10th, US X-C Champs (32:45).
Previous Top 10 CUCB Finishes: 6th, ‘14 (46:41).
#19 Chelanga, Sam (31)
DOB: 2/23/85
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Team: Nike
Lifetime PRs: n/a/ -/ - PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 4th, ‘15 Carlsbad 5000 (13:50); 1st, ‘15
Wharf to Wharf 6 Mile (27:25); 4th, ‘15 Falmouth Road Race 7 Mile (32:21 PB); 2nd, ‘15 Faxon Law
New Haven Road Race (38th) (USA Men’s and Women’s 20-K Championships) (59:25 PB); 4th, ‘15
CVS Health Downtown 5k (U.S. 5-K Championships for Men and Women) (14:07); 1st, ‘15 USA 10 Mile
Championships-Twin Cities (46:47 PB); 1st, ‘15 .US National Road Racing Championships (34:35 PB);
5th, ‘14 B.A.A 10k (28:11 PB); 3rd, ‘14 Crazy 8’s 8k (22:45) 7th, ‘14 TD Beach to Beacon 10k (28:30);
7th, ‘14 Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon (1:02:59); 2nd, ‘14 Manchester Road Race 4.748 Mile
(21:38); 6th, ‘13 NYC Half (1:01:26); 5th, ‘13 CVS Caremark Downtown 5k (14:00); 4th, ‘13 BAA Half
Marathon (1:01:04 PB); 2nd, ‘13 NYRR Dash to the Finish Line 5k (13:46); 1st, ‘13 Manchester Road
Race 4.748 Mile (21:31.6).
#21 Oyugi, Nelson (33)
Residence:
Citizen of: KEN
Lifetime PRs: 29:22/ 2:16:38/ 1:01:53/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 3rd, ‘15 Azalea
Trail Run 10k (29:22); 15th, ‘15 Lilac Bloomsday Run 12k (36:22); 8th, ‘15 Crazy 8’s 8k (23:47); 4th, ‘15
Wharf to Wharf 6 Mile (27:29); 9th, ‘14 Azalea Trail Run 10K (30:21); 1st, ‘14 OneAmerica Festival Mini
Marathon (1:01:53 CR); 6th, ‘14 Bay to Breakers 12k (36:41); 4th, ‘14 Wharf to Wharf 6 Mile (28:23);
1st, ‘14 American’s Finest City Half-Marathon (1:05:17); 6th, ‘14 Crim 10 Mile Road Race (48:35); 1st,
‘13 Wharf to Wharf 6 Mile (27:13); 1st, ‘13 America’s Finest Half Marathon (1:01:59 CR); 6th, ‘13 Crim
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Elite Athlete Bios
10-Mile Road Race (47:48); 3rd, ‘13 Tulsa Run 15k (43:47); 2nd, ‘13 EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler (46:59
PB); 2nd, ‘13 Big Sur Half Marathon (1:02:50); 5th, ‘13 California International Marathon (2:16:38 PB).
2016 Performances: 1st, Cherry and Silver Invit. 3000m (8:19.84); 3rd, All-America City 10k (31:01.7);
8th, Aramco Hmar (1:02:40).
#23 Larson, Ben (23)
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Lifetime PRs: -/ -/ 29:16.74/10000m PRs in last three years: -/ -/ -
DOB: 6/8/92
Team: Skechers Performance
#25 Richards, Malcolm (33)
DOB: 10/12/82
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Team: West Valley TC
Lifetime PRs: 30:13/ 2:15:49/ 1:03:26/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 5th, ‘14 Credit Union SacTown 10 Miler (49:56).
2016 Performances: 3rd, Carlsbad Hmar (1:05:31); 18th, US Olympic Marathon Trials (2:18:40).
#25000 Keflezighi, Meb (40)
DOB: 5/5/75
Residence: San Diego, CA
Citizen of: USA
Team: Sketchers Performance
Lifetime PRs: 27:58/ 2:08:37/ 1:01:00/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 4th, ‘15 USA Half
Marathon Championships (1:02:18); 8th, ‘15 United Airlines NYC Half (1:02:17); 8th, ‘15 Boston Marathon (2:12:42); 8th, ‘15 Quad-City Times Bix 7 Mile (34:01); 10th (1st Masters), ‘15 Falmouth Road
Race 7 Mile (34:01); 7th, ‘15 TCS New York City Marathon (2:13:32 NR M40); 1st, ‘14 USA Half Marathon Championships (1:01:23); 1st, ‘14 Boston Marathon (2:08:48 PB); 4th, ‘14 NYC Marathon
(2:13:18) 4th, ‘15 USA Half-Marathon Championships Houston (1:02:18); 9th, ‘13 Healthy Kidney 10k
(28:57); 4th, ‘13 Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego Half-Marathon (1:02:11); 2nd, ‘13 Garry Bjorklund Half-Marathon (USA Half Marathon Championships) (1:01:22); 12th, ‘13 Peachtree Road Race 10k (US 10k
Championships) (28:53); 3rd, ‘13 Quad-City Times Bix 7 (32:39); 5th, ‘13 TD Beach to Beacon 10k
(28:38).
2016 Performances: 2nd, ‘16 Men’s USA Olympic Trials Marathon (2:12:20).
#29 Anderson, Tom (26)
DOB: 1/12/90
Residence:
Citizen of: GBR
Lifetime PRs: 30:37/ -/ 1:04:03/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ 2016 Performances: 23rd, Aramco Hmar (1:04:03) PB.
Team: Adidas
#31 Nigusse, Dejene (31)
DOB: 4/22/84
Residence:
Citizen of: ETH
Lifetime PRs: -/ 2:11:29/ 1:04:34/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ -
#39 Weaver, Andy
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Lifetime PRs: -/ 2:22:50/ 1:04:27/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ 2016 Performances: 10th, Jacksonville Bank Hmar (1:04:27).
#41 Jamieson, Carlos
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Lifetime PRs: -/ -/ 1:04:29/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ 2016 Performances: 23rd, Rock ‘n Roll Arizona Hmar (1:10:58).
#43 Gardner, Spencer
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Lifetime PRs: -/ -/ 1:09:36/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ -
#45 Assefa, Beleta (25)
DOB: 3/3/91
Residence:
Citizen of: ETH
Lifetime PRs: 28:09/ -/ 1:02:12/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 1st, ‘15 BolderBOULDER
10k (29:05); 3rd, ‘15 Utica Boilermaker 15k (44:01); 10th, ‘15 Quad-City Times Bix 7 Mile (34:25); 4th,
‘14 Cooper River Bridge Run (28:58) 3rd, ‘14 Utica Boilermaker 15k (44:44 PB); 1st, ‘13 Lilac
Bloomsday Run 12k (34:21); 2nd, ‘ 13 Bolder Boulder 10k (29:37); 2nd, ‘13 Peachtree Road Race 10k
(US 10k Championships) (28:09 PB); 8th, ‘13 Utica Boilermaker 15k (46:06).
#47 Cheboi, Philemon (22)
Residence:
Citizen of: KEN
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DOB: 11/8/93
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Elite Athlete Bios
Lifetime PRs: 28:05/ -/ 1:15:52/25k PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 2nd, ‘15 ASICS Grand 10
Berlin (28:05 PB); 17th, ‘14 Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile (48:12); 9th, ‘14 B.A.A 10k (30:23);
4th, ‘13 BIG 25 (1:15:52 PB).
2016 Performances: 2nd, San Blas Hmar (1:04:39).
Christo Landry, sixth overall and U.S.A. 10-mile Champion in 2014
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Elite Athlete Bios
Female Athletes
#02 Oljira, Belaynesh (25)
DOB: 6/26/90
Residence:
Citizen of: ETH
Lifetime PRs: 31:07/ 2:24:21/ 1:07:27/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 1st,, ‘15 World’s
Best 10k (31:57); 9th, IAAF World Cross Country Championships Women’s 8k (26:29); 7th, ‘15 TCS
World 10k (33:03); 9th, ‘15 IAAF World Championships in Athletics Women’s 10,000m (31:53..01); 4th,
‘14 World’s Best 10k (32:24); 11th, ‘14 Boston Marathon (2:24:21 PB); 1st, ‘14 Bupa Great South Run
10 Miles (52:40 PB); 4th, ‘14 Delhi Half Marathon (1:10:08); 5th, ‘13 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon (2:25:01 DB); 3rd, ‘13 IAAF World Cross Country Championships (24:33); 2nd, ‘13 Credit Union
Cherry Blossom 10-Mile (52:49); 3rd, ‘13 IAAF World Championships in Athletics Women’s 10,000m
(30:46.98).
2015 Performances: 2nd, World’s Best 10k (31:51); 2nd, San Sebastian Intl 8k (27:11); 6th, Antrim
Intl X-C Challenge 5.6k (18:30).
Previous Top 10 CUCB Performances: 2nd, ‘13 (52:49).
#04 Chepkurui, Lineth (29)
DOB: 2/23/87
Residence:
Citizen of: KEN
Lifetime PRs: 30:45/ -/ 1:07:47/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 5th, ‘15 Credit Union
Cherry Blossom 10 Mile (9.39) Run (50:11); 7th, ‘15 Lilac Bloomsday Run 12k (40:20); 2nd, ‘14 Lilac
Bloomsday Run 12k (39:38); 7th, ‘14 B.A.A 10k (33:37); 2nd, ‘13 World’s Best 10k (32:10); 2nd, ‘13
BAA 5k (15:23); 1st, ‘13 Peachtree Road Race 10k (US 10k Championships) (32:09); 1st, ‘13 Utica
Boilermaker 15k (50:33); 9th, ‘13 AirTel Delhi Half Marathon (1:12:01).
Previous Top 10 CUCB Performances: 1st, ‘08 (54:31); 1st, ‘09 (53:32); 1st, ‘10 (51:51) 5th, ‘15
(50:11/53:27).
#14 Temesgen, Etaferahu (26)
DOB: 10/23/89
Residence:
Citizen of: ETH
Lifetime PRs: 32:50/ 2:29:24/ 1:11:22/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 7th, ‘15 United Airlines NYC Half (1:11:22 PB) 7th, ‘15 Cooper River Bridge Run (33:05) 8th, ‘15 Ottawa Marathon
(2:29:24) 5th, ‘15 Oakley New York Mini 10k (32:50 PB). 2014 results: 7th, ‘14 Credit Union Cherry
Blossom 10 Mile (54:30 PB); 15th, ‘14 Oakley New York Mini 10K (33:34); 3rd, ‘14 Virginia Ten Miler
(RRCA National 10 Mile Championships)(55:36); 10th, ‘13 Lilac Bloomsday Run 12k (42:10).
Previous Top 10 CUCB Performances: 7th, ‘14 (54:30).
#16 Maina, Veronica (27)
Residence:
Citizen of: KEN
Lifetime PRs: 32:12/ -/ 1:13:03/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ -
DOB: 1/1/89
#18 Thomas, Wendy (36)
DOB: 1/19/79
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Team: Boulder Track Club
Lifetime PRs: 34:02/ 2:32:49/ 1:12:29/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 5th, ‘15 Publix
Gasparilla Half Marathon (1:14:28); 5th, ‘15 America’s Finest City Half-Marathon (1:18:17); 4th, ‘14
USA Half Marathon Championships (1:12:29 PB) 8th, ‘14 Faxon Law New Haven Road Race 20K
(1:12:52); 12th, ‘13 Oakley New York Mini 10k (34:02); 10th, ‘13 Garry Bjorklund Half-Marathon (USA
Half Marathon Championships) (1:13:17); 1st, ‘13 America’s Finest Half Marathon (1:13:15); 5th, ‘13
Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race 20k (1:10:52).
2015 Performances: 14th, Jacksonville Bank Hmar (1:14:52); 17th, US Olympic Marathon Trials
(2:40:39).
#20 Cappello, Heather (36)
DOB: 2/22/80
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Team: Boston Athletic Asso.
Lifetime PRs: 33:32/ 2:40:58/ 1:13:07/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 15th, ‘15 USA Half
Marathon Championships (1:13:07 PB); 8th, ‘15 Utica Boilermaker 15k (52:13); 12th, ‘14 USA Half Marathon Championships (1:13:06); 6th, ‘14 Gate River Run 15K Championships (50:55).
2015 Performances: 13th, Gate River Run 15k (55:31).
#22 Kieffer, Allie (28)
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Lifetime PRs: 34:13/ 2:55:30/ 53:28/15k PRs in last three years: -/ -/ -
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DOB: 9/16/87
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Elite Athlete Bios
2015 Performances: 1st, NYRR Gridiron Classic 4 mi (22:28); 1st, Miami Mar (2:55:30); 1st, Joe
Kleirman 10k (35:13); 2nd, Pensacola Double Bridge Run 15k (53:28); 8th, All-America City 10k
(34:12.6).
#26 Diriba, Buze (22)
DOB: 2/9/94
Residence:
Citizen of: ETH
Lifetime PRs: 32:06/ -/ 1:12:56/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 1st, ‘15 Shmrockin’ 8k
(24:58); 5th, ‘15 B.A.A. 5k (15:00); 2nd, ‘15 Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational 10,000m (31:33.27 PB);
3rd, ‘15 Freihofer’s Run for Women 5k (15:45); 2nd, ‘15 Peachtree Road Race 10k (32:13); 1st, ‘15
News and Sentinel Parkersburg Half-Marathon (1:12:56); 1st, ‘15 EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler (52:55
PB/CR) 1st, ‘15 Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 5-K (15:43); 2nd, ‘14 USATF High Performance Distance Classic 5000m (15:23) ; 4th, ‘14 Virginia Ten Miler (RRCA National 10 Mile Championships)(56:32); 1st, ‘14 Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 5k (15:33); 5th, ‘13 IAAF World
Championships in Athletics Women’s 5000m (15:05.38).
2015 Performances: 1st, All-America City 10k (32:05.3) (PB/CR); 1st, Shamrockin Run 8k (25:56); 7th,
‘16 World’s Best 10k (32:13).
#28 Kiptoo, Sarah (27)
DOB: 1/1/89
Residence:
Citizen of: KEN
Lifetime PRs: 33:04/ 2:26:31/ 1:11:21/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 3rd, ‘15 America’s
Finest City Half-Marathon (1:15:38); 4th, ‘15 Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon (2:35:25); 5th, ‘14
OneAmerica Festival Mini Marathon (1:15:42); 3rd, ‘14 American’s Finest City Half-Marathon (1:15:11);
3rd, ‘13 Tulsa Run 15k (50:28); 1st, ‘13 EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler (53:56 PB); 1st, ‘13 Big Sur Half Marathon (1:11:21 PB); 2nd, ‘13 California International Marathon (2:31:23).
2015 Performances: 4th, Shamrockin Run 8k (26:44).
#30 Nyaruai, Veronicah (26)
Residence:
Citizen of: KEN
Lifetime PRs: 32:32/ -/ 1:13:55/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ 2015 Performances: 3rd, ‘16 World’s Best 10k (31:55),
DOB: 10/29/89
#58 Samuelson, Joan (58)
DOB: 5/16/57
Residence:
Citizen of: USA
Lifetime PRs: 31:37/ 2:21:21/ 1:08:23/hmar PRs in last three years: -/ -/ - Career: 1st, ‘84 Olympic
Marathon; 1st, ‘79 and ‘83 Boston Marathons, 1st, ‘85 Chicago Marathon (AR: 2:21:21). 2015: 9th, 26.2
Run for Donna (3:10:18); 7th, LL Bean 10K (38:35); 1st Masters, Tufts 10K (U.S. 10K champs.), 39:02;
5th, Feaster 5M (31:57); 1st Master Bix 7M (46:19); has won Bix Masters title 14 times.
Previous Top 10 CUCB Performances: ‘10, 18th OA/1st 50-54 (1:00:52): ‘12, 1st, 50-54 (1:00:27);
‘15, 1st, 55-59 (58:50 for 9.39 miles, 1:02:40 pro jected time for 10 miles).
The Three-peater: Lineth Chepkurui ties Julie Shea’s record of three consecutive wins. Shea won the race three times between 1975 and 1977.
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Returning Age Group Champions
Age Group
Women 45-49
Women 50-54
Women 55-59
Women 60-64
Women 65-69
Women 70-74
Women 75-79
Age
45
54
57
61
67
72
79
Age Group
Men 40-45
Men 45-49
Men 50-54
Men 55-59
Men 65-69
Men 70-74
Men 75-79
Men 80-84
Age
43
48
53
59
66
71
76
84
First Name
Mary
Cindy
Joan
Sharon
Freyda
Dee
Imme
First Name
Philippe
Alexander
Jim
Ken
Mick
Jim
Malcolm
George
Last Name
Pardi
Conant
Samuelson
Vos
Greenberg
Nelson
Dyson
Hometown
Falmouth, ME
Kensington, MD
Freeport, ME
Old Greenwich, CT
Fairfax, VA
Gaithersberg, MD
Princeton, NJ
Last Name
Rolly
Hetherington
Zoldy
Youngers
Slonaker
Noone
O’Hagan
Yannakakis
Hometown
McLean, VA
Vienna, VA
Goshen, CT
Tucker, GA
Columbia, MD
Fairfax, VA
Chevy Chase, MD
Towson, MD
For a number of years the course took runners through Rock Creek Park.
