Sunday, March 8, 2020

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

O'Leno State Park bridgeAt 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
DateMenWomenFinishers
7 March 200918:22.9, David Robison20:12.6, Michelle McCollum109
13 March 201016:27.5, Alex Phipps18:13.0, Elizabeth Duarte114
5 March 201119:21.6, Eric Drummond19:33.0, Tatiana Titova218
3 March 201216:09.8, Vladimir Tontchinski18:05.5, Averkova Anzhelika268
2 March 201316:39.7, Dan Clark20:37.4, Lyubov Denisova225
1 March 201416:52.8, Dan Clark19:13.4, Ani Veltcheva247
7 March 201518:15.6, Anton Matchev17:57.7, Lyubov Denisova165
5 March 201616:32, Bobby Hensley18:16, Ani Veltcheva177
3 March 201815:28, Enoch Nadler17:34, Ani Veltcheva215
2 March 201917:03, Hutson Rapier19:35, Courtney Rouse239
7 March 202017:08, Ravi Kumar19:51, Lara Drondoski219
There was no Race The Tortoise 5K in 2017.


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