BALLWIN, MO. – Following last week’s rainout, the weather finally cleared enough over the past two days for officials to give the go ahead to run Thursday’s race in the 2016 Marmot Trail Run Series as planned. 211 runners tackled the approximately 4.1 mile course on a cool night in the mid 60s.
A familiar face took home the overall win, as Caleb Brackett won his second straight victory in this year’s series. His final time of 25:42.8 was more than four minutes in front of second-place finisher Jack Wilkinson (30:01.4) who grabbed another podium finish for the second straight race.
Third place overall and first place on the women’s side went to Sunny Gilbert, as she won once again, just four seconds behind Wilkinson in the overall standings in 30:05.0. Liz Speiss, in her first appearance of the year was sixth overall and second in the women’s division in a time of 31:33.2, followed closely by Julia Peiffer in 31:54.2. Overall, women took three of the top 10 overall spots in the race.
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