2014 Masters Age-Graded Performances

World Masters Athletics (WMA) has established a set of standards and formulas for comparing performances of people in different age groups. Through age-grading, you can see how your marks fare against older or younger athletes.  If you score above 90%, you are world class in your age group.  Marks over 80% are national class, over 70% is regional class, and over 60% is local class.  For years Jack Crook annually recognized those who scored 85% or better when determining the best performances for the year.  Jack’s last annual review was for 2011 and the review is back for 2014.
In 2014, 12 women and 13 men graded in that range of world- and national-level times (> 85%).

Female Masters (35+)

Deborah Torneden continues to be the dominant runner with the best grades in 3 events, including her 91.31% score in the 5K.  Her 19:04 age-adjusted would be equivalent to a 16:13.   Teresa Perky’s 91.29% grading was also in the 5K.  Being three years older than Deborah, her age-adjusted time also is the equivalent of 16:13.  Raquel Stucky’s  marathon time of 2:44:58 breaking Kathy Whitcomb’s 32-year old state record (2:48:37), merited an 85.68% score.  Trudy Calloway had two second-best scores.  Sheryl Drevo’s name appears only once on the list of top two scores but her year was special with all-time bests in the half marathon, 10 mile, 4 mile, 5K, and 1 mile.  Fourteen of the 19 top scorers were from the Wichita area.  Besides Perky, Cindy Cameron and Kathleen Johnson were the remaining state contributors from the Johnson County area.  Runners from other areas of the state were close or did their best runs out of state.

event	no. 1 & 2 females			age	grading	time	adj.time
1 Mile	Torneden, Deborah	Andover	KS	53	88.80	5:50	4:43
	Blakeley-Cameron, Cindy	Westwood	KS	50	83.98	5:56	5:00
2 Mile	Griggs, Stephanie	Wichita	KS	55	85.41	13:13	10:34
	Calloway, Trudy	Wichita	KS	66	78.96	16:49	11:26
5K	Torneden, Deborah	Andover	KS	53	91.31	19:04	16:13
	Perky, Teresa	Overland Park	KS	56	91.29	19:50	16:13
4 Mile	Griggs, Stephanie	Wichita	KS	55	86.59	26:49	22:13
	Holzman, Barbara	Wichita	KS	62	83.99	30:27	22:54
8K	Marcia Steele	Wichita	KS	72	59.61	1:02:50	40:24
10K	Torneden,  Deborah	Andover	KS	53	87.64	40:43	34:37
	Calloway, Trudy	Wichita	KS	66	85.55	50:03	35:27
12K	(no results in 2014)
15K	Cameron, Cindy	Westwood	KS	49	81.82	1:03:11	56:28
	Keyes, Pam	Wichita	KS	70	76.93	1:30:20	1:00:03
10 Mile	Fetrow, Bonnie	Wichita	KS	59	80.66	1:18:30	1:01:36
	Holzman, Barbara	Wichita	KS	62	80.57	1:22:00	1:01:40
HM	Johnson, Kathleen	Lenexa	KS	58	81.31	1:41:46	1:20:58
	Drevo, Sheryl	Goddard	KS	70	80.49	2:03:02	1:21:48
Marathon	Stucky,  Raquel	Wichita	KS	39	85.68	2:44:58	2:38:03
	Wasielewski, Grace	Prospect Hts	IL	61	84.27	3:42:32	2:40:41

 

Male Masters (35+)

Heading the men’s list again is Wichita’s Dennis Smithhisler with the top 2 times in the half-marathon. He was the only man over 90% with his 1:13:07 at age 50 (age grades to 1:04:40).  Peter Mullin, a 63-year-old from Houston, was the highest of the near-90% scores with his 38:20 in the 10K (age grades to 30:01).  Next best was Smithhisler’s other half-marathon score, then Randy Wasinger’s 1-mile score of 88.92% (age-adjusted time of 4:10), and Keith Long’s 88.3% for the best 5K grade.

