Karen Bertasso

Running Resume

Team Affiliation: Capital Region Elite Women (CREW)

Recent Highlights

2024 Helderberg to Hudson female champion (1:17:07)
2023 runner up Steamtown Marathon
3rd place 2023 3M half marathon (1:17:49)
1st place 2022 Stockadeathon
2:41:27 marathon (PR) at the 2022 California International Marathon
2022 Winner Fargo Marathon
5 time Champion CDPHP Workforce Challenge
1st place 2020 Tallahassee Half Marathon
2020 Olympic Trials Marathon participant and finisher
1st place 2020 Northern Ohio Marathon
2nd place 2019 Mohawk Hudson Half Marathon (1:17:46)
2nd overal female, Olympic Trials Qualifier, 2018 Hartford Marathon
5th overall female, 2019 Eugene Marathon (2:45)
33rd overall female, 4th American 2017 Berlin Marathon
First place, course record 2023, 2018, 2017 18.12 Challenge
First place, course record, 2015- 1812 1/2 Marathon (Watertown, NY)
4 time winner of the Troy Turkey Trot
Multiple time Overall Women's winner of USATF Adirondack Grand Prix Racing Series
2015 & 2014 winner of the Bridge of Flowers 10k
3-time Champion Adirondack Distance Run (10 miler), 2014-5th fastest time in 38 year race history, fastest time since 1997 (Lake George, NY)
First American at the 2015 London Marathon, 37th overall female (London, UK)
Third place 2014 Hartford Marathon (Hartford, CT)
15th overall female 2014 USATF National 20k Championship (New Haven, CT)
19th overall female 2016 USATF National Half Marathon Championship (Columbus, OH)

PR’s:

5k: 17:29 (2015) 17:02* (2022) *net downhill
10k: 36:12 (2021)
15k: 55:27 (2022)
10 miler: 58:56 (2019)
Half Marathon: 1:17:07 (2024)
Marathon: 2:41:27 (2022)

Education

Running Resume

USATF Marathon Specialist- certified coach

USATF LEVEL 1 coaching certification

Assistant coach Dream Big project, Albany, NY

Girls on the Run, Albany NY

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Worcester, MA

Masters in Physician Assistant Studies, 2010

Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Masters in Medical Sciences, 2007

Union College, Schenectady, NY

Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, 2006

Medical Volunteer Ironman Lake Placid, NY

NASS: North American Spine Society, November, 2014, San Francisco, CA
Brain Tumor Biotech Summit: Weill Cornell Brain and Spine, June, 2013, New York, NY.
Joint Commission of Joint Arthroplasty Conference: Hip and Knee Arthroscopy January 2012, Vail, CO.
Saratoga Summer Sports Symposium: Sports Medicine Conference, August 2011, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Blog

Where I Run

My running journey over the past several years--training, races and random thoughts!

http://traintoracetorace.blogspot.com/

Where I Run

All my favorite routes in the area!

Electric City Bike path, Chatham (cinder!)
Lions Park- flat, maintained path
Rail trail, Delmar-Voorheesville
SUNY Albany- great winter option, always plowed!
Schenectady bike path from SCCC