Polson, Cueno, and Gacek Lead Runner-of-the-Year Standings

Run N Fun's Jeremy Polson extended his men's open division lead in the Minnesota Running Data Center's Runner-of-the-Year standings in recently updated tabulations which include all of June's events.

While Polson was pulling away, however, the women's open division standings tightened up as previous leader Nicole Cueno of GEAR found herself tied with Run N Fun's Melissa Gacek in the standings

Polson leads GEAR's Pat Russell 60-52. GEAR's Josh Metcalf and Pete Gilman are 3rd and 4th with 46 and 44 points, respectively. Full men's open standings can be found HERE.

Gacek and Cueno are tied at 47 points. Just behind them lurk RNF's Angie Voight and Erin Ward with 46 and 45 points, respectively. Full women's open standings can be found HERE.

Chad Austin recently featured Cueno, a former NCAA Division III 1500 meter champion for Grinnell College, in THIS interview on his Running Minnesota web-site. DtB will feature its own short interviews with Gacek and Polson next week.

The Runner-of-the-Year age-group division leader board features lots of familiar names in Minnesota road racing like ... Shelly Larson, Kelly Mortenson, Sonya Anderson-Decker, Pat Billig, Kelly Keeler Ramacier, Digger Carlson, Janet Rosen, Bobby Paxton, Gloria Jansen, Denny Jordan, Kathryn Benhardus, Jim Graupner, Judy Cronen, Lee Stauffacher, Lois DeGonda, Gene Kalscheuer, Barbara Burhans, Greg Prom, Jill Kieser, and Burt Carlson.