tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-904153906320394692024-02-19T11:31:31.169-05:00Madeline Bost's Running ColumnMadeline Bost's Running Column Web Site Blog. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger368125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-77774658688964839222019-03-21T16:44:00.001-04:002019-03-21T16:44:40.554-04:00Win they did in Virginia Beach 8K<br />
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New Jersey runners had a field day in Virginia Beach on
Saturday (March 16, 2019).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several came
home with medals and big smiles after competing at the USATF national masters
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</span>Roberta Groner of East Ledgewood won the 8K masters division of the race
and was the first woman of any age to record the fastest time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She finished in 12<sup>th</sup> place overall
in 26:48 – age graded in second place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only Marisa Sutera Strange, the fast New York woman in the W55 division
age graded above her at 93.87%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Groner
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Other New Jerseyans on the podium were Michelle Brangan of Woodbury
Heights, first in the W45 division and third overall in 30:42. Suzanne LaBurt
was first in the W55 division and finished in 31:15 for fourth overall masters
woman, and third at the age grading with her 91.96%.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With LaBurt leading the way, her Clifton Road Runners team
of Laura DeLea and Kerry Monahan repeated their W50 second place finish from
2018, earning a silver medal for the team.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the men’s side, Jonathan Frieder placed fifth overall and
was the second man in the M45 division with a time of 26:30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frieder’s Garden State Track Club New Balance
successfully defended their title from 2018 with their decisive win by more than
three minutes ahead of the second place team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scoring for the team was Sam Teigan in 26:45 and John Hogan in 29:06,
back-up members were Harold Porcher in 30:02 and Gary Leaman in 30:07.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At age 59 Leaman shouldn’t be anywhere near the podium but
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Ezequiel Garcia placed third in the M70 division with an
identical time to second place in 35:11. Garcia’s Clifton Road Runners M70 team
placed fourth with Tony Fiory and William Ash.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Shore Athletic Club’s M40 team Jan Stofan, Brian
Prendergast, Robert Skorupski and Timothy McQueen, placed fifth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Shore’s M50 team placed second in their division with
Ken Ginsburg, Jeff Conston, Brian Hill, Przemyslaw Nowicki and Roger Price.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nowicki and Price were dropped down from an
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The Shore’s M60 team placed third in their division with
Reno Stirrat, Kevin Dollard, Michael Mooney, Harold Leddy and Scott Linnell.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As was expected the Shore’s women were all on the W40 team with
Christine Hill, Necia McQueen, Susan Stirrat and Leslie Nowicki.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They finished in fourth place.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yours truly won the W75 division with no other women entered
in the USATF championship division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
race was huge this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finished in 2,889
out of 4,773 female runners and first of seven women in the division.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Amanda Marino of Jackson won women’s division of the
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-4061280165456556712019-03-14T16:40:00.002-04:002019-03-14T16:40:23.751-04:00Virginia Beach here we come!<i><span style="color: blue;">A new website is coming soon. Here is my first column without the restrictions of writing for the Daily Record and only the local runners and events.</span></i><br />
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New Jersey runners are heading to Virginia Beach this
weekend for the national USATF masters championship 8K road race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Officially titled the TowneBank Shamrock 8K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Organizers have let the masters runners know
that this is the last year that it will be hosting the masters
championship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think that is
responsible for the good turnout from New Jersey though.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They just like the race and they have spread the word to
their fellow runners that this is a great event, from the expo to the race to
the post race fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It starts two blocks
from the ocean boardwalk going out a distance on the absolutely flat streets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon they are on the boardwalk until a short
stint back on the street and then back to the boardwalk for the finish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The reward, for those who care for it, is a glass of
Yuengling beer fresh out of the tap and hot Irish Stew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of this on the beach in a huge tent that
in years past has provided sometimes needed shelter from the elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Returning after their 2018 team grand prix top finish in the
M40 division is the Garden State Track Club team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the team will be Sam Teigen of Hawthorne,
Thomas Knolls of Oakland and Jonathan Frieder of Rye Brook NY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the returning champions in this
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John Hogan of Washington Township, Harold Porcher of
Bloomfield and Gary Leaman of Hardwick, all in their 50’s are also
registered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Porcher and Hogan are being
shown on the M40 team as of Thursday, but they can switch to the M50 division
and add Leaman for a complete team of three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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to five on the team.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Shore Athletic Club will have Brian Prendergast of
Brick, Timothy McQueen of Ogdensburg, Jan Stofan of Englishtown and Robert
Skorupski of Rockaway on their M40 team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jeff Conston of Hopewell Junction NY, Brian Hill of Middletown, and Ken
Ginsburg of Warren will make up the Shore’s M50 team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2018 nine M60 teams competed, making it the most
competitive division in the race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shore’s team finished fourth of those nine teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kevin Dollard of Hopewell Junction NY, Harold
Leddy of Bridgewater, Scott Linnell of Colt’s Neck, Michael Mooney of Center
Valley, PA and Reno Stirrat of Rockaway will have a full team in the
division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Unfortunately, it looks like the club’s M70 team will be shy
the required third man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only Przemyslaw
Nowicki of Holmdel and Roger Price of Randolph are entered as this goes to
“press”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If no other Shore runner can
make it down, the two will be back-ups on the M40 and M50 teams.<o:p></o:p></div>
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New Jersey will have M70 covered with the Clifton Road
Runners team of Ezequiel Garcia of Newark, William Ash of Hewitt, Tony Fiory of
Summit and Al Swan of Clifton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2018
the squad placed fifth of five teams, outrun by men in their early 70’s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Clifton club will have their W50 team returning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2018 the team of Suzanne La Burt of
Greenwood Lake NY, Kerry Monahan Gaughan of River Vale, and Laura DeLea of
Sparta placed second the crack Athena Track Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seven teams competed in 2018.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You may have noticed that although I identified these
runners as New Jersey runners, when some have New York or Pennsylvania
addresses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are USATF teams and the
rules allow team members from outside their own geographical boundaries – at least
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When you don’t have a full team in the older age divisions
you have to drop all your runners down into the age division of the youngest
member of your club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Shore’s women
did just that last year and are doing it again in 2019.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Susan Stirrat of Rockaway, W60, Leslie
Nowicki of Holmdel, W50, will run with Christine Hill of Middletown and Necia
McQueen of Ogdensburg on the Shore’s W40 team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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One runner, the true headliner this year, will be running
without a team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roberta Groner of East
Ledgewood, who is training for the Rotterdam Marathon taking place on Sunday,
April 7<sup>th</sup> has entered the race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Groner has been
hitting the tops of the age grading charts since aging into that magical
category of “masters” last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If she
is the first masters woman overall and at the top of the age grading chart, she
could go home with $ 800.00 for her five mile romp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who would bet against it?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-19511974797134229622019-03-01T17:01:00.002-05:002019-03-01T17:01:43.188-05:00No Column this week<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Posted Friday on Facebook</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">After 27 years of meeting a deadline every Friday, or nearly every Friday, today I have none. In a cost cutting effort, the Daily Record will no longer carry my Running Column. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">It feels funny. </span><span class="_5mfr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t6d/1/16/1f610.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; color: transparent; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">😐</span></span></span>Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-64186750566910393032019-02-24T23:30:00.001-05:002019-03-03T14:22:32.457-05:00Collin Frost of Randolph is one speedy guy<br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk489020896;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk498700751;"><em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">On Sunday, February 24, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">You have to wonder if this man can be beat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not in New Jersey so it seems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Collin Frost of Randolph toed the
starting line in New Jersey in 2018 he was always the man to beat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who tried, failed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frost posted his fastest time at the 5K
distance at the Roxbury Community Benefit race in June when he finished in
15:20. That was followed later that month with a 15:23 at the President’s Cup
Night Race in Millburn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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championship in August he won with a 15:34, and then in October he won the 8-kilometer
