Published by the DAILY
RECORD of Morris County, New Jersey
On Sunday, September 17,
2017
GARMIN CLUB AND TEAM GRAND PRIX STANDINGS
The USATF Garmin sponsored club and team grand prix was
updated this week. To no one’s surprise
the Garden State Track Club has a substantial lead, thanks in part to the mile
championship in August as well as the cross country championship at Natirar
Park where they fielded several strong open teams.
The club has 470 points with the Clifton Road Runners next
with 395 and the Shore Athletic Club in third with 351 points.
The Garden State open men and women’s teams also have the
lead in those divisions. Their men’s B,
A and C teams have the top three spots in that order. The women are in first in
their division but the Shore team is in second and Clifton third.
The Clifton women are on a roll with their W40 and W60 teams
in first place and tied with the North Jersey Masters women in the W50. The Garmin Women are second in W40 and third
in W50.
Thanks to the merger for racing
purposes with the Morris area Do Run Runners, the North Jersey Masters club is
second in W60 and First in the W70 division.
The Morris County Striders that had until this year been unchallenged in
the W70 division have been pushed down
to second and third in the W70 division.
They still reign supreme in the W80 division.
The Garmin M40 team is in first place with the Garden State
team in second. The places are reversed
in the M50 division with the Garden State team holding first place while the
Garmin team is tied with the North Jersey Masters for second. The North Jersey Masters are in second place
in the M60 division with the Shore club in first. Clifton is first in the M70 while the North
Jersey Masters are in second place.
Local clubs like the Morris County Striders, the Rose City
Runners and the Geezers are competing but are not in the top five in any of the
divisions. Counting B and C, and in the
case of Garden State even below C teams, a total 26 teams so far year this have
competed in at least one championship race.
This morning all of the clubs are racing at the Liberty
Waterfront Half Marathon in Jersey City.
How they do will determine how the numbers will change. The preregistered number of runners as posted
on Friday is down slightly from 2016 when 3,140 runners had registered. This year’s number is 2,957, although a
handful of duplicate entries had been spotted in the list.
ENTHUSIASM COUNTS
The Morris County Striders club may not be the fastest in
the state, but what they lack in speed they possess in team spirit. It has been reported that the club was the
largest club to compete in Sparta on Labor Day weekend and again at the Netcong
5K this past weekend as they have been in previous years at Netcong.
David Lerman of Hopatcong won the race in 17:41 while Corine
Macaluso of Hopatcong won the women’s race in 21:12. Both also won the 2016 race.
Randolph’s Roberta Groner showed she has quite a range this
month. Groner placed tenth in the
National 20K in New Haven CT on September 4th in 1:10:05. Last Sunday she finished the Fifth Avenue
Mile in New York in 4:51.
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Race Results can often be
found at www.compuscore.com or at www.bestrace.com
A calendar of USATF
sanctioned events can be found at www.usatfnj.org
or at www.raceforum.com for running and
tri and biathlon events.
Contact Madeline Bost at madelinebost@verizon.net
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