Alaska International Senior Games    
 Wednesday August 18th, 2010    
 6:00 PM    
 Woodriver Elementary School    
        
 Twenty-one competitors ranging in age from 51 to the venerable 85-year-old Glenn    
 Hackney completed the Alaska International Senior Games 5-kilometer running race on    
 Wednesday evening, traversing the same course as the Chena River Run.  Cool    
 temperatures in the 50s and dry skies were a welcome relief to the morning's rain and    
 the record heat of a few days earlier.    
         
        
 In the Senior Games, it's age group standings that matter.  The men's 70-74 age group    
 was fiercely competitive, with 72-year-old Jim Madonna posting a run of 23 minutes, 34    
 seconds, and Cecil Ranney, 70, of Kodiak, closely behind in 24:04.  Only two younger    
 fellows managed to beat those two -- Bob Ritchie, who claimed the 60-64 category in    
 23:23, and Rocky Reifenstuhl, 58, in 23:37.     
         
 Among the women, the 55-59 age group had more competitors than any other, with    
 Jane Lanford taking the lead in 22:19.  Norma Haubenstock followed in 25:13, 10    
 seconds ahead of Carol Kleckner.  Bobbie Ritchie, in the 60-64 category, outpaced the    
 remaining female competitors with her 28:53.    
         
 Hackney continues to amaze, finishing the course in 41:49, a pace of 13-1/2 minutes    
 per mile.  May we all be able to run so long and so well!    
        
 WOMEN    
 50-54 1 Nitaya Notkin 31:50    
  2 Denise Ringhand 37:33    
        
 55-59 1 Jane Lanford 22:19    
  2 Norma Haubenstock 25:13    
  3 Carol Kleckner 25:23    
  4 Aporn Stein 32:42    
  5 Susan McMahon 39:27    
        
 60-64 1 Bobbie Ritchie 28:53    
        
 65-69 1 Janice Wagner 40:13    
        
 MEN    
 50-54 1 Don Kiely 26:29    
        
 55-59 1 Rocky Reifenstuhl 23:37    
        
 60-64 1 Bob Ritchie 23:23    
  2 Rick Winther 27:14    
  3 Tim Doran 28:47    
        
 65-69 1 William Montgrain 31:26    
  2 David Hamilton 32:58    
  3 Bob Perkins 37:18    
        
 70-74 1 Jim Madonna 23:34    
  2 Cecil Ranney 24:04    
  3 Jim Cavanaugh 30:21    
        
 85-89 1 Glenn Hackney 41:49    
        
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