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Sunday, July 7, 2019

Zach DeVeau and Rachel Durbin hit the trail again at Munson Hills

Zach DeVeau, Rachel DurbinGulf Winds Track Club's seventh annual tour of Tallaahssee, Florida's trails continued on Saturday morning, 7 July 2019, with a six-mile race at Munson Hills, where Zach DeVeau and Rachel Durbin continued winning. DeVeau was the first man in the race, the second in GWTC's 2019 Summer Trail Series, coming in first overall in 38:24. It was DeVeau's second win of the 2019 series, and it was also the second series win for Durbin, who was the first woman in the race. Durbin ran 43:56, placing sixth overall.


The Series had first visited the Munson Hills in 2018, and this was the second time that the trails had been included in the four-race circuit. It also marked the return of the inflatable alligator. A course decoration and informal Series mascot, the alligator has probably been at more Summer Trail Series races than any of the runners. With smooth plastic skin and prominent handles, the fake 'gator really can't be mistaken for the real thing--unless you're a tired runner coming up on it suddenly around a corner.


"They punked me with a blow-up ten-foot alligator," reported Donalsonville, Georgia's Myles Gibson. "I really did jump."


However startled Gibson may have been by the 'gator, it didn't keep him from finishing second overall in 39:17, the first master runner in the race. Ryan Kunz took third in 40:22. Kunz had been second to DeVeau in the first event of the Series, the Red Bug Trail Race. The third finisher at Red Bug, Florida State University School cross-country runner Morgan Castano, placed fourth at Munson Hills in 43:30.


DeVeau had last run the Summer Trail Series in 2015, winning three out of the four events, but this was his first time racing Munson Hills.


"It was good, flat, and not a lot of roots, which suits me pretty well," commented DeVeau. "A lot easier to open up on than Red Bug."


Rachel Durbin was racing Munson Hills for the first time as well. That wasn't the case for her rivals in the women's field. Emily Molen, a rising senior on the Chiles High cross-country team, was the women's champ at the 2018 Munson Hills Trail Race. Alyssa Terry of Tallahassee had been runner-up to Molen. But it was Durbin, an alumna of Ohio's Bowling Green State cross-country team and a newcomer to the Tallahassee trails, who prevailed, taking first in the women's standings in 43:56. Terry was the second woman and eighth overall in 44:44. Molen, the defending champ, was the third woman and sixteenth overall in 47:14. Another veteran of the 2018 Munson Hills Trail Race, Laura Sellati, was the first woman master in 2019, taking sixth in the women's standings and 26th overall in 51:05.


Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Summer Trail Series continues on Saturday morning, 27 July 2019, with the Tom Brown Park Trail Race. The Series concludes on Saturday morning, 24 August 2019, at the Maclay Gardens Trail Race.


Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the 2019 Munson Hills Six Mile. 86 athletes finished the race.


[All photos used in this article were taken by Fred Deckert.]


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Munson Hills Six-Mile Trail Race
  1. 38:24, Zach DeVeau (M, 31)
  2. 39:17, Myles Gibson (M, 52)
  3. 40:22, Ryan Kunz (M, 36)
  4. 43:30, Morgan Castano (M, 17)
  5. 43:48, Kyle Kraeft (M, 30)
  6. 44:16, Ryan Baumbach (M, 39)
  7. 45:13, Philip Sura (M, 49)
  8. 45:29, Jack Schwenkler (M, 12)
  9. 45:40, Fanxiu Zhu (M, 50)
  10. 45:43, Kevin Malfa (M, 35)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Munson Hills Six-Mile Trail Race
  1. 43:56, Rachel Durbin (F, 24)
  2. 44:44, Alyssa Terry (F, 25)
  3. 47:14, Emily Molen (F, 17)
  4. 47:37, Cecilia Bouaichi (F, 23)
  5. 50:00, Kaley Ford (F, 24)
  6. 51:05, Laura Sellati (F, 40)
  7. 51:11, Clifton Lewis (F, 11)
  8. 51:41, Megan Chapman (F, 28)
  9. 52:05, Stella Lewis (F, 14)
  10. 52:20, Monica Toth (F, 30)

