Showing posts with label Saint George Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saint George Island. Show all posts

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Hot runs for Elliot Butler and Hailey Morrison at the Red Pepper 5K

Saint George Island, a barrier island off the coast of the Florida Panhandle, hosted two races during the first quarter of 2025--the Half-Shell Hustle 5K in January and the Red Pepper Run 5K in March. Elliot Butler won the Hustle in January, and the Cairo, Georgia athlete was back on Saint George Island on Saturday morning, 1 March 2025, for the Red Pepper Run. He won that as well, running 17:35 and finishing more than 200 meters aheaad of the next runner. Twelve-year-old Hailey Morrison took first in the women's standings, placing ninth overall in 24:14.


Courtland Buntin, the winner of the 2022 Red Pepper Run, finished runner-up to Elliot Butler in the 2025 race, running 18:23. David Haire was the first master runner in the 5K, coming in third overall in 18:57.


For Hailey Morrison, the women's champ, the Red Pepper Run was her second race in two days. The previous afternoon she had run 6:22.68 for second place in the girls' 1600 at a Port Saint Joe High track meet. A seventh-graders, Morrison runs cross-country and track for Wewahitchka High. Addyson Paul, a Franklin County High cross-country runner, was second in the women's division at the Red Pepper Run and tenth overall in 24:31. Paul had also raced the 1600 on Friday at Port Saint Joe; she was fifth in 6:51.87. Eden Keene was the first woman master in the Red Pepper Run, the third woman and thirteenth overall in 24:49. Keene had been the 2024 Red Pepper Run women's champ.


148 athletes finished Saint George Island's 2025 Red Pepper Run 5K. The race was part of the 43rd annual Saint George Island Chili Cookoff.


Top Ten Men, 2025 Red Pepper 5K Run
  1. 17:34.3, Elliot Butler (M, 34) Cairo, GA
  2. 18:22.7, Courtland Buntin (M, 25)
  3. 18:56.5, David Haire (M, 40)
  4. 19:48.1, Brian Hanold (M, 49)
  5. 21:01.0, Nathaniel Cabrera (M, 16)
  6. 22:44.8, John Lingman (M, 40)
  7. 23:18.7, Eden Brathwaite (M, 22)
  8. 24:07.4, Gregory Hartlage (M, 43)
  9. 24:36.4, Timmy Poloronis (M, 42)
  10. 24:37.7, Alan Plence (M, 69)

Top Ten Women, 2025 Red Pepper 5K Run
  1. 24:13.3, Hailey Morrison (F, 12) Wewahitchka, FL
  2. 24:30.7, Addyson Paul (F, 15)
  3. 24:48.7, Eden Keene (F, 42)
  4. 24:53.3, Lana McDaniel (F, 16)
  5. 25:14.8, Doreea Schatte (F, 56)
  6. 25:18.0, Geniee Melesia (F, 56)
  7. 25:34.6, Reese Cargill (F, 15)
  8. 26:24.7, Kimber Severns (F, 11)
  9. 27:57.1, Anna Bull (F, 40)
  10. 28:11.3, Cydney Szgmanoroski (F, 39)

Known St. George Island Red Pepper 5K Run Champions, 1992 - 2025
DateMenWomen
7 March 1992
6 March 1993
5 March 1994
4 March 199517:47, Jeff Doherty
2 March 1996
1 March 199717:57, Charlie Johnson20:56, Fran McLean
7 March 1998
6 March 199918:12, Mike Sims20:51, Summer Calder
4 March 200018:02, Michael Waitathu18:58, Jane Johnson
3 March 200117:10, Tim Unger17:31, Sarah Docter-Williams
2 March 200218:58, Jay Silvanima25:35, Camille Consolvo
1 March 200318:59, David Yon23:20, Jessica Stewart
6 March 200416:55, Tim Unger18:12, Breeda Willis
5 March 200517:23, Charlie Johnson20:42, Annette Ryerson
4 March 200617:40, Charlie Johnson24:05, Meghan Kennedy
3 March 200717:44, Charlie Johnson16:41, Tera Moody
1 March 200817:23, Vince Molosky21:47, Meghan Kennedy
7 March 200919:59, Hobson Fulmer25:25, Kelsey Kilinski
6 March 201018:23, David Shearon23:44, Kristen Merill
5 March 201118:00, David Shearon22:27, Meghan Kennedy
3 March 201219:42, Bryan Harrington22:17, Sam Fortunas
2 March 201321:59, Michael D. Turner22:30, Sam Fortunas
1 March 201416:21, Stanley Linton23:27, Jamie Nichols
7 March 201518:58, Dylan Peebles22:06, Connie Lewis
5 March 201618:52, John Przygocki22:13, Lauren Davidson
4 March 2017
3 March 2018
2 March 2019
7 March 2020
6 March 202118:12, Leonardo Canete23:04, Meghan Kennedy
5 March 202217:33, Courtland Buntin24:48, Genee Meleski
4 March 202320:26, Josiah Friddle24:32, Lana McDaniel
2 March 202419:35, Josiah Friddle24:22, Eden Keene
1 March 202517:35, Elliot Butler24:14, Hailey Morrison


