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The Wissahickon Wanderers will be once more working in the trenches at the upcoming Philadelphia Marathon on November 17. The Wanderers will be running the water station at the 18/22 mile mark of the race, which has been our customary spot for many years. To properly staff the site, about 60 volunteers will be needed. NOTE: like last year, volunteers must sign up in advance.

Series Wrap-up by Chris Moore

 
Congratulations and thanks to all of the runners who came out for the Fall Trail Series. While we didn't intend to have a formal accounting, we do want to mention some highlights and overall Series results. We calculated an overall score adding finish places for the all the runners.

Johnathan Cornibe ran away with the Men's division, winning all but one race where he went off course before correcting and retracing his steps back to the original course.  (And this includes winning week #4 just five days after running the Virgil Crest 50 miler).  

The Women's Series was a bit of a toss up, and we are going to consider it a three way tie.  Polly Jansen and Henrike Shulze ran all four races and tied for overall points at 77pts (averaging 19th place) while Joanne Sinclair only was able to run 3 races but ended up with 55pts. (averaging 18th place).

Other highlights include a fishtank being recovered as part of a "litter" run, a torrential storm week 2 and some impressive Eagles cupcake racing (followed by an equally pathetic Eagles performance).

Other notables; seven runners managed to run every race, nineteen runners ran at least three and seventy-seven total runners ran at least one.  Lastly we'd like to thank Noah Shusterman, Bob Reynolds, Chris Moore and first timer Kristen Zielinski for marking each of the courses.

Thanks to all the people who helped to mark and sweep the courses.  Thanks to Clay Wells our unofficial photographer (his website »). And as always, Pat and Fred from Fast Cat Race Management who always manage to pull it together for the near impossible task of timing/recording a race when half the participants show up at the last minute. 

Stay tuned, the Wanderers are considering expanding our Spring and Fall Trail Series to include a two race winter series.

• Download the overall results here (pdf) » 

Individual race photos and results below:

Just a quick note to thank photographer Clay Wells for all the great photos he's taken of various Wanderers events. He provides high-resolution (for photo printing) to Wanderers free of charge via his website. 

If you are in the market to hire a photographer for your event (sporting or otherwise), please consider using Clay. His website, including recent photos he's taken for the Wanderers, is at http://www.clayball-digital.com/ 

(btw, that photo was not Photoshopped...that was us taking photos simultaneously :-)

We have posted lots and lots of photos courtesy Wanderer Clay Wells. Once again, Clay has managed to capture the action as wel as the spirit of the event. "Read more" to view the Gallery.

Check out our news archives to see what various Wanderers have been up to in the last 13 years. There are over 250 news stories there.

Also, there are more than 80 photo albums in our Albums section. Check them out.