137 athletes finished the Back The Blue 5K in Albany, Georgia on Saturday morning, 3 August 2019, more than ever before in the four-year history of the annual road race. Thomas Rischar was the fastest in that group. Rischar, a senior on the cross-country team at Crisp County High, won the 3.1-mile race by nearly half a minute, running 17:06. Another Crisp High harrier, junior Allie Brown, took the women's title, placing ninth overall in 21:22.Albany's Jake Clawson grabbed the runner-up spot with a 17:35. Clawson is currently the cross-country coach at Deerfield Windsor School, formerly he was a distance runner at Western Carolina University. Sherrick Davis of Lynchburg, Virginia was third, running 18:34.
Emily Phillips, a sophomore on the Lee County High cross-country team, ran 22:28 to place second in the women's standings and fourteenth overall. Yet another prep harriers, Deerfield Windsor eighth-grader Trace Bridges, was the third woman and sixteenth overall in 22:57.
Paul Berna was the fastest master runner in the race, placing 21st in the men's standings and 25th overall in 24:23. Gunawati Gunawan was the first woman master and sixth female finisher, 32nd overall in 25:27.
Top Ten Men, 2019 Back The Blue 5K
- 17:05.2, Thomas Rischar (M, 15-19)
- 17:34.3, Jake Clawson (M, 30-39)
- 18:33.9, Sherrick Davis (M, 20-29)
- 19:39.8, Jared Hammond (M, 30-39)
- 19:41.0, Jaquez Jones (M, 15-19)
- 20:29.0, Will Reese (M, 30-39)
- 20:33.1, Benjamin Phillips (M, 15-19)
- 20:57.9, Seth Tomlinson (M, 15-19)
- 21:39.2, Tim Ellis (M, 15-19)
- 21:56.1, Will Tomlinson (M, 15-19)
Top Ten Women, 2019 Back The Blue 5K
- 21:21.1, Allie Brown (F, 15-19)
- 22:27.7, Emily Phillips (F, 15-19)
- 23:05.3, Trace Bridges (F, 11-14)
- 23:57.8, Tori Bridges (F, 11-14)
- 24:48.7, Alma Ostrander (F, 11-14)
- 25:26.6, Gunawati Gunawan (F, 40-49)
- 26:22.5, Lenzie Vickers (F, 15-19)
- 26:24.4, Tabitha Boyer (F, 15-19)
- 27:31.1, Laurel Wilkerson (F, 11-14)
- 28:18.6, Kimberly Carles (F, 11-14)
| Albany, Georgia Back The Blue 5K winners, 2016 - 2019 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Men | Women | Finishers |
| 30 July 2016 | 16:57, Patrick Whitehead | 22:36, Meghan Pate | 102 |
| 5 August 2017 | 16:32, Joshua Grant | 19:05, Ann Centner | 67 |
| 4 August 2018 | 16:24, Porter Hill | 20:34, Charlotte Augestein | 135 |
| 3 August 2019 | 17:06, Thomas Rischar | 21:22, Allie Brown | 137 |
Links
- Complete results of Albany, Georgia's 2019 Back The Blue 5K
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRJkZNzGIv2bJo1RlUJGqaMMR9RIpasyk8tltfuGNaGX8l_UR1E724INM-GYw7P0RloyQhG_uxHmUZB/pubhtml
- 2017 story, “Grant and Centner set records at Back The Blue”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/08/albany-blue-2017.html
- 2016 story, “Whitehead and Pate are out front at Back The Blue”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/08/albany-blue-2016.html
- A very old Albany, Georgia marathon
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/herald-local-marathon.html
- Upcoming races in Albany and elsewhere in the Tallahassee region on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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