The Silver Strider 10k State Championship

 

The Silver Strider online presents

The Christmas Rush 5k and 10k

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By Jerry Dietrich
with photos by Bruce Fisher

The 2025 Silver Strider IOk State Champions

Women
W50-54 Heidi Kriss 50, 45:40
W55-59 Jesse Rodriguez 59, 47:08
W60-64 Rikki Bogue 61, 54:22
W65-69 Joy Kawaoka 65, 1:07:53
W70-74 Barbara Prine 73, 1:10:25
W75-79 Vacant
W80-84 Judy Fisher 81, 1:15:36

Men
M50-54 Steven Colmus 52 41:43
M55-59 Michael Magnussen 56 41:06
M60-64 Craig Romano 50 54:41
M65-69 Keith Lerew 67 45:44
M70-74 Steve Husko 71 53:57
M75-79 Ed Heckard 79 1:02:18
M80-84 Curtis Brandon 80 1:09:48

Age grading has made itself irrelevant. Using the 2020 age grading table, standout performances like those posted by Michael Magnussen and Keith Lerew rate only 75%. Just a few short years ago, their times would be world class, over 90%. The 2025 table begins on January 1st. National class times are considered to be above 80%. Don’t bother age grading performances in the future. Age grading American runners is a waste of time and renders a discouraging result.

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Christmas Rush
by Karl Johnson

I’m a little late with this report. Another typical Saturday morning for the Pacific Northwet, though. The rain held off for the race and we only had to deal with the occasional wind gusts.

This is always a fun event, especially with the costumes that people attempt to run in. It seems inflatable costumes are getting more and more popular. There were even a couple of us with Die Hard themed shirts (yes, it’s a Christmas movie. This is a skyscraper I will die upon, maybe not like Hans Gruber, though. )

There were almost 500 people running the 5k and 126 people running the 10k. This was also the 10k Silver Strider State Championship. All in all, a pretty good turn-out for December and well attended by Silver Striders.

Michael Magnussen led the way for Silver Striders in the 10k with a time of 41:06 with Heidi Kriss not far behind for the women with a time of 45:40. For the 5k, the first Silver Strider to finish was Matt Morrisson with a time of 20:49 and Anne Hobson was the first female Silver Strider with a time of 24:49.

Afterwards we adjourned to the Golden Steer for lunch. This was a great time to catch up with each other. Patty brought us all cookies and fudge to take home. The restaurant food, however, left a lot to be desired. This was disappointing as we’ve had great food there in the past. Maybe the cook was having an off day.

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Every year a stoic group of runners gather in Kent for the Christmas Rush. It is the premier winter running event in the state. This year 623 runners ignored the cold, wind and rain to finish the 5k or the 10k. Here are the results as caught in Bruce Fisher’s camera eye.

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