Joshua Grant races to a record at the Resolution Run

Joshua Grant's first race of 2019 was the fourth annual Resolution Run 5K in Albany, Georgia. Grant finished second, just a second behind Dr. Patrick Whitehead, who won in a Resolution Run record of 18:08.


Grant wasn't having any of that at the fifth annual Resolution Run. On Wednesday morning, 1 January 2020, he won the 3.1-mile race by more than 400 meters, setting a new event record of 17:39. Master runner Sara Ostrander was the top woman for the third year in the five-year history of the race, outkicking Jennifer Perkins for the win. Both runners were clocked in 22:24.


Michael Martinez of Tallahassee, Florida was the first master runner in the race, placing second overall in 19:16. Edward Ostrander, a sophomore on the Lee County High cross-country team, took third with a 20:57.


Racing for the first women's spot, Sara Ostrander and Jennifer Perkins finished eighth and ninth overall. Alma Ostrander took third in the women's standings, placing eleventh overall in 23:18. An eighth-grader at Lee County County Middle School East, Ostrander runs on her school's girls' cross-country team.


63 athletes finished the 2020 Resolution Run 5K.


Top Ten Men, Albany, Georgia's 2020 Resolution Run 5K

1. 17:38.9, Joshua Grant (M, 29)
2. 19:15.2, Michael Martinez (M, 54)
3. 20:56.9, Edward Ostrander (M, 16)
4. 21:06.5, Jaren Hill (M, 22)
5. 21:41.8, Tim Ellis (M, 15)
6. 21:45.4, Antonio Walker (M, 32)
7. 22:15.8, Matthew Gresham (M, 47)
8. 22:34.5, Warren Morris (M, 14)
9. 23:41.0, Chris Phillips (M, 40)
10. 24:03.5, Julian Strickland (M, 54)

Top Ten Women, Albany, Georgia's 2020 Resolution Run 5K

1. 22:23.7, Sara Ostrander (F, 46)
2. 22:23.8, Jennifer Perkins (F, 39)
3. 23:17.9, Alma Ostrander (F, 14)
4. 24:42.9, Karen Spicer (F, 55)
5. 26:21.1, Anna Plowden (F, 15)
6. 26:40.1, Maryanne Plowden (F, 49)
7. 27:41.6, Rebecca Bowers (F, 17)
8. 27:41.8, Emily Phillips (F, 15)
9. 28:17.9, Sandra Williams (F, 45)
10. 29:39.1, Madeline Ellis (F, 18)

Albany, Georgia, Resolution Run 5K winners, 2016 - 2020
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
1 January 2016	19:03, Arnoldo DeJesus	24:26, Karen McNally	61
1 January 2017	20:38, Arnoldo DeJesus	22:35, Sara Ostrander	23
1 January 2018	19:58, Arnoldo DeJesus	22:15, Sara Ostrander	49
1 January 2019	18:08, Patrick Whitehead	18:56, Ann Centner	61
1 January 2020	17:39, Joshua Grant	22:24, Sara Ostrander	63

Links

• Complete results of Albany, Georgia's 2020 Resolution Run 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRzx6HcRVHX-fQyfipfGheBLCK0HjzRx7kt0vGE-m1pccFkv6_zbWQ3bhk4Yo_aYjORNvfUwIWW7IAG/pubhtml
  
  
• 2019 story, “Patrick Whitehead and Ann Centner break records, not resolutions, at Albany's New Year race”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2019/01/albany-resolution-2019.html
  
  
• 2018 story, “DeJesus and Ostrander do it again at the Resolution Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/01/albany-resolution-2018.html
  
  
• 2017 story, “New Year, same old story; DeJesus wins Resolution Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/01/albany-resolution-2017.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “De Jesus and McNally open 2016 with Resolution Run wins in Albany”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/01/albany-resolution-2016.html
  
  
• An Albany, Georgia race from an old year
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/herald-local-marathon.html
  
  
• Resolve to run one of these events on the Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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Joshua Grant edges Brian Miller in a record-breaking Harvest Run 10K

Back in 2015, Patrick Whitehead won the second annual Harvest Run 10K in Leesburg, Georgia, setting an event record of 36:11. That record stood till Thursday morning, 28 November 2019, when both Joshua Grant and Brian Miller ran about a minute and a half faster in the sixth annual Harvest Run. Grant became the new record holder, winning the 6.2-mile race in 34:36. Miller was just behind in 34:45. Talarie Hayes was the first woman in the race, placing sixth overall in 42:19.


Julio Perez took third in the 10K with a 41:25. Carl Plowden was the fastest master runner in the race, coming in fourth overall in in 41:31.


Melanie Flege was the women's runner-up, and seventeenth overall in 45:49. Jennifer Romano was the first woman master and third female finisher, twentieth overall in 46:48. Master runner Karen McNally was fourth in the women's standings and 25th overall in 48:26.


64 athletes finished the 10K, the most ever in the six-year history of the race.


