Runners of the Month

Community Runner: Bev Wispelwey (54), who scored a big PR at the Boston Marathon with an impressive 3:48 clocking and MacKenzie Hillard (25), who also registered a PR at The Boston Marathon with a 3:09!

High School Runner: Tyler Stutzman of Western Albemarle who scored big PRs at the Dogwood Track Classic with his 4:14 (1600 meter) victory and his 9:15 (3200 meter) runner-up showing & the Albemarle boys 4×800 relay team who broke the coveted 8:00 barrier with their scorching time of 7:51.25 at the Penn Relays. The foursome of Zach Vrhovac, Luke Noble, Anthony Kostelac, and Garrett Bradley put up one of the fastest times ever for Central Virginia and are all underclassmen.

UVA Runner: David Lewis, a 4th year multi-eventer who became UVA’s first ACC decathlon champion since 1995. His score of 7105 points provisionally qualifies him for the NCAA meet in June.

This has been a Ragged Mountain family tradition since 1982. Each month we select three individuals (although sometimes we will actually spotlight all of the members of a relay team, like we did when the Western Albemarle Boys DMR indoor squad won the National title in 2008 or an entire team, as we did when the UVa Women won the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships way back in the Winter of 1982) as our “Ragged Mountain Runners of the Month”. We select a representative from three categories: Community Runner of the Month, High School Runner of the Month (has to be an athlete from one of 17 Central Virginia high schools) and a UVa Runner of the Month (although we have been guilty of awarding this to a non-UVa college runner during the summer months, when the UVa teams are idle). The names of these individuals and their remarkable accomplishments, whether they’re amazing times or an incredible personal improvement, are posted on two different display boards at the shop and now, for the first time, on our new web site!

Every single Ragged Mountain Runner of the Month will be awarded a classic Ragged Mountain t-shirt (the same design we’ve been using since Neal Gropen designed our shirt when he was our next door business neighbor in 1982).

Here’s a brief list of just some of the folks who have been Ragged Mountain Runners of the Month over the years: