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More than 3,500 runners took allotment in the anniversary Rochester Regional Health Flower City Bisected Chase and Wegmans Family 5k through Rochester on Sunday. (April 24, 2016) Video by Victoria Freile.
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Julianne Quinn of Ithaca places aboriginal in woman in Flower City Bisected Marathon.(Photo: MAX SCHULTE/@maxrocphoto/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)Buy Photo
Thousands lined up on the Broad Street Bridge aboriginal Sunday to chase the Rochester Regional Health Flower City Bisected Marathon. For the abutting few hours, added than 3,100 runners raced through the streets of Rochester.
Rochester citizen Kiplangat Tisia, 27, breezed to victory, accepting his fourth first-place accomplishment in the accomplished bristles years.
"It feels good," he said. "This is a boxy course, but I'm accustomed with it."
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Finishing with a time of 1:07:25, Tisia stopped alert on the course, amid afar 8 and 10, to tie his sneakers.
"My laces flopped as I ran," he said. "At some point I had to accomplish a accommodation to tie them or let them go."
First-time Flower City agent Julianne Quinn, 27, of Ithaca won the women's chase in 1:18:01.
"It's a adamantine but boxy course," she said, acquainted that she acclimated the chase as a training run for the accessible Ottawa Marathon, captivated over Memorial Day weekend.
Omar Boulama, 22, of Walworth, Wayne County, accomplished additional amid the men in 1:13:23 and Alexander Looi, 27, of Baldwinsville, Onondaga County, accomplished third in 1:13:44. Alyssa Knott, 22, of Rochester clocked 1:25:32, followed by Amy Konopka, 37, of Chili in 1:25:58 as the brace accomplished additional and third amid the women.
Chris Smith, 43, of Pittsford had a banderole day as he ran his fastest bisected chase by 15 minutes.
"Four years ago I ran my aboriginal anytime 5K chase here," he said. The 3.1 mile race was followed by three beeline years of active the bisected chase course.
"This advance is absurd and crowds forth the accomplished advance action so abundant abutment to the runners," he said. "This is my admired half-marathon advance of all the Rochester races."
Christina Dodd, 33, of Irondequoit ran her sixth beeline Flower City Bisected Chase in footfall with her adolescent sister Heather Dodd, 29, of Glens Falls. who tackled her first-ever bisected chase on Sunday. The sisters ran calm until mile 8, back Christina apprenticed Heather to run ahead. They accomplished about seven account apart.
"I told her you get a mini bout of the best allotment of Rochester on the route," Christina Dodd said with a laugh. "Plus I adulation active accomplished celebrated genitalia of the city" such as the Susan B. Anthony House on Madison Street, the George Eastman Museum on East Avenue and Mt. Hope Cemetery.
"We've been adored with absolute acclimate every year," said Wendy Abbott, 42, of Brighton, who led the race's two-hour clip accumulation aloof six canicule afterwards active the Boston Marathon. Weather was ideal Sunday morning, with a aerial temperature in the 40s for much of the race.
Kelly Boyer, 34, of Victor flew through the arresting advance on her aboriginal Flower City race, finishing nine account advanced of her antecedent claimed best time.
"My ambition is to adore it, accumulate in apperception the bodies I adulation and aloof accomplish the best of the experience," she said afore toeing the line.
More than 2,100 ran Sunday's half-marathon and added than 1,000 tackled the Wegmans Family 5K.
David Rappleyea, 30, of Henrietta won the 5K chase in 16:21 and 10-year-old Alia Spaker of Honoeye Falls won the women's chase in 21:59.
For abounding race results, go to yellowjacketracing.com/results
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