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Sunday, Sept 9, 2018
LIBERTY WATERFRONT HALF MARATHON OPENS FALL ROAD RACING
CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
While the 5km New Jersey cross country championship opened
the fall cross country season, the first fall road championship of the season
is the Newark Liberty half marathon that will be held next Sunday in Jersey
City. Blessed with stunning views of the
Manhattan skyline, and flat, flat, flat, it can still be a challenging course
due to the many turns and changes of surfaces to run on.
Nevertheless, the race draws a huge field of runners with
2017 topping out at 2,514 finishers.
Joshua Izewski of Doylestown PA won the race in 1:11:46. The women’s
race was won by Sairi Maeda, whose hometown was listed simply as Japan. She finished third overall in 1:12:48, one second
ahead of her countryman Takashi Kakimoto.
The half marathon will play a big role in the club and team
grand prix. The Garden State Track Club
New Balance has a huge lead in the club grand prix thanks to their abundance of
open men and women’s teams. The Clifton
Running Club is in second with the Garmin Runners third and the Shore Athletic Club
in fourth place. The open men’s division
has three teams taking first through third followed by the Freedom Running Club
with the Garmin Runners a close fifth.
On the open women’s side, the Garden State club’s A team has
a 31 point lead over the Garmin women followed by the Garden State B team. Clifton is in fourth place.
There is a tie between Garden State and the Garmin team in
the M40 division with both teams holding 68 points. There is a triple tie for the next three
places at 39 points for the Garden State’s B team, the Shore club and
Clifton.
There are no ties in the Women’s 40 division with Clifton in
first place over the Garmin runners with the Garden State team in third.
The Garmin M50 team has a 14 point lead over Garden State at
70 points to 56 with Clifton in third with 49 points in their division. The Clifton women are also in first in the
W50 division with the Garmin team in second and the North Jersey Masters third.
In the M60 division the Shore’s A team has a twelve point
lead over Clifton with the Fleet Feet Essex men only three points back. The Shore’s B team is in a tie at 21 points
with the North Jersey Masters for fourth place.
The North Jersey Masters lead the W60 division with the Raritan Valley
Road Runners next and Clifton in third.
USATF NEW JERSEY HAS TRANSFERRED TO SNAPPY NEW WEBSITE
The standings will be posted on the new New Jersey USATF
website. It has been a bumpy ride as the
website has undergone a makeover and not without mishap. Some files were lost temporarily during the
transition and some pages are still missing and some pages are incomplete.
However, information is now available that had never been
before. In a changing montage New Jersey
athletes are pictured with their accomplishments lauded on the home page. The results of recent events are now
available on the home page, including long distance running championships. The long distance running calendar is now a click
away on the home page as are the two grand prix and the individual New Balance
grand prix standings.
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Race Results can often be found at www.compuscore.com or at www.bestrace.com
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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