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Kristen O'Toole rode 14 miles in a Bike MS event to raise over $4,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Kristen O'Toole with her trainer Angela Grayson. Courtesy photo
Kristen O'Toole on her recumbent bike with her trainer Angela Grayson. Courtesy photo
Kristen O'Toole, left, with her trainer Angela Grayson. Courtesy photo
Indian Trails Middle School runner Peyton Ceraci has the sixth-fastest time in the state among middle school cross country runners. Courtesy photo
Peyton Ceraci finished second at the FSU Invitational Pre-State meet on Sept. 29. Courtesy photo
When Kristen O’Toole was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2014, she was told she probably had had the autoimmune disease for 20 years.
O’Toole, who has been using a wheel chair for the past nine years, moved to Palm Coast from Pittsburgh two years ago to be closer to her family and took up adaptive sports.
On Oct. 7, O’Toole rode a recumbent bike 14 miles on the Jacksonville Baldwin Rail Trail in a virtual Bike MS event. She raised $4,025 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
O’Toole, 50, rode the trail with her trainer Angela Grayson of Loving Life Fitness. The trail is 18 miles long. But in her last mile her foot kept slipping.
“I couldn’t put that knee back up,” she said. “But it was fun. I was impressed I could do 14 miles.”
Next year, O’Toole said she will try to do a little more. She did the ride on the same day as the Bike MS PGA Tour to the Shore event, which starts in Ponte Vedra Beach and ends in Daytona Beach.
O’Toole said if she’s able, she will try to ride the 36-mile leg of the event which starts in Marineland and ends in Daytona.
Indian Trails Middle School runner Peyton Ceraci has the sixth fastest time in the state among middle school girls cross country runners.
Cerasi finished second among 185 runners at the FSU Invitational Pre-State meet on Sept. 29 at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee with a persona record time of 11:03.40 in the 3-kilometer race.
The eighth grader won the middle school races at the Spikes and Spurs at the Flagler County Fairgrounds on Aug. 25 and the Mount Dora Invitational on Sept. 9. She also won the Flagler County Middle School Championship on Oct. 11. She finished third among 272 runners at the Katie Caples Invitational in Jacksonville on Sept. 16 and was fourth among 298 runners at the FLRunners.com Invitational in Lakeland on Oct. 6.
Cerasi will compete in the Florida Youth Running Association’s Middle School Championships on Oct. 28 at Holloway Park in Lakeland.
She has been running since she was in the first grade when she joined her father, Rob Ceraci’s, running club at Rymfire Elementary School.
“My goal with her in the running club was to get some exercise and to have fun and she fell in love with running,” Rob Cerasi said.
Rob said Peyton has only been running competitively since last year. She qualified in three track events — the 800, 1,500 and 3,000-meter runs — at the FYRA Middle School Track and Field Championship at IMG Academy in Bradenton, running a 10:45 in the 3,000 to place 12th.
Peyton’s parents, Erica and Rob, have both been teachers in Flagler County for 18 years. Erica teaches at Indian Trails while Rob teaches at Rymfire. They live in St. Augustine, and Rob said it is undecided where Peyton will be going to high school next year.
Flagler Palm Coast cross country runner Braedyn Wormeck placed 13th at the Randolph Invitational on Oct. 14 in Huntsville, Alabama as the Bulldogs' boys team finished ninth. Wormeck ran a 16:28.11 in the 5-kilometer race.
Sophomore Arianna Slaughter led the FPC girls team with a 21st-place finish with a time of 20:07.03. The FPC girls placed11th.
Seabreeze’s volleyball team defeated St. Augustine in straight sets, 25-20, 25-7, and 25-20 in a District 5-4A tournament quarterfinal on Monday, Oct. 16. But the the Sandcrabs fell to top seed Middleburg in three sets on Oct. 17.
Mollie Martin led the Sandcrabs with 17 kills against St. Augustine. Andie Litz had 13 service points and 27 assists. Emily Glass had 12 digs, while Ava Brantley had 11 digs.
Mainland lost to Ridgeview in three sets in a quarterfinal on Oct. 16. Ridgeview and Middleburg will play for the districtchampionship on Thursday, Oct. 19. Seabreeze ended its season with an 8-14 record. Mainland finished at 4-13.
In District 1-7A, Flagler Palm Coast finished its season with a 10-16 record with a three-set loss to Creekside High School on Oct. 16.
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