Published by the DAILY RECORD of Morris County, New Jersey
On Sunday, September 4, 2016
SCHEID WINS STATE CROSS COUNTRY 5 KILOMETER
Justin Scheid of Sparta won the USATF New Jersey 5 kilometer
cross country race last Sunday in Thompson Park in Monroe Township. Scheid finished in 15:36. His New Jersey Elite team placed second in
the Open Men’s division with top masters finisher Todd Wiley of Pipersville PA
next, followed by Elliott Frieder of Montville and then brother Jonathan
Frieder of Rye Brook NY.
The top woman was Kristin Andrews of Manalapan, running for
the Shore Athletic Club (SAC), which placed third in the Open Women’s division. Her time was 18:48. Yes, Andrews is the sister of Olympian Robby
Andrews. Their father, Bob Andrews, also
ran in the cross country race and was on a M40 and M50 team for SAC.
Open men was dominated by the adidas Garden State Track Club
(aGSTC) with first place and third.
Their C and D teams tied with 138 points for fifth and sixth. The
Garmin racing team placed fourth. Sixteen
teams competed in the open men division.
The M40 division was won by the aGSTC by one point over
Garmin 30 to 31. Terry Davidson of
Randolph brought in the Garmin team, finishing in 18th place in 17:16. Garmin’s M50 team also placed second but in
this division to the SAC team.
On the men’s side of the ledger SAC teams were top three
four times amongst all divisions.
On the women’s side the aGSTC were first and second place
team in the open women’s division with the SAC team third. The Garmin women’s racing teams placed fifth
but were third in the W40 and second in the W50 division.
Other local teams include the Do Run Runners that placed
third in the W60. The Morris County
Striders were fourth in W60 and took the sole spot in the W70 division.
The course at Thompson Park is familiar to any runners who
raced at the park for their high school cross country team years back. It was not familiar to the senior runners who
fell back and lost contact with the runner in front of them in the second and
third miles. Several of those runners
went off course and lost precious time getting re-routed.
No protests were filed as the affected runners appear to
have maintained their positions through it all.
They followed one another off course and though they ran longer the
results were allowed to stand. Cross
country is scored by place, not time so no harm done, except to have some very
hot and tired runners cross the finish line.
MIDLAND MILE CORRECTION
In last week’s column you read that in the Midland Avenue
Mile, the W40 race was won by Jennifer St. Jean of Darien CT and that Anne
Balfour of Morristown was second.
That was incorrect although at press time it appeared to be
correct. Hortencia Aliago of Garfield
was second with a time of 5:49. Due to a
mistake in the start of that race the runner had been dq’d, but it was decided
that the mistake was through no fault of the athlete and she was re-instated.
This was important for her Clifton Road Runner club as with
her back in the file the Clifton team placed first in both the W40 division and
open women’s division. The Garmin racing
team was moved to second.
LOCAL RACES CORRECTION
In last week’s column I said there were few local races
coming up. One that I missed because it
was not listed in the USATF race calendar was the Netcong Day 5K that is taking
place on Sunday, September 11th. Races
that are not sanctioned by the USATF do not get listed. Sanctions are usually done well ahead of a
race but this time the Netcong race had not done so until this week. In 2015 the race was won in 16:11 by Justin
Scheid, who just won the cross country race last Sunday. We can assume that Scheid is in top shape
this year for the race.
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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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