50K's of Grey
Winter Park FL
Oct. 5, 2013
Unofficial results by Matt Mahoney

Some unofficial results from the 50K's of Grey in Orlando FL
that I copied from the lap sheets. The course is 13 x 2.45 miles
around Lake Baldwin on a flat, paved path.

Matt Mahoney, 5:21:58 first man
Renee Tavakoli, 5:45:02 first woman
Jeff Faulkner 6:17 "A woman beat me"
Joyce Luloff, 6:22 "I beat men"
Thomas Grinovich, 6:28
Jim Schroeder, 6:32
Craig Loz, 6:52
Kathleen Wheeler, 7:15
Brian Hack, 7:16
Melanie Papatestas, 8:00
Bonnie Collins, 8:00
Marjorie Pugh, 8:00
Brian Curro, about 11 hours
43 starters

The awards were riding whips to the first man and first 2 women, and
to the first man to be beaten by a woman.

In addition to the 13 official finishers, another 8 started before the
official 7 AM Saturday start and weren't eligible for awards. Some
started around 3 or 4 AM, and some started the night before. Milly
Seeley started at 3:50 AM and ran 50 miles in 11:00:54 with an
unofficial 50K split of 5:39, which would have been first woman.

The bad-assery award goes to Brian Curro, who as part of his Ironman
training, bicycled to the race from Sarasota (140 miles away) starting
at 6:00 PM Friday, arrived 30 minutes late, then returned at 10 AM
Sunday for a 40 hour brick.

The suicidal-pace award goes to Steven Kellett, who took off like a
rocket, maintaining a 6:50/mile pace through 12 miles before slowing
to about a 7:00 pace for the next 10 or so as the heat index rose into
the 90's under partly cloudy skies. He then spent the next 2 hours
lying flat on his back in a mass of cramps. To be fair, he won a 50
mile race on the same course here in June in 8:00, and the strategy
might have worked if he hadn't just gotten over the flu.

The sneaky-strategy-that-backfired award goes to Christian Stewart,
who ran the loops in the opposite direction (which was allowed) so
that on each lap I could see he was only a few minutes behind, keeping
the pressure on until I broke. This worked until about lap 10 when he
took an extended break, walked two more laps and quit with one lap to
go.

And that strategy might have worked too. I was through 3 laps in 1:00
(8:00/mi pace), 6 laps in 2:08 (including a poop stop in the woods),
and 9 laps in 3:19. That was where I broke and had to jog-walk the
rest at 30 minutes per lap. Did I mention it was warm? It was 74 F
with a dewpoint of 71 at sunrise, climbing to the mid-high 80's F by
the time most people finished. I drank 1 gallon of Gatorade and 3/4
gallon of water, all of it at the start/finish area. I did not carry
water. I did not wear a shirt or hat or socks. I ran in Mizuno Wave
Universe 5, a 2.8 ounce racing flat.

The race was coordinated (?) with the Stroll and Roll, an event where
people walked or pushed wheelchairs for one lap around the lake. We
got to run right through the middle of their little expo at the
ampitheatre. They apparently had extra wheelchairs for able bodied
people that wanted to push themselves around the lake. At one point I
was surprised to see a girl get out of her wheelchair and start
running while pushing it ahead of her.

Thanks to Susan Anger for putting on this free race and providing us
with nice awards, shirts, goodies, and a good time.