Rocket City 10K — M60-64: Drew Bell Dominates in the Cold

• Drew Bell wins in 45:31 (7:20/mi) — nearly 9:16 clear of 2nd place, the most commanding margin in the M60-64 field.
• Jack Landreth (54:47) and Tim Wilcox (56:26) battled for the podium, separated by just 1:39.
• Paul Lassauw (59:28) was the only other finisher to break the one-hour mark, rounding out a tight top four before a significant gap back to 5th.
• 14 men from across the country — Alabama, Oregon, Florida, Utah, Colorado, Illinois — toed the line at 29°F on a clear, blustery Huntsville morning.

Drew Bell made the frigid conditions look routine. The Madison native crossed in 45:31 at a 7:20/mi clip, a performance that echoes his 45:26 showing here back in 2023 — when he finished 6th among all men in that race. Two years on, he's still running at virtually the same blistering pace, and this time he owned the M60-64 group outright. His margin over runner-up Jack Landreth was a commanding 9 minutes and 16 seconds — a gap that tells the full story of how thoroughly he controlled this race.

Behind Bell, the real drama played out between Landreth and Tim Wilcox. The Huntsville local Landreth finished 2nd in 54:47 (8:49/mi), with Wilcox of Houston, AL pressing him home in 56:26 (9:05/mi) — 1:39 the difference between them. Paul Lassauw (Madison, AL) was the only other man to break the hour, finishing 4th in 59:28 at a 9:34/mi pace, making the top four a notably distinct tier from the rest of the field.

From 5th place onward, the race spread out across a wide range of paces and hometowns. Jay Tibbs (5th, 1:04:35), Amir Mobasher (6th, 1:05:45), and Mike McCammon (7th, 1:06:50) formed a tight cluster separated by just 2:15 across three finishers. Tom Brown made the trip from Beaverton, Oregon to finish 8th in 1:09:48, while Jim Barrett (9th, 1:12:29) and Terry Greer (10th, 1:15:58) kept the back of the top ten competitive. Dan Reeves (11th, 1:20:31), Bill Larson (12th, 1:32:52), Jamin McNeil (13th, 1:35:39), and William Hoffman (14th, 1:41:01) completed the field — all of them earning it on a cold, windy Alabama morning.