On Saturday morning, 13 August 2016, Ashlee Romani was not only the top woman at the Life Is A Beach 5K, she was the overall winner of the 16th annual race. Finishing more than 300 meters ahead of the next runner, Romani covered the 5K loop around Westgate Park in 20:44, the second fastest time posted by a female athlete in the sixteen-year history of the Life Is A Beach race. The only woman to run faster at the Life Is A Beach 5K was Casey McDermott, who won the race with a 17:55 in 2011.
Will Scott, just weeks away from starting his frosh year cross-country season at Headland High, was the first male runner in the race, placing second overall in 22:06. Tony Spicer was the fastest master runner in the race and second in the men's standings, fourth overall in 22:57. Master runner Mark McCarra was the third male finisher and fourth overall in 23:18.
Ella Richards, a seventh-grader on the Headland High cross-country team, was second in the women's standings and fifth overall in 24:15. At 25:59 Kimberly Floyd was the third woman and eleventh overall. Southwest Georgia Academy eighth-grade cross-country runner Katie Sheppard took the fourth woman's spot, finishing sixteenth overall in 27:56. Cassie Logan was the top woman master and fifth female finisher, running 28:03 for seventeenth overall.
44 athletes finished the Dothan Runners Club's 2016 Life Is A Beach 5K cross-country race.
Top Ten Women, 2016 Life Is A Beach 5K
- 20:44, Ashlee Romani (F, 29)
- 24:15, Ella Richards (F, 12)
- 25:59, Kimberly Floyd (F, 38)
- 27:56, Katie Sheppard (F, 13)
- 28:03, Casssie Logan (F, 53)
- 28:27, Chris Fox-Flowers (F, 58)
- 28:51, Michele Chesnut (F, 37)
- 30:08, Kristi Holland (F, 40)
- 32:07, Emma Richards (F, 13)
- 32:43, Amanda Robinson (F, 35)
Top Ten Men, 2016 Life Is A Beach 5K
- 22:06, Will Scott (M, 14)
- 22:57, Tony Spicer (M, 49)
- 23:18, Mark McCarra (M, 51)
- 24:28, Dave Durbin (M, 56)
- 25:27, Sonny Chesnut (M, 14)
- 25:37, David Butler (M, 51)
- 25:42, Sean Costello (M, 36)
- 25:58, Xavier Clayton (M, 25)
- 26:03, David Forrester (M, 37)
- 26:30, Bruce Hall (M, 48)
Dothan Runners' Life is a Beach 5K Trail Run Champions, 2001 - 2016 | |||
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Date | Men | Women | Finishers |
11 August 2001 | 18:18, Matt Parker | 24:09, Piper Stockman | 68 |
18 August 2002 | 18:55, Shawn Latshaw | 22:05, Teresa Lafleur | 75 |
16 August 2003 | 18:04, Myles Gibson | 21:09, Sandy Ebanks | 71 |
14 August 2004 | 17:24, Nicholas Ireland | 23:18, Ali Keith | 74 |
13 August 2005 | 20:42, Dale Thomas | 24:40, Nancy Hein | 60 |
12 August 2006 | 18:15, Gabe Mitchell | 25:45, Cassie Logan | 72 |
11 August 2007 | 18:39, Myles Gibson | 24:18, Amelia Carter | 86 |
16 August 2008 | 17:54, Ryan Overstreet | 23:20, Lou Ellen Jayroe | 71 |
15 August 2009 | 20:37, Brian Hickey | 23:00, Kristina Bennett | 62 |
21 August 2010 | 17:52, Nicholas Ireland | 21:50, Katrina Bokenfohr | 113 |
27 August 2011 | 18:57, Sean Kent | 17:55, Casey McDermott | 82 |
25 August 2012 | 18:26, Sean Kent | 24:23, Val Lichner | 119 |
24 August 2013 | 20:26, Cliff Rogers | 22:29, Brooke Hoopert | 81 |
23 August 2014 | 18:46, Myles Gibson | 24:38, Val Lichner | 46 |
22 August 2015 | 18:40, Myles Gibson | 23:49, Kimberly Floyd | 54 |
13 August 2016 | 22:06, Will Scott | 20:44, Ashlee Romani | 44 |
Links
- Complete results of the 2016 Life Is A Beach 5K Trail Run
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P5ZTqq6cEru4TxPPWx2IDcHAJkDyCZmZI_IUAZroVfQ/pubhtml
- 2015 story, “Life Is [still] A Beach for Gibson and Floyd”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/09/dothan-beach-2015.html
- 2014 story, “Nothing to beach about for either Gibson or Lichner”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/08/dothan-beach-2014.html
- 2013 story, “Rogers and Houppert win for Team RWB at Life Is A Beach 5K”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/08/dothan-beach-2013.html
- 2012 story, “No sand, no waves, but wins for Kent and Lichner”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2012/08/dothan-beach-2012.html
- 2011 story, "Coach McDermott crashes Dothan's beach party”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/08/dothan-beach-2011.html
- 2010 story, “Ireland and Bokenfohr winners at this beach party”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/dothan-beach-2010.html
- The Dothan Runners Club
http://www.dothanrunners.com
- Beach runs and sunny beach runs on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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