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5K Run-Walk
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he 5K Run-Walk is designed for individuals who don’t wish to attempt 10 miles, or for walkers and relaxedpace runners who feel they would take longer than 2 hours and 20 minutes to complete 10 miles. All 5K
entrants receive the same amenities as the 10 miler participants, including the official race t-shirt, their overall
times and places in the event, and post-race food and drink. All runners will be scored on net times. Only the
first male and first female finisher will receive recognition; there will be no other 5K awards.
10-year-old Caleb Taddeo, Chantilly, VA, was one of the
youngest finishers in the 2016 5k Run-Walk…
…while 90-year-old Dixon Hemphill, Fairfax Station, VA,
was the oldest.
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Kids’ Run
T
he Credit Union Cherry Blossom Kids’ Run is a ½ mile fun run for kids ages 5 to 12.
At this year’s run there will be a renewed focus on the charity for which credit unions and runners fundraise
year round – Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN), including Children’s National Medical Center in
Washington, DC. Since credit unions became the sponsors of the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in
2002, over $7.5 million has been donated to CMN Hospitals.
Credit unions are the among the top three contributors to CMN Hospitals, after Walmart and Costco, having
donated $11.5 million in 2015 alone.
The Kids’ Run will be held on a loop course near Constitution Avenue on the grounds of the Washington Monument, west of the 10-miler and 5K Walk-Run bag check and staging area.
The Kids’ Run will start at 9:30 a.m. this year, which is after the start times for both the 10 miler and 5K WalkRun, giving parents and runners additional time to get to the event.
There is an online pre-registration process ($10 per child which includes a t-shirt) – there is no race day registration.
Festivities begin around 8:15 a.m. Kids will have the opportunity to meet Dr. Bear from Children’s National
Medical Center, a patient family, hospital representatives, as well as participate in fun fitness activities with Fit
Kids.
Finishers receive a t-shirt and medal.
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Health and Fitness Expo and Clinics
The Health and Fitness Expo will take place at the
National Building Museum, 401 F Street, NW, between
the hours of 3 – 8 p.m. on Friday, April 1, and 9 a.m. – 5
p.m. on Saturday, April 2.
In addition to race packet and t-shirt pick-up, the Health
and Fitness Expo offers runners a chance to attend clinics, collect autographs, purchase official Credit Union
Cherry Blossom apparel and merchandise, and visit
sponsor and vendor exhibits. There will also be a complimentary Happy Hour from 5 – 7 p.m. on Friday evening.
This year, two of America’s favorite runners—Meb Keflezighi and Joan Benoit Samuelson—will be on hand to
inspire expo attendees. Their appearance schedule is as
follows:
Friday, April 1
Meb Keflezighi
3 – 4 p.m. talk in NBM Auditorium
4 – 5 p.m. autograph signing in NBM Auditorium
2004 Silver Medalist and four-time Olympian, Meb
Keflezighi
Runner’s Happy Hour
5 – 7 p.m. in the expo hall
The 201 Bar will be serving up beer and be providing a
cherry themed non-alcoholic drink (Cherry Cocktail)
for the 2016 runners. Beer and the Cherry Cocktail
will be served starting at 5:00 p.m. sharp and lasting
until supplies run out! All runners with a CUCB 10
mile or 5K race bib will be able to receive a beer or
non-alcoholic beverage. Saturday, April 2
Meb Keflezighi
11 a.m. – 12 noon talk in NBM Auditorium
Noon – 1 p.m. autograph signing in NBM Auditorium
Joan Benoit Samuelson
1 – 2 p.m. talk in NBM Auditorium
2 – 3 p.m. autograph signing at Credit Union Cherry
Blossom Booth in the expo hall
Joan Samuelson, the 1984 Olympic Women’s Marathon
Champion, speaks to fans at the expo.
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The following distinguished honorary race co-chairs have aided
in the success of the race. We look
forward to their continued support.
The Honorable Alma S. Adams,
Ph.D.
The Honorable Rick Allen
The Honorable Brad Ashford
The Honorable Kelly A. Ayotte
The Honorable Andy Barr
The Honorable Joe Barton
The Honorable Karen Bass
The Honorable Joyce Beatty
The Honorable Dan Benishek,
M.D.
The Honorable Ami Bera
The Honorable Marsha Blackburn
The Honorable Earl Blumenauer
The Honorable Madeleine Z
Bordallo
The Honorable Robert Brady
The Honorable Dave Brat
The Honorable Mo Brooks
The Honorable Corrine Brown
The Honorable Richard Burr
The Honorable Cheri Bustos
The Honorable G. K. Butterfield
The Honorable Bradley Byrne
The Honorable Lois Capps
The Honorable Andre’ Carson
The Honorable Buddy Carter
The Honorable Steve Chabot
The Honorable Curt Clawson
The Honorable James Clyburn
The Honorable Mike Coffman
The Honorable Chris Collins
The Honorable Susan Collins
The Honorable Barbara Comstock
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The Honorable Gerry Connolly
The Honorable John Conyers
The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
The Honorable Jim Cooper
The Honorable Jim Costa
The Honorable Ryan Costello
The Honorable Kevin Cramer
The Honorable Ander Crenshaw
The Honorable Elijah Cummings
The Honorable Susan Davis
The Honorable Danny Davis
The Honorable Diana DeGette
The Honorable Jeff Denham
The Honorable John Delaney
The Honorable Suzan DelBene
The Honorable Mark DeSaulnier
The Honorable Scott DesJarlais
The Honorable Debbie Dingell
The Honorable Lloyd Doggett
The Honorable Bob Dold
The Honorable Daniel Donovan
The Honorable Mike Doyle
The Honorable Sean Duffy
The Honorable Donna Edwards
The Honorable Renee Ellmers
The Honorable Tom Emmer
The Honorable Michael Enzi
The Honorable Anna Eshoo
The Honorable Elizabeth Esty
The Honorable Blake Farenthold
The Honorable Sam Farr
The Honorable Chaka Fattah
The Honorable Deb Fischer
The Honorable Michael Fitzpatrick
The Honorable Virginia Foxx
The Honorable Lois Frankel
The Honorable Marcia Fudge
The Honorable Tulsi Gabbard
The Honorable Ruben Gallego
The Honorable John Garamendi
The Honorable Louie Gohmert
The Honorable Garret Graves
The Honorable Al Green
The Honorable Gene Green
The Honorable Raul Grijalva
The Honorable Brett Guthrie
The Honorable Richard Hanna
The Honorable Cresent Hardy
The Honorable Gregg Harper
The Honorable Vicky Hartzler
The Honorable Alcee Hastings
The Honorable French Hill
The Honorable James Himes
The Honorable Ruben Hinojosa
The Honorable Eleanor Holmes
Norton
The Honorable Richard Hudson
The Honorable Jared Huffman
The Honorable Bill Huizenga
The Honorable Randy Hultgren
The Honorable Robert Hurt
The Honorable Steve Israel
The Honorable Darrell Issa
The Honorable Shelia Jackson
Lee
The Honorable Bill Johnson
The Honorable Hank Johnson
The Honorable Walter Jones
The Honorable Eddie Bernice
Johnson
The Honorable Marcy Kaptur
The Honorable Angus S. King, Jr.
The Honorable Steve Knight
The Honorable Wm. Lacy Clay
The Honorable Darin LaHood
The Honorable Doug LaMalfa
The Honorable Doug Lamborn
The Honorable Leonard Lance
The Honorable James Lankford
The Honorable Ted Lieu
The Honorable Dan Lipinski
The Honorable Dave Loebsack
The Honorable Zoe Lofgren
The Honorable Billy Long
The Honorable Barry Loudermilk
The Honorable Mia Love
The Honorable Blaine Luetkemeyer
The Honorable Michelle Lujan
Grisham
The Honorable Cynthia Lummis
The Honorable Stephen Lynch
The Honorable Carolyn Maloney
The Honorable Edward Markey
The Honorable Doris Matsui
The Honorable Betty McCollum
The Honorable Jerry McNerney
The Honorable Mark Meadows
The Honorable Pat Meehan
The Honorable Gregory Meeks
The Honorable Grace Meng
The Honorable Barbara A. Mikulski
The Honorable Candice Miller
The Honorable Jeff Miller
The Honorable John Moolenaar
The Honorable Gwen Moore
The Honorable Jerry Moran
The Honorable Seth Moulton
The Honorable Randy Neugebauer
The Honorable Kristi Noem
The Honorable Donald Norcross
The Honorable Rich Nugent
The Honorable Steven Palazzo
The Honorable Bill Pascrell, Jr.
The Honorable Erik Paulsen
The Honorable Ed Perlmutter
The Honorable Gary Peters
The Honorable Scott Peters
The Honorable Joseph Pitts
The Honorable Mark Pocan
The Honorable Ted Poe
The Honorable Rob Portman
The Honorable Bill Posey
The Honorable Mike Quigley
The Honorable Aumua Radewagen
The Honorable Charlie Rangel
The Honorable John Ratcliffe
The Honorable Tom Reed
The Honorable Reid Ribble
The Honorable Kathleen Rice
The Honorable Tom Rice
The Honorable Cedric Richmond
The Honorable Scott Rigell
The Honorable Phil Roe, M.D.
The Honorable Keith Rothfus
The Honorable Lucille RoybalAllard
The Honorable Ed Royce
The Honorable Bobby Rush
The Honorable Tim Ryan
The Honorable Matt Salmon
The Honorable Adam Schiff
The Honorable Austin Scott
The Honorable Jeanne Shaheen
The Honorable John Shimkus
The Honorable Albio Sires
The Honorable Jason Smith
The Honorable Jackie Speier
The Honorable Steve Stivers
The Honorable Eric Swalwell
The Honorable Mark Takai
The Honorable Mike Thompson
The Honorable Thom Tillis
The Honorable Scott Tipton
The Honorable Dina Titus
The Honorable Paul Tonko
The Honorable Norma Torres
The Honorable Chris Van Hollen
The Honorable Juan Vargas
The Honorable Marc Veasey
The Honorable Filemon Vela
The Honorable David Vitter
The Honorable Jackie Walorski
The Honorable Mark Warner
The Honorable Bonnie Watson
Coleman
The Honorable Randy Weber
The Honorable Daniel Webster
The Honorable Peter Welch
The Honorable Bruce Westerman
The Honorable Roger F. Wicker
The Honorable Ed Whitfield
The Honorable Robert Whitman
The Honorable Roger Williams
The Honorable Joe Wilson
The Honorable Steve Womack
The Honorable Rob Woodall
The Honorable Kevin Yoder
The Honorable Ted Yoho
The Honorable Don Young
The Honorable Lee Zeldin
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T
he Capitol Hill Competition at the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile started in 2002 and is organized for Members of Congress and their staff, who compete against each other within the broader Credit Union Cherry Blossom
race. It is sponsored by the Congressional Federal Credit Union and the United States Senate Federal Credit Union, with
support from the Credit Union National Association and the National Association of Federal Credit Unions.
Out of the 57 Capitol Hill teams that competed in 2015, “Red,White and Blumenauer,” representing Congressman Earl
Blumenauer’s office, posted the fastest time of 3:06:42. The winning team from the Senate was “Carper Diem,” representing
Senator Tom Carper’s office, with a time of 3:13:58
This year there will be 66 Capitol Hill teams. See Capitol Hill Records.
Team Name
4Run Affairs
AcroBrats
Castro Twinning
Cheese Burgess In Paradise
Conyers
Cornhusker Kickbacks
Earth Wind Beyer
Erickson Made Me Do It I
Erickson Made Me Do It II
Fortitude
Front Office Representative
Homeland 1
Homeland 2
Hot Diggity Doggett
HVAC Attack
Jim Shorts
Kaptur Me If You Can
Leg Lounge (Back Office)
Lieu Skyrunner
Make America Run Again Team
Moriarty Pintos
Oh The Hue-Manatee
OmniBust a move
Red White And Blumenauer
Roger’s Runners
Running On Aloha
Slim Jims
So In-KLINED
Super Yoopers
Takai Of The Tiger
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Office
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Congressman Dave Brat
Congressman Joaquin Castro
Congressman Michael Burgess
Congressman John Conyers
Congressman Adrian Smith
Congressman Donald S. Beyer Jr.
House Financial Services Committee, Democratic Staff
House Financial Services Committee, Democratic Staff
Congressman Jeff Fortenberry
Congressman Pete Aguilar
Committee on Homeland Security
Committee on Homeland Security
Congressman Lloyd Doggett
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Congressman Jim Jordan
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
Congressman Pete Aguilar
Congressman Ted Lieu
Congresswomn Louise Slaughter
Congressman Ben Ray Lujan
House Committee on Natural Resources - Democrats
Appropriations Committee
Congressman Earl Blumenauer
Congressman Roger Williams
Congressman Tulsi Gabbard
Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr.
Committee on Education & Workforce-Majority
Congressman Dan Benishek
Congressman Mark Takai
Team Name
Team MLG
Team Moulton
Team SERVE
Team Tsongas
The Honky Tonkos
White Cheddar Shredders
All the King’s Men
Carper Diem
Centennial State Striders
Coats Crew
First State First Place
Go For The Gold(en Lamb)
Great Daines
Great Daines Too
Hit Me With Your Best Schatz
Kaine Train
Live Free Or Die Running
Michigan’s Great Legs
More Miles...Les Taxes
No Such Team
Pat’s Posse
Roadrunner Roadrunner
Running To The Left
Schatz Through The Heart
Slow Moving Southern Front
Smaller Better Faster Stronger
Swing State Shin Splints
Team All Fast
Team Franken
Team FrEnzi
Team Mañana Time
The Cheese Heads
The Deus Ex Markey-nas
The ZOOMIN’thals
Tread Wings
We Mustache You A Question
Office
Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham
Congressman Seth Moulton
House Republican Conference
Congresswoman Niki Tsongas
Congressman Paul Tonko and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson
Congressman Peter Welch
Senator Angus King
Senator Tom Carper
Senator Michael Bennet
Senator Dan Coats
Senator Tom Carper
Senator Rob Portman
Senator Steve Daines
Senator Tim Kaine
Senator Jeanne Shaheen
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senator David Vittter
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Senator Jeff Merkley
Senator Brian Schatz
Senator Johnny Isakson
Senate Small Business Committee
Senator Rob Portman
Senator Martin Heinrich
Senator Al Franken
Senator Mike Enzi
Senator Martin Heinrich
Senator Tammy Baldwin
Senator Edward J. Markey
Senator Richard Blumenthal
Senator Gary Peters
Senator Angus King
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Charity Donations
E
ach year, the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington, D.C. brings together credit unions
from across the country with a shared vision of fundraising and helping children. One very effective fundraising program is the Charity Race Entry program.
With a field limit of 15,000 established by the National Park Service and selected by lottery in December, not everyone who wants to run is accepted through the lottery process. So, each year a limited number of Charity Race
Entrants gain entry by raising a minimum of $500 for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
2016 charity donations ... total $505,000 to date, with donations accepted through the month of April.
The event also funds two $5,000 Road Runners Club of America “Roads Scholar” grants designed to support upand-coming U.S. distance running talent (http://www.rrca.org/programs/roads-scholars/).
Each Year Credit Union executives celebrate their fundraising efforts prior to the start of the 10-mile race.
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Event Sponsors
T
itle Sponsor: Credit Union Miracle Day (CUMD) is a consortium of over 100 credit
unions, credit union suppliers, and credit union supporters from across the country. CUMD serves as the title sponsor of the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run
benefitting Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, an affiliation of children’s hospitals
throughout the country that treat millions of children each year. Over $7.5 million has been
donated to the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals since credit unions became the title
sponsors of the event in 2002.
Each year, the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington, D.C. brings together credit unions
from across the country with a shared vision of fund raising and helping children. Not only will credit unions
work together this year to support the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run, but they will continue to
work even harder to reach and support their own communities. Among the many special services credit unions
provide is the outreach they have in their communities, and in today’s economic environment a credit union’s
financial services may be your best choice for a financial partner!
Supporting sponsors for 2016 include Cabot Creamery Cooperative, E-Trade, Gatorade, Gold’s Gym,
MarathonFoto, MedStar Sports Medicine, Navy Federal Credit Union, New Balance, Potomac River Running
and Suburban Solutions Moving Company.
Supporting Sponsors
Official Sports Beverage
Water Bottle Sponsor
Retail Sponsor
Shoe and Apparel Sponsor
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O
ver the years, numerous 10-mile records have been set at the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run. None has
lasted as long as the 46:13 time Greg Meyer ran in 1983; back then it was a World Record, and it is an American Record remains to this day.
