2024 Report
January 1, 2024 • Quantico, VA
94 starters, 33 finishers
Another Redeye is in the books! For the 2024 New Year’s Day run we had 94 entrants come out for the event. 33 of those runners ran all three loops to complete the entire 50K.
Of note this year was a reroute of the Birch Bluff Trail, the red-blazed section in the middle of the initial “prologue” portion of the course. Based on a review of some of the finisher distances, the total distance with this change appears to still be around 31.25 to 31.4 miles. So this remains a legit 50k, and still a great way to get your running year off to a very strong start.
📸 Zach Weinberger
Overall, the weather was good for running this year. While it never warmed up like the weather guessers had forecast, it was not terribly cold, either. From about mid-day on we had first a little very light drizzle, then a bit of sleet and finally a little snow. Overall, it was a great way to start out the New Year!
Jared Byrd was first male to the finish, in sparkling time of 4:40; Jared and new Devil Dog runs co-RD Pat Early got the run going by leading the runners out of the starting area to the prologue section’s trailhead. Dani Sevel was first female in just under 6 hours. Dani had also just finished (and won) the VHTRC’s Boyer’s Furnace Forty-miler on Saturday! A review of the entrants showed a strong turnout among the runners who had run the BFF two days earlier, including Joshua Binder, Zach Weinberger, Tony Taylor. Wayne Sheng, John Calabrese and Tin Luu, who all impressed by completing the vaunted BFF 40 mile and Redeye 50k double!
Big thank you to Brad Hawley and Mike Edwards for being out there and helping the runners as they came into the aid station over the course of the day. Big thank you, as well, to Alaina Brown and her family for sweeping the course. Final Big Thank You to Leigh Weil for making the cool VHTRC Coasters, Ornaments and Magnets with her 3-D printer – a great success.
Photos from the Trails: 2024 Redeye
Pencil in the Redeye 50k to start your 2025, 2026, 2027, and 2028 Years of Running, as the Park Service saw fit this year to issue a 5-year permit for this event. Big thanks to RD Dave Woll for his dedicated work on the Redeye over the years, and for working with the Park Service to obtain that multi-year permit!
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Other reports
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Results
| Name | Sex | Loops | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jared Byrd | M | 3 | 4:40 |
| Dennis Chavez | M | 3 | 4:48 |
| John Oplinger | M | 3 | 4:59 |
| Jicheng Liu | M | 3 | 5:04 |
| Patrick Early | M | 3 | 5:09 |
| Lars Hasseler | M | 3 | 5:19 |
| Evan Weisel | M | 3 | 5:41 |
| Chunxin Wang | M | 3 | 5:46 |
| Dani Sevel | F | 3 | 5:54 |
| Joshua Binder | M | 3 | 5:55 |
| Yuezhou Jing | M | 3 | 5:55 |
| Jennifer Cooper | F | 3 | 6:05 |
| Li Fang | F | 3 | 6:06 |
| Zach Weinberger | M | 3 | 6:11 |
| Alvin Lee | M | 3 | 6:15 |
| David Cavey | M | 3 | 6:17 |
| Nathan Dunham | M | 3 | 6:17 |
| Ali Mohammed | M | 3 | 6:26 |
| Darin Dunham | M | 3 | 6:35 |
| Erika Fry | F | 3 | 6:48 |
| Tony Taylor | M | 3 | 6:53 |
| Chase Logan | M | 3 | 6:54 |
