OCR Text |
Show j vi-1 ,.. '.' """'-, "Li I v ill i .0L0r . t vi JimSmedley JimSmedley Barry Herbster, on outside, reaches down for extra kick Barry Herbster, front right, and Jeff DeMond, without shirt, begin to pull early in 10K Speed Race, near finish. Teens play me-and-my-shadow in record-setting 1 0K Speed Run by JIM SMEDLEY Record staff writer A race with a cast of 120-plus quiqjy $urned into a duef and. stayed , that way Saturday as two teenagers blazed their way into the record books at the 10,000-meter Park City Speed Run. Speedsters Barry Herbster, 16, and Jeff DeMond, 18, broke away from the pack after the first half-mile and were never seriously threatened as they finished one-hundredth of a second apart. Herbster's 30:14 and DeMond's 30:15 beat the former record of 30:19. And while the men were burning up the course, Park City's Beverly Gray went about the business of she set in 1983 by 1:11. The race began near the top of Deer Valley by Silver Lake Lodge and wound down Royal Street.1 A left turn put the runners on Deer Valley Drive, on which they stayed until hitting Bonanza. Participants then dashed down Sidewinder to the Prospector Athletic Club. In all, the course represented a negative 1,200-foot elevation descent. Herbster and DeMond were trapped in the thick of about 12 runners for the first quarter-mile before shaking loose. However, once the duo pulled away, they never looked back. Their 50-yard, first-mile lead was stretched to about 150 yards at the second milepost. W hen they reached the four-mile marker, their nearest competitor was about a quarter-mile behind. Herbster and Demond set an amazing early pace, one that left thi$-( reporter wondering if they could keep it up for six miles. But the pair continued to play me-and-my-shadow and at mile four it was obvious it was their race. And what a race it was. DeMond paced himself behind Herbster for the first five miles, looking as though he was capable of overtaking his foe, but just patiently lurking in the shadows. Then, like a vulture at dinnertime, he descended on Herbster and swept past him at the fifth milepost, quickening the tempo. It appeared DeMond was making his move. That was the spot where Herbster was supposed to fall back. But he didn't. He was right there, step for step. "I didn't want to go out and pace. I always do better if I'm a step behind," DeMond said. "I'd rather let him do the work. When I did decided to take the lead, he stayed right with me." Herbster kept on DeMond's heels until the sixth milepost. With two-tenths of a mile to go, Herbster moved out, reaching down for a kick that put him nearly two yards in front of DeMond. This was a significant lead because not more than one yard separated these two for the first six miles. DeM ond closed a bit at the end but he did not have enough left to regain the lead. Herbster said he had been running competitively for about two years and is on Highland High School's cross-country team. It was the first 10K victory for the Salt Lake City native. "I don't like leading coming into the finish," Hebster said. "It's better to get behind someone and go at his pace, then take the lead." DeMond was on the cross-country team at Borah High School in Boise, Idaho, and plans to pursue running at Brigham Young University during his freshman year. Gray was expected to do well and she did. She finished 22nd overall, beating her nearest competitor by one-half minute. . "You had to watch yourself during the first three miles because the grade was so steep," Gray said. "It seemed to be a faster course than in the past." The only other women from Park City to enter the race, Julie McKay and Karen Korfanta, placed first and second respectively in their 40-44 age bracket. Several Park City men did well. Doug Jones was third and Keith Cooley 12th in the 25-29 age group. Bob Evers placed third (seventh overall) and Dave Howard sixth in the 30-34 group. Dick Beaufait was fifth in the 35-39 bracket. Ed Moore (ninth overall) and T. Gallagher were first and second respectively in the 40-44 age grouping while Lynn Daines was tops (eighth overall) in the 45-49 bracket. |