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Monday, March 4, 2024

Rewarding returns to the Red Pepper Run 5K for Josiah Friddle and Eden Keene

Saint George Island, Florida's Chili Cookoff is one of those annual events that people come back to year after year. So is the road race associated with the Chili Cookoff, the Red Pepper Run 5K. For instance, Josiah Friddle ran the Red Pepper in 2021 and 2022, and won the race in 2023. The Franklin County High junior returned on Saturday morning, 2 March 2024, and won again, this time running 19:35. Master runner Eden Keene, the women's runner-up in 2023, was the women's champ in 2024, placing seventh overall in 24:22.


A cross-country runner on his Franklin County High team, Friddle finished the 2024 Red Pepper 5K with a lead of nearly 400 meters, his winning time more than 50 seconds faster than he had run in the 2023 race. Ryley Sullivan came in runner-up to Friddle, going 21:00 for 5K. The next three athletes were all clocked in 24:06, with Kasey Chism edging Harry Curtains and Barney Ray for third. Ray, the top master runner in 2023, repeated as top master in 2024.


Eden Keene had likewise been the first woman master in 2023; she was again in 2024 by virtue of being first woman overall. Addyson Paul, a frosh-year cross-country runner on the Franklin County High team, took second in the women's standings behind Keene, coming in ninth overall in 24:59. Master runner Genee Meleski was the third woman and tenth overall in 25:06. Meleski had been the Red Pepper Run women's champ in 2022.


153 athletes finished Saint George Island's 2024 Red Pepper Run 5K. The race was part of the 42nd annual Saint George Island Chili Cookoff.


Top Ten Men, 2024 Red Pepper 5K Run
  1. 19:34.5, Josiah Friddle (M, 16)
  2. 20:59.6, Ryley Sullivan (M, 29)
  3. 24:05.3, Kasey Chism (M, 33)
  4. 24:05.3, Harry Curtains (M, 27)
  5. 24:05.3, Barney Ray (M, 61)
  6. 24:16.9, Nathan Treutel (M, 31)
  7. 24:29.0, Zachary Helbling (M, 22)
  8. 25:32.9, Devin Gunter (M, 24)
  9. 25:46.0, Stevie McNeill (M, 58)
  10. 26:59.5, Tanner Klink (M, 30)

Top Ten Women, 2024 Red Pepper 5K Run
  1. 24:22.0, Eden Keene (F, 41)
  2. 24:58.9, Addyson Paul (F, 14)
  3. 25:05.6, Genee Meleski (F, 55)
  4. 25:47.1, Sophia Fonseca (F, 27)
  5. 27:58.8, Cydney Szymanowski (F, 38)
  6. 28:11.7, Sophia Reglat (F, 18)
  7. 28:25.3, Julie Clark (F, 62)
  8. 28:46.6, Kaia Hathcock (F, 12)
  9. 28:47.6, Belinda Wharton (F, 63)
  10. 28:53.2, Isabelle Fann (F, 14)

Known St. George Island Red Pepper 5K Run Champions, 1992 - 2024
DateMenWomen
7 March 1992
6 March 1993
5 March 1994
4 March 199517:47, Jeff Doherty
2 March 1996
1 March 199717:57, Charlie Johnson20:56, Fran McLean
7 March 1998
6 March 199918:12, Mike Sims20:51, Summer Calder
4 March 200018:02, Michael Waitathu18:58, Jane Johnson
3 March 200117:10, Tim Unger17:31, Sarah Docter-Williams
2 March 200218:58, Jay Silvanima25:35, Camille Consolvo
1 March 200318:59, David Yon23:20, Jessica Stewart
6 March 200416:55, Tim Unger18:12, Breeda Willis
5 March 200517:23, Charlie Johnson20:42, Annette Ryerson
4 March 200617:40, Charlie Johnson24:05, Meghan Kennedy
3 March 200717:44, Charlie Johnson16:41, Tera Moody
1 March 200817:23, Vince Molosky21:47, Meghan Kennedy
7 March 200919:59, Hobson Fulmer25:25, Kelsey Kilinski
6 March 201018:23, David Shearon23:44, Kristen Merill
5 March 201118:00, David Shearon22:27, Meghan Kennedy
3 March 201219:42, Bryan Harrington22:17, Sam Fortunas
2 March 201321:59, Michael D. Turner22:30, Sam Fortunas
1 March 201416:21, Stanley Linton23:27, Jamie Nichols
7 March 201518:58, Dylan Peebles22:06, Connie Lewis
5 March 201618:52, John Przygocki22:13, Lauren Davidson
4 March 2017
3 March 2018
2 March 2019
7 March 2020
6 March 202118:12, Leonardo Canete23:04, Meghan Kennedy
5 March 202217:33, Courtland Buntin24:48, Genee Meleski
4 March 202320:26, Josiah Friddle24:32, Lana McDaniel
2 March 202419:35, Josiah Friddle24:22, Eden Keene


