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Monday, September 10, 2018

Haynes and Estremera burn a 15:16 at the Sickle Cell 5K

In 2017, Gulf Winds Track Club started advertising the Run For Sickle Cell 5K as "the fastest race in town." There wasn't really any evidence for this; just a belief that athletes should be able to turn in fast times on that particular course. The actual performances, though, didn't live up to the billing. So for the 37th annual Sickle Cell 5K on Saturday morning, 8 September 2018, the track club introduced a new course. This time there were indeed some fast runs, with Christopher Haynes and Ricardo Estremera breaking the tape in 15:16, finishing the race hand in hand. The women's competition was more cutthroat, with Amy Hines edging Sheryl Rosen for first, 18:07 to 18:11, with Ann Centner trailing in 18:18.

Ricardo Estremera, Chris Haynes
Ricardo Estremera and Chris Haynes

The Sickle Cell 5K course hadn't changed in decades, but the wasn't the first time the route had been altered. After all, the race had been a four-mile run in the 1980s before becoming a more typical 3.1-mile event. Bill McGuire was largely responsible for designing the course for 2018. He kept the start and finish near the Jake Gaither Community Center, eliminated a major uphill and a major downhill, and made the loop through the Jake Gaither neighborhood clockwise instead of counter-clockwise. A master runner, 71-year-old McGuire also ran this year's race, placing 47th overall in 24:00.


"I always wondered why they ran Sickle Cell in that direction," said McGuire. "And then this morning I turned onto Springsax and got the sun in my eyes."

Ricardo Estremera, Chris Haynes
Ricardo Estremera and Chris Haynes

The rising sun was at the runners' backs on the starting line at 8:30 AM. Haynes and Estremera jumped out into the lead, Haynes a few steps behind. This was by design; Estremera was pacing Haynes.


"The whole point was that he wanted to go sub-5:00 [per mile] the whole way," said Estremera. "I tried to run as even as possible for him."


Estremera had only just resumed training after taking a month off following the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia on 2 August 2018, where he won a silver medal in the 3000-meter steeplechase, running 8:46.24. Still, he was up to setting a steady pace for Haynes, who ran right behind or beside Estremera the whole way. With about 400 meters to go, they agreed to cross the finish line together, posting identical times of 15:16. Only Justin Garrard had run faster on the Tallahassee roads during 2018, posting a 15:15 at the Palace Saloon 5K in April.

Chris O'Kelley
Chris O'Kelley

Chris O'Kelley edged Charlie Kline for third, 16:40 to 16:42. Hong-Guo Yu was the first master runner in the race, placing twelfth overall in 18:30.


Ann Centner wasn't pacemaking for the women's field when she took the lead early in the race; the Blakely, Georgia athlete was going for the win. Just five days earlier, she had run 17:56 in the 5K at Macon, Georgia's 42nd annual Labor Day Road Race, taking the women's title.

Amy Hines
Amy Hines

"At Monday's race I thought there would be much more competition," said Centner. "I knew Sheryl would be here, but then Amy showed up."


Sheryl Rosen been the first woman at the 2008 Sickle Cell 5K, and runner-up in 2017. Amy Hines hadn't run Sickle Cell before, but had a history of fast runs, including a 17:45 at the 2014 Palace Saloon 5K, the fastest women's time in Tallahassee that year. Centner stayed ahead for three kilometers, but Hines took over during the second half of the race. At the finish line Hines was the first woman and eighth overall in 18:07. Rosen was the women's runner-up and ninth overall in 18:11, and Centner third woman and tenth overall in 18:18. Jennifer McGranahan was fourth in the women's standings and sixteenth overall in 19:22. Lourena Maxwell was the top woman master and ninth female finisher, 37th overall in 22:34.

Sheryl Rosen
Sheryl Rosen

McGuire's re-design of the course made for a flatter run, a popular change. No one could do anything about the summer heat, though.


"They should do a December race on this course, when it's cooler," suggested Centner.


"I ran faster than I have in five or six years," said master runner Brian Corbin, who placed nineteenth overall in 19:40. "Loved it. I'd love to run it again in January."

Ann Centner
Ann Centner

Complaints about the climate and the calendar aside, 171 athletes finished the 2018 Run For Sickle Cell 5K, with another 90 in the walking division and 42 more in the one-mile fun run. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race.


Top Ten Men, 2018 Sickle Cell 5K
  1. 15:16, Christopher Haynes (M, 26)
  2. 15:16, Ricardo Estremera (M, 32)
  3. 16:40, Chris O'Kelley (M, 25)
  4. 16:42, Charlie Kline (M, 26)
  5. 17:38, Brad Busboom (M, 30)
  6. 17:41, Nick Yaeger (M, 24)
  7. 18:06, Jimmy Schafer (M, 31)
  8. 18:27, Ryan Truchelut (M, 32)
  9. 18:30, Hong-Guo Yu (M, 50)
  10. 19:00, Geb Kiros (M, 52)

Top Ten Women, 2018 Sickle Cell 5K
  1. 18:07, Amy Hines (F, 37)
  2. 18:11, Sheryl Rosen (F, 34)
  3. 18:18, Ann Centner (F, 26)
  4. 19:22, Jennifer McGranahan (F, 39)
  5. 20:01, Alyssa Terry (F, 25)
  6. 20:35, Brittney Barnes (F, 30)
  7. 21:46, Nikky Manausa (F, 37)
  8. 22:09, Laura McDermott (F, 38)
  9. 22:34, Lourena Maxwell (F, 43)
  10. 23:09, Nancy Proctor (F, 57)

Known Sickle Cell 5K winners, 1982 - 2018
DateMenWomen
1982

1983

8 September 1984 *

31 August 1985

1986

19 September 198715:14.2, Jessie Close17:31.8, Karen MacHarg
17 September 198815:12, Jessie Close16:40, Carla Borovicka
16 September 198915:14, Jessie Close19:38, Barbara Balzer
15 September 199016:04, Bill Crooks18:23, Karen MacHarg
14 September 199115:18, Gary Droze18:47, Vikki Saga
12 September 199215:07, Gary Droze18:39, Carrie Hunnicutt
11 September 199315:50, Peter Kirk21:06, Leah Bonds
10 September 199415:47, Andy Palmer18:06, Jane Johnson
9 September 199515:51, John Otterson19:00, Carrie Weyant
14 September 199615:23, Bryan Erb17:58, Jane Johnson
13 September 199715:23, Gary Droze17:40, Sara Docter-Williams
12 September 199816:26, Tim Simpkins20:28, Julie Clark
11 September 199916:24, Robert Pautienus19:44, Kingsley Broughton
9 September 200016:55, Tim Unger17:40, Sandra Williams
8 September 200117:05, Tony Pearson19:39, Renata Strakova
14 September 200219:15, Michael LaBossiere24:03, Jane Cormier
13 September 200318:24, David Yon22:25, Kim Likens
11 September 200418:32, Scott Ruplinger22:29, Krista Killius
10 September 200518:28, Dan Pick22:00, Cathleen Willy
9 September 200617:36, Chris Gregory21:05, Summer Shepherd
8 September 200716:52, Michael Martinez20:18, Lindsay Thomas
13 September 200816:05, Chris Lake19:11, Sheryl Rosen
12 September 200915:44, Chris Lake22:27, Julie Clark
11 September 201018:36, Trey Edwards22:13, Nancy Stedman
10 September 201116:29, Gary Droze21:21, Tiffany Barz
8 September 201218:18, Paul Guyas20:06
14 September 2013??
13 September 201416:48, Roger Schmidt22:18, Paula O'Neill
12 September 201517:24, Matthew Nazareth20:10, Brittney Barnes
10 September 201617:41, Geb Kiros20:05, Brittney Barnes
9 September 201717:38, Tristan Cravello17:43, Katie Sherron
8 September 201815:16, Christopher Haynes18:07, Amy Hines
* Four-mile run


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Saturday, June 30, 2018

Ryan Truchelut and Amy Hines were swift on the sand at the Paul Hoover 5K

It isn’t true that in 1843, when Wakulla County was created out of Leon County, the dividing line was drawn where the red clay ended and the sand of the coastal plain began. The sand actually starts just south of Tallahassee, Florida before you're out of Leon County. It continues south into Wakulla, and from there all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. So it is true that once you cross the county line into Wakulla, you’ll find nothing but sand, punctuated with the occasional limestone outcropping. That includes Florida's Wakulla Springs State Park, and it also includes the course of the sixth annual Paul Hoover Memorial 5K Freedom Run inside the park.


Geology will tell you why all that sand is there. Ryan Truchelut relied on another science to explain the state of the sand at the race.

Ryan Truchelut
Ryan Truchelut

“The sand was actually pretty firm today,” said Truchelut. “There were a few loose patches but nothing like the sugar sand of past years. It’s due to the wet conditions the last couple of weeks. But as a meteorologist I could talk about the weather and its effect on the sand for quite a while.”


Rather than lecture about the sand on Saturday morning, 30 June 2018, Truchelut raced on it, winning the Freedom 5K in 18:21. Amy Hines was the first woman in the race, placing third overall in 19:10.

Amy Hines
Amy Hines

In spite of the frequent rains that Truchelut mentioned, it was a sunny morning when the Freedom 5K started just after 8:00 AM. Myles Gibson led the early charge off of the park’s paved drives and onto the trail headed to Cherokee Sink, the site of the mid-race turn-around. A crop inspector, Gibson had traveled all the way from his home in Donalsonville, Georgia for the race.


“The tomatoes are done and I switched my sweet corn days because I wanted to run this race,” said Gibson. “I decided to go out hard from the start today. I was in first for about a quarter mile, but my pace just cratered when I hit the sand.”

Myles Gibson, Macon McCord
Myles Gibson

That was where Truchelut took over.


“I passed Myles at about a third of a mile,” said Truchelut. “After that I was running alone, just me and the sand. I tried to work on my form.


“It was pretty uneventful.”

Brad Busboom
Brad Busboom

It was for Truchelut while he cruised home unchallenged in a winning 18:21. Brad Busboom picked off the fading Gibson to take second in 18:40. Mason McCord, a junior on the Wakulla High cross-country team, also overtook Gibson, placing third in the men's standings and fourth overall in 19:44. A few steps behind McCord at the finish line, Gibson was the first master runner in the race, taking fifth overall in 19:48.


With the eye of a cross-country runner, Amy Hines noticed where the good footing was on the course.

Kat Sack
Kat Sack

“It seemed better in the shady spots,” said Hines. “The sand seemed harder packed.”


Perhaps Hines had a gift for finding those shady spots, because her 19:10 was the fastest time ever posted by a woman at the Freedom Run. The previous women’s course record was 19:51, set in the 2015 race by Katie Sherron. No other women have broken 20:00 at the Freedom Run.


After running together early in the race, Kat Sack took the second women's spot over Alyssa Terry, 21:55 to 22:04. Sack and Terry were seventeenth and eighteenth overall. Summer Williams, a senior on the Florida High cross-country team, was the fourth woman and nineteenth overall in 22:16. Angela Dempsey was the first woman master and sixth female finisher, 25th overall in 23:00.

Alyssa Terry
Alyssa Terry

Hines' 19:10 wasn't the only record that morning. There were also a record number of finishers in the race, 213. It was the first time that more than 200 athletes had finished the Freedom Run.


