By Shannon Russell and Colleen Kane
The Cincinnati Enquirer

FLYING PIG RUNDOWN

Photos from the race Complete race results Today's stories: • Clifton residents champions • Daugherty: Pastry, coffee fuel for this soul • Lentz a tenacious victor • Ball's 1st win at home • Wrong turn costly in the 10K event; Borling wins it • Flying Pig by the numbers

The man who crossed the finish line first couldn't go home with the title Sunday in the Flying Pig 10K race.

Michael Trentman of Fort Jennings, Ohio finished in 31:37, but race officials later announced he had taken a wrong turn on the course, cutting off a loop and therefore running a shorter distance. Jeremy Borling, 23, of Chicago, was awarded the 10K title instead with a time of 33:58.

Borling, a Pig first-timer, didn't see Trentman make the turn. Because the 10K race started only 20 minutes after the marathon and shared the same course, the top 10K runners ran into the back of the marathon traffic.

"I had no idea because we were coming up through the back end of the marathon almost the whole way anyway, so it was constant weaving around, so I didn't know who was in front or who was behind," Borling said. "It certainly made it hard if you wanted to come out and run a fast time, but if anything, it makes you not think about the race. The adrenaline's flowing and you're weaving back and forth, and I just had some fun with it."

Tanya Thatcher, of Loveland, the first female finisher in the 10K (38:15), said the weather wasn't a factor as much as the confusing merge between the two races.

She thought she was lost on the bridge from Ohio to Kentucky and said she had "no sense at all" where the other 10K runners were.

It was the first Pig 10K for Thatcher, a Sycamore High graduate who placed eighth in the full marathon in 2000.

SAY WHAT?: By the time he returns to Tokyo from a monthlong business trip, Atsushi Kato will have run five marathons, three 5Ks and a 30K. Sunday he ran the Pig's marathon in 3:25 - one day after running not one, but two 5Ks. "I just enjoy it," said Kato, 42. He runs between 35 and 40 miles a week.

WALK THE WALK: The walkers race garnered an all-time high 510 entrants. Cincinnatian Darryl Davis won the event in 4:51.05.

10K INJURY: David Beckman, 48, of Milford, collapsed after finishing the 10K race. He was taken by ambulance to University Hospital where Sunday night he was listed in stable condition.

HOGS AND KISSES: Last year there was a wedding after the Pig races. This year there was a proposal right on the course. Dan Mahan, 26, proposed to Gretchen Faulkner, 28, at the Taylor-Southgate Bridge during his third Pig marathon. "He said something like, 'I want to run with you for the rest of my life,' " said a surprised Faulkner, who couldn't remember after the race if she had accepted. (She had). She had run the first leg of the 2-Person Relay and was running part of the marathon with Mahan for support. Faulkner guided Mahan to the finish three years ago and he said he "knew she was the one, after that."

FIRST PIG: Jan Danner of Clifton finished her first Flying Pig, and so did her dog, Andrew. Danner, who is blind, was escorted by her friend Sue Coburn and Andrew in the 10K race, finishing in 1:40.39.

RELAY REPEAT: Shaun Pawsat, a 34-year-old former Scott and Ludlow high schools coach, won his third straight two-person relay Sunday. This year, he did it with a new partner, Chris Rogers, 24, of Kenton County, Ky. The pair finished in 2:29:02, heading off all the four-person relay teams.

In the four-person relay, Jeff Phillips, Mark Komanecky, Eric Admiraal and Bill Hoffman, also known as Team Old Spice High Endurance, won the first Corporate Express-Corporate Relay Championship in 2:41:19. The group has won the Pig corporate relay before, but this is the first year it's recognized. The City Challenge four-person relay was not run this year.