Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Bob Walker and Mackenzie Paul take the Reindeer Race 10K

Panama City Junior League's Reindeer RaceIt was 8:00 AM on Saturday morning, 12 December 2015, in Panama City Beach, Florida, when the Panama City Junior League's Reindeer Run 10K started. It was just seconds after that when Bob Walker took the lead. After two laps around a five-kilometer loop through St. Andrews State Park the master runner from Baker, Florida, was still in the lead. Walker had won the 6.2-mile race in 39:19. Not far behind him, Panama City Beach master runner Richard Lombard took second in 39:33. Kurtis Grabner edged Marion Conley for third, 46:56 to 46:59, in a duel between two Panama City master runners.


Mackenzie Paul of Memphis, Tennessee, was the women's champ, placing sixth overall in 48:25. Panama City Beach's April Hantzis was runner-up in the women's field, finishing tenth overall in 49:58. Third in the women's standings went to Erin Winn of Panama City, twelfth overall in 52:08. Susanne Moore of Pinson, Alabama, was the top woman master and fifth female finisher, fourteenth overall in 53:25. 39 athletes finished the 10K at the 2015 Reindeer Race.


Top Ten Men, Panama City Junior League's 2015 Reindeer Race 10K
  1. 39:18.8 ~ Bob Walker (M, 44) Baker, FL
  2. 39:32.9 ~ Richard Lombard (M, 41) Panama City Beach, FL
  3. 46:55.8 ~ Kurtis Grabner (M, 46) Panama City, FL
  4. 46:58.4 ~ Marion Conley (M, 54) Panama City, FL
  5. 47:05.8 ~ Keon Lee (M, 59) Rome, GA
  6. 49:05.4 ~ Buhlebenkosi Ncube (M, 30) Panama City, FL
  7. 49:51.2 ~ Nicholas T. Kern (M, 67) Santa Rosa Beach, FL
  8. 49:52.5 ~ Michael Wynn (M, 27) Panama City, FL
  9. 50:42.1 ~ Jonathan Gayfield (M, 30) Panama City, FL
  10. 61:48.2 ~ Ed Wachtfeitl (M, 54) Panama City, FL

Top Ten Women, Panama City Junior League's 2015 Reindeer Race 10K
  1. 48:24.5 ~ Mackenzie Paul (F, 23) Memphis, TN
  2. 49:57.3 ~ April Hantzis (F, 34) Panama City Beach, FL
  3. 52:07.2 ~ Erin Wynn (F, 24) Panama City, FL
  4. 52:30.8 ~ Katie Carroll (F, 21) Panama City, FL
  5. 53:24.7 ~ Susanne Moore (F, 41) Pinson, AL
  6. 54:41.8 ~ Stacey Kidd (F, 37) Lynn Haven, FL
  7. 58:39.7 ~ Alexandra Lerma (F, 29) Panama City, FL
  8. 59:46.6 ~ Courtney Noon (F, 33) Dothan, AL
  9. 60:10.4 ~ Carole Canepari (F, 38) Panama City Beach, FL
  10. 62:08.1 ~ Amy Moody (F, 46) Lynn Haven, FL

It was the sixth annual Reindeer Race, but only the most recent two events have included the 10K. The 5K, though, goes all the way back to the first Reindeer Race in 2010. In the 2015 5K Zack McFarland, an eighth-grader on the Port Saint Joe High cross country team, took a wrong turn near the mile mark, but still managed to lead the race for the first two miles. But at the end of the second mile, Fort Walton Beach athlete Brittany Rucker overtook McFarland. With Rucker leading, Grand Ridge master runner Mark McCarra challenged McFarland for second. Running together, McCarra and McFarland started to close on Rucker. With a kilometer to go, three runners were fighting for the lead.


"With 500 meters left, I swear they saw a building and thought they were done," McCarra recalled. "Both slowed when they realized it wasn't the end, but I got by them and thank goodness they let me go."


McCarra got the win in 20:55. Rucker won the women's title, finishing runner-up in 21:07. McFarland was third in 21:18.


116 athletes finished the 5K.


Top Ten Men, Panama City Junior League's 2015 Reindeer Race 5K
  1. 20:54.4 ~ Mark McCarra (M, 50) Grand Ridge, FL
  2. 21:17.5 ~ Zack McFarland (M, 14) Wewahitchka, FL
  3. 21:28.4 ~ Mike Barr (M, 55) Panama City, FL
  4. 21:24.6 ~ Tan Trung Nguyen (M, 29) Panama City, FL
  5. 22:00.5 ~ Doug Smith (M, 54) Panama City, FL
  6. 23:23.1 ~ Eddie Kepran (M, 10) Panama City Beach, FL
  7. 23:34.9 ~ Jay Davis (M, 48) Lucedale, MS
  8. 23:43.0 ~ Joseph Neel (M, 12) Panama City, FL
  9. 23:53.6 ~ Stone Hatton (M, 9) Panama City Beach, FL
  10. 24:02.7 ~ Ian Kepran (M, 40) Panama City Beach, FL

Top Ten Women, Panama City Junior League's 2015 Reindeer Race 5K
  1. 21:06.1 ~ Brittany Rucker (F, 26) Fort Walton Beach, FL
  2. 24:08.1 ~ Mary McDermott (F, 23) Panama City, FL
  3. 24:14.4 ~ Danielle Mulick (F, 31) Lynn Haven, FL
  4. 24:29.7 ~ Sienna Boughen (F, 9) Panama City, FL
  5. 25:19.3 ~ Katrina Kebran (F, 41) Panama City Beach, FL
  6. 25:26.8 ~ Eberle Funches (F, 47) Panama City Beach, FL
  7. 26:11.8 ~ Lauren Youtz (F, 29) Panama City Beach, FL
  8. 26:34.4 ~ Eve Phillips (F, 52) Panama City, FL
  9. 26:42.5 ~ Sherry Jones (F, 47) Panama City Beach, FL
  10. 27:37.6 ~ Addyson Legleiter (F, 9) Panama City Beach, FL

Panama City Junior League Reindeer Race winners, 2010 - 2015
DateDistanceMenWomenFinishers
20105K
10 December 20115K18:13, Aaron Scrimager25:00, Reagan Erbe
8 December 20125K14:15, Michael Curtin17:18, Kayla Adcock
14 December 20135K21:19, Evan Protsman22:22, Kari Kubista334
13 December 201410K42:29, Brandon Greve43:03, Amy Stoyles44
5K21:31, Jay Davis25:20, Danielle Mulick241
12 December 201510K39:19, Bob Walker48:25, Mackenzie Paul39
5K20:55, Mark McCarra21:07, Brittany Rucker116


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