The Freedom Run 5K was established in 2013 as a fundraiser for Coach Paul Hoover's cross-country team at Wakulla High. After Hoover's tragic death in 2017, the Wakulla High Cross-Country Boosters continued the race as a memorial to Coach Hoover. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the 2018 Paul Hoover Memorial 5K Freedom Run.


Top Ten Men, 2018 Freedom 5K
  1. 18:21, Ryan Truchelut (M, 32)
  2. 18:40, Brad Busboom (M, 30)
  3. 19:44, Mason McCord (M, 16)
  4. 19:48, Myles Gibson (M, 52)
  5. 19:49, Daniel Wiedeman (M, 16)
  6. 19:59, Jim Halley (M, 38)
  7. 20:03, Don Smith (M, 38)
  8. 20:21, Michael Martinez (M, 52)
  9. 20:41, Aaron Guyer (M, 43)
  10. 20:44, Duane Evans (M, 51)

Top Ten Women, 2018 Freedom 5K
  1. 19:10, Amy Hines (F, 37)
  2. 21:55, Kat Sack (F, 26)
  3. 22:04, Alyssa Terry (F, 24)
  4. 22:16, Summer Williams (F, 16)
  5. 22:55, Nikky Manausa (F, 36)
  6. 23:00, Angela Dempsey (F, 49)
  7. 23:04, Brittney Barnes (F, 30)
  8. 23:58, Nancy Proctor (F, 57)
  9. 24:04, Nancy Stedman (F, 56)
  10. 24:15, Vaishali Desai (F, 31)

Paul Hoover Freedom 5K winners, 2013 - 2018
DateMenWomenFinishers
29 June 201317:33, Stanley Linton21:12, Madison Harris107
28 June 201419:23, Reikan Lin20:12, Madison Harris82
27 June 201517:36, Zack DeVeau19:51, Katie Sherron173
25 June 201617:48, Wright Calhoun20:00, Madison Harris138
24 June 201716:32, Justin Keefe21:52, Haleigh Martin183
30 June 201818:21, Ryan Truchelut19:10, Amy Hines213


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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Ponch Leonard and Amy Hines rewrite the records at the Saint Peter's 10K

You might remember Poncherella Leonard for some notable second-place finishes in the Tallahassee, Florida area when he was a cross-country runner at Bainbridge High. During his career as a Bearcat distance man, Leonard was second with a 16:56 in the boys' 5K at the 2015 Bearcat Cross-Country Invitational, runner-up at 16:47 in the 2016 Bowlegs 5K, and ran 16:17 to finish second to Stan Linton in the 2016 Bainbridge Memorial Day 5K Night Race.


But Ponch Leonard wasn't second to anyone on Saturday, 16 June 2018. That morning, Leonard won the second annual Saint Peter's Anglican Cathedral 10K, finishing more than a kilometer ahead of the next runner. Leonard's time, 35:52, set a new course record, trimming more than six minutes from the old standard of 42:02, set by Ann Centner in the 2017 race. Amy Hines, the top woman in the race, set a new Saint Peter's 10K women's record, placing second overall in 40:11.

Poncherella Leonard, Amy Hines
2018 Saint Peter's 10K winners, Ponch Leonard and Amy Hines

Brad Busboom was second in the men's standings and third overall in 40:53. Geb Kiros was the top master runner in the race, the third male finisher and fourth overall in 41:30.


Elisha Boggs was the first woman master and second female finisher, placing fifth overall in 43:42. Nancy Moody edged Laura Hansen for the third woman's spot, 52:09 to 52:12. Moody and Hansen placed fifteenth and sixteenth overall.


Leonard, the 2018 Saint Peter's 10K winner, wrapped up his high school running career at Bainbridge High at the end of the 2017 track season. Since then, Leonard has gone on to the University of Tennessee-Martin, where he just finished the 2018 track season as a redshirt. During that spring, Leonard recorded season bests of 16:00.87 in the 5000, 4:07.24 in the 1500, and 1:56.91 in the 800.


145 athletes finished the 2018 Saint Peter's 10K, and another 43 completed a one-mile fun run. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the races.


Top Ten Men, 2018 Saint Peter's Anglican Church 10K
  1. 35:52, Ponch Leonard (M, 21)
  2. 40:53, Brad Busboom (M, 30)
  3. 41:30, Geb Kiros (M, 51)
  4. 44:01, Jonathan Labarre (M, 45)
  5. 45:11, Stokes Moore (M, 16)
  6. 46:07, Chuck Lang (M, 52)
  7. 46:13, Steven Sheward (M, 29)
  8. 47:02, Chase Campbell (M, 33)
  9. 47:40, Laryn Flikkema (M, 42)
  10. 49:40, Kevin Malfa (M, 34)

Top Ten Women, 2018 Saint Peter's Anglican Church 10K
  1. 40:11, Amy Hines (F, 37)
  2. 43:42, Elisha Boggs (F, 41)
  3. 52:12, Nancy Moody (F, 33)
  4. 52:14, Laura Hansen (F, 33)
  5. 52:36, Tsige Tadesse (F, 50)
  6. 52:43, Christine Hansen (F, 52)
  7. 52:55, Laura Sellati (F, 39)
  8. 53:39, Martha Guyas (F, 33)
  9. 53:44, Megan Orcutt (F, 33)
  10. 54:02, Darcy Brinkmann (F, 37)

Saint Peter's Anglican Cathedral 10K winners, 2017 - 2018
DateMenWomenFinishers
17 June 201742:32, Michael Peymann42:02, Ann Centner165
16 June 201835:52, Ponch Leonard40:11, Amy Hines145


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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Presto! Estremera and Hines prevail at the Magic Mile

"They were 2:02 at the half!" called out Bill McGuire.


