Friends of Community Fitness holds annual 5K and kids fun run

GUILFORD — Friends of Community Fitness held its 14th annual Fitness 5K, as part of the Piscataquis River Festival, on the morning of July 27 with the following results:

1. Brendan Labarre, age 17, 20 minutes, 49 seconds; 2. Randy Easler 41 23:17; 3. David Tweedie 55 24:30; 4. Mike Shorey 45 24:34; tie-5. Chase Lander 10 and Matthew Robinson 16 26:24; 7. Peter Devine 70 27:34; 8. Willow Forbes-Smith — top women’s runner — 11 27:38; tie-9. Fletcher Davis 28 and Brian Davis 62 28:23;

11. Trisha Moulton 50 29:57; 12. Shirley Adams 68 33:14; 13. Emily Davis 65 33:44; tie-14. Mahalia Forbes-Smith 13 and Karl Smith 47 35:06; and 16. Amy Easler 40 42:00.

The 5K had a pair of walkers, Lisa Labree and Lucille Gordon.

Before the 5K boys and girls had the opportunity to take part in a kids fun run. In order across the finish line, Harold White, 9; Breelyn Gaw, 9; Austin Erickson, 4; Nolan Mooers, 6; and Bensyn Gaw, 4.
Friends of Community Fitness thanks its volunteers, Terri Palin, Candice Cyr, Brad Deane, Wendy McKenney and Allen Drew, for helping make everything run smoothly. Thanks also go to the sponsors; Hardwood & Puritan Products, Lovell’s Hardware, McKusick Petroleum, Herring Bros. Meats, Smokestack Trading Post, Kimball Insurance, Will o Wisp Soaps & Lotions, Center Yoga & Healing Arts and John Conner.

All-time Fitness 5K winners (year, men’s winner and time and women’s winner and time): 2006 Jerod Hayes 20:32; 2008 Dean Hartley 21:45 and Sarah Curtis 22:53; 2009 Joe Gallant 21:02 and Jill Taylor 23:41; 2010 Jason Abbott-Dallamora 18:19 and Trisha Moulton 24:21; 2011 Abbott-Dallamora and Mike Coffey 19:15 and Rebecca Gaw 22:52; 2012 Abbott-Dallamora 18:27 and Katherine Arch 21:06; 2013 David Doore 18:14 and Katherine Arch and Mary Arch 21:01; 2014 Doore 18:53 and Moulton 25:43; 2015 Zach Doore 21:15 and Amalia Harrington 23:11; 2016 Dawson Smith 21:41 and Brenda White 23:30; 2017 Smith 19:55 and Stephanie White 25:53; 2018 Smith 20:14 and White 25:23; and 2019 Labarre 20:49 and Forbes-Smith 27:38.