Beaver Dam’s Marilu Adams qualified for next April’s Boston Marathon with her finish in Nov. 1’s Indianapolis Monumental Marathon.
Adams, competing in the women’s 55-59 division, covered the 26-mile, 385-yard course in four hours, five minutes and 43 seconds, bettering Boston’s qualifying standard for her age group.
Adams, 55, placed fifth among 61 runners in her division, and placed 1,697th among the 3,736 runners completing the marathon course. She was the only local runner of 12 competing that Saturday to run a qualifying time. This year’s Indianapolis Monumental was her fourth marathon entered and completed.
Other Ohio County runners — with ages, overall placings, placing in their age group, and times — were:
Chip Schrader, 43, 781, 109/358, 3:36:48
Steve Johnson, 51, 922, 69/244, 3:41:13
Jeff Whittinghill, 51, 1216, 91/244, 3:50:42
Renee Phelps, 42, 2191, 121/244, 4:24:06
Jennifer Worley, 41, 2433, 134/244, 4:33:31
Kimberly Baxley, 49, 2434, 4:33:32
Shannon Tichenor, 45, 3170, 125/154, 5:09:45
Jennifer Schrader, 39, 3171, 237/298, 5:09:45
Robin Patterson, 42, 3482, 219/244, 5:39:58
Wendy Bratcher, 39, 3497, 267/298, 5:41:36
Danny Crowe, 40, 3498, 346/358, 5:41:36.
A total of 6,280 other runners competed in the Monumental Half-Marathon that same day. Ohio County finishers in that race were: Josh Bevil, 31, 935, 113/384, 1:48:08; John Abney, 38, 1885, 193/392, 1:57:50; Mandy Abney, 34, 1890, 136/570, 1:57:51; Kari Keith, 39, 4631, 415/613, 2:29:39; Becky Tichenor, 40, 4635, 288/440, 2:29:51; Julie Hunter, 38, 4828, 433/613, 2:34:15.
According to an official race website, over 15,000 runners competed in either the marathon, half-marathon, a 5K run, or the Kids Fun Run.