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Monday, March 6, 2023

Josiah Friddle came from near, Lana McDaniel from afar, to win the Red Pepper 5K

Josiah Friddle is a sophomore at Franklin County High School, just outside of Eastpoint, Florida. The school is just off US 98, a coastal road along Apalachicola Bay. You can't see the water from the school building, but if you walk from the school out to the highway, you can see Saint George Island across the bay. That island, just in sight of the school where Friddle runs cross-country, is where the sophomore won the Red Pepper Run 5K on Saturday morning, 3 March 2023, running 20:26. Of course, attending school near the race isn't a requirement for victory. Fourteen-year-old Lana McDaniel studies in Atlanta, Georgia, several hundred miles from Saint George Island, but nevertheless took the Red Pepper Run women's title, placing ninth overall in 24:32.


Friddle's winning 20:26 was faster than the 20:49 he had run for fifth place in the 2022 Red Pepper Run, as well as the 20:57 he had run for fourth place in the 2021 race. Behind Friddle, Brennan Ausloos edged Brad Givens for the runner-up spot, 20:52 to 20:54. Barney Ray was the top master runner in the race, placing fifth overall in 22:59.


Finishing a few seconds after Lana McDaniel, master runner Eden Keene was the women's runner-up, placing tenth overall in 23:39. Master runner Genee Meleski, the 2022 Red Pepper Run women's champ, took third in the women's standings, placing fourteenth overall in 25:25.


145 athletes finished Saint George Island's 2023 Red Pepper Run 5K. The race was part of the 41st annual Saint George Island Chili Cookoff.


Top Ten Men, 2023 Red Pepper 5K Run
  1. 20:25.8, Josiah Friddle (M, 15)
  2. 20:51.4, Brennan Ausloos (M, 24)
  3. 21:53.8, Brad Givens (M, 34)
  4. 22:07.2, Harper Buntin (M, 17)
  5. 22:58.6, Barney Ray (M, 60)
  6. 23:06.9, Michael Schmitt (M, 36)
  7. 23:17.3, Kasey Chism (M, 32)
  8. 24:11.3, Bradley Chapman (M, 18)
  9. 25:11.5, Stevie McNeill (M, 57)
  10. 25:13.3, Marcus Sexton (M, 15)

Top Ten Women, 2023 Red Pepper 5K Run
  1. 24:31.2, Lana McDaniel (F, 14)
  2. 24:38.1, Eden Keene (F, 40)
  3. 25:24.8, Genee Meleski (F, 54)
  4. 25:41.7, Laura Dane (F, 36)
  5. 26:52.9, Jensen Galetta (F, 34)
  6. 27:06.0, Kristen Meija (F, 45)
  7. 27:22.6, Cydney Szymanowski (F, 37)
  8. 27:48.7, Katt London (F, 34)
  9. 28:12.8, Becky Leckinger (F, 59)
  10. 28:20.4, Lynn Varner (F, 58)

Known St. George Island Red Pepper 5K Run Champions, 1992 - 2023
DateMenWomen
7 March 1992
6 March 1993
5 March 1994
4 March 199517:47, Jeff Doherty
2 March 1996
1 March 199717:57, Charlie Johnson20:56, Fran McLean
7 March 1998
6 March 199918:12, Mike Sims20:51, Summer Calder
4 March 200018:02, Michael Waitathu18:58, Jane Johnson
3 March 200117:10, Tim Unger17:31, Sarah Docter-Williams
2 March 200218:58, Jay Silvanima25:35, Camille Consolvo
1 March 200318:59, David Yon23:20, Jessica Stewart
6 March 200416:55, Tim Unger18:12, Breeda Willis
5 March 200517:23, Charlie Johnson20:42, Annette Ryerson
4 March 200617:40, Charlie Johnson24:05, Meghan Kennedy
3 March 200717:44, Charlie Johnson16:41, Tera Moody
1 March 200817:23, Vince Molosky21:47, Meghan Kennedy
7 March 200919:59, Hobson Fulmer25:25, Kelsey Kilinski
6 March 201018:23, David Shearon23:44, Kristen Merill
5 March 201118:00, David Shearon22:27, Meghan Kennedy
3 March 201219:42, Bryan Harrington22:17, Sam Fortunas
2 March 201321:59, Michael D. Turner22:30, Sam Fortunas
1 March 201416:21, Stanley Linton23:27, Jamie Nichols
7 March 201518:58, Dylan Peebles22:06, Connie Lewis
5 March 201618:52, John Przygocki22:13, Lauren Davidson
4 March 2017
3 March 2018
2 March 2019
7 March 2020
6 March 202118:12, Leonardo Canete23:04, Meghan Kennedy
5 March 202217:33, Courtland Buntin24:48, Genee Meleski
4 March 202320:26, Josiah Friddle24:32, Lana McDaniel


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