Gulf Winds Track Club's Summer Trail Series race winners, 2013 - 2019
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 5M
August 24Maclay Gardens 4½M


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Monday, June 24, 2019

Zach DeVeau and Rachel Durbin stumble but don't tumble at Red Bug Trail

In any race, the first goal is to finish. Winning may be an objective, or a certain performance, but finishing comes first. In a trail race, the second goal is to not fall down. Tight turns, roots, mud, rocks, and all other varieties of bad footing stand in the way of this goal. This was the case in Tallahassee, Florida at Phipps Park on Saturday morning, 22 June 2019. Runner were trying to finish and stay upright at the first event in Gulf Winds Track Club’s seventh annual Summer Trail Series, the Red Bug Trail Race.


“I didn’t go down,” said Zach DeVeau. “But I lost my glasses and had to go back for them.”

Zach DeVeau
Zach DeVeau

DeVeau kept his feet and won the race in 35:24. Rachel Durbin also stumbled during the race, slipping on a footbridge and almost falling into a creek. Durbin stayed up, though, and was the first woman finisher, placing fourth overall in 38:53.


The race started from Forestmeadows Athletic Center just after 7:30 AM. After just a couple of hundred meters, the course funneled down onto a narrow footpath. The middle-of-the-pack runners had to come to a complete stop, waiting their turn to get onto the single-file-only trail. This wasn’t the case up front, though, where Morgan Castano darted onto the trail first, unimpeded. DeVeau, a few steps back, also avoided the traffic jam.


Before the halfway point of the race, DeVeau had overtaken Castano, a rising senior on the cross-country team at Florida High. Ryan Kunz also passed Castano, then snatched the lead from DeVeau.

Ryan Kunz
Ryan Kunz

“I actually stopped to get water at the water table and he [Kunz] went by me,” said DeVeau. “It took me half a mile to catch up.”


DeVeau did catch Kunz, regained the lead, and went on to win in 35:24. Kunz took second in 35:54. Castano, the early leader, was third in 38:46. Paul Guyas was the first master runner in the race and the sixth male finisher, placing seventh overall in 39:29.


“I did the Trail Series in 2015 or 2016 and won, but since then I’ve helped [race director Jim Halley] with the event,” said DeVeau, reflecting on his history with the Series. DeVeau did indeed run three of the four Summer Trail Series races in 2015, placing first all three times. That year, Michigan native Rachel Durbin was at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she ran both cross-country and track for the Falcons through 2018. This was Durbin’s first time racing in the Summer Trail Series.

Rachel Durbin
Rachel Durbin

“I loved it!” said Durbin. “I liked the hills and the winding course. There wasn’t a single straightaway, so it was never boring.”


There was also the thrill of nearly tumbling off a bridge. There was no competitive excitement, though, because Durbin led the women’s field from start to finish, covering the course in 38:53. Cecilia Bouaichi took second in the women's standings, coming in seventeenth overall in 42:14. Lourena Maxwell was the first woman master and third female finisher, 23rd overall in 44:00.

Cecila Bouaichi
Cecila Bouaichi

125 athletes met the first goal of racing, finishing the 2019 Red Bug Trail Race. Most of them also achieved the second goal of trail racing by not taking a fall.


“Nothing happened!” proudly announced one smiling runner, as she neared the end of the course. There was no mud above her ankles to prove differently.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Red Bug Trail 4½-Mile Trail Race
  1. 35:27, Zach DeVeau (M, 33) Tallahassee, FL
  2. 35:54, Ryan Kunz (M, 36) Tallahassee, FL
  3. 38:46, Morgan Castano (M, 17) Monticello, FL
  4. 38:54, Austin Dodson (M, 21)
  5. 39:08, Ryan Baumbach (M, 39) Tallahassee, FL
  6. 39:29, Paul Guyas (M, 41) Tallahassee, FL
  7. 39:44, Kyle Kraeft (M, 30) Tallahassee, FL
  8. 40:07, Jack Schwenkler (M, 12) Tallahassee, FL
  9. 41:22, Geoffrey Paine (M, 40) Robbinsville, NC
  10. 41:33, Brian Molen (M, 43) Tallahassee, FL

