Ten-Miler teams ‘hit the trifecta’

Months of training pays dividends for JBLM runners at the annual Army Ten-Miler race in Washington, D.C.

Somer Breeze-Hanson / Northwest Guardian

The months of training and preparation paid off for the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Ten-Miler teams.

The JBLM active duty Masters men finished second while the active duty women took second in the Commander’s Cup at the annual Army Ten-Miler race in Washington, D.C., Sunday The JBLM active duty men finished third in the Commander’s Cup.

“We hit the trifecta,” JBLM Intramural Sports Coordinator Kathy Salcedo said. “They did really well.”

Steven Hanson led the JBLM Masters men, followed by Shannon Swords, Douglas Brown, Yong Giu Park (who ran with a leg injury), Stephen Yaffe and Lawrence Rutt.

The race marked the 15th 10-miler completed by 41-year-old Swords, and he did so three weeks after competing in an Iron Man triathlon. Fort Bragg won the Masters title.

The JBLM men who competed in the Commander’s Cup finished just six seconds behind second place Army Hawaii. The team included Dallas Henry, Joe Borg, Jacob England, Shawn Dodge and Aaron Catlin.

Henry also ran as an alternate for the All-Army team that won the International Team division. Fort Bragg men won the Commander’s Cup title.

The JBLM women who competed in the Commander’s Cup included Janelle Drennan, Shamai Sullivan, Nicole Eldredge, Marisa Gossweiler and Mary Zastrow. Fort Bragg women won the Commander’s Cup title.

The course is a flat, fast, scenic run through Washington, D.C. that starts and ends in the Pentagon parking lot. More than 700 military and civilian teams compete for team titles every year at the Army Ten-Miler run, which originated in 1985.