January 8-14, 2025; Week in Review

With the majority of Volte gearing up for one of this coming weekend's races at the Chevron Houston Marathon, the racing card for Week 2 was light.

Kevin Baker and Katerina Savelieva - as well as Volte friend Vincent Attanucci - ran the 158th edition of the Spindle Tree parkrun 5K in east Magnolia on Saturday morning.

Baker was the first across the line as he finished second overall in 20:05.

And Katerina was the first female as she held off a pair of high school runners to grab the women's win in 25:27.

The all-time winningest female runner, Katerina Savelieva, at Spindle Tree parkrun.
(Courtesy of Spindle Tree parkrun)

It was her 15th win at Spindle Tree, bettering Kevin by three wins as he has finished first 12 times, and her seventh fastest time out of 45 races there.

Those 15 wins are the most of any female and she leads Aimee Wong and Lynn Wright, who have 11 and 10, respectively.

Meanwhile, Attanucci finished in 32:09.

He has run Spindle Tree 90 times out of the 158 races that have been put on - and might have been more if Run The Woodlands had folded sooner.

Also on Saturday, another Volte friend, Jon Walk, took to the road and ran the 10th annual Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival 5K in Cameron, Louisiana in 29:03 on the flat, out-and-back course.

It was a race in his 15th of 64 Louisiana parishes.

Finishing 20th overall out of 42 finishers and faster than the average time of 33:03, Jon landed in the most populous age group, where he chuckled that he was sixth of seventh.

Closing us out on Sunday, January 12 was Kate Semmelrogge Thomas in San Francisco, California where she was celebrating her birthday by competing in the San Francisco Hot Chocolate 15K.

She finished in a time of 2:11:37.

Too much fun?  No such thing for Kate Thomas (middle) and her friends at Sunday's Hot Chocolate 15K in San Francisco.  (Photo courtesy of Hot Chocolate Run)