event	no. 1 & 2 males			age	grading	time	adj.time
1 Mile	Wasinger, Randy	Manhattan	KS	38	88.92	4:21	4:10
	Whitis, Matthew	??	?	46	85.91	4:57	4:28
2 Mile	Keller, David	Wichita	KS	45	82.92	10:29	9:32
	Hutton, Andrew	Wichita	KS	60	75.75	12:59	10:27
5K	Long, Keith	Beaumont	KS	57	88.30	17:42	14:37
	Mullin, Peter	Houston	TX	63	87.07	18:55	14:49
4 Mile	Juhlin, David	Winfield	KS	67	79.99	27:54	21:04
	Snook, Tom	Cheney	KS	66	77.05	28:42	21:52
8K	(no results in 2014)
10K	Mullin, Peter	Houston	TX	63	89.43	38:20	30:01
	Robinson, Troy	Overland Park	KS	47	85.39	35:06	31:27
12K	(no results in 2014)
15K	Stalcup, John	Wellington	KS	63	71.00	1:13:53	57:58
	Schmidt, Larry	Wichita	KS	67	64.85	1:24:01	1:03:27
10 Mile	Bing, Dale	Wichita	KS	62	81.83	1:08:28	54:14
	Kenton,  Winston	Wichita	KS	54	80.58	1:04:43	55:05
HM	Smithhisler, Dennis	Wichita	KS	50	91.58	1:13:07	1:04:40
	Smithhisler, Dennis	Wichita	KS	49	89.09	1:14:31	1:06:28
Marathon	Kiprotich, Geoffrey	Toledo	OH	36	83.69	2:29:25	2:29:16
	Boen, Stanley	Searcy	NM	37	83.10	2:30:55	2:30:19

 

Open and Younger Runners

Kristen Findley of Austin, Texas had the only score above 85% among the top women’s scores with a 4:50 in the 1 mile.  Three scores topped 90% among the men.  Wichita’s Christopher Burnett’s 1:04:25 in the Prairie Fire Half Marathon merited a 91.93% grading; Ben Blankenship, of Eugene, Oregon, with a record-setting 1 mile time of 4:05, scored 90.86%, while Joe Moore of Manhattan scored 90.33% with his 10K time of 29:48.

Sub-Masters- Male
event				age	grading	time	adj.time
1 Mile	Blankenship, Ben	Eugene	OR	25	90.86	4:05	4:05
2 Mile	Schmidt, Sawyer	Augusta	KS	10	80.78	11:59	9:48
5K	Cotter, Tomas	Wichita	KS	23	88.05	14:39	14:39
4 Mile	Ceja, Javier	Wichita	KS	26	85.68	19:40	19:40
8K	(no results in 2014)
10K	Moore, Joe	Manhattan	KS	30	90.33	29:48	29:44
12K	(no results in 2014)
15K	(no results in 2014)
10 Mile	Bernasky, Jonny	Hays	KS	22	86.83	51:08	51:07
HM	Burnett, Christopher	Wichita	KS	23	91.93	1:04:25	1:04:25
Marathon	Kool, Cory	Manhattan	KS	27	80.99	2:34:14	2:34:14
Sub-Masters - Female
event				age	grading	time	adj.time
1 Mile	Findley, Kristen	Austin	TX	23	86.76	4:50	4:50
2 Mile	Champa, Mallory	Clearwater	KS	27	81.18	11:07	11:07
5K	Teague, Connie	Overland Park	KS	27	82.53	17:56	17:56
4 Mile	Baird, Zanae	Wichita	KS	26	82.08	23:26	23:26
8K	(no results in 2014)
10K	Benton, Cecilia	Leavenworth	KS	24	79.82	38:00	38:00
12K	(no results in 2014)
15K	Stevens, Abby	Wichita	KS	20	73.43	1:02:57	1:02:55
10 Mile	Foster, Christie	Boulder	CO	26	81.74	1:00:47	1:00:47
HM	Mose, Florence	Grand Prairie	TX	22	81.24	1:21:02	1:21:02
Marathon	Nelson, Jordan	St Augustine	FL	23	77.54	2:54:39	2:54:39

 

Ultras

We’ve added ultrarunning records this year following the second annual running of the KUS 6/12/24-hour race by the Kansas Ultrarunners Society on a certified course in Wichita.

The main highlight was a state record of 123.2 miles for 24 hours by Pete Kostelnick of Lincoln, Nebraska. Pete also won the solo race at the Brew to Brew 44-mile in April and completed the Badwater 135-mile in 2014. He broke the previous best of 121 miles by Sandy Powell  (a former member of the US women’s 100K national team), dating from 2002. Pete also broke the male record of 113.76 miles by Phil Sheridan, set in 1997. Phil still holds the Kansas resident record and the over-40 record. Dave Meeth of Wichita also set an over-50 record of 101.024 miles for 24 hours.

At 12 hours, Christine Ngai of Darien, Illinois, and Nicole Parkhurst of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, both ran 61.6 miles to break the record of 61.5 miles by Julie Perry of Wichita from 2013, and Stuart Johnson of Shawnee ran 62.832 miles for a Kansas resident record, just missing the state record of 63.2 miles from 1997.

At 6 hours, Mike Stout of Wichita set a state record with 40.656 miles in 2014 and Ashley Schurman of Crofton, Nebraska, ran 38.192 miles for a women’s record.

Dick Lipsey, Estes Park CO
Gene Wee, Lawrence KS
Dec 28, 2014