John Black (not his real name) galloped away from over 200 runners to win the "Schools Stomping Out Type 2 Diabetes" 5K run on a cloudy Saturday morning in Tallahassee's Tom Brown Park. Black's time for the 27 February 2010 race was 17:40. Shannon Coates, formerly a cross-country runner for Florida State University, won the women's division, finishing fifth overall in 19:17.
The race opened with the runners heading west through Tom Brown Park on the Goose Pond Trail, a paved multi-use trail. Tony Guillen led the field, closely followed by the pseudonymous Black and Kurt Dietrich, a Lincoln High School distance runner. Near the mile the runners turned around and returned nearly to the starting line before turning into the woods to run along forest paths. Guillen, Black, and Dietrich were still leading, with the rest of the field far behind. When the leaders re-emerged from the woods there was less than half a kilometer left in the race, and Black had taken the lead.
"It seemed like Tony got slower each mile," Black said later. "Finally I just had to go by him."Black did go by Guillen, and go away as well, winning by nearly 40 meters. Guillen held on to second place, beating off a late charge by Dietrich; both runners were clocked in 17:48. As well as being the runner-up, Guillen was also the top master (over 40) runner in the race, finishing well ahead of the second master runner, Joel Piotrowski, who was seventh overall in 19:54.
Shannon Coates won the women's division handily. Starting off among the top ten runners, she moved up to fifth overall and was never challenged by any other woman. Jane Johnson was the second woman finisher and top woman master, finishing 17th overall in 21:59.The 5K was part of the Schools Stomping Out Type 2 Diabetes carnival, a fundraiser for the Foundation for Leon County Schools. The carnival also included mountain bike races, games, and music. There were 217 finishers in the 5K, a very respectable turnout for a first year event, but one which must have led to congestion at the turnaround on the narrow Goose Pond Trail.
Links:
- Complete results of the "Schools Stomping Out Type 2 Diabetes" 5K run at gulfwinds.org
http://www.gulfwinds.org/raceresults/2010/Stomp%20Out%20Diabetes%202010.htm - My photos of the "Schools Stomping Out Type 2 Diabetes" 5K run
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2809815&id=5215641&l=4082db6172 - Video of the "Schools Stomping out Type 2 Diabetes" event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w3th5bmrAw - The Foundation for Leon County Schools
http://www.foundationforlcs.com/
thanks for the write up herb! we appreciate the publicity!
ReplyDeleteSeeley,
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm not sure if "publicity" is the right word to use, but at least my three regular readers and the guy who got here accidentally by searching for "Type II statistical errors" had a chance to learn about the race. ;-)
Herb.