Prior to the 2014 race, which served as both the USA Men’s and Women’s 10 Mile Championships, Meyer said: “While it’s
an honor to hold an American Record, it’s time someone else owned it! My gosh, it’s older than most of the Americans
competing! I can’t wait to see someone break it!”
Well, two years have passed, and Greg Meyer is still the American record holder. Perhaps 2016 will be the year his time
is surpassed? Race organizers are offering the biggest American record bonus ever this year—$10,000, which will be split
evenly if both men’s and women’s records are set.
Stay tuned for 2016 race results. In the meantime, take a look at the progression of various 10-mile records that have been
set at Cherry Blossom since the inaugural race in 1973.
Open Record Set Before Women’s Only Start
Year
Elite Men
1973
1974
1976
1978
1979
1980
1983
1994
1995
2011
2012
Sam Bair
Jack Mahurin
Carl Hatfield
Bill Rodgers
Bill Rodgers
Bill Rodgers
Greg Meyer
William Sigei
Ismael Kirui
Lelisa Desisa
Allan Kiprono
World
Record
American
Record
47:09
46:13
46:13
46:01
45:38
Event
Record
51:22
50:50
49:09
48:57
48:00
47:09
46:13
45:38
45:36
45:15
In 2006, record keeping standards were changed to recognize the difference between women running with men in a mixed
race, and women running in an all-women’s race. Cherry Blossom race organizers implemented a 10-minute advanced
start for women that year, and all subsequent women’s World and American records have been set under this format.
Open Record Set After Women’s Only Start
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Year
Elite Women
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1979
1980
1983
1985
Kathrine Switzer
Carol Fridley
Julie Shea
Julie Shea
Julie Shea
Aileen O’Connor
Anne Sullivan
Eleanor Simonsick
Lisa Weidenbach
World
Record
(mixed race)
World
Record
(single sex)
American
Record
(mixed race)
57:04
56:08
56:02
55:34
American
Record
(single sex)
Event
Record
71:19
62:41
59:55
57:04
56:08
56:02
55:34
54:46
53:30
Year
Elite Women
1986
1987
1989
1991
1995
1998
2006
2006
2007
2009
2013
2014
Rosa Mota
Lisa Martin
Lisa Weidenbach
Jill Hunter
Rose Cheruiyot
Colleen De Reuck
Lydia Grogoryeva
Turena Johnson
Teyba Erkesso
Sally Meyerhoff
Janet Bawcom
Janet Bawcom
World
Record
(mixed race)
53:09
52:23
World
Record
(single sex)
American
Record
(mixed race)
American
Record
(single sex)
Event
Record
53:09
52:23
52:34
51:57
51:39
51:16
52:11
51:39
51:16
52:11
55:42
51:44
51:44
54:38
53:28
52:12
While countless age group records have been set at the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run over the years, the tables
below list current age group event records for men and women. Looking ahead to the 2016 race, it’s quite possible that
58-year-old Joan Benoit Samuelson will break both the Cherry Blossom (1:04:34) and American 55-59 age group records
for 10 miles (1:02:39).
Credit Union Cherry Blossom Age Group Records
40-44
45-49
50-54
55-59
60-64
65-69
70-74
75-79
80-84
85-89
Age Group Men
Steve Jones
Bill Rodgers
Norm Green
Jim O’Neill
Norm Green
John Hosner
Charles Rose
Ed Benham
Ed Benham
John Petroff
Time
48:26
52:22
52:53
54:25
57:48
1:02:47
1:06:35
1:12:13
1:13:23
1:58:48
Age
40
49
50
56
60
65
70
76
81
86
Year
1996
1997
1983
1994
1993
1990
2003
1984
1989
1995
40-44
45-49
50-54
55-59
60-64
Age Group Women
Priscilla Welch
Priscilla Welch
Joan Samuelson
Nancy Stewart
Edie Stevenson
Time
53:51
56:33
1:00:52
1:04:34
1:09:08
Age
42
46
52
56
61
Year
1987
1991
2010
2012
2011
27
65-69
70-74
75-79
80-84
85-89
90-94
Age Group Women
Alice Franks
Hedy Marque
Hedy Marque
Hedy Marque
Hedy Marque
Ruth Rothfarb
Time
1:16:36
1:22:58
1:25:40
1:31:24
1:57:38
3:27:30
Age
65
73
75
80
87
91
Janet Bawcom setting the American record of 52:12
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Year
2014
1991
1993
1998
2005
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Prize Money History
W
ith the advent of Nike as title sponsor in 1984, $13,400 in prize money was offered for the first time, paid equally to
the top-seven men and women. In 1985, the total purse was increased to $16,500, with equal allocation between men
and women—a policy that remains in place today. From 1987—2008, the top-12 finishing places earned prize money; in
2009, the race went back to paying top-ten finishers only.
The 2013 race also served as the USA 10 Mile Championship for women, and an additional $14,400 was added to the prize
purse to reward the top-ten American women finishers*. In 2014, the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run served as
both men’s and women’s USA 10 Mile Championships, and a total of $28,800 was set aside for the top-ten American men
and women finishers.
Even though neither men’s nor women’s USA 10 Mile Championships will be held in conjunction with the event this year,
a total of $25,000 from an “American Development” purse will be paid to the top-ten American men and women finishers.
And, yes, American runners placing in the overall top-ten will be able to “double-dip” and collect both international and
“American Development prize money.
In addition to pay-for-place prize money, the event introduced bonuses for records set in 2007. This year a possible total
of $13,500 could be paid out to record-breaking runners, including as much as $10,000 for breaking the American record
(that $10,000 will be split equally if both men’s and women’s American records are set).
The tables below document the event’s prize money and record bonus history. To limit the size of the tables, separate columns for men and women have been eliminated; given the fact that equal prize money has been paid to men and women
since 1984, payment for place figures represent money paid to men or women (*except for 2013 as noted above and in the
table below).
Credit Union Cherry Blossom Prize Money
2015-2016 Total Purse
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eighth
Ninth
Tenth
2014 Total Purse
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eighth
Ninth
International Purse
$40,000
$8,000
$4,000
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$900
$800
$700
$600
$500
$41,000
$8,000
$4,500
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$900
$800
$700
$600
American Purse
$25,000
$5,000
$2,500
$1,500
$1,000
$800
$600
$400
$300
$200
$200
$28,800
$5,000
$2,500
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$800
$600
$500
$300
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Prize Money History
Tenth
2013 Total Purse
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eighth
Ninth
Tenth
International Purse
$500
$41,000
$8,000
$4,000
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$900
$800
$700
$600
$500
American Purse
$200
$14,400
$5,000
$2,500
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$800
$600
$500
$300
$200
From 2009-2012, total prize money stayed constant at $39,000, broken down as follows:
2009-2012
Total Purse
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eighth
Ninth
Tenth
International Purse
$39,000
$7,500
$4,000
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$900
$800
$700
$600
$500
From 1984-2008, total prize money grew consistenly from $13,400 to 32,500:
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1984-2008
2008
Total Purse
$32,500
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
$32,000
$31,500
$31,000
$30,200
$29,500
$29,000
$28,500
$28,000
Prize Money History
1984-2008
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
Total Purse
$27,500
$27,000
$26,000
$26,000
$23,500
$23,000
$22,500
$22,000
$21,500
$21,000
$20,000
$19,500
$19,500
$18,700
$16,500
$13,400
The top American women in 2015 show off their hardware.
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Bonus Payment History
A
schedule of record bonus payments was first introduced in 2007, with $750 on offer to the first two men to run under
46:00 and the first two women to run under 52:00. In 2013 the sub-46:00 and sub-52:00 bonus payment schedule was
changed to pay $1,000 to the first man or woman to achieve their respective benchmarks, and $750 to the second man or
woman to do so.
In 2015, race organizers were forced to re-route the course between four and six miles due to an accident on the course that
occurred about an hour prior to the start of the elite women’s race. The exact distance was measured as 9.39 miles after the
race – making it just a fraction over 15K. Nevertheless, race organizers decided to pay bonuses based on projected times, as
shown in the table below.
Credit Union Cherry Blossom Open Time Bonus Payments
Sub-46:00 Bonus
2015
Mary Wacera (51:45*)
Cynthia Jeretich Limo (51:46*)
2014
Stephen Sambu (45:29)
Daniel Salel (45:29)
2012
Allan Kiprono (45:15)
2011
Lelisa Desisa (45:36)
Allan Kiprono (45:41)
2010
Stephen Tum (45:53)
Lilisa Desisa (45:44)
Lineth Chepkurui (51:51)
2009
Ridouane Harroufi (45:56)
Feyisa Liesa (45:58)
2008
Tebya Erkesso (51:44)
Sub-52:00 Bonus
$1,000
$750
$1,000
$750
$750
$750
$750
$750
$750
$750
$750
$750
$750
When the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Run first hosted the USA 10 Mile Championships for women in 2013, an American Record bonus of $2,500 was offered. In 2014, when both men’s and women’s USA 10 Mile Championships were hosted,
the $2,500 American Record bonus was offered to both men and women.
Credit Union Cherry Blossom American Record Bonus Payments
American Record Bonus
2014
Janet Bawcom (52:12)
2103
Janet Bawcom (53:28)
$2500
$2500
In 2015 race organizers introduced a $10,000 American Record bonus (fastest time beating the U.S. men’s 10-mile record of
46:13 or the U.S. women’s-only record of 52:12), to be split equally if both records are broken.
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Past Winners’ Notable Acomplishments
Over the years, a victory at the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Run has proven to be a stepping stone to success
at the Boston Marathon shortly thereafter. And some Cherry Blossom victors have gone on to Olympic success
in the same year. The table below lists Cherry Blossom winners who have distinguished themselves at the Boston
Marathon and/or Olympic Games.
Boston Marathon Champions
Name
Country
Bill Rodgers
Greg Meyer
Lelisa Desisa
Name
Rosa Mota
Lisa Weidenbach
Lidiya Grigoreyeva
Teyba Erkesso
Caroline Rotich
Won Cherry Blossom
Men
USA
‘78, ‘79, ‘80, ‘81
USA
‘83
ETH
‘11
Country Won Cherry Blossom
Women
POR
‘84, ‘86
USA
‘85, ‘89, ‘90
RUS
‘06
ETH
‘07
KEN
‘13
Won Boston
‘75, ‘78, ‘79, ‘80
‘83
‘13, ‘15
Won Boston
‘87, ‘88, ‘90
‘85
‘07
‘10
‘15
Olympic Medalist
Name
Rosa Mota
Richard Chelimo
Lisa Martin
Elana Meyer
Isabella Ochichi
POR
KEN
AUS
RSA
KEN
Cherry Blossom
‘84
‘92
‘97
‘01
‘04
Medal
3rd, ‘84; 1st, ‘88
2nd, ‘92
2nd, ‘88
2nd, ‘92
2nd, ‘04
Event
Marathon
10,000m
Marathon
10,000
5,000m
It’s hard to compete with Bill Rodgers’
four Cherry Blossom and four Boston
Marathon wins, but Rosa Mota’s three
Boston wins and two Olympic medals
may take the prize.
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T
he Capitol Hill Competition at the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile started in 2002 and is organized for Members of Congress and their staffs, who compete against each other within the broader Credit Union Cherry Blossom
race. It is sponsored by the Congressional Federal Credit Union and the United States Senate Federal Credit Union, with
support from the Credit Union National Association and the National Association of Federal Credit Unions.
Out of 47 Capitol Hill teams that competed in 2015, “Carper Diem” from the Senator Tom Carper’s office produced the
Senate team winning time of 3:13:58. The winning team from the House was “Red, White and Blumenauer” from Rep. Earl
Blumenauer’s office with a time of 3:06:42 (times listed represent the sum total of the three fastest times among all team
members).
Some 900 Capitol Hill staffers ran in this competition in 2015.
The table below lists the winning Senate and House of Representatives teams since 1998:
Winning Senate and House Teams
Senate Teams
Team Name
Office
2015
Carper Diem
Senator Tom Carper
2014
Minnesota Nice and Fast
Senator Amy Klobuchar
2013
Foreign Relaytions
Senate Energy Committee
2012
Too Extreme for Colorado
Senator Michael Bennet
2011
Running Back Home Again
Senator Richard Lugar
2010
Team Frenzi
Senator Michael Enzi
2009
Run Io-way With Me
Senate Agriculture Committee
2008
Ken’s Salad Bar
Senator Ken Salazar
2007
Crapo Couch Potatoes
Senator Mike Crapo
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Time
House Teams
Team Name
Office
Time
3:13:58
Red, White and Blumenauer
Representative Earl Blumenauer
3:06:42
3:23:46
Representative Peter Welch
3:23:50
3:30:03
3:18:24
3:21:14
3:31:38
3:35:36
3:46:23
3:39:32
Stark Running Mad
Representative Peter Stark
3:42:56
3:54:01
Markey’s Glacial Pacers
Representative Edward Markey
3:31:15
3:26:43
3:43:03
3:25:03
Project Blue Hen
Representative Mike Castle
3:46:46
Senate Teams
Team Name
Office
2006
Crapo Couch Potatoes
Senator Mike Crapo
2005
Team Frenzi
Senator Michael Enzi
2004
Couch Potatoes
Senator Mike Crapo
2003
Murray’s Milers
Senator Patty Murray
2002
Murray’s Milers
Senator Patty Murray
Time
House Teams
Team Name
Office
Time
3:30:37
Green Milers
Representative Mark Green
3:15:48
3:49:51
Green Milers
3:25:15
3:07:28
The Green Monsters
3:51:37
3:40:37
Team Ryan
Representative Tim Ryan
3:49:52
3:28:34
Dancing Homers
3:57:26
House Mouse and Congressional Federal Credit Union support the
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All-Time Champions
Ten Mile Run
In 2015, race organizers were forced to re-route the course between four and six miles due to an accident on the course
that occurred about an hour prior to the start of the elite women’s race. The exact distance was measured as 9.39 miles after
the race – making it just a fraction over 15K. The times listed in the table below for 2015 represent projected 10-mile finish
times; Stephen Sambu ran 43:20 for 9.39 miles, while Mary Wacers ran 48:35.
Year
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
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Male Winner
Stephen Sambu – Kenya
Stephen Sambu – Kenya
Daniel Salel– Kenya
Allan Kiprono – Kenya
Lelisa Desisa – Ethiopia
Stephen Tum – Kenya
Ridouane Harroufi – Morocco
Ridouane Harroufi
Tadesse Tola – Ethiopia
Gilbert Okari – Kenya
John Korir – Kenya
Nelson Kiplagat – Kenya
Reuben Cheruiyot – Kenya
Reuben Cheruiyot – Kenya
Worku Bikila – Ethiopia
Simon Rono – Kenya
Peter Githuka – Kenya
Lazarus Nyakeraka – Kenya
Ismael Kirui – Kenya
William Sigei – Kenya
William Sigei – Kenya
Richard Chelimo – Kenya
Carl Thackery – Great Britain
Chris Fox – USA
Brian Sheriff – Zimbabwe
J.P. Ndaysienga – Belgium
Jon Sinclair – USA
Thom Hunt – USA
Simeon Kigen – Kenya
Simeon Kigen – Kenya
Greg Meyer – USA
Time
46:10
45:29
46:06
45:15
45:36
45:43
45:46
46:14
46:01
47:24
46:53
48:12
46:55
47:13
46:12
46:07
46:59
45:51
46:29
46:49
45:38
46:01
46:29
47:06
46:25
47:06
46:43
47:33
46:48
46:15
46:24
47:25
46:13
Female Winner
Mary Wacrea – Kenya
Mamitu Daska – Ethiopia
Caroline Rotich – Kenya
Julliah Tenega – Kenya
Julliah Tenega – Kenya
Lineth Chepkurui – Kenya
Tebya Erkesso – Ethiopia
Lidiya Grigoryeva – Russia
Nuta Olaru – Romania
Isabella Ochichi – Kenya
Olga Romanova – Russia
Luminita Talpos – Romania
Elana Meyer – South Africa
Teresa Wanjiku – Kenya
Jane Omoro – Kenya
Colleen De Reuck – South Africa
Valentina Yegorova – Russia
Joan Nesbit – USA
Rose Cheruiyot – Kenya
Helen Chepngeno – Kenya
Judi St. Hilaire – USA
Albina Galliamova – Russia
Jill Hunter – Great Britain
Lisa Weidenbach – USA
Anne Audain – New Zealand
Lisa Martin – Australia
Rosa Mota – Portugal
Rosa Mota – Portugal
Eleanor Simonsick – USA
Time
51:45
52:05
52:46
54:02
54:02
51:51
53:32
54:21
51:44
52:11
52:00
52:06
53:42
52:50
52:15
55:50
53:37
51:16
54:28
53:25
51:39
54:05
52:27
53:44
51:57
53:28
52:34
52:36
52:23
53:09
53:30
54:16
54:46
All-Time Champions
Year
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
Male Winner
Terry Baker – USA
Bill Rodgers – USA
Bill Rodgers
Dan Rincon – USA
Carl Hatfield – USA
Carl Hatfield – USA
Jack Mahurin – USA
Sam Bair – USA
Time
49:29
47:17
47:09
48:00
48:57
49:44
49:09
51:47
50:50
51:22
Female Winner
Eleanor Simonsick – USA
Laurie Binder – USA
Anne Sullivan – USA
Aileen O’Connor – USA
Jenifer White – USA
Julie Shea – USA
Julie Shea – USA
Julie Shea – USA
Carol Fridley – USA
Kathrine Switzer – USA
Time
58:16
56:44
55:34
56:02
56:35
56:08
57:04
59:55
1:02:41
1:11:19
5K Run-Walk
While the idea of having a “fun run” traces all the way back to the first event in 1973, when the fun run was two miles long,
it wasn’t until 2006 that the 5K Run-Walk was upgraded from an untimed run to a fully timed and scored event.
