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DELTA DUSTERS

October, 2009

The Boll Weevil

The Official Running Publication of the Delta Dusters

Inside this issue: Message from the President - “The Competitive Dusters”

Message from the 1 By Gregg Davis from the Corporate Chal- division by a scant 25
President lenge. seconds and finished 13th
[email protected] overall of about 130
teams. Great perform-
Wisdom from Wes 2 This year’s World ances were turned in by
Airline Road Race saw a Jeff Zickus (who ran two
Twin Cities Photo 3 Late summer and small, but hardy contin- legs), Alan Hicks, Jeff
early fall are always my gent of Dusters make the Clark and (of course)
New Duster Mbrs 3 favorite time for racing. Wes Wessely. See Wes’
long trek to China. As column in this issue for
Race Results 4-5 The weather starts to get usual, Eric Elbel brought
cooler and all of the hard back hardware with an- his perspective on
work you’ve put in dur- this year’s event.
WARR Photos 6-7
ing the scorching sum- Finally,
teams from all
mers begins to yield re- across the Delta
system converged
Corp Challenge 8-9 sults. The results for me in DTW for the an-
nual Delta Hub
personally so far are Challenge at the
Detroit Free Press
Singlet 10 mixed, but as a group, Marathon Relay. Six
teams from DTW,
this has been the Dusters’ two from ATL, and
one each from MSP,
most competitive fall in MEM and JFK made
the trip for a total of
Pres Msg Con’t 11 years. eleven Delta en-
tries, which is a new
At the KP Corpo- record. For the
third year in a row,
Duster B-Days 11 rate Challenge here in the traveling trophy
More Photos 12 ended up in MSP, despite
ATL we won three team a surprisingly strong
awards – 3rd place in the challenge from the top
ATL team. The MSP team
Race Planner 13 Women’s team competi- was propelled to victory
tion, 3rd place in the with strong performances
from Jeff Hart, Adam
Spirit of Marathon 14 Men’s Team competition Sorenson, Pat Acciani,
and 1st for overall partici-
Con’t on page 11.
pation in the Travel In-

dustry Group. We were

the only team that scored

in the top five in both the

Men’s and Women’s divi-
sions. There were some other 1st place for his age

top performances by in- group in the 5K.

dividuals as well with The Atlanta

four runners finishing in Ekiden relay was a suc-
the top 100 overall – Jeff cessful event this fall as
Zickus (7th), Steve Janney the Dusters returned to
(45th), Wayne Lauzon
(62nd) and Jeff Clark the awards podium after

a one year hiatus. Our
(63rd). Check the rest of entry in the Corporate
DELTA DUSTERS the newsletter for more Men’s category won a

details and some pictures surprisingly competitive

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“Wisdom from Wes”Duster Race Results –Run the Ekiden with the Dusters ! -MaEyk2id4e2n00280t0h9ru July 19 2008

