Kurt Dietrich |
2-1-1 Big Bend, a non-profit mental health hotline, has held the Run 2-1-1 each year since 2014. The early races were in Southwood, but in 2018 the organization moved the race to Railroad Square, with a course that took in the Capital Cascades Trail and Cascades Park. Close to a hundred athletes showed up to race at the new venue.
“There were lots of turns, especially in Cascades Park,” said McDermott, the women’s winner. “But it was well marked. I had no trouble following the course. I always knew where to go.”
Laura McDermott |
Other runners commented on the scenery along the route--the landscaping along the Cascades Trail/FAMU Way corridor, Lake Anita, and the Cascades Park Bridge. Two years earlier, at the ribbon cutting for that section of the Cascades Trail, Mayor Andrew Gillum had declared, “This is what an All-American city looks like.”
Kurt Dietrich didn’t dawdle to look around during the Run 2-1-1, though. Just minutes into the race he was well ahead of the field. Enijah Thomas, a rising seventh-grader on the Fairview Middle School cross-country team, trailed Dietrich in second. Chris Myrick overtook Thomas in Cascades Park, early in the second mile of the race, but no one was catching Dietrich. His winning 18:26 put him nearly a quarter mile ahead of the next runner. Myrick took second in 19:59, and Carson McGinn was third in 21:43. Enijah Thomas held off Michael Kennett to take fourth, both runners clocked in 22:00. Kennett was the first master runner in the race.
Chris Myrick & Enijah Thomas |
At 22:01, a step or two behind Kennett, McDermott took the women's title. Monica Toth was the women's runner-up and eighth overall in 22:50. Jasmin McClellan was third in the women's standings, placing eleventh overall in 23:55. Wendy Rude was the top woman master and fourth female finisher, fifteenth overall in 24:50.
98 athletes finished the 2018 Run 2-1-1 5K. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race.
Monica Toth |
Top Ten Men, 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K
- 18:26, Kurt Dietrich (M, 26)
- 19:59, Chris Myrick (M, 25)
- 21:43, Carson McGinn (M, 24)
- 22:00, Enijah Thomas (M, 11)
- 22:00, Michael Kennett (M, 44)
- 22:06, Matt Hohmeister (M, 37)
- 23:26, Kevin Gonzalez (M, 27)
- 23:29, Ed Dekloet (M, 51)
- 24:07, T J Morton (M, 38)
- 24:21, Mike Dearth (M, 32)
Top Ten Women, 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K
- 22:01, Laura McDermott (F, 38)
- 22:50, Monica Toth (F, 29)
- 23:55, Jasmin McClellan (F, 29)
- 24:50, Wendy Rude (F, 43)
- 25:33, Jennie Merchant (F, 26)
- 26:33, Kelly Booten (F, 57)
- 26:41, Kelley El-Urfali (F, 54)
- 27:02, Debbie Peters (F, 57)
- 27:33, Ashlyn Portero (F, 29)
- 27:53, Kimberly Martinez (F, 23)
Run 2-1-1 Big Bend winners, 2014 - 2018 | ||||
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Date | Distance | Men | Women | Finishers |
29 January 2014 | 5K | 16:55, Justin Martin | 18:44, Emily Ness | 99 |
31 January 2015 | 10K | 48:07, Isabel Anderson | 50:18, Craig Asselin | 33 |
5K | 20:53, Mike Weyant | 19:33, Stephanie Liles-Weyant | 65 | |
13 February 2016 | 10K | 38:14, Myles Gibson | 47:21, Emma Spencer | 66 |
5K | 21:42, Michael Weyant | 21:31, Jillian Heddaeus | 80 | |
3 June 2017 | 10K | 41:16, Paul Guyas | 43:27, Kat Sack | 41 |
5K | 19:42, Scott Wallace | 22:50, Kristin Halley | 48 | |
2 June 2018 | 5K | 18:26, Kurt Dietrich | 22:01, Laura McDermott | 98 |
Links
- Complete results of the 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSzZD80AIR59_oTl4gtilPAr2TOS-SM_T_QI8hf5AQ5mb3VTpkCkLpfOL-ZeLGKCj8YGYpAo9EK9q3J/pubhtml
- More photos of the 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10112006608357453.1073742359.5215641&type=1&l=4ef7095f36
- Fred Deckert's photos of the 2018 2-1-1 Big Bend 5K
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ixpWpolmWf3EJ5SN2
- 2017 story, “Guyas and Sack run one-two at Run 2-1-1”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/06/211-2017.html
- 2015 story, “Anderson and Liles-Weyant lead a women's sweep of Run 2-1-1”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/02/211-2015.html
- 2014 story, “Hot times in Southwood for Martin and Ness”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/02/211-2014.html
- 2-1-1 Big Bend
http://211bigbend.net/
- Find your next race in the Tallahassee region on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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