On 22 February 2014 Pine Grove Middle School held the inaugural Color Me Viking 5K. The second annual race didn't happen till Saturday morning, 18 April 2015. Maybe it took 14 months to clean up the paint from the first one. One of the athletes who returned from the 2014 event was Lowndes High frosh Elijah Boyd. Boyd had finished third in that first race, but in 2015 he won it all, setting a new event record of 17:39. 2014 women's champ Kelsey Morse also returned for the second year of Color Me Viking. Morse, a Pine Grove Middle School cross country runner, successfully defended her title with a 21:36, placing ninth overall. Behind Boyd, Lowndes High sophomore Daniel Swilley was second overall in 19:02. Carson Locke, a seventh-grader at Pine Grove Middle School, placed third in 19:41.
Second in the women's standings went to another Pine Grove Middle School athlete, sixth grade cross country runner Jessica Locke. Locke was fifteenth overall in 24:10. The third female finisher was the top master runner in the race, Kirsten Wetherbee of Valdosta. Wetherbee was seventeenth overall in 24:20.
148 athlete finished the second annual Color Me Viking 5K. Timing and finish line services were provided by A Course / Line, LLC of Valdosta, Georgia.
Top Ten Men, 2015 Color Me Viking 5K
- 17:38.9 ~ Elijah Boyd (M, 15) Valdosta, GA
- 19:01.3 ~ Daniel Swilley (M, 16) Lake Park, GA
- 19:40.1 ~ Carson Locke (M, 13) Valdosta, GA
- 20:58.9 ~ Marc Christie (M, 14) Valdosta, GA
- 21:04.9 ~ Nikolas Christie (M, 16) Valdosta, GA
- 21:14.1 ~ Tyler Thurman (M, 19) Valdosta, GA
- 21:14.5 ~ Parker Boutwell (M, 16) Valdosta, GA
- 21:32.2 ~ Andrew Caruana (M, 12) Valdosta, GA
- 21:42.1 ~ William Wade (M, 18) Valdosta, GA
- 21:47.7 ~ Russell Lende (M, 27) Valdosta, GA
Top Ten Women, 2015 Color Me Viking 5K
- 21:35.5 ~ Kelsey Morse (F, 12) Valdosta, GA
- 24:09.8 ~ Jessica Locke (F, 11) Valdosta, GA
- 24:20.0 ~ Kirsten Wetherbee (F, 56) Valdosta, GA
- 25:17.2 ~ Anna Fisher (F, 13) Valdosta, GA
- 25:41.0 ~ Maria Tanner (F, 35) Navarre , FL
- 26:07.5 ~ Erin Locke (F, 42) Valdosta, GA
- 27:31.8 ~ Emma Davis (F, 12) Valdosta, GA
- 27:32.1 ~ Charlotte Davis (F, 38) Valdosta, GA
- 27:32.4 ~ Victoria Harlow (F, 28) Valdosta, GA
- 28:21.8 ~ Jennifer Caruana (F, 36) Valdosta, GA
| Color Me Viking 5K winners, 2014 - 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Men | Women | Finishers |
| 22 February 2014 | 18:25, Dylan Rogers | 21:18, Kelsey Morse | 208 |
| 18 April 2015 | 17:39, Elijah Boyd | 21:36, Kelsey Morse | 148 |
Links
- Complete results of the 2015 Color-Me-Viking 5K, courtesy of A Course/Line, LLC
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uDmjiMiyTfs_5PHky1K-qgJC2AmQ2Ek-sUFJb0MQeEw/pubhtml
- 2014 story, “Rogers and Morse finish in front of some colorful competition”
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/02/color-me-viking-2014.html
- Color Me Viking Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/colormeviking
- Find an upcoming trail run in the region on the Trouble Afoot! race calendar
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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