Zamani and Wilkey gallop home first in the Trent Trot

With the second-place runner a distant 600 meters behind him, Mark Zamani won the eighth annual Trent Trot 5K on a brisk Saturday morning, 28 January 2017. Zamani ran the 3.1 mile course through Tallahassee, Florida's Dublin Downs neighborhood in 16:42. Caitlin Wilkey, a frosh on the Chiles High cross-country team, was the women's champ, placing eighth overall in 20:31.


For Zamani, a Florida State University undergraduate hailing from Connecticut, the race was his first 5K on the streets of Tallahassee, although three months earlier he had run the Rex Cleveland Road Mile in town. Through the spring of 2016, Zamani's racing had been for the cross-country and track teams of Naugatuck High School back home in Connecticut.


Corey Osgood beat out Tony Guillen for the runner-up spot, 18:53 to 18:58. Guillen, the winner of the first Trent Trot 5K in 2009 (when the event was called the Red Fox Trot), was the top master runner in the race.


The Trent Trot 5K started and finished at Roberts Elementary School, which made the race almost a homecoming for Caitlin Wilkey--the women's champ was an alumna of neighboring Montford Middle School, where she ran cross-country and track before entering Chiles. Tallahassee athlete Stacie Elliott finished second to Wilkey in the women's standings and ninth overall in 21:13. Paige Churchill, a sixth-grader on the Swift Creek Middle School cross-country squad, was the third female finisher and 23rd overall in 22:37. Kathy Greene was the top woman master and 31st overall in 24:01.


It may have been cool and breezy, but a crowd still turned out for the 2017 Trent Trot, with 408 athletes finishing the 5K and another 256 completing a one-mile fun run. Both events were chip-timed by Gulf Winds Track Club of Tallahassee.


Top Ten Men, 2017 Trent Trot 5K

1. 16:42, Mark Zamani (M, 18)
2. 18:53, Corey Osgood (M, 20)
3. 18:58, Tony Guillen (M, 48)
4. 19:13, Hawthorne Hay (M, 14)
5. 19:41, Joel Piotrowski (M, 47)
6. 20:30, A.J. Hodges (M, 15)
7. 20:31, Gary Johnston (M, 42)
8. 21:18, Abe Hodges (M, 45)
9. 21:21, Scott Stewart (M, 47)
10. 21:26, Erik Andersen (M, 34)

Top Ten Women, 2017 Trent Trot 5K

1. 20:31, Caitlin Wilkey (F, 15)
2. 21:13, Stacie Elliott (F, 34)
3. 22:37, Paige Churchill (F, 11)
4. 23:15, Erica Boccumini (F, 24)
5. 24:01, Kathy Greene (F, 43)
6. 24:08, Danielle Shelton (F, 35)
7. 24:15, Ella Grace Hodges (F, 12)
8. 24:21, Angela Perry (F, 45)
9. 24:22, Jensen Reinert (F, 28)
10. 24:38, Nicole Kelly (F, 12)

Trent Trot 5K winners, 2009 - 2017
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
17 October 2009	17:29, Tony Guillen	22:22, Cora Atkinson	148
29 January 2011	19:13, Cole Tessier	20:48, Laura Hanlon	199
28 January 2012	17:00, Trevor Touchton	20:19, Laura Hanlon	208
19 January 2013	16:10, Stanley Linton	19:36, Micah Adriani	268
25 January 2014	17:53, Peter Kaus	19:16, Lisa Johnson	206
24 January 2015	16:19, Chris Lake	18:49, Seeley Gutierrez	574
23 January 2016	17:26, Matt Nazareth	19:36, Katie Sherron	554
28 January 2017	16:42, Mark Zamani	20:31, Caitlin Wilkey	408
From 2009 to 2014 the race was named the Red Fox Trot 5K

Links

• Complete results of the 2017 Trent Trot 5K at gulfwinds.org
  http://gulfwinds.org/raceresults/2017/Trent%20Trot%202017.asp
  
  
• Fred Deckert's photos of the 2017 Trent Trot 5K
  https://plus.google.com/photos/112560881455823075870/album/6381002598981028545
  
  
• 2016 story, “Nazareth over Mazziotta by a nose at the Trent Trot 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/01/red-fox-2016.html
  
  
• 2015 story, “Lake and Gutierrez take the Trent Trot at a gallop”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/01/red-fox-2015.html
  
  
• 2014 story, “A win for Kaus and a record for Johnson at the Red Fox Trot”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2014/01/red-fox-2014.html
  
  
• 2013 story, “Records fall at fourth Red Fox Trot 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2013/01/red-fox-2013.html
  
  
• 2012 story, “Touchton and Hanlon set Red Fox records”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2012/02/red-fox-2012.html
  
  
• 2011 story, “Tessier and Hanlon fox the field in the Red Fox Trot 5K”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2011/01/red-fox-trot-2011.html
  
  
• USATF course certification map FL11132EBM for the 2017 Trent Trot 5K
  http://www.usatf.org/events/courses/maps/showMap.asp?courseID=FL11132EBM
  
  
• Locate your next race in the Tallahassee region on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

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