Over 100 Area Runners Complete USA Fit Marathon and Half Marathon

     Twenty-nine men and 72 women from the Woodlands MultiSport coverage area sloshed their way through blustery, wet and chilly conditions to complete Sunday’s USA Fit Marathon and Half Marathon in Sugar Land.
     Not only did runners head back north with six podium finishes in the half marathon and a second-place, 20-29 age group finish in the marathon from Magnolia’s Nicholas Gault, but The Woodlands’ Linda Trinkle, 43, won the women’s half marathon in a time of 1:41:28.
     Trinkle beat Conroe’s Amy Wells and Houston’s Annabella Betancourt to the finish line for a 13-second win.
     Wells, 38, who lodged a gun time finish of 1:41:41, actually beat Betancourt to the finish line by 10 seconds, but the Houstonian’s chip time gave her the first place age group award.
     Trinkle easily, though, won her 40-49 age group with a four-minute advantage over Sugar Land’s Sally Whitworth.
     The Woodlands’ Kaitlyn Bailey, 19 and New Caney’s Annamarie Clark, 60, were also age group winners.
     Second overall by chip time (but eighth by gun time), Bailey easily outdistanced her closest age group competitors by more than five minutes to stop the clock in 1:40:25.
     With a time of 2:41:21, Clark led 33 women to the finish who were 60 years of age or older, including 82-year-old Addie Kephart of Atascosita.  Kephart completed her second half marathon in three weekends.
     Montgomery father-and-son Gregg and Michael Garrard were both second in their respective half marathon divisions.
     Gregg, 47, was sixth overall in 1:27:00 and 46 seconds behind Finish Line Sports’ Brett Cole to take second, while Michael was a distant second – in 1:39:51 – to his closest competitor, the defending champion from East Bernard, Patrick Pitts.
     Pitts, a redshirt freshman at Sam Houston State, won in 1:18:47.
     Spring’s Riley Young, 15, was third in the division in 1:50:06.
     Magnolia’s Nicholas Gault was second in his 20-29 age group in the marathon with a time of 4:10:01.
     Other highlights from the Woodlands MultiSport coverage area included:
     +  Juliee Sparks, 34, and Sara Jones, 32, both members of The Woodlands Running Club, finished 8th and 9th, respectively, in their 30-39 age group. 
     It was Sparks’ second marathon in less than three months and she bettered her 4:02:51 Marine Corps Marathon time last October by more than nine minutes in 3:53:46.  Jones chimed in with a 3:57:11.
     They were the only two from the area to post sub-four hour marathons.
     +  Lacy Goedeke, 28, of Spring, continued her preparation for the Rocky Raccoon 50 Miler next month by pacing her sister, Kelly Walker, 25, of Cypress, to her first half marathon finish in 2:33:59.

Marathon
3:53:46 - Juliee Sparks, F, 34, The Woodlands
3:57:11 - Sara Jones, F, 32, The Woodlands
4:10:01 - Nicholas Gault, M, 29, Magnolia
4:19:22 - Jeanette Hagelskaer, F, 44, Spring
4:40:12 - Leslie Dupuy, F, 45, Conroe
4:46:00 - Kevin Stallings, M, 31, Spring
4:51:03 - Margie Mynhier, F, 39, Magnolia
4:54:51 - John Swart, M, 45, The Woodlands
4:59:09 - Joanne McMahon, F, 51, The Woodlands
5:00:55 - Donald Fancher, M, 50, Montgomery
5:04:23 - Kimberly Bowron, F, 41, Spring
5:13:49 - Amanda McNulty, F, 33, Spring
5:28:28 - Lesle Alli, F, 40, Spring
6:48:59 - Deborah Sanborn, F, 54, Spring
7:57:49 - Jacqueline Thomson, F, 41, Montgomery