championship with his 26:05.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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credentials for longer races when he won the 2017 Halloween Half Marathon in
1:09:32.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first full marathon in the fall of 2018.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Frost. “I was in very good shape and got sick right before.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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summer and fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He plans to run the
full marathon in Philadelphia in November. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been competing at the Ocean Breeze indoor facility on Staten Island this season
with a win at 3,000 meters on February 8<sup>th</sup> in 8:13.78.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has had one loss, if you can call a third-place
finish in the mile in 4:11.96 a loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First place went to professional runner and New Jersey kid Robbie
Andrews who finished the mile in 4:02.53.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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in his day job, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He teaches math at
Del Barton where he is also a track and cross country coach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that he does a lot of his distance
runs are with the kids that he coaches and he even will pace them for a lot of
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It doesn't get a bigger than the Millrose Games track meet in New York City every February. Once held at Madison Square Garden, the meet is now held at the New York Armory. The meet was held this year on Friday, February 8th.</div>
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What many casual observers of the nationally televised meet do not know is that many events are held that do not make it to the prime time broadcast. What New Jersey viewers did not see was the several events in which New Jersey athletes competed. </div>
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The Garden State Track Club New Balance won the men's Distance Medley Relay in 9:58.52. Their B team placed seventh while the Shore Athletic Club finished in eighth place, with Justin Scheid of Succasunna running the anchor leg. Garden State's Women's teams placed fifth and eighth in the Distance Medley and their sprint team placed third in the four by two hundred relay. Their men's sprint team won the 4 X 200.</div>
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Morris area runners returned to the Ocean Breeze indoor facility this past Sunday to compete in the USATF New Jersey/ New York indoor championship meet with the New Jersey athletes winning again, as they did in 2018.</div>
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Nora Cary of Morristown won her W60 division in the 3,000 meters with a time of 12:54.35. In a close race in the mile, Cary finished in 6:30.77 for second place just one second behind first. Susan Stirrat of Rockaway made it a triple in her W60 division placing second to Cary in the 3,000 meter race with her 15:11.91. She was third in the 800 meter run in 3:39.88 and fourth in the Mile in 7:47.76.</div>
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On the men's side, Reno Stirrat won the M60 3,000 meter race in 11:38.03 and placed second in the Mile in 6:04.34. Bob Skorupski of Rockaway won his M45 division 3,000 meter race in 10:07.81, and placed third in the 800 meter race with his time of 2:13.53. John Saarman of Stanhope was first in the 400 meter race in his M75 division in 1:44.45.</div>
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The USATF Long Distance Running committee is having their meeting on Thursday, March 7th at the Madison Y. A major change is going to be voted on regarding when submissions for rule changes will be made, debated and approved at this meeting. Interested runners should check out the meeting agenda on the USATF New Jersey website and plan to attend.</div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">In the movie On the Waterfront, Marlon Brando's boxer character says plaintively, "I couda' been a contenda'".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Justin Scheid of Succasunna could also have been a contenda' had he just run two more races in the New Balance grand prix in 2018. Scheid won the Baker's Dozen half marathon in 1:14:23, but did not run in any other Category Three races. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> If he had and had won them, his score would have been 5,691, the same number of points that Morristown's Aaron Leskow came away with in his win of the series. The two men are closely matched, but as Leskow discovered; you have to be in it to win it. Sometimes a runner's career </span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">interferes with his running carrier, and that is the case for Scheid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">"With my job as a tax accountant I work a lot of hours leading up to April 15th and then again leading up to September and October 15th that races around that time are difficult for me to commit to," said Scheid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">When Scheid did get to the races he was always a factor. Sch</span><span class="yiv2782009550gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">eid had three second places in important races in 2018 that included the Lager Run 5K where he finished in 15:22, and the 5 kilometer cross country championship in 15:40. He had a third in the 8 kilometer cross country and third in the Ashenfelter 8 km. Scheid traveled to Spokane in December to run in the national club cross country 10 km and finished in an impressive 31:43</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">" I won't lie<span class="yiv2782009550gmail_default">, t</span>hat interval workout in the grass around the track with push<span class="yiv2782009550gmail_default">-</span>ups and sit<span class="yiv2782009550gmail_default">-</span>ups during the recovery was excruciating<span class="yiv2782009550gmail_default">," said Scheid</span>. <span class="yiv2782009550gmail_default">"</span>Nevertheless, I looked forward to workouts, especially the challenging ones because, I believed I improved with each one. I had a successful high school running career that included some great individual and team performances. I owe this success to Mr. Corcoran and my teammates who pushed and challenged me for four years. I loved competing<span class="yiv2782009550gmail_default">. </span>It didn't matter if it was an individual race or a relay.<span class="yiv2782009550gmail_default">"</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">"We had a strong team but it was expected to be a close race for the team championship," said Scheid. "This race sticks with me because it was one of those days when everyone raced well. We went 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 and won the team title 35-64 over Notre Dame." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Laura DeLea of Sparta finished the season in second place in the highly competitive W50 division of the New Balance Grand Prix in 2018. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">DeLea has quite a range, from the Midland Mile where she finished in 5:59.5, for third masters woman and age graded at 86.34% PLP (performance level percentage) to the other end of the distance spectrum where she finished the Franklin Lakes half marathon in 1:34.26 for a PLP of 81.43%. Somewhere in between DeLea may have had her most rewarding performance when she as the first woman overall in the Devil's Run 6.66 mile race in October</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Running has been a life long endeavor for DeLea beginning when she was ten and ran with her parents, who took their youngster with them to do laps at the Sparta High track She said that she instantly fell in love with running and went on to run track, and cross country in high school.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> "I wasn't very good at it," said DeLea. "I didn't really understand how to race properly so I didn't enjoy it. After high school I continued to run, but not race."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">When DeLea decided to get back into racing, she reached out to Bill Bosmann, then also of Sparta, for advice on how to run a race. His advice must have helped, because DeLea finished as the second woman in her first race. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">"Although my race times were competitive," she said. "It honestly was not until the last five years or so that I figured out how to truly enjoy racing."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> DeLea keeps her mileage to between 30 to 45 miles per week, running six days a week. She includes one long run, one progression run and one track workout. DeLea's very fit body attests to the workouts in the gym where she lifts weights and does core workouts three to four days a week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">The remaining days are maintenance," said DeLea, "but I live in Sparta where you can't avoid hills. That's where I believe I get a lot of my strength from.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">DeLea loves a good half marathon, but switched focus to the mile this past year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Halfway through last season she asked her friend Mike Mooney to coach her for the mile events she had on her schedule. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">"He’s one of the best milers I know so it seemed the obvious choice," she said. "I was able to tie my PR in the mile as well as smash my 5K time by 15 seconds at age 53 by following his workouts."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">"As the season progressed my times did too," said DeLea. "I was able to up my game and started to train with people I used to feel were out of my league, and that helped me to push myself and continue to improve".</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">"No cars. It’s quite and peaceful,"she said. "And there’s all sorts of friendly people out shoveling their driveways cheering me on or calling me crazy... it’s just fun."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;">"The best part is that you get to spend Thanksgiving morning with your chosen family and I’d be remise not to mention the delicious donuts. Like many turkey trots there’s just happiness in the air."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;">DeLea may not have been seeking to run PR's at age 53 but they came to her thanks to cutting back on her mileage and focusing on quality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">This overall strategy and new training regime seems to have worked because she ran her first sub 20 in a 5K, clocking a 19:50. The 5:54 Fifth Avenue Mile tied with her previous mile PR and she finished the USATF national masters championship 8K in Virginia Beach in 33:19 in March for another PR.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">DeLea is far from a solo runner. She cherishes the members of her Clifton Road Runners team that dominates in the W50 division of the Garmin Team Grand Prix, where they've finished first for the past three years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Aaron Leskow only needed a year or two before he figured out how to go to the top in the USATF NJ New Balance Grand Prix. Leskow moved to Morristown in December of 2015 for his career and soon found a running club and the high level of competition in the state. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"It was a very good career move," said Leskow, "and a great move for my continued success in running, with so many great places to run and so many many other running enthusiasts to accompany me along the way. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Members of the Garden State club helped him understand the scoring this year. Of course understanding the system only gets you to the top if you have the speed needed to gather more points than any other runner. Speed is what Leskow has in abundance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Leskow started running in fun runs as a kid and then in middle school, and at Tom's River North high school. Then on to St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia where he competed in cross country and track where he notched some impressive times: Outdoor 800, 1:55.60, Outdoor 1,500 meters, 3:43.36, Outdoor 5,000 meters, 14:09.44, Indoor mile 4:07.07, and Indoor 3,000 meters 8:07.07.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "New Times", serif;">"After college, I figured my competitive running days were behind me," he said. "But I was able to find another running family after my high school and college teams, and that really allowed me to renew my passion for running."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "New Times", serif;">That passion put Leskow in first place at the challenging 20K </span><span style="font-family: "New Times", serif;">Indian Trails with a time of 1:09.57 last spring. He followed that with a second place finish of </span><span style="font-family: "New Times", serif;">51:01 at the Clinton Country 15K.</span></span></div>