Year
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Male Winner
Dylan Eddinger (18)– Bally, PA
Nathan Davis (13) – Frederick, MD
Nathan Davis (12) – Frederick, MD
Barry Fischer (27) – Washington, DC
Luke Holman (27) – McLean, VA
Mitchell Lango (26) – Washington, DC
Eric Sonnenschein (35) – Washington, DC
Guy Cipolla (30) – Elmendorf AFB, AK
Daniel Bennett (36) – Dunkirk, MD
Michael Stanton-Geddes (24) – Washington, DC
Time
17:02
17:58
17:22
17:27
17:07
18:32
19:17
18:00
18:37
17:54
Female Winner
Ashley Kollme (32)– Washington, DC
Jessica McGuire (33) – Arlington, VA
Maggie Brill (36) – Pottstown, PA
Win Persina (52) – Washington, DC
Nilda Cruz-Acevedo (47) – Laurel, MD
Britton Miller (30) – Arlington, VA
Marjorie Censer (26) – Arlington, VA
Erin Burlovich (27) – Chevy Chase, MD
Erin Burlovich (26) – Chevy Chase, MD
Mary Margaret Peter (15) – Virginia Beach, VA
Time
18:29
20:34
19:43
20:36
19:07
19:03
21:05
21:34
20:42
21:48
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Donations to Children’s Miracle Hospitals
C
redit Union Miracle Day, Inc. has been the organization behind the title sponsorship of the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run since 2002. Dedicated to fundraising to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, the fundraising effort has generated some $7.5 million dollars to date.
The annual big check presentation in 2010 was for $858,684
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Title Sponsor History
1973 – The race debuts as the Acacia Cherry Blossom Invitational Run, thanks to Acacia Mutual Life.
1974 – The race name is changed to Acacia Cherry Blossom Classic, and the entry fee is dropped for the ten-miler, a tradition that would last for twenty years.
1977 – Union First Bank of Washington replaces Acacia Mutual Life as title sponsor.
1978 – Perrier becomes the new title sponsor and brings four-time winner-to-be Bill Rodgers along with them.
1984 – Nike replaces Perrier as title sponsor, bringing with it $13,400 in prize money.
1991 – After seven years as title sponsor, Nike turns the top role over to Northern Telecom, a major telecommunications company which had just recently opened a World Headquarters in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Under Northern Telecom the prize money grows to $21,500, the largest purse ever.
2002 – After an 11-year run as title sponsor, Nortel Networks steps down – its sponsorship a victim of the collapse
of the internet bubble. Greg Farmer, Nortel’s Senior VP Global Government and Community Relations, says, “I
do not believe that any other sponsorship has provided Nortel with such a high profile with Washington policymakers.” By the end of the summer, a group of approximately 40 Credit Unions, mostly from the Washington,
DC Metropolitan area, forms an organization called the “Credit Union Miracle Day Committee,” and signs on. It
is a win-win situation as the event helps the Credit Unions raise nearly $100,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network and hundreds of Credit Union employees and members sign up as volunteers.
To this day, Credit Union Miracle Day remains the collaborating group behind the sponsorship of Credit Union
Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run. Their fundraising efforts have resulted in over $7.5 million being donated to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals across the United States.
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Race Director History
1973 — Gar Williams and Ralph Reynolds
1974 — 1982 Jeff Darman and Ed Murray
1982 — 1988 Jeff Darman, Race Director
1988 — 1990 Jeff Darman, Race Director and Phil Stewart, Deputy Race Director
1991 — present Phil Stewart, Race Director
2005 – 2011 Irv Newman, Deputy Race Director
2012 – present Becky Lambros, Deputy Race Director
Becky Lambros, Deputy Race Director
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Phil Stewart, Race Director
Les Kinion Award
By trade, Les Kinion was a Baltimore fire fighter with Engine Company 43. By passion, he was first a runner and
then a running club officer and race director. In 1970, Les co-founded the Baltimore Road Runners Club, one of
the earliest chapters of the Road Runners Club of America. In 1973 he helped launch the first Maryland Marathon. After retiring in 1986, Les moved to Bishopville, MD and worked on hundreds of races on the MarylandDelaware Coast. He became involved with the Cherry Blossom Run over 20 years ago, and was active until he
passed away in July 2014 at the age of 78.
As Race Director Phil Stewart said at the 2015 pre-race dinner:
Les Kinion was very much at the heart and soul of the Cherry Blossom race committee for over 20 years. He coordinated the screen printing of the t-shirts, packaged and delivered over 150 separate packets for committee members
and others, and worked all race weekend long – always with a smile and effusive spirit that rejuvenated even the
most tired among us. There wasn’t a single thing that Les wouldn’t do to help out the race. This is why it seems so fitting to name our first ever outstanding service award in his honor.
There is no more fitting recipient of the first Les Kinion Outstanding Service Award than my friend and tireless race
committee member, Irv Newman. Irv joined the committee in 2000 as treasurer, and added the duties of Deputy
Race Director in 2006. His work as Treasurer included maintaining all of the books of what has grown to be a million dollar non-profit organization. As Deputy Race Director, Irv was at my side and acted as my confidante for every significant policy decision I made for well over a decade. As event director, I have always had absolute confidence
that any event-related task Irv took on would be done on time, with impeccable excellence.
Les Kinion
Irv Newman, the first recipient of the Les Kinion Outstanding Service Award, speaks at the VIP Dinner as event
director Phil Stewart looks on.
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2015 Elite Athlete Results
In 2015, race organizers were forced to re-route the course between four and six miles due to an accident on the
course that occurred about an hour prior to the start of the elite women’s race. The exact distance was measured as
9.39 miles after the race – making it just a fraction over 15K.
OPEN AWARD WINNERS
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
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20
21
22
23
24
25
Stephen Sambu,26,Kenya,
Jacob Riley,26,Rochester,MI
Elisha Barno,29, Kenya
Daniel Salel,24, Kenya
Girma Mescheso,26,West Chester,PA
Dominic Ondoro,27, Kenya
Philip Langat,24, Kenya
Leonard Korir,28, Kenya
Mourad Marofit,33, Morocco
Jared Ward,26,Provo,UT
Deriba Yigezu,27, Ethiopia
Luke Puskedra,25,Eugene,OR
Chris Kwiatkowski,26,Arlington,VA
Josh Dedering,24,Minneapolis,MN
Brian Harvey,27,Boston,MA
Matt Sonnenfeldt,24,Johnson City,TN
Andrew Brodeur,24,Bethesda,MD
Tyler Andrews,24,Arlington,VA
Matthew Boumeester,28,Saint Paul,MN
Christopher Sloane,31,Gaithersburg,MD
Brian Fuller,28,Camp Hill,PA
Kieran O’connor,28,Arlington,VA
Jerry Greenlaw,27,Arlington,VA
Matt Deters,29,Arlington,VA
Paul Balmer,25,Washington,DC
43:20
43:28
43:31
43:34
43:43
43:53
43:53
44:00
44:05
44:20
45:11
45:25
45:43
46:02
46:28
46:38
47:01
47:04
47:13
47:49
48:02
48:35
48:37
48:47
48:58
$8,000
$4,000
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$900
$800
$700
$600
$500
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Mary Wacera,26, Kenya
Cynthia Limo,25, Kenya
Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton,26, Kenya
Monicah Wanjuhi Ngige,21, Kenya
Lineth Chepkurui,28, Kenya
Serena Burla,32,Stafford,VA
Valentine Kibet,25, Kenya
Megan Goethals,22,Rochester Hills,MI
Juliet Bottorff,24,Brighton,MA
Lindsay Flanagan,24,Silver Spring,MD
Susanna Sullivan,24,Falls Church,VA
Katie Matthews,24,Brighton,MA
Sarah Kiptoo,25, Kenya
Heather Cappello,35,Somerville,MA
Meseret Taye Asefaw,24,Ethiopia
Jen Rhines,40,Boston,MA
Karen Roa,24,Boston,MA
Julia Roman-Duval,32,Columbia,MD
Renee High,33,Virginia Beach,VA
Emily Potter,36,Alexandria,VA
Shannon Kinney,30,Louisville,CO
Kaitlin Sheedy,32,Washington,DC
Megan Haberle,35,Washington,DC
Sage Norton,35,Myersville,MD
Erin Flynn,35,Newton,MA
USA men’s Award WINNERS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Girma Mescheso,26,W. Chester,PA
Jared Ward,26,Provo,UT
Luke Puskedra,25,Eugene,OR
Chris Kwiatkowski,26,Arlington,VA
Brian Harvey,27,Boston,MA
M. Sonnenfeldt,24,Johnson City,TN
Tyler Andrews,24,Arlington,VA
43:28
43:43
44:20
45:25
45:43
46:02
46:28
46:38
47:01
47:04
$8,000
$4,000
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$900
$800
$700
$600
$500
USA Women’s AWARD Winners
$5,000
$2,500
$1,500
$1,000
$800
$600
$400
$300
$200
$200
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3
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5
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7
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10
Megan Goethals,22,Rochestr Hills,MI
Lindsay Flanagan,24,Silver Sprng,MD
Susanna Sullivan,24,Falls Church,VA
Katie Matthews,24,Brighton,MA
Karen Roa,24,Boston,MA
Top Local Finishers
42
48:35
48:35
49:20
49:54
50:11
50:18
50:49
51:07
51:12
51:15
51:44
51:51
52:07
52:12
52:23
53:04
54:26
54:53
54:59
55:48
55:57
56:11
56:13
57:00
57:00
1 Chris Kwiatkowski,26,Arlington,VA
45:42
1 Lindsay Flanagan,24,Silver Spring,MD
51:15
50:18
51:07
51:12
51:15
51:44
51:51
52:12
53:04
54:26
54:53
$5,000
$2,500
$1,500
$1,000
$800
$600
$400
$300
$200
$200
Men
AGES 01 – 19
1
Alex Roederer,17,Bethesda,MD
2
Kyle Pfohl,19,Fredericksburg,VA
3
Trent Herzog,18,Lusby,MD
52:30
53:30
54:10
AGES 20 – 24
1
Daniel Salel,24,Kenya
2
Philip Langat,24,Kenya
3
4
Matt Sonnenfeldt,24,Johnson City,TN
5
43:34
43:53
46:02
46:37
47:00
AGES 25 – 29
1
Stephen Sambu,26,Kenya
2
3
Elisha Barno,29,Kenya
4
Girma Mescheso,26,West Chester,PA
5
Dominic Ondoro,27,Kenya
43:20
43:28
43:30
43:43
43:53
AGES 30 – 34
1
Mourad Marofit,33, Morocco
44:05
2
Christopher Sloane,31,Gaithersburg,MD47:48
3
Carlos Renjifo,32,Fulton,MD
49:01
4
Jake Klim,34,North Bethesda,MD
49:29
5
Charlie Ban,32,Washington,DC
49:56
AGES 35 – 39
1
David Wertz,39,Arlington,VA
2
Wilson Komen,37,Washington,DC
3
David O’hara,39,Alexandria,VA
4
Randall M. Binnie,37,Arlington,VA
5
Brian Heidt,38,Silver Spring,MD
49:42
52:07
52:22
54:27
54:29
AGES 40 – 44
1
Philippe Rolly,42,Mclean,VA
2
Martin Lanz,41,Bethesda,MD
3
Paul Davis,41,Boise,ID
4
Paul Danger,44,Valparaiso,IN
5
Brian Szabos,41,South Riding,VA
49:36
52:59
54:08
54:31
54:46
AGES 45 – 49
1
Alexander Hetherington,47,Vienna,VA 55:04
2
Brian Crone,49,Washington,DC
57:36
3
Alexander Rylyakov,48,Staten Island,NY57:51
4
Chaz Hinkle,49,Charlotte,NC
