Former Shawnee runner Aaron Totten-Lancaster placed 5th Saturday in the 45-49 age group at the USATF Masters Championships.
The 48-year-old Totten-Lancaster, racing for the Garden State Track Club, ran 35:32.2 over 10K at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Fla.
At Shawnee, Totten-Lancaster placed 5th at the 1992 state Group 4 meet at Holmdel in 16:44 and then was 11th in the 1992 Meet of Champions on the same course in 16:34. He won the County Open 3,200 three straight years.
Totten-Lancaster served in the Army as a squad automatic weapons gunner in Company A, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment and was awarded the Silver Star for “conspicious gallantry and intrepidity in action” for his actions in combat in Afghanistan in March 2002.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 