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While road runners are out training in the cold, snow and ice, another band of brothers are making their way indoors and running under cover.</div>
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Mark Williams of Columbia and Peter Kashulines of Mountain Lakes headed to Manhattan this past Thursday evening to race in the New York Road Runners, Thursday Night at the races at the New York Armory. Williams, who moved into the 45 to 49 age division last year finished ninth overall in the 600 meter race in 1:28.55. Kashulines, who is 55, finished in 1:33.84.</div>
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In the 1,000 meter race Williams finished in 2:39.64 and Kashulines in 2:51.08. Two more Thursday Night at the Races are on the schedule, January 24 and February 28th. It is likely that other area runners will join the duo.</div>
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In previous years, the New Jersey association of USATF had to search for an indoor facility in which to hold it's track and field championship meet. They've been at the Jersey City armory, and the one at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, and across the river - make that the Delaware River, at East Stroudsberg and Lehigh University. The bubble facility at Tom's River that is used for many high school meets has been a venue as has Monmouth University. </div>
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The association is in general the last organization in line for use of a facility and often the meet was held very early in the season. That has changed with the completion of the Ocean Breeze Indoor Facility on Staten Island. What a beauty it is. </div>
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New Jersey athletes used it for the first time in 2018 when Ocean Breeze hosted a dual championship meet between New York and New Jersey. In 2018 all other athletes were excluded, which was a mistake. Athletes from the Long Island association and MidAtlantic would have added to the events and made for a more interesting meet. </div>
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That has been remedied for 2019. The meet, which will be held on Sunday, February 10th, will again be a dual meet between the two associations, but athletes from other associations will be allowed to compete. All registrations must be done on-line and no day of the meet registrations will be taken.</div>
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Road runners can run in the Passaic County Technical Institute Winter Series in Wayne that kicks off this morning at 11:00 a.m. The series features four races with the fastest three race times used to calculate the top people in the series. The other races will be on January 27th, and February 10th and 24th. </div>
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In February, the Penguin Pace 5K on February 2nd , will be staged from the Packanack Lake Community Church in Wayne. In 2019 the race attracted 302 finishers with Rob Albano of Mahwah first in 15:56. Kaitlyn Kiernan Bartolone of Hoboken was the first woman to finish in 19:53.</div>
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NEW YEAR’S DAY RACES A TRADITION<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Central Jersey Road Runners Club may have started it,
and others have followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Run a race on
New Year’s Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clear the blood and the
head from the previous night’s partying, and maybe begin a New Year’s Resolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start a Running Streak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All things are possible on the first day of
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On January 1, 2019 at noon, in Westfield, the 37<sup>th</sup>
annual Hangover 5K will go off in Tamaques Park and an expected field of over
500 runners will log in their first race of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Post race refreshments are bagels and hot
chocolate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Preregistration is a good
idea for this race as a hooded sweatshirt is guaranteed for all pre-registered
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sweatshirts and in a sense, they are also guaranteed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is because this race has no race day
registration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This race also has a cap
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The 1<sup>st</sup> Day 5K in Fairlawn is the newest of the
three New Year’s Day races on the USATF New Jersey calendar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The race will take race day
registration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both the Hillsborough and
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membership this week?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do one of
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All of the three races are a good drive away, and there is a
5K closer to home, although not in the grand prix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The St. Mark’s New Year’s Day 5K in Long
Valley will start at 11:30 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hot
chocolate and bagels are also on the menu for this race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Montgomery and John Montgomery went
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Phidippides Award from the national long distance running committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Points are assigned based on the distance of
the race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, one mile up to 4
kilometers earns one point, and 5 kilometers to five miles earns two points. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the farther end of the scale is 25 kilometers
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24 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are eighty or older
all you need are 12 points for gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
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Have you renewed your membership with USATF this month?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike a magazine subscription, the
organization that covers road racing and track and field is really lousy at
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In order to write this column this week I signed in to my
account with USATF and was surprised to see that my membership would expire on
December 31, 2018.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knew!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason for the surprise is twofold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last time that I renewed, I renewed for
more than one year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, I had forgotten and thus the
surprise that I was going to soon be a non-member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That the organization that is pretty quick to
send me an email to let me know of a sale of USATF products, but failed to let
me know of my soon-to-be expiration is puzzling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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for multi-year membership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am pretty
confident that there was no discount the last time I renewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was delighted to discover that although a one-year
membership would cost me $30.00, a two-year membership would cost me only
$55.00.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about three years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just $80.00.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Curious I hit the key for four years, which is the maximum number of
years offered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One hundred dollars or
$25.00 for each year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s the real kicker on USATF membership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can join and not run a step or jump a
foot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Membership is valuable enough
without the discounts given to New Jersey races in the grand prix and the
opportunity to run on a team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Membership
has privileges that a non-runner can cherish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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10% off the price of the car – any size from the teeniest to the largest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An example that an agent gave me was renting
a car in L.A. would be priced at $ 65.21 per day, but with the USATF membership
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flexible rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Better yet, stay at any
one of the Choice Hotels in their line of close to a dozen hotel chains, like
Comfort Inn or Comfort Suite, Sleep Inn or Quality Inn, etc. and save 15% off
the room rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve done it several
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of nutritional supplements, and for KT tape and other KT products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nationwide insurance offers members a
discount and if you buy insurance for your pet, a Nationwide affiliate has it
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The races that will be New Jersey championships in 2019 have
been selected and posted on the USATF New Jersey website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The list is always highly anticipated and
once posted, the Monday Morning Quarterbacks begin to critique it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That falls under the heading of “you can’t
please everybody”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the races
selected are generally favorites with the runners, and others viewed less
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open men with masters men, and open women with masters women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since many masters runners also compete for
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-67448397160888575642018-12-16T23:30:00.000-05:002018-12-16T23:30:00.958-05:00Come from behind wins in th New Balance Grand Prix<br />
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COME FROM BEHIND WINS IN NEW BALANCE GRAND PRIX<o:p></o:p></div>