By Wes Wessely club organizes an Ekiden in the  prevented us from getting too far be‐
Spring where runners exchange a  hind.  Every division wears a different 
[email protected] rubber chicken.  Organization for  color sash to aid in tracking your 
such a relay is fairly complex. competition.  Jeff took over with a 47 
  Along with sushi, Toyota and  second deficit but surged ahead for a 
Sony, the Ekiden has become an‐   This year the Atlanta Track  win in the large corporate division.  
other Japanese export.  For those  Club (ATC) held their umpteenth  The stats are the true tale of the tape 
thinking that I am introducing the  event with a record 140 teams.   as we managed to finish in 2:12:06.
newest Japanese running shoe, hold  Each leg is 3.4 miles around Pied‐
on to your shoestrings..  Without  mont Park in ATL and after each    Jeff Zickus   19:32
research I can tell you that it is a re‐ loop a traditional sash is ex‐   Alan Hicks  20:06
lay race of approximately marathon  changed.  The Japanese consul was    Greg Davis  24:49
length divided into six legs.  The  the honorary starter on a muggy    Jeff Clark  23:39
Dusters attended their first in MKC  Sunday morning.  The Dusters    Wes Wessely  24:37
twenty‐one years ago.  My local fielded two teams managed by    Jeff Zickus  19:23 
team captain Dave Frish.  
Duster Staff : Well done, Dusters! 
  As I now have to deal with                                    Wes. 
President: Gregg Davis many senior moments, I will deal   
only with the team that allowed me   
Website Coordinator: William to run a leg with them.  If you read   
Pantin my past articles, you know that I   
have struggled with a knee injury.    
Treasurer: Eric Elbel That alone reduces your confidence   
when you are counted on as part of   
Newsletter: Kimberly Davis a team.  I was introduced to Jeff   
Zickus and Jeff Clark along with   
MSP Coordinators: Sue Mansur and Alan Hicks and ex‐president Greg   
Bill Freese Davis. We had our team warming   
up with Alan who came in from   
DTW Coordinators: Natalie Foster, CVG while sitting on reserve, I was   
Monica George, and Annette Steffke quickly reassured by his Irish accent   
as I have learned firsthand not to   
WARR Captains: Adeline Craig and take on an Irishman on the streets 
Debbie Shaw-Tarver or in a pub.  He lived up to his bill‐ (Wes Wessely is a long time runner,
ing by putting down a 20:06 at age  two time Atlanta marathon winner
Ekiden Captain: Dave Fritsch 48.  Then there was our ringer, Jeff  and a long time Duster member.)
Zickus, who put down two fine legs, 
Corporate Challenge Captain: including a 19.23 anchor to take the 
Charlene Butler lead and win by 28 seconds.  Jeff 
Clark, who is no spring chicken, 
Members at Large: Carolyn Bowen, held us in contention on leg four.  
Julie Duggan and Heidi Martin Gregg Davis with heavy marathon 
legs and I, in major heat prostra‐
To contact us, email us at
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to Dusters at 156 Peachtree East
Shp. Ctr., Box 126, PTC, GA 30269.

We welcome race results, pictures,
stories or suggested races. News-
letter is published every other
month, so send in future race ideas 3
to 4 months ahead of entry dead-
lines.

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Twin Cities Marathon Group Photo:

Front row from left: Jason Mansur, Matt Campson, Casey Seabright, Sue Mansur, Brian Petersen.
Back row: Joe Elliott, Randy Pool, Ed Waldera, Bill Freese, Adam Sorenson.

Welcome New Dusters !!!

Patrick Acciani MSP Monte Fontaine MSP Welcome new Duster members !
Karen Anderson MSP Alan McEntee 7216/MSP
Greg Brown MSP Robin Paurus 809/MSP
Nina Fontaine MSP Douglas Pierce 030/MEM

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Boston Scientific Heart of Summer 10K – July 25, 2009 – MSP

Robin Paurus 47:28 1st in age group Macon Labor Day 5K – September 7, 2009 – Macon, GA

Jeff Clark 18:49 3rd in age group; per-

Plano Pacers Children’s Chty 5K – July 25, 2009 – Plano, TX sonal best

Ruth Olinger 37:18 3rd in age group Wes Wessely 19:51 1st in age group

Giro Lago di Resia 15.4K – Aug 1, 2009 - Curon Venosta, Italy Race for the Dream 5K – September 7, 2009 – Athens, GA

Jeff Zickus 56:56 Susanne Pass 34:42

Steve Pass 34:55

Chicago Half Marathon – August 2, 2009 – Chicago, IL KP Corporate Challenge 5K – September 10, 2009 – Atlanta, GA

