Joe Beery 1st, Alissa Hauke 2nd in half marathon
Eight Hillsboro runners competed in the Daniel Boone's Run For Statehood held in Falmouth, Ky. on Saturday, June 14.
The event included a one-mile fun run, a 3.1-mile race and a half marathon. The courses were challenging, and the race information included the statement that “the half-marathon course is flatter than Pike's Peak.”
The half marathon course is storied, and its colorful past has brought forth some incredibly impressive times, including a one hour and ten minute course record which has stood since 2003. Several goliath hills stand between participants and the finish line, placing participants before crystalline skies and majestic green valleys. The race has come to be a local treasure for those up the challenge and has hopes of welcoming more people to the crucible the race directors have engineered.
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Joe Beery, 2013 Hillsboro High School graduate who is a pre-law student at Stetson University in Florida and co-captain of their cross-country team, finished first in the half marathon with a time of 1:20:33. Alissa Hauke, a 2014 HHS graduate set to major in art at Bluffton University, finished second for the women with a time of 1:43:23. Patrick Shanahan, soon to attend Miami University, ran 1:50, and Brendan Eltzroth, an economics major at Wright State, finished with a time of 1:51.
Nathan Boone, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Cincinnati, finished first in the 5K for the men. Jeff Beery ran 25:22 and was first for men 50-54.
Dakota Bullock, another attendee of Wright State, finished first in the 18 -24 age group.
Jeffrey Beery, 12, finished second in the mile run with a time of seven minutes, 27 seconds, a personal best.
Joe Beery's uncle joked that the most impressive feat was that his nephew was able to motivate eight others to awaken before 5 a.m. on a Saturday to attend a race in another state.