I caught up with Emma-Lisa Murphy, who was the women's winner in the Run/Wak the Bay this year. The Whitefish Bay Middle School eighth-grader with long blonde hair covered the distance in about 22 minutes, unofficially as an official tally is not available just now. Emma-Lisa came in second in last year's Run the Bay and took first for her age group the year before.
"It was fun," she said, with a big smile. "I'm pretty tired."
Already she is a star of the Middle School girls track team. And 22 minutes is not her best time for the 5K, she said. That would be around 21. She got to the race a bit late and just sprinted a little just before to prepare.
The overall winner was Goeff Horton who finished almost neck-in-neck with his Class of 2006 classmate Steve Markson. Both were Whitefish Bay High School cross country stars. Both are going to college on athletic scholarships, Horton to the University of Minnesota and Markson to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Horton's time was something over 16 minutes.
