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Show Local cross-country racers can't resist Yellowstone endurance challenge times than last year, he added. Steve Erickson of White Pine Touring also competed in the 50 kilometer event and finished in 3:15:55. He was 29th overall and eighth in the 30-34-year-old division. Lea Shea of Park City completed the 50 kilometers in 3:55:19 for a 107th place finish overall. Brian Glenn of Summit Park was 183rd overall with a time of 4:44:01. Two Park City women also entered the 50 kilometer race. Kathy McCarthy finished seventh among the 25-29-year-old women in 4:10:44. Jeri Sims finished in 4:28:52, ninth in the same division. Rich Groth made a strong showing in the 25-kilometer race. He finished in 1:42:43, 11th overall among 178 contestants. He earned second place jn the 40-44-year-old category. Also in the 25-kilometer event -was Park City resident Karen Korfanta who finished in 2:00:30, 46th overall and first in the women's 35-39-year-old division. Jenny Yates Erickson was 69 th overall and finished in 2:08:01. She was fifth in the 25-29-year-old women's class. Marsha Groth rounded the 25 kilometers in 2 .15 :59 for a 91st place finish and was sixth in the 35-39-year-old category. by Nan Chalat The local nordic race season is over, but why let a season of training end while there is still snow on the ground? This was the rationale of a handful of Park City cross-country enthusiasts enthu-siasts who traveled to Yellowstone, Wyoming last Saturday to compete in two nordic endurance events. Six familiar names appeared in the results of the 50-kilometer race held in the national forest east of the park. Dave Hanscom was the top . local finisher completing the two 25-kilometer laps in three hours 11 minutes and 42 seconds. He was 18th overall among 205 entrants and won second place in his age group (40-44 years old). "I felt great. It was the first time I have ever finished in the top 20," Hanscom said. He was beaten in his age group by John Brodhead, a former college ski teammate of Hanscom's ? Middlebury College in Vermont. "It was good to see him but 1 would rather have seen him after the race," he laughed. The race started in below zero temperatures which warmed up gradually during the race, Hanscom said. The cold temperatures were responsible for overall slower race |