| Thanks to all the runners who came from all over to participate in our races! Foofie and I were having a little pillow talk last night and she said it is time to reinvent the TIMTAM Festival of Races. She said it was too high tech and too expensive. "You should make it free," she said. (I try not to argue with someone more intelligent than me - especially a woman.) So look for some changes next year. But just as much fun! Best to you all - Arne N.Larsen Several things of note this year: >Some runners saw the red fox run accross the pedistrian creek bridge and thru the back of Brookside Park a half hour or so before the races! >There were no DNF's >About 10 finishers ran their first marathon or 50K >New men's marathon course record >First wheel chair racer ever at TIMTAM races finished the marathon >Youngest (17yearold woman) finisher ever at Central States Marathon >Runners came from 14 other states, Florida to Hawaii >Over half of marathon & 50K runners were from out-of-state ("early starts" started at different times - "early start" times are not official ) 2005 50K Results 1st place woman 5:17:19 Kathleen Wendel 49 Ames Iowa (10 minutes faster than her time 5 years ago) Men 1 1 4:23:59 Mike Morgan 37 Prairie Village KS 2 1 4:45:05 Ryan Hamilton 25 Topeka KS 3 1 4:45:20 Patrick Mills 53 Champaign IL 4 1 4:59:31 Larry Walden 58 Marshalltown IA 5 2 5:17:19 Jonathan Wendel 50 Ames Iowa - first ultra 6 2 5:22:32 Tom Detore 57 Unadilla NE 200+ marathons/ultras 7 3 5:38:23 David Swenson 50 Ames IA 8 1 7:04:15 Charles Sayles* 68 Glendale CA 40+ marathons/ultras. 1964 ISU grad - PHD in Nuclear Engineering 9 3 7.09:27 D.Paul Piplani* 58 Phoenix AZ PHOTOS TAKEN AT THE FARTHERMOST TURNAROUND ON THE 50k COURSE SHOW THAT SOMEONE MISTAKENLY TOOK A WRONG TURN AND SHORTCUTTED THE COURSE BY THREE MILES. WE CAN NOT DETERMINE WHO IT WAS. *took advantage of an early start time - unofficial time Central States Marathon First place wheeled racer 4:40:34 Holly Koester Cleveland OH Women 1 1 4:07:42 Karen Slagel 40 Dubuque IA 2 1 4:12:07 Angela Salas 37 Dubuque 3 1 4:15:17 Kelly Binkowski* 21 Ames Iowa 4 1 4:15:17 Sarah Hartmann* 25 Ames 5 2 4:34:08 Debra Atkinson* 41 Ames 6 1 4:47:22 Jessica Johnson 34 Ankeny IA 7 2 4:47:23 Julie Heinen* 34 Ames 8 2 4:49:00 Jennifer Johnson* 29 Ames 9 3 4:53:23 Joyce Hagley* 43 Ames 10 1 5:29:41 Donna Olson 51 Kimballton IA 11 2 5:34:07 Janet Merhoff 23 Salina KS 12 1 6:14:17 Katie Hackbarth* 17 Robins IA youngest marathon finisher ever at Central States Marathon 13 4 6:53:34 Amelia Kushneruk* 40 Schererville IN *took advantage of an early start - unofficial time Men 1 1 3.02.14 William Van Duys 36 Hoffman Estates IL - NEW COURSE RECORD 2 1 3.24.03 Alan Krenzelok 48 Jonesboro AR 3 1 3.2707 Thomas Barna 50 Iowa City IA 4 1 3.33.14 Mark Ellis 42 Troy IL 5 2 3.45.52 Ronald Schuck 45 Ames IA 6 2 3.47.27 Conrad Clark 53 Winter Haven FL 7 1 3.56.53 Kevin Cox 27 Des Moines IA - "running away from Drake Law School..." 8 3 4.07.42 Roger Barnes 50Middletown PA - works at Three Mile Island 9 4 4.08.48 Jere Wood 54 Clinton IA 10 3 4.21.18 Craig Watson 47Baton Rouge LA 11 1 4.25.49 Helmut Linzbichler 63 Harbor Springs MI An Austrian - has run 160+ marathon. Ran Longest Day Marathon 5/14/05. 12 5 4.26.25 Mike Kintner 52 Mesa AZ 56th marathon & has run a 20+ miler every week for 85 weeks 13 2 4.47.22 Kamika Smith 43 Kauai Hawaii Also ran Longest Day Marathon, Brookings SD the day before. 14 6 4.50.59 John Hales 51 Sperry IA 15 2 5.05.03 DeForest Nesmith 63 Lincoln NE 16 2 5.12.17 Donatello Materassi 26 Florence, Italy A student between semesters - his first marathon. 17 3 5.15.23 Patrick O'Bryan 27 Ames IA 18 4 5.53.34 Garry Cox 47 Schererville IN 19 3 5.56.45 Timothy Ryken 43 Iowa City IA 20 1 6.43.46 Eugene Bruckert* 70 Arlington Heights IL * took advantage of an early start - unofficial time |