2008 Gate River Run

AIR at the Gate River Run
March 8, 2008 - Jacksonville, Florida.
Photos by Ed Hardee

This was the 2nd year that AIR provided a hospitality area for its members at the Gate River Run.

After setting up our hospitality area on Friday when heavy rains turned it into a soggy marsh, John McBrearty and Ed Hardee were glad to find that things had pretty well dried out on Saturday morning. They had even provided an "Executive Bathroom" for our members. Rosa Haslip helped set up the table with coffee and tasty post-race snacks.

River Run may be the largest post-race 15K party in the country. Among the celebrants were Rob and Kathy Duprey, along with Carolyn and Bryan Peeples and Nathalie Wu. Frieda Wyner was sporting her "Top 10%" cap while Norm proudly showed off his finisher's medal. Another AIR Group included Kathy Terwilliger, Jo Baker and Jim Hill.

The percentage of women runners has increased each year. Ann Reamy and Lucy Athey were joined by some of their fellow "26.2 With Donna" marathon friends. Kevin Ott raised his River Run goblet to toast the AIR Hospitality Area. Bill Barnes's "Angels" helped him achieve another successful run.

Dawn and Mike Hagel were joined by Marci Estep in the Hospitality area while the entire Stanley clan assembled with Susan, Josh, Katie and David. Some of our multi-club members like Keith and Gayla Poythress also spent time in the Florida Striders' area where they had lounge chairs to get off their tired feet.

Here's a list of our 15K AIR Finishers. The times shown are Chip Times (start pad to finish pad).

Matthew Altman, 25, 57:02 Randy Arend, 47, 1:05:06 Lucy Athey, 65, 1:54:45 Tifini Bair, 27, 1:37:39 Jo Baker, 48, 1:26:09 Bill Barnes**, 61, 1:21:07 Brandy Bateman, 25, 1:39:42 Sharon Bridges, 57, 2:10:01 Steve Cash, 52, 1:25:25 James Cochran, 67, 1:36:24 Del Conner, 55, 1:10:00 Everett Crum, 73, 1:20:01, 4th place age group Kevin Dalton, 37, 1:23:12 Shelly Davies, 34, 1:14:10 Marc Demeter, 35, 1:10:34 Deborah Dunham, 40, 1:12:42 Kristi Garber, 37, 1:27:19 Quinn Garber, 29, 1:17:00 Joe Fanelli, 54, 1:14:17 Jennifer Gorbutt-Rector, 33, 1:53:18 Dawn Hagel, 37, 1:33:38 Ed Hardee, 56, 1:45:41 Craig Harms, 57, 1:12:38 Nancy Harms, 13, 1:14:20, 4th place age group Susan Harms, 48, 1:19:26 Gary Haslip, 45, 1:07:15 Donn Haviland, 46, 1:34:51 Lisa Haviland, 46, 1:18:23 Katie Hayes, 27, 1:33:48 Richard Hayter, 52, 1:11:00 Robin Hayter, 53, 1:24:44 Casey Klein, 23, 1:26:46 Robin Lentz, 28, 1:16:33 Toby Lentz, 31, 58:40 Ken Marker, 30, 1:01:52 Melissa Marker, 31, 1:25:25 Dawn McGee, 42, 1:07:13 Bruce Morrison, 61, 1:26:26 Steve O'Brien, 52, 1:08:27

Andra Opalinski, 36, 1:38:50 Brett Opalinski, 36, 1:06:24 Kevin Ott, 49, 1:45:42 Alicia Parker, 47, 1:15:19 Carolyn Peeples, 33, 1:19:04 Keith Post, 48, 1:46:10 Ashley Powell, 27, 1:38:15 Scott Powell, 30, 1:25:20 Gayla Poythress, 40, 1:20:18 Keith Poythress, 44, 1:03:06 Ann Reamy, 60, 1:38:29 Al Saffer, 73, 1:54:10 Pete Scalia, 65, 1:31:08 Vann Simmons, 41, 1:07:59 Stacy Simmons, 42, 1:20:36 David Stanley, 21, 1:18:54 Josh Stanley, 15, 1:29:44 Katie Stanley, 15, 2:27:27 Susan Stanley, 43, 2:26:17 Jill Staples, 51, 1:34:42 Jim Strozinsky, 47, 1:18:50 Kathy Terwilliger, 56, 1:31:48 John Trower, 41, 1:10:17 Chris Twiggs, 37, 1:09:14 Diana Twiggs, 36, 1:17:37 Bruce Wheeler, 52, 1:36:30 Cory Wheeler, 46, 1:31:50 Nathalie Wu, 39, 1:37:09 Gayle Wood, 52, 1:40:01 Shelly Wymer, 40, 1:47:45 Elfrieda Wyner*, 65, 1:09:18, 1st place age group Norm Wyner*, 74, 2:15:37 * 31 River Runs and counting! ** 30 River Runs and counting! If we missed you, please let us know with an email to runnernews@aol.com
For the complete race results from 1st Place Sports, click here.