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Red Bug Trail 4½-Mile Trail Race
  1. 38:53, Rachel Durbin (F, 24) Memphis, MI
  2. 42:14, Cecilia Bouaichi (F, 23) Tallahassee, FL
  3. 44:00, Lourena Maxwell (F, 44) Tallahassee, FL
  4. 45:03, Kaley Ford (F, 24) Tallahassee, FL
  5. 45:46, Megan Chapman (F, 28) Tallahassee, FL
  6. 45:46, Stella Lewis (F, 14) Tallahassee, FL
  7. 45:47, Clifton Lewis (F, 11) Tallahassee, FL
  8. 46:43, Laura Sellati (F, 40) Tallahassee, FL
  9. 48:46, Abbey Schultz (F, 20) Tallahassee, FL
  10. 49:17, Monica Toth (F, 30) Tallahassee, FL

Gulf Winds Track Club's Summer Trail Series race winners, 2013 - 2019
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 6M
July 27Tom Brown Park 5M
August 24Maclay Gardens 4½M


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Monday, May 13, 2019

Mother and father Katie Sherron and Zach DeVeau win at the Mother's Day 5K

Starting in 2004, each year on the Saturday before Mother's Day you could spot athletes racing on the main road through Maclay Gardens State Park, north of Tallahassee, Florida. Along the race course you would also see men wearing fezzes, because the annual Mother's Day 5K has always been hosted by the Marzuq Shrine Temple. Zach DeVeau of Tallahassee won the Shrine’s sixteenth annual Mother’s Day 5K on Saturday morning, 11 May 2019, running 18:19. Dr. Katie Sherron was the first woman in the race, placing fourth overall in 21:08.

Zach DeVeau
Zach DeVeau

You could call it a family affair, because DeVeau and Sherron are married. The couple were also first man and first woman at the 2015 Mother’s Day 5K, as well as at a few other races over the years.


“This is our first double win in a while,” noted DeVeau.

Katie Sherron
Katie Sherron

That may be because for a while, at many races either DeVeau or Sherron was pushing their son, Barrett, along the course in a baby stroller. Thanks to Barrett, Sherron was also the first mother at the Mother’s Day 5K.


The 5K began right at 8:30 AM, heading uphill from the Lake Hall Recreation Area. Kurt Dietrich, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Mother’s Day races, led the field. DeVeau trailed, moving into second by the end of the first quarter mile.

2019 Marzuq Mother's Day 5K
The leaders near the end of the first kilometer

“We went out, and I thought the first mile was much faster than it was,” recalled DeVeau. “But the clock said 6:00, so I just kept going at that pace.”


Just beyond the mile mark, the runners left the pavement as the race took them onto the Lake Overstreet trails for the second mile of the race.


“I like the trails,” said DeVeau. “I used to train on those trails a lot. By the time I reached the power line easement I had caught Kurt.”

Kurt Dietrich
Kurt Dietrich

DeVeau overtook Dietrich late in the second mile. Early in the third mile the race was all but over, with DeVeau about a hundred yards ahead and pulling away. Unchallenged on his way back to Lake Hall, DeVeau crossed the finish line first in 18:19. Dietrich was second in 18:47. Michael Martinez was the first master runner in the race, placing third overall in 20:14.


Soon after the race started, everyone was chasing Kurt Dietrich, but the runner closest in pursuit was Maya Tang, a Deerlake Middle School eighth-grader. With only Dietrich ahead of her, Tang was leading the women’s field.

Maya Tang
Maya Tang

“She went out pretty quickly,” said Sherron.


Sherron, though, soon caught the fast-starting Tang.


“At the mile,” said Sherron. “Exactly at the mile mark.”

Shannon Colavecchio
Shannon Colavecchio

For the remaining two miles, the race belonged to Sherron, who finished in a winning 21:08. Tang was second in the women’s standings and fifth overall in 22:47. After moving up on Tang late in the race, Shannon Colavecchio finished a close third in the women's division, placing sixth overall in 22:54. Colavecchio was the first woman master in the race.