58:14
5
Steven Maguire,48,Arlington,VA
58:25
AGES 50 – 54
1
James Zoldy,52,Goshen,CT
55:26
2
Jeff Haertel,53,Atlanta,GA
55:40
3
Paul Van Zuyle,54,Westlake Village,CA56:03
4
Mark Neff,53,Derwood,MD
56:37
5
Thomas Jensen,51,Oakton,VA
57:14
AGES 55 – 59
1
Ken Youngers,58,Tucker,GA
55:02
2
Jeff Duyn,55,Garrett Park,MD
56:47
3
Robert Muro,56,East Atlantic Beach,NY57:39
4
Michael Anderson,57,Tucker,GA
58:58
5
Randal Sightler,56,Burlington,VT
59:24
AGES 60 – 64
1
Marvin Pace,61,Mclean,VA
1:01:46
2
Alan Pemberton,62,Silver Spring,MD 1:01:55
3
Bob Becker,63,Midlothian,VA
1:02:08
4
Charles Morrow,62,Littleton,CO
1:04:09
5
Harrison Grayson,63,Upper Marlboro,MD1:05:07
AGES 65 – 69
1
Mick Slonaker,65,Columbia,MD
2
Brian Byrne,67,Concord,NH
3
Eric Melby,66,Bethesda,MD
4
Jay Jacob Wind,65,Arlington,VA
5
John Delia,66,Oakton,VA
1:02:23
1:09:50
1:10:03
1:10:46
1:11:56
AGES 70 – 74
1
Jim Noone,70,Fairfax,VA
1:08:14
2
Robert Walker,70,Pittsburgh,PA
1:15:39
3
Norm Coleman,70,Chevy Chase,MD 1:17:52
4
John Dean,70,Alexandria,VA
1:21:19
5
Francis Schauer, Jr.,70,Alexandria,VA1:21:44
AGES 75 – 79
1
Malcolm Ohagan,75,Chevy Chase,MD1:18:31
2
Chan Robbins,77,Arlington,VA
1:27:45
3
Bill Sollers,75,Silver Spring,MD
1:28:19
AGES 80 – 99
1
George Yannakakis,83,Sparks,MD
1:28:31
43
Women
AGES 01 – 19
1
Jane Haines,19,Washington,DC
2
Maddy Scholz,16,Washington,DC
3
Anna Beucler,18,Vienna,VA
1:08:53
1:09:20
1:09:27
AGES 20 – 24
1
Monicah Wanjuhi Ngige,21,Kenya
49:54
2
Megan Goethals,22,Rochester Hills,MI 51:07
3
51:12
4
Lindsay Flanagan,24,Silver Spring,MD 51:15
5
Susanna Sullivan,24,Falls Church,VA 51:44
AGES 25 – 29
1
Mary Wacera,26,Kenya
48:35
2
Cynthia Limo,25,Kenya
48:35
3
Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton,26,Kenya
49:20
4
Lineth Chepkurui,28,Kenya
50:11
5
Valentine Kibet,25,Kenya
50:49
AGES 30 – 34
1
2
3
Renee High,33,Virginia Beach,VA
4
Shannon Kinney,30,Louisville,CO
5
Kaitlin Sheedy,32,Washington,DC
50:18
54:52
54:59
55:57
56:10
AGES 35 – 39
1
2
Emily Potter,36,Alexandria,VA
3
Megan Haberle,35,Washington,DC
4
Sage Norton,35,Myersville,MD
5
Erin Flynn,35,Newton,MA
52:12
55:47
56:13
56:59
57:00
AGES 40 – 44
1
2
Kara Waters,40,Great Falls,VA
3
Brenda Schrank,43,Winchester,VA
4
Christy Peterson,40,Chicago,IL
5
Alexandra Bigelow,41,Chapel Hill,NC
53:04
57:10
57:44
58:43
58:47
AGES 45 – 49
1
Mary Pardi,45,Falmouth,ME
2
Liz Herbert,46,Darien,CT
3
Laura Latchford,46,Palmyra,PA
4
Laurie Wharton,49,Marietta,GA
44
59:10
1:00:02
1:02:09
1:02:59
5
Lane Tingle,48,Woodbridge,VA
AGES 50 – 54
1
Cindy Conant,54,Kensington,MD
2
Mary Sweeney,54,Atlanta,GA
3
Anita Freres,50,Vienna,VA
4
Mandana Mortazavi,51,Leesburg,VA
5
Peggy Levin,52,Newtown,PA
1:03:24
59:45
1:03:27
1:03:58
1:04:59
1:05:23
AGES 55 - 59
1
Joan Samuelson,57,Freeport,ME
2
Eleanor Kerr,55,University Park,MD
3
Deborah Flynn,58,Cross Hill,SC
4
Carole Jones,58,Ashburn,VA
5
Dorothy Beckett,57,Columbia,MD
58:50
1:06:16
1:06:16
1:08:12
1:09:20
AGES 60 - 64
1
Sharon Vos,60,Old Greenwich,CT
2
Betty Blank,62,Falls Church,VA
3
Geri Clifford,62,Rye,NH
4
Page Greenberg,61,Malvern,PA
5
Claudia Wolfe,63,Alexandria,VA
1:03:55
1:13:01
1:13:48
1:15:54
1:16:25
AGES 65 - 69
1
Freyda Greenberg,66,Fairfax,VA
2
Lizzie Sadoff,65,Washington,DC
3
Mary Lou Harris,67,Camp Hill,PA
4
Linda Mills,65,Salisbury,MD
5
Mary Kessler,66,Wallingford,PA
1:21:45
1:23:06
1:23:27
1:23:38
1:24:01
AGES 70 - 74
1
Dee Nelson,71,Gaithersburg,MD
2
Frances Breslauer,74,New York,NY
3
Pat Welch,70,Vienna,VA
4
Cheryl Kohut,70,Cold Spring,NY
5
Muffet Chatterton,70,Crofton,MD
1:24:09
1:27:23
1:32:36
1:38:48
1:40:14
AGES 75 - 79
1
Imme Dyson,78,Princeton,NJ
1:38:54
AGES 80 - 99
None
2015 Team Results
Male Open Running Club
1
Capital Area Runners MO
2:35:03
Matt Deters,Marty Mccormick,William Bokus,Romain
Mareuil
2
Dojo Racing Team
2:37:27
Jeffrey Redfern,Josh Sohn,Geoff King,John Kelly,Shawn
Rumery
3
=PR= Racing
2:41:01
Nathan Miller,Brian Heidt,Travis Smith,Andres
Suarez,Aaron Richards
4
MCRRC Flash
2:46:05
Shlomo Fishman,Exavier Watson,Ning Rui,Miguel Perez
5
Rehoboth Striders
2:49:06
Nick Hanifee,Nathan Austin,Enos Benbow,Erik Farinas
6
DCCS: 14th Street
2:49:54
Michael Wurzbacher,Jason Devinney,Elliott Cheresh,Marc
Phillpotts
7
DC Front Runners Crimson
3:05:27
Erich Huang,Thorne Ransom,Zachary Huey
8
Front Runners New York
3:06:09
Olivier Schmitt,Gilberto Gaona Jr,Dennis Ng
9
MCRRC 4 Men & a Child
3:09:41
Yukun Fung,Brent Machado,Eric Jodts,Jason Parks,William
Etti
10
MCRRC Bumped to Last
3:33:06
Christiam Camacho,Dan Difonzo,Brian Chabot,Rod Vieira
11
DC Front Runners Emerald
3:36:24
Justin Kwan,Murray Scheel,Richard Goldberg,Matthew
Priebe,Miguel Ayala
12
DC Front Runners Lilac
3:44:35
Scott Lundberg,Cody Barnett,Socrates Tiglao,Ron Tomasso
13
Front Runners New York Blue
3:50:10
John Grunert,David Caraway,Jesus Martinez Jr
14
DC Front Runners Ultramarine
4:03:18
Adam Sulewski,Chris Zimmerman,Terry Klugh,Ryan
Hastings,Allen Rose
Female Open Running Club
1 MCRRC Speedsters
2:59:24
Megan Haberle,Sarah Flynn,Dagmar Salazar,Robin
Watkins,Laura Ramos
2 Dojo Women’s Race Team
3:02:47
Rachel Clattenburg,Judy Chen,Jennifer Paul,Laura Jennings
3 =PR=Racing I
3:03:21
Leslie Dimichele,Molly Astudillo,Elise Nelson,Rebecca
Scott,Tonya Stotler
4 Capital Area Runners WO
3:19:48
Cristina Burbach,Jessica Chin,Robin Vanneman,Michelle
Hense
5 DC Front Runners Amber
3:28:26
Angela Messing,Grace Thompson,Maura Hackett,Meredith
Weiss
6 =PR=Racing II
3:41:40
Nicole Maksimovic,Jeanette Haas,Eva
Greenberg,Samantha Pernal
7 Steeplechaser Women 1
Sage Norton,Amanda Lawrence,Angela Papillo
8 Steeplechasers Women 2
4:57:19
5:03:13
Effie Nomicos,Kara Pokras,Nikki Martin,Shawn Burns
Co-ed Masters Running Club
1
MCRRC Flashy Speedsters
2:53:08
Mark Neff,Jeff Duyn,Lee Firestone,Cindy Conant,Lisa
Reichmann
2
ATC Elite
2:53:40
Ken Youngers,Jeff Haertel,Michael Anderson,Laurie
Wharton,Mary Sweeney
3
Dojo Masters
2:59:29
Jim Moore,Jennifer Maranzano,Alan Pemberton,Robert
Gillanders
4
=PR=Racing Master I
3:04:40
Brian Szabos,Tom Nealley,Alison Gittelman,Myra Wright
5
Howard County Striders B
3:12:27
Akintunde Morakinyo,Mick Slonaker,Tammy Liu,Dorothy
Beckett
6
DC Front Runners Diamond
3:19:13
Jeffrey Dutton,Seth Kalish,Michael Glikes,Fed Bernal,Blake
Rushin
7
=PR=Racing Masters II
3:23:29
Craig Greene,Paul Bousel,Karen Hottle,Merrilee Seidman
8
MCRRC Petal Pushers
3:29:48
Daniel Reichmann,Jennifer Schwartz,Al Navidi,Natalie
Bailey
9
Steeplechasers Masters
3:39:20
John Way,Pam Geernaert,Scott Abernethy
10
MCRRC Stalwarts
3:57:50
Kevin Mcmahon,Sunny Fitzgerald,Ken Earley,Ann
Rosenthal,Marc Wolfson
11
DC Front Runners Platinum
4:08:59
Vijay Dsouza,Tom Boeke,Fatima Dsouza
12
MCRRC Cherry Masters
4:57:56
Ashish Gupta,Carol Da Silva,Steve Scharf,Colleen Connelly
Media
1
Washington Business Journal 1
3:54:47
Jamey Fry,Doug Fruehling,Caitlin Lyons
2
NBC News
3:58:51
Anthony Capra,Michael Kosnar,Morgan Gaffney,Winston
Wilde
3
Team TK
4:14:46
Yochi Dreazen,Preeti Aroon,Bethany Allen
4 NBC2
4:15:23
Frank Thorp V,Vaughn Hillyard,Alexandra Moe,Charlie Gile
5
USA TODAY #1
4:16:41
Anne R Carey,Michael Smith,Maureen Linke,Shannon
Green
6
Washington Business Journal 2
5:12:35
Tina Reed,Jennifer Conner,Robert Terry
45
2015 Team Results
Credit Union Team Challenge
1
SDO NASA
2:53:23
Alvin Yew,Joe Munchak,Denise Knickman,Melissa Vess
2
Cash Us If Tou Can
3:08:11
Kevin Moore,Adam Scherling,Christian Miller,Alice
Henriques,Diana Iercosan
3
Astronauts NASA
3:14:01
James Cooper,David Radzanowski,Thomas Johnson,Julie
Thienel,Mira Panek
4 Jefferson
3:20:37
Charlie Stern,Steven Maguire,Bart Elias,Kelly
Maguire,Wendy Ginsberg
5
Mercury NASA
3:23:18
Maksym Petrenko,Jeff Dalhoff,Adam Bennett,Andrea
Bennett,Andrea Dye
6
Support Education #2
3:32:32
Turner Chaundy,Jordan Blankenship,Arianna Maine,Sarah
Mazur
7 LCFCU-Madison
3:37:18
Marvin Pace,Lucia Acin-Andion,Edward Ohnemus,Melissa
Crawford
8
Constellation FCU3 (NGA)
3:46:49
Rick Norgaard,Trenton Norgaard,Erin Shipe,Jillian Obermeier
9
FRBFCU ‘R US
3:53:56
David Cashin,Darrell Ashton,Elizabeth Stuart
10
Shares on the Run
3:59:38
Marc Scott,Rodolfo Alvarez Jr,Stephen
Weisweaver,Andreas Lehnert,Elizabeth Kiser
11
Northwest Federal
4:04:21
Tanya Good,Matthew Shultz,Kevin Fisher,Caroline Strunk
12
4:09:09
Gregg Hinkle,Mark Wiersma,Gretchen Wiersma,Mcgregory
Allen
13
4:10:09
Randy Anders,Ty Cresap,Courtney Cresap
14
4:20:22
Bryn Vaupel,Prasad Gerard,Glenn Giles,Lewis Schrumm
15
4:21:32
Frank Mazur,Rudy Romero Gallo,Omolara
Magassouba,Cheryl Washington,Mary Jones
16
Donnelly’s Dashers
4:26:37
Mary Murphy,Justin Donnelly,Kelly Peterson,Mike Donnelly
17
SDFCU Super Sprinters 2
4:32:10
Gentry Smith,Jaime Oberlander,Laura Rosenberger,Eric
Thompson,Ron Whitworth
18
Members on the Move
4:42:01
Mauricio Bascunan,Mike Bagley,Matthew Hoffman,Kiran
Ramachandra,Jandi Kim
19
CD’s on a Roll
4:57:30
Edwin Lucio,Stephen Thompson,Robert Feldman,Wendy
Dunn
20
4:58:53
Les Graber,Brian Flores,Gabriella Webb
21
LCFCU-Adams
5:00:04
Sean Moffitt,Andre Neveu,George Thuronyi,Deborah Carroll
46
Corporate
1
Marriott #1
3:18:55
John Whitridge,Matt Zappone,Ellen Wexler,Amy Ellis
2
Marriott #2
3:24:45
Drew Mcelhare,Lorenzo Pettus,Abbey Gibson,April
Sprague,Roy Beaumont
3
Marriott #3
3:31:52
James Snee,Stuart Koltov,Dana Maul,Julie Brown,Julie
Robinson
4
Gannett #1
3:48:31
Joseph Vida,Hadley Malcolm,Katharine Lackey,Mary
Nahorniak
5
Marriott #4
3:51:35
Leslie Anchor,Belinda Simmons,Tony Mukangura,Karen
Myaing
6
CUNA Mutual Group
3:58:29
Karnail Kooner,Holly Fearing,Alastair Shore
7
Marriott #6
4:02:18
Patrick Valenti,Hilary Kidwell,April Henline,Julia Poorshaghaghi
8 Medlmmune
4:04:20
Brad Matanin,Margaret Ann Snowden,Irina Ramos,Sarah
Lane
9
Marriott #5
4:06:00
Michael Rosenman,Christina Papoulias,Massa
Dunnaville,Donna Whitridge
10
Medlmmune/AstraZeneca
4:06:30
John Higgins,Omar Ali,Mary Plank,David Krell,Karen Mitz
11
Gannett #2
4:18:59
Chris Plourde,Nina Mandell,John Lee
12
TeamPRO
4:40:53
Chris Van Glahn,Duane Hogg,Crissandra Fry,Kathy Leroy
13
TeamMo
5:16:24
Sergio Soto,James Green,Chris Godfrey,Antoinette Pona
2015 Team Results
U.S. House of Representatives
1
Red White And Blumenauer
3:06:42
Paul Balmer;48:57,Michael Harold;1:04:59,David
Skillman;(1:05:01),Kelsey Aulakh;1:12:46,Carolyn Scully;(1:17:11)
2
Good Times Himes
3:16:50
Paul Coyle;1:04:09,Katherine Franzis;1:05:26,Justin
Meuse;1:07:17,Jim Himes;(1:16:05),Maddie Daly;(1:33:36)
3
The Average Jim’s
3:28:27
Bart Forsyth;57:24,Erik Kinney;1:13:27,Nora
Conneely;1:17:37,Amy Bos;(1:23:22),Jacob Peterson;(1:37:45)
4
3:31:43
John Goodwin;1:05:04,Ryan Nickel;1:08:24,Kelly Allen;1:18:16
5
Running From Congress
3:40:22
Burton Miller;1:01:09,Amy Lawrence;1:19:26,Ivy Williams
Malone;1:19:48,Meg Gazzini;(1:22:13),Lauren Johnson;(1:25:44)
6
Why so Sires?
