{"id":3130,"date":"2016-03-13T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/?post_type=ical_race&#038;p=3130"},"modified":"2016-03-13T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T14:02:13","slug":"chesty-puller-memorial-twin-bridge-10k-2011-results","status":"publish","type":"ical_race","link":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/?ical_race=chesty-puller-memorial-twin-bridge-10k-2011-results","title":{"rendered":"Chesty Puller Memorial Twin Bridge 10K, 2011 RESULTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Chesty Puller 10 K All runners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peninsulatrackclub.com\/2011\/Chesty10Kall.pdf\" target=\"_top\">Puller 10k All<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chesty Puller Age group Winners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peninsulatrackclub.com\/2011\/Chesty10kwin.pdf\" target=\"_top\">Puller 10k Age group win<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fun Run 1 Mile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peninsulatrackclub.com\/2011\/Chesty1M_FunRun.pdf\" target=\"_top\">Puller 1 M Fun Run<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 4th Annual Chesty Puller Memorial\u00a0Twin Bridge 10K Run held in the Town of West Point, VA on Saturday\u00a0morning, June 25, 2011. The race honored the most decorated Marine in<br \/>\nhistory, Marine General Chesty Puller who lived in West Point, Virginia.\u00a0Proceeds from the race benefits the West Point Historical Society for the\u00a0purpose of creating a West Point Historical Museum and the Wounded\u00a0Warrior Project.The race itself was conducted and results were generated by the Peninsula Track Club. Conditions at race time were typical mid-summer conditions, sunny, but slightly less humid with a breeze and temperatures in the lower 80s.New this year was a Kids 1 Mile Run that started at the 10K start and ran<br \/>\nthe first mile of the 10K course. 7 kids ran this inaugual event.<\/p>\n<p>For the 10K, 131 entered the race (down from the record 185 runners in<br \/>\n2010) with 119 runners completing the course (down from 159 in 2010).<br \/>\nThe course looped through downtown West Point, passing the home of Chesty Puller, over the Mattaponi River Bridge into King &amp; Queen County, then back over that bridge, through downtown West Point, and continued for an out-and-back over the Pamunkey River Bridge into Eltham, then back again<br \/>\nover the bridge, finishing in West Point. The 10K course is USATF<br \/>\nCertified #VA-10031-RT and was followed correctly by the runners.<\/p>\n<p>The 10K run was won by the 2010 winner, Ryan Speray, 20 of Gloucester who defended his 2010 win with a time of 36:03 (5:49 pace).<\/p>\n<p>A notable performance was by the second place runner who was also the\u00a0first woman, Beth Floyd of Hubert, NC who set the course record for women\u00a0with a time of 37:14 breaking the record previously set in 2008 by Julia\u00a0Smith of Tappahannock (38:47)<\/p>\n<p>Age group records were set by Molly Frazee, 26 of Richmond who set the\u00a0Women\u2019s 25-29 record with a time of 49:44 and Nancy Burleson, 62 of\u00a0Spruce Pine, NC for Women 60-64 with a time of 55:54 beaking the record of 1:01:31 that she prevously set in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3130","ical_race","type-ical_race","status-publish","hentry","Activity-ptc_race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ical_race\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ical_race"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ical_race"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulatrackclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}