Robin Paurus 1:43:24

Jeff Zickus 16:44 7th overall; personal

Summers End 5K – August 8, 2009 – Winder, GA best

Wes Wessely 20:40 1st in age group Steve Janney 19:26

Steve Pass 33:29 Wayne Lauzon 19:43

Jeff Clark 19:45

Basler Brugglehof 10M – August 9, 2009 – Basel, Switzerland Gregg Davis 21:30

Jeff Zickus 57:37 5th overall Rico Dorsey 22:04

Jerome Scales 22:15

I Run for Pizza Football Kickoff 5K – Aug 15, 2009 – Viera, FL Katherine Stevens 22:27

Carri Grady 33:34 Will Strattner 22:47

Marietta Landon 23:06

Minnesota Half Marathon – August 15, 2009 – St. Paul, MN Beth Ehrensperger 23:11

Randy Pool 1:49:39 James Moore 24:05

Crim Festival 10M – August 22, 2009 – Flint, MI Leo Garcia 24:40

Mathew Grzeck 1:45:49 Mark Hornsby 24:50

Christina Mitchell 24:54

Woodbury Chamber 5K – Aug 30, 2009 – Woodbury, MN Phil Lindsey 24:58

Ed Waldera 24:02 2nd in age group Jeff Rollinson 25:20

Matt Clark 26:19

Disneyland Half Marathon – September 6, 2009 – Anaheim, CA John Howell 26:25

Susie Montgomery 2:05:53 Mark Faber 27:00

Karen Zachery 27:53

Sunrise on the Square 5K – September 6, 2009 – Newnan, GA Charles Rowe 27:59

Wayne Lauzon 20:38 3rd in age group Rich Cerasani 28:53

Jennifer Zappia 29:28

US 10K Classic – September 7, 2009 – Marietta, GA

Teri Chiong 52:08 Continued next page.

Daryl Pridgeon 52:13

Dick Evelyn 1:08:32

Bill Britton 1:41:43

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Duster Race Results - Cont’d:

KP Corporate Challenge 5K, Cont:

Terrian Moore 30:32 Run for Recovery 5K – Sept 12, 2009 – Farmers Branch, TX

Anthony Houston 31:40 Ruth Olinger 37:08

Connie Reynolds 32:43

Rodney Reynolds 32:58 ATC Singleton 10M – September 12, 2009 – Tucker, GA

Jay David 33:00 Rico Dorsey 1:18:50

Ed Suttner 35:39

Kaushal Tripathi 37:01 ATC Singleton 5M – September 12, 20009 – Tucker, GA

Ann Hultman 40:50 Wes Wessely 33:45 1st in age group

Roberta McFadden59:11

World Airline Road Race 10K – September 12, 2009 – Hang- Little Grand Canyon Marathon – September 12, 2009 – Price, UT
zhou, China
Russ Johnson 3:56:45
William Pantin 48:22
Dick Beardsley Half Marathon – September 12, 2009 – Detroit
Mike Manatrizio 55:35 Lakes, MN

Ed Waldera 1:47:52

World Airline Road Race 5K - September 12, 2009 – Hangzhou,

China

Eric Elbel 23:37 1st in age group Are your results missing? Send us an e-mail at Running-
[email protected] or [email protected] and tell us
Teresa Elbel 33:13 about your race. Be sure to let us know if you won an award
and if it’s your best time ever for the distance ! Have you run a
Victoria Cambrice 38:48 unique race ? Share your experience with all the Dusters and
submit a Race Review.
Barbara Henlon 39:11

Melanie Ramm 39:40

Natalie Foster 47:42

Debbie Shaw-Tarver 47:42

Fuzz Run 5K – September 12, 2009 – Covington, GA

Juli Moncrief 30:41

“Believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or

another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the finishers

medals we deserve.

Zoe Koplowitz
Author and marathon competitor

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World Airline Road Race -!

Photos from WARR 2009.

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China, 2009

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Corporate Challenge Recap - Sept 10, 2009.

