Besides cooperating with one another on the Hampton Roads Super Grand Prix (Virginia Gazette article this previous Saturday) and the 3-Club Challenge, the three space operating golf equipment routinely take good concepts from one another. The Tidewater Striders had their annual awards banquet the night of Feb. 3 on the Norfolk Yacht and Country Club with 117 in attendance, whereas the Colonial Road Runners had their awards banquet on Feb. 4 on the Williamsburg Community Building, with a document 140 in attendance. The Peninsula Track Club had their awards banquet on Jan. 20.
This 12 months’s Striders banquet had awards for the highest age graded runners of the 12 months for the primary time, going 5 deep primarily based on the most effective 5 races. The CRR began their age graded awards again in 2014, going 10 deep primarily based on the most effective 10 races. In 2021, the PTC began a Race of the Year award (it went to the PTC Scholarship Run 5K at Sandy Bottom Nature Park, adopted by the Riverwatch on the Piankatank 5K in 2022 and the Timberneck 5K at Machicomoco State Park in 2023). The Striders Race of the Year in 2023 was the Elizabeth River Run 10K.
Borrowing from the PTC, final 12 months the CRR had their first Race of the Year award, and it went to the Weighted Angels 5K on the Virginia Capital Trail/Landfall at Jamestown course, with a Virginia state age group document, and 13 males beneath 16:00. This 12 months the CRR had a vote by the main contenders of their Grand Prix, and 51 voted. With the Weighted Angels race not eligible as a previous winner, 18 of the opposite 22 races acquired votes.
The winner of the 2023 Colonial Road Runners Race of the Year, with 12 votes, was the Run the DOG Street 5K, which began in 2010, and is directed by Jim and Geri Elder of Colonial Sports. After many years of requests, Jim Elder was the primary person to persuade Colonial Williamsburg of the attraction of a race on the historic Duke of Gloucester Street, and previous the Capitol Building and Governor’s Palace.
Part of the attraction of the DOG Street 5K is the participation of a whole lot of elementary and center faculty college students from SHIP (School Health Initiative Program). It’s additionally one of the aggressive CRR races, with the boys’s all-time CRR document of 14:13 set in 2010, and the ladies’s all-time document of 16:22 from 2021. Seven all-time CRR age group data come from DOG Street.
Receiving three votes was the Kingswood Klam 5K, which supplied the CRR’s annual picnic and an open pool. There was a three-way tie for third place with 4 votes every, the Colonial Half Marathon and 5K (the forty fourth version), the Sleighbell 5K at Sentara Regional Hospital (beginning in 2009), and the Democracy Dash 10K at Jamestown Island (beginning in 2016). The inaugural Jamestown Half Marathon and 5K from the Amblers House at Jamestown Beach Event Park was second place with eight votes.
Rick Platt is president of Colonial Road Runners.
