Neither Thomas Rischar nor Allie Brown was singing the blues at the Back The Blue 5K

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

1. 17:05.2, Thomas Rischar (M, 15-19)
2. 17:34.3, Jake Clawson (M, 30-39)
3. 18:33.9, Sherrick Davis (M, 20-29)
4. 19:39.8, Jared Hammond (M, 30-39)
5. 19:41.0, Jaquez Jones (M, 15-19)
6. 20:29.0, Will Reese (M, 30-39)
7. 20:33.1, Benjamin Phillips (M, 15-19)
8. 20:57.9, Seth Tomlinson (M, 15-19)
9. 21:39.2, Tim Ellis (M, 15-19)
10. 21:56.1, Will Tomlinson (M, 15-19)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Back The Blue 5K

1. 21:21.1, Allie Brown (F, 15-19)
2. 22:27.7, Emily Phillips (F, 15-19)
3. 23:05.3, Trace Bridges (F, 11-14)
4. 23:57.8, Tori Bridges (F, 11-14)
5. 24:48.7, Alma Ostrander (F, 11-14)
6. 25:26.6, Gunawati Gunawan (F, 40-49)
7. 26:22.5, Lenzie Vickers (F, 15-19)
8. 26:24.4, Tabitha Boyer (F, 15-19)
9. 27:31.1, Laurel Wilkerson (F, 11-14)
10. 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
  
  

#2568

Winning is the prescription for Ryan Kelly and Allie Brown at the Barnes 5K

In a match-up of two South Georgia master runners, Ryan Kelly edged Myles Gibson 18:50 to 18:53 for the top spot in Valdosta, Georgia's eleventh annual Barnes 100 Years 5K. Allie Brown of Cordele, Georgia took the women's title in the Saturday morning, 13 July 2019 race, placing fifth overall in 21:19.


As in each of the eleven years of the race's history, the 2019 Barnes 5K started from the downtown Valdosta headquarters of Barnes Healthcare. Kelly, the coach of the Valdosta High cross-country team, took the lead almost immediately. Donalsonville, Georgia's Gibson was able to keep Kelly in sight, but could never close with the leader.


"He had a much better kick at the end," admitted Gibson.


Kelly's kick earned him his fourth Barnes 5K victory. He has also won the race in 2013, 2016, and 2018, but 2019 was his first Barnes title as a master runner. Gibson improved on his own previous Barnes 5K showing, a 19:06 third-place performance in the 2018 race. Behind Kelly and Barnes, Chad Northcutt of Quitman, Georgia took third with a 20:29.


In contrast to the ages of the master runners who led the men's competition, women's champ Allie Brown is a sixteen-year-old rising junior on the Crisp High cross-country team. The first master runner on the women's side was Tracey Cole of Pinetta, Florida, the second female finisher and tenth overall in 23:20. Mary Alice Smoot placed third in the women's standings and eighteenth overall in 24:20--well off the 20:12 she had posted in the 2013 Barnes 5K, where she had finished first on the women's side.


118 athletes finished the 2019 Barnes Healthcare 5K. A Course/Line, LLC, of Valdosta timed the race and provided finish line services.


Top Ten Men, 2019 Barnes 100 Years 5K

1. 18:50.0, Ryan Kelly (M, 40) Lake Park, GA
2. 18:53.0, Myles Gibson (M, 53) Iron City, GA
3. 20:28.8, Chad Northcutt (M, 35) Quitman, GA
4. 21:06.5, Scott Chandler (M, 28) Alpharetta, GA
5. 21:18.8, David Delgado (M, 39) Hahira, GA
6. 21:29.0, Michael Lestock (M, 45) Lake City, GA
7. 22:32.0, Connor Lites (M, 14) Hahira, GA
8. 22:57.8, Jay Vinehout (M, 26) Valdosta, GA
9. 23:23.7, John Hughes (M, 31) Valdosta, GA
10. 23:25.5, Gabriel Sears (M, 13) Valdosta, GA

Top Ten Women, 2019 Barnes 100 Years 5K

1. 21:18.1, Allie Brown (F, 16) Cordele, GA
2. 23:19.1, Tracey Cole (F, 40) Pinetta, FL
3. 24:19.3, Mary Alice Smoot (F, 23) Valdosta, GA
4. 24:40.5, Amanda Grover (F, 36) Valdosta, GA
5. 26:13.8, Traci Ferris (F, 36) Valdosta, GA
6. 27:01.0, Kiley Matheson (F, 16) Valdosta, GA
7. 27:15.7, Karisa Zickus (F, 40) Valdosta, GA
8. 27:38.2, Cassie O'Neal (F, 30) Valdosta, GA
9. 27:50.7, Libra Moses-Holland (F, 42) Hahira, GA
10. 28:09.2, Abby Patterson (F, 22) Sylvester, GA

Barnes 100 Years 5K Champions, 2009 - 2019
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
18 July 2009	19:05, Masked Avenger	20:18, Angelina Horne	96
17 July 2010	16:45, Daniel Broadhead	20:31, Angelina Horne	119
16 July 2011	18:02, Masked Avenger	20:54, Alice Smoot	67
14 July 2012	18:29, Nathan Norton	23:23, Lauren Tosky	80
13 July 2013	18:13, Ryan Kelly	20:12, Mary Alice Smoot	72
19 July 2014	18:04, Andrew Elam	20:12, Mackenzie Morse	74
18 July 2015	18:12, Dan Butzin	21:54, Alice Smoot	88
16 July 2016	18:29, Ryan Kelly	23:04, Debbie Green	96
15 July 2017	19:44, Courtland Buntin	21:44, Vanessa Spry	65
14 July 2018	18:21, Ryan Kelly	21:30, Kelly Lunceford	115
13 July 2019	18:50, Ryan Kelly	21:19, Allie Brown	118