| Dan Lee | M | 3 | 7:01 |
| Huanyuan Sheng | M | 3 | 7:07 |
| John Calabrese | M | 3 | 7:20 |
| William Arntson | M | 3 | 7:21 |
| Charlie Poffenberger | M | 3 | 7:21 |
| Ying Long Ford | F | 3 | 8:04 |
| Yali Fu | F | 3 | 8:05 |
| Lei Meng | F | 3 | 8:05 |
| Cheryl Chen | F | 3 | 8:17 |
| Tin Luu | M | 3 | 8:17 |
| Jeffrey Klemm | M | 3 | 8:45 |
| Nick Neakrase | M | 2 | 4:38 |
| Ian Gill | M | 2 | 4:44 |
| Kelli Gress | F | 2 | 4:46 |
| Hongshan Zhang | M | 2 | 4:51 |
| Carrie Drummond | F | 2 | 4:52 |
| Larry Huffman | M | 2 | 4:52 |
| Tom Simonds | M | 2 | 4:52 |
| Sara Fanous | F | 2 | 4:53 |
| Eric McGlinchey | M | 2 | 4:53 |
| Scott Ulrich | M | 2 | 4:53 |
| Joel McMullen | M | 2 | 4:58 |
| Karen Knight | F | 2 | 5:01 |
| Bruce Tweedie | M | 2 | 5:09 |
| Hai Chen | F | 2 | 5:13 |
| Paul Ammann | M | 2 | 5:33 |
| Leigh Weil | F | 2 | 5:33 |
| Barbara McMullen | F | 2 | 6:04 |
| Caroline Leean | F | 2 | 6:05 |
| Kari Anderson | F | 2 | 6:32 |
| Dionisio De Leon | M | 2 | 8:06 |
| Elizabeth Cortez | F | 1 | 2:03 |
| Chris Stabb | M | 1 | 2:03 |
| Patrick Vaughn | M | 1 | 2:07 |
| Christian Stanton | M | 1 | 2:08 |
| Ellen Hart | F | 1 | 2:08 |
| Justin Contois | M | 1 | 2:21 |
| Isla Contois | F | 1 | 2:21 |
| Sharon Leu | F | 1 | 2:31 |
| Laura Chipkin | F | 1 | 2:33 |
| Veronica Crawford | F | 1 | 2:33 |
| Jennifer Lucas-Judy | F | 1 | 2:36 |
| Alice Loughran | F | 1 | 2:39 |
| Wayne Kline | M | 1 | 2:39 |
| Karen Audant | F | 1 | 2:40 |
| Jana Bravo | F | 1 | 2:42 |
| Elaina Stanton | F | 1 | 2:54 |
| Carol Cohen | F | 1 | 2:55 |
| Jill Diss | F | 1 | 2:56 |
| Colleen Berg | F | 1 | 2:57 |
| Carolyn Wilson | F | 1 | 2:57 |
| Mohammad Aref | M | 1 | 3:09 |
| Hussein Ezzeldin | M | 1 | 3:09 |
| Tamim Sookoor | M | 1 | 3:09 |
| Qinghua Liu | F | 1 | 3:17 |
| Michael Campbell | M | 1 | 3:20 |
| Jack Jennings | M | 1 | 3:22 |
| Sherry Slack | F | 1 | 3:27 |
| Sandy Vanvalkenberg | F | 1 | 3:28 |
| Kim Herring | F | 1 | |
| Shannon Andes | F | 3 Miles | |
| Steve Gould | M | 3 Miles | |
| Quatro Hubbard | M | 20 Miles | 6:05 |
| Robert Grolemund | M | 19 miles | 3:57 |
| Sara Davidson | F | 18.25 miles | 4:23 |
| Larry Thibodeau | M | 16 Miles | 2:53 |
| Tracey Thibodeau | F | 16 Miles | 2:53 |
| Holly Franz | F | 16 Miles | 4:11 |
| Laura Bennett | F | 16 Miles | 4:11 |
| Rob Colenso | M | 14.5 Miles | 3:30 |
| James Moore | M | 10.61 Miles | 4:13 |
| Rebecca Moore | F | 10.61 miles | 4:13 |
| Carey Ahr | M | DNS | |
| Joshua Blythe | M | DNS | |
| Kate Dellis | F | DNS | |
| Stephanie Dempesy | F | DNS | |
| Kerlin Doss | M | DNS | |
| Todd Ellick | M | DNS | |
| Andrew Francis | M | DNS | |
| Denise Freeman | F | DNS | |
| Laura Graham | F | DNS | |
| Karen Haymore | F | DNS | |
| Jennifer Hickey | F | DNS | |
| Jon Jester | M | DNS | |
| Scott Lee | M | DNS | |
| Lemell Mayo | M | DNS | |
| Kelley Peard | F | DNS | |
| Brandon Pennington | M | DNS | |
| Vince Ranganathan | M | DNS | |
| Michelle Rindos | F | DNS | |
| Christine Schleppegrell | F | DNS | |
| Kathleen Tepas | F | DNS | |
| Katie To | F | DNS | |
| Andy Torzewski | M | DNS | |
| Guy Towler | M | DNS | |
| Lindsey Weaver | F | DNS |
Last updated January 4, 2024