April 11, 2007
Wednesday

Ketchikan, Alaska - Ketchikan's running season started off with a bang Saturday, April 7 with the Ketchikan Running Club's Sourdough Stampede. Kayhi student Coleman Alguire smashed the one mile record with a scorching 5:18 effort. The women's mile winner was Kyleen Luhrs with a time of 6:29. Kyleen's run was the second fastest woman's time in the eight years of this race. The 5K race winner was Rory Jenkins with a 18:11. Rory's time was also the second fastest in the history of this event. The 5K women s race featured a tie for first place with Tara Wilhelm and Natalie Pfeifer crossing the line at 22:58.

Coleman Alguire smashed the one mile record with 5:18, winning the one mile run. Photo courtesy Bill Elbertson

Thirty-one runners completed the one mile run and 27 finished the 5K. This popular annual event starts and ends at the Veterans Of Foreign Wars building at 3113 Tongass Ave. A pancake breakfast and awards followed the running event for every participant.

Race director Fred Jorgensen said: "This is a really great kick off for our local running season. The event works because of the community spirit of the many volunteers. The VFW has hosted the crowd of hungry runners since 1999. Princess Tours provides bus transportation to the 5K start at the car wash. Tongass Trading, Alaskan and Proud, Northern Sales and Remax of Ketchikan provide prizes for all our athletes plus we have returning excellent pancake cooks Bev Zaugg and Laurie Elberson."

01. Coleman Alguire 5:18
02. Tristan Graham 5:34
03. Adam Thompson 5:53
04. Cameron Lacey 6:11
05. Austin Thomas 6:22
06. Kyleen Luhrs 6:29
07. Bryce Timm 6:30
08. Tyler Barrett 6:41
09. Beau Albertson 7:35
10. Dave Maynard 7:51
11. Tara Wilhelm 7:51.5
12. Matthew Perry 7:59
13. Stephanie Johnson 8:04
14. Alicia Howard 8:05
15. Jolene Ginther 8:50
16. Tatiana Clary 9:11
17. Janna Towne 10:00
18. Ciera Towne 10:00.1
19. Savanah Scanlon 10:35
20. Alexis Nelson 11:15
21. Ranzie Peterson 11:15
22. Christopher Paige 11:38
23. Isaian Nelson 12:53
24. Rian Farvour 13:09
25. Rhea Kahle 13:11
26. Savanah Clary 16:55
27. Shirley Clary 17:25
28. Doug Clary 17:25
     David Helms 17:25
     Alex Helms 17:25
31. Aidan Miller 18:46

01. Rory Jenkins 18:11
02. Eric Lord 18:42
03. Greg Singstad 19:06
04. Maxwell Mercer 19:19
05. Tristan Graham 20:54
06. Mathew Perry 20:57
07. Austin Thomas 21:16
08. Tom Fowler 22:03
09. Jesse Harrington 22:26
10. Erin Reeve 22:36
11. Tara Wilhelm 22:58
     Natalie Pfeifer 22:58
13. Chris Nelson 23:13
14. Chris Ruecke r24:30
15. Heather Gatti 24:36
16. Mike Elerding 25:00
17. Kelly Rippert 26:36
18. Kinsey Wenciker 27:14
19. Hannibel 27:18
20. Rick McDonald 27:29
21. Jeff Wenciker 27:34
22. Sherri Warmke 28:19
23. Jennifer Bell 29:02
24. Janine Ruecker 30:49
25 .Angela Taggart 31:00
26. Beau Albertson 37:40
27. Rianna Golder 43:47

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