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He wasn’t even on the radar at the beginning of November, missing two Category Two races, but Aaron Leskow of Morristown did what he had to do to soar to the top in the New Balance Grand Prix. Leskow was in 31<sup>st</sup> place when he successfully added 700 points from the Ashenfelter 8K, and two days later the Westfield Turkey Trot’s 500 points. It was what he needed to take over the lead. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kyle Price of Milltown had been in 6<sup>th</sup> place and he did what Leskow did, but his finishes behind Leskow, while adding points, put him in second place with 5,682 points to Leskow’s 5,691. Michael Dixon of Highland Park moved up from 8<sup>th</sup> place to third after adding the same races.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stuart Haynes, 42, of Chatham, finished in fourth place for first masters overall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The women’s contest is even more interesting. Only four points separate the top three women. Hortencia Aliaga of Garfield had the lead in early November with 5,652 points. The contest was so close that had she not run in the Ashenfelter 8K where she improved her score in the grand prix by nine points and then run in the Super Santa 10 miler in December where she added eight points, she would have dropped down to fifth place. But the 46-year-old did do those two races and held on for second. Erika Meling of North Brunswick had to get to the 8K in Montclair and with her 697 points she moved into first place – only one point ahead of Aliaga. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Karen Auteri of Belvidere also needed the 8K and with her 695 points for the race she moved into third place from fifteenth. Her final score was 5,666 points, just three less that Aliaga. It has to have been the closest finish in the history of the women’s’ grand prix.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nine Morris area runners placed first in their age division. They include Mark Minervini of Stanhope, as mentioned earlier Stuart Haynes of Chatham, Robert Skorupski of Rockaway, Gary Leaman of Hardwick, Reno Stirrat of Rockaway, Bruce Langenkamp of Wharton, Nora Cary of Morristown, Mary Anne Murphy of Livingston and Diane Stone of Chatham.<o:p></o:p></div>
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NEW JERSEY TEAMS AND RUNNERS EARN NATIONAL AWARDS<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Garden State Track Club New Balance won the M40 team division of the national team grand prix. The Shore Athletic Club had a sixth place finish in the M50 division and third in the M60 division.<o:p></o:p></div>
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New Jersey individuals include Sam Tiegan who placed second in the M40 division and Thomas Knowles third and Chuck Schneekloth in sixth place. Jonathan Frieder of Rye Brook NY was second in the M45 division, while Gary Leaman of Hardwick placed third in the M55 division. Those five men were on the winning Garden State TC team.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the M60 division Reno Stirrat of Rockaway placed seventh and Roger Price of Randolph placed ninth in the M65 division. Susan Stirrat of Rockaway placed sixth in the W60 division and Madeline Bost of Randolph won the W75 division for the fourth year in a row.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Colin Frost of Randolph, who wasn’t able to make the trip to Spokane on December 8<sup>th</sup> for the national cross country meet, due to his work schedule, gave himself a consolation prize of sorts. Frost won the Montclair Bread Company Donut Run 5K in 15:25 on December 9th. Karen Auteri of Belvidere, third place finisher in the New Balance Grand Prix, was the women’s winner with her time of 18:36. Just over two thousand runners were in the race running for donuts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<em>Race Results can often be found at <a href="http://www.compuscoe.com/" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">www.compuscore.com</a> or at <a href="http://www.bestrace.com/" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">www.bestrace.com</a><o:p></o:p></em></div>
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<em>A calendar of USATF sanctioned events can be found at <a href="http://www.usatfnj.org/" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">www.usatfnj.org</a> or at <a href="http://www.raceforum.com/" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">www.raceforum.com</a> for running and tri and biathlon events.<o:p></o:p></em></div>
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Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-3242296806935564172018-12-09T23:30:00.000-05:002018-12-09T23:30:02.790-05:00Garden State sweeps the club grand prix<br />
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The Garden State Track Club New Balance finished on top in
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Garden State is credited with 990 points to 716 points for
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points separate third place Shore Athletic Club at 560 points from the Garmin
Runners at 557 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raritan Valley
Road Runners placed fifth with the North Jersey masters sixth and the Fleet
Feet Essex club in seventh and the Morris County Striders finishing in eighth
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The Garden State club garnered much of their points in the
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Their open men A, B, C teams place one, two, three followed
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lead over the teams that followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the
scores were very tight for those “also ran” clubs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Garmin
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Garden State won the M40 division over the Garmin Runners by
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The Clifton runners dominated the W40 division, taking first
by well over 25 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Garmin
runners were a clear second place with Garden State trailing in third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The really close contest in the W40 division
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men’s team on the line at the national club cross country championship meet in
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meeting that took place last week in Columbus Ohio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mark Williams of Columbia was named Age Division
Athlete of the Year in the M45 division by the Masters Track and Field
Committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roberta Groner of Ledgewood
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found at <a href="http://www.usatfnj.org/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.usatfnj.org</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.raceforum.com/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.raceforum.com</span></a> for
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MadelineMadelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-58666679202966210052018-11-25T23:30:00.000-05:002018-11-25T23:30:08.065-05:00Chilly Thanksgiving Day races but the runners came anyway<br />
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Morgan Pearson of New Vernon won the state championship 8K
hosted by the Horace Ashenfelter race on the very chilly Thanksgiving morning
this week in Glen Ridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pearson was
followed by Aaron Leskow of Morristown who finished in 24:58, and he was
followed by Justin Scheid of Succasunna in 25:02, making the race a sweep for
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The women’s race was won by Shelby Goose of Englewood in
27:26. The first Morris County woman was Roberta Groner, now living in
Ledgewood who finished as fourth woman overall and first master in 28:10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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At the start of the race at 9:00 a.m. the thermometer was
hovering at 20 degrees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although some
runners were tempted to say home, snug in their beds, many of the races around
the state still had good turnouts, although down from 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The granddaddy Flemington Turkey Trot had 3,194 finishers
down about 880 runners from 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Upper
Saddle River 5K from 2,179 to 1,776.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Morris Township 5K dropped from 2,292 in 2017 to 1,459 on Thursday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Mitchell of Chatham won the race in
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only 545 runners, a smaller percentage than the other races, thanks no doubt to
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resident, Jonathan Frieder, 48 who now lives in Rye Brook NY, Frieder finished in
26:29, first master overall, and age graded a mark of 88.88%, topped only by
Mark Zamek, 55, of Allentown PA, who finished in 27:49 and age graded at 89.66%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suzanne LaBurt, 55, of Greenwood Lake NY, was
the top age graded masters woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
finish time of 32:12 hit 89.19% in age grading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Local runners did well in their age divisions, including
Stuart Haynes, 42, of Chatham, who finished in 27:01 for second in his
division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elliott Frieder of Montville
finished second to his brother in the M45 division in 27:05.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elena Rozhko of Morristown was second in the
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Gary Leaman, 59, of Hardwick was second to Zamek in the M55
division with his time of 29:33. In the W55 division Mary Christian of Flanders
finished second to LaBurt with a time of 36:17 and Susan Kinsella of Millington
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the W60 division with her 37:14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter
Auteri of Pompton Lakes was second in the M65 division in 35:53 and Bill
Bosmann of Rockaway was third in 36:39.<o:p></o:p></div>
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website is incomplete and/or maybe inaccurate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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the teams until the results have been deemed final.<o:p></o:p></div>
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goes over its banks, the swamp goes over its roads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This past Sunday the road that is used for
the Great Swamp Devil 5K and 15K was flooded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not just get-your- shoes-a-little-wet-flooded, but up-over-the-road-flooded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The races could not be held. <o:p></o:p></div>
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timing company tried to get the word out through social media, but not everyone
got the message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several car loads of
runners made the trip only to be disappointed to learn the news that the race
was not taking place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of this writing
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Now is the time to renew your USATF New Jersey membership or
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As you know the Horace Ashenfelter 8 Kilometer race in Glen
Ridge falls on the fourth Thursday in November, and this year the fourth
Thursday is occurring on the earliest possible date, November 22nd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That may explain why runners are wondering
why they feel like they haven’t had enough time to get in shape. The 8K is the
last state championship of the season.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All divisions are competing and getting their last shot at
improving their scores in the club grand prix and team divisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall the Garden State Track Club New
Balance is unbeatable in the club division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Clifton Running Club is in second place and the Shore Athletic Club
is in third with the Morris based Garmin club only eleven points back in
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Garden State nails the open division races with their top
three, A, B, C teams usually scoring high in the open men division. Those three
teams have the top three spots.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Their open women A team is stellar and in the lead in that
division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No contest for first but the
next five teams are separated by a mere six points, with the Garmin women