McGuire was riding a lead bicycle during Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Rex Cleveland Magic Mile in Tallahassee, Florida. The only athlete reaching the half mile in 2:02, though, was Ricardo Estremera, who was already enjoying a sizable lead. That gap only grew during the final half mile of the race, and Estremera went on to win the inaugural event in 4:09.14. Amy Hines was the top woman in the race, placing eighth overall in 5:34.19.

Ricardo Estremera
Ricardo Estremera

When the course was being designed for the 2017 Tallahassee Marathon, someone noticed that a one-mile stretch of the route was almost entirely downhill, dropping from the heights near Capital City Country Club to FAMU Way, where the waters of the Saint Augustine Branch flowed through a box culvert. As a bonus, the mile included the Capital Cascades Crossing, the new pedestrian bridge across South Monroe Street.


Naturally, there had to be a race on that mile. There was an untimed mile run across the bridge on 17 October 2016, but the first timed event was the Rex Cleveland Magic Mile on Wednesday evening, 2 November 2016.


Most of the elevation loss on the course was in the first half of the race. Ricardo Estremera took advantage of that descent to reach the midpoint of the run in 2:02. His 2:07 second half wasn't exactly pedestrian, either.


"I was really comfortable," said Estremera. "I just wanted to get a workout in. Maybe if they do it again in the spring I'll break 4:00."

Amy Hines
Amy Hines

Triathlete Armando Abaunza was runner-up in the race with a 4:32.98. Right behind Abaunza in 4:33.63, Florida State University undergrad Mark Zamani took third. A year earlier Zamani had been racing on the cross-country team at Naugutuck High in Connecticut.


Amy Hines made it across the bridge leading the women, running just ahead of Katie Sack. Hines widened that margin over the final 600 meters of the race, winning the women's division in 5:34.19. Sack was the second female finisher and eleventh overall in 5:41.49. Lincoln High cross-country runner Alyson Churchill was running sixth in the women's race at the bridge, but she moved up three places late in the race to place third in the women's standings and fourteenth overall in 5:43.66. The mile came three days before Churchill was scheduled to race in the State Cross Country Championships at Apalachee Regional Park.


Juan Ordonez was the first master runner and ninth male finisher in the mile, placing Lyssa Oberkreser was the top female master and ninth in the women's standings; she was 27th overall in 6:14.44.


174 athletes finished the race.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Cleveland Magic Mile
  1. 4:09.14, Ricardo Estremera (M, 30)
  2. 4:32.98, Armando Abaunza (M, 24)
  3. 4:33.63, Mark Zamani (M, 18)
  4. 5:04.54, Zach DeVeau (M, 29)
  5. 5:07.18, Jon Nash (M, 37)
  6. 5:28.19, Don Smith (M, 37)
  7. 5:33.44, Jordan Cooper (M, 29)
  8. 5:36.34, Jeff Shaver (M, 39)
  9. 5:40.91, Juan Ordonez (M, 42)
  10. 5:42.44, Tim Unger (M, 57)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Cleveland Magic Mile
  1. 5:34.19, Amy Hines (F, 35)
  2. 5:41.49, Katie Sack (F, 25)
  3. 5:43.66, Alyson Churchill (F, 14)
  4. 5:49.18, Jocelyn Chan (F, 27)
  5. 5:53.19, Paige Churchill (F, 11)
  6. 5:53.62, Melanie Leitman (F, 32)
  7. 6:00.30, Emma Spencer (F, 35)
  8. 6:14.16, Kristin Halley (F, 35)
  9. 6:14.44, Lyssa Oberkreser (F, 45)
  10. 6:21.83, Layla Thompson (F, 11)

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Saturday, August 27, 2016

Droze and Hines star in the opening act at the Cougar XC Challenge

If you head out to a stadium to watch some football, you're probably not going to be allowed on the field before the game to throw a ball around. At a basketball coliseum the general public doesn't get to go out on the floor and shoot a few before the tip-off. That's the way it is with most sports--you pay for your ticket, then stay in your seat. Getting out on the playing field is a good way to get tackled by security and then ejected from the venue.

Gary Droze
Gary Droze

At many cross country meets, though, there's an open or "community" race. You may not be able to run in the same race as the big dogs, but you can run on the same turf and trails that they do. In addition to college, high school, and middle school races, the Cougar Cross Country Challenge in Tallahassee, Florida has such a community race.


You had to get up pretty early for the Community 5K, though. The race started at 7:15 AM on Saturday morning, 27 August 2016, well before the first high school race. The sun had just barely risen over Phipps Park, but there were athletes on the starting line--cross country fans, team coaches, parents of high school athletes, and runners who just wanted to race.

Geb Kiros
Geb Kiros

Florida A&M University professor Geb Kiros set the early pace, leading the field on a descent toward Lake Jackson. At the mile mark Kiros had a twelve-second lead on the next runner, Myles Gibson of Donalsonville, Georgia. Tallahassee Community College cross country coach Gary Droze was a few more seconds back.


After a mile of mostly downhill running, though, it was time to climb back uphill. The second half of the race included two major ascents, and that was where Droze overtook Kiros and started building his own lead. By the time Droze crossed the finish linehe was more than 70 meters ahead of Kiros, winning the race in 18:50. Kiros took second in 19:07. Jeff Conston caught Myles Gibson late in the race to place third in 19:19, while Gibson was fourth in 19:33.

Amy Hines
Amy Hines

Each of the top four men was a master runner, but Amy Hines broke that pattern in the women's standings. 35-year-old Hines was the first woman in the 5K, placing eighth overall in 21:00. Michelle Richards was the top woman master and second female finisher, fourteenth overall in 23:31. Emily Smith placed third in the women's division and fourteenth overall in 23:31.


Miles and Minutes, LLC, of Tallahassee, Florida timed and scored the 2016 Cougar Cross Country Challenge.


