Masters runner Tom Dalton,46, won the Stockade-athon 15K, in Scenectady,NY on sunday for the 6th time, and first time since 1993! His winning time was,48:59. The course is basically downhill for the first half and uphill for the second half. For reference, Kevin Collins won the race last year in 47:29.
Oh yeah, and 73 y/o Ed Whitlock ran 58:47, over a minute faster then he ran last year on the same course!
Dalton is a bad ass!!!
...and he put away Mike Slinskey to do it. Impressive. Dalton's gonna be one bad ass 50 year old in a few years.
There were no other big names in the race though. The past few years have been pretty competitive with local albany runners. Rodriguez and Conway sought out competition out of town and Chris Hartshorne is off the radar. I think I once heard Dalton say that he runs this race like its a 10k and then just trys to hang on.