3:42:57
Matthew Schardt;1:01:40,Michael Poche;1:19:29,Kathryn
Mitchell;1:21:49,Gene Martorony;(2:08:55)
7
Brooklyn 202
3:46:39
Christopher Leibl;1:11:54,Eric Bolden;1:14:00,Natalie
Zhao;1:20:46,Gil Bolden;(1:30:09)
8
The Dean Machine
3:47:29
Jenny Perrino;1:09:03,Erik Sperling;1:18:05,Yvesner Zamar;1:20:22
9
The Gavelers
3:57:14
Caleb Smith;1:11:53,Andy Bunker;1:20:40,Katherine
Haley;1:24:43,Anne Pietkiewicz;(1:40:55)
10
Earth Wind And Beyer
4:04:28
Mike Lucier;1:14:18,Thomas Scanlon;1:14:21,Ann
Ohanlon;1:35:51,Adnan Mohamed;(1:36:07),Ambar Canales;(1:43:25)
11
CHS
4:05:52
Paul Mandelson;1:03:51,Jason Miller;1:29:39,Diana Bergwin;1:32:23
12
Beatty’s Bunch
4:07:42
Galen Alexander;1:07:15,Ryan Cahill;1:16:50,David
Eaton;(1:41:26),Kimberly Ross;1:43:39,Jennifer Storipan;(1:50:00)
13
The Sandy Eggos
4:11:44
Michael Campbell;1:22:44,Sterling Mchale;1:24:30,Anne
Moriarity;1:24:31,Katherine Jaski;(1:35:24)
14
The Slaughter Housers
4:14:31
Jack Spasiano;1:10:32,Rosemarie
Laughlin;1:31:41,Benjamin Schultz;1:32:18,Victoria
Honard;(1:38:41),Eric Walker;(1:42:39)
15
See You At The Finish Kline
4:14:44
Juliane Sullivan;1:19:32,Kathlyn Ehl;1:22:14,Ryan
Silverberg;1:33:00,Meagan Mccanna;(1:33:01)
16
Boehner Buckeyes
4:21:54
Katie Boyd;1:24:06,Ashley Palmer;1:24:35,Olivia
Hnat;(1:33:03),Caleb Graff;1:33:13,Michael Ricci;(1:35:23)
17
Dia De Los Doggetts
4:23:40
Doug Molof;1:25:28,Elisa Santana;1:26:37,Bryan
Botello;1:31:36,Tyler Bell;(1:47:24),Michael Mucchetti;(1:47:34)
18
Team Slaughter
4:24:44
Leslie Brady;1:23:06,John Kreckel;1:23:44,Clayton
Cox;1:37:54
19
Team Pelosi
4:41:18
Nikolas Youngsmith;1:21:21,Ethan Mcclelland;1:33:57,Bina
Surgeon;1:46:01,Sinead Doherty;(2:09:27),Emily Berret;(2:10:11)
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Tsongas
4:55:40
Bob Schneider;1:26:44,Becky Cairns;1:33:09,Sara Outterson;1:55:48
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CHS 2
4:58:51
Miles Taylor;1:29:13,Kerry Kinirons;1:44:49,Eric Heighberger;1:44:50
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Roger’s Runners 5:32:09
John Freebairn;1:24:35,Vera Minter;1:54:20,Nicole Lansford;2:13:15
U.S. Senate
1
Carper Diem
3:13:58
Andrew Shine;58:29,Bryan Mack;59:58,August
Kuron;(1:15:31),Jessica Abramovich;1:15:32
2
SASC Kickers
3:22:14
Brendan Sawyer;1:02:53,Robert Waisanen;1:05:49,Katie
Wheelbarger;1:13:33
3 FrEnzi
3:26:00
Mandy Gunasekara;1:04:29,Travis Jordan;1:07:37,Becky
Cole;1:13:55,Sarah Meier;(1:22:03)
4
The Trailgrazers
3:26:00
Rostin Behnam;1:05:37,Grant Colvin;1:08:44,Jacqlyn
Schneider;1:11:41,Hanna Abou-El-Seoud;(1:24:09)
5
No Such Team
3:26:24
James Catella;1:01:12,Nate Adler;1:09:24,Jennifer
Barrett;1:15:49,David Grannis;(1:20:16),Michael Buchwald;(1:21:33)
6
Hit Me With Your Best Schatz
3:27:14
Jimmy O’dea;51:27,Jade Silver;1:11:01,Trelaine
Ito;1:24:48,Ashley Raethel;(1:53:38)
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All the King’s Men
3:34:48
Jon Greenert;1:05:23,Aisha Woodward;1:12:08,Margaret
Williams;1:17:18,Chad Metzler;(1:18:51),Matt Junker;(1:27:56)
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Connecticut’n Loose
3:39:13
Daniel Lee;1:06:53,David Bonine;1:11:01,Amanda
Clinton;1:21:21,Zachary Dendas;(1:36:17)
9 TeamTexas
3:45:40
Kenneth Stein;1:04:10,Hunter Rome;1:08:25,David
Milstein;(1:20:17),Victoria Coates;1:33:05,James
Mulkin;(1:52:29)
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Great Daines
3:47:43
Jon Rosenbaum;1:11:51,Daniel Gerig;1:17:33,Meghan
Marino;1:18:20,Brad Kehr;(1:21:45),Wallace
Hsueh;(1:36:07)
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Schumer’s Zoomers
3:56:39
Sean Byrne;1:15:19,Zack Rosenblum;1:18:29,Kelsey
Lafreniere;1:22:52,Lindsay Kryzak;(1:25:56),Lane Bodian;(1:26:32)
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2015 Team Results
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Portmania
3:57:38
Bradley Couts;1:10:21,Sarah Johnson;1:19:30,Caitlin
Conant;1:27:48,Allen Ernst;(1:35:38),Mark Isakowitz;(1:39:44)
13
No Kaine No Gain
4:01:02
Tim Bialecki;1:07:14,Amanda Chuzi;1:22:19,Amy
Dudley;1:31:30,Michelle Kinzer;(1:38:19)
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Live Free Or Die Running
4:02:46
Eric Waskowicz;1:01:12,Marissa Serafino;1:25:51,Robert
Diznoff;1:35:44,Danielle Geanacopoulos;(1:47:49)
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Portman
4:11:06
Michael Haidet;1:13:47,Kurt Freshley;1:21:13,Peter
Danjczek;(1:28:57),Zach Rudisill;(1:32:53),Meghan Savercool;1:36:07
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Mississippi Mudcats
4:11:06
Kris Tsairis;1:17:49,Dan Artino;1:20:26,Daniel
Ulmer;(1:22:34),Kristin Swarek;1:32:53,Will Todd;(1:44:29)
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Yankee Doers
4:11:15
Tovan Mcdaniel;1:13:51,Michael Bednarczyk;1:25:21,Kaylie
Hanson;1:32:04
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No
4:14:49
Steven Hoffenson;1:09:53,Conor Cahill;1:25:32,Michal
Freedhoff;1:39:25,Morgan Gray;(1:40:55)
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Pat’s Posse
4:15:59
James Glueck;1:06:50,Katherine Thomas;1:28:48,Charlie
Thornton;1:40:21
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Virginia Is For Runners
4:21:55
Heath Hyatt;1:15:08,Keren Dongo;1:29:09,Nicole
Porreca;1:37:39,Willeah Cato;(2:01:54)
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Reid It And Weep
4:30:25
Eloy Martinez;1:22:14,Claire Badger;1:29:28,Karlee
Tebbutt;1:38:43,Kevin Herzik;(1:39:36),Rayshon Payton;(1:42:40)
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Manifest Destiny
4:33:01
Louie Reckford;1:24:51,Tedros Abraham;1:30:31,Becca
Ward;1:37:40
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Too Big To Fade
4:42:15
Matthew Cournoyer;1:22:21,Remy Brim;1:30:02,Audel
Shokohzadeh;1:49:53
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50 Shades of SASC
4:49:26
Samantha Clark;1:18:41,Kathryn Edelman;1:44:59,Brian
Rogers;1:45:47
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The Nutleggers
4:50:48
Russell Armstrong;1:24:29,Dana Honor;1:36:30,Jasmine
Smith;1:49:49
Government
1
CFPB 1
3:27:06
Ben Cady,Ambrose Dieringer,Abigail Pound,Christopher
Dangelo
2 NCUA
3:32:12
Brian Heitman,John Worth,John Ianno,David
Blanchard,Pavla Decoteau
3
The 10LADs
3:35:03
Max Sgro,Vincent Amendolare,Fiona Reeves,Clay
Wild,Mandana Fatemi
4
Mo Running
3:50:59
Colin Ray,Grant Gartman,Katherine Monahan,Constance
Kiggins
5
CFPB 3
3:51:48
David Uejio,Tiao Guan,Andrei Chursov,Linda Powell
6
UMD GVPT
4:00:00
Kelsey Hinchliffe,Frances Lee,Brian Markowitz,Michael
Mansfield,Irwin Morris
7 NCUA2
4:05:30
John Kren,Steve Long,Frank Cipolla,Sarah
Workman,Regina Metz
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CFPB 5
4:18:23
Adam Mayle,Eleanor Blume,Heidi Johnson,Laurie Sellick
9
NCUA 3
4:18:27
Scott Schwartz,Rob Robine,Damon Frank,Edith
Davenport,Mary Thor
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CFPB 4
4:24:08
Tim Lambert,Katya Belyayeva,Veronica Spicer
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Even MO Running
4:36:53
Frank Buda,Elizabeth Miller,Erin Galipeau,Laura Buda
Men’s Metro Elite Teams
1
Georgetown Running Club - Men
2:26:40
Kieran O’connor,Jerry Greenlaw,Jake Klim,Charlie
Ban,Sean O’leary
2
Howard County Striders
2:30:01
Carlos Renjifo,Andrew Madison,Kevin Ford
3
=PR= DC Elite M
2:30:46
Jeffrey Stein,Philippe Rolly,Jacob Green,Ryan Johnson,Jim
Noone
Female’s Metro Elite Teams
1
Capital Area Runners WE
2:46:47
Susanna Sullivan,Kaitlin Sheedy,Jillian Pollack,Karina
Lubell,Kathryn Neeper
2
Georgetown Running Club-Women
2:51:32
Teal Burrell,Maura Carroll,Kristin Johnson,Elizabeth Young
3
HoCo Striders Racing Team
2:56:48
Julia Roman-Duval,Victoria Berard,Jessica Ivy,Tiffany
Hevner,Tasha Hogan
4
=PR= DC Elite F
3:00:11
Kara Waters,Liz Greenlaw,Cathy Ross,Anita Freres
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Capsule Histories of all 42 Editions of the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run
1973-2015
or runners in Washington since 1973, the true beginning
of spring is marked not by a date on the calendar but by
the running of the Cherry Blossom Ten-Mile.
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Elite competitors have used the race as a final competitive
tuneup for the Boston Marathon two weeks later. Bill Rodgers,
Greg Meyer, and Lisa Larsen Weidenbach all went on to win
Boston after their victories here.
For lesser mortals, the Cherry Blossom means a chance to
doff the warmup suits, turtlenecks, caps and gloves of winter
and join other runners in a celebration of the season. Here in
Washington, the race has become as fixed a rite of spring as
the Easter Egg Roll at the White House or the lighting of the
Japanese lanterns on the Tidal Basin.
1973 (April 1)
Who would have believed, in 1973, that a family-style gathering of fewer than 200 runners would become an event so
popular that it is necessary to hold a lottery to keep people
away?
The Cherry Blossom Invitational Run, as it was christened,
was the brainchild of Gar Williams, then president of the
DC Road Runners Club, and Ralph Reynolds, program
director of Washington’s Central YMCA. The two men
conceived of a race to coincide with the Cherry Blossom
Festival, a high point of the city’s tourist season, when mag-
nolias, forsythia and cherry blossoms bloom along the roads
and paths bordering the Potomac River.
Williams and Reynolds settled on the ten-mile distance. “If
it was longer, you’d be too pooped out for Boston,” Williams
once recalled. “We didn’t want it too short, though. The idea
was to have an attractive alternative to a marathon.” Families could come to Washington as tourists. Dad or Mom
could run the ten-miler, and the rest of the family could
enter the two-mile fun run and collect commemorative
patches as well.
A local insurance company, Acacia Mutual Life, was persuaded to serve as a sponsor, and entrants were recruited
through the DC Road Runners Club and through pink flyers distributed at the YMCA.
Winners of that inaugural race, held in muggy weather,
were Sam Bair of Pennsylvania in 51:22 and Kathy Switzer
of New York City in 71:19. The organizers congratulated
themselves on attracting over 100 runners to the ten-miler a big field in those days.
1974 (March 31)
The following year, 1974, the race came into its own. At
the suggestion of DCRRC official Dave Theall, the race was
renamed the “Cherry Blossom Classic,” and the entry fee
was dropped for the ten-miler, a tradition that would hold
up for twenty years. Nearly 400 runners showed up to run
on a raw, cloudy day. Jack Mahurin, then a graduate student at the University of Maryland, lowered the men’s event
record to 50:50, and Carol Fridley, of Pennsylvania, won the
women’s in 62:41.
1975 (April 6)
The field doubled again in 1975 - some 575 finishers in the
ten-miler, and 275 in the fun run - for a race held in brilliant sunshine but Arctic temperatures. Carl Hatfield of
West Virginia battled frigid winds gusting up to 30 mph to
win the race in 51:47. Julie Shea, a then-unknown North
Carolina schoolgirl, took the women’s crown in 59:55, the
first in a series of three consecutive victories.
1976 (April 4)
It was Hatfield and Shea again in 1976 as the field for the
ten-miler topped 1,500. Hatfield lowered the men’s event
record to 49:09, while Shea set a U.S. women’s record for the
ten miles at 57:04.
Carl Hatfield winning for a second consecutive year in 1976.
1977 (April 3)
By 1977 the running boom was starting to crest, and race
organizers instituted an entry cutoff for the first time as the
number of applicants swelled above 2,000. The field was
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limited to 2,230, with 500 disappointed runners turned
away. There was also a new sponsor - Union First Bank of
Washington, which filled the breach when Acacia Mutual
Life decided to bow out. Maryland runner Dan Rincon won
the race in 49:44, while Julie Shea lowered her U.S. Women’s
record to 56:08.
1978 (April 2)
The era of Perrier and Bill Rodgers began with the 1978
race. When Union First failed to renew as a sponsor, race
organizers found Perrier, which, in turn, brought in Rodgers. Competing with a cold just one day after a race in Jacksonville, Florida, Rodgers cruised to his first Cherry Blossom victory in 48:57 over a field limited to 4,000 entrants.
Jenifer White of Alexandria, Virginia, took the women’s title
in 56:35.
Perrier became title sponsor in 1978
1979 (April 1)
In 1979 the glamour of Rodgers led to a flood of race applications. Entries were closed on February 5, only a few
days after they had opened. Organizers Jeff Darman and Ed
Murray begged unofficial runners to stay away as a massive
field chased Rodgers to another event record of 48 minutes
flat. Maryland schoolgirl Aileen O’Connor lowered the U.S.
record to 56:02 in the women’s race.
1980 (March 30)
1980 brought two innovations: a lottery to choose race
entrants, and a star-studded field of invited runners. Over
12,000 applicants vied for 4,000 places in the lottery. Meanwhile, the spreading fame of the race attracted nearly 100
runners capable of running ten miles in less than 53 minutes. When the race was over, Bill Rodgers had set a new
U.S. record of 47:09, and 24 other runners had gone under
50 minutes for the distance.
The women’s field was also impressive. Anne Sullivan of
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Brown University, who set a U.S. women’s record of 55:34,
was followed by five other women under 60 minutes.
1981 (April 5)
Rodgers repeated again in 1981 with a 47:17 victory despite
windy, warm weather. Laurie Binder of San Diego led 11
women under the one-hour barrier with a 56:44 performance. A field of 4,500 entrants toured the course on a
humid, overcast morning.
1982 (April 4)
The 1982 race will be remembered as the War of the Winds,
as chill winds gusting up to 50mph slowed the entire field.
Terry Baker, a vocational education teacher from Hagerstown, Maryland, took the lead with less than a mile to go
to upset defending champion Bill Rodgers by seven seconds
in 49:29. Eleanor Simonsick, a policy research consultant
living in Washington, broke the tape in 58:16 to give the
race its first pair of local winners. Only four male runners broke the 50-minute barrier, and an equal number of
women finished under an hour.
1983 (March 27)
After the disastrous weather of 1982, ideal conditions
prevailed in 1983. On a cool, rainy morning with almost no
wind, both Greg Meyer and Eleanor Simonsick set event records in winning their respective divisions. Running alone
almost from the start, Meyer cruised to a 46:13 victory,
setting a World record, breaking the former event record by
56 seconds and beating his nearest rival by over a minute.
Overshadowed by Meyer’s performance was that of 31 other
runners who broke 50 minutes for the distance.
Repeating her victory of 1982, Simonsick took the lead at
three miles and kept adding to it, recording the fourth fastest ten-mile time by a woman and breaking the event record
by almost two minutes in 54:46. Simonsick led 15 other
female finishers under the one-hour barrier.
1984 (April 1)
The 1984 race brought several surprises. Perrier dropped
sponsorship, and Nike stepped in, adding prize money to
the race for the first time. A less pleasant surprise was the
weather. Despite the bizarre conditions that have characterized this early spring event, no one anticipated a flooded
course. Heavy storms the previous week left the tip of Hains
Point under six inches of water, causing worried race officials to consider shortening the course to 15 kilometers as
late as race morning.
Prestige and prize money gave the Cherry Blossom its first
foreign winners. Olympic hopefuls Simeon Kigen of Kenya
and Rosa Mota of Portugal sloshed through ankle-deep
water to win their respective divisions. Kigen took the men’s
title in 47:25 as 22 men broke 50 minutes. Mota nipped
Lisa Larsen in 54:16 to lead 12 women under the one-hour
mark.
southerly winds. The women responded in remarkable
fashion—the top three broke Rosa Mota’s year-old World
Best time. Lisa Martin of Australia finished first in 52:23, a
whopping 46-seconds under the previous mark. Runnersup Anne Audain (52:30) and Carla Beurskens (53:00) also
bettered the old record. Jon Sinclair reversed a series of
major race runner-up finishes by kicking early and moving
away from J.P Ndaysienga and Larry Green for a 46:48 win.
Priscilla Welch, 42, won the women’s masters division and
placed fourth overall with an astonishing 53:51, a world best
time for masters.
Race winner Simeon Kigen and Race Director Jeff Darman
in 1984
1985 (March 31)
In 1985, Kigen won again, posting a near-record 46:24 as
favorable weather returned to the event. With temperatures
in the low 50s and moderate wind, Lisa Larsen Weidenbach,
runnerup the previous year, surprised everyone, including herself, by running an event record of 53:30 to take the
women’s crown.
Masters champion Barry Brown, with an age-group record
49:46, was the last of 31 runners to break 50 minutes for
the distance. Some 25 women dipped under the one-hour
barrier.
1986 (April 6)
In 1986, Rosa Mota eclipsed the women’s World Best 10
mile, while Thom Hunt came to within two seconds of Greg
Meyer’s 1983 world best time. Mota, the bronze medalist
in the Los Angeles Olympic Marathon and 1984 Cherry
Blossom winner, shaved nine seconds off Joan Samuelson’s
World Best time with a 53:09 clocking despite running
on a tender achilles tendon. Hunt began a series of surges
to break away from English Olympic steeplechaser Roger
Hackney at the 8-1/2 mile mark, which brought him to the
finish just off the all-time best with a 46:15. The top 37 men
broke 50 minutes, while 20 women bettered one hour.
1987 (April 5)
April showers stopped the night before the 1987 race and
low tide right at race time ensured that the tip of Hains
Point would not be submerged. Both the runners and the
fully in-bloom cherry blossoms were pushed by favorable
Jon Sinclair (6) wins in 1987
1988 (March 27)
The winds shifted to the northwest for the 1988 race, with
gusts up to 25 miles per hour. Belgium’s J.P. Ndaysienga, the
1987 runner up, took the lead at 3 miles, got caught by a
pack at 7 miles, but emerged in the front of a wild four-man
sprint to the finish. He clocked 47:33, with Martyn Brewer
second in 47:35, Jon Sinclair third in 47:40, and Joseph
Kipsang fourth in 47:45. Anne Audain reversed the previous year’s standings with Lisa Martin with a 53:26 to 54:06
victory in the women’s race.
1989 (April 2)
Perfect running weather was sandwiched between high
winds on Saturday and showers on Monday for the 1989
race. Lisa Weidenbach responded with her second victory
in an American record time of 52:34 – just 11 seconds shy
of Lisa Martin’s World Best time. The men’s race featured a
near-photo finish with Zimbabwe’s Brian Sheriff outlean-
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ing Mexico’s Dionicio Ceron, 46:43 to 46:44. Steve Jones of
Wales followed five seconds back in 46:49.
1990 (April 1)
Lisa Weidenbach returned in 1990 to match Julie Shea (‘75,
‘76, ‘77) as the only female three-time winner. She cruised
to a relatively easy win over Anne Audain, 52:38 to 53:18.
Chris Fox, a Hagerstown, MD resident who had dreamed
of winning this race since he was in high school, had his
dream come true when he bested Ashley Johnson 47:06 to
47:07—the second one-second winning margin in a row.
