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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Undeterred by a threatening sky, Culpeper’s Tim Kearney and Kim Belyea of Winchester took top honors in the ninth running of the Fodderstack Classic 10-Kilometer Road Race Saturday.
Mr. Kearney bested his winning time last year by 31 seconds, breaking the tape to finish first overall in a time of 33:27. Though he easily beat second-place Tom Weber of Lorton, who finished with a time of 34:43, Mr. Kearney failed to break Steve Pinard’s course record of 31:26, set in stifling 90-degree heat in 1985.
Ms. Belyea, who holds the course record for women with her 1984 time of 36:46, took home the women’s open title for the third time last weekend. This year she ran 38:25.
Second place in the women’s open division went to Rappahannock’s Lisa Currie, in a time of 44:35. Ms. Currie also won the Eva L. Smith Memorial, awarded to the first male and female Rappahannock residents to finish.
And on the men’s side, the Smith Memorial went, for the seventh straight year, to Frank Reynolds, in a time of 37:36. Mr. Reynolds held off RCHS track and cross-country star Marley Hay, who finished second in the Smith division and first in his age group (19th overall) with a time of39:00.
“It was a heckuva race for four miles,” Mr. Reynolds recounted. “At Horseshoe Hollow Farm (at the base of Tom Lee’s Hill) he had me by 10 yards.”
“I ran with him, led him the first three miles,” Mr. Hay agreed. “I was sorta hurting, but I kept up.”
They described a battle for position as the two climbed the half-mile incline, this year as always the bane of Fodderstack competitors.
Mr. Reynolds managed to open a lead of ms own otabout JtO ys«4?.“h«* said, but as they ascended the incline — which steepens as it rises — Mr. Hay chipped the lead away and moved slightly ahead of Mr. Reynolds as they neared the top of the hill. “I stayed right behind him,” Mr. Hay explained, “and caught him up at the top of the mountain.”
As the pair crested the hill and began the long downhill which most racers use to recuperate, Mr. Reynolds pushed ahead. “I could tell he was hurting at the top of the hill. I didn’t have anything left either,” he admitted, “but I wanted to get far enough ahead so that he wouldn’t think about trying to catch me coming into town.”
“He took off downhill,” Mr. Hay said, “and I couldn’t keep up. I got a second wind at the bottom of the downhill — but by then he had 75 or 100 yards on me.” He added that the
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