10-23-2016, 04:27 PM
It was a perfect day for the Fall 5K Classic this year and a really deep field - 60 people ran the race under 20 minutes out of 423 finishers, which is astonishingly good. Although the course for this race is traditionally very fast, last year's race, also with 423 finishers, only had 37 people with a time below 20 minutes. I was chatting with one of the race organizers for Run Waterloo later this afternoon and he mentioned that one of their goals has been to really improve the depth of the field for their marquee races (Waterloo 10K Classic and Fall 5K Classic), and it definitely seems they have been succeeding.