Half Marathon
1:27:00 - Gregg Garrard, M, 47, Montgomery
1:34:09 - Jeffrey Irvin, M, 35, Porter
1:39:51 - Michael Garrard, M, 17, Montgomery
1:40:25 - Kaitlyn Bailey, F, 19, The Woodlands
1:41:21 - Linda Trinkle, F, 43, The Woodlands
1:41:33 - Amy Wells, F, 38, Conroe
1:44:57 - Ginger McMillian, F, 30, Conroe
1:48:50 - Juan Borges, M, 37, Spring
1:49:06 - Mayra Caamano, F, 33, The Woodlands
1:49:20 - Christi Moore, F, 39, Spring
1:50:06 - Riley Young, M, 15, Spring
1:50:47 - Kate Looney, F, 30, Spring
1:50:49 - Egin Sam, F, 38, The Woodlands
1:53:52 - Margo Proctor, F, 45, The Woodlands
1:54:05 - Erin Trantham, F, 33, Conroe
1:55:48 - Michael Geffert, M, 55, Spring
1:56:04 - Jeffrey Miller, M, 36, Spring
2:02:23 - Tiffini Johnson, F, 35, The Woodlands
2:04:26 - Annie Irvin, F, 34, Porter
2:07:31 - Bob Ranck, M, 47, The Woodlands
2:09:08 - Tara Cianfrini, F, 39, The Woodlands
2:10:13 - Andrea Fanshier, F, 24, The Woodlands
2:10:33 - Jose Rodriguez, M, 24, Spring
2:11:54 - Wendy Harris, F, 40, The Woodlands
2:13:56 - Ryan Collins, M, 27, Spring
2:16:07 - Katie Karnis, F, 36, Spring
2:17:31 - Juli Tate, F, 40, The Woodlands
2:19:01 - Kristin Caponigro, F, 39, The Woodlands
2:19:28 - Catherine Jeffrey, F, 31, Conroe
2:19:28 - Chel Larkin, F, 32, Conroe
2:19:47 - Lorie Thornton, F, 34, Montgomery
2:20:43 - Shawn Schouviller, M, 32, Spring
2:20:50 - Traci Viator, F, 38, Magnolia
2:22:30 - Kathleen Eaton, F, 46, The Woodlands
2:23:41 - Suzanne Young, F, 48, Spring
2:24:38 - Brian Ring, M, 38, New Caney
2:26:20 - Jennifer Callaway, F, 35, Spring
2:26:22 - Allison Ewing, F, 32, Spring
2:26:40 - Christina Lee, F, 39, Spring
2:26:51 - Carolyn Allison, F, 52, The Woodlands
2:26:55 - Jerry Reimer, M, 58, Spring
2:28:30 - Nicole Grundmeyer, F, 40, Spring
2:29:04 - Rob Thompson, M, 41, The Woodlands
2:29:05 - David Quiroz, M, 64, Spring
2:29:51 - Brett Heath, M, 50, The Woodlands
2:30:30 - Patrick McMahon, M, 51, The Woodlands
2:30:46 - Senthil Chidambaram, M, 38, The Woodlands
2:31:57 - Megan Collins, F, 26, Spring
2:33:59 - Lacy Goedeke, F, 28, Spring
2:35:54 - Karen Pitcock, F, 43, Spring
2:36:24 - Melissa Lopez, F, 39, The Woodlands
2:36:27 - Jennifer Daniels, F, 29, Spring
2:36:27 - Don Daniels, M, 31, Spring
2:38:17 - Katie Gustafson, F, 41, The Woodlands
2:41:21 - Annamarie Clark, F, 60, New Caney
2:41:31 - Ronald Longtin, M, 65, The Woodlands
2:43:44 - Jennifer Perkins, F, 39, The Woodlands
2:45:23 - Mary Harrison, F, 33, Conroe
2:45:24 - Jill Parker, F, 31, Conroe
2:48:12 - Mary Creamer, F, 66, Montgomery
2:49:22 - Cheryl Battaglia, F, 53, The Woodlands
2:49:49 - Rachel Velotas, F, 37, Spring
2:50:24 - Tim Moore, M, 40, Magnolia
2:51:01 - Roselle Tubo, F, 39, Magnolia
2:53:23 - Nickole Maronge, F, 33, Conroe
3:04:27 - Murrai Scanlon, F, 32, Montgomery
3:09:09 - Stephanie McLemore, F, 36, The Woodlands
3:13:31 - Adriana Smith, F, 31, Spring
3:14:38 - Kwang Park, M, 61, Spring
3:16:20 - Lesley Farwell, F, 43, Spring
3:16:36 - Beth Martin, F, 39, Conroe
3:16:48 - Tiffany Curry, F, 31, Spring
3:16:54 - Ben Knippel, M, 63, Spring
3:18:08 - Beth Folks, F, 52, The Woodlands
3:18:08 - Paula Van Osdell, F, 51, The Woodlands
3:20:28 - Jennifer Heath, F, 42, The Woodlands
3:20:30 - Kelly Baughman, F, 40, Spring
3:20:59 - Craig Lively, M, 36, The Woodlands
3:27:03 - Nicole Bruno, F, 28, Spring
3:29:13 - Teri Hatch, F, 52, Spring
3:29:28 - Melissa McDowell, F, 27, Porter
3:38:35 - Lenval Chambers, M, 67, Spring
3:41:43 - Candace Roberts, F, 31, Spring
3:42:15 - Debbie Bower, F, 52, The Woodlands
3:43:31 - Janiece Hartman, F, 44, Spring
4:19:15 - Sandy Rivera, F, 55, The Woodlands