Alec Munger and Brenna Clark were on a roll at the Break Bread Bun Run

In 2017, fourteen-year-old Alec Munger had placed eighth in Valdosta, Georgia's Break Bread Bun Run 5K, running 20:37. Based on that performance, you might not have picked him for a contender in the ninth annual Bun Run on Saturday morning, 21 July 2018. But in the months following the 2017 race, Munger had put in a season on the Lowndes High cross-country team during his frosh year at the school. And just over two weeks before the Bun Run, Munger had won the Valdosta Independence Day 5K. Knowing that, you couldn't say it was a surprise that Munger won the 2018 Bun Run by close to 60 meters, going 18:45. Another high school cross-country runner, Valwood High rising sophmore Brenna Clark, took the women's title, placing fourteenth overall in 23:39.


Munger was the fourth in a string of Bun Run champs less than twenty years old. Brishen House of Lowndes High had won the race in 2017, Jackson Green of Valosta State had won in 2016, and Matthew Baun of Valdosta High had won in 2015. Ryan Kelly had been the Bun Run's last over-twenty winner, with victories in 2013 and 2014. In the 2018 race, Kelly came up second-best against Munger, finishing runner-up in 18:58. Behind Kelly, Myles Gibson of Donalsonville, Georgia was the top master runner in the Bun Run; Gibson was third overall in 19:33.


Alexandra Sayre was runner-up to Brenna Clark in the women's standings, placing seventeenth overall in 24:39. Sayre is a rising junior on the Lowndes High cross-country team. Martha Mazurkiewicz of Valdosta was the first woman master and third female finisher in the Bun Run, coming in eighteenth overall in 25:21.


88 athletes finished the 2018 Break Bread Bun Run 5K. A Course/Line, LLC, of Valdosta timed the race and provided finish line services.


Top Ten Men, 2018 Break Bread Bun Run 5K

1. 18:44.7, Alec Munger (M, 15) Valdosta, GA
2. 18:57.9, Ryan Kelly (M, 39) Lake Park, GA
3. 19:32.2, Myles Gibson (M, 52) Donalsonville, GA
4. 20:19.2, Kevius Shaw (M, 19) Valdosta, GA
5. 20:31.3, David Burnett (M, 42) Valdosta, GA
6. 20:36.7, Samuel Trimble (M, 16) Lake Park, GA
7. 21:01.3, Caleb Starling (M, 16) Valdosta, GA
8. 21:15.5, Wayne Reynolds (M, 42) Valdosta, GA
9. 21:35.7, Rick Mazurkiewicz (M, 51) Valdosta, GA
10. 21:54.1, Cavan Fulp (M, 16) Hahira, GA

Top Ten Women, 2018 Break Bread Bun Run 5K

1. 23:38.3, Brenna Clark (F, 15) Valdosta, GA
2. 24:38.4, Alexandra Sayre (F, 16) Valdosta, GA
3. 25:20.1, Martha Mazurkiewicz (F, 50) Valdosta, GA
4. 25:31.3, Jolie Green (F, 15) Valdosta, GA
5. 25:55.0, Jordan Green (F, 15) Valdosta, GA
6. 27:16.1, Debbie Green (F, 52) Valdosta, GA
7. 28:08.4, Kali Carter (F, 18) Valdosta, GA
8. 28:17.2, Madeline Castor (F, 15) Valdosta, GA
9. 28:36.0, Traci Ferris (F, 35) Valdosta, GA
10. 28:39.8, Karina Amundson (F, 48) Valdosta, GA

Break Bread Bun Run 5K champions, 2010 - 2018
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
24 July 2010	18:28, Scott Gardner	24:16, Nicole Kump	49
23 July 2011	18:47, Masked Avenger	23:07, Minerva Arreguin	78
21 July 2012	18:21, Mark McLeod	21:11, Alice Smoot	56
20 July 2013	18:54, Ryan Kelly	22:30, Alison Peters	71
12 July 2014	18:19, Ryan Kelly	21:20, Makenzee Page	49
11 July 2015	17:49, Matthew Baun	21:10, Erica Schloemer	38
23 July 2016	18:58, Jackson Green	23:10, Debbie Green	65
22 July 2017	18:55, Brishen House	22:58, Vanessa Spry	87
21 July 2018	18:45, Alec Munger	23:39, Brenna Clark	88

Links:

• Complete results of the 2018 Break Bread Bun Run 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRVPGgfJpFb1wNJpba9TbHRj1Do3CLFPcx2eu2ZxghsBngJgscSDi3zSM89PHXvb1_JDl2EBA28cHw2/pubhtml
  
  
• 2017 story, “House and Spry were the athletic upper crust of the Bun Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/07/bun-run-2017.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “Green and Green pour on some flour power at Bun Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/07/bun-run-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Baun and Schloemer bake some fresh records in the Bun Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/07/bun-run-2015.html
  
  
• 2014 story, “Kelly and Page rise to the occasion at Bun Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/07/bun-run-2014.html
  
  
• 2013 story, “Kelly and Peters break away at Break Bread Bun Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/bun-run-2013-.html
  
  
• 2012 story, “McLeod and Smoot kick some buns in Valdosta's Wood Valley”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2012/07/bun-run-2012.html
  
  
• 2011 story, “Avenger and Arreguin emerge from the Wood Valley Hills as Bun Run Champs”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/07/bun-run-2011.html
  
  
• 2010 story, “Gardner conquers Valdosta's Wood Valley hills to win the Bun Run 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/break-bread-2010.html
  
  
• Find another baked good race on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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