The race started from Tallahassee Community College, marking the first time since 1975 that the Palace Saloon 5K didn't start from Messer Park. Early in the morning it looked like the race might not start at all, as powerful electrical storms accompanied by a tornado watch swept through Tallahassee. But the rain had stopped by 7:00 am, and much of the cloud cover had drifted away by 7:30. When the starting siren sounded after 8:00, the storms were just a bad memory.
Many of the entries didn't show up Saturday morning, perhaps because of the weather. Still, 1064 runners finished the 2011 Palace Saloon 5K, the third straight year that over 1000 completed the race. Only in 2010 did more runners cross the finish line at the Palace. It was also the largest race in Tallahassee so far in 2011, exceeding both the Springtime 10K (934) and the Springtime 5K (731).
- 15:48, Chris Lake (M, 23) Tallahassee, FL
- 15:57, Marc Akbar (M, 19) Palm Coast, FL
- 16:03, Tripp Southerland (M, 26) Jacksonville Beach, FL
- 16:18, Nate Kaiser (M, 31) Tallahassee, FL
- 16:22, Ryan Sloan (M, 23) Jacksonville, FL
- 16:25, David Thomas (M, 22) Tallahassee, FL
- 16:31, Nathan Holden (M, 25) Jacksonville, FL
- 16:32, Charlie Johnson (M, 31) Tallahassee, FL
- 16:35, Stephen Cox (M, 27) Tallahassee, FL
- 16:44, Jacob Slupecki (M, 17) Tallahassee, FL
Top Ten Women, 37th annual Palace Saloon 5K
- 18:24, Lindsay Zeiler (F, 26) Tallahassee, FL
18:43, Lisa Johnson (F, 29) Tallahassee, FL
- 19:01, Lauren Poulos (F, 25) Tallahassee, FL
- 19:05, Sheryl Rosen (F, 26) Tallahassee, FL
- 19:38, Kirsten Hagen (F, 24) Tallahassee, FL
- 19:40, Kailand Cosgrove(F, 20) Tarpon Springs, FL
- 19:57, Kelly Stevens (F, 29) Tallahassee, FL
- 20:08, Micah Adriani (F, 33) Tallahassee, FL
- 20:17, Mary Anne Grayson (F, 45) Thomasville, GA
- 21:31, Cara Lavier (F, 32) Tallahassee, FL
Links:
- Complete results of the 2011 Palace Saloon 5K at racesmith.com
http://www.racesmith.com/results/2011results/PalaceSaloon5K041611oa.html - Age-group and team results of the 2011 Palace Saloon 5K at racesmith.com
http://www.racesmith.com/results/2011results/PalaceSaloon5K041611ag.html - Searchable results of the 2011 Palace Saloon 5K at active.com
http://results.active.com/pages/searchform.jsp?rsID=108153 - Fred Deckert's photos of the 2011 Palace Saloon 5K
http://picasaweb.google.com/Freddecka/Palace_11 - Cole Tessier's photos of the 2011 Palace Saloon 5K (Part 1)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=5217230&aid=3115309&l=f7223ef477 - Cole Tessier's photos of the 2011 Palace Saloon 5K (Part 2)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=5217230&aid=3115349&l=7a65bce60e - The Robbins Running Blog report on the 2011 Palace Saloon 5K
http://therobbinsrunningblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/palace-saloon-2011.html - 2010 story: "Lake, Woytalewicz run into Palace Saloon 5K history"
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/04/2010-palace-saloon-5k.html - While waiting for the 2012 Palace, find another great road race in the area:
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
Great writeup, Herb. We all showed mother nature just what she could do with her lightning bolts and tornadic threats, didn't we?
ReplyDeleteDid you notice Lauren's time says 19:01 but the pic clearly has her across the line in 18:59? Am I missing something?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Paula! And no one had to run into the glare of the rising sun.
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Kelsey,
ReplyDeleteThe display clock is never the official timepiece. At any race I've worked, the display clock is started after the race begins and manually synchronized with the race clock, sometimes less accurately than others. At the Palace in particular, the display clock was more trouble than usual. In some of the pictures it looks like Bill Lott is trying to hold the clock up to keep it from falling down!
Herb
Haha, that's awesome, Bill is a good man.
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