Heralding the approach of another cross-country season, the Dothan Runners Club held the seventeenth annual Life Is A Beach 5K on Saturday morning, 19 August 2017. Will Scott won the race in 20:42, while Kate Smith took the women's title, placing third overall in 23:11.
Scott is heading into his sophomore year at Headland, Alabama's Headland High, where he runs on the school's cross-country team. This was his second year racing the Life Is A Beach; in 2016 he had finished runner-up to Ashlee Romani in 22:06. Twelve months later, Scott trimmed nearly a minute and a half from that time to earn his first Life Is A Beach win, finishing close to 40 meters ahead of the next runner, Dale Thomas. Thomas, the 2005 Life Is A Beach 5K champion, was the fastest master runner in the 2017 race, running 20:52. Brooks Newell edged master runner Mark McCarra for the third spot in the men's standings, 23:15 to 23:17.
Kristi Holland was the first woman master and second female finisher, placing tenth overall in 27:21. Jennifer Wade was the third woman in the 5K and eighteenth overall in 31:59.
Top Ten Men, 2017 Life Is A Beach 5K
- 20:42, Will Scott (M, 15)
- 20:52, Dale Thomas (M, 54)
- 23:15, Brooks Newell (M, 31)
- 23:17, Mark McCarra (M, 52)
- 25:31, Paul Turner (M, 54)
- 25:42, Stan Lane (M, 60)
- 26:19, Roger Rocha (M, 53)
- 27:09, David Forrester (M, 38)
- 28:27, Brad Sasser (M, 36)
- 29:03, Paul Jernigan (M, 44)
Top Ten Women, 2017 Life Is A Beach 5K
- 23:11, Kate Smith (F, 29)
- 27:21, Kristi Holland (F, 41)
- 31:59, Jennifer Wade (F, 32)
- 32:28, Sandy Turner (F, 54)
- 34:19, Susan Anderson (F, 55)
- 35:14, Hannah Popwell (F, 17)
- 35:50, Rene Jordan (F, 52)
- 36:17, Jocelyn Richardson (F, 39)
- 36:55, Sarah Herrell (F, 35)
- 37:11, Julia Moss (F, 32)
Dothan Runners' Life is a Beach 5K Trail Run Champions, 2001 - 2017 | |||
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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 |
19 August 2017 | 20:42, Will Scott | 23:11, Kate Smith | 39 |
Links
- Complete results of the 2017 Life Is A Beach 5K Trail Run
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRwWNle8MbZGQXZ1PPf3p0K1RO8ExIK_reH_MKex3RTj9S9ssQkusG-dJ_0n0oMLaMYcd9ObsTUNu6-/pubhtml
- 2016 story, “Ashlee Romani takes the whole pile of sand at the Life Is A Beach 5K”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/08/dothan-beach-2016.html
- 2015 story, “Life Is [still] A Beach for Gibson and Floyd”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/08/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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