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10Kfrom Page D1pulled slightly ahead and held a 10-yard lead as the leaders turned left onto Wyck Street. As the race worked its way over Pennsylvania Avenue, the top three runners had broken far into the lead, just before the 2-mile mark.As the race came down Loudoun Street, the top three runners strode along in single file with Hausenfluck in the lead. By the time they reached the 3-mile mark, just in front of Jackson’s Headquarters, the lead pack had been reduced to two and Walter took the lead.By this point, the pair was 100 yards ahead of everyone else and it was apparent one of them would be the winner. What was less apparent was who that winner would be.“It seemed like he was pretty much taking me up the hills and on the downhills I’d stay with him, said Walter. “There was one hill too many, I guess.”As the race moved through its fourth and fifth mile on Valley Avenue, Walter appeared to be gaining an upper hand, pulling out to a lead of 10 yards at one point. Hausenfluck, meanwhile, lurked behind him, moving from right to left and back again across the road searching for an opening to exploit.Finally, at the intersection of Valley and Sheridan avenues, well into the race’s sixth mile, Hausenfluck found his opportunity. Regaining his form of early in the race, Hausenfluck streaked past Walter and it was obvious Walter wasn’t up to the challenge.“We both kept throwing surges, so it was kind of mutual. My last surge finally held on,” Hausenfluck said.“It was a great, great race.”“He ran very well,” said Walter. “He just got the best of me, that’s all.“It was good to have him to run with. I think we helped each other out, pretty much, until he made his move at the end.”Turning onto Handley Boulevardfor the final time, Hausenfluck was all alone and he passed under the arch of pink-and-green balloons 50 yards ahead of Walter.In front is where Hausenfluck said he usually likes to be throughout a race, not just at the finish.“I like running from the front regardless. . . A lot of times I slack off a little too much during the middle of the race and lose contact, but today we maintained our position. It worked out well. ”Hausenfluck finished second (by one minute 50 seconds) to Mark Stickley in last year’s Apple Blossom 10K, but didn’t think he had a huge home-course advantage.“I knew some of it from last year, I couldn’t remeber all of it. It look-1 ed like, more of less, (Walter) was following where I ran on the course, how I did the tangents.”For Walter, who ran at Penn State and is now sponsored by Adidas, Saturday marked the first time he had run a 10K in about two years. He said he’s been concentrating on the mile and 5,000 meters and wanted to run conservatively at a fairly-unfamiliar distance.Also running conservatively was Pazarentzos, who had run three races, including a 10,000 meters at the Penn Relays, in 10 days. She also has qualified for the national championships in the 5,000 meters.,Pazarentzos is sponsored by Reebok.“I challenge myself,” she said of Saturday’s race. “I knew we started out really slow and that’s a little disconcerting, because usually people go out pretty hard. You know that they’re going to die a little bit, but everyone was being pretty smart.“I was in the lead the entire way. But at the same time, I knew people were running pretty smart, so I kept taking a few peeks back. They kept coming, no one ever gave up. I saw them back there. But no oneStar Photo by Ginger PerryMaria Pazarentzos crosses the finish line to win the women’s title Saturday in the Apple Blossom 10K.ever came up to challenge me right next to me or anything like that. ” Pazarentzos did her college running at Eastern Kentucky University and originally hails from Springfield, Ohio. She has been living in Hagerstown, Md., since 1985.A total of 564 runners completed Saturday’s race (414 of them male and 150 female). The most popular age group was men 40-44, where there were 65 finishers. Right behind in the popularity race was men 35-39 with 64 finishers.
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