Monday, March 20, 2023

Volte Goes Green for St. Patrick's Day on the Track, Road and Trails

This past Saturday morning, Volte founder Bill Dwyer was asking John Stevens how his son, Henry, who runs for Trina Jones' Spring Providence Classical School track team, was doing.

He told Bill that Henry had run the 1600 meters Friday night at the 71st annual Texas Southern University Relays in 4:51 and that he was going to run the 3200 meters later that day.

While Henry ran 10:34, ten seconds better than The Woodlands' Jack Tresague, John told Bill that there was a Volte runner in the 5K Friday night.

It was our Lu Bouanga!

Lu, who ran collegiately for East Central Oklahoma, wasn't too far off of his collegiate PR of 15:47.04 as he was second overall in the University 5K.

He covered the distance in 16:15.58, second only to current Texas Southern graduate student Albert Norman.

The racing season is starting to pick up even after the completion of January's Chevron Houston Marathon, the 2022-2023 campaign of the Texas 10 Series and the 12th annual Legacy Capital The Woodlands Marathon.

The biggest news is that Randy Harris ran his first race in about a year at the Eva Strong Memorial 10K in Uvalde Saturday morning.

He was second overall in 46:51 - and ran it in wire-to-wire rain, according to the race's timer, Ricky Garza with Zapata Roadrunners.

Randy is now an assistant principal at Uvalde High School.

Jerritt Park's road to 100 races in 2023 went through Keller Saturday morning as he traveled to the Metroplex as his son, Brayden, was competing in the Texas Distance Festival, hosted by Southlake Carroll High School.

Missing a chance to run in the Bear Creek Greenbelt parkrun 5K in Keller, Jerritt opted for the Shannon Brewing Company's St. Patrick's 5K, where he was first in his age group in 21 minutes even.

He said it was "super hilly" - for a flatlander - as he was also third overall.

Transitioning to this weekend's trail races, Volte had friends at the 61st running of the Spindle Tree park run 5K in east Magnolia.

Stoya Laydevant set a new Spindle Tree park run course record in 18:29 on the triple loop crushed trail track.  She was third overall and first female.

Her parents - Meri and Pierre - finished in 25:02 and 26:43, respectively, and first in their respective age groups, while Vincent Attanucci completed his 21st career park run in a personal park run best of 28:58.

What happens - sometimes - when you run every day - for 7,377 days, as of Monday, March 20, 2023.

Volte had two runners participating in Trail Racing Over Texas' San Felipe Shootout at Stephen F. Austin State Park on Saturday.

The San Felipe Shootout allows for runners to run a 5K, 10K and half marathon consecutively in one morning.

The 5K began at 7:30, the 10K an hour later and the half marathon at 10:30 a.m.

Paolo Biagi finished the 5K in 26:20 and the 10K in 59:26 and was the sixth overall masters male in both races.

Meanwhile, Nita Shinde chewed up and spit out the entire trail - running all three races and completing the Shootout.

Her times were 36:45 in the 5K, 1:35:25 in the 10K and 3:29:00 in the half marathon.

Moving back to crushed trail surfaces, we had four athletes and as many friends competing in this weekend's Seabrook Lucky Trail Marathon.

On Saturday, with their coach Rich Cooper in-person supporting their efforts, Andrew Carrillo and Mike D'Errico took first and third in their age groups in Saturday's half marathon in 1:34:34 and 1:39:39, respectively.

Running Alliance Sport ambassadors - and Volte friends - Alvaro and Lusi Trejo teammed up with two more Trejos - Isabel and Suvenal - to make up Team Trejo and finish the marathon relay on Saturday in 3:59:15.

They came back on Sunday morning - as cold, but not as wet as Saturday morning - and ran the 5K in 25:52 and 40:37.  Alvaro earned third place in his age group.

Earning sparkling new personal bests in the Quarter Marathon - and their first time to ever run the distance - were Kim and Julie White.

Kim was second in his age group in 50:15, while Julie was first in hers in 53:01.

Volte friend Sabina Lorca not only ran the half marathon in a first place division finish of 1:46:55, she also sang the National Anthem to start the morning.

Working our way back to the track, it was noted earlier that Jerritt and Kristi's son Brayden was running the 1600 meters at the Texas Distance Festival in Southlake Carroll.

Just under 550 young men ran the 1600 meters and 378 were under five minutes.

Brayden clocked a time of 4:50.056.

At Saturday's Kingwood True Team Meet, which featured the host school, Kingwood HS, Montgomery HS and The Woodlands College Park, the daughter of Mayra Caamano - Chloe Kramer - was fifth overall in the 1600 meters, posting a career best time of 5:25.84 in her senior year.

She was second three weeks ago at the Klein Cain Invitational in the 3200 meters in 11:44.04.

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