Published
by the DAILY RECORD of Morris County, New Jersey
On
Sunday, June 11, 2017
PRESIDENT’S CUP NIGHT RACE WITH A TWIST
It has often been a 5K championship race for open
women and more often open men, but this year the President’s Cup Night Race,
taking place in Millburn next Monday night, June 18th. has a real
twist. USATF teams will compete in a
special coed division. Most corporate coed teams count the top three
on a huge team with the top three fastest runners, usually two men and one
woman.
These USATF NJ teams will score men and women equally. They can declare four men, and four
women. These teams will count the top two
men, and top two females combined times to determine the winners.
The masters teams will be made up of the same configuration,
four and four, but here’s where it will get fun. The top two men and top two females will be
selected by using the Performance Level Percentages age grading percentages of
the runners, not their actual times.
The team captains are studying their members to see who would score the
best using their PLP’s, not their times.
Those teams will have a combination of ages with the
club’s older runners as valuable as their younger counterparts. For instance, Rockaway’s Reno Stirrat, 63,
will certainly be on the Shore AC’s A team. His wife Susan, 62, could be on the team as
well.
Now that the Do
Run Runners are running with the North Jersey Masters, who will bet against
that club with Misa Tamura, 51 and Nora Cary, 62, on the A team. The Garmin team should have Mary Christian of
Flanders and Susan Kinsella of Millington, both in their fifties declared on
the A team, along with Elena Rozhko, 44, of Morristown. Terry Davidson, 45, of Randolph, and Gary
Rosenberg, 46, of Morristown will be on the Garmin A team.
Other local clubs, like the Morris County Striders
will use Bruce Langenkamp. 67, of Wharton on the team. Beau and Gretchen Atwater of Bernardsville
will be high scorers on the New Jersey Racing Project team.
It won’t end with the coed scoring. The computer will also calculate the top
three women and the top three men on the teams for a separate team
division. All this fun will give the
President’s Cup Night Race a 700 point value for the New Balance grand prix,
but the team scores will not be counted in the overall and team division grand
prix scoring.
NEW MILFORD 5K ON SATURDAY
The whole weekend is packed with opportunities to
compete. Masters women will be heading
to New Milford for the 5K state championship next Saturday, June 17. This is the second year as a championship
where in 2016 Roberta Groner of Randolph placed in the top ten with her 16:35
and Charlie Murphy of Philadelphia the overall winner in 15:32.
A lot can change in one year. Last year Groner was racking up points for a
perfect score in the New Jersey New Balance grand prix and this year she is
affiliated with a New York club so no longer a member in New Jersey.
Last year the race was a championship for both masters
men and masters women and this year the masters men will be having their
championship at the Giralda Farms 5K in November. Will it make a difference in the number of
runners? Last year 695 runners finished
the race with 374 of them male.
TRACK AND FIELD NEXT WEEKEND
The weekend is crammed with other events, including
the New Jersey USATF Track & Field Championship being held at the Peddie
School in Hightstown. The distance
events, 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters will be held on Friday, June 16 and the
shorter track distances on Saturday, June 17.
The fields are really thin for these distance events. In an effort to make them more attractive to
roadies both have a 500 point value in the New Balance grand prix. In reality though, only the winner can profit
from this. Imagine second place’s score
in a ten person field.
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A calendar of USATF sanctioned events can be found at www.usatfnj.org or at www.raceforum.com for running and tri and
biathlon events.
Contact Madeline Bost at madelinebost@verizon.net.
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