Cyler Perkins and Lauren Bogan harvested wins at Leesburg's Harvest Run 10K

Leesburg, Georgia held its first Harvest Run 10K on Thanksgiving Day in 2014. Ten years later, on Thursday morning, 28 November 2024, the race was back for an eleventh annual running. Cyler Perkins of Albany won that morning by over 1500 meters, clocking 34:56. Vero Beach, Florida athlete Lauren Bogan was the first woman in the 10K, placing third overall in 44:17.


John Hoffpauir, a junior-year harrier on the Lee County High cross-country team, took second in the 10K, running 41:16. Leesburg master runner Jud Savelle was third in the men's standings and fifth overall in 46:34.


Jennifer Perkins of Albany was the first master runner in the race and second in the women's division, finishing fourth overall in 44:41. Perkins was a four-time winner of the Harvest Run 10K, and still holds the women's record at the race of 40:38, which she ran in 2018. Mollie McGowan of Americus, Georgia was the third woman in the 10K and eighth overall in 47:49.


31 athletes finished the 2024 Harvest Run 10K.


Top Ten Men, 2024 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run 10K

1. 34:56, Cyler Perkins (M, 20) Albany, GA
2. 41:16, John Hoffpauir (M, 17) Leesburg, GA
3. 46:34, Jud Savelle (M, 44) Leesburg, GA
4. 46:49, Andrew Marzen (M, 54) Tifton, GA
5. 47:33, Dennis Moore (M, 56)
6. 49:10, Chadwick Hamilton (M, 36) Albany, GA
7. 50:28, Jaymes Turner (M, 32) Americus, GA
8. 52:33, Sayuj Shajith (M, 24) Suwanee, GA
9. 53:27, Carl Graap (M, 61) Warner Robins, GA
10. 54:35, Noah Gamache (M, 35) Marietta, GA

Top Ten Women, 2024 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run 10K

1. 44:17, Lauren Bogan (F, 39) Vero Beach, FL
2. 44:41, Jennifer Perkins (F, 44) Albany, GA
3. 47:49, Mollie McGowan (F, 33) Americus, GA
4. 49:50, Joan Kiser (F, 64) Carnesville, GA
5. 50:07, Anne Chaplin (F, 33) Marietta, GA
6. 52:48, Taylor Luke (F, 25) Leesburg, GA
7. 52:58, Katrina Sokolowski (F, 46) Albany, GA
8. 53:23, Manashwee Ghimire (F, 21) Leesburg, GA
9. 54:26, Charlie Holiday (F, 38)
10. 56:54, Kim Matthews (F, 43) Jacksonville, FL

At least two past champions turned out for the 5K, the shorter race at the 2024 Harvest Run. Jake Griffith, the defending champ, was on the starting line; Griffith had set the course record of 16:48 in 2023. Courtland Buntin was also in the field; Buntin was a three-time Harvest Run champ with wins in 2018, 2019, and 2020.


Rush Hatcher handled them both. Less than three weeks before the Harvest Run, the Worth County High junior had taken second in the class 1A boys' 5K at the GHSA State Cross-Country Championship, racing for Worth County High. At the Thanksgiving Day race in Leesburg, Hatcher won by over half a minute, setting a new Harvest Run record of 16:25.


Griffith took second in 16:56. Noah Coleman, a junior on the Crisp County High cross-country team, nabbed third with a 17:50. Rusty Coleman was the first master runner in the race, placing fourth overall in 18:10. Courtland Buntin took fifth in 18:47.


Tami Kochen, a Carbondale, Colorado master runner, was the first woman in the 5k, finishing twelfth overall in 20:35. Albany's Codi Mullen was runner-up for the women in 22:54, good for twentieth overall. Linlee Keese, a frosh member of the New Covenant School cross-country team, was third in the women's standings and 22nd overall in 24:30.



80 athletes finished the 2024 Harvest Run 5K.