Top Ten Men, 2019 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run 10K

1. 34:35.4, Joshua Grant (M, 29)
2. 34:44.6, Brian Miller (M, 22)
3. 41:24.7, Julio Perez (M, 28)
4. 41:30.3, Carl Plowden (M, 50)
5. 42:01.0, Eli Bremer (M, 41)
6. 42:47.1, Dennis Moore (M, 51)
7. 43:11.3, Will Tomlinson (M, 17)
8. 43:42.5, Jaren Hill (M, 22)
9. 43:58.5, Seth Tomlinson (M, 17)
10. 44:02.4, Timothy Ellis (M, 14)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run 10K

1. 42:18.6, Talarie Hayes (F, 34)
2. 45:48.3, Melanie Flege (F, 29)
3. 46:47.8, Jennifer Romano (F, 45)
4. 48:25.2, Karen McNally (F, 55)
5. 49:39.1, Caroline Taylor (F, 18)
6. 50:52.6, Amy Sliwinski (F, 28)
7. 51:35.5, Christina Rice (F, 41)
8. 51:49.8, Jennifer McClain (F, 39)
9. 52:18.0, Donielle Powell (F, 30)
10. 52:37.9, Char Davidson (F, 66)

The Harvest Run has always included a 5K option. 2019 10K runner-up Brian Miller got his start in the shorter race, setting a record in the 3.1-mile event in 2016. In 2019, it was Courtland Buntin who won the Harvest Run 5K, running 18:13. Jessica Sams was the first woman in the 5K, setting a new Harvest Run women's record of 19:10 while placing third overall. Both Buntin and Sams were defending 2018 title in the race.


Russell Coleman was the top master runner in the 5K, finishing runner-up to Buntin in 18:24. There was a close race for third in the men's standings between thirteen-year-old Alex Romano and Edward Ostrander, a sophomore on the Lee County High cross-country team. Romano edged Ostrander, 19:48 to 19:51. The two athletes were fifth and sixth overall.


A few seconds behind Jessica Sams, Mackenzie Taylor was the women's runner-up and fourth overall in 19:15. Brittney Skiles placed third in the women's standings and seventh overall in 20:04. Sara Ostrander took the top woman master's spot, the fifth woman and eleventh overall in 21:05.


126 athletes finished the 2019 Harvest Run 5K.


Top Ten Men, 2019 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run 5K

1. 18:12.9, Courtland Buntin (M, 20)
2. 18:23.8, Russell Coleman (M, 42)
3. 19:47.3, Alex Romano (M, 13)
4. 19:50.3, Edward Ostrander (M, 16)
5. 20:33.1, Benjamin Phillips (M, 17)
6. 20:45.3, Walker Johnson (M, 29)
7. 21:38.6, Mark Stocks (M, 58)
8. 21:39.1, Silas Stocks (M, 23)
9. 22:11.4, Max Schuman (M, 25)
10. 22:27.2, Michael Morrison (M, 38)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run 5K

1. 19:09.8, Jessica Sams (F, 24)
2. 19:14.1, Mackenzie Taylor (F, 20)
3. 20:03.3, Brittney Skiles (F, 30)
4. 20:56.1, Allie Brown (F, 16)
5. 21:04.5, Sara Ostrander (F, 46)
6. 22:46.4, Trace Bridges (F, 13)
7. 22:52.8, Kayla Sanseverino (F, 18)
8. 22:54.0, Tori Bridges (F, 13)
9. 23:22.6, Carsen Taylor (F, 25)
10. 23:35.4, Laine Ellington (F, 24)

Winners of the Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run, 2014 - 2019
Date	Distance	Men	Women	Finishers
27 September 2014	10K	41:19, Dennis Moore	41:32, Jennifer Perkins	25
	5K	21:36, Carl Sagasser	25:01, Carmen Rodriguez	36
26 November 2015	10K	36:11, Patrick Whitehead	47:58, Allison Cauthen	46
	5K	18:46, Henry Plowden	22:09, Ryleigh Bell	96
24 November 2016	10K	36:45, Patrick Whitehead	44:47, Jennifer Perkins	44
	5K	18:34, Brian Miller	22:27, Kayla Sanseverino	76
23 November 2017	10K	37:31, Patrick Whitehead	48:00, Danice Roberts	38
	5K	17:44, Henry Plowden	22:35, Bonnie Zimmerman	100
22 November 2018	10K	42:40, Dennis Moore	40:38, Jennifer Perkins	38
	5K	18:56, Courtland Buntin	19:28, Jessica Sams	132
28 November 2019	10K	34:36, Joshua Grant	42:19, Talarie Hayes	64
	5K	18:13, Courtland Buntin	19:10, Jessica Sams	126

Links

• Complete results of the 2019 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR67rcqSqnJAuegmYKtJxqAKcrqWg_ZN5_hsXT82LNFK7B3wkC1z76F6uUwD7346tlu-2g5OrlViSXp/pubhtml
  
  
• 2017 story, “Patrick Whitehead posts a Harvest Run three-peat”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/11/leesburg-harvest-2017.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “Repeat wins for Harvest Run record-holders Whitehead and Perkins”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/11/leesburg-harvest-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Whitehead and Cauthen reap victory at the Harvest Run”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/11/leesburg-harvest-2015.html
  
  
• Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run
  https://www.facebook.com/Leesburgharvestrun
  
  
• Find other agriculturally-themed races on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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