Saturday, October 12, 2024

Fabrizio Gowdy and Madeline Frank raced with hearts of oak at the Pine Run

Gulf Winds Track Club's Pine Run 20K is, of course, a race--a cross-country race. But on Saturday morning, 12 October 2024, the 45th annual Pine Run 20K was indeed a race. During the seventeenth kilometer, Florida State University undergrad Fabrizio Gowdy grabbed the lead from Leonardo Canete, a Tallahassee master runner and the defending champion. Gowdy then went on to charge home in a winning 1:16:55. In the women's competition, master runner Megan Noonan dogged the leader, Madeline Frank, for fifteen kilometers before Frank broke away to take the women's title in 1:28:43, placing tenth overall.

Fabrizio Gowdy
Fabrizio Gowdy

There are only three hours each year that the grounds of the Tall Timbers Research Station, north of Tallahassee, Florida, are open to running. Those are the three hours allotted to the Pine Run 20K. Those three hours got started at about 7:40 AM, ten minutes later than scheduled. A few minutes after that, 1500 meters into the 20K, Leonardo Canete was 60 meters ahead of the field. By the halfway point in the race, Canete had stretched his lead to well over a hundred meters.


But the lead was done growing. Behind Canete, Fabrizio Gowdy had moved into second. A student at Florida State University, Gowdy had raced cross-country in Tallahassee before, competing in the High School State Championships at Apalacheee Regional Park with Stanton Prep in 2019 and 2020. This was his first Pine Run, but he was finding the 20K to his liking. DuringFabrizio Gowdy the second half of the race, he gradually pulled to within sight of Canete. At sixteen kilometers, Gowdy was less than 40 meters behind the leader. One kilometer later he was in the lead. Gowdy opened a gap of close to 300 meters on the way to the finish line, taking first in 1:16:55.

Leonardo Canete
Leonardo Canete

Canete was the first master runner in the 20K, finishing runner-up in 1:18:01. Stokes Bryan, a frosh-year harrier on the Lincoln High cross-country team, was third in 1:21:48.


After the first of the twenty kilometers of the Pine Run, Madeline Frank and Megan Noonan were running just a few steps apart, leading the women's field. After ten kilometers, Frank and Noonan were still just a few steps apart. But by the fifteen-kilometer mark, Frank had broken contact with Noonan. At twenty kilometers Frank crossed the finish line 300 meters ahead of Noonan in a winning 1:28:43.

Madeline Frank, Megan Noonan
Megan Noonan and Madeline Frank

Noonan was the first woman master and second female finisher, fourteenth overall in 1:30:09. Tallahassee Triathlete and master runner Stephanie Liles-Weyant took third in the women's standings, coming in eighteenth overall in 1:33:39.


133 athletes finished the 2024 Pine Run 20K. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the event.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2024 Pine Run 20K
  1. 1:16:55, Fabrizio Gowdy (M, 21) Jacksonville, FL
  2. 1:18:01, Leonardo Canete (M, 46) Tallahassee, FL
  3. 1:21:48, Stokes Bryan (M, 15) Tallahassee, FL
  4. 1:22:57, Mike Tercyak (M, 41) Crawfordville, FL
  5. 1:24:19, Aneesh Rahangdale (M, 26) Tallahassee, FL
  6. 1:26:04, Jonathan Caswell (M, 34) Tallahassee, FL
  7. 1:26:29, Ryan Kunz (M, 42) Tallahassee, FL
  8. 1:27:55, Brent Moody (M, 39) Tallahassee, FL
  9. 1:28:18, Mickey Moore (M, 54) Tallahassee, FL
  10. 1:29:03, Stephen Andrews (M, 38) Tallahassee, FL

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2024 Pine Run 20K
  1. 1:28:43, Madeline Frank (F, 28) Tallahassee, FL
  2. 1:30:09, Megan Noonan (F, 40) Tallahassee, FL
  3. 1:33:39, Stephanie Liles-Weyant (F, 52) Tallahassee, FL
  4. 1:44:34, Nancy Moody (F, 40) Tallahassee, FL
  5. 1:44:53, Stephanie Jones (F, 38) Tallahassee, FL
  6. 1:46:17, Signe Ulsamer (F, 47) Tallahassee, FL
  7. 1:49:39, Nancy Proctor (F, 63) Tallahassee, FL
  8. 1:51:10, Nancy Stedman (F, 62) Tallahassee, FL
  9. 1:51:55, Hillary Powell (F, 40) Tallahassee, FL
  10. 1:53:08, Mary Jane Hayden (F, 45) Tallahassee, FL