Links

• Complete results of the 2019 Barnes 100 Years 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTp_YF-jmiT513Yzxilcvabn1C6iXYVYE7KQBvZcfqMxIk7L-6-J08zNZ6zEVqsjl1s2IzZwPmwTnwF/pubhtml
  
  
• 2018 story, “Ryan Kelly and Kelly Lunceford take first in the tenth Barnes 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/07/barnes-2018.html
  
  
• 2017 story, “The battle at Barnes goes to Buntin and Spry”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/07/barnes-2017.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “Kelly and Green lead the march through Barnes Healthcare's second century”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/07/barnes-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Butzin and Smoot headline another year of Barnes 5K history”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/07/barnes-2015.html
  
  
• 2014 story, “Elam and Morse warm-up for cross country with Barnes 5K wins”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/07/barnes-2014.html
  
  
• 2013 story, “Kelly leads the way and Smoot sets record at the fifth Barnes 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/barnes-2013.html
  
  
• 2012 story, “Norton and Toskey beat 'em all at Barnes”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2012/07/barnes-2012.html
  
  
• 2011 story, “No settling for second for Avenger and Smoot at 2011 Barnes 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/07/barnes-2011.html
  
  
• 2010 story, “Broadhead breaks record and Horne builds streak at Barnes 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/barnes-5k-2010.html
  
  
• Find another centennial race in the Tallahassee region on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#2553

William Rodgers and Allie Brown show some heart at the Run For Your Lungs

William Rodgers won the sixth annual Run For Your Lungs 5K in 2016, but the Cordele, Georgia athlete was absent from the race in 2017. On Saturday morning, 3 November 2018, Rodgers was back Lake Blackshear Resort, just outside of Cordele, for the eighth annual Run For Your Lungs 5K. He was a winner once again, finishing nearly half a kilometer ahead of the next runner in 18:45. Crisp High sophomore cross-country runner Allie Brown captured the women's title, placing fourth overall in 22:22.


Garrison Slaughter, a seventh-grader on the Deerfield-Windsor middle school cross-country team, went 20:48 to finish runner-up in the 5K. Albany, Georgia's Michael Trammell was the first master runner in the race, placing third overall in 21:35.


Karen McNally of Albany was the first woman master and second female finisher in the race, coming in tenth overall in 23:22. Cordele master runner Ame Gibbs was third in the women's standings and thirteenth overall in 23:58.


201 athletes finished the 2018 Run For Your Lungs 5K. Event Tech of Sylvester, Georgia timed the race. The ninth annual Run For Your Lungs 5K is scheduled for Saturday morning, 2 November 2019.


Top Ten Men, 2018 Run For Your Lungs 5K

1. 18:45, William Rodgers (M, 30) Cordele, GA
2. 20:48, Garrison Slaughter (M, 13) Cordele, GA
3. 21:35, Michael Trammell (M, 49) Albany, GA
4. 22:26, Ed Shaalthal (M, 55)
5. 22:32, Bucky Thompson (M, 36) Byromville, GA
6. 22:51, Landon Jacobs (M, 19) Vienna, GA
7. 22:54, Julian Strickland (M, 53) Leesburg, GA
8. 23:10, Shane Smith (M, 50) Leesburg, GA
9. 23:26, Darryl Cox (M, 37) Americus, GA
10. 23:55, Andy Cooper (M, 60) Albany, GA

Top Ten Women, 2018 Run For Your Lungs 5K

1. 22:22, Allie Brown (F, 15) Cordele, GA
2. 23:22, Karen McNally (F, 54) Albany, GA
3. 23:58, Ame Gibbs (F, 40) Cordele, GA
4. 24:00, Judy Lindsey (F, 54)
5. 24:04, Brooke Marshall (F, 34) Cordele, GA
6. 24:11, Penny Peters (F, 51) Tifton, GA
7. 24:25, Jessica Childers (F, 33) Leslie, GA
8. 25:11, Lindsey Giles (F, 37) Albany, GA
9. 25:17, Cherie McDonald (F, 52) Sylvester, GA
10. 25:33, Anna Champion (F, 36) Americus, GA

Cordele, Georgia, Run For Your Lungs 5K Winners
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
5 November 2011
3 November 2012
2 November 2013	19:41, Bailey Nipper	20:02, Elizabeth Funderburk	179
1 November 2014	16:05, Patrick Whitehead	22:38, Janie Plowden	199
7 November 2015	17:17, Patrick Whitehead	23:49, Chantal Peacock	177
5 November 2016	20:51, William Rodgers	21:35, Candace Cosby	215
4 November 2017	19:07, Colby Smith	19:29, Brittney Skiles	200
3 November 2018	18:45, William Rodgers	22:22, Allie Brown	201

Links

• Complete results of the 2018 Run For Your Lungs 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRNBI9UGzI43W99tetJfkJfKTxE7fcyZBC7kL-PyAxhOQS3HE3IWI4q4jpTrXVLsItlhb0gzvHUQ-Qc/pubhtml
  
  
• Run For Your Lungs Facebook page
  https://www.facebook.com/runforyourlungs/
  
  
• Find upcoming runs for lungs and other organs on the latest Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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