Monday, July 12, 2021

Leonardo Canete, Amelia Bryant move up to first at the Swamp Forest Trail Race

Saturday morning, 10 July 2021, was the date of the second race in that year's Gulf Winds Track Club Summer Trail Series, the Swamp Forest Trail Race. A month earlier the Series had opened with the Cadillac Trail Race, where Leonardo Canete had been runner-up for the men and Amelia Bryant second in the women's standings. But "past performance is no guarantee of future results" as investment firms warn. "History is not destiny" is another way of putting it. So on a July morning in Tallahassee, Florida's Phipps Park, Leonardo Canete won the 2021 Swamp Forest Trail Race in 29:07, while Amelia Bryant was the first woman and eleventh overall, running 34:24.

Phipps Park trails, including the Swamp Forest Trail

The Swamp Forest Run was originally billed as four-and-a-half miles, but by race day Series Director Bobby York was calling it five miles. Trail running being what it is, the actual distance could have been anywhere between seven and nine kilometers. On the morning of the event, the air and the ground were damp from the passage of Tropical Storm Elsa. The Tallahassee Parks and Recreation Department had just cleared a fallen tree from the course. Whatever the conditions, though, the athletes were ready to run.


Master runner Leonardo Canete certainly was ready. At the end of eight (or seven or nine) kilometers, Canete finished the race first in 29:07, almost 300 meters ahead of the next runner. Just over a minute later, Kyle Kraeft finished second in 30:11. Daniel Wurgler, the winner of the series opener, placed third in 30:21.


Amelia Bryant's winning 34:24 gave her a lead of more than 150 meters over the rest of the women's field. Thirteen-year-old Clifton Lewis, a rising eighth-grader and the first woman in the Cadillac Trail Race four weeks earlier, took second in the women's standings at Swamp Forest. Lewis was sixteenth overall in 35:07. Brandi Campbell was the first woman master and third female finisher at Swamp Forest, coming in seventeenth overall in 37:10.


104 athletes finished the 2021 Swamp Forest Trail Race. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race. Gulf Winds Track Club's Summer Trail Series continues on 24 July 2021 with the Maclay Gardens Trail Race in Alfred B. Maclay State Park, then concludes on 28 August 2021 with the Red Bug Trail Race in Phipps Park.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2021 Swamp Forest Trail 5-Mile Trail Race
  1. 29:07, Leonardo Canete (M, 42)
  2. 30:11, Kyle Kraeft (M, 32)
  3. 30:21, Daniel Wurgler (M, 21)
  4. 30:44, Michael Nesius (M, 36)
  5. 30:51, Brad Busboom (M, 33)
  6. 31:25, Ryan Kunz (M, 39)
  7. 33:05, Tristan Lanasa (M, 28)
  8. 34:02, Kent Grayson (M, 15)
  9. 34:09, Will Hanley (M, 46)
  10. 34:12, Levon Hoomes (M, 32)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2021 Swamp Forest Trail 5-Mile Trail Race
  1. 34:24, Amelia Bryant (F, 32)
  2. 35:07, Clifton Lewis (F, 13)
  3. 37:10, Brandi Campbell (F, 45)
  4. 37:14, Averi Lewis (F, 24)
  5. 38:12, Ali Kelly (F, 49)
  6. 38:58, Maggie Fleming (F, 26)
  7. 40:12, Ruffian Tyner (F, 45)
  8. 41:04, Cammie Hungerford (F, 28)
  9. 41:24, Cecilia Bouaichi (F, 25)
  10. 41:42, Tsige Tadesse-Kiros (F, 53)

Gulf Winds Track Club's Summer Trail Series race winners, 2013 - 2021
YearDateRaceTop MaleTop FemaleFinishers
2013June 22Cadillac Trail 5½M37:38, Kevin Sullivan45:07, Stephanie Liles-Weyant121
July 13Swamp Forest Trail 4½M30:19, Kevin Sullivan34:12, Micah Adriani124
July 27Magnolia Trail 3½M21:44, Kevin Sullivan24:45, Stephanie Liles-Weyant114
August 3Red Bug Trail 4½M33:31, Bryce Van Dam43:46, Stephanie Liles-Weyant92
2014June 21Red Bug Trail 4½M38:30, Charn McAllister42:02, Brook Pace114
July 12Swamp Forest Trail 4½M29:06, Charn McAllister33:13, Brook Pace109
July 26Magnolia Trail 3½M26:03, Charn McAllister30:16, Emily Molen108
August 2Cadillac Trail 5½M41:38, Brian Molen48:25, Emily Molen88
2015May 30Cadillac Trail 5½M39:15, Zach Deveau42:51, Alyson Churchill158
June 13Oak Hammock Trail 5M32:59, Zach Deveau35:10, Alyson Churchill129
July 18Coon Bottom Trail 4M28:42, Zach Deveau29:14, Alyson Churchill112
August 1Red Bug Trail 4½M35:14, Greg Bargo35:24, Alyson Churchill112
2016May 21Magnolia Trail 3½M25:18, Dan Baur27:05, Katie Gorman133
June 4Oak Hammock Trail 5½M42:53, Eric Godin45:24, Katie Gorman123
July 9Red Bug Trail 4½M33:14, Dan Baur35:04, Katie Gorman130
July 30Cadillac Trail 5½M43:06, Paul Guyas42:29, Alyson Churchill95
2017June 10Munson Hills 6M36:45, Chris O'Kelley46:34, Emily Molen87
July 1Red Bug Trail 4½M37:34, Chris O'Kelley48:24, Emily Molen90
July 15Oak Hammock/Swamp Forest 5M33:35, Charles Biberg39:36, Kat Sack89
August 5Tom Brown Park 4½M32:40, Chris O'Kelley36:36, Jennifer Bayliss71
2018June 23Munson Hills 6M38:02, Vince Molosky45:10, Emily Molen124
July 7Phipps Park 4M30:49, Jim Schafer33:39, Kat Sack127
July 21Maclay Gardens 5M38:26, Brad Busboom44:39, Kat Sack110
August 4Tom Brown Park 4½M28:39, Brad Busboom32:29, Kat Sack109
2019June 22Red Bug Trail 4½M35:27, Zach DeVeau38:53, Rachel Durbin125
July 6Munson Hills 6M38:24, Zach DeVeau43:56, Rachel Durbin86
July 27Tom Brown Park 5M37:13, Bryan Gensits44:47, Rachel Durbin108
August 24Maclay Gardens 4½M39:00, Zach DeVeau43:00, Rachel Durbin91
2021June 12Cadillac Trail 5½M40:26, Daniel Wurgler46:21, Clifton Lewis107
July 10Swamp Forest Trail 5M29:07, Leonardo Canete34:24, Amelia Bryant104
July 24Maclay Gardens 5M
August 28Red Bug Trail 4½M


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