53rd Sue-meg Park Run

10:00 am, Sun., Apr. 6, 2025

Directed by “Jack West” <jandjwest@yahoo.com>

 

The 2025 Sue-meg Run Was a Great Success

 

        As I began working on this year’s Sue-meg Run, I planned to begin a search for a course for 2026 that would be more scenic and include the Rim Trail. I came up with a new idea that seemed like it could work out to be close to 3 miles and ran it. I was wrong, but tried again with a few small changes. About a month before the race, after having turned in all the paperwork to the State Parks, I found a new course that I loved and it was almost the perfect distance. I wrote to State Parks and told them about the new course and they immediately agreed that I could change the course to run in 2025 (I think they really like our race).

        I ran it three more times, twice on beautiful, sunny days. It seemed to me that it was a far better course than we had been running, but I had to wait to see our members liked it. On race day, I was glad to have many helpers so I could take time to ask how people liked the course. The responses were overwhelming. Everybody loved it and many people seemed excited that it seemed more downhill than uphill. (It starts and finishes in the same place.) Thank you all for the smiles and the responses after the race. This course is here to stay.

        I had a lot of excellent helpers. Gary Timek, Harry Kavich, Ken Yanosko, Laura Chapman, Catrina Howatt and my wife, Jan, all were busy at the finish line. A new face for me, Evan Koch, helped the whole day doing many jobs. Mark Ellis and Paul Kraus made sure you were safe crossing the main park road. There is a drop off on the Rim Trail, so Dane Hart was on the course to make sure you took the Campfire Trail and Don Brubaker made sure you were safely on your way after leaving the trail. Marlene Allen, Sherry Myers, Ed Kallen, Dawn Durbin helped with registration and at the finish. Anita Thompson is Jan’s walking partner and she attended to sweep the races. Savannah Thompson was the attending nurse. She wanted to meet you and see the event. It was nice to have her there to enjoy watching you finish. Of course, Yoon was there to take the photos. He also helped by typing the results. Thank you, Yoon.

        The day before the race, Mark and Tj Chapman, who were camping in the park, helped me place cones along the race course the evening before the event, ensuring runners stayed on the right track. The next day, they helped me clean. Tj was on the course at the one-mile mark. They made both days much more enjoyable and helped me get home much sooner on Sunday.

        Thank you all for a great day! If I missed any helper, please let me know. -- Jack West <jandjwest@yahoo.com>

 

5K

Place Name              G/age Time     Bib#

 1 Tristan Cole            M33  19:01    1711

 2 Brent Ritschel          M31  19:02    1703

 3 Zachary Chapman         M43  20:01    1673

 4 Skyler Twohig           M34  20:11    1713

 5 Jason Weldon            M17  20:51    1708

 6 Jorge Preciado          M44  21:05    1702

 7 Doug Hartling           M41  21:25    1672

 8 Andrew Jones            M47  21:30    1696

 9 Mike Williams           M64  22:56    1667

10 Robert Wilson           M44  24:49    1700

11 Kristin Lane            F49  25:01    1699

12 Dan Link                M47  25:22    1718

13 Jeff Johnson            M41  25:25    1720

14 Jessy Preciado          F35  25:26    1692

15 Meghan Prin             F41  26:06    1717

16 Matt Lewis              M36  26:12    1712

17 Kiara Weldon            F17  26:59    1706

18 Kathleen Brubaker       F59  27:16    1704

19 John Carson             M67  28:05    1709

20 Scott Riley             M54  28:22    1684

21 Jack Stringham          M29  28:42    1721

22 Kyla Orr                F32  28:43    1722

23 Peter Carlson           M62  29:30    1710

24 Thomas Fleener          M36  29:45    1715

25 Allen Lowry             M76  30:17    1695

26 Joe Sample              M38  30:42    1691

27 Whitney Jacoby          F34  30:59    1723

28 Robert Ayers            M67  31:05    1685

29 Nevi Weldon             F12  32:04    1707

30 Marlene Allen           F69  32:13    1693

31 Vincent Weldon          M42  32:59    1724

32 Maddox Chapman          M10  33:31    1674

33 Zane Chapman            M11  33:32    1677

34 Debbie Stamper          F71  33:44    1679

35 Cindi Kiehn-Mola        F52  34:49    696

36 Jonathan Vaccaro        M32  34:57    1725

37 Carlee Mattz-Colegrove  F09  35:04    1697

38 Jaimoe Kibby Jr.        M49  35:11    1698

39 Liam Chapman            M10  35:37    1675

40 Mark Chapman            M65  35:41    1676

41 Holly Powell            F35  35:47    1714

42 Hanna Sample            F37  36:31    1690

43 Scott Griffin           M42  36:39    1719

44 Lorraine Dillon         F74  37:31    1694

45 Ed Kallen               M60  37:39    1671

46 Mel D Reynolds          F47  37:45    1670

47 Phoebe Marsh            F27  37:46    1687

48 Cristina Chapman        F39  38:26    1678

49 Sherry Myers            F69  38:30    1669

50 Sarah Sullens           F44  39:56    1716

51 Thomas Dewey            M65  40:44    1680

52 Alia Dunphy             F46  40:47    1686

53 Marcile Raney           F64  42:09    1681

54 Jeanette Suhay          F57  42:33    1689

55 Tonia Pettit            F58  42:33    1688

56 Stephanie Weldon        F48  43:18    1705

57 Nano Rayburn            M05  43:20    1727

58 Josh Rayburn            M41  43:21    1726

59 Kathleen Lake           F68  50:51    1682

60 Meg Stampe              F35  57:33    1701

61 Paul Kinsey             M69  DNF

10K

Place Name              G/age Time     Bib#

 1 Corrina Kamoroff        F35  41:45    700

 2 Dylan Fluet             M35  41:47    699

 3 Sky McKinley            M48  42:09    680

 4 Rob Amerman             M51  44:35    679

 5 Jenna Larson            F39  46:07    675

 6 Francisco Herrera       M57  46:08    698

 7 Hailee Schmidt          F35  46:19    694

 8 Courtney Carlson        F33  47:08    688

 9 Jeff Haag               M65  47:42    670

10 Jake Johnson            M49  47:51    673

11 Simon Stampe            M38  47:56    687

12 Isaiah Kibby            M33  48:13    672

13 Jen Foesig              F52  48:23    683

14 Michele Gerdes          F45  48:39    684

15 Rebecca Matias          F34  49:06    703

16 Richard Engel           M61  49:27    693

17 Jon Riggs               M46  50:47    697

18 Trevor Estlow           M54  51:07    689

19 Hope Kibby              F22  52:01    681

20 Caroline Carson         F63  52:25    692

21 Jeremy Wright           M44  53:19    690

22 Arthur Barker           M63  55:56    668

23 Dave Ryan               M67  58:53    676

24 Tom Davies              M59  58:54    671

25 Jaimoe Kibby            M21  1:01:49  682

26 Randy Emenaker          M74  1:02:23  669

27 Dawn Durbin             F60  1:02:42  667

28 Ale Gallegos            F35  1:07:31  674

29 Christina Torres        F37  1:08:33  686

30 Jasper                  M28  1:09:40  702

31 Robin Fraser            F46  1:11:25  695

32 Kit Meyer               F44  1:17:45  691

33 Bruin Hinton            M26  1:20:21  677

34 Hannah Allison          F34  1:20:22  678

35 Portia Matheson         F77  1:35:52  685