Kingsway’s Kylie Anicic, in her first year of post-collegiate running, ran the fastest road 10-miler ever by a South Jersey woman Sunday in Pittsburgh.
Anicic, who finished her record-setting career at Edinboro this past spring, ran 57:03 and placed 6th out of more than 1,600 runners at the EQT Pittsburgh 10-Miler.
That’s 15 seconds faster than Cherokee graduate Megan Lacy ran at the USATF 10-Mile Championships in Minneapolis on Oct. 6, 2019.
This was Anicic’s 3rd race this fall. She ran 1:14.54 for 20K in New Haven on Sept. 2 and a 35:19 road 10K in Northport, N.Y., in late September.
At Edinboro, Anicic had track PRs of 4:30.52 for 1,500 meters, 9:27.55 for 3,000 meters, 16:25.97 for 5,000 and 33:25.55 for 10,000.
Molly Grabill, a six-time All-America at Oregon, won the race in 53:48. Grabill has a New Jersey connection: Her partner is Olympic triathlete Morgan Pearson from Harding Township and Delbarton High School. Pearson is a two-time silver medalist in the triathlon mixed relay.
Here’s my best attempt at an all-time New Jersey road 10-miler list. Note that Olympian Marielle Hall of Haddonfield and Erika Kemp of Rancocas Valley, the 2021 USATF 20K road champion, never ran a road 10-miler from all available records.
52:46 … Sarah Pagano [Immaculate Heart], Washington, D.C., April 2, 2022
53:02 … Anne (Letko) Lauck [North Hunterdon], Flint, Mich., Aug. 28, 1993
54:28 … Julie Culley [North Hunterdon], St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 6, 2019
57:06 … Kylie Anicic [Kingsway], Pittsburgh, Nov. 3, 2024
55:38 … Amanda Marino [Jackson], Philadelphia, May 5, 2013
56:43 … Amanda Trotter [Red Bank], Alexandria, Va., April 26, 2009
57:18 … Megan Lacy [Cherokee], Minneapolis, Oct. 6, 2019
57:27 … Katie Kellner [West Windsor-Plainsboro South], St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 7, 2018
58:46 … Meghan McGlinchey [West Deptford], Philadelphia, May 3, 2015
59:50 … Ashley Higginson [Colts Neck], Flint, Mich., Aug. 24, 2019
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 