It is with a heavy heart and high hopes that we bid adieu to our TNB mate and my good buddy Jordan Tucker. He embarks on the next chapter of his young life with today’s move to Fort Collins, Colorado. Outside of his parents I’ll probably miss him more than anyone. He has been rock solid as our Business Manager for the last two and a half years, he has saved my butt with sound advice on many occasions. Jordan has also served the Nebraska running community with distinction. He founded NebraskaRun.com, the most comprehensive source for running news in the state. He founded the Race Against MS, and has served as the Nebraska USATF LDR Chair for the last two years. Jordo, we love you and we’ll miss you but are happy that your future is so bright!
Ryan Hall will be running the TCM 1 Mile, the USA Road Mile National Championships in Minneapolis on May 12th. This is cool coming so close on the heels of his American Best marathon performance at Boston just a few weeks ago. None other than Rod Dixon advised Ryan to tackle the double. Rod knows range, he was a 3:53.62 miler and the 1983 NYC Marathon Champ running 2:08:59.
Our buddy Cal Murdock sent out an interesting tidbit about the Lincoln Half Marathon and the On-The-Roads Half Marathon held in Des Moines the day prior to Lincoln. He notes that at Lincoln, over 20% of the participants ran over 2:30. At Des Moines, only 2% ran over 2:30. I dug around and came up with some demographical analysis of why this must be so and forwarded them to Cal. He replied back, nah, they simply have a 2:30 time limit for registration. On-The-Roads had 1061 finishers (56% male, 44% female), Lincoln had 7229 finishers (33% male, 67% female).
Looking through some old boxes that include my Report Cards from 1st (1963-1964) through 8th (1970-1971) grades. Missed only a handful of days during those 8 years, something my teachers must have rued. Arithmetic was consistent with C- and Ds, a couple of Fs peppered in. Conduct was C- and Ds. Surprisingly, Writing and Physical Education were both C- and Ds.
Spelling was straight As.
Bridget Easley had a big pr running 1:21:29 for 2nd in the women’s Half Marathon.
Kayte Tranel ran 1:21:58 to finish a step ahead of teammate Brian Bergt. Brian was chip timed in 1:21:48 and 2nd overall master, Kayte was 3rd overall female.
Emily Kraus had a big pr in 1:24:15. A good day for the top 3 TNB women!
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