April 15

 

Some of the 10k winners.

Spring Fling Half Marathon &10K Run Events

Kara Miller, womens Half Marathon Winner with a 1:31.18 time

The first annual Great Smoky Mountains Triathlon Clubs Spring Fling Half Marathon & 10k run winners.

 

The course will take the runners through a variety of terrains. It starts out on the top of Chatuge Dam in Hayesville NC, then off into the woods and over a trail that lets out in a campground, then out onto the road. The course, for the most part is shaded, with light traffic on the road. After winding around for a few miles it lets out on a field with a mowed trail to run on next to the dam and ends with a run up a hill to the finish line. We have used this run for triathlon races in the past 2 years with just a few miles cut off the distance. It's the kind of race that every level runner can enjoy. It's not to hard for the beginner, and not to easy for the veterans.

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Mens Class for Half Marathon

 

Spring Fling
Half Marathon
& 10k run
April 15: Chatuge Dam in Hayesville NC

10 am: start for the Half Marathon race:

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Half Marathon Results:

Half Marathon Results
Men up to 23
Logan James 1:55.52

Men 24- 40
Doug Nix 1:29.12
Chad Chathan 1:33.55
Phil Koastadindis 1:35.01
Dirk Hayes 1:37.38
Scott Barloga 1:39.46
Kurt Vandervoort 1:42.35
Charles Womack 2:02.29

Men 41-55
David Bryant 1:29.41
Charles Gridley 1:35.00
Bill Horn 1:36.15
Paul Kelly 1:41.41
Andy White 1:46.38
Steve Mendele 1:48.58
Bo James 1:57.37

55 and up
Lloyd Basten 1:45.07

10k
Tom Mangum 55:03
Ronnie Tidwell 55:32
Dwight Moss 44:55
David Bracken 56:28
James Harbun 59:45

up to 24

Miley Duval 1:37.14

24-40
Kara Miller 1:31.18
Lisa Merwin 1:58.02
Alice Fletcher 1:59.34
Kacey Cochran 1:59.34
Edie Mchone 2:02.07
Colleen Kearney 2:03.14
Sandra Ferguson 2:04.56
Connie Duval 2:14.54
Marcia Masbad 2:16.17

41-55
Carolyn Mather 1,45.25
Edith Vanderoort 2,23.17
Toni Lovingood 2,28.30

55 and up
Pat Callahan 2:20.16
10k
Angela Duacan 1:03.14
Nancy Mendele 1,03.27


Doug Nix & Kara Miller were

the over all winners of the

Half Marathon.
This was the first year for the Great Smoky Mountains Triathlon Club to host a half marathon and 10k run. While I was shocked to see that the half marathon was much better attended than the 10k, racers from both events were pleased with the course and vowed to come back and attend other evernts the club has planned for the summer. We are planning another half marathon, 10k & 5k event for July. It will be called the Missionary Fire Cracker Fun Run. All the money from this event will be used to help send high school students on mission trips this summer. I hope that racers of past events will come and attend and help support this worthy couse.  

10k racer &Race Director Scott Hanna