Pictures from the Mississippi 50

Pictures
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1-6 Packet pickup and prerace dinner
   
7 Pre-race check-in
   
8-10 50K and 50 Mile runners start in semi-darkness
   
   
11-13 The leaders finish their first loop
   
   
14-17 20K start at 8:00 am, 2:00:00 clock time
   
18-19 1st lap
   
   
   
20-21 Start/finish line aid station workers are ready
   
   
   
   
   
22 LaDonna Radel was technically the first finisher in the 20K
   
   
   
   
   
26 Terry Lawhead was 3rd in the 20K
   
27 Michael Brown was 2nd
   
28 Leo Cappabianca was first
   
29 Award winners in the 20K
   
32 Mandy Conrad receives the 1st place trophy in the 20K
   
   
   
35 Meg Martens was 2nd
   
36 Kirsten Baggett was 3rd
   
39 Audrey Jackson and Phillip Wedgeworth finished together
   
40-41 Dawn Smith finishes the 20K
   
42 Pine Belt Pacers: Phillip, Audrey, Dawn, Kelly Spiers, Terry
   
43 Phillip and Dawn compare wounds

 
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44 Phillip Andrade won the 50K, passing 24 20Kers
   
45 Del Crum ran the 20K
   
46 Some IL runners had issues with the backside of the clock
   
48-49 Preston McElheny, 3rd in the 50K, had a cheering section
   
50,56 Lori Ladd won the 50K
   
57 Shannon Holder and Mobby Overstreet finish the 2oK
   
58 Kathleen Wendel gets the 2nd place trophy, with husband Jonathon
   
59,60 Jennie Chow presents Candy Tranum with the 3rd place trophy in the 50K
   
63 Iva Lightsey received the only 2008 10 year award
   
64-66 John Brower was first in the 50 Miles
   
67,68 Ramon Bermo was 2nd
   
69 Matt Wilson was 3rd
   
70-72 Rus Copeland (ROSCO) brought a huge, colorful crew to cheer him
   
73 Joe Andrade and Matt Wilson are Army buddies and war heroes
   
74 Another illusion some runners imagined seeing on the course
   
75,76 Ann Heaslett won the 50 Miles
   
   
   
77 Bev Brower was 2nd (athletes run in the Brower family)
   
78 Eugene Bruckert was DFL in the 50K
   
79 Randy Saxon and Charles Felsher finish the 50 miler
   
80,81 ROSCO finishes to a deafening cheer
   
82 Beth Simpson-Hall finishes the 50 miles
   
83 Marty Spellicy awards Beth the 3rd place trophy
   
84 Matt Wilson finishes 3rd in the 50 Miles
   
84 Course worker directs Matt to his awards ceremoy
   
86 Course worker gets 15 sec of fame in winners circle
   
87 Matt and US Army buddy Joe Andrade, who was first in the 50K. They both finished far ahead of the Navy entries.
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