The Inaugural Run for the Reef 5K is now in the books and by all accounts it was a huge success. The weather was perfect and thanks to our wonderful participants, volunteers, and sponsors the race and after party ran like a well oiled machine.

Don’t forget  – finish line pictures can be viewed and purchased from the Navarre Press Website.

If you had pictures taken at the Kiss The Fish booth you can see them online on the Thrifty Tropical Shirt Facebook page.

The overall results for Runners and Walkers are listed below:

Overall Runner – Male
1 – Clayton Honaker – 18:16 (Navarre)
2 – Chris Neal – 18:26 (Pace)
3 – Jermyn James – 18:29 (Navarre)

Overall Runner – Female
1 – Amber Barberisi – 20:35  (Fort Walton Beach)
2 – Sharon Myers – 20:59 (Milton)
3 – Sandy Ebanks – 21:12 (Pace)

Overall Walker – Male
1 – Ken Wolfe – 34:06 (Fort Walton Beach)
2 – Delbert Tucker – 34:53 (Navarre)
3 – Ray Moseley – 39:20 (Pensacola)

Overall Walker – Female
1 -  Susan Giangiulio – 40:04 (Navarre)
2 – Christine Salome – 40:05  (Navarre)
3 – Diana McKinley – 40:40 (Navarre)

Links to full results are provided below:

Overall Runners Results – Oct 10, 2009 Run for the Reef 5K

Overall Walkers Results – Oct 10, 2009 Run for the Reef 5K

Female Runners Results – Oct 10, 2009 Run for the Reef 5K

Male Runners Results – Oct 10, 2009 Run for the Reef 5K

Runners Age Category Results are shown below:

Please note the following results correction for placements in the Male Age 65-69 category.

1. Bob Sciretta             28:48

2. Bill Larsen                30:42

3. Robert Anderson    36:19

Any of the age category runners  that won an award and was not able to pick it up at the awards ceremony may pick their award up  at Run With it Shoes (850-939-1001) in the Navarre Publix Shopping Center  through October 25th.

The Overall Walker Male and Female winners (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) that did not receive their award a the awards ceremony may pick them up at Run With it Shoes (through October 25th).

Runners who did not pick up their race packet may do so at Run With it Shoes through October 25th also.

A few tidbits about the Run for the Reef event:

Total Registrants – 311

Estimated Gross Dollars Raised  to benefit the Navarre Beach Marine Sanctuary – $8,126

The following states were represented in our participants   FL, AL, GA, LA, CT, and WI

The Navarre Beach Marine Sanctuary Committee would like to thank all of our sponsors, the volunteers and their organizations for helping to make the Inaugural Run for the Reef 5K a great success and for helping to Make Navarre Snorkelicious!!