Jeff ConstonTop Ten Men, 2016 Cougar Cross Country Challenge Community 5K
  1. 18:49.83 ~ Gary Droze (M, 55)
  2. 19:06.40 ~ Geb Kiros (M, 49)
  3. 19:18.24 ~ Jeff Conston (M, 48)
  4. 19:32.07 ~ Myles Gibson (M, 50)
  5. 19:55.69 ~ Paul Guyas (M, 38)
  6. 20:15.12 ~ Jonathan Labarre (M, 43)
  7. 20:37.44 ~ Mike Martinez (M, 50)
  8. 21:40.21 ~ Matt Swanson (M, 43)
  9. 22:46.45 ~ Gary Johnston (M, 41)
  10. 22:49.55 ~ Pat Sullivan (M, 47)
  11. 23:26.27 ~ Michael Kennett (M, 42)

Michelle Richards (14th, 23:31)Top Eight Women, 2016 Cougar Cross Country Challenge Community 5K
  1. 20:59.09 ~ Amy Hines (F, 35)
  2. 23:30.69 ~ Michelle Richards (F, 43)
  3. 23:38.17 ~ Emily Smith (F, 31)
  4. 28:39.25 ~ Francee Laywell (F, 54)
  5. 36:56.71 ~ Susan Cornwell (F, 67)
  6. 46:49.98 ~ Betty Dewar (F, 58)
  7. 47:15.15 ~ Robin Safley (F, 52)
  8. 47:15.47 ~ Kathy Mizereck (F, 64)

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

A pearl of a race for Cole and Hines at the Half Shell Hustle

Running OystersIn Apalachicola, Florida, the weekend before Martin Luther King Day is reserved for the Apalachicola Oyster Cook-Off. And the Saturday morning of that weekend belongs to the Half Shell Hustle 5K. On 16 January 2016 Bryce Cole won the third annual Hustle, finishing more than 300 meters ahead of the next runner. Cole, a junior on the Wakulla High cross country team, ran the 3.1 miles through the streets of Apalachicola was 17:14. Chance Logan of Bristol, Florida, took second in 18:22. Simon Hodgson, a Franklin County High sophomore cross country runner, was third in 18:32.


Tallahassee, Florida's Amy Hines raced to the women's title in the Half Shell Hustle, placing fourth overall in 19:16. Denise Skinner of Sarasota, Florida, was the fastest master runner in the race and the second female finisher, fifth overall in 22:09. Apalachicola master runner Genee Heinke was third in the women's standings, coming in sixth overall in 22:49.


64 athletes finished the race.


Top Ten Men, 2016 Half Shell Hustle 5K
  1. 17:13.2 ~ Bryce Cole (M, 17)
  2. 18:21.8 ~ Chance Logan (M, 19)
  3. 18:31.6 ~ Simon Hodgson (M, 16)
  4. 23:23.9 ~ Damien Freeman (M, 15)
  5. 23:55.0 ~ Bill Bushue (M, 64)
  6. 24:02.9 ~ Wyatt Stilwell (M, 21)
  7. 24:14.6 ~ Brian Desanti II (M, 30)
  8. 24:42.8 ~ Dan Fortunas (M, 55)
  9. 25:37.4 ~ Donald Bowling (M, 61)
  10. 25:41.1 ~ Brian Barfield (M, 16)

Top Ten Women, 2016 Half Shell Hustle 5K
  1. 19:16.0 ~ Amy Hines (F, 35)
  2. 22:08.5 ~ Denise Skinner (F, 60)
  3. 22:48.3 ~ Genee Heinke (F, 47)
  4. 23:02.3 ~ Melissa Hooke (F, 37)
  5. 23:10.7 ~ Eden Keene (F, 33)
  6. 25:20.3 ~ Karen Jablonski (F, 46)
  7. 25:43.3 ~ Marilyn Duarte (F, 60)
  8. 28:33.3 ~ Lindsey Bockelman (F, 39)
  9. 29:08.4 ~ Tami Schwenk (F, 52)
  10. 29:25.7 ~ Kaila Hardy (F, 34)

Half Shell Hustle winners, 2014 - 2016
DateMenWomenFinishers
18 January 2014
17 January 201518:51, Lane Williams21:44, Christy Phillips72
16 January 201617:14, Bryce Cole19:16, Amy Hines64
The 2014 Half Shell Hustle was a 3,000-fathom race (just under 5,500 meters)


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Saturday, December 5, 2015

DeVeau starts winning and Sherron keeps winning at the Ten-Mile Challenge

Zach DeVeauOn Saturday morning, 5 December 2015, if you waited long enough after Zach DeVeau ran by you on the streets of Ox Bottom Manor, you'd eventually see some more runners pass by. But you'd have to wait for quite a while, because DeVeau was on his way to winning 28th annual Gulf Winds Track Club's Ten-Mile Challenge, and he finished with a lead of over half a mile, running 59:14. Katie Sherron won the women's title of the Tallahassee, Florida, race for the second year in a row, placing fifth overall in 1:05:19. It was Sherron's third win at the Ten-Mile Challenge.


The race started at 8:00 AM from Hawk's Rise Elementary School with the ten-milers facing two laps on a hilly five-mile loop through the neighborhood. A five-mile race started at the same time on the same course, but the runners in the shorter race had only one lap ahead of them. The hills were the same, but the five-milers would only be seeing them once. With all the athletes on the course together, it was difficult to tell who was in the five mile and who was in the ten mile. Zach DeVeau had that problem.


Myles Gibson"Myles Gibson went out with Gary Droze," said DeVeau. "They were ahead of me and I figured Myles was in the five mile. But when I caught them at a mile-and-a-half I was surprised to see he was in the ten mile."


