2016 Report

November 7, 2016 • Washington, DC

57 starters, 29 finishers

Report

Thanks to all who participated in the 2016 version of the Potomac Heritage 50k! Special thanks go out to numerous volunteers including Amy and Steve Platt, who have captained Aid Station 1 every year since the inception of the current version of the event. Also thanks to Paul Crickard, Mario Raymond, and Charlie Miracle, who stepped up to captain the other aid stations, Michele Harmon for bringing back Break Dancing, Kirstin Corris for course marking, and Dave Herring for volunteering to do anything and everything all day long. There were many other volunteers who stepped up and made this event possible.

It was great to see so many veterans and rookies navigating the course. Veterans Rebecca and James Moore found the most creative route to the finish, checking in at alternating aid stations and the finish to complete some randomly calculated number of miles. They made a perfectly timed arrival to capture peak party hours.

People have begun to figure out that the party is raging at the start/finish by around noon even though no official finishers arrived until almost 1PM. The first finishers of the entire 50k distance were Freddy Mondale and local WUS favorite Joey Cohen. Both stopped to earn bonus points and earned exactly the same number to solidify the tie. Jonathan Gowen was the next finisher. Gaynor Bourgeois was the first female finisher. She has finished about 12 times and has now been the first female two out of twelve. Congrats also to Kenneth Swab, who was crowned with the highly coveted title of Break Dancing King!

As the party died down, co-director Doug Sullivan took advantage of tired and impaired runners by challenging them to carry heavy old radiators from the garage down to the basement. Many bonus points were earned for these activities, but none of them were ever recorded because no one can remember who was still involved at that point in the party.

We outsourced the results computations this year. Thus, all of your email corrections to the interesting results that you recorded for yourselves likely never made it into the final computations. Nonetheless, congrats to all who recorded any miles whatsoever and managed to find the finish!

Other reports

Run Report by Ken Swab

Results

The results for the 2016 running of the Potomac Heritage 50 km, held on the first Sunday in November, as per tradition. Also, as per tradition, it was a sunny, dry, gorgeous fall day — and the post-race party was fantastic. Thanks to hosts Kerry Owens and Doug Sullivan for once again putting on this fall classic!

Name	Sex	Age	R.I.	T.R.1	T.R.2	C.B.2	Adjusted Time
Joey Cohen	33	Male	5 min	5 min			4:59
Freddy Mondale	24	Male	5 min	5 min			4:59
Jonathan Gowen	32	Male	5 min				5:18
Jesse Fuller	32	Male	5 min	5 min	5 min		5:32
Frank Volny	37	Male					5:53
Nolan Shigley	40	Male					5:55
Tyler Gonnsen	28	Male	5 min	5 min	5 min		6:02
Christopher Dempsey	39	Male		5 min		5 min	6:04
Gaynor Bourgeois	48	Female		5 min	5 min	2 min	6:06
Serhot Ozturk	36	Male	5 min	5 min			6:29
Erin Windauer	30	Female				5 min	6:34
Geoff Patterson	33	Male					6:39
Daniel Nowakowski	26	Male		5 min		5 min	6:44
Al Yoon	50	Male					6:54
Quatro Hubbard	56	Male	5 min	5 min			7:05
Mikka Macdonald	22	Female		5 min			7:09
Windy Aziz	40	Female	5 min				7:10
Elizabeth Guillen	30	Female		5 min	5 min		7:24
Jill Jacobs	50	Female		5 min			7:29
Marty Fox	65	Male					7:30
Jeffrey Klemm	65	Male					7:30
Paul Sherlock	60	Male		5 min			8:04
Bob Coyne	69	Male		5 min			8:55
Kenneth Swab	65	Male	5 min	15 min			9:07
Sarah Curtis	35	Female	5 min	5 min			9:15
Sirisha Golla	41	Female	5 min				9:20
Mark Zimmermann	64	Male	5 min				9:22
Brady Haycock	36	Female	5 min	5 min			9:24
Dong Vo	59	Male					9:24
Carol Cohen	40	Female	5 min				28 miles
Raisa Slepoy	51	Female					22 miles
Greg Zaruba	50	Male					21 miles
Pamela Gowen	64	Female					20 miles
Michal Niedzwiecki	33	Male		5 min			20 miles
Joe Clapper	58	Male	5 min				20 miles
Francesco Smith	62	Male	5 min	5 min			20 miles
Chris Batten		Male					20 Miles
Alan Gowen	67	Male					20 miles
Trevor Baine	34	Male					18 miles
Todd Folmsbee	46	Male	5 min				18 miles
Tara Rohland-Crabb		Female	5 min				18 miles
Scott Crabb	45	Male	5 min				18 miles
Martha Nelson	35	Female	5 min				18 miles
Katie Keier	46	Female	5 min				18 miles
Karen Donohue	46	Female	5 min				18 miles
Jackie Ong	55	Female					18 miles
Fred Fialco	43	Male					18 miles
Deborah Shaffer	51	Female					18 miles
David Quivey	54	Male	5 min				18 miles
Daisy Weill	28	Female	5 min				18 miles
Brett Martin	36	Male					18 miles
Aaron Schwartzbard	39	Male					18 miles
James Moore	72	Male					13 miles
Rebecca Moore	71	Female					13 miles
Doug Levy	35	Male					??
Brienne Thomson	31	Female	5 min				??
Sheila Vibert	34	Female					??

Last updated December 16, 2019