Saturday, June 8, 2024

Leonardo Canete and Megan Noonan go for seconds at Potluck

On Saturday evening, 8 June 2024, in Tallahassee, Florida you could find athletes in Phipps Park running Gulf Winds Track Club's 25th annual Potluck Four Mile. The Potluck is a cross-country race, a trail run. When it comes to trail runs, you bet on the trail runners. Specifically, you should have bet on master runner Leonardo Canete, who two weeks earlier had won Gulf Winds' Summer Trail Race #1 on the Cadillac Trail. Canete also dominated the Potluck, winning by almost half a mile in 23:15. Megan Noonan, the first woman in the Cadillac Trail Race, was also the first woma2021 and Noonan had topped the women's division in 2023.n at Potluck, coming in sixth overall in 27:46.

Leonardo Canete
Leonardo Canete

Not everyone comes to the Potluck to run fast. There's also a prediction competition, and the post-race dinner is also an attraction. But those had to be secondary to Canete and Noonan, each of whom logged their second Potluck win--Canete had also taken first in 2021 and Noonan had topped the women's division in 2023.


In the 2024 race, Canete lost no time going to the front. He had a ten-second lead by the end of the first mile, followed by master runner Tony Guillen. Over the remaining three or so miles, Canete added more than two minutes to that lead, going on to win in 23:25. Guillen was overtaken by master runner Gregory Newnan, who took second in 25:53, and Zach DeVeau, who was third in 26:18. Guillen, the winner of the 2007 Potluck, finished fourth in 26:37.

Megan Noonan
Megan Noonan

Like Canete, Megan Noonan had taken charge of her race in the early going, then spent the rest of the race adding minutes to her lead. When Noonan crossed the finish line in 2746, she had also added a second straight Potluck women's title to her resume. Behind Noonan, Kara Guinan took second in the women's division and fifteenth overall in 30:51. A former Keene State Owl cross-country runner, Guinan had taken the fourth women's spot behind Noonan in the 2023 Potluck. Hillary Powell was the third woman and Hillary Powell edged Nancy Proctor for third in the women's standings, 33:36 to 33:39. Powell and Proctor were 21st and 22nd overall.


94 athletes finished the 2024 Potuck Four Mile. The course was carefully measured by...well, no one. The Potluck course changes every year and is only notionally four mile. the fun, however, remains constant.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2024 Potluck Four Mile
  1. 23:15, Leonardo Canete (M, 45)
  2. 25:53, Gregory Noonan (M, 41)
  3. 26:18, Zach Deveau (M, 36)
  4. 26:37, Tony Guillen (M, 55)
  5. 26:57, Jay Wallace (M, 59)
  6. 27:59, Alex Marshall (M, 18)
  7. 28:05, Bill McNulty (M, 65)
  8. 28:12, Emerson Gandy (M, 13)
  9. 28:25, Ryan Truchelut (M, 38)
  10. 28:58, William Mrasek (M, 39)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2024 Potluck Four Mile
  1. 27:46, Megan Noonan (F, 40)
  2. 30:51, Kara Guinan (F, 24)
  3. 33:36, Hillary Powell (F, 39)
  4. 33:39, Nancy Proctor (F, 63)
  5. 33:49, Angela Dempsey (F, 55)
  6. 34:11, Meredith Strange (F, 44)
  7. 34:15, Megan Orcutt (F, 39)
  8. 34:16, Michelle Jerantowski (F, 24)
  9. 34:26, Georgina Hernandez (F, 34)
  10. 35:08, Sarah Lester (F, 48)

Potluck champions, 1998 - 2024
DateMenWomenFinishers
20 June 1998
5 June 199929:29, Zack Heissner32:26, Sarah Docter-Williams58
3 June 200024:42 Paul Hoover25:59, Kim Wynn
2 June 200124:59, Reid Vannoy25:33, Sarah Docter-Williams53
8 June 200222:47, Ryan Deak26:04, Sarah Docter-Williams132
7 June 200325:17, Tim Unger25:36, Sarah Docter-Williams91
5 June 200423:05, Caleb Carmichael25:59, Kara Newell136
4 June 200523:22, Caleb Carmichael27:21, Kara Newell110
3 June 200623:06, Jared Black25:58, Sheryl Rosen155
2 June 200724:26, Tony Guillen27:36, Jane Johnson115
7 June 200823:00, John Robida25:09, Sarah Docter-Williams144
13 June 200922:40, Jay Wallace27:05, Micah Adriani177
5 June 201022:14, Matt Mizereck27:39, Micah Adriani173
4 June 201122:57, Vince Molosky26:33, Summer Calder196
2 June 201222:33, Vince Molosky27:18, Katie Showman232
1 June 201321:17, Kevin Sullivan26:24, Micah Adriani237
31 May 201423:34, Kevin Sullivan32:17, Katie Sherron165
6 June 201525:45, Vince Molosky30:35, Carrie Seiberlich179
11 June 201622:52, Stanley Linton30:02, Ann Centner160
3 June 201732:22, Scott Lloyd35:53, Jillian Heddaeus107
9 June 201823:10, Stan Linton28:47, Sheryl Rosen155
8 June 201925:37, Charlie Johnson27:35, Ann Centner128
5 June 202126:52, Leonardo Canete29:19, Katie Sherron73
11 June 202226:15, Chris O'Kelley36:31, Nancy Stedman48
3 June 202325:43, Cadden Maxwell31:13, Megan Noonan75
8 June 202423:15, Leonardo Canete27:46, Megan Noonan94
Multiple wins by men: Vince Molosky (3), Caleb Carmichael (2), Kevin Sullivan (2),
      Stan Linton (2), Leonardo Canete (2)

Multiple wins by women: Sarah Docter-Williams (5), Micah Adriani (3),
      Katie Sherron (3), Kara Newell (2), Sheryl Rosen (2), Ann Centner (2),
      Megan Noonan (2)

The race was five miles in 1998 and 1999, and four miles thereafter.


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