Park City, Utah Stomps the 5K

In the movie “Reindeer Games,” a Michigan casino’s claim to fame is that they serve both Coke AND Pepsi. Dennis Farini plays the director of the facility (“I can’t go back to Las Vegas”). Snowshoeing isn’t a gamble, but the weather can be a bet, for sure.

In Park City, the Utah crowd has a choice, too: snowshoes or running shoes, the Coke or Pepsi of our time on trails.

Going out and back on the Rail Trail, a track famous in the city and region as a major recreational draw is the definition of this course. In 2013 winner Nick Scalfone sizzled snow with a 22:48 victory, a three-minute and some second win over Iron Man finisher, Eric Egenolf. Egenolf is an architect in the area, a founder of Process Studio.

Scalfone is a terror at these distances as shown with his 36:00 Memorial Day Marin 10K, a 5:48 pace. In that event, in less than six minutes of the winner back to Scalfone, 78 finished the event; tough crowd at the Marin 10K.A cross-country racer at SUNY Oneonta, he finished his career in that sport with a healthy 27:09 for the NCAA’s Regional 8K layout. Scalfone racing the national championships would be a factor in the outcome.

John Rosswog captured third while 15-year-old Andrew Rummens chased him in with a 28:36

Holly Hagerman won the women’s title, placing sixth overall, by breaking 30-minutes by 25 seconds. Deb Lovci, 50, took the silver place with 36:09, some 90-seconds over Laura Strate-Madsen’s 37:44. A special note to Kathy crimson, 64, with her 56-minute finish, the oldest member of either class.

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