Published by the DAILY RECORD of Morris
County, New Jersey
On Sunday, October 27, 2013
Copyright, Madeline Bost, 2013
CROSS COUNTRY FEATURED SIXTY SEVEN TEAMS AT THE NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP
Cross country racing was at its best on Sunday at Deer Path
Park in Readington when masters athletes from around the country but most
heavily from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania came to compete in the USA
national masters 5 kilometer championship.
The Atlanta Track Club with members scoring first, second,
third, fifth, and sixteenth easily won Gold in the M40 race. Chad Newton of the Atlanta team finished in
15:34 for first overall. Second man on
the team was the M45 winner, Kristian Blaich who finished in 15:41. The Baltimore Washington Athletic Club was
second and the newly formed New Jersey team, Pearl Izumi – Mid Atlantic took
Bronze. Their top runner was Dave
Slavinski of Point Pleasant who finished fourth overall in 15.49 for the Bronze
in the M40 division.
The Garmin Runners finished in fifth place with Brian
Crowley of Hillsborough leading the team in with a 16:20, followed by Mark
Williams of Columbia and Gary Rosenberg of Morristown.
To no one’s surprise in the M50 to 59 race, Peter Magill of
the Cal Coast Track Club was the runaway winner in 15:57. Raritan Valley Road Runner Mark Zamek of
Macungie PA was second, finishing in 16:49.
Zamek’s team finished in seventh place while the Shore Athletic Club
took sixth.
This is the first year that the M60 teams needed five men to
score but the Shore Athletic Club appears to have had no problem in fielding a full
team. They earned the Gold with 40
points over Genesee Valley Harriers who took second.
In a heartbreaker the Raritan Valley Road Runners were two
places away from third, when they scored 113 points while the Greater Philadelphia
Track Club had 112 points.
The M70 division was won by Ed Smith of Mountain Lakes in
22:10, with Bill Hagman of Morris Plains second in 22:5. The Clifton Road Runners won the M70 division
and the Central Jersey Road Runners took first in the M80 division, although George
Studzinski of Kinnelon who runs for the Fleet Feet Essex club won that division
in 30:28. In all, thirty eight men’s
team competed.
Elena Rozhko of Morristown, a citizen of Ukraine, won the masters
women’s race finishing in 18:09. Rozhko’s
performance was one of many outstanding performances by New Jersey women in the
race that had twenty nine teams competing from age forty through eighty.
Nora Cary of Morristown, running for the Do Run Running club
won the W55 division in 21:19. Erika Campbell, 64 of Ridgewood, running for
the North Jersey Masters team finished second in the W60 division. She was outrun in that division by the
incomparable Kathryn Martin of Northport Long Island who finished tenth overall
in 19:46 for a top age graded score of 99.6%.
Other local medal winners include Mary Ann Murphy who runs
for the Do Run Runners who took third in the W70 division in 32:05 and the
Morris County Strider women who dominated the older age divisions. Shirley Pettijohn of Chatham took home Gold
in the W75, Diane Stone of Basking Ridge Gold, Patricia Tummey of Randolph
Silver and Melva Murray of Bedminster Bronze in the W80 Division.
In the women’s team divisions, Runner’s High placed second in
W40 with their top scoring woman Diane DeOliveira of Brick finishing in
19:51. Jill Evarts of Middletown was the
second woman to score for the team in 19:56 which gave her third in the W45
division.
The Garmin Runners placed third with Susan Bessin of Madison
bringing the team home in 20:30. Running
for the Raritan Valley Road Runners was Karen Pearlman of Branchburg who
finished second in the W45 division in 19:33.
In the W50 team division the Shore Athletic Club placed
second with Lauren Rhatigan of Ship Bottom their first woman in 21:17. The Rose City Runners took third in the W60
division with Cande Olsen of Chatham fastest in 25:25. The Morris County Striders W80 women rounded
out the team division. There were no W70
teams competing.
Starting off the day of races was the Garden State Classic
for the open runners competing for New Jersey honors. Ken Goglas of Randolph won the race in
15:13. Cheyenne Ogletree of Garfield was
the first woman over the line in 17:21.
Both Goglas and Ogletree compete for the Garden State Track Club that fielded
eight open men’s teams and four women’s teams.
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Click on this link for results from the national race.
http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2013/Masters-5-km-Cross-Country-Championships/Results.aspx
A calendar of USATF sanctioned events can be found at www.usatfnj.org or at www.raceforum.com for running and tri and
biathlon events.
Contact Madeline Bost at madelinebost@verizon.net.
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