Bend runners in Portland Marathon
Published 5:00 am Monday, October 8, 2012
PORTLAND — Central Oregon runners were among the top finishers — and two Bend runners were division winners — at the 2012 Portland Marathon.
The overall winner of Sunday’s 41st annual race, which started and finished in downtown Portland, was 28-year-old Jameson Mora, of Arroyo Grande, Calif., whose time over the 26.2-mile course was 2 hours, 21 minutes, 9 seconds. Winner of the women’s division was Colleen Little, 29 and of Lake Oswego, in 2:51:35.
Among division winners in the field of some 9,500 marathon entries were Bend’s T-Roy Brown and Karla Nash. Brown, 19, was first in the men’s 14-19 division (and the 32nd finisher overall) in 2:52:09. Nash, 46, placed first in the women’s 45-49 division (and 23rd among all women) in 3:15:01.
A total of seven Central Oregon runners, all from Bend, finished in the top 100 in their respective gender divisions. In addition to Brown on the men’s side, those finishers included Mike Condon, 25, who was 25th with a time of 2:49:47; Rob Hollander, 37, who was 40th in 2:55:02; and Rick Stilson, 36, who placed 57th in 2:57:43. Along with Nash on the women’s side, top-100 finishers included Bend’s Charmion Freifeld, 36, who was 26th in 3:16:59, and Kate Odneal, 33, who was 96th in 3:28:53.
— Bulletin staff report