By Rick Platt
Four Colonial Road Runners placed high among the 20,620 entrants in Monday's
107th annual Boston Marathon. Fastest of the quartet was Bill Bustin, 45, of
Yorktown, who went out fast (18:25 for 5K, 37:19 for 10K, and 1:20:42 for half
marathon), and held on for a 2:51:27, good for 247th overall.
Another Yorktown runner, Lewis Jones, 59, ran an official 3:33:26 (but with
a computer chip time of 3:28:16), having taken five minutes to cross the starting
time. Carol Talley, 48, of Toano and Linda Ingleson, 46, of Williamsburg, crossed
the finish line together in 4:00:33, but had different chip times of 3:48:51
(Ingleson) and 3:50:36 (Talley).
Another CRR runner, Jim Bates, was 5th of 320 at the hilly Charlottesville Marathon
last weekend in 3:10.
Bustin was one of three Peninsula runners who placed high April 6 at the Cherry
Blossom 10 Miler in Washington, D.C., placing second in the men's 45-49 division
in 59:12. Kristine Wilson, 29, of Newport News was 22nd overall in the women's
division in a PR 1:01:50. Michael Mann, 34, of Hampton was 31st overall in the
men's division in 53:05. Despite having a shoelace come untied at eight miles,
Mann finished strong (5:10 and 5:06 for the final two miles), and was featured
prominently in the Comcast TV coverage, running with the women's leader.
Mann will be one of the top runners in Saturday's 12th annual Pomoco Group Running
Crab Half Marathon at the Hampton Coliseum, along with Williamsburg's John Piggott
and Virginia Beach's Dai Roberts. All three had placed in the top five in the
Shamrock Marathon in March. There were 470 preregistered runners in the half
marathon and 160 in the 5K for the Hampton race, with race day registration
from 6-7:30 a.m. for the 8 a.m. race.