Neither Ravi Kumar nor Lara Drondoski ran like a tortoise at the Race The Tortoise 5K

At Race The Tortoise 5K on Saturday morning, 7 March 2020, the athletes in the field found themselves chasing Ravi Kumar, who won the eleventh annual race by more than 250 meters. Kumar ran the 3.1-mile race through Florida's O'Leno State Park in 17:08. In the women's competition, Lara Drondoski and Rebecca Pieters also raced more like hares than like tortoises, finishing just a second apart. Drondoski got the women's title, edging Pieters 19:51 to 19:52. The two athletes were fourth and fifth overall.


Nicholas Barnett came in runner-up to Kumar in 18:04. Barnett is an eighth-grader on the cross-country team at Abraham Lincoln Middle School in nearby Gainesville, Florida. Another Gainesville cross-country runner, Buchholz High sophomore Wrigley Longstreet, took third in 18:37. Soren Brockdorf was the top master runner in the 5K, holding off master runner Rahn Huffstutler 21:38 to 2142. Brockdorf and Huffstutler were seventh and eighth overall.


Jess Morey took third in the women's standings, crossing the finish line eleventh overall in 22:43. Darcie Burde was the fourth woman and fifteenth overall in 23:26. At 23:41, Loretta Engler was the first woman master and fifth female finisher, placing seventeenth overall.


219 athletes finished the 2020 Race The Tortoise 5K. Start 2 Finish Race Management timed and scored the race.


Top Ten Men, 2020 Race The Tortoise 5K

1. 17:08, Ravi Kumar (M, 25)
2. 18:04, Nicholas Barnett (M, 14)
3. 18:37, Wrigley Longstreet (M, 16)
4. 21:13, Jonathan Edwards (M, 14)
5. 21:38, Soren Brockdorf (M, 52)
6. 21:42, Rahn Huffstutler (M, 40)
7. 22:30, Timothy Ortiz (M, 11)
8. 22:33, Eric Torres (M, 51)
9. 22:46, Daniel Conde (M, 37)
10. 22:51, Konstantin Matchev (M, 53)

Top Ten Women, 2020 Race The Tortoise 5K

1. 19:51, Lara Drondoski (F, 25)
2. 19:52, Rebecca Pieters (F, 36)
3. 22:43, Jess Morey (F, 39)
4. 23:26, Darcie Burde (F, 37)
5. 23:41, Loretta Engler (F, 66)
6. 24:06, Victoria Pagan (F, 54)
7. 25:43, Natalie Wright (F, 34)
8. 25:44, Libby Wyman (F, 31)
9. 25:54, Christy Larkins (F, 38)
10. 25:55, Barbara Edwards (F, 37)

Race The Tortoise 5K winners, 2009 - 2020
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
7 March 2009	18:22.9, David Robison	20:12.6, Michelle McCollum	109
13 March 2010	16:27.5, Alex Phipps	18:13.0, Elizabeth Duarte	114
5 March 2011	19:21.6, Eric Drummond	19:33.0, Tatiana Titova	218
3 March 2012	16:09.8, Vladimir Tontchinski	18:05.5, Averkova Anzhelika	268
2 March 2013	16:39.7, Dan Clark	20:37.4, Lyubov Denisova	225
1 March 2014	16:52.8, Dan Clark	19:13.4, Ani Veltcheva	247
7 March 2015	18:15.6, Anton Matchev	17:57.7, Lyubov Denisova	165
5 March 2016	16:32, Bobby Hensley	18:16, Ani Veltcheva	177
3 March 2018	15:28, Enoch Nadler	17:34, Ani Veltcheva	215
2 March 2019	17:03, Hutson Rapier	19:35, Courtney Rouse	239
7 March 2020	17:08, Ravi Kumar	19:51, Lara Drondoski	219
There was no Race The Tortoise 5K in 2017.

Links

• Complete results of the 2020 Race The Tortoise 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ4wmCWANtOmK8_h0yAUuIyl2cgGUT2tqFVs_Tmv40UnLVXnLVltB01lh1U8bEgN0GbwjZ-7rT1M4pj/pubhtml
  
  
• 2019 story, “Hutson Rapier and Courtney Rouse weren't just terrapin at the Race The Tortoise 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2019/03/tortoise-2019.html
  
  
• 2018 story, “Nadler burns a 15:28 and Veltcheva a 17:34 for new records at the Race The Tortoise 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/03/tortoise-2018.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “Hensley and Veltcheva victorious at Race The Tortoise”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/03/tortoise-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Denisova and Matchev are steady but not slow at Race The Tortoise”
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/03/tortoise-2014.html
  
  
• 2014 story, “Clark and Veltcheva are more hare than tortoise at O'Leno 5K”
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/03/tortoise-2014.html
  
  
• O'Leno State Park
  http://www.floridastateparks.org/oleno/
  
  
• The Friends of O'Leno
  http://friendsofoleno.org/
  
  
• Race The Tortoise 5K course certification map USATF #FL09011EBM
  http://www.usatf.org/events/courses/maps/showMap.asp?courseID=FL09011EBM
  
  
• Any reptile race within 100 miles of Tallahassee will be here
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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