Champions of Gulf Winds Track Club's Pine Run 20K, 1977 - 2024
DateMenWomenFinishers
15 October 197767:19, Herb Wills86:21, Rosemary Desloge124
14 October 197869:30, Jim Eastman81:21, Janice Gage167
13 October 197971:28, Louis Floyd86:29, Laura Ledbetter144
11 October 198071:57, Kirk Fechter98:20, Michelle Jernigan134
10 October 198175:05, Jeff Doherty99:40, Marianne Crawford101
9 October 198267:00, Herb Wills97:17, Kathe Brookover106
22 October 198369:32, Herb Wills85:43, Patti Sudduth128
20 October 198472:37, Kirk Fechter89:55, Donna Miller107
19 October 198568:54, Herb Wills88:22, Patti Sudduth71
18 October 198671:20, Bill Crooks87:31, Janice Gage Hochstein146
17 October 198768:58, Tom Swiersz85:56, Kay Capozzi125
15 October 198865:36, Herb Wills82:29, Paula Johnson170
14 October 198969:46, Herb Wills89:53, Jodi Waldron139
13 October 199069:55, Herb Wills85:10, Donna Miller113
12 October 199165:43, Jessie Close88:16, Mary Jean Yon150
17 October 199266:34, Gary Droze82:17, Carrie Hunnicutt141
16 October 199375:26, Paul Hoover80:53, Paula Johnson134
15 October 199472:45, Tim Simpkins80:18, Jane Johnson147
14 October 199577:39, Tim Simpkins82:46, Jane Johnson146
12 October 199674:32, Tim Simpkins80:30, Jane Johnson172
11 October 199771:36, Gary Droze80:12, Sarah Docter-Williams156
10 October 199873:12, Gary Droze81:35, Jane Johnson125
9 October 199980:41, Robert Pautienus82:23 Sarah Docter-Williams170
14 October 2000 79:28, Art Remillard82:43, Jane Johnson150
13 October 200180:57, Tim Unger84:03, Sarah Docter-Williams128
12 October 200283:37, Tim Bolton86:46, Jane Johnson137
11 October 200384:14, David Yon97:27, Lisa Whitworth79
9 October 200483:01, David Guerra91:55, Jane Johnson94
9 October 200579:41, Myles Gibson89:55, Jane Johnson136
14 October 200678:22, Jay Wallace81:31, Sheryl Rosen108
No race held in 2007
11 October 2008 77:45, Vince Molosky 87:32, Kati Gosnell142
2 October 2009 75:22, Jay Wallace 86:21, Sheryl Rosen155
9 October 2010 73:39, Vince Molosky 90:21, Jane Johnson243
8 October 2011 73:15, Kevin Sullivan 84:02, Sheryl Rosen180
13 October 201274:48, Vince Molosky95:05, Jane Johnson199
12 October 201374:27, Stanley Linton85:36, Sheryl Rosen171
11 October 201472:10, Chris Lake87:09, Elspeth Turner164
10 October 201587:59, Benjamin Miedema98:11, Jane Skalski151
10 October 201669:46, Stan Linton83:54, Allison Eagen181
7 October 201780:31, Chris O'Kelley91:59, Sheryl Rosen103
Race canceled in 2018
5 October 201984:34, Chris Jones97:40, Katie Sherron111
Race canceled in 2020
2 October 202178:02, Chris O'Kelley95:20, Sheryl Rosen114
8 October 202272:54, Chris O'Kelley84:45, Katie Sherron124
14 October 202379:41, Leonardo Canete1:40:27, Carrie Murphy158
12 October 202476:55, Fabrizio Gowdy88:43, Madeline Frank133
From 1977 to 2006 the race was run at International Paper's Southlands
Experimental Forest south of Bainbridge, Georgia.
Since 2008 the race has been run at Tall Timbers Research Station
at the north end of Leon County, Florida.


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