Moving into the lead, DeVeau quickly put some ground between himself and Gibson, getting a quarter-mile ahead by the end of the first five mile loop. The second loop was more of the same, as DeVeau went on to win in 59:14. It was his career best for ten miles.


"Yeah, but it was only my second ten mile," said DeVeau.


Gibson, a master runner from Donalsonville, Georgia, was second in 1:02:35. Grady Smith and master runner Tony Guillen dueled for third through most of the race, but Smith prevailed in the end, 1:03:28 to 1:03:40.


The women's competition started off in a friendly tone. Katie Sherron and Adriana Piekarewicz were chatting and laughing as they passed the first mile in the lead.


Katie Sherron, Adriana Piekarewicz"We train together," explained Sherron.


A few miles later, things got more serious.


"I moved ahead on the downhill, right before the four-mile mark," said Sherron.


A mile later, Sherron had a ten-second lead. Piekarewicz wasn't going away, though.


"She was there," recalled Sherron. "I kept thinking that I was going to put some distance on her but I couldn't. I was going as hard as I could. We definitely ran the second half faster than the first."


During that tough second half, Sherron clawed a few more yards ahead of Piekarewicz, ultimately winning in 1:05:19. It was over seven minutes faster than Sherron had run to win the 2014 Ten-Mile Challenge. Capital City Runners' Piekarewicz was second in 1:05:48, placing sixth overall. Anna Busby, another Capital City Runners athlete, was third in the women's standings, fourteenth overall in 1:10:38. Ruffian Tyner was the top woman master and eighth female finisher, 30th overall in 1:21:02.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2014 Ten-Mile Challenge
  1. 59:14 ~ Zach DeVeau (M, 28)Tony Guillen, Grady Smith
  2. 62:35 ~ Myles Gibson (M, 49)
  3. 63:28 ~ Grady Smith (M, 38)
  4. 63:40 ~ Tony Guillen (M, 46)
  5. 66:52 ~ Eric Godin (M, 31)
  6. 67:33 ~ Paul Guyas (M, 38)
  7. 69:16 ~ Mark Tombrink (M, 28)
  8. 69:36 ~ David Graf (M, 39)
  9. 69:53 ~ Joel Piotrowski (M, 46)
  10. 70:16 ~ Hong-Guo Yu (M, 47)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2014 Ten-Mile Challenge
  1. 65:19 ~ Katie Sherron (F, 34)Anna Busby
  2. 65:48 ~ Adriana Piekarewicz (F, 27)
  3. 70:38 ~ Anna Busby (F, 25)
  4. 71:34 ~ Jillian Heddaeus (F, 32)
  5. 73:31 ~ Meg Ogle (F, 24)
  6. 75:36 ~ Jocelyn Chan (F, 27)
  7. 79:42 ~ Isabel Anderson (F, 36)
  8. 81:02 ~ Ruffian Tyner (F, 40)
  9. 81:42 ~ Mary Jane Hayden (F, 36)
  10. 82:19 ~ Shelby Augustyniak (F, 39)

Joseph GarciaRunners in the five-mile wore a different style of race bib than those in the ten-mile. If you didn't notice that Joseph Garcia was wearing a five-mile bib, you might have thought he was running in a third race. A Florida A & M University student, Garcia started out faster than everyone, rapidly building up a huge lead. He continued to widen the gap through four miles, then maintained it through the final mile to win in 27:29. Gary Droze was the top master runner in the five mile, finishing runner-up in 28:45. Master runner Mickey Moore took third in 31:21.


Amy Hines took the women's title, finishing fourth overall in 33:58. Stephanie Liles-Weyant was the top woman master and second female finisher, ninth overall in 36:28. Lisa Johnson was third on the women's side, fifteenth overall in 30:13. Johnson had won the five-mile race in 2010.


89 athletes finished the Ten-Mile Challenge, with another 88 completing the five-mile race. Chip timing was provided by Gulf Winds Track Club of Tallahassee, Florida.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2014 Five-Mile Road Race
  1. 27:29 ~ Joseph Garcia (M, 20)Gary Droze
  2. 28:45 ~ Gary Droze (M, 54)
  3. 31:21 ~ Mickey Moore (M, 45)
  4. 34:44 ~ John Schwenkler (M, 34)
  5. 35:04 ~ Tad David (M, 46)
  6. 35:09 ~ Felton Wright (M, 58)
  7. 36:01 ~ Mike Burns (M, 50)
  8. 36:29 ~ Mike Weyant (M, 50)
  9. 37:40 ~ Dewey Hudson (M, 43)
  10. 37:42 ~ Shi-Ling Hsu (M, 54)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2014 Five-Mile Road Race
  1. 33:58 ~ Amy Hines (F, 35)Amy Hines
  2. 36:28 ~ Stephanie Liles-Weyant (F, 43)
  3. 39:13 ~ Lisa Johnson (F, 34)
  4. 39:28 ~ Debby Tipton (F, 42)
  5. 40:06 ~ Paula O'Neill (F, 54)
  6. 41:50 ~ Kate Krizner (F, 11)
  7. 42:10 ~ Birgit Maier-Katkin (F, 53)
  8. 44:31 ~ Leah Blake (F, 26)
  9. 45:21 ~ Bonni Warren (F, 40)
  10. 45:54 ~ Sophia Umana (F, 11)

