The Trent isn’t a new event. It was first run in 2009 at Roberts Elementary School, northeast of Tallahassee, Florida. But on a chilly Saturday morning, 26 January 2019, the event got a new name and a new race. It also got a new champion when
Brad Busboom won the 10K at the tenth annual Trent, covering the new 6.2-mile course in 37:37.
Lisa Johnson was the first woman in the race, coming in fifth overall in 40:07.
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| Brad Busboom |
Shortly after the 8:30 AM start at Roberts Elementary,
Myles Gibson, a Donalsonville, Georgia master runner, was leading the 10K. A mile into the race Gibson was still in front as the athletes galloped through the Dublin Downs community, but three Tallahassee men were just a few steps behind him--master runner
Tony Guillen,
Corey Osgood, and
Brad Busboom.
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| Myles Gisbon |
Busboom didn’t stay behind. On the hilly roads of Dublin Downs he took command of the race, ultimately building up a lead of more than a hundred meters. When Busboom crossed the finish line back at the school in a winning 37:37, Gibson and Osgood were still in a fight for second. Their battle went to the final meter of the 10,000-meter race, where Osgood barely beat Gibson, both runners clocked in 38:04. A few seconds later, Guillen finished fourth in 38:19.
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| Corey Osgood |
From first place to fourth, the top men were spread out over less than 200 meters. The women’s competition wasn’t that close;
Lisa Johnson never had to look back. Leading from wire to wire, Johnson was more than a thousand meters ahead of the next woman in the 10K when she crossed the finish line in 40:07. Cecilia Bouaichi was runner-up in the women's standings, placing eleventh overall in 45:01. Nikky Manausa was the third woman and twelfth overall in 45:20. Sarah Samford was the first woman master and ninth female finisher, 28th overall in 51:18.
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| Lisa Johnson |
Top Ten Men, 2019 Trent 10K
- 37:37, Brad Busboom (M, 31)
- 38:04, Corey Osgood (M, 22)
- 38:04, Myles Gibson (M, 52)
- 38:19, Tony Guillen (M, 50)
- 42:14, Zack Scharlepp (M, 36)
- 43:07, Tristan Lanasa (M, 25)
- 44:32, Chase Campbell (M, 33)
- 44:50, Jon Nash (M, 39)
- 44:54, Owen Franklin (M, 14)
- 46:23, Gary Johnston (M, 44)
Top Ten Women, 2019 Trent 10K
- 40:07, Lisa Johnson (F, 37)
- 45:01, Cecilia Bouaichi (F, 23)
- 45:20, Nikky Manausa (F, 37)
- 47:17, Jordana Kimelman (F, 22)
- 49:37, Monica Toth (F, 30)
- 49:46, Emily Culley (F, 18)
- 49:46, Caitlin Wilkey (F, 16)
- 50:37, Sara Roxin (F, 22)
- 51:18, Sarah Samford (F, 41)
- 52:25, Beth Culley (F, 53)
Lisa Johnson was also the first woman at the Trent in 2014, back when it was called the Red Fox Trot.
Corey Osgood had been the overall winner in 2018, by which time the race was called the Trent Trot. Both of those years, as in each of the first nine editions of the race, the distance had been 5K. The 10K was added in 2019 when the event shortened its name to the Trent, but there was still a 5K race at the tenth annual Trent, run concurrently with the longer race.
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| Zach DeVeau |
The two races were also on the same course in the early going.
Zach DeVeau, the 5K leader, ran with the fastest 10K runners for the first two kilometers, with master runner
Michael Martinez following closely. DeVeau broke contact with Martinez during the second half of the race, going on to win the 5K in 18:25. Martinez took second in 19:01. Jackson Rowe, a seventh-grader on the cross-country team at nearly Montford Middle School, placed third in 19:50.
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| Kate Chunka |
Kate Chunka was the top woman in the 5K, placing eleventh overall in 23:09. Sixth-grader Sophia Youngberg, another Montford cross-country runner, was second in the women's standings and thirteenth overall in 23:18. Rasheda Brumfield was the first woman master and third female finisher in the 5K, fourteenth overall in 23:24.
123 athletes finished the inaugural 10K at the 2019 Trent, and another 229 completed the 5K. 239 finished a one-mile fun run. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed all three races.
Top Ten Men, 2019 Trent 5K
- 18:25, Zach Deveau (M, 31)
- 19:01, Michael Martinez (M, 53)
- 19:50, Jackson Rowe (M, 12)
- 21:01, Lucas Mauch (M, 14)
- 21:15, Robbie Stewart (M, 17)
- 22:11, Dan Manausa (M, 49)
- 22:26, Trey Crowley (M, 22)
- 22:32, Jonah Blay (M, 13)
- 22:58, Ben Betts (M, 49)
- 23:01, Allen Blay (M, 48)
Top Ten Women, 2019 Trent 5K
- 23:09, Kate Chunka (F, 35)
- 23:18, Sophia Youngberg (F, 11)
- 23:24, Rasheda Brumfield (F, 40)
- 24:39, Madison Sims (F, 11)
- 25:42, Kelly Whalon (F, 46)
- 26:17, Caroline Cummings (F, 14)
- 26:19, Rylee Fowler (F, 10)
- 26:28, Lauren Wilkey (F, 15)
- 26:29, Chloe McElroy (F, 13)
- 27:03, Gina Hernandez (F, 28)
| Trent Trot 5K winners, 2009 - 2019 |
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| Date | Distance | Men | Women | Finishers |
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| 17 October 2009 | 5K | 17:29, Tony Guillen | 22:22, Cora Atkinson | 148 |
| 29 January 2011 | 5K | 19:13, Cole Tessier | 20:48, Laura Hanlon | 199 |
| 28 January 2012 | 5K | 17:00, Trevor Touchton | 20:19, Laura Hanlon | 208 |
| 19 January 2013 | 5K | 16:10, Stanley Linton | 19:36, Micah Adriani | 268 |
| 25 January 2014 | 5K | 17:53, Peter Kaus | 19:16, Lisa Johnson | 206 |
| 24 January 2015 | 5K | 16:19, Chris Lake | 18:49, Seeley Gutierrez | 574 |
| 23 January 2016 | 5K | 17:26, Matt Nazareth | 19:36, Katie Sherron | 554 |
| 28 January 2017 | 5K | 16:42, Mark Zamani | 20:31, Caitlin Wilkey | 408 |
| 27 January 2018 | 5K | 18:51, Corey Osgood | 20:37, Caitlin Wilkey | 366 |
| 26 January 2019 | 10K | 37:37, Brad Busboom | 40:07, Lisa Johnson | 123 |
| 5K | 18:25, Zach Deveau | 23:09, Kate Chunka | 229 |
From 2009 to 2014 the race was named the Red Fox Trot 5K. In 2015 the name was
changed to the Trent Trot.
In 2012 the 5K course became USATF certified (FL11132EBM).
In 2019 the 10K race was inaugurated on USATF-certified course FL18057TY. |
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