Zach Bursell and Beth Gollin finished their Fourth of July $100 richer.<\/p>\n
The duo set new race records in the Glenn Frick Memorial Mile, which awards record setters with the cash prize.<\/p>\n
The race took off around 10:30 a.m. near the Douglas Bridge — roughly a half hour before the parade floats — and finished in front of the Four Seasons Sheraton Hotel. Just over 100 people ran in the race, which featured sunny skies, 70-degree weather and hundreds of sunglasses-clad spectators.<\/p>\n
Bursell broke the old men’s course record by one second, finishing the race in 4 minutes, 35 seconds, holding off a hard-charging Allan Spangler.<\/p>\n
“I was injured last year, I had a big hip surgery and when I started realizing I was able to come back and do workouts, I wanted to set a goal and I chose this race,” Bursell said.<\/p>\n
Gollin bounded past the finish line less than 40 seconds later. Her time of 5:11 smashed the old women’s course record by seven seconds.<\/p>\n
“It’s a good workout,” Gollin said of running the shorter distance.<\/p>\n
A mad dash of runners crossed the finish line in between Bursell and Gollin, including 44-year-old Alec Nevalainen, last year’s men’s and overall <\/a>winner<\/a>. Sporting a backward black baseball cap, Nevalainen improved on last year’s mark (4:46) by seven seconds, setting a new lifetime-best in the race with his time of 4:39.<\/p>\n “You don’t care about race plans, you just sprint and go, so I like that,” Nevalainen, a marathoner, said. “I’m still chasing faster times. Today was my lifetime (personal record), so I’m pretty happy about that.”<\/p>\n Juneau Trail and Road Runner president John Kern tore through Egan Drive, Main Street and Front Street with a shiny U.S. flag-patterned T-shirt. Kern knew Frick, who passed away in <\/a>2014<\/a>, from his involvement in the Juneau running community.<\/p>\n “Glenn Frick was always coaching you, always telling you you could go faster, do this to your technique. He came across so low key,” said Kern, adding: “This is pretty formal, you know having a measured mile, but it’s something Glenn would’ve liked.”<\/p>\n Glenn Frick Memorial Mile<\/span><\/p>\n Top-25 Results <\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Zach Bursell, 4:35<\/p>\n 2. Allan Spangler, 4:37<\/p>\n 3. Alec Nevalainen, 4:39<\/p>\n 4. Franklin Dekker, 4:47<\/p>\n 5. Rob Swanson, 4:53<\/p>\n 6. Hiram Henry, 4:57<\/p>\n 7. Jake Haas, 4:58<\/p>\n 8. Andre Bunton, 4:58<\/p>\n 9. Jesse Stringer, 4:59<\/p>\n 10. Beth Gollin, 5:11<\/p>\n 11. Ricky Worl, 5:18<\/p>\n 12. Grant Werthman, 5:18<\/p>\n 13. Unknown McMann, 5:20<\/p>\n 14. Blake Ride, 5:21<\/p>\n 15. Aaron Morrison, 5:35<\/p>\n 16. Justin Jones, 5:45<\/p>\n 17. UnKnown McWomenn, 5:46<\/p>\n 18. Jim Ustasiawski, 5:47<\/p>\n 19. Jestoni Feliciano, 5:48<\/p>\n 20. Tyler Dinn, 5:52<\/p>\n 21. Dave Pusich, 5:55<\/p>\n 22. Keith Levy, 5:56<\/p>\n 23. Nicholas Wright, 5:57<\/p>\n 24. April Rezendes, 5:58<\/p>\n 25. Gus Marx, 6:00<\/p>\n \u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com. Follow Empire Sports on Twitter at @akempiresports.<\/b><\/p>\n Zach Bursell and Beth Gollin finished their Fourth of July $100 richer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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