Rocket City 10K: Ingram rules the M75-79 group

• Ronnie Ingram, 76, took 1st in M75-79 with a time of 1:28:41 (14:16/mi).
• Wilburn Douglass Jr, 77, finished 2nd in 1:47:11 (17:15/mi).
• The gap between the two M75-79 finishers was 18 minutes 30 seconds.

Just two men lined up in the M75-79 age group at the 2024 Rocket City 10K, but both of them covered 6.2 miles through a mild Huntsville December — 59°F and a light breeze — and got it done.

Ronnie Ingram, the 76-year-old from Evansville, Indiana, led the way from start to finish, crossing in 1:28:41 at a 14:16-per-mile clip. That's a steady, deliberate effort for a 10K, and at 76 years old, steady and deliberate is exactly the point.

Wilburn Douglass Jr, the 77-year-old hometown runner from Huntsville, came home in 1:47:11 — an 18:30 gap back. At 17:15 per mile, Douglass kept moving through the full distance, and finishing a 10K at 77 deserves its own acknowledgment regardless of the clock.

Two men, two finishes, one winner. Ingram takes the M75-79 honors at Rocket City 2024.