Top Ten Men, 2024 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run 5K

1. 16:25, Rush Hatcher (M, 17)
2. 16:56, Jake Griffith (M, 33) Americus, GA
3. 17:50, Noah Coleman (M, 16) Cordele, GA
4. 18:10, Rusty Coleman (M, 47)
5. 18:47, Courtland Buntin (M, 25)
6. 18:53, Jacob Bentn (M, 38)
7. 19:39, Patrick Davies (M, 46) Chula, GA
8. 19:48, Owen Davies (M, 16)
9. 19:55, Brady Perkins (M, 18) Albany, GA
10. 20:25, Terrell Washington (M, 17) Leesburg, GA

Top Ten Women, 2024 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run 5K

1. 20:35, Tami Kochen (F, 42) Carbondale, CO
2. 22:54, Codi Mullen (F, 31) Albany, GA
3. 24:30, Linlee Keese (F, 14) Anderson, SC
4. 24:36, Maria Kilheffer (F, 18) Americus, GA
5. 25:26, Kim Moorman (F, 47) Tifton, GA
6. 27:08, Brittney Coleman (F, 35)
7. 27:51, Addison Matthews (F, 43) Jacksonville, FL
8. 28:01, Penny Peters (F, 57)
9. 28:29, Jasmine Kilheffer (F, 20) Americus, GA
10. 29:01, Crystal Kilheffer (F, 44) Americus, GA

Winners of the Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run, 2014 - 2024
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	42:39, Dennis Moore	40:38, Jennifer Perkins	38
	5K	18:55, Courtland Buntin	19:27, Jessica Sams	132
28 November 2019	10K	34:35, Joshua Grant	42:18, Talarie Hayes	64
	5K	18:12, Courtland Buntin	19:09, Jessica Sams	126
26 November 2020	10K	35:49, Russell Coleman	41:33, Jennifer Perkins	51
	5K	18:15, Courtland Buntin	20:21, Brittney Skiles	72
25 November 2021	10K	35:27, Henry Plowden	42:54, Katie Cornett	38
	5K	17:31, Lucas Stocks	19:27, Jennifer Stocks	96
24 November 2022	10K	35:54, Patrick Whitehead	45:23, Caitlin Mixon	32
	5K	19:22, Graham Harrod	20:13, Brittney Skiles	87
23 November 2023	10	33:31, Brian Miller	42:42, Caitlin Mixon	31
	5K	16:48, Jake Griffith	22:39, Taylor Luke	106
28 November 2024	10K	34:56, Cyler Perkins	44:17, Lauren Bogan	31
	5K	16:25, Rush Hatcher	20:35, Tami Kochen	80

Links

• Complete results of the 2024 Leesburg, Georgia, Harvest Run
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQtT93lhu2UpypIJL0ixmf2UvppQpZq1Um1rCWYVW3LJFItsPdRTWuAJmzC6u5am10B1lxqhJU-OFC8/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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Rush Hatcher and Emily Golden win Tifton's Run For Love 5K

You'd have to think that Rush Hatcher and Russ Benton would be seeing a lot of each other during Georgia's 2024 high school cross-country season. After all, Hatcher was a junior on the Worth County High cross-country team, and Benton a junior on Tift County High's squad of harriers. But on Saturday morning, 3 August 2024, days before the season opened, Hatcher and Benton met on the roads of the Tifton, Georgia campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College at the 35th annual Run For Love 5K. Hatcher edged out Benton for first place, both athletes clocking 17:07. On the women's side, Emily Golden won for the ninth time, placing thirteenth overall in 19:30.


Not far behind Hatcher and Benton's duel, Brookwood School sophomore Wesley Warren took third in 17:18. The top master runner in the race was Russell Coleman, ninth overall in 18:45.


Emily Golden's Run For Love women's title was her ninth in eleven years and her third in a row. Golden had first won in 2014 as a Tift Middle Schools cross-country runner, then added more wins as a Tift County High Blue Devil, and even more as an Anderson University Trojan. This was her first Run For Love as an Anderson alum.


Melissa Luke was the first woman master in the 5K, finishing runner-up to Golden in the women's standings and twentieth overall in 21:23. Kali Nicholson, a senior year cross-country runner at Lee County High, took third in the women's division and 25th overall in 22:29.


160 athletes finished the 2024 Run For Love 5K. The races are a fundraiser for the Tift County High and Tift Middle Schools cross-country program.