second and the Shore third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clifton is
trailing in fourth by only one point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The only team that could beat Garden State in the M40
division is the Garmin Runners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
Garden State’s top guys, like the Frieder twins don’t show Garmin might have a
chance to overcome their four point difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The third place Shore team can’t move out of third and it can’t be
caught by the Garden State B team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
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point lead they will take the division. The Shore team is trailing Clifton by
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sewed up in the M60 division with the real contest between Clifton and Fleet
Feet Essex for second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clifton’s M70
team will win their division and don’t need to show up at the Ashenfelter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Clifton W40 team has victory sewed up also, while the
Garmin women need to maintain their leave of Garden State for second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, the tight contests are further down,
with the Raritan Valley Road Runners having a one point lead over the North
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The Clifton women have it again in the W50 and can’t be
caught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raritan Valley has only a four
point lead over the North Jersey Masters and they have only a two point lead
over the Garmin runners.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Morristown’s Nora Cary is the deciding factor in the North
Jersey Masters ten point lead in the W60 divisions race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raritan Valley is in a tie for second with
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And then there is the W70 and W80 divisions with only the
Morris County Striders in position to win both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Team grand prix rules require a team to compete in at least three races
to count and thus the Striders have to put a B team in the W70 division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their W80 team has already won three races
and are solid, but word is that the women will be running.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In fact, even those teams that have an insurmountable lead
are sure to be racing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ashenfelter
race, falling on, oh yes, on Thanksgiving morning, is a well-managed event,
with a great course with only one short hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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CONGRATUALATIONS TO LOCAL YOUTHS IN JO MEET<o:p></o:p></div>
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Local young athletes did well at the USATF New Jersey Junior
Olympic meet on November 4<sup>th</sup> at Deer Path Park in Readington,
Hunterdon County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Van Etten of
Chester won the Boys 9 and 10 division with Cameron Sontz of Montville taking
second place.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The following youths placed third in their divisions:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gabriella Pelov of Montville, 8 and under
girls; Noah Pizzirusso of Mount Olive, 8 and under boys; Katherine Shaw of
Chester, 9 and 10 girls; Albin Mullan of Parsippany, 13 and 14 boys.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In all, over four hundred young athletes competed on the
still muddy cross country course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Congratulations to all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember that
running is for life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stay with it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Race Results can often be found at <a href="http://www.compuscoe.com/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.compuscore.com</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.bestrace.com/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.bestrace.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A calendar of USATF sanctioned events can be
found at <a href="http://www.usatfnj.org/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.usatfnj.org</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.raceforum.com/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.raceforum.com</span></a> for
running and tri and biathlon events.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Contact Madeline Bost at <a href="mailto:madelinebost@verizon.net"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">madelinebost@verizon.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-17973861555539950212018-11-11T23:30:00.000-05:002018-11-11T23:30:03.327-05:00Giralda Farms 5K at noon today in Madison<br />
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GIRALDA FARMS 5K AT NOON TODAY IN MADISON<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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If you haven’t yet registered for the Giralda Farms 5K
today, it’s not too late as long as you haven’t slept in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The race starts at 12 noon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gates to the Giralda Farms complex on
Madison Avenue in Madison will close at 11:45 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk about making it easy for the
procrastinators.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What’s interesting about the Giralda Farms 5K is that the
race was once a 10K with no 5K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 5K
was added in 2000 and drew only 178 finishers while the 10K finished 396.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten years ago, the races had grown to 571 in
the 5K and 617 finishers in the 10K.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The 10K was the masters men’s championship in 2016 and drew
501 finishers and 371 ran in the 5K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Last year the 5K was the masters men’s championship and it drew 530 finishers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the respective top ten were five masters
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That makes you understand why the prize money is going to be
going eight places deep in the masters age grading and only three deep for the
open runners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looks like the target
market for the 5K is the masters runners.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year the race is not a championship for either gender,
but instead is a part of the co-ed series for the USATF New Jersey teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The concept is much like the corporate team
structure, but these teams are composed of the top three scoring men and the
top three scoring women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s six
runners on the team, which is larger than corporate teams that usually score
only the top three while including at least one person of the opposite
gender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s usually two men and one
woman, but not always and sometimes the fastest corporate runner is a woman.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The scoring is pretty straightforward for the open teams as
they are scored by fastest combined times, but here’s where it gets interesting
for the masters teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The top three men
and top three women are scored, but not by their time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They use their masters age grading
score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The club with the highest
combined Performance Level Percentage is the winner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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For example, at the Sunset Classic five mile race this past
June that was a Coed event, the Fleet Feet Essex club placed first masters team
with their 444.13%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Clifton running
club was second with 437.14% and the North Jersey Masters were third with
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six masters runners who age grade in the 70’s and 80’s PLP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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SEARCHING FOR THE LAST CHANCE RACES<o:p></o:p></div>
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Runners who lack races in their grand prix scores have only
a few chances to fill in those zeros with numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most everybody has managed to get to at least
three 5K races, but for those who lack a Category Two there is not much to
chose from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, there is the
Ashenfelter 8K that will take place on Thanksgiving morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a 700 point race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The only 500 point Category Two race that I see is the
Westfield Five miler that is the following Saturday, November 24<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s pretty quick after running 8K two days
previous but it looks like the only one left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Category Three races are usually hard to find by the end of
the year too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Great Swamp Devil 15K
on Sunday, November 18<sup>th</sup> is an old standby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is flat and features double back turns so
is fun to see who is racing ahead of you and who is chasing you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The race starts at eleven am, along with a 5K
that starts at the same time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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race on Sunday, December 2<sup>nd</sup>, starting from Giralda Farms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Super Santa Ten miler will be a scenic
course passing pastoral scenes as well as running through part of the Loantaka preserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Roberta Groner, who was featured here last Sunday, finished the
New York City Marathon in 2:31:00, in twelfth place and first masters
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running and tri and biathlon events.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-55841465005532296862018-11-04T23:30:00.000-05:002018-11-04T23:30:02.247-05:00Groner will run with the elite women today<br />
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of Morris County, New Jersey<o:p></o:p></span></em></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk498700751;"><em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">On
Sunday, Nov 4, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Roberta Groner moved from Pittsburg to
Randolph in 2014 and began racing here in 2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She stood out immediately and when she inquired about the Randolph based
Do Run Runners she was welcomed into the club.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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her solid training partner as they prepared for Boston following the Hanson
Training Plan created by the Michigan running store group that has turned out
elite runners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hector Matos of Rutherford who had begun to coach some very good New Jersey
runners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under his coaching Groner was
dropping her times at each race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Life does not move in a straight line, and after
winning the Ashenfelter 8K in November 2016 in 27:16, a minute and a half ahead
of any other women, Groner realized that she needed to break with her New
Jersey friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She joined the New York Athletic
Club, where she would be around other women of her ability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That has proved to be a good move and Groner
