Nadler and Watson repeat at Ironwood in the LGAA 5K

Distance running comes in three forms--cross-country, road, and track.


Some people will argue that there is also fell running and trail running, but those are just forms of cross-country for athletes with ambitions of suffering serious injury. Others will claim that indoor track is a separate discipline, but like a bonsai tree is still a tree, indoor track is still track.


Enoch Nadler of Team Florida Track Club planned to cover all three types of distance running in just over a week. On Thursday evening, 29 March 2018, Nadler went 5,000 meters on the track at the Florida Relays in Gainesville, running 14:05.30. On Saturday morning, 7 April 2018, he's scheduled to run the Apryle Showers 10K on the roads in Ponte Vedra, Florida. Between the two, on Thursday evening, 4 April 2018, Nadler won the twelfth annual Leadership Gainesville Alumni Association 5K cross-country race, running 16:42 on the turf of Gainesville's Ironwood Golf Course. It was the third year in a row that Nadler had won the race. Also repeating was Team FTC's Georganne Watson. Watson won the women's title for the second year in a row, placing eleventh overall in 18:34.

Georganne Watson & Kelly Griffin

Luke Watson of Gainesville ran 17:10 for second overall, improving on his seventh-place finish in the 2017 LGAA 5K. Anton Matchev, an eighth-grader at Gainesville's Abraham Lincoln Middle School, took third in 17:23. It was Matchev's first time running under 18:00 on the course; he had run 18:20 in the 2015 race, 18:26 in 2016, and 18:36 in 2017. In the battle for the first master runner spot, Dan Stoner outran 2017's top master runner, Patrick Gallagher, 18:15 to 18:23. The two Gainesville athletes were seventh and eighth overall.


Kelly Griffin of Gainesville took second in the women's standings and fourteenth overall in 19:10. Gainesville's Rae Powers was the third woman and seventeenth overall in 20:06. Another Gainesville athlte, Sandy Flory, was the first woman master and sixth female finisher, placing 30th overall in 22:53.

Enoch Nadler & Luke Watson

196 athletes finished the 2018 LGAA 5K. Proceeds from the event benefit the scholarship and grant program of the Leadership Gainesville Alumni Association. The race was chip timed by Start To Finish Race Management of Alachua, Florida.


Top Ten Men, 2018 LGAA 5K Cross-Country Race

1. 16:42, Enoch Nadler (M, 32) Gainesville, FL
2. 17:10, Luke Watson (M, 37) Gainesville, FL
3. 17:23, Anton Matchev (M, 14) Gainesville, FL
4. 17:53, Rick Smith (M, 39)
5. 17:53, Francisco Flores-Rodriguez (M, 15) Gainesville, FL
6. 17:58, Michael Rosato (M, 29) Gainesville, FL
7. 18:15, Dan Stoner (M, 43) Gainesville, FL
8. 18:23, Patrick Gallagher (M, 42) Gainesville, FL
9. 18:27, Ben Wise (M, 39) Gainesville, FL
10. 18:58, Ben Mock (M, 15) Gainesville, FL

Top Ten Women, 2018 LGAA 5K Cross-Country Race

1. 18:58, Georganne Watson (F, 33) Gainesville, FL
2. 19:10, Kelly Griffin (F, 39) Gainesville, FL
3. 20:06, Rae Powers (F, 26) Gainesville, FL
4. 20:20, Cierra Clark (F, 22)
5. 20:46, Kate Egan (F, 33) Gainesville, FL
6. 22:53, Sandy Flory (F, 41) Gainesville, FL
7. 23:16, Verity Mathis (F, 39) Gainesville, FL
8. 23:24, Betsy Waite (F, 31) Gainesville, FL
9. 23:34, Tommie Bost (F, 11) Gainesville, FL
10. 23:53, Karen Harbaugh (F, 49) Gainesville, FL

Leadership Gainesville Alumni Association 5K winners, 2007 - 2018
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
18 April 2007
16 April 2008	15:37, Brent Schneider	18:40, Romy Krueger	279
15 April 2009
24 March 2010	15:55, Andrew Robinson	20:22, Mary Waechter	180
13 April 2011	15:52, Brent Schneider	23:02, Claudia Noah
11 April 2012	16:40, Dan Monteau	19:53, Stephanie Williams	263
10 April 2013	17:32, Dan Clark	21:47, Rebecca Weaver	267
16 April 2014	16:26, Michael Anderson	19:05, Ani Veltcheva	385
22 April 2015	15:42, Jon Mott	19:32, Ani Veltcheva	350
27 April 2016	16:06, Enoch Nadler	18:43, Ani Veltcheva	305
5 April 2017	15:12, Enoch Nadler	18:34, Georganne Watson	189
4 April 2018	16:42, Enoch Nadler	18:58, Georganne Watson	196

Links

• Complete results of the 2018 LGAA 5K Cross-Country Race
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRt-oe3PeJR88g296swf7lyJojSZlq8Z9pT4Sm9olOsRBAhkyMHxXoec6k5VMhXtkM0DdKGoLBoIm01/pubhtml
  
  
• 2017 story, “Enoch Nadler's 15:12 wins the LGAA 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/04/lgaa-2017.html
  
  
• Ironwood Golf Course
  http://www.ironwoodgolfcourse.org/
  
  
• Leadership Gainesville Alumni Association
  http://www.lgalum.com/
  
  
• Find an upcoming cross-country race on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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