Victories in Albany for Calhoun and Oslund in the Love Run

Up north, high school and collegiate athletes spend the winter racing on indoor tracks--sometimes as small as eleven laps to a mile, wooden ovals with banked turns that could have been made for roller derby. In Georgia, though, by February the preps are looking at the start of outdoor track season. Even so, Wright Calhoun, a sophomore distance runner at Southland Academy in Americus, found time on the morning of Feb. 8 to lead a field nearly 300 runners around the streets of Albany, Georgia. It was the Heather Lanier Yeiser Love Run, and Calhoun won the first-year 5K in 17:42. Lee County High School math teacher Josh Fix was runner-up in 17:58. The fastest master runner in the race was Leesburg's Dennis Moore, who finished third overall in 19:22.


Darton College's Elena Oslund finished atop the women's standings by almost three and a half minutes, placing fourth overall in 19:52. Janie Plowden, a freshman cross-country runner at Albany's Westover High, was the women's runner-up, placing 21st overall in 23:21. Amy Cain was the top woman master in the race, 27th overall in 23:48.


The Love Run was in support of Heather Lanier Yeiser of Albany, a first grade teacher at Deerfield-Windsor School who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Yeiser was first diagnosed in October and is currently about halfway through chemotherapy. The race was sponsored by Wild Side Running of Albany.


Top Ten Men, 2014

1. 17:42 ~ Wright Calhoun (M, 16)
2. 17:58 ~ Josh Fix (M, 39)
3. 19:22 ~ Dennis Moore (M, 45)
4. 19:54 ~ Kurt Anthony (M, 48)
5. 20:46 ~ Ty Bettis (M, 40)
6. 20:51 ~ Dennis Fuchs (M, 44)
7. 21:04 ~ Jacob Blakey (M, 14)
8. 21:20 ~ William Hancock (M, 51)
9. 21:32 ~ Sergio Fairias (M, 29)
10. 21:45 ~ Fin Sarat (M, 18)

Top Ten Women, 2014

1. 19:52 ~ Elena Oslund (F, 20)
2. 23:21 ~ Janie Plowden (F, 15)
3. 23:48 ~ Amy Cain (F, 43)
4. 24:21 ~ Hadley Holt (F, 11)
5. 24:55 ~ Sage Barkley (F, 10)
6. 25:01 ~ Wendy Hester (F, 49)
7. 25:14 ~ Spenser Wilkinson (F, 24)
8. 25:16 ~ Gail Conley (F, 41)
9. 25:29 ~ Kate Jones (F, 21)
10. 25:31 ~ Kaitlyn Winter (F, 19)

Links

• Complete results of the 2014 Heather Lanier Yeiser Love Run 5K
  http://www.runningintheusa.com/Results/View.aspx?ResultsID=122992
  
  
• "Teachers hosting ‘The Love Run’ in support of friend"
  http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2014/feb/01/teachers-hosting-8216the-love-run8217-in-support/
  
  
• Another race won by Wright Calhoun
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/valdosta-independence-2013.html
  
  
• Another race won by Elena Oslund
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/01/kiwanis-river-run-2014.html
  
  
• Find Calhoun's or Oslund's next victory on the Trouble Afoot! calendar of upcoming races
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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