Today, Sunday April 11, was the big marathon day for several Greene Frogs.  Lead by an outstanding and life time best time of 2:53.05 by Christina Johnston finished 2nd at the St. Louis Marathon.   Other Frogs were not as fortunate.  While leading the Ohio River Road Runners Club Marathon in Xenia, Ohio, Andy Johnston was forced to withdraw at mile 22 with severe leg cramps.

The third Ohio River Road Runner Club team series race will be held on Saturday April 17 at the Bellbrook Sugar Maple 5K.

For the second time in as many attempts the MVTC Greene Frogs were victorious at Middletown’s  St. Patrick’s Day 5K.  The team was lead by the race’s winning male runner, Andy Johnson,  winning woman, Christina Johnston 11th overall) and winning Male Master’s runner Kenn Daily (13th overall),  the team scored a mere -6 points to runner up Runner’s Plus Elite 29 points.   Other racers scoring for the team were Dave Johnston 3rd male finisher and Rich Hieber( 17th overall and the  4th male master runner.   Other teams competing were WPAFB 3rd, LexisNexis 4th and Children’s Hospital 5th.  Great job everyone.  Today’s weather was nearly perfect with temps in the low 50s and partly cloudy skies.

Greene Frog Kenn Daily won the Miami Valley Apartment Association 5K Friday evening March 12th.  Kenn ran an 18:24 to win by nearly 3 minutes over more than 65 other runners who all beat the severe thunderstorms and rain.   The Association served great food following the race and threw a terrific party.  Great job to Speedy Feet for super organization (including a really good long sleeve tee shirt) and great race course!

MVTC Greene Frog racers Andy Johnson was the first overall male finisher and Christina Johnston was the women’s victor at The Greene Goes Red 2 mile in Beavercreek.  Andy blistered the 2 mile course around the Greene Shopping Plaza in 10:24.

More than 400 runners took part in the 38th Frostbite 5 Miler on a cold  20 degree and very snowy afternoon.  With 11  teams competing in year’s event the MVTC Greene Frogs raced to victory over the Runner’s Plus Elites and Alliance teams.  The Greene Frogs were lead by Andy Johnson’s third place finish followed by Alexander Chappars  4th, Dave Johnston 7th,  Jeff Coudron 18th, Kenn Daily 22nd, Christina Johnston 23rd (1st overall women) and Rich Hieber 30th.  Check Races for all Frog runner results.

This weekend’s Saturday run was another terrific gathering.  Dave and Christina Johnston, Liz and Walter Osborne, Rich and Sue Hieber, Jeff and Kimber Coudron, Cheryl Fenton, special guess Pete Christoff (who traveled from Oregon to be with us), Kevin Craig and I braved the cold 15 degree, cloudy and breezy weather for a solid 8 mile run around Oakwood.

Oakwood Runner Group!

From left to right – Christina, Kenn, Mindy, Kimber, Dave, Jeff, Kevin, Sarah, Liz, Walter, Cheryl, Rich, Andy

Last evening at the annual Ohio River Road Runners Club awards dinner,  Dave Johnston was named Male Athlete of the Year and Zara Rhone Female Athlete of the Year.  Dave’s recognition comes after accomplishing another tremendous year of running capped by his victory at the United States Air Force Marathon in September.  Zara was recognized for her outstanding running accomplishments, including here top 10 finish at the JFK 50 miler in November, as well as directing one of the most successful ’small’ Ohio River Road Runner events  the Tadmor 10K held in August at Taylorsville Dam.   Congratulations Frogs!