continued to get faster. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the US marathon qualifying time of 2:37 at the California International
Marathon in December 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only did
she qualify, she finished in 2:30:38 in second place overall behind
professional runner Sara Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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distances on the advice of her coach and PR’d the 5K and 10K and the half
marathon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she wasn’t running and
taking care of her three boys, and working a full-time nurse’s job, she
finished her Bachelor’s degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can we
say Achiever?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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women in the New York City marathon after her 2:30.38 California International
Marathon last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the mid 80’s for three weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The week
leading up to the marathon she was at 65 miles, and this last week - her taper
week has put in about 25 miles, including a 30 minute run on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In September Groner opened a few more eyes
with her third place at the Rock N Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon where she shared
the podium with Desi Linden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Linden
finished in 1:11:48, just 32 second ahead of Groner whose time was 1:12:20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In a recent interview, Linden was asked who
she thought might be around her in the marathon, and she named Groner as one of
those women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Us competitors, we know who we are running
against,” said Groner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“They get to know
who I am and I get to know who they are.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Desi Linden that day, it’s nice to know the feel.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Her “tribe” of supporters in New Jersey as
they have come to call themselves, have a different view and do see their
athlete as capable of being in the lead pack with Linden and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Lest anyone forget, Groner, who is now 40, may
be the fastest masters woman marathoner now competing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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post Facebook Groner concluded, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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outcome on Sunday I have held onto the vision and have trusted the process!
It’s game time! </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While Groner is running her second New York City Marathon,
other local runners can claim a different fame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Catherine Shott of Hopatcong will be running in her 31<sup>st</sup>
consecutive New York City marathon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kevin Higgins of Randolph will be running his 28<sup>th</sup> and Joe
Sikora of Succasunna will be running his 26<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shott’s best time was in 1988 at age 28 when
she finished in 3:51:30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Higgins did a 2:52:59
in 2001 when he was 42 years old and Sikora’s best time was done at age 26 when
he finished in 2:47:46.<o:p></o:p></div>
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found at <a href="http://www.usatfnj.org/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.usatfnj.org</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.raceforum.com/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.raceforum.com</span></a> for
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The rivalry this past Sunday at Deer Path Park in the New
Jersey cross country 8 kilometer championship was evident on the faces of the
top runners as they sped to the finish line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was no masking the intensity as the Breakneck team and the Garden
State Track Club New Balance top men put the hammer down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That it was going to be a contest between those two teams
was well known after the 5 kilometer race at Natirar in August where the
Breakneck men beat the Garden State A team by 20 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Garden State usually splits their huge roster
up with their best men scattered among the several teams they field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It cost them the win in August when their
seventh and eighth man was on the B team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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It wasn’t going to happen again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The top men were on the Garden State club’s A
team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breakneck was back and with Colin
Frost of Randolph back in racing shape after his short layoff following his dnf
marathon debut.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nothing was going to stop them from a fine performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing perhaps except the weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a beautiful Saturday, Sunday’s dawn was
marred by a cold front that had come in overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deer Path Park was once a farm with wide open
fields that provided no resistance to the whipping winds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The game runners set out to do a warm up on the course that
they would run three times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming back
from the far field they discovered the Mud Pit had returned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heavy and persistent rains had restored the
infamous low spot back to its famed condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Run through it or to either side of it, there would be no escaping the
sucking mud.<o:p></o:p></div>
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at the start early to find their position and to do a few strides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only reluctantly did the runners shed their
outer coverings and line up for the start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The smoke from the starters pistol dissipated with the wind and the race
was on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two rival squads quickly went
to the lead with a pack of the best men seeking to reach the end of the field
and onto the path in a good position.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The course at the park can handle two running abreast but it
is not easy to pass slowing runners so a good position is important here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each loop of the course is roughly 2.5
kilometer, with the last half a kilometer made up in the run to the finish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lead pack emerged from the low-lying
field to complete their first loop and spectators could see that the pack had
settled into a pace that was keeping them bunched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No need just yet to test one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Spectators also noticed that the runners were displaying
entire backsides splattered with mud from the Mud Pit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None had managed to evade it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Slower runners were trailing the field, and very slow
runners were being lapped by the pack that was now going into their final tour
of the course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lead pack had thinned
now as some had not managed the quickening pace as they disappeared on their
final lap.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Spectators craned to see who would emerge from the distant low-lying
field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lead pack was completely
scattered now, strung out and in the lead was Frost, followed by fellow
Breaknecker Brian Quilty of Pitman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
third was Justin Scheid of Succasunna, running for the Shore Athletic Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Scheid was another Breaknecker, Eric
Dubois, also of Pitman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, in
fifth place was the first Garden State runner, Stephen Rathbun of
Springfield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nick DeSantis of Wanaque
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Englewood, the team finished the top four women before Clifton’s Hortencia
Aliaga of Garfield finished in fifth place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Rockaway who scored third in the masters men age grading with his 83.40% PLP, Terry
Davidson of Randolph with a 79.19%, and Peter Kashulines of Mountain Lakes with
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the age grading with an 86.59%, Laura DeLea of Sparta, fourth at 77.64%, and Susan
Stirrat of Rockaway in eighth place with 75.53%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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MASTERS WOMEN AT HARRINGTON PARK 5K FOR NEXT CHAMPIONSHIP <o:p></o:p></div>
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Three years ago, the Harrington Park 5K Fall Spectacular stepped
in as the open women’s 5K when the Little Silver 5K was cancelled due to unsafe
roads after a huge ‘nor’easter hit the coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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This year the race is not a substitute but a full-fledged
championship, taking place on Saturday, November 3rd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although this is the first year as a selected
championship, the race is no newcomer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is the 17<sup>th</sup> year for the race in northeastern Bergen County, just a
few miles south of the New York state border.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Amenities count for a fall race and runners will appreciate
that the pre and post race activities take place in what the race website
describes as a” large warm gym” and” clean indoor restrooms (no portable units)”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That alone is worth the price of admission in
my opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, the price of
admission is not hefty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If postmarked by
October 26<sup>th</sup> the cost to register is $ 25.00 and USATF NJ members
will pay only $22.00.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fun run is
even cheaper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The website shows the course map with ten turns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All those turns are somewhat offset by the
very flat course as seen in the video also on the website. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be plenty of opportunities to run
the tangents as long as runners are allowed to use both lanes of the road.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2015 the female winner was Kristin Andrews who set the
course record of 18:09.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andrews is still
in her twenties so that doesn’t give us a hint of who is in contention for
first masters woman overall and more importantly the first age graded
woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Best Racing does the timing for the race and Best generally
does not calculate age grading. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will
be necessary this time as the prize money of $ 300.00, $200.00 and $ 100.00 goes
to the top age graded masters women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That fact has not been apparent on the website, but look for an update
this week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The top contenders in the age grading competition are Nora
Cary of Morristown, Laura DeLea of Sparta, Misa Tamura of Ridgewood, Hortencia
