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Monday, June 17, 2019

Sweet, juicy victory for Scott Lloyd and Alyssa Terry at the Melon Run

On Saturday morning, 15 June 2019, the Monticello, Florida Kiwanis Club had placed a water table on the Monticello Bike Trail, close to the halfway point of their 41st annual 5K Melon Run. There was another water table just past the finish line, on top of the infamous Water Street hill. The true treat, though, was a little bit further on at race headquarters in front of the First United Methodist Church. There, a table was piled high with sliced watermelon, sweet and juicy.


The melon table may have been an incentive for many athletes to finish the race a little faster, but none finished as fast as Scott Lloyd. A first-year chemistry major at the University of Central Florida, Lloyd won the 3.1-mile Melon Run in 18:39. Alyssa Terry of Tallahassee was the first woman in the race, coming in ninth overall in 20:27.

Scott Lloyd, Alyssa Terry
Scott Lloyd and Alyssa Terry

The runners lined up for the 8:15 start on West Washington Street, Monticello's main east-west artery, in front of the Methodist Church and less than three blocks from the Jefferson County Courthouse. By the end of the first kilometer, Scott Lloyd and Myles Gibson had broken away from the rest of the field. Gibson, a Donalsonville, Georgia master runner, dueled with Lloyd for the lead.


“He kept getting five steps ahead, but I’d come back,” said Lloyd. “He was the one pushing the pace.”

Scott Lloyd, Myles Gibson
Scott Lloyd and Myles Gibson

“I got out and got into the lead on the first hill,” said Gibson. “I felt good until two miles.”


Just after two miles, the runners left the bike trail to race west on Chase Drive. That was where Lloyd took over.

Scott Lloyd
Scott Lloyd

“I tried to stay with that young runner as long as I could,” said Gibson. “The last hill murdered me.”


The “last hill” was the final 400 meters of the race, a slope on Water Street equivalent to climbing to the seventh floor of a high rise. Lloyd reached the top first in 18:39. Gibson was runner-up in 19:05.

Noah Deem, Dalton Gray, Jack McDermott
Noah Deem, Dalton Gray, and Jack McDermott

Behind Lloyd and Gibson, three runners reached the bottom of Water Street together--Dalton Gray, Noah Deem, and Jack McDermott. Gray, a member of the Tallahassee Community College cross-country team, got away on the uphill to take third with a 19:22, leaving twelve-year-old Deem and Tallahassee master runner Jack McDermott fighting for fourth. Deem, a sixth-grader on the Community Leadership Academy cross-country team, edged McDermott for the spot, 19:30 to 19:32.


Lilli Unger and Alyssa Langston shared the lead in the women’s competition through the first three kilometers of the race. Both were cross-country runners--Unger a rising junior on the Leon High team, and Langston a 2019 graduate of Wakulla High where she was a harrier for four years. Alyssa Terry trailed them.

Alyssa Terry
Alyssa Terry

“I felt good after the first mile, so I picked it up,” said Terry.


During the second mile, Terry narrowed Langston and Unger’s lead. During the third mile she passed them. Langston gave chase, but Terry was the first woman to the top of Water Street, running 20:27. Langston took second in the women’s standings and twelfth overall in 20:47. Unger was the third woman and fourteenth overall in 21:13. Monica Judd of Tallahassee was the first woman master and fourth female finisher, 21st overall in 22:08.

Alyssa Langston
Alyssa Langston

Lloyd, the overall winner, had been the ace on the Wakulla High cross-country team in 2018, but had gotten out of running since heading to UCF.


“I didn’t really start running again till February,” said Lloyd. “It’s been fun getting back into it.”


For the present, he plans to stay into it.

Lilli Unger
Lilli Unger

“I’ll probably run the Paul Hoover 5K in two weeks,” said Lloyd.


That seventh annual race at Wakulla Springs honors the late Paul Hoover, Lloyd’s coach for three of his four years at Wakulla High.


194 athletes finished the Monticello Kiwanis’ 2019 Melon Run 5K. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race.