27 athletes finished the Marzuq Shrine Temple’s 2019 Mother’s Day 5K. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race.


Top Ten Men, 2019 Marzuq Mother's Day 5K
  1. 18:19, Zach DeVeau (M, 31)
  2. 18:47, Kurt Dietrich (M, 27)
  3. 20:14, Michael Martinez (M, 53)
  4. 23:50, Cole Tessier (M, 36)
  5. 24:51, Thomas Krick (M, 56)
  6. 25:30, Trent Parsons (M, 10)
  7. 25:52, Jose Jimenez (M, 31)
  8. 28:34, Romeo Aggabao (M, 53)
  9. 35:05, Fernando Sanchez (M, 28)
  10. 48:22, Estan Rodriguez (M, 84)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Marzuq Mother's Day 5K
  1. 21:08, Katie Sherron (F, 37)
  2. 22:47, Maya Tang (F, 14)
  3. 22:54, Shannon Colavecchio (F, 41)
  4. 25:42, Ashley Palelis (F, 35)
  5. 26:58, Heather Malloy (F, 50)
  6. 29:47, Stephanie Hurt (F, 67)
  7. 31:52, Laura Parsons (F, 33)
  8. 32:38, Katrina Harris (F, 55)
  9. 32:44, Gingy Sampson (F, 54)
  10. 34:05, Linda Hand (F, 50)

Marzuq Shriners' Mother's Day 5K Champions, 2004 - 2019
DateMenWomenFinishers
8 May 200419:42, Scott Ruplinger25:33, Penny Isom53
7 May 2005??
13 May 200618:27, David Yon19:27, Laura Hempel71
12 May 200718:03, Martin Sykut19:04, Lisa Johnson67
10 May 200819:30, James Dexter20:19, Sheryl Rosen114
9 May 200918:13, Myles Gibson22:41, Angela Dempsey161
8 May 201019:10, Mickey Moore22:29, Fran McLean89
7 May 201118:33, Stephen Robbins20:36, Micah Adriani172
12 May 201216:08, Kevin Sullivan17:53, Sheryl Rosen235
11 May 201317:22, Vince Molosky19:49, Katie Showman128
10 May 201417:13, Vince Molosky20:40, Renee Cox122
9 May 201517:44, Zach DeVeau19:57, Katie Sherron69
7 May 201618:09, Grady Smith26:56, Carrie Smith51
13 May 201718:14, Kurt Dietrich22:34, Laura Reina84
12 May 201818:40, Kurt Dietrich23:03, Vicky Droze92
11 May 201918:19, Zach DeVeau21:08, Katie Sherron27
Any leads on the 2005 results would be deeply appreciated. Contact me!


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Sunday, January 27, 2019

Brad Busboom and Lisa Johnson launch the 10K at the Trent

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.

Brad Busboom
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.

Myles Gisbon
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.

Corey Osgood
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.

Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson

Top Ten Men, 2019 Trent 10K
  1. 37:37, Brad Busboom (M, 31)
  2. 38:04, Corey Osgood (M, 22)
  3. 38:04, Myles Gibson (M, 52)
  4. 38:19, Tony Guillen (M, 50)
  5. 42:14, Zack Scharlepp (M, 36)
  6. 43:07, Tristan Lanasa (M, 25)
  7. 44:32, Chase Campbell (M, 33)
  8. 44:50, Jon Nash (M, 39)
  9. 44:54, Owen Franklin (M, 14)
  10. 46:23, Gary Johnston (M, 44)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Trent 10K
  1. 40:07, Lisa Johnson (F, 37)
  2. 45:01, Cecilia Bouaichi (F, 23)
  3. 45:20, Nikky Manausa (F, 37)
  4. 47:17, Jordana Kimelman (F, 22)
  5. 49:37, Monica Toth (F, 30)
  6. 49:46, Emily Culley (F, 18)
  7. 49:46, Caitlin Wilkey (F, 16)
  8. 50:37, Sara Roxin (F, 22)
  9. 51:18, Sarah Samford (F, 41)
  10. 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.

Zach DeVeau
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.

