A list of winners by age group in men's, women's and team categories in Sunday's 36th annual Gazette Stockade-athon 15k road race.

Last year, it was love at first sight for Tim Chichester and the State Street hill.
On Sunday, it was like greeting an old friend.

Complete list of finishers in the 36th annual Gazette Stockade-athon road race on Sunday.

As a music teacher, Jodie Robertson knows all about good timing. The 27-year-old Voorheesville resident picked the perfect time to make her move in the 36th annual Stockade-athon Sunday, edging past Albany’s Ashley Gorr at about the 10k mark and going on to capture her first women’s division crown by 16 seconds.

Kevin Collins calls himself a “serial racer” now. If his chronically ailing left Achille’s tendon allows him to get in a few good training weeks, he’ll call up a race director at the last minute and jump into the fray. That’s what he did this week for the Gazette Stockade-athon.

In typically modest fashion, Ed Whitlock described the scene at the finish of the Toronto Waterfront Mar­athon thus: “There was a lot of noise, yes.”

In anticipation of a significantly larger field of runners than ever before, Gazette Stockade-athon organizers, in conjunction with FleetFeet Sports Albany, have bolstered the post-race facilities and services.

From humble beginnings, the Gazette Stockade-athon has grown into one of the most important dates on the road racing calendar in the Capital Region, attracting not only big fields, but also runners of distinction and national-caliber ability.

A year-by-year recap of the Gazette Stockade-athon.

Cassie Ayott, an Air Force flight nurse advis­or stationed in Afghanistan, will be one of 300 people - servicemen and women and Afghanis - who will "compete" in the Gazette Stockade-athon and e-mail in their results to be mingled with those from Sunday's race.

This year’s Stockade-athon Healthy Living Expo, to be held Saturday at Proctors’ Robb Alley in conjunction with the 35th annual Gazette Stockade-athon, will include a number of experts and services involved in some of the different aspects of physical fitness.

Women’s particip­ation in races like the Gazette Stockade-athon has grown considerably in the last three decades, and several top women's runners will be featured in a panel discussion Saturday as part of the Healthy Living Expos.

Former University at Albany star Andy Allstadt will be one of the top contenders for the 35th annual Gazette Stockade-athon on Sunday.

Familiarity is overrated. Just ask Laurel Burdick.

Two weeks removed from winning her age group at the Lucerne Marathon in Switzerland, 58-year-old Martha Degrazia was still operating like clockwork on Sunday.