Aliaga of Garfield, Suzanne LaBurt of Greenwood Lake NY, Mary Christian of Flanders,
Erika Campbell of Ridgewood and Susan Olesky of Mendham.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Garmin Runners, Clifton, Raritan Valley and the North Jersey Masters and local
clubs like the Rose City Runners and the Morris County Striders.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the USATF New Jersey Long Distance Running committee meeting
this past Monday, the handling of the Mile race was under scrutiny again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The race is the shortest distance raced and
some runners are not fans of the race, considering the distance to be of the
track and field genre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most recent
host of the race has been the Midland Mile in Montclair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2018 the race had 568 finishers, running
in several heats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was a big jump
from 2017 with 492 finishers, and one hundred more than in 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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So what seems to be the problem?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The race is a championship and that means
that it is also in the team grand prix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
that is a problem for some team members who would like to sit it out and not be
pressured to compete in it for their teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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John Sabatino of Morris Plains, and a member of the Garmin Runners
proposed that the race remain a championship but that the results would not be
part of the team grand prix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a
change would surely reduce the number of participants which in turn would hurt
the race’s drawing power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The team grand prix, and the number of championships being
held creates a problem of over-racing according to Chuck Schneekloth of the
Garden State Track Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He proposed
that the number of championships be reduced from 14, which is what was on the
schedule for 2018, to only seven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although he presented this as a proposed change to the rules,
the committee saw this as an administrative issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The executive committee, which is made up of
chairs and vice chairs of the open women, open men and masters divisions will
look at how to reduce the number of championships being required of the
individual runner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A reduction to seven
is unlikely and would undercut the funding of the grand Prix’s as those races
chosen for championships pay an extra fee for the privilege. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Karen Auterie of Belvidere suggested some of the races be
asked to host both the open and masters division championship for the same
gender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, a race could be
the championship for the open and masters women, and another for the open and
masters men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would make it possible
for masters to compete on their clubs open team and their own masters division
team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A calendar of USATF sanctioned events can be
found at <a href="http://www.usatfnj.org/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.usatfnj.org</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.raceforum.com/"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.raceforum.com</span></a> for
running and tri and biathlon events.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Contact Madeline Bost at <a href="mailto:madelinebost@verizon.net"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">madelinebost@verizon.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-25456705562909261422018-10-15T07:36:00.002-04:002018-10-15T07:36:51.201-04:00Cross country next Sunday at Deer Path Park<br />
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racing is in high swing now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This past
Friday I drove over to Central Park to watch high school athletes race in the
Greystone Invitational.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The athletes
prefer the new course that was first used in 2017, but I as a spectator I miss
the old course that was easier to navigate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take place in the New Jersey championship cross country 8 kilometer meet next
Sunday at Deer Path Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The course is
a triple loop of the park, which is considered by many to be a classic cross country
venue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The racers start on a baseball
field and are quickly out on the paths that ring the former farm fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of the layout spectators can watch
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men were an interesting mix with Joshua Izewski of Doylestown PA in 24:52
running for the Garden State Track Club, with Brian Quilty of Glassboro next in
25:14 running for the Breakneck Track Club, and he was followed in by Justin
Scheid of Succasunna, running for the Shore Athletic Club in 25:19. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Kristin Andrews
of Manalapan was the women’s winner finishing over a minute ahead of any other
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prix has been updated after the masters men’s 5k championship and the Garden
State team leads in the M40 division with the Garmin Runners only six points
back – 104 to 98 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Shore AC is
in third but well out of the race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
real contest is between Shore and Garden State’s B team and the Clifton Road
Runners separated by less than ten points.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are the leaders in the M50 division with Garmin Runners in first and fourteen
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division the Shore’s A team is leading Clifton 66 to 53, with the Fleet Feet
Essex club in third with 48 points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
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will have their 5K championship in November which means their scoring opportunities
have not been all reached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The masters
women’s contests are very differint than on the men’s side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Clifton Running Club leads in the W40
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lead also in the W50 division with a tie for second between the Garmin women
and the Raritan Valley club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The North
Jersey masters lead the W60 with another tie for second, this time between the
Clifton runners and Raritan Valley’s A team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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team must compete in one more race to have their place secured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grand prix rules require that a team must
compete in a minimum of three races in order to score at the end of the
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Garmin Runners in fourth and the Freedom Running Club in fifth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Breakneck Track Club is returning and can
be a spoiler by beating the Garden State team like they did in August at the
5km cross country meet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Randolph’s Colin
Frost will be ready to go for the win he told me, after having to pull out of
his Steamtown Marathon debut, due to cramping at mile 19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will be well rested by next Sunday and
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Kyle Price of Milltown returned to Little Silver this
past Sunday to win once more the 5K race that he won in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His win this year in 15:17 beat his own time
of 15:23 in the 2017 race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aaron Leskow
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The race was the New Jersey masters men’s championship
and it was fitting that Jonathan Frieder, age 47, of Rye Brook, NY, who is on a
hot streak this season was fourth overall in 16:21.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His brother Elliott of Montville was the next
master in 16:40.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eight hundred meter
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Kristin Andrews of Manalapan finished in 17:48 for first
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of Eatontown was second in 18:28 and Robyn Evangelist of Egg Harbor Township
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The Frieders lead their M40 Garden State Athletic Team
New Balance to first place in their division, with Williams leading in his
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The Garmin Runners M50 team placed first in their
division, lead in by Mark Zamek, 55, of Allentown PA whose 17:01 put him in
first in the age graded file at 90.12%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jonathan Frieder was second with 88.21%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The Shore AC team was second in the M50 and Garden State
was third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Garmin Runners took first
in the M60 division with the Shore’s A and B teams following.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Shore team hit first in the M70 division
with the Clifton Road Runners second and third with their A and B teams
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prize money was also awarded to masters women and Lorraine McPhillips, 64, of Basking
Ridge whose time of 23:55 was age graded at 81.49% will receive the top prize
purse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dawn Wilcox, 45, of Little Silver
who finished in 20:13 was next with a PLP of 77.72%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Debbie Brathwaite, 59, of Garfield finished in
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he prepared for the WMA meet in Malaga Spain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That hard work paid off for Mark Williams of Columbia in September.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over eight thousand masters athletes from
around the world gather together every two years to compete in a nearly two-week
long masters track and field championship meet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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events, with the 800 meters being his prime target.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Williams first had to qualify for the event,
which he did handily in 2:01.05 placing second in his heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then came the final and running against the
fastest men age 45 to 49 in the world, Williams finished in 2:01.26 for second
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runners in a time of 4:17.20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the last
day of the meet his American team finished in fourth place in the 4 X 400 relay,
finishing in 3:35.27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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found at <a href="http://www.usatfnj.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.usatfnj.org</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.raceforum.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.raceforum.com</span></a> for running and tri and
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<br />Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-50226077199171649862018-09-30T23:30:00.000-04:002018-09-30T23:30:03.703-04:00Local runners close to the top in grand prix<div class="MsoNormal">
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You’ve got to love it when a 55 year old is leading in the
New Balance Grand Prix. Jorge Lopes of
Linden has the lead with all races in.