1991 (March 31)
After seven years as title sponsor, Nike turned the top role
over to Northern Telecom, a major telecommunications
company which had just recently opened a World Headquarters in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Under
Northern Telecom the prize money grew to $21,500, the
largest purse ever. With the cherry blossoms in full bloom,
Great Britain’s Carl Thackery and American Bill Reifsnyder
went charging after the event record. Thackery prevailed in
the match up, but missed the record by just 12 seconds with
a time of 46:25. Reifsnyder followed in 46:30. Fellow Brit Jill
Hunter reduced the women’s event record to 51:57 – a time
just 10 seconds off Carl Hatfield’s winning time in 1975 and
26 seconds under Lisa Martin’s event mark.
1992 (April 5)
In 1992, the Kenyans made their marks here as elsewhere.
Running into 30-35 mph winds, Richard Chelimo (who
won a silver medal that summer at 10,000-meters in the
Olympics) and William Koech went 1-2 with respective
times of 47:06 and 47:15. They went after the 1983 event
record (46:13), passing 5 miles in 22:46 before the winds
slowed them. Russian Albina Galliamova won the women’s
race in 53:44.
1993 saw the first use of Memorial Bridge on the Cherry
Blossom course.
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1993 (April 4)
Runners tried out a new course which featured an out-andback crossing of Memorial Bridge (pending construction of
the FDR Memorial forced the shift). Last year’s runner-up
William Koech was joined by several of his Kenyan teammates including William Sigei, who had won the World
Cross Country only a week before. Once again the Kenyans
were under world record pace at five miles, only to ease the
up during the second half of the race. Sigei triumphed over
Anthony Kiprono, 46:29 to 46:33. Judi St. Hilaire swept past
early pacesetter Pauline Konga of Kenya after nine miles
and scored a 3-second win in 52:27.
1994 (April 10)
After 11 years Greg Meyer’s men’s world record of 46:13
fell to Kenya’s William Sigei. On a relatively warm, windy
day (a thunderstorm blew in later that morning) Sigei and
Kenyan teammates Josphat Machuka and Thomas Osano
broke away from the pack early, but the pace sagged to over
world record pace by nine miles. However, Sigei upped the
tempo and closed with a 4:29 last mile to claim the mark
with a 46:01. Both the 18-year-old Machuka (46:05) and his
uncle, Osano (46:07), bested Meyer’s longstanding mark as
well. Kenya’s Helen Chepngeno and Jane Omoro produced
the closest finish ever with World Cross Country Champion
Chepngeno declared the winner by inches in 54:05. With
a revised race course, the number of finishers grew to over
4,600.
Ismael Kirui sets a World Record on 45:38 in the 1995 race
1995 (April 9)
Pre-race speculation centered on the Kenyans cracking the
46:00 barrier for the first time. With world cross country
runner up Ismael Kirui and 1994’s third place finisher Josphat Machuka as the top seeds, the stage was set (Sigei was
out due to injury). Race day dawned with no wind, although
temperatures were in the upper 50s and the humidity was
high. As expected, Kirui and Machuka went right to work,
dropping further below world record pace with each passing mile. Suffering from blisters, Machuka dropped off by
5 miles. Kirui slowed to a 4:41 ninth mile, but responded
with a 4:31 closer to smash Sigei’s year-old mark with a
45:38. Just over six minutes later Rose Cheruiyot of Kenya,
who had set a world 5K record a week before, collected the
second world record of the day as she sprinted home far in
front of the women’s field in 51:39, chopping 2 seconds off
Jill Hunter’s 1991 world record set in New York City. U.S.
marathon champion Debbi Kilpatrick finished second in
55:05. Over 5,200 runners finished.
women’s title in 54:28. A total of $35,000 was given to Children’s Hospital, bringing the total charity contribution to
over $140,000.
1998 (April 5)
A new course featuring an out-and-back section on Rock
Creek Parkway delighted the 5,800 finishers. South African Colleen DeReuck proved that the layout was fast as
she shattered Rose Cheruiyot’s World Record for 10 Miles
of 51:39 — set in the 1995 race —with a scintillating 51:16
performance that placed her 23rd overall. (She would have
been the overall winner of the 1973 race!)DeReuck finished
over two minutes ahead of runner-up Marian Sutton of
Great Britain. On the men’s side Simon Rono, who would
go on to be the top road runner of the year, produced a fast
sub-46:00 time with a 45:51, the second fastest time ever
in the event. He pulled Kenyan teammate Joseph Kariuki
under 46:00 as well (45:58). Kenyans secured the top eight
places in the men’s race.
1996 (March 31)
Lazarus Nyakeraka, 20, the hottest Kenyan on the U.S. road
circuit in the early months of 1996 with wins in major races
the two preceding weekends, toed the line with a number of
his Kenyan teammates who were looking to steal a little of
his luster. On a perfect race morning with only a 100-yard
puddle on Hains Point remaining from the worst winter
of flooding in over 20 years in Washington, DC, Joseph
Kariuki remained with the youthful Nyakeraka for 8 miles.
At that point, Nyakeraka surged away for a 46:37 to 46:49
win. Joan Nesbit became the first American winner since
1993 with a methodical dismantling of the women’s field
in 53:25. Steve Jones of Wales, a frequent top 10 finisher
over the years. turned 40 and demolished the late Barry
Brown’s 1985 masters event record of 49:46 when he posted
a remarkable 48:26, finishing 11th overall. The prize money
was upped to $26,000 with $5000 going to the top male and
female.
1997 (April 6)
The event celebrated its 25th running in 1997 and a number
of former champions (including the first women’s winner,
Kathrine Switzer) came to join in the festivities. A group of
a dozen runners who had run the 1973 event — and Ben
Beach, the only individual who has completed the race
every year it has been run – were feted at the Saturday night
dinner. On race day, special coffee mugs were awarded to 24
men and 94 women who ran faster than the winning times
in the first race (51:22 and 71:19). Runners from Kenya
continued to dominate the men’s competition – this year it
was Peter Githuka upsetting defending champion Lazarus
Nyakeraka in 46:29. On the women’s side, Olympic marathon gold (‘92) and silver (‘96) medallist Valentina Yegorova
of Russia took the lead from the start and captured the
Colleen DeReuck set a World record of 51:16 in the 1998
race
1999 (April 11)
Construction along Independence Ave. meant another
revision in the course for 1999. The popular Rock Creek
Park section was retained, but a new section took runners
through the West End and Foggy Bottom sections of Washington, DC. It was the first time the course had ventured
off of National Park Service land. A cool rain greeted 6,000
starters. The many turns in the course slowed the times.
For the first time since 1991, a non-Kenyan male won the
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race, as Ethiopian Worku Bikila outsprinted three Kenyans
to take the overall title in 46:59. Lazarus Nyakeraka (47:01),
James Kariuki (47:03) and William Kiptum (47:07) followed. Interestingly, Bikila got off his plane in Pittsburgh
where it had stopped and went to the Doubletree Hotel
in Pittsburgh. Some frantic calling got him D.C. bound
shortly thereafter to the Doubletree race headquarters hotel
here. Apparently the distraction to him was minimal. The
women’s race was even closer than the men’s as Kenyan Jane
Omoro bested teammate Jane Ngotho by a single second,
53:37 to 53:38. The win was satisfying to Omoro, who had
lost the 1994 race on a lean to Helen Chepngeno.
2000 (April 9)
At 6:30 a.m. on race day, snow was swirling in the staging
area in West Potomac Park. The good news is that it stopped
by the race time of 8:00 a.m.; the bad news is it was replaced
by a howling, cold northwest wind. Runners throughout
the field reported that they were nearly slowed to a walk on
the completely exposed out-and-back crossing of Memorial Bridge. However, with much of the course similar to
1998 and within the closed confines of Rock Creek Park
once again, Reuben Cheruiyot was still able to clock 46:07
as he blazed the final two miles — with the wind at his back
— in 8:44. On the women’s side, defending champion Jane
Omoro narrowly lost to Kenyan teammate Teresa Wanjiku,
55:50 to 55:56. In honor of the race being held in Washington and it being a presidential election year, the organizers
staged a “Foot Poll.” Using a transponder chip laced into
their shoes, runners crossed mats about a quarter mile from
the finish line marked “Democrat,” “Republican,” or “Neither/Undisclosed.” “Votes” were tallied at the finish line. In
the end the Democrats prevailed with 44%; Republicans and
“Neither/Undisclosed” tied for second with 28%. Republicans were heard to remark that the mat marked “Democrat”
was along the shortest route to the finish, a charge instantly
denied by the organizers.
The event marked ten years with Nortel Networks as the
title sponsor.
2001 (April 8)
For the first time since 1993, the cherry blossoms were at
their peak on race day with “perfect-for-running” temperatures near 50-degrees. For the first time since 1992, the
event used the same course for two years in a row. A few
sprinkles of rain fell early in the morning, but runners were
glad they weren’t last year’s snowflakes! Kenyans Reuben
Cheruiyot and John Korir waged an epic battle which
resulted in the closest men’s finish ever, with Korir edging
Cheruiyot, 46:12 to 46:13. A dramatic photo appeared in the
Washington Post showing both men with their arms raised
in expectation of the win. South African Elana Meyer,
making her first appearance, dominated the women’s field,
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finishing in 52:16, nearly a minute up on Lydiya Grigorieva,
who clocked 53:15. The event had its largest number of
finishers ever, 6,515.
2001 Women’s Champion Elana Meyer
2002 (April 7)
After an 11-year run as title sponsor, Nortel Networks
stepped down – its sponsorship a victim of the collapse of
the internet bubble. Greg Farmer, Nortel’s Senior VP Global
Government and Community Relations, said, “I do not
believe that any other sponsorship has provided Nortel with
such a high profile with Washington policymakers.” By the
end of the summer, a group of approximately 40 Credit
Unions, mostly from the Washington, DC Metropolitan
area, formed an organization called the “Credit Union
Miracle Day Committee,” and signed on. It was a win-win
situation as the event helped the Credit Unions raise nearly
$100,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network, and hundreds
of Credit Union employees and members signed up as volunteers. The blossoms joined the festivities for the second
year in a row as Kenyans John Korir and Reuben Cheruiyot
picked up where they left off in 2001. This time Cheruiyot prevailed by 5 seconds with a time of 47:13. Luminita
Talpos equaled Cheruiyot’s 5-second margin of victory
in a time of 52:50 to become the first Romanian winner.
Ethiopia’s Teyba Erkesso followed. Legally blind U.S. runner
Marla Runyan finished fifth in 53:37. The event grew to a
record 7,061 finishers.
2003 (April 6)
For the third straight year, race day dawned with the Tidal
Basin and West Potomac Park awash in a blaze of pink and
white cherry blossoms. Race officials were glad simply to be
in West Potomac Park at all. Three weeks before the race,
the War in Iraq had raised security levels in Washington
to “Code Orange,” one step down from “Code Red,” which
likely would have meant cancellation of the event. The race
committee scouted out an alternative site in Poolesville,
MD, 25 miles outside of Washington, as a contingency. John
Korir and Reuben Cheruiyot, who else, were at it again,
and when the dust settled, Korir had evened the score at 2
victories each with a 46:56 to 47:03 triumph. Russian Olga
Romanova bested pre-race favorite Ashi Gigi of Ethiopia
for the women’s title. Through the efforts of the event and
the Credit Unions, over $190,000 was raised for the Children’s Miracle Network. Bethesda’s Ben Beach continued his
streak as the only runner to have finished all 32 editions of
the race with a time of 1:02:15. The perfect day produced
the largest number of finishers ever at 7,488.
Bethesda, Maryland’s Ben Beach finished his 32nd Cherry
Blossom Ten Mile in 2003, and has now completed all 43
editions of the race
2004 (April 4)
The blossoms greeted the runners for the fourth year in
a row, but so did howling winds with gusts in excess of
40-miles an hour. A pelting rain and winds pummeled the
staging area about 5:30 a.m. on race morning, followed
by an eerie calm almost like the eye of the storm during
which the organizers decided to go ahead and put up the
tents, overhead scaffolding and signage. The winds returned
shortly after the 8 a.m. start, prompting all the aforementioned items to be taken down for safety reasons. The men’s
times reflected the conditions, with unknown Kenyan
Nelson Kiplagat winning in 48:12 – the slowest men’s winning time since 1982 when Terry Baker bested Bill Rodgers
in similar near-gale force winds. Rodgers was in this year’s
field, placing 3rd in the men’s 55-59 division in 1:02:55. But
track-trained Kenyan Isabella Ochichi ran the performance
of the day in winning the women’s title in 52:07 – the 4th
fastest women’s winning time ever. Boston Marathon prepping Catherine Ndereba finished a distant second in 53:00.
Both women would go on to claim silver medals in the
Athens Olympics, Ochichi in the 5,000-meters and Ndereba
in the marathon. With the National Park Service allowing
an increase in the number of finishers, the race had 8,057
people go the distance. For the first time, over 50% of the
entrants were women, although more men finished (4,157
to 3,900).
2005 (April 3)
Kenyan John Korir collected his third win and established
a streak of winning the event in odd-numbered years only.
His other two wins came in 2001 and 2003. With the victory
Korir moved into second place among male repeat winners, just one victory shy of Bill Rodgers’ four consecutive
titles between 1978 and 1981. Does anyone know how to
say “2007?” Korir employed the same wait and kick strategy
which had made him the most feared road racer competing on the U.S. roads over the last six years, passing runner
up Reuben Chebii in the final 400-meters. Romanian Nuta
Olaru took the opposite tack and ran away from the women’s field to earn her first title in 52:01. Her time was the
fastest performance since Colleen DeReuck’s world record
time of 51:16 in 1998. The event established a reciprocal
relationship with the Himeji Castle 10 mile in Japan. Three
Japanese runners from the top 10 came to participate here,
while top American Michael Wardian traveled to Japan to
run the Himeji race the following February. Under cold and
blustery conditions a record number of 8,630 participants
finished the event. Alexandria’s Hedy Marque, 87, was the
oldest finisher (1:57:38), and Ben Beach of Bethesda maintained his status as the only finisher in all 33 editions of the
race with a 1:10:08 time.
2006 (April 2)
After the race, Event Director Phil Stewart handed out special t-shirts to the organizing committee members that said
“The Year of Many Changes.” The entire staging area of the
race was redesigned to make it resemble a small city complete with two roadways named “Gary Dr.”, after longtime
logistics coordinator Gary Ceponis, who had just retired,
and “Brian Blvd.,” after Brian Laush, who undertook the
changes. There was a big change up front as well, as the elite
women started 10 minutes ahead of the men. The new for-
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mat gave far greater visibility to the women’s race and produced a world record for 10 miles in an all-women’s event,
simply because this was the first All-Women’s 10 mile event
to be run under current record keeping standards. Russia’s
Lidiya Grigoryeva established the mark of 52:11 on a beautiful morning awash with cherry blossoms at their peak.
American Turena Johnson Lane notched the American 10
Mile record in an all women’s race when she finished sixth
overall in 55:42. The 5K was upgraded from an untimed
run to a fully-timed and scored event. The event finally
cracked the 10,000-runner mark with 10,670 participants.
The Credit Unions and race participants together raised
over $500,000 for Children’s Miracle Network, bringing the
total funds raised during the Credit Union era to over $1.5
million. Women’s champion Grigorieva warmed everyone’s
heart when she donated 5% of her first-place $6,000 check
to the charity.
2007 Women’s Champion Teyba Erkesso
2007 (April 1)
To celebrate the 35th running of the race, the organizers invited back numerous past winners including Kathrine Switzer (’73), Carl Hatfield (’75, ’76), Bill Rodgers (’78, ’79, ’80,
’81), Greg Meyer (’83), Lisa Rainsberger (’85, ’89, ’90), Jon
Sinclair (’87), Colleen DeReuck (’98), and John Korir (’01,
’03, ’05) for a picture perfect weekend with the blossoms at
their peak. Times were fast under the excellent conditions
and when it was over, Ethiopia joined the U.S., Kenya, and
Great Britain as the only countries to sweep both the men’s
and women’s titles in the same year, as Tadesse Tola won
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the men’s race in a quick 46:01, and Teyba Erkesso topped
the women’s division in 51:44. With the advance start for
women used again, Erkesso’s time established a new world
record for a women’s only 10 mile. John Korir failed in his
bid to match Bill Rodgers’ 4 wins when he finished third in
46:11. The organizers received a scare when they were told
that construction on Rock Creek Parkway would start before race day and the course would be unusable. Fortunately, it was delayed until the day after the race. Washington’s
newly elected Mayor, Adrian Fenty, finished in a respectable
time of 1:08:47. A record number of 10,748 runners finished
the 10-mile, and 756 finished the 5K Run-Walk. The funds
raised by the Credit Union Miracle Day Committee swelled
to $850,000.
