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| Justin Keefe |
Under dry conditions, this may be an easier surface to run on than the sugar sand that the athletes had to slog through in the past. Consequently, there's a good chance that there will be some faster performances in 2019. Therefore, I thought it was an opportune time to look at the best times run on the sand during the first six years of the race.
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Justin Keefe, a former University of Richmond cross-country runner, set the course record in 2017. It was one of the dry years, when the Freedom 5K is like trying to race on a beach, but Keefe ran 16:32--more than a minute faster than anyone else has ever gone on the course. Stan Linton ran the second best time of 17:33 in 2013, back before he had started racing for the Seminoles at Florida State University. It was one of the rainy years, so the sand was soft even if the course was a bit sloppy. 2015 was another rainy year, and Zach DeVeau put up a winning time of 17:36 on the wet course.
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| Amy Hines |
2018 was clear, but there had been enough rain during the week leading up to the race to firm up the sand. Amy Hines took advantage of those course conditions to to 19:10, the women's course record for the Freedom 5K. The previous best, and still second on the all-time list, was Dr. Katie Sherron's 19:51, run during the rainy 2015 race. Florida State University Seminole Madison Harris ran 20:00 on a bright morning in 2016, the third-best women's time at the Freedom 5K. The only three-time champ of the race, Harris also ran fourth-best women's time of 20:12 in 2014 and the eighth-best, 21:12, in the rainy 2013 race.
Michael Martinez owns the best Freedom 5K mark by a master runner, the 18:27 he ran while finishing second to Zach DeVeau in the rain in 2015. Angela Dempsey had the best performance of any woman master at the first six years of the Freedom 5K, running 23:00 in 2018.
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| Katie Sherron |
Will these times be displaced in 2019? It depends on the gravel. It also depends on the weather. But mostly, it depends on the athletes who will be racing.
Links
- Trouble Afoot! coverage of the Paul Hoover Freedom 5K, 2013 - 2018
- 2018, “Ryan Truchelut and Amy Hines were swift on the sand at the Paul Hoover 5K”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/06/freedom-2018.html
- 2017, “It's Justin Keefe with a new course record at the Paul Hoover Freedom 5K”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/06/freedom-2017.html
- 2016, “Calhoun and Harris are first in the Freedom 5K”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/06/freedom-2016.html
- 2015, “A little rain didn't slow down either DeVeau or Sherron at the Freedom Run 5K”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/06/freedom-2015.html
- 2014, “Lin and Harris post Freedom 5K wins”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/06/freedom-2014.html
- 2013, “Linton and Harris break loose at Freedom 5K”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/06/freedom-2013.html
- 2018, “Ryan Truchelut and Amy Hines were swift on the sand at the Paul Hoover 5K”
- More places to run fast times on the Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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