Kate Chunka
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
  1. 18:25, Zach Deveau (M, 31)
  2. 19:01, Michael Martinez (M, 53)
  3. 19:50, Jackson Rowe (M, 12)
  4. 21:01, Lucas Mauch (M, 14)
  5. 21:15, Robbie Stewart (M, 17)
  6. 22:11, Dan Manausa (M, 49)
  7. 22:26, Trey Crowley (M, 22)
  8. 22:32, Jonah Blay (M, 13)
  9. 22:58, Ben Betts (M, 49)
  10. 23:01, Allen Blay (M, 48)

Top Ten Women, 2019 Trent 5K
  1. 23:09, Kate Chunka (F, 35)
  2. 23:18, Sophia Youngberg (F, 11)
  3. 23:24, Rasheda Brumfield (F, 40)
  4. 24:39, Madison Sims (F, 11)
  5. 25:42, Kelly Whalon (F, 46)
  6. 26:17, Caroline Cummings (F, 14)
  7. 26:19, Rylee Fowler (F, 10)
  8. 26:28, Lauren Wilkey (F, 15)
  9. 26:29, Chloe McElroy (F, 13)
  10. 27:03, Gina Hernandez (F, 28)

Trent Trot 5K winners, 2009 - 2019
DateDistanceMenWomenFinishers
17 October 20095K17:29, Tony Guillen22:22, Cora Atkinson148
29 January 20115K19:13, Cole Tessier20:48, Laura Hanlon199
28 January 20125K17:00, Trevor Touchton20:19, Laura Hanlon208
19 January 20135K16:10, Stanley Linton19:36, Micah Adriani268
25 January 20145K17:53, Peter Kaus19:16, Lisa Johnson206
24 January 20155K16:19, Chris Lake18:49, Seeley Gutierrez574
23 January 20165K17:26, Matt Nazareth19:36, Katie Sherron554
28 January 20175K16:42, Mark Zamani20:31, Caitlin Wilkey408
27 January 20185K18:51, Corey Osgood20:37, Caitlin Wilkey366
26 January 201910K37:37, Brad Busboom40:07, Lisa Johnson123
5K18:25, Zach Deveau23:09, Kate Chunka229
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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Saturday, December 3, 2016

Johnson and Sherron top the Ten-Mile Challenge

In 1988, Tallahassee, Florida's Gulf Winds Track Club trimmed about four kilometers from its annual twenty-kilometer race and re-named it the Ten-Mile Challenge. In 2010 Reid Vannoy moved the race to Ox Bottom Manor, where the hilly course really did provide a challenge. Even on the flat, most people would be proud to finish a race with double-digit mileage. Of course, it might puncture their pride a bit to hear Tallahassee triathlete Charlie Johnson describe his motives for running the Ten-Mile Challenge on Saturday morning, 3 December 2016.


“I want to get some shorter hard stuff in with hills in prep for Boston in April,” said Johnson.


Shorter is relative, of course, and over the past year Johnson has been at 30K, 50K, the marathon, and an Ironman triathlon--where a 26.2-mile run is only the dessert in a three-course meal of pain. With that background, it’s no wonder that ten miles seems short. With that background, it’s no wonder that Charlie Johnson won the 2016 Ten-Mile Challenge, running 59:10 and finishing almost half a mile ahead of the next runner.

Charlie Johnson, Katie Sherron

The race started at 8:00 AM from Hawks Rise Elementary School. 92 runners that would finish the Ten-Mile Challenge were on the starting line, along with another 132 who would complete a five-mile race. The five-milers would do one lap around the course, while the ten-milers would continue for a second lap around.


“A pack of maybe ten of us took off way too fast,” recalled Johnson. “The pace was sub-5:30 at the half-mile mark. I backed it off at that point.”


Johnson and master runner Geb Kiros ran together for three or four miles before Johnson pulled away. He had company from the leaders in the five-mile race for a while, but those runners soon turned off toward their own finish line, leaving Johnson to complete a lonely second lap.


“I was left all alone moping to myself that I should have done the five-mile and could be sitting down,” quipped Johnson. “But the remainder of the race I saw no one behind me and turned it into a mental game of push the uphills with strong form and roll the down hills with smooth steps. Running solo can be great a lot of times, because you can fall into a rhythm without interruption.”


