This year, participation in the Ache Around the Lake or Ouch race supported the Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Lab at St. Luke’s Hospital in Columbus.

Activities of daily living are routine things you frequently do, such as feeding, bathing, dressing and grooming yourself.

With the opening of the ADL Lab, St. Luke’s patients will have the ability to actually practice the tasks of daily living, as well as other ADL retraining activities related to the kitchen, home and community environments. The lab will serve to improve patient care and allow St. Luke’s to offer a wider array of support services to the community.

Overall Ache winners

Top Male – Josey Weaver of Weaverville, N.C. 27.46.08

Top Female/Eighth overall – Jennifer Fischer of Columbus (Top female) in 34:17.26

Other local runners placing in the top 25 of the overall Ache race were: 12 – Brad Fraedrich of Landrum in 35:40.73; and 19 – Lori Geddings of Tryon in 37:14.67.

Laura Walker of Tryon won the Masters Female division in 41:55.13; Ansley Lynch of Mill Spring won the 1-14 female age division in 48:39.49. In the 35-39 age group all of the top three finishers were local – Valerie Davis of Tryon in first with 42:34.60; Julia Carroll of Tryon in second with 51:48.88 and Angela Jenne of Mill Spring in third with 52:55.18.

In the 40-44 female division Kathryn Gillie of Tryon came in second place with 54:35.89, followed by Michelle McMahan of Campobello in third with 59:08.58. In the 40-44 male group, Brian Jones came in second with 40:27.40.

For females 45-49, Lorna Burrell from Campobello finished in 52:58.27 and for males 45-49 John Gillie of Tryon finished 39:48.44. In the 50-54 age groups, Paul Zimmerman of Campobello finished third among males in 40:51.59, while Yvonne Dessoffy and Sherry Page, both of Tryon, finished first and second with times of 45:29.24 and 45:40.88, respectively.

In the 55-59 age group, Andy Millard of Tryon finished third in 52:27.37. Lou Gilbert of Mill Spring finished first for the 60-64 year-old females in 1:17:58.72. David Zacharias of Tryon and Hank Heintzberger of Campobello grabbed second and third places for males 60-64 in times of 44:47.33 and 48:58.04. Kathleen Wright of Tryon, in the 65-69 female division, finished in 1:02:51.74.

Lee Cone of Landrum and Alan Leonard of Tryon finished first and third in the 65-69 males with times of 37:51.85 and 47:41.04. Locals also dominated the 70-74 female group with Mary Beth Trunk of Landrum placing first with 59.26.60 and Elaine Jenkins of Tryon finishing second with a time of 59.29.73.

– article submitted by Jennifer Wilson