bel air town run

Tyler Muse’s performance Sunday in the Shamrock Marathon Weekend in Virginia was perhaps the best of his running career.

The closest finish in the Myrtle Beach Half-Marathon Saturday was the one between Alex Loper and his brother Shawn. The two finished just 0.05-second apart, placing 14th and 15th, respectively in the field of 2,038.

About 1,000 people participated in the 38th annual Bel Air Town Run on Sunday morning, with its 5K run and one-mile Fun Walk.

Robert A. "Bob" Farmer, a retired Lucent Technology industrial engineer, died March 21 from pancreatic cancer at his Bel Air home. He was 81.

Local runners will be able to enjoy the scenery of parts of Harford County and Cecil in a new running festival being planned in September to benefit the Al Cesky Scholarship Fund Inc.

Harford County is a running county, and Aegis correspondent Bill Blewett has been there to record what started out as a craze in the 1970s and since has become a way of life for a significant number of our residents.

The Bel Air Town Run has become a race of routine for Megan DiGregorio. The 29-year-old running-store manager from White Marsh won the women's race for the sixth time Sunday.

Steve Kudla is probably known as the fleetest flavorist around McCormick and Company after his performance in a 5K race Saturday.

A runner from Italy won the 29th Annual HAT Run 50K in Susquehanna State Park Saturday. Behind him, five local runners achieved top-15 finishes in the field

Tyler Muse won his first race of the summer and his second in the month of June Saturday in the annual Charm City Crab Run 5K in Baltimore.

Megan McNew won the women's race, and her father, Lonnie McNew, finished second in his age group in the GBMC Father's Day 5K in Towson Sunday.

Megan DiGregorio won the women's race of the Bel Air Town Run for the fifth time Sunday. Tyler Muse won the men's race for the first time, leading 1,053 runners to the finish at Shamrock Park.

Under skies that threatened to open up at any time, but never did, an estimated 1,200 runners and walkers toed the line for the 36th annual Bel Air Town Run.

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Seemingly faster since turning 50, Charles Powell II of Bel Air finished fifth in the Maryland Half Marathon Saturday.

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Doubling became the theme of the Bel Air Town Run in its 35th annual running Sunday.

The crowd was smaller than last year, but the 2015 Bel Air Town Run still drew more than 1,000 runners and walkers to the streets of Harford's county seat for a 3.1-mile run around town.

Rob Bartholomew of Aberdeen won the grand-masters award in the Special Operations Memorial Day 5K in Baltimore Monday. He also finished third in the military category.

Megan and Justine DiGregorio of White Marsh finished the Women's 5K by the Bay in a unique way Sunday in Havre de Grace.

Dustin Meeker and Melissa Tanner, a marathoning and blogging couple from Baltimore, raced to victory on weary legs in the Bel Air Town Run Sunday.

The race "gun" sounded just after the clock on the Harford County Courthouse on Main Street in Bel Air began chiming 8 a.m. Sunday. By the time they had chimed eight times, hundreds of runners were headed down Main Street toward Broadway.

One of the area's biggest running events, the annual Bel Air Town Run, will be held this Sunday, June 1.

Carla Williams, an accomplished cyclist and triathlete from Baltimore, led the field in the second annual Anytime Fitness Duathlon in Forest Hill Saturday.

Adam Bosley of Bel Air and J. Tobin of Fallston opened the 2014 triathlon season with age-group wins in the Nanticoke River Sprint Triathlon May 4.

Mike Feinberg, 50, of Bel Air, finished first among masters runners in the Tim Kennard 10-Mile River Run in Salisbury Sunday.

This weekend will be one of the biggest of the summer in Harford County, what with the Cal Ripken World Series in Aberdeen, the Maryland BBQ Bash in Bel Air and the Havre de Grace Seafood Festival all slated to start on Friday.

Sean Handerhan and his father Leo celebrated Father's Day with a father-son triple in the annual Father's Day 5K in Towson Sunday.

More than 1,500 runners, as well as walkers, beat the heat Sunday morning to cruise the streets of Bel Air for the 33rd annual Bel Air Town Run

For local runners, the Memorial Day weekend offered three races on the Memorial Day theme.

Four triathletes from Bel Air won age-group awards Sunday in the 30th annual edition of Maryland's premier triathlon, the Columbia Triathlon.

Kevin Frick of Baltimore surged to the front of the pack on his return to the Heather L. Hurd 5K at Harford Community College Saturday. Nancy Hill of Havre de Grace did the same in the women's race.

Front-row starting-line spots were at a premium for the Bel Air Town Run Sunday morning. The combination of a record field of 1,695 runners and the narrowness of Bel Air's Main Street imposed a 2-minute starting delay for those farthest from the electronic starting line.

It was a beautiful Sunday morning in downtown Bel Air and a gorgeous day for a run, as nearly 1,700 runners and dozens more walkers crowded the streets for the 32nd annual Bel Air Town Run and 1-mile walk.

Harford County runners turned to smaller races in the last week of May

Robert Tisch and Shawn Loper opened the triathlon season with strong performances in the Columbia Triathlon Sunday in Howard County. The two triathletes from Bel Air finished just six seconds apart.

Bel Air's town employees will get a 3 percent raise in July and residents of English Country Manor should soon get their long sought traffic light at Gateway Drive and Boulton Street under the 2013 town budget that received final approval from the Board of Town Commissioners Monday.

A record crowd of 4,146 raced down Charles Street in Baltimore Sunday, serving as a fast-moving vanguard for Baltimore's 56th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. Harford County runners, comprising almost one-tenth of the field in the Kelly St. Patrick's Day Shamrock 5K, produced fast performances on the mostly downhill course.