Top Ten Men, 2019 Melon Run 5K
  1. 18:39, Scott Lloyd (M, 19)
  2. 19:05, Myles Gibson (M, 52)
  3. 19:22, Dalton Gray (M, 19)
  4. 19:30, Noah Deem (M, 12)
  5. 19:32, Jack McDermott (M, 50)
  6. 19:57, Marco Mata (M, 27)
  7. 20:00, Timothy Qualls (M, 40)
  8. 20:05, Duane Evans (M, 51)
  9. 20:32, Ben Colona (M, 23)
  10. 20:44, Tristan Lanasa (M, 26)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Melon Run 5K
  1. 20:27, Alyssa Terry (F, 25)
  2. 20:47, Alyssa Langston (F, 18)
  3. 21:13, Lilli Unger (F, 16)
  4. 22:08, Monica Judd (F, 45)
  5. 22:50, Kaley Ford (F, 24)
  6. 23:42, Casey Anderson (F, 29)
  7. 23:50, Nancy Stedman (F, 57)
  8. 24:18, Paula O'Neill (F, 57)
  9. 24:58, Elizabeth Kessler (F, 13)
  10. 25:08, Norah Peters (F, 13)

Known winners of the Monticello Melon Run 5K, 1979 - 2019
DateMenWomenFinishers
23 June 197915:39, Gary Slayton20:36, Carolyn Crochet
28 June 198015:28, Gary Slayton19:49, Debbie Dickson
1981

19 June 198215:10, Andy Whitener17:38, Laura Ledbetter
18 June 1983
23 June 198415:37, Gary Slayton19:45, Cindy Walker
22 June 198516:09, Felton Wright19:12, Barbara Balzer
21 June 198615:55, Bill Crooks18:32, Karen MacHarg
20 June 198716:14, Bill Crooks19:33, Peggy Johnson257
25 June 198815:47, Bill Crooks18:18, Karen MacHarg324
24 June 198915:02, Jeff Pigg19:05, Vikki Saga
23 June 199015:20, Jessie Close18:06, Karen MacHarg
22 June 199115:23, Phillip Rowan19:34, Vikki Saga
20 June 199215:10, Jessie Close18:35, Lynda Nilges386
26 June 199316:07, Bill Crooks19:37, Sue Kany
29 June 199416:13, Gary Droze18:49, Sarah Heeb
24 June 199514:57, John Charlton19:54, Sissi Carroll
22 June 1996

28 June 1997

27 June 199816:33, Tommy Kunish17:51, Sarah Docter-Williams
26 June 199916:23, Tommy Kunish21:05, Peggy Simpson193
17 June 200017:08, Tim Simpkins18:32, Kim Winn141
16 June 200116:29, Ryan Deak17:54, Sarah Docter-Williams238
22 June 200217:54, Doug Gorton21:41, Laura Atlee139
21 June 2003

19 June 200417:18, Tim Unger20:30, Kate Remillard121
18 June 200518:31, Jack McDermott18:07, Sarah Docter-Williams123
17 June 200617:36, Nathan Haskins22:35, Loranne Ausley170
16 June 200716:28, Nathan Haskins18:50, Sarah Docter-Williams261
21 June 200816:08, Nathan Haskins20:16, Deb Jones194
20 June 200916:54, Charlie Johnson23:49, Sandy Holt267
19 June 201018:07, Gabriel Leitz19:59, Micah Adriani283
18 June 201116:38, Sammy Palmer19:28, Katie Showman258
16 June 201216:28, Stephen Cox18:59, Seeley Gutierrez379
15 June 201316:42, Stanley Linton18:49, Sheryl Rosen284
21 June 201416:17, Chris Lake19:08, Seeley Gutierrez244
20 June 201518:03, Roger Schmidt20:49, Teresa Ristow232
18 June 201615:50, Stanley Linton19:44, Brittney Skiles212
17 June 201716:55, Charlie Johnson19:13, Katie Sherron326
16 June 201819:15, Elvis Maradzike19:40, Sheryl Rosen202
15 June 201918:39, Scott Lloyd20:27, Alyssa Terry194
Thank you to Pat Dugan for providing information about the 1987 race.


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Saturday, May 11, 2019

Scott Lloyd and Alyssa Terry had the keys to the Sanctuary at the Wakulla Springs 5K

South of Tallahassee, Florida, Wakulla Springs State Park is a special place. The park's sanctuary is even more special. Anyone can go to the park, but admission to the sanctuary is tightly restricted. There aren't many ways to see that parcel of land. You could train for years, become a Florida Department of Environmental Protection park ranger, and hope to be assigned to Wakulla Springs. You could study entomology, choose deer ticks as the topic of your doctoral dissertation, and apply to be allowed to do your research in the sanctuary. You could disguise yourself as an alligator and crawl into the sanctuary. Astral projection, maybe?


One sure way of getting into the sanctuary, though, is to run the annual 5K race hosted by the Friends of Wakulla Springs, which takes runners on a 3.1-mile tour of that very special tract of land. 153 athletes did just that at the thirteenth annual Friends of Wakulla Springs 5K on Saturday morning, 11 May 2019. The fastest in the group was Scott Lloyd; the former Wakulla High cross-country runner won the race in 19:34. Tallahassee speech-language pathologist Alyssa Terry was the top woman in the race for the second year in a row, placing seventh overall in 22:08.