Top Ten Men, 2024 Run For Love 5K

1. 17:06.31, Rush Hatcher (M, 16)
2. 17.06.59, Russ Benton (M, 16)
3. 17.17.02, Wesley Warren (M, 15)
4. 17.35.84, Canaan Ponce (M, 18)
5. 17.38.50, Owen Davies (M, 16)
6. 17.49.59, Sawyer McGinnis (M, 17)
7. 18.06.80, Noah Coleman (M, 16)
8. 18.36.31, Jaxson Hughes (M, 16)
9. 18.44.19, Russell Coleman (M, 46)
10. 18.54.25, Sergio Martinez (M, 19)

Top Ten Women, 2024 Run For Love 5K

1. 19.29.28, Emily Golden (F, 23)
2. 21.22.25, Melissa Luke (F, 42)
3. 22.28.48, Kali Nicholson (F, 17)
4. 23.13.58, Katherine Currie (F, 14)
5. 23.35.95, Maria Kilheffer (F, 18)
6. 24.55.69, Ava Wilson (F, 18)
7. 28.13.65, Kynslee Collins (F, 13)
8. 28.40.25, Anna Kale Miller (F, 16)
9. 28.41.49, Lisa Dix (F, 12)
10. 28.47.25, Bailey Brock (F, 14)

Recent Run For Love 5K Champions, 2001 - 2024
Date	Men	Women
4 August 2001	16:57, Buddy Clark	22:19, Angie P. Brandenburg
3 August 2002	17:00, Buddy Clark	23:32, Jana Murkerson
9 August 2003	14:56, Alan Black	19:53, Angela Cobb
14 August 2004	16:43, Prichard Kelly	19:03, Angela Cobb
13 August 2005	17:21, Roberto Bonilla	19:36, Angela Cobb
12 August 2006	17:22, Derek Storbeck	17:45, Michelle Lafleur
11 August 2007	William Anderson	Kristen Ray
9 August 2008	16:48, Buddy Clark	20:59, Alice Smoot
8 August 2009	17:54, Jacob Kennedy	22:48, Katie Utley
7 August 2010	16:29, Hunter Honeycutt	21:29, Katie Utley
6 August 2011	17:53, Adam Ross	22:28, Melissa Tronolone
4 August 2012	16:19, Hunter Honeycutt	21:44, Madison Honeycutt
10 August 2013	20:07, Joshua Curry	22:46, Ashlee Golden
2 August 2014	16:49, Hunter Honeycutt	23:03, Emily Golden
1 August 2015	17:58, Dayton Cannon	22:07, Emily Golden
13 August 2016	19:31, Eliud Mendoza	21:29, Emily Golden
5 August 2017	18:31, Caleb Watson	21:37, Emily Golden
4 August 2018	20:00, Dan Hobby	20:10, Emily Golden
10 August 2019	18:39, Cameron Kaltschnee	20:17, Emily Golden
31 October 2020	18:57, Jared Hammond	21:58, Sidney Steele Flores
14 August 2021	18:55, Blair Golden	22:58, Ava Wilson
6 August 2022	17:52, Eyan Zupko	21:12, Emily Golden
5 August 2023	18:00, Blair Golden	19:34, Emily Golden
3 August 2024	17:07, Rush Hatcher	19:30, Emily Golden
Please contact me if you have results for 1990-2000 or 2007!

Links

• Complete results of the 2024 Tifton, Georgia, Run For Love 5K
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS1KKUmxlqSWL1uuYM0T3jKxd_zkUYjOwUpeyRErPyzbmbdvKD2KqUzS79Thg4tBz46d-AuacpMGOCa/pubhtml
  
  
• 2019 story, “Cameron Kaltschnee wins, Emily Golden gets a sixth-straight women's title at Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2019/08/run-for-love-2019.html
  
  
• 2018 story, “Dan Hobby wins and Emily Golden makes it five in a row at the Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/08/run-for-love-2018.html
  
  
• 2017 story, “A win for Watson and a fourth title for Golden at Tifton's Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/08/run-for-love-2017.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “Mendoza and Golden make it a Tift County sweep at the Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/08/run-for-love-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Cannon wins and Golden repeats at Tifton's Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/08/run-for-love-2015.html
  
  
• 2014 story, “Third time is as charming as ever for Honeycutt at the Run For Love”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/08/run-for-love-2014.html
  
  
• 2010 story, “Honeycutt and Utley take titles at rainy Run For Love 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/run-for-love-2010.html
  
  
• Find more lovable races in the Tallahassee region on the Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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