2008 (April 6)
With the construction on Rock Creek Parkway underway,
the organizers knew a new course needed to be developed
for 2008, and they started work on it almost immediately
after the 2007 event. With the cooperation of the National
Park Service, the start and finish lines were moved from
West Potomac Park to a spectacular new location on 15th
St., with the staging area on the Washington Monument
Grounds. The new site was also only ¼ mile from the
Smithsonian Metro stop, which eliminated an unwieldy
shuttle bus service. The new course was a big hit as it incorporated the blossoms around Hains Point in addition to
those around the Tidal Basin. The race filled its expanded
allotment of 12,000 finisher slots just four hours after online
registration opened in Dec., 2007. This was less than 1/6th
the amount of time it had taken the previous several years.
Heavy rains flooded the staging area on the Monument
Grounds and all the start-finish area tents, porta-potties,
etc. had to be shifted to the “Folk Life Festival Grounds” on
the east side of 15th St. just 48 hours before the start of the
race. Race day featured intermittent rain, chilly temperatures in the 40s, and blossoms a smidge beyond peak – not
bad conditions for the record number of 12, 294 finishers
under the newly imposed timing limit of 2 hours and 20
minutes for completing the 10 miles. Young Kenyan Lineth
Chepkurui, 20, raced away from Olympic marathon silver
medallists Lidia Simon (’00) and Catherine Ndereba (’04) to
take the women’s title in a sluggish time of 54:21. Ridouane
Harroufi became the first Moroccan to capture a title as he
outlegged Nichola Kamakya of Kenya by a single second in
46:14. The other big news of the day was the Credit Union
Miracle Day Committee cracked the $1 million dollar mark
in funds raised for the Children’s Miracle Network when it
signed over a check for $1,036,000.
2009 (April 5)
2009 was the year that all of the pillars of the event changed
– the course was run in reverse in order to avoid a narrow section during the first mile on the 2008 route; the
staging area was completely redesigned; there was a new
headquarters hotel, the Grand Hyatt Washington; and there
was a new expo site at the National Building Museum. The
entire organizing committee was exhausted by the time race
weekend rolled around. However in a show of magnanimity,
Mother Nature provided one of the most perfect days ever,
with brilliant sunshine, temperatures about 50-degrees rising to the mid-60s for the awards ceremony, and blossoms
just a tinge past peak. However, some things remained the
same, most notably the winners, as Ridouane Harroufi and
Lineth Chepkurui repeated as champions, both running
faster (45:56 and 53:32 respectively) than in 2008. A relatively unknown American woman, Sally Meyerhoff, raced
to a new American record for a women’s only race when she
clocked 54:38 to finish 7th overall. For some unexplained
reason the number of no-shows plummeted, resulting in
a record number of 14,969 finishers, some 3,000 over the
number stated on the National Park Service Permit. Due
to the committee’s and volunteer’s extraordinary efforts to
clear the streets by 10:30 a.m. for the cherry blossom tourists, the NPS did not protest. Despite a tightening economy,
Credit Union Miracle Day still raised $1 million dollars for
the Children’s Miracle Network.
The action at the front of the men’s pack was never tighter
with a photo finish that had to be decided by the finish line
judges (and then was protested by the runner-up who felt
he had been impeded in the final sprint). In the end Stephen
Tum of Kenya was declared the winner over Lelisa Desisa
of Ethiopia (Desisa later dropped the protest). Almost lost
in the drama was that Tum was a scant 5 seconds off Ismael
Kirui’s event record set back in 1995, with a finishing time
of 45:43. The women’s race was a run-away and a three-peat
by Kenya’s Lineth Chepkurui, who has gotten faster every
year. Her time of 51:51 eclipsed Julliah Tinega of Kenya
by 48 seconds. Chepkurui’s third consecutive win tied her
with Julie Shea, who won three in a row between 1975 and
1977. The sponsoring Credit Unions raised $923,000 for
Children’s Miracle Network. The event also hired an environmental consultant to look for ways to reduce its environmental footprint. The plan was to have the event certified
as “Green” by the Council for Responsible Sport in 2011.
Deputy Race Director Irv Newman relinquished his role
and the event hired longtime volunteer Becky Lambros as
the second salaried staff member.
Lineth Chepkurui en route to her third consecutive victory
in 2010
2012 (April 1)
The Gala 40th Running of the race featured some dazzling
solo front-running by Kenyan Allan Kiprono, who, like Lelisa Desisa in 2011, was out to avenge a runner-up finish at
the previous year’s race. After teammate Lani Kiplagat suggested pushing the pace around the three-mile mark, Kip-
2010 (April 11)
With the race a week later than its traditional first weekend
in April date due to Easter, the blossoms were nearly gone
but a glorious spring day was enjoyed by all 15,600 finishers.
2011 (April 3)
Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa was not a happy man after losing
the 2010 race in a photo finish. After initially protesting
the judge’s call, he backed down. A year later, he ran like
a man with something to prove as he broke Ismael Kirui’s
1995 event record by two seconds, clocking 45:36. His fivesecond margin over Kenyan Allan Kiprono seemed vast in
comparison with his 2010 loss. Desisa’s interpreter said, “He
wanted to make sure it didn’t come down to the finish again
this year.” Three-time winner Lineth Chepkurui was unable to return for her attempt at matching Bill Rodgers’ four
consecutive wins, paving the way for Juliah Tinega, who,
like Desisa, was runner up in 2010. Tinega powered her way
home in 54:02, a single second up on fellow Kenyan Risper
Gesabwa. The event earned a “Silver Level” designation
by the Council for Responsible sport as environmentallyfriendly. The 2011 race marked the 10th year of sponsorship
by Credit Union Miracle Day. With an additional $578,000
raised for the Children’s Miracle Network, the total amount
of funds raised during the Credit Union era eclipsed the
$5 million dollar mark. Just a year before the 40th running,
the event logged its 200,000th all-time finisher, Adrianna
Swinson of Centreville, VA. After the race, the organizers unveiled an all-time searchable database listing every
finisher since 1973.
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rono followed the advice and surged into a lead which only
grew larger with each additional stride. By the finish line, he
had amassed a 1:13 lead over Kiplagat and reduced the 2011
event record by a stunning 21 seconds with a time of 45:15.
On the women’s side Jelliah Tinega repeated as champion
by matching her 2011 winning time of 54:02, 22 seconds
up on Ethiopian Malika Mejdoub. The anniversary run attracted some special VIPs, including Greg Meyer, who still
owns the fastest time by an American, 46:13, for the event;
Colleen DeReuck, who owns the current women’s event
mark of 51:16; and Gar Williams, one of the race founders
in 1973 and former DC Road Runners and Road Runners
Club of America President. The race also feted 39-year-old
Gerri Baer of Rockville, who was born on April 1, 1973, the
date of the first race. Bethesda’s Ben Beach finished the race
for the 40th consecutive time, the only runner with perfect
attendance. The Children’s Miracle Network fundraising
juggernaut continued with an additional $515,000 raised by
the sponsoring Credit Unions and runners.
2013 (April 7)
USATF’s USA Women’s National Championship 10 Mile
Presented by America’s Credit Unions made its first appearance at the race. An extra prize purse of $14,400 for
American women (added to the existing $42,000 in open
prize money) produced a deep elite field featuring strong
American talent on the women’s side. With U.S. 2012 Olympian Janet Bawcom in the field, hopes ran high of having
the first U.S. female overall champion since Joan Nesbit in
1996. Bawcom hung with the lead pack for about 2/3rds of
the race but succumbed to the relentless pressure of Kenyan
Caroline Rotich, who powered to a 52:46 victory. Bawcom
placed 4th in 53:28 but still bested the late Sally Meyerhoff ’s
single sex American record by 70 seconds. Brianne Nelson
(7th in 54:01) and Sarah Crouch (9th in 54:15) also bettered
the old mark. Alan Kiprono, who ran away from the field
and broke the event record in 2012, returned as the favorite
in the men’s division. However, fellow Kenyan Daniel Salel
would not shake loose as the twosome traded surges over
the closing miles. Cresting the incline at 15th and Independence, Kiprono appeared to have victory in hand. However
one final burst right at the finish tape brought Salel across
the line first, according to the judges who viewed the near
photo finish. Salel clocked 46:06, with Kiprono posting
46:07. There were some heads turned in the 5K Run-Walk
when 12-year-old Nathan Davis of Frederick, MD was the
overall winner in 17:22. A cool spring kept the cherry blossoms just short of their peak on a near perfect day for running with temperatures in the 50s. The sponsoring Credit
Union Miracle Day added another $483,000 in donations to
Children’s Miracle Network, bringing the total funds raised
since becoming the title sponsor of the race to over $6 million dollars. Just over 17,500 runners finished the race.
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2014 (April 6)
With a positive reaction to hosting the USA Women’s
National Championship in 2013, the organizers bid on
and received both the USA Men’s and Women’s National
10 Mile championships from USA Track and Field. The
added infusion of top American runners raised the possibility that the event could see its first American champions
since Chris Fox won the men’s race in 1990 and Joan Nesbit
won the women’s race in 1996. However, it was not to be.
On the men’s side Kenyans Stephen Sambu and Daniel
Salel finished 1-2 with the 2nd and 3rd fastest men’s times
ever recorded for the event (both were timed in 45:29 with
Sambu given the win). Christo Landry finished sixth in
46:41, the fourth fastest American time for the event behind
Greg Meyer, Thom Hunt and Bill Reifsnyder and less than
30 seconds off Meyer’s 1983 American 10 Mile record (still
standing) of 46:13. Meyer had returned to hold the finish
tape in hopes of seeing his mark bettered after more than 30
years. On the women’s side, American Janet Bawcom gave
serious chase to Ethiopian Mamitu Daska but fell seven
seconds short of Daska at the end as the Ethiopian claimed
the title 52:05 to Bawcom’s 52:12. Bawcom’s consolation
was the single-sex American 10 mile record, bettering the
mark she had set a year earlier by 1:16. Nathan Davis, now
13-years-old, repeated as 5K champion in 17:58. A long
and cold winter meant the cherry blossoms were just shy of
blooming for the second straight year. The credit unions, in
the 13th year of their sponsorship, donated another $487,000
to Children’s Miracle Network.
2013 and 2014 USA 10 Mile Women’s Champion Janet
Bawcom
2015 (April 12)
For the first time in its history, the Credit Union Cherry Blossom was not a 10 mile. Due to an accident on the course just 90
minutes before race time, organizers had to scramble to come
up with an alternate route because of the accident investigation. The results showed some eye-popping times for anyone
who did not read the explanation that the course was 9.39
miles long after the re-routing. Any disappointment over the
shortened course was more than counterbalanced by the most
spectacular display of blossoms at their absolute peak on a
windless, gorgeous morning. Stephen Sambu notched his second title in a row, this time with a more comfortable 9-second
margin instead of his eyelash win in 2014. He clocked 43:20. American Jake Riley finished in second place eight seconds
later, the highest men’s finishing place by an American since
Bill Reifsnyder was the runner-up in 1991. Daniel Salel, who
was on the short end of the eyelash in 2014, ended up in third.
Training partners Mary Wacera and Cynthia Limo separated
themselves from the rest of the women’s field by the eight-mile
mark and ran together toward the finish line. Wacera edged
ahead by a few yards for the win - both received the identical
time of 48:35. The top American woman was Serena Burla in
sixth place with a time of 50:18. Ben Beach kept his perfect
attendance intact as the only runner to have run all 43 editions
of the race with a 1:27:59 finish. Dixon Hemphill, 90, finished
the 5K and said, “I gave this race my all.” He clocked 47:01, two
minutes faster than his 2014 time. Longtime Deputy Race Director Irv Newman received the first Les Kinion Outstanding
Service Award, named for long time race volunteer Les Kinion
who died in the summer of 2014.
Men’s winner, Stephen Sambu, and runner-up, Jake Riley, share a laugh during the awards ceremony.
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Evolution of the 10 Mile Course
I
n 1970s the event started and finished near the golf course in East Potomac Park and ran clockwise around Hains Point
before crossing over the Inlet Bridge and looping the Tidal Basin twice, running clockwise. Runners then returned back
around Hains Point to the finish line at the same location as the start.
The growing field soon made the out-and-back portions on Hains Point as well as the two loops around the Tidal Basin too
tight, so the course was moved onto Ohio Dr. in West Potomac Park. Frequent construction during the 1980s and 1990s
meant the course was frequently modified, but the start and finish remained in West Potomac Park.
In 1993, the course first included the out-and-back crossing of Memorial Bridge, a hugely popular addition among the
participants.
The staging area moved to the Washington Monument Grounds in 2008 in order to be closer to the city’s Metro subway to
handle the burgeoning crowds — as well as to provide a spectacular vista of the National Mall. A few minor adjustments
were made in 2009, and the course used today was certified in 2010.
1994 Course Map
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Event Participant Statistics
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009
2008
2008
2007
2007
2006
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
Event
10M
5K
10M
5K
10M
5K
10M
5K
10M
5K
10M
5K
10M
5K
10M
5K
10M
5K
10M
5K
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
Women
11042
1673
10600
1545
10323
1457
9729
1328
9030
1272
8853
1247
8323
1057
6395
683
5529
471
5435
473
4333
3900
3526
3333
2972
2166
Men
6839
629
7277
598
7215
547
7195
520
7009
459
6910
449
6652
412
5904
242
5217
154
5236
173
4323
4157
3923
3723
3559
3016
Total
17881
2302
17871
2142
17538
2004
16938
1849
16046
1731
15763
1696
14975
1469
12299
925
10749
625
10669
646
8655
8026
7449
7056
6530
5182
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
Event
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
10M
Women
2358
2462
2149
1825
1744
1428
967
767
886
869
737
769
691
678
634
600
542
533
591
431
494
297
143
93
46
27
12
Men
3190
3750
3513
3412
3463
3105
2445
2100
2441
2557
2465
2620
2366
2513
2386
2573
2424
2657
2756
2459
2529
1967
1465
849
518
314
115
Total
5548
6212
5662
5237
5207
4533
3412
2867
3327
3427
3199
3387
3057
3192
3021
3173
2965
3190
3347
2891
2982
2261
1608
942
564
341
127
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PRRO Circuit Information
PRRO Circuit Snapshot
World class competition at 5 classic races
The PRRO Circuit offers world class competition at 5 prestigious road race events shorter than the marathon distance, with $400,000
in prize money and bonuses. The World’s Best 10K in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Feb. 28 opened the 2016 racing season with world
leading wins by Kenyans Bedan Karoki and Mary Wacera in 27 minutes, 42 seconds and 31:49 respectively. The 44th Credit Union
Cherry Blossom Ten Mile in Washington, DC on Sunday, April 3 is the next PRRO stop.
The PRRO Championship presented by Boilermaker in Utica, NY on July 10 offers more than $60,000 in prize money plus the PRRO
Super Bonus ($10,000 for current PRRO series event champion(s) who also win PRRO Championship crown) and PRRO Event
Champion’s Bonus ($1500 cumulative for current series event champions who win prize money at PRRO Championship).
The PRRO Circuit, a long-time pioneer and champion of a clean sport, has been conducting drug testing at its events since 2006. During the 2014-15 season, USADA conducted more than 50 in-competition tests and an undisclosed number of pre-competition tests.
PRRO Circuit events have produced 18 world and 17 U.S. road records, awarded more than $6.6 million in prize money and seen more
than 2.2 million runners cross their finish lines.
Don Kardong, 1976 Olympic marathoner and Lilac Bloomsday race director, is the current PRRO Circuit President.
PRRO Circuit 2015-16
EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler, Oct. 25, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA
$26,200 in prize money. Elite athlete contact: Ryan Hogan, (412) 586-7785, [email protected]. 2015 Men’s winner: Tyler Pennel, USA,
46:50, course record, and Women’s winner: Buze Diriba, Ethiopia, 52:55, course record
World’s Best 10K, Feb. 28, 2016, San Juan, Puerto Rico
More than $120,000 in prize money and bonuses. Elite athlete contact: Rafael Acosta, (787) 767-2000, [email protected]. 2016
Men’s winner: Bedan Karoki, Kenya, 27:42 and Women’s winner: Mary Wacera, Kenya, 31:49
Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile, April 3, 2016, Washington, DC
$70,000 in prize money and bonuses. Elite athlete contact: Bill Orr, (863) 533-0654, [email protected]. 2015 Men’s winner: Stephen Sambu, Kenya, 43:20 and Women’s winner: Mary Wacera, Kenya, 48:35
40th Lilac Bloomsday Run 12K, May 1, 2016, Spokane, WA
$81,000 in prize money. Elite athlete contact: Jon Neill, (509) 747-0101, [email protected]. 2015 Men’s winner: Lani Rutto, Kenya,
34:22 and Women’s winner: Cynthia Limo, Kenya, 39:27
Boilermaker 15K: The PRRO Championship, July 10, 2016, Utica, NY
$63,600 in prize money. Elite athlete contact: Dick Mattia, (315) 732-1949, [email protected]. 2015 Men’s winner: Eliud Ngetich,
Kenya, 43:31 and Women’s winner: Mary Wacera, Kenya, 48:49
Visit www.prro.org for more information including how to join the PRRO Circuit.
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