Champions of Gulf Winds Track Club's Ten-Mile Challenge, 1977 - 2015
DateDistanceMenWomenFinishers
January 197720 Km67:06, Herb Wills89:20, Rosemary Desloge
28 January 197820 Km65:18, Joe Germano85
13 January 197920 Km67:33, Jim Eastman85:31, Rosemary Desloge
15 December 197920 Km66:23, George West89:51, Rosemary Desloge
20 December 198020 KmMike BordelLaura Ledbetter
19 December 198120 Km67:42, Rick Miller90:12, Chris Levi
18 December 198220 Km63:14, Noel Shumann80:28, Donna Miller
3 December 198320 Km68:20, Noel Shumann79:25, Margaret Coomber
1 December 198420 Km70:13, Steve Meade76:24, Barbara Matthews154
7 December 198520 Km69:40, Felton Wright80:00, Karen McHarg158
6 December 198620 Km67:29, Tim Simpkins81:18, Karen McHarg157
5 December 198720 Km65:04, Jessie Close79:42, Karen MacHarg157
3 December 198810 Miles51:05, David Keen65:19, Janice Hochstein165
2 December 198910 Miles52:05, Jessie Close64:09, Paula Johnson163
1 December 199010 Miles51:39, David Keen62:53, Paula Johnson181
7 December 199110 Miles54:20, Jessie Close63:40, Paula Johnson151
5 December 199210 Miles54:32, Jessie Close63:09, Paula Johnson159
4 December 199310 Miles55:30, Steve Wilcox61:53, Paula Johnson148
3 December 199410 Miles54:16, Herb Wills61:43, Jane Johnson164
2 December 199510 Miles55:30, Gary Droze65:55, Carrie Weyant120
7 December 199610 Miles56:27, Brian Erb66:21, Carrie Weyant113
6 December 199710 Miles55:06, Lee Willis62:38, Sarah Docter-Williams133
5 December 199810 Miles58:45, Robert Pautienus62:27, Breeda Willis127
4 December 199910 Miles56:24, Gary Droze69:44, Carrie Weyant188
2 December 200010 Miles56:29, Zachery Heissner66:07, Laurel Slyck146
1 December 200110 Miles60:11, Tim Unger64:40, Sarah Docter-Williams169
7 December 200210 Miles54:30, Lee Willis63:54, Sarah Docter-Williams111
6 December 200310 Miles61:33, Bill McCord63:20, Sarah Docter-Williams158
4 December 200410 Miles55:29, Gary Droze61:41, Sarah Docter-Williams142
5 Miles26:45, Chris Nickinson38:32, Kara Taylor26
3 December 200510 Miles56:46, Gary Droze66:43, Kara Newell167
5 Miles32:24, Conor Sweeney39:14, Vicky Droze37
2 December 200610 Miles59:13, Jay Wallace62:27, Sheryl Rosen126
5 Miles28:53, Gary Droze30:46, Amy Paine84
1 December 200710 Miles58:47, Tripp Southerland64:04, Sheryl Rosen150
5 Miles31:19, Tim Unger38:11, Janice Hochstein53
6 December 200810 Miles55:56, Chris Lake65:30, Sheryl Rosen177
5 Miles32:59, Gennaro Scibelli32:51, Amy Paine80
5 December 200910 Miles57:59, Vince Molosky65:47, Sheryl Rosen117
5 Miles30:15, John Robida38:27, Claire Fruchtnicht49
4 December 201010 Miles57:19, Vince Molosky64:25, Allison Eagen180
5 Miles31:54, Chase Harris31:37, Lisa Johnson90
3 December 201110 Miles56:13, Stephen Cox68:15, Katie Showman169
5 Miles30:16, Brian Manry36:11, Kate Chunka89
1 December 201210 Miles56:18, Stanley Linton68:05, Micah Adriani183
5 Miles29:19, Zac Buchholz38:24, Moriah Campbell119
7 December 201310 Miles55:30, Stanley Linton73:42, Micah Adriani151
5 Miles30:51, Tony Guillen35:38, Vicky Droze87
6 December 201410 Miles56:37, Stephen Cox72:48, Katie Sherron109
5 Miles31:54, Gary Galvez37:24, Paula O'Neill82
5 December 201510 Miles59:14, Zach DeVeau65:19, Katie Sherron89
5 Miles27:29, Joseph Garcia33:58, Amy Hines88


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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Lake and Hines rule at the 40th annual Palace

Chris LakeThe Palace Saloon 5K road race turned 40 last Saturday, 12 April 2014.


None of us make it through four decades without changing, and the same is true of sports events. Since 1975, the Palace hasn't missed an annual running, although not all of those races were at the same time of year. The race has started and finished at Natural Bridge, started and finished at Messer Field, and one year it even started at TCC and finished at the Palace Saloon. Most years, though, the race has started at Messer Field and finished at the Palace Saloon, even if not always by the same route. A menagerie of different people have directed the race over the years. Race conditions have varied from warm to cool, from wet to dry.


Chris LakeA variety of athletes have won the race over the years. There haven't been 40 different winners, because some of the champions have been both fast enough and greedy enough to win multiple times. This year, for instance, Chris Lake scored his third Palace title in five years, winning the race in 15:52. On the women's side there was a new champion when Amy Hines won her first Palace title, placing 15th overall in 17:45. 1304 athletes finished this year's 3.1-mile trek from Messer Field to the Palace.


There were no extremes of weather for the history books on Saturday morning; when the race started at 8:00 AM conditions were clear, calm, and close to perfect. Chris Lake wasn't the only one on the starting line with ambitions of winning the landmark 40th Palace Saloon 5K. Lake may have led the field through the first mile in 5:07, but five other runners were right with him--Zach DeVeau, Vince Molosky, Stephen Cox, Marc Akbar, and Adam Greenstein. Lake decided it was time to thin out the lead pack.


Zach DeVeau"I put in a little 'mini burst' at the mile," he recalled later.


It worked. Runners began to drop out of the front group. When Lake passed the two-mile mark in 10:13, Zach DeVeau was still just a few strides back, but everyone else was far behind. Early in the third mile, the runners started up the one major grade on the course. Lake increased his lead on DeVeau during the climb. With half a mile to go, the runners crested Michelob Ridge and could see the finish line in the distance at the bottom of a long downhill.