"I had actually planned to take it easy during today’s race," said Terry. "I followed this plan for the first half mile or so, but I felt good and was enjoying the course so I ended up picking it up a bit more and more throughout the race."


Florida State University meteorology professor Philip Sura repeated as the first master runner in the 5K, finishing second overall in 19:54. Timothy Qualls took third in 20:11.


At the end of the race there were three athletes with a chance at the runner-up spot in the women's standings--Amelia Bryant, Emily Smith, and Megan Chapman. Bryant finished just ahead of the other two in 23:12, coming in fifteenth overall. Smith and Chapman were sixteenth and seventeenth overall, both runners clocked in 23:13. Nancy Stedman of Tallahassee was the first woman master and fifth female finisher, 22nd overall in 24:11.


153 athletes finished the 2019 Wakulla Springs 5K. The race was chip-timed by Gulf Winds Track Club of Tallahassee.


Top Ten Men, 2019 Wakulla Springs 5K
  1. 19:34, Scott Lloyd (M, 18)
  2. 19:54, Philip Sura (M, 49)
  3. 20:11, Timothy Qualls (M, 39)
  4. 20:22, Duane Evans (M, 51)
  5. 20:33, Tristan Lanasa (M, 26)
  6. 21:40, Kevin Malfa (M, 35)
  7. 21:43, Michael Kennett (M, 45)
  8. 22:13, Joshua Degrace (M, 30)
  9. 22:13, Jim Garland (M, 42)
  10. 22:47, Huub Weijers (M, 54)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Wakulla Springs 5K
  1. 22:08, Alyssa Terry (F, 25)
  2. 23:12, Amelia Bryant (F, 30)
  3. 23:13, Emily Smith (F, 34)
  4. 23:13, Megan Chapman (F, 27)
  5. 24:11, Nancy Stedman (F, 57)
  6. 25:05, Elizabeth Stevens (F, 39)
  7. 25:08, Madison Sims (F, 12)
  8. 25:09, Liliana Lewis (F, 12)
  9. 25:56, Birgit Maier-Katlain (F, 56)
  10. 27:22, Sonya Dudley (F, 50)

Wakulla Springs 5K Champions, 2007 - 2019
DateMenWomenFinishers
19 May 200719:09, Myles Gibson22:16, Olivia Swedberg204
17 May 200817:42, Jay Wallace23:29, Sydney Nutting216
16 May 200917:20, Tyler Price21:49, Roxanne Hughes223
15 May 201017:56, Justin Dickieson20:03, Kati Gosnell355
21 May 201116:59, Vince Molosky19:29, Seeley Gutierrez326
19 May 201216:49, Vince Molosky21:53, Angela Wable256
18 May 201316:39, Stanley Linton20:19, Kate Harrison199
17 May 201416:38, Chris Lake20:07, Katie Sherron252
16 May 201518:12, Bryce Cole18:46, Katie Slater171
21 May 201616:34, Stan Linton21:35, Haleigh Martin167
20 May 201719:17, Travis Parks19:53, Ann Centner126
19 May 201818:19, Vince Molosky22:06, Alyssa Terry92
11 May 201919:34, Scott Lloyd22:08, Alyssa Terry153



 Top ten men's times, Wakulla Springs 5K 
TimeAthleteYear
16:34Stan Linton2016
16:38Chris Lake2014
16:39Stan Linton2013
16:49Vince Molosky2012
16:58Joseph Garcia2016
16:59Vince Molosky2011
17:04Stan Linton2012
17:06Stephen Cox2011
17:15Dan Clark2011
17:18Vince Molosky2013
      
Top ten women's times, Wakulla Springs 5K
TimeAthleteYear
18:46Katie Slater2015
19:29Seeley Gutierrez2011
19:42Katie Sherron2011
19:46Kelly Stevens2011
19:53Ann Centner2017
19:59Summer Calder2011
20:03Kati Gosnell2010
20:07Katie Sherron2014
20:19Kate Harrison2013
20:54Micah Adriani2010


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Thursday, June 8, 2017

After the yellow flag is lifted, Lloyd and Heddaeus win the Potluck Four

"It has always been a bit of a quirky race..."


David Yon was describing Gulf Winds Track Club's Potluck Four Mile, a cross-country event that he has been directing annually since it was first run in 1998. Some of those quirks have been built into the race; it has always included a prediction competition, where athletes are rewarded for correctly guessing their finishing time. Other quirks have quietly disappeared over time--in the early years the race included a team division with randomly-drawn teams and a convoluted scoring system that few understood. Still other quirks were there courtesy of the race director. No one ever told Yon that the course, the starting line, and even the exact distance had to change every year; that was all his idea.