But lookee’ here - Fifty-three-year-old John Hogan of the township of
Washington is in second place with all his races counted. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The first man who is younger than masters age is 27-year-old
Aaron Leskow of Morristown in fourteenth place with Michael Dixon, 36, of
Highland Park in 16<sup>th</sup> place and just 23 points behind. When those two men run in another
championship and a non-championship Category Two race they will fly past Lopes
and Hogan and the other masters men currently ahead of them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the women’s side of the chart it is a different
story. Aya Leitz of Jersey City has a 128
point lead over Stacy Slaughter, 26, of Parsippany. Slaughter has all nine races posted, as does
Leitz, but Slaughter has to replace a non-championship Category One race a with
700 point championship. Slaughter has
two more opportunities to add a minimum of 200 points by racing in today’s Little
Silver 5K, the masters men championship or the Harrington Park in November that
is the masters women’s race. When head
to head Slaughter is the faster of the two while Leitz has the points advantage
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The sleeper though is Karen Auteri of Belvidere who is
hiding in eleventh place needing a championship Category Two race. Only two more are on the schedule; the 8km
cross country race in October, and the Ashenfelter 8K in November. She also needs to be racing today or the
Harrington Park race to replace a non-championship Category One race. Auteri is training for a fall marathon and
that could complicate things for her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Take a look at the cross country grand prix and who do we
see in the lead in the women’s side?
None other than Nora Cary, 63, of Morristown.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Runners who are looking to enhance a low score in the
Category Three division will have their chance next Sunday. They will be able to select the point value
of the Shades of Death Half Marathon; 500 points or championship value of 700
points. Hosted by USATF New Jersey it is
the sole wild card race in the year. The
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In Buffalo this past Sunday Jonathan Frieder hit
the medal podium* at the national masters cross country 5km championship. Frieder, formerly of Randolph and now living
in Rye Brook NY, but still a member of the local association, finished in 17:46
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The Shore Athletic Club M60 team finished in fourth place
just one scoring point off third. Reno
Stirrat of Rockaway and Roger Price of Randolph were on the Shore team, along
with Kevin Dollard and Scott Linnell. Morris
county runners Susan Stirrat and Madeline Bost were the two sole New Jersey
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*medal podium - Some national races actually do have a
podium, or at least a stage where the medal winners have their medals placed
around their necks, and then a pause for a photo shoot opportunity. At Sunday’s race the “medal podium” reference
was tongue in cheek. The announcer, who
was clearly not familiar with many of the names nor of championship protocol, read
your name and a volunteer unceremoniously handed you your medal, so that you
could quickly fade back into the crowd. Fame
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<em>Race Results can often be found at <a href="http://www.compuscoe.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">www.compuscore.com</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.bestrace.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">www.bestrace.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></em></div>
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<em>A calendar of USATF sanctioned events can be
found at <a href="http://www.usatfnj.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">www.usatfnj.org</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.raceforum.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">www.raceforum.com</span></a> for running and tri and
biathlon events.<o:p></o:p></em></div>
<em><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Contact Madeline Bost at <a href="mailto:madelinebost@verizon.net"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">madelinebost@verizon.net</span></a></span></em>Madelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10449133004165790445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90415390632039469.post-12086269019534067192018-09-23T23:30:00.000-04:002018-09-23T23:30:08.039-04:00Local masters had their day again at the half marathon<br />
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Kyle Price, 30, of North Brunswick won the Newport Liberty Waterfront
half marathon this past Sunday in Jersey City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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he placed seventh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bigger story is
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Stuart Haynes, 42, of Chatham placed second in 1:13:25, and
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in 1:25:00 with Allison Goldstein, 32, second in 1:25:57.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fifty-two-year-old Misa Tamura of Ridgewood
was third in 1:28:11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprisingly her
time was good for only third in the masters age grading with an 86.13%
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in the open women’s team scoring, which was won by the Garden State Athletic
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It was a see-saw for places in the men’s divisions with the
Garden State teams taking the top two places and fourth and fifth, with the Garmin
Runners sandwich in between in third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the M40 division Garden State was first with Garmin second and Shore AC third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those places were repeated in the M50 but
with the Clifton Road Runners in third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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counterparts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They won the W40, W50 and
placed second in the W60 divisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a
reverse of sorts, the North Jersey Masters placed second in the W40 and W50 and
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GRONER IN TOP THREE AT PHILLY<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another half marathon was run this past weekend down in
Philadelphia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Randolph’s Roberta Groner
finished the race with a time that would have put her in first place overall in
the Jersey City race - in 1:12:20. It is not a fair comparison however, as the
Jersey City race has numerous turns while the Philly race has very few.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Groner finished third overall with national
caliber Desiree Linden the winner in 1:11:48. Lest we forget, Groner is now forty
years old and I would venture to guess that her time puts her in an exclusive
masters woman category.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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RACES CLOSER TO HOME<o:p></o:p></div>
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Runners looking for a race to run next weekend can check out
the 5K in Mountain Lakes hosted by the Lakeland Hills Family YMCA
Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Mendham Borough on Saturday
is the Harvest Hustle 5K<o:p></o:p></div>
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You don’t have to jump over any obstacles at the
Steeplechase Runs on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both the 5K
and 10K in Hillsborough are run on local roads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up in Franklin Lakes, run in the “Scenic”
Half Marathon on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given the
locale it’s a sure bet that the course route is very scenic and probably
features some scenic hills.<o:p></o:p></div>
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MASTERS MEN WILL RUN 5K CHAMPIONSHIP IN LITTLE SILVER<o:p></o:p></div>
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With only a two-week rest after the half marathon, the USATF
masters men will be running their 5K championship in the Little Silver Classic
next Sunday, September 30<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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New Jersey masters men and women are racing today at the
national cross country meet in Buffalo New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be looking for the Garden State TC
New Balance team to win the M40 division and the Shore Athletic Club to score
in the top three in that tough division.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Race Results can often be found at <a href="http://www.compuscoe.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.compuscore.com</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.bestrace.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.bestrace.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A calendar of USATF sanctioned events can be
found at <a href="http://www.usatfnj.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.usatfnj.org</span></a> or at <a href="http://www.raceforum.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.raceforum.com</span></a> for running and tri and
biathlon events.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Contact Madeline Bost at <a href="mailto:madelinebost@verizon.net"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">madelinebost@verizon.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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