Lake Park laurels for Avenger and Peters

9 June 2012 was the second Saturday of the month. For the Masked Avenger of Valdosta, Georgia, it marked the second Saturday road-race victory of the month. The Avenger clocked an 18:39 5K in Lake Park, Georgia, to win the Lake Park 4H club's second annual Run For The Revolution 5K. Just seven days before he had picked up a win at Adel's Daylily Festival 5K, just a little farther north on I-75. Tyler Thurman, a distance runner and rising junior at Lowndes High School, finished runner-up in 19:33. Third place went to the top master runner in the race, Valdosta's Rick Mazurkiewicz, who ran 20:17. Just behind Mazurkiewicz was another Lowndes High distance runner, Caleb Coil, who finished fourth overall in 20:25. Lowndes High was also represented in the female division by Alison Peters--the rising junior was the fastest female in the race, placing fifth overall in 20:40. Valdosta's Alice Smoot ran 21:25 to finish as the second female overall and the first woman master. Yet another Lowndes High distance runner, Jacki Pinkerton, placed third in the women's division, crossing the finish line tenth overall in 23:01. A week earlier, Pinkerton won top female honors at Adel's Daylily Festival 5K. All these high school athletes remind you that cross-country season is not that far away.


71 athletes completed the second year race, which started and finished near Lake Park Elementary School. An additional 13 runners finished an associated "Clover Trot" one-mile fun run.


Top Ten Men, 2012 Run 4 tHe Revolution 5K

1. 18:39 ~ Masked Avenger (M, 33) Valdosta, GA
2. 19:33 ~ Tyler Thurman (M, 16) Valdosta, GA
3. 20:17 ~ Rick Mazurkiewicz (M, 45) Valdosta, GA
4. 20:25 ~ Caleb Coil (M, 15) Valdosta, GA
5. 21:30 ~ Tony Roelofs (M, 26) Valdosta, GA
6. 22:10 ~ Dylan Guilmette (M, 16) Lake Park, GA
7. 22:20 ~ Jackson Williams, Jr. (M, 29) Willacoochee, GA
8. 23:40 ~ Larry Morts (M, 60) Valdosta, GA
9. 24:12 ~ Bob Moon (M, 57) Valdosta, GA
10. 24:29 ~ Steven Dansereau (M, 50) Lakeland, GA

Top Ten Women, 2012 Run 4 tHe Revolution 5K

1. 20:40 ~ Alison Peters (F, 16) Valdosta, GA
2. 21:25 ~ Alice Smoot (F, 55) Valdosta, GA
3. 23:01 ~ Jacki Pinkerton (F, 16) Valdosta, GA
4. 24:32 ~ Nancy Elam (F, 49) Valdosta, GA
5. 25:26 ~ Billie Washburn (F, 50) Valdosta, GA
6. 25:30 ~ Rebecca Meindl (F, 36) Valdosta, GA
7. 25:45 ~ Janis Lee (F, 57) Hahira, GA
8. 26:05 ~ Debbie Green (F, 46) Valdosta, GA
9. 26:51 ~ Daresa Hunter (F, 35) Valdosta, GA
10. 26:55 ~ Heather Kelly (F, 34) Valdosta, GA

Links

• Complete results of the 2012 Run 4 tHe Revolution 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuBsYKIIn3TCdE9Fa1VfZHA2OEU4N0szWHJWNEw0ZFE&output=html
  
  
• Tom Durham's photos of the 2012 Run 4 tHe Revolution 5K
  http://tdurham.zenfolio.com/p299757218
  
  
• You can probably find a race the Masked Avenger isn't running on this calendar
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1