Saturday, February 26, 2011

Slupecki and Stevens stomp to victory in Tom Brown Park

Getting ahead early and farther ahead later, Lincoln High School junior Jacob Slupecki ran 17:30 to win the second annual Schools Stomping Out Type 2 Diabetes 5K in Tallahassee's Tom Brown Park on Saturday morning, 26 February 2011. Slupecki finished the race nearly 400 meters ahead of runner-up Peter Kaus. Kaus ran 19:08, coming in comfortably ahead of Jeff Armstrong (3rd, 20:00). The next runner home was Pat Sullivan, the fastest master runner in the race, fourth overall in 20:23. After winning the women's title at the 2011 Flash 12K the week before, Kelly Stevens ran 21:23 to pick up another women's win. Stevens finished the race about half a kilometer ahead of the second woman finisher, Lynn Massimore, who ran 23:42. Like Slupecki, Stevens led her rivals almost from the start and never let up. Women's master honors went to Sandra Canada, the sixth woman in at 24:42.


Last fall Slupecki led his Lincoln High School cross-country team back to the FHSAA-3A state championships for the first time in years, where they placed ninth and Slupecki finished 28th in 16:29. Lincoln is right next door to Tom Brown Park, so Slupecki can hardly help having done quite a bit of running on the trails there. If nothing else the Lincoln Invitational, Lincoln's home cross-country meet, in run in the park. Comfortably familiar with the Goose Pond Trail and other parts of the Diabetes 5K course, Slupecki enjoyed the closest thing there is to home field advantage in distance running--not that he needed it. Slupecki's 17:30 actually ten seconds faster than Jared Black (aka John Black) did in winning the 2010 Schools Stomping Out Type 2 Diabetes 5K.


Back for its second year, the race is part of Leon County Schools' festival, Schools Stomping Out Type 2 Diabetes. A one-mile fun run followed the 5K, and the festival included music, mountain bike races, games, and Zumba. 229 runners finished the 5K, up slightly from last year's total of 217.


Top Ten Men
  1. Jacob Slupecki, 17:30
  2. Peter Kaus, 19:08
  3. Jeff Armstrong, 20:00
  4. Pat Sullivan, 20:23
  5. Karl Hempel, 20:31
  6. Mike Shank, 21:07
  7. Michael Boll, 21:45
  8. Jason Wright, 22:13
  9. Manuel Steele, 22:18
  10. Bill McGuire, 22:26

Top Ten Women
  1. Kelly Stevens, 21:23
  2. Lynn Massimore, 23:42
  3. Karima Anderson, 24:07
  4. Angela Wable, 24:18
  5. Emily Batt, 24:31
  6. Sandra Canada, 24:42
  7. Mary Jo Peltier, 25:09
  8. Kristen Bowers, 25:20
  9. Alexandra Wallace, 25:44
  10. Ana Wallace, 26:26

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