Larry Levy needed almost a year to repair the damage done by running four marathons in 10 months in 1996.

Now healthy, Levy, 32, of Reading, Pa., and Boca Raton, won Saturday’s 22nd annual Palm Beach Runners’ Turkey Trot 5K at John Prince Park. He covered the 3.1-mile course in 15 minutes, 57 seconds.

“I am 100 percent now, and I want to run straight through the winter,” Levy said. “It’s a lot better than being in a medical tent for two hours with IVs sticking in your arm.”

Levy, a flight attendant for American Airlines, plans to train in South Florida during the next few months and compete in South Florida Grand Prix races.

Levy is one of several Pennsylvania runners coach Jim Reider of Boca West plans to have train in South Florida.

Levy is training for a spring or early summer marathon. After failing in 1996, he plans to try again to qualify for the Olympic trials in sub-2:20.

“I just came up a little short the last time,” Levy said. “I knew that I would kick myself if I didn’t at least try to get into the trials, so I did three marathons trying to qualify. Then I was invited to the 100th Boston Marathon, and I just had to do that. My body was pretty beat up after that. I didn’t run a marathon in 1997.”

Familiar faces took titles in other divisions Saturday.

Four-time Olympic marathon trials qualifier Cindy Keeler, 39, of Lake Worth, won the women’s 10K in 37:04.

She holds the course record of 37:21, set in 1995.

Triathlete Linda Neary of Jupiter was second in 38:22.

There were 267 runners who finished the 10K.

Andrew Greenidge, 32, of Coconut Creek, bothered by a sore Achilles’ tendon, won the men’s 5K title in 33:27 just two days after finishing runner-up in the Tamarac Turkey Trot 5K.

“I am a stubborn runner. I just don’t know when to rest,” Greenidge said. “I will take a few days off and ice my Achilles.”

Greenidge, the 1996-97 South Florida Grand Prix men’s winner, is training for the Walt Disney World Marathon on Jan. 11 in Orlando, where he hopes to run sub-2:30. It will be his first marathon in three years.

Mellanie Brown of Boynton Beach defended her title in the women’s 5K race in 18:56 and finished 21st overall, ahead of Pope John Paul II sophomore Catharine Coates (19:45).

There were 363 runners who finished the 5K.

Several runners ran both races as a long training run and still managed to place in their age groups, including David Collins and Dale Ruby of Boca Raton.