This year’s KP Corporate Chal- along the way. A quick right turn ease Control. The Lady Dusters

lenge 5K was contested on Septem- and then a left brought the runners were led by Katherine Stevens who

ber 10th in the evening on the tradi- to within sight of the Rings and the finished in 171st place overall with

tional course starting and finishing final quarter mile to the finish line. a time of 22:25 and was followed by

under the Olympic Rings just out- teammates Marietta Landon, Chris-

side of Turner Field in Atlanta. The Duster teams performed at a level tina Mitchell and Karen Zachery.
weather looked threatening not seen in several years. The
throughout the day, but luckily in Men’s team finished a close third, For the fourth consecutive year, the
never rained and by race time, the less than 2 minutes behind the win- Delta team was awarded the par-
only issue runners had to content ning Fort MacPherson, and about a ticipation award in the Travel /
with was the higher than normal minute and a half behind second Tourism Industry Division. After the
humidity. The race started place Georgia Tech. Leading the race, food and adult beverages
promptly at 7pm with about 60 Dusters was Jeff Zickus who ran a were enjoyed at the Duster tent in
Delta folk among the estimated superb time of 16:45, good for 7th the finish area, capping off another
12,000 participants. The first mile place overall. Rounding out the successful Corporate Challenge.
of the course was deceptively fast, scoring for Delta were Steve Jan- The date for next year’s event has
owing to the fact that it’s a mostly ney in 45th place, Wayne Lauzon in yet to be set, but we’ll be there for
downhill run thru the downtown 62nd place, and Jeff Clark in 63rd sure, looking to improve on this
campus of Georgia State Univer- place. year’s results. Stay tuned for more
sity. Having reached about the details and we hope to see you
halfway point, runners then had to The Women’s team also finished in there.
make two left turns to start the 3rd place, following teams from GE
climb back up to Turner Field,
passing the State Capitol Building Energy and the Centers for Dis- (Photos this page and page 12.)

The Delta Team at KP Corporate Challenge. Karen Zachary, Jay David and John Howell.

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Corporate Challenge Photos:

John Howell, Phil Lindsey and Mark Faber.

The Delta Team at KP Corporate Challenge.

Marietta Landon and Katherine Stevens.

Karen Zachary and Gregg Davis.

Ann Hultman.

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Message from the President (from page 1): Duster Birthdays for Oct and Nov!

Sue Mansur and Bill Freese. This was a really great Duane Ellis Oct 01 606/ATG
event and my thanks go out to Andy Zarras and Nata- James Allen Oct 05 194 (NW)/
lie Foster in DTW for their efforts in coordinating the Ruth Olinger Oct 05
event and putting on a great post-race party. I’m DFW 030/ATL
hopeful that this event will continue to grow and that Nina Fontaine Oct 06
we’ll see participation from even more cities next Mimi Oliveira Oct 07 661/ATG
year ! Russ Johnson Oct 09 RET/ATL
Greg Brown Oct 18
There were a couple of recent individual accomplish- Richard Cerasani Oct 19 031/CVG
ments to note as well. On October 3rd, Carolyn Bo- Eric Elbel Oct 19 5010/MSP
wen handily qualified for next year’s Boston Marathon Lonita Smithers Oct 19 665/ATL
with a time of 3:42 at the St. George Marathon in Utah. Alan Hicks Oct 22 610/LAX
Not to be outdone, Dave Fritsch followed up with his Gwenn Larson Oct 25 RET/ATG
own Boston qualifier of 3:13 at the Chicago Marathon Barbara Henlon Oct 26 RET/ATL
on October 11th. They join Alan Hicks, Thomas Stuart Susie Montgomery Oct 26 610/LAX
and Barry Williamson who have already qualified for Rick Kovaleski Oct 27 RET/ATL
Boston this year. Dick Evelyn Oct 28
Helen Tallon Oct 29 030/LAX
Check out the race calendar included in this issue, Edward Smith Nov 02 8190/MSP
which includes all Duster sponsored races thru Sep- Kim Casmey Nov 03 488/ATG
tember 2010. You’ll be wanting to make your plans in Kevin M. MacDonnell Nov 03 260/ATL
advance for WARR which will be held on September Russ Rilea Nov 03 5550/MSP
25th in London. Now that we’re officially the world’s Teri Chiong Nov 06
largest airline, I’m hoping we’ll have the world’s larg- Steve Duer Nov 09 RET/ATG
est contingent at the event (and also that we’ll sweep Brian Petersen Nov 09 030/CVG
the competitive awards !). Stay tuned for lots more Lolita Mason Nov 12
details. Janet Pilling Nov 13 663/ATL
Peter LaPresto Nov 14 118/CVG
In the meantime, keep sending in your results…. Bob O'Neal Nov 14 5840/MSP
Hitomi Hirao Nov 16 033/ATG
Happy Running ! Jeffrey Zickus Nov 16
Lou Budler Nov 17 611/ATL
Gregg Mary Byrnes Nov 20 RET/ATL
Joel Cziok Nov 20
“You can’t hold a man down without Lynn Dickirson Nov 20 654/ATL
Susanne Pass Nov 25
staying down with him.” Frank Wright Nov 26
Ed Hullender Nov 27
Booker T. Washington Chuck Brower Nov 30
Educator and author
Happy Birthday to all of our Duster friends!!!

