In the Southeast United States, you know that when the muscadines ripen its nearly time for cross-country season. You also know that it's time for the Run For Love 5K in Tifton, Georgia. Dan Hobby won the 29th annual Run For Love on Saturday evening, 4 August 2018, outrunning the field with a 20:00 effort. A top ten finisher in 2017, Hobby had never won the race before, but that wasn't the case for the women's champ. Emily Golden took the women's title for the fifth year in a row, placing second overall in 20:10.Tifton's Bret Wagenhorst repeated as the top master runner in the race, placing third overall and second in the men's standings with a 20:55. Blair Golden, a seventh-grader on the Tift Middle Schools cross-country team, was the third male finisher and fourth overall in 21:48.
Emily Golden was also a Tift Middle Schools athlete back in 2014 when she won her first Run For Love 5K. Just a few weeks after collecting her fifth Run For Love title, Golden will start her junior year cross-country season at Tift County High. She'll be joined on the team by incoming frosh Ainsley Toews. Toews was the women's runner-up at Run For Love, coming in thirteenth overall in 22:48. Tift County High alum Ashlee Golden took third on the women's side and fourteenth overall in 23:17. Ashlee Golden was the first woman at the 2013 Run For Love, the year before Emily Golden started her five-year winning streak.
Penny Peters of Tifton was the first woman master and fourth female finisher, twentieth overall in 25:26.
Because of construction around the Tifton campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, the Run For Love 5K had to be held on a new course in 2018. 77 athletes found their way around the new route to finish the race. The event is a fundraiser for the Tift County High cross-country team. Tift County High's harriers are scheduled to open their season three weeks after the Run For Love, on Saturday morning, 25 August 2018, at the Cougar Cross-Country Challenge in Tallahassee, Florida's Phipps Park.
Top Ten Men, 2018 Run For Love 5K
- 20:00, Dan Hobby (M, 34) Tifton, GA
- 20:55, Bret Wagenhorst (M, 55) Tifton, GA
- 21:48, Blair Golden (M, 13) Tifton, GA
- 21:55, Gene Roberts (M, 43) Tifton, GA
- 21:59, Hayden Roberts (M, 13) Tifton, GA
- 22:02, Will Jones (M, 16) Tifton, GA
- 22:05, Joseph Knoll (M, 40) Tifton, GA
- 22:06, Aidan Evans (M, 13) Tifton, GA
- 22:08, Jonathan Jones (M, 46) Tifton, GA
- 22:10, Landon Johnson (M, 16) Tifton, GA
Top Ten Women, 2018 Run For Love 5K
- 20:10, Emily Golden (F, 16) Tifton, GA
- 22:48, Ainsley Toews (F, 14) Tifton, GA
- 23:17, Ashlee Golden (F, 18) Tifton, GA
- 25:26, Penny Peters (F, 51) Tifton, GA
- 25:35, Alexandria Vaughn (F, 14) Tifton, GA
- 25:40, Alexis Tucker (F, 15) Tifton, GA
- 26:02, Guna Gunawan (F, 46) Tifton, GA
- 26:26, Heather Patrick (F, 34) Valdosta, GA
- 26:49, Michele Stephens (F, 51) Tifton, GA
- 26:58, Laura Kate Wright (F, 13) Tifton, GA
| Recent Run For Love 5K Champions, 2001 - 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Men | Women |
| 4 August 2001 | 16:57, Buddy Clark | 22:19, Angie P. Brandenburg |
| 3 August 2002 | 17:00, Buddy Clark | 23:32, Jana Murkerson |
| 9 August 2003 | 14:56, Alan Black | 19:53, Angela Cobb |
| 14 August 2004 | 16:43, Prichard Kelly | 19:03, Angela Cobb |
| 13 August 2005 | 17:21, Roberto Bonilla | 19:36, Angela Cobb |
| 12 August 2006 | 17:22, Derek Storbeck | 17:45, Michelle Lafleur |
| 11 August 2007 | William Anderson | Kristen Ray |
| 9 August 2008 | 16:48, Buddy Clark | 20:59, Alice Smoot |
| 8 August 2009 | 17:54, Jacob Kennedy | 22:48, Katie Utley |
| 7 August 2010 | 16:29, Hunter Honeycutt | 21:29, Katie Utley |
| 6 August 2011 | 17:53, Adam Ross | 22:28, Melissa Tronolone |
| 4 August 2012 | 16:19, Hunter Honeycutt | 21:44, Madison Honeycutt |
| 10 August 2013 | 20:07, Joshua Curry | 22:46, Ashlee Golden |
| 2 August 2014 | 16:49, Hunter Honeycutt | 23:03, Emily Golden |
| 1 August 2015 | 17:58, Dayton Cannon | 22:07, Emily Golden |
| 13 August 2016 | 19:31, Eliud Mendoza | 21:29, Emily Golden |
| 5 August 2017 | 18:31, Caleb Watson | 21:37, Emily Golden |
| 4 August 2018 | 20:00, Dan Hobby | 20:10, Emily Golden |
| Please contact me if you have results for 1990-2000 or 2007! | ||
Links
- Complete results of the 2018 Tifton, Georgia, Run For Love 5K
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRhHHF4mqwUGymZBn1efcxlCBJlKyOVfAMvp033hMvdBEtr9xvNh6IXSXv9LJb2sFR1SXrA5UCnVom0/pubhtml
- 2017 story, “A win for Watson and a fourth title for Golden at Tifton's Run For Love”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/08/run-for-love-2017.html
- 2016 story, “Mendoza and Golden make it a Tift County sweep at the Run For Love”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/08/run-for-love-2016.html
- 2015 story, “Cannon wins and Golden repeats at Tifton's Run For Love”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/08/run-for-love-2015.html
- 2014 story, “Third time is as charming as ever for Honeycutt at the Run For Love”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/08/run-for-love-2014.html
- 2010 story, “Honeycutt and Utley take titles at rainy Run For Love 5K”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/run-for-love-2010.html
- Find more lovable races in the Tallahassee region on the Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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