Stephen Cox
"I tried to go on the downhill," said DeVeau. "I just didn't have the legs."


Lake had no such problem, racing down Michelob Ridge, across the Budweiser Creek bridge, and reaching the finish line in front of the Palace Saloon with a 15:52 win. DeVeau was second in 16:12. Stephen Cox grabbed third with a 16:26, and Nate Kaiser took fourth in 16:38. Bryan Koon was the fastest master runner in the race, finishing fifth overall in 16:46.


Amy HinesSoon after the start, Amy Hines went to the front of the women's field and stayed there. Her 17:45 was not only good enough to win the Palace Saloon 5K women's title, it was also the fastest 5K run by a woman on the roads of Tallahassee so far this year. Katie Sherron edged Lisa Johnson for the second women's spot, placing 29th overall in 18:42. Johnson was 30th overall in 18:47. Thomasville, Georgia, athlete Mary Anne Grayson was the first woman master, coming in 77th overall in 20:37 and placing tenth in the women's standings. It was Grayson's sixth year in a row as the top woman master at the Palace Saloon 5K.


The 40th Palace Saloon 5K won't go down in history for being freezing, sweltering, or wet. There were no memorable breakdowns in race management that sent runners off course or lost their results. This race will just have to be remembered for good times, both of the athletic and the bon temps variety.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2014 Palace Saloon 5K
  1. 15:51.1 ~ Chris Lake (M, 26)Nate Kaiser
  2. 16:11.4 ~ Zach DeVeau (M, 26)
  3. 16:25.4 ~ Stephen Cox (M, 30)
  4. 16:37.4 ~ Nate Kaiser (M, 34)
  5. 16:45.4 ~ Bryan Koon (M, 42)
  6. 16:47.9 ~ Marc Akbar (M, 22)
  7. 16:50.1 ~ Vince Molosky (M, 34)
  8. 17:03.1 ~ Peter Kaus (M, 30)
  9. 17:05.9 ~ Matt Bulecza (M, 32)
  10. 17:27.8 ~ Michael Martinez (M, 48)
Katie Sherron
Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2014 Palace Saloon 5K
  1. 17:44.1 ~ Amy Hines (F, 33)
  2. 18:42.0 ~ Katie Sherron (F, 32)
  3. 18:46.9 ~ Lisa Johnson (F, 32)
  4. 19:03.4 ~ Adriana Piekarewicz (F, 25)
  5. 19:17.6 ~ Lauren Gelzinis (F, 22)
  6. 19:34.9 ~ Micah Adriani (F, 36)
  7. 19:42.0 ~ Jillian Heddaeus (F, 31)
  8. 19:51.9 ~ Renee Cox (F, 26)
  9. 20:17.9 ~ Cora Atkinson (F, 19)
  10. 20:36.1 ~ Mary Anne Grayson (F, 48)

40 Years of Palace Saloon 5K Champions, 1975-2014
DateMenWomen
4/12/201415:52, Chris Lake17:45, Amy Hines
4/20/201315:46, Stanley Linton17:49, Sheryl Rosen
4/14/201216:07, Josh Myers17:20, Lindsay Zeiler
4/16/201115:48, Chris Lake 18:24, Lindsay Zeiler
4/10/201015:45, Chris Lake 17:42, Christina Woytalewicz
4/11/200916:21, John Robida 18:11, Lisa Johnson
4/12/200815:25, Nick Sunseri 18:46, Lisa Johnson
4/14/200716:12, J. P. Cook 17:14, Breeda Willis
4/15/200616:04, Justin Cross 18:33, Stephanie Liles
4/16/200516:06, Lee Willis 16:31, Breeda Willis
4/10/200416:39, Shawn Patterson 18:29, Breeda Willis
4/12/200316:26, Martin Littlefield 19:21, Tricia Snyder
4/13/200217:22, Chris Stanley 21:03, Allison Eagen
4/14/200116:51, Art Remillard 19:05, Kate Wallace
4/15/200015:39, Paul Spangler 17:19, Anna Pichrtova
4/17/199915:45, Robert Pautienus 17:22, Sarah Docter-Williams
4/18/199816:18, Jason Carter 17:29, Sarah Docter-Williams
4/19/199715:53, Gary Droze 17:37, Sarah Docter-Williams
4/6/199615:55, Gary Droze 17:59, Jane Johnson
4/8/199516:01, Tim Simpkins 17:48, Jane Johnson
4/2/199414:56, Robin Rogers 17:51, Lisa Herman
4/3/199315:30, Andy Palmer 19:37, Carrie Hunnicutt
4/11/199215:48, Gary Droze 17:45, Paula Johnson
4/13/199115:10, Gary Droze 18:20, Vikki Saga
4/14/199014:57, David Keen 18:38, Vikki Saga
4/15/198915:23, Rick Miller 19:05, Yvonne Gsteiger
4/9/198815:30, Rick Miller 17:55, Karen MacHarg
4/11/198715:03, Jacob Hoesly 17:33, Karen MacHarg
4/12/198614:36, Paul Waldron 18:44, Paige Dempsey
3/9/198515:39, Rick Miller 17:52, Margaret Coomber
2/18/198415:32, Greg Doss 16:34, Kristy McDermott
4/16/198314:52, Rick Miller 16:38, Darien Andreu
3/20/1982??????????
3/21/198115:02, Dennis Lunne 18:16, Janice Gage
3/8/198014:59, George West 19:37, Marty Graham
3/10/197914:55, Tom Herron 17:37, Kathy Moore
1/15/1977George West?????
2/25/197814:30, George West 17:45, Laura Ledbetter
8/14/197614:37, George West 18:05, Janice Gage
11/15/197518:17, David Price 19:56, Janice Gage


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