Club Cross and the Racing is Fine! My notes follow.
59 clubs, 411 finishers. The most important Club race of the winter. For Nebraska. For the Midwest. For the good old US of A. And indeed teams from across America came to San Francisco to battle for bragging rights. All the usual players with Ben Rosario doing some great things up top. The Midwest best represented by a couple of different teams from Kansas City with The Smoke (11th) and City of Fountains Athletic Club (14th), showing competition is good, mmmkay? Followed by Run n Fun from The Cities (18th) and Iowa RunAblaze (21st). Four regional teams in the upper third of the race, good things. LRC Racing taking the Good Life Kudos in 39th. My old buddy Matty Pohren all the way in from New York state to lead Team Nebraska finishers by two minutes and to 46th place.
Editors note, on the women’s side: Alexina Wilson of RunAblaze finished 22nd in 20:35, Cassie Mitchell of Team Nebraska was 73rd in 21:37, Lindsey McDonald of KC Smoke 107th in 22:09 to lead their respective teams. Haleigh Riggle of Team Nebraska also competed finishing 267th in 24:58.
1. Hoka One One. Flagstaff. Old buddy Ben Rosario (2003, St. Louis)
2. Boston Athletic Association
3. Boulder Track Club
4. Asics Aggies. Old buddy Joe Rubio. Wife is from Council Bluffs.
5. Team Eugene
6. Brooks Beast, Seattle
7. Adidas Garden State- New Jersey
8. Movin Shoes- Madison, WI
9. Atlanta Track Club
10. Playmakers Elite New Balance, Michigan
11. Kansas City Smoke. Giddyup! Joe Moore 9th 29:41, Cory Keehn 44th 30:48, James Wilson 79th 31:23, Javier Ceja 129th 32:08, Kory Cool, 169th 32:36, Justin Garrard 175th 32:41, Michael Hernandez 212th 33:14
12. Cal Coast Track Club
13. New Balance Boston
14. City of Fountains Athletic Club- Kansas City. Say what???????????
15. Bowerman Track Club- Portland, OR
16. Georgetown Running Club- Georgetown, TX
17. Club Northwest. Old buddy Tom Cotner. Seattle
18. Run n Fun- Twin Cities, MN
19. Sports Warriors Track Club- Albuquerque, NM
20. West Valley Track Club- San Francisco
21. Iowa RunAblaze Conor Wells 52nd 30:35, Chris Robertson 86th 31:28, Ben Jaskowiak 116th 31:56, Robert Scanlon 151st 32:23, Thomas Ries 190th 32:52, William Graham 233rd 33:29.
39. Lincoln Running Co. Racing Cole Marolf 154th 32:26, Ryan Dostal 230th 33:28, Trevor Vidlak 277th 34:10, John Gunderson 278th 34:13, Andrew Jacob 325th 35:19, Brian Wandzilak 332nd 35:28.
46. Team Nebraska- Matt Pohren 160th 32:31, Cory Logsdon 293rd 34:31, Josiah Belzer 303rd 34:46, Colin Morrissey 317th 35:03, Peter Falcon 351st 36:34, Lee Anderson 360th 36:57.