Sunday, June 27, 2021

Brock Granberg and Liliana Lewis roll at a rocky Freedom 5K

Back in Boulder, Colorado, Brock Granberg wrestled for Fairview High, recording a 31-7 record his senior year. Granberg also ran cross-country for Fairview, leading his team to fifth-place in the 2019 Colorado State Championships while running sub-17:00 for 5K on a course 6,000 feet above sea level. It was that distance running skill that was on display at Wakulla Springs, Florida on Saturday, 26 June 2021. That morning, Granberg won the eighth annual Paul Hoover Freedom 5K by nearly a minute, running 17:07. Liliana Lewis, a rising sophomore on the Wakulla High cross-country team, was first in the women's standings with a 21:12, coming in twentieth overall.

Brock Granberg

The Freedom 5K doesn't meet everyone's definition of cross-country, but it certainly meets someon's definition of cross-country. After starting on pavement in Wakulla Springs State Park, the course takes the runners into the forest on a two-rut road, heading for Cherokee Sink. After making a loop around the Sink near the halfway point of the race, the runners return the way they came. In the first years of the race, the road was characterized by the deep sand of Wakulla County. More recently, the road has been covered with gravel.


"The gravel made it difficult, but it was a good course," said Granberg.

Leonardo Canete

As the winner, he had every reason to like the route. Granberg was already leading the field entering the forest, and he only got farther ahead during the trip to Cherokee Sink and back. His winning 17:07 was the second-fastest mark recorded at the Freedom 5K during the eight-year history of the race.


Tallahassee, Florida master runner Leonardo Canete placed runner-up to Granberg, running 18:04. In the closing stages of the race, Jaden Callaghan ran down Mickey Moore to take third, 18:39 to 18:45. Callaghan is a rising junior on the Wakulla High cross-country team and Moore is a Tallahassee master runner.

Liliana Lewis

Callaghan was one of several Wakulla harriers in the race; the Freedom 5K is hosted by the Wakulla High cross-country team as a fund-raiser for the program. Liliana Lewis, the women's winner at 21:12, was another Wakulla Eagle in the race. Isabella Laughton, second in the women's division, is a future Eagle. Just out of the eighth grade at Wakulla Middle School, Laughton ran 21:56 in the Freedom 5K. Elizabeth Blitch and Marina Whitsell, each anticipating her senior year cross-country season at Wakulla, came in a few steps apart at 22:02 and 22:04, the third and fourth women in the race. Corrine Porcher was the first woman master and fifth female finisher, 38th overall in 24:40.


111 athletes finished the 2021 Paul Hoover Freedom 5K. Gulf Winds Track Club of Tallahassee chip-timed the race.

Isabella Laughton

Top Ten Men, 2021 Freedom 5K
  1. 17:07, Brock Granberg (M, 21)
  2. 18:04, Leonardo Canete (M, 42)
  3. 18:39, Jaden Callaghan (M, 16)
  4. 18:45, Mickey Moore (M, 51)
  5. 18:51, Christian Minor (M, 35)
  6. 19:22, Logan Kilpatrick (M, 17)
  7. 19:24, Tripp Pitts (M, 17)
  8. 19:29, Josiah Friddle (M, 13)
  9. 19:34, Daniel Wiedeman (M, 19)
  10. 19:45, Joseph Wiedeman (M, 16)

Top Ten Women, 2021 Freedom 5K
  1. 21:12, Liliana Lewis (F, 14)
  2. 21:56, Isabella Laughton (F, 13)
  3. 22:02, Lizzie Blitch (F, 17)
  4. 22:04, Marina Whitsell (F, 17)
  5. 24:40, Corinne Porcher (F, 52)
  6. 25:32, Ashlyn Speigner (F, 17)
  7. 25:44, Cora Atkinson (F, 27)
  8. 26:35, Trista Heffren (F, 16)
  9. 26:52, Analecia Ferrell (F, 16)
  10. 26:54, Melissa Martin (F, 47)

Paul Hoover Freedom 5K winners, 2013 - 2021
DateMenWomenFinishers
29 June 201317:33, Stanley Linton21:12, Madison Harris107
28 June 201419:23, Reikan Lin20:12, Madison Harris82
27 June 201517:36, Zack DeVeau19:51, Katie Sherron173
25 June 201617:48, Wright Calhoun20:00, Madison Harris138
24 June 201716:32, Justin Keefe21:52, Haleigh Martin183
30 June 201818:21, Ryan Truchelut19:10, Amy Hines213
29 June 201918:31, Daniel Wiedeman21:18, Meg Ogle183
26 June 202117:07, Brock Granberg21:12, Liliana Lewis111


Top ten men's times, Paul Hoover Freedom 5K
TimeAthleteYear
16:32Justin Keefe2017
17:07Brock Granberg2021
17:33Stanley Linton2013
17:36Zach Deveau2015
17:48Wright Calhoun2016
18:04Leonardo Canete2021
18:12Dan Baur2016
18:19Brian Griffith2013
18:21Ryan Truchelut2018
18:27Michael Martinez2015
        
Top ten women's times, Paul Hoover Freedom 5K
TimeAthleteYear
19:10Amy Hines2018
19:51Katie Sherron2015
20:00Madison Harris2016
20:12Madison Harris2014
20:56Brittney Skiles2016
21:07Renee Cox2014
21:11Alli Hay2016
21:12Madison Harris2013
21:12Liliana Lewis2021
21:18Meg Ogle2019

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