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More photos from Corporate Challenge !!!

Registration table at KP Corporate Challenge. Above: Jeff
Clark and
Steve Janney.

Right: Prepar-
ing for the
race.

Katherine Stevens.

Registration at KP Corporate Challenge.

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Duster Race and Events Planner

(Duster promoted events are in bold.)

November 2009
7 - Monumental Marathon and Half Marathon – Indianapolis, IN (www.monumentalmarathon.com)
14 - Chickamauga Battlefield Marathon and 10M – Chickamauga, GA (www.battlefieldmarathon.com)
26 - Atlanta Marathon and Half Marathon – Atlanta, GA (www.atlantatrackclub.org)

December 2009
5 - St.Jude Memphis Marathon & Half Marathon – Memphis, TN (www.stjudemarathon.ord)
5 - Reindeer Run 5K – Minneapolis, MN (www.reindeerrun.com)
19 - Virginia-Highland Christmas 5K – Atlanta, GA (www.running4fitness.org)

January 2010
1 - ATC Resolution Run 5K & 10K – Kennesaw, GA (www.atlantatrackclub.org)
16 - ATC Peachtree City 5K & 10K – Peachtree City, GA (www.atlantatrackclub.org)

February 2010
27 - Charles Harris Run for Leukemia 10K – Tucker, GA (www.charlesharrisrun.com)

March 2010
13 - Silver Comet 10K – Mableton, GA (www.silvercomet10k.com)
27 - Atlanta Women’s 5K – Atlanta, GA ((www.atlantatrackclub.org)

April 2010
19 - Boston Marathon – Boston, MA (www.bostonmarathon.org)
24 – Get in Gear 5K, 10K & Half Marathon – Minneapolis, MN (www.getingear10k.com)

June 2010
19 - Grandma’s Marathon & Half Marathon – Duluth, MN (www.grandmasmarathon.com)

July 2010
4 - Peachtree Road Race 10K – Atlanta, GA (www.atlantatrackclub.org)

September 2010
25 - World Airline Road Race 5K & 10K – London, UK (www.worldairlineroadrace.org)

(Got a race you want to submit? Email us at “[email protected]”.)

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DELTA DUSTERS

“Spirit of the Marathon” can be viewed for free !!!

T.he Dusters have just
been informed that
the movie the “Spirit
of the Marathon” is
available for free
viewing on
“www.hulu.com”.
Last year it was play-
ing in select theaters.
It is a great movie.
Very inspiring. And
free! (Special thanks
to Gary Schaefer for
letting us know!