No one interrupted Johnson on his way to the finish line and a 59:10 win. Geb Kiros was second overall and the top master runner in the race, posting a 62:22. Chris O’Kelley was third in 62:40, and master runner Myles Gibson placed fourth in 63:43.


Katie Sherron won the women’s title, placing twelfth overall in 1:14:31. It was the third year in a row and the fourth time ever that the Florida State University economics professor had won the Challenge. Emma Spencer was second in the women's standings and sixteenth overall in 1:18:25. Ruffian Tyner was the first woman master and third female finisher, eighteenth overall in 1:20:07.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Ten-Mile Challenge
  1. 59:10, Charlie Johnson (M, 37)
  2. 62:22, Geb Kiros (M, 50)
  3. 62:40, Christopher O'Kelley (M, 23)
  4. 63:43, Myles Gibson (M, 50)
  5. 65:21, Grady Smith (M, 39)
  6. 65:47, Tony Guillen (M, 47)
  7. 68:51, Jon Nash (M, 37)
  8. 68:53, Zack Scharlepp (M, 34)
  9. 71:53, T J Devlieger (M, 54)
  10. 72:38, Bill McNulty (M, 58)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Ten-Mile Challenge
  1. 74:31, Katie Sherron (F, 35)
  2. 78:25, Emma Spencer (F, 35)
  3. 80:07, Ruffian Tyner (F, 41)
  4. 82:35, Birgit Maier-Katkin (F, 54)
  5. 82:55, Marigny Nevitt (F, 21)
  6. 82:56, Krista Killius (F, 53)
  7. 83:10, Shelby Augustyniak (F, 40)
  8. 83:45, Sandy Johnson (F, 31)
  9. 84:38, Allison Born (F, 28)
  10. 85:23, Jennifer Early (F, 33)

The close competition that was missing in the Ten-Mile Challenge could be found in the five-mile race, where less than 70 meters separated the first runner from the third. Zach DeVeau won the shorter race, running the five miles in 29:30, the fastest winning time in the race since 2012, when Zac Buchholz posted a 29:19. Jim Halley was a close second in 29:38. Gary Droze was the first master runner for the second year in a row, placing third overall in 29:45. Droze had won the five-mile race in 2006.

Zach DeVeau, Brittney Barnes

Brittney Barnes was the women's champ in the five mile, coming in ninth overall in 33:00. Katie Sack took second on the women's side, coming in fifteenth overall in 35:21. Jillian Heddaeus was the third woman across the finish line, sixteenth overall in 35:48. The 2014 women’s champ, Paula O'Neill, was the top woman master and fourth female finisher, twentieth overall in 37:15.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Five-Mile Road Race
  1. 29:30, Zach DeVeau (M, 29)
  2. 29:38, Jim Halley (M, 37)
  3. 29:45, Gary Droze (M, 55)
  4. 30:58, Ryan Truchelut (M, 31)
  5. 31:47, Paul Guyas (M, 39)
  6. 32:10, Mike Peymann (M, 54)
  7. 32:43, Don Smith (M, 37)
  8. 32:48, Duane Evans (M, 49)
  9. 33:08, Joel Piotrowski (M, 47)
  10. 33:14, Tad David (M, 47)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Five-Mile Road Race
  1. 33:00, Brittney Barnes (F, 28)
  2. 35:21, Katie Sack (F, 25)
  3. 35:48, Jillian Heddaeus (F, 33)
  4. 37:15, Paula O'Neill (F, 55)
  5. 37:21, Kristin Halley (F, 35)
  6. 38:04, Laura Reina (F, 52)
  7. 38:27, Kenya Rich (F, 44)
  8. 38:30, Nancy Stedman (F, 54)
  9. 39:05, Alyssa Terry (F, 23)
  10. 39:05, Monica Toth (F, 27)

Champions of Gulf Winds Track Club's Ten-Mile Challenge, 1977 - 2016
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
3 December 201610 Miles59:10, Charlie Johnson74:31, Katie Sherron92
5 Miles29:30, Zach DeVeau33:00, Brittney Barnes132


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