Kurt Dietrich and Laura McDermott take first at Run 2-1-1

The fifth annual Run 2-1-1 5K on Saturday morning, 2 June 2018, was Kurt Dietrich’s fourth five-kilometer race in Tallahassee since early May. When it was over, Dietrich had his fourth 5K win since early May. Dietrich was first across the finish line in Railroad Square Art Park, running 18:26. Laura McDermott was the first woman in the 3.1-mile race, placing sixth overall in 22:01.

Kurt Dietrich

2-1-1 Big Bend, a non-profit mental health hotline, has held the Run 2-1-1 each year since 2014. The early races were in Southwood, but in 2018 the organization moved the race to Railroad Square, with a course that took in the Capital Cascades Trail and Cascades Park. Close to a hundred athletes showed up to race at the new venue.


“There were lots of turns, especially in Cascades Park,” said McDermott, the women’s winner. “But it was well marked. I had no trouble following the course. I always knew where to go.”

Laura McDermott

Other runners commented on the scenery along the route--the landscaping along the Cascades Trail/FAMU Way corridor, Lake Anita, and the Cascades Park Bridge. Two years earlier, at the ribbon cutting for that section of the Cascades Trail, Mayor Andrew Gillum had declared, “This is what an All-American city looks like.”


Kurt Dietrich didn’t dawdle to look around during the Run 2-1-1, though. Just minutes into the race he was well ahead of the field. Enijah Thomas, a rising seventh-grader on the Fairview Middle School cross-country team, trailed Dietrich in second. Chris Myrick overtook Thomas in Cascades Park, early in the second mile of the race, but no one was catching Dietrich. His winning 18:26 put him nearly a quarter mile ahead of the next runner. Myrick took second in 19:59, and Carson McGinn was third in 21:43. Enijah Thomas held off Michael Kennett to take fourth, both runners clocked in 22:00. Kennett was the first master runner in the race.

Chris Myrick & Enijah Thomas

At 22:01, a step or two behind Kennett, McDermott took the women's title. Monica Toth was the women's runner-up and eighth overall in 22:50. Jasmin McClellan was third in the women's standings, placing eleventh overall in 23:55. Wendy Rude was the top woman master and fourth female finisher, fifteenth overall in 24:50.


98 athletes finished the 2018 Run 2-1-1 5K. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race.

Monica Toth

Top Ten Men, 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K

1. 18:26, Kurt Dietrich (M, 26)
2. 19:59, Chris Myrick (M, 25)
3. 21:43, Carson McGinn (M, 24)
4. 22:00, Enijah Thomas (M, 11)
5. 22:00, Michael Kennett (M, 44)
6. 22:06, Matt Hohmeister (M, 37)
7. 23:26, Kevin Gonzalez (M, 27)
8. 23:29, Ed Dekloet (M, 51)
9. 24:07, T J Morton (M, 38)
10. 24:21, Mike Dearth (M, 32)

Top Ten Women, 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K

1. 22:01, Laura McDermott (F, 38)
2. 22:50, Monica Toth (F, 29)
3. 23:55, Jasmin McClellan (F, 29)
4. 24:50, Wendy Rude (F, 43)
5. 25:33, Jennie Merchant (F, 26)
6. 26:33, Kelly Booten (F, 57)
7. 26:41, Kelley El-Urfali (F, 54)
8. 27:02, Debbie Peters (F, 57)
9. 27:33, Ashlyn Portero (F, 29)
10. 27:53, Kimberly Martinez (F, 23)

Run 2-1-1 Big Bend winners, 2014 - 2018
Date	Distance	Men	Women	Finishers
29 January 2014	5K	16:55, Justin Martin	18:44, Emily Ness	99
31 January 2015	10K	48:07, Isabel Anderson	50:18, Craig Asselin	33
	5K	20:53, Mike Weyant	19:33, Stephanie Liles-Weyant	65
13 February 2016	10K	38:14, Myles Gibson	47:21, Emma Spencer	66
	5K	21:42, Michael Weyant	21:31, Jillian Heddaeus	80
3 June 2017	10K	41:16, Paul Guyas	43:27, Kat Sack	41
	5K	19:42, Scott Wallace	22:50, Kristin Halley	48
2 June 2018	5K	18:26, Kurt Dietrich	22:01, Laura McDermott	98

Links

• Complete results of the 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSzZD80AIR59_oTl4gtilPAr2TOS-SM_T_QI8hf5AQ5mb3VTpkCkLpfOL-ZeLGKCj8YGYpAo9EK9q3J/pubhtml
  
  
• More photos of the 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K
  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10112006608357453.1073742359.5215641&type=1&l=4ef7095f36
  
  
• Fred Deckert's photos of the 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K
  https://photos.app.goo.gl/ixpWpolmWf3EJ5SN2
  
  
• 2017 story, “Guyas and Sack run one-two at Run 2-1-1”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/06/211-2017.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Anderson and Liles-Weyant lead a women's sweep of Run 2-1-1”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/02/211-2015.html
  
  
• 2014 story, “Hot times in Southwood for Martin and Ness”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/02/211-2014.html
  
  
• 2-1-1 Big Bend
  http://211bigbend.net/
  
  
• Find your next race in the Tallahassee region on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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