LAMOINE — Minutes before the start of the fourth annual Flattop 5K road race on Saturday morning, Judson Cake jogged into the registration area at the Lamoine Conolidated School, having run all the way from Bar Harbor.

After chatting with a few friends, Cake then took his place at the starting line, the starting command was given and off he went.

Sixteen minutes and three seconds later, Cake had completed the five-kilometer course some 11 seconds faster than anyone else in the field of 195 runners and walkers to notch his second consecutive Flattop 5K win.

Also notching her second consecutive Flattop 5K win on the women’s side was Anne Favolise-Stanton, 25, of Columbia, who finished 22nd overall with a time of 19:41.

In the one-mile kids’ fun run, which preceded the main event, Duncan Hetzer of Otter Creek was the overall winner in 6:57 and Robyn Henry of Lamoine was the first girl to finish in 7:33.

The race, which kicks off the road racing season in Eastern Maine, is held annually in memory of Lamoine’s Bill Pinkham.

He was a veteran and well-liked runner who died in 2005 just moments after completing the Walter Hunt Memorial Fourth of July race in Bangor.

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