Scott Lloyd
Scott Lloyd

The latest foible wasn't entirely his idea, though. At 6:00 PM on Saturday, 3 June 2017, when the race was scheduled to start in Phipps Park, a gate on the first quarter-mile of the course was still locked. The key was unavailable and there was no way to get over a hundred athletes around the gate safely at full steam.


"We're going to walk the first half mile," declared Yon.


Think of it as proceeding under a caution flag. They do it in NASCAR, even if it's generally unknown in cross-country running. It got the field past the obstacle and on to the somewhat safer part of the course, where racing could begin.

Gulf Winds Track Club's 2017 Potluck Four Mile
The Start

Scott Lloyd had been one of the eager athletes in front of the group during the walk. When the caution flag lifted, Lloyd took off. A rising senior on the Wakulla High cross-country team, Lloyd finished first in 32:22. Travis Parks, an alumnus of the Wakulla High cross-country program, was second in 32:58. Hawthorne Hay, a rising sophomore on the Chiles High cross-country team, placed third in 34:14. Florida State University meteorology professor Philip Sura was the fastest master runner in the race, finishing sixth overall in 35:37.


Jillian Heddaeus was the first women to finish the four miles, coming across the line eighth overall in 35:53. Heddaeus had been the fourth woman in the 2016 race and the third woman in 2015. Haleigh Martin was second in the women's standings and eleventh overall in 36:22. A Wakulla High graduate, Martin has signed a national letter of intent to run cross-country for the Truett McConnell University Bears in 2017. Chiles High rising sophomore Emily Molen was the third woman and fifteenth overall in 37:27. Nancy Stedman was the first woman master and seventh female finisher, 37th overall in 43:14.

Jillian Heddaeus
Jillian Heddaeus

107 athletes finished the twentieth annual Potluck Four Mile. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2017 Potluck Four Mile
  1. 32:22, Scott Lloyd (M, 17)
  2. 32:58, Travis Parks (M, 21)
  3. 34:14, Hawthorne Hay (M, 15)
  4. 35:05, Paul Guyas (M, 39)
  5. 35:28, Matthias Laywell (M, 18)
  6. 35:37, Philip Sura (M, 47)
  7. 35:44, Chuck Lang (M, 51)
  8. 35:56, Chris Porter (M, 16)
  9. 36:12, Finn Tucker (M, 15)
  10. 36:23, Evan Guarino (M, 18)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2017 Potluck Four Mile
  1. 35:53, Jillian Heddaeus (F, 34)
  2. 36:22, Haleigh Martin (F, 17)
  3. 37:27, Emily Molen (F, 15)
  4. 38:10, Alyssa Langston (F, 16)
  5. 39:21, Jamila Allen (F, 28)
  6. 39:38, Kate Chunka (F, 34)
  7. 43:14, Nancy Stedman (F, 55)
  8. 43:31, Amelia Wilson (F, 27)
  9. 44:08, Martha Guyas (F, 32)
  10. 44:15, Julia Sura (F, 45)

Potluck champions, 1998 - 2017
DateMenWomenFinishers
20 June 1998
5 June 199929:29, Zack Heissner32:26, Sarah Docter-Williams58
3 June 200024:42 Paul Hoover25:59, Kim Wynn
2 June 200124:59, Reid Vannoy25:33, Sarah Docter-Williams53
8 June 200222:47, Ryan Deak26:04, Sarah Docter-Williams132
7 June 200325:17, Tim Unger25:36, Sarah Docter-Williams91
5 June 200423:05, Caleb Carmichael25:59, Kara Newell136
4 June 200523:22, Caleb Carmichael27:21, Kara Newell110
3 June 200623:06, Jared Black25:58, Sheryl Rosen155
2 June 200724:26, Tony Guillen27:36, Jane Johnson115
7 June 200823:00, John Robida25:09, Sarah Docter-Williams144
13 June 200922:40, Jay Wallace27:05, Micah Adriani177
5 June 201022:14, Matt Mizereck27:39, Micah Adriani173
4 June 201122:57, Vince Molosky26:33, Summer Calder196
2 June 201222:33, Vince Molosky27:18, Katie Showman232
1 June 201321:17, Kevin Sullivan26:24, Micah Adriani237
31 May 201423:34, Kevin Sullivan32:17, Katie Sherron165
6 June 201525:45, Vince Molosky30:35, Carrie Seiberlich179
11 June 201622:52, Stanley Linton30:02, Ann Centner160
3 June 201732:22, Scott Lloyd35:53, Jillian Heddaeus107
The race was five miles in 1998 and 1999, and four miles thereafter.


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