2000 Features Archives Index

David Yon A small crowd took advantage of great weather and food at the St. George Island Sizzler June 10. This benefit for the Tate's Hell Track Club is run right on the island, starting and finishing right in the middle of the island. The course is flat...

By Joe Dexter A very picturesque place for a duathlon, with great weather, tough course, stir-fry dinner and awards for every participant. Thanks go to Nadine Dexter - set up, registration, food preparation & cleanup, James Dexter - turn-around , Jerry...

Congratulations to the Tallahassee finishers in the Pittsburgh Marathon. The weather was warm and the course hilly. Jay Silvanima was the top Tallahassee finisher with a time of 3:06:32 net. This race also served as the men's Olympic Trials and was won by...

David Yon About 125 runners finished the Sports Beat 5K race, Saturday afternoon, April 22, 2000. The men's field was extremely fast as Brian Fleischmann led six runners under 17:00 minutes with his winning time of 15:30. The women's winner was Anna...

Celebrate Earth Day 2000 (April 22) by running or walking in one of the events of the Paynes Prairie Running & Walking Festival on the Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail, a paved, winding recreational greenway, with a parallel grass horse trail, that...

 Post Boston Marathon celebration!Gary Cato(3:36), Mike Jaynes(3:29), and Ronnie Godwin(2:59) relax after seeing the sites from Hopkinton to Boston Monday. For complete (local) results, click here.

David Yon Conflicting events such as TOSRV and a walk for MS combined to keep the numbers down for this year’s Palace Saloon 5K. Still, 218 runners found nearly ideal conditions when they toed the line in front of Messer Field. The race was the fifth GWTC...

Bruce Moore GWTC triathletes got an early taste of summer at the Cape San Blas Duathlon on Saturday, April 8. An encroaching cold front stalled to the west, leaving clear skies and hot, muggy conditions for the 9:30 EDT start. The Panama City Panhandle...

Runners climbed out of their cars April 1 to find a nice breeze and temperatures just a bit cooler than expected, starting out in the upper 50's. The temperatures rose enough to make the last couple miles a bit warm, but the temperatures and blue skies...

Joe Dexter This 3rd year, annual event, featured a scenic run through downtown Attapulgus, 100 % cotton shirts, nearly 80 awards, musical entertainment, and for an additional $5 a great southern meal. What was needed was more runners and some GWTC...

Joe Dexter Good weather, great course, gold railroad spikes and a striking lime green t-shirt, what more could you ask for? OK, maybe a PR. Thanks to the following people who helped make the Rails to Trails 5K race possible March 18: Judy Alexander, Joe...

( Email any omissions.) PlaceNameTime42Brian Fleischmann49:5455Aaron Scheer51:5285Tim Unger54:22101Paul Hoover55:25139Kim Winn57:52142Gruth Grumme57:57152Reid Vannoy58:24157Walt Spangler58:40212Brian Corbin1:00:58222Jerry Ongley1:00:58297Mike...

David Yon Three hundred and forty two runners found the meaning of true happiness on Saturday, Feb. 26, at Tallahassee Community College - Running for Girl Scout cookies! Some of them even got to chase Grand Prix points, as this was the third GWTC Grand...

Margarete Deckert celebrated her 67th birthday by driving through the fog to win her age group at the Flash 12K Feb. 19 with a time of 72:28. All right, so she did not have any age group competition, but that is still a very good time. Sarah...

John Kalin Once again, the year 2000 continues with the overall winner in a GWTC Grand Prix Race being FEMALE. The winner in question, Ann Von Schuppen, hails from The Netherlands, training out of Gainesville, won the GWTC 30K in 1:53:04 Feb. 5, 2000.She...

The first annual Rattlesnake Roundup 5k Run and Scout Stroll got off to a cold start Feb. 1 with freezing temperatures but no rain as had been forecast. Fifty participants arrived to take part in this benefit for Boy Scout Troop 383. Twenty paid entrants,...

Lisa Dapko and Tim Unger Many GWTC members turned out for the Hog Wild Five Miler in Dothan Jan. 29 to represent our club by taking home overall and age group awards.Janice Hochstein won an overall award for being the second female to cross the line by...

Fred Deckert It was an event to remember!The Tallahassee Marathon/Half Marathon and 2M treated us to a trio of brand new courses in Northeast Tallahassee. Comments heard on the course and after: "I knew the race honored a deceased member, Craig Hasty, did...

David Thompson, It's marathon #9 for me, "the first marathon of the new millennium" as the saying would go I suppose. Training has been solo this year, in near perfect weather of temperatures in the 50's and 60's. I've not run in heat for three months! The...

The 2000 Grand Prix got off to fast start Jan. 2 as Breeda Dennehey-Willis debunked the myths about women being the slower gender by beating the rest of the field, including all of the men, by over a minute. Breeda’s first place time of 34:31 bested men’s...