On Sunday, May 13, 2018
STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS HERE
The state championships seem to be tumbling off the
calendar nonstop this month.
Last weeks Newport 10,000 followed the previous weeks 15K
in Clinton, and with just a one-week gap, the newest championship in the
line-up is arriving in Summit on the 19th of this month. Although it is new, it is also an established
race, redrawn from a five mile to a four mile.
The setting for the Our House is at the Village Green in Summit with parking
for all in a nearby municipal parking garage.
When it was a five mile race, the course was challenging. Did they eliminate the hills with this re-draw?
Last year, when the four miler was not a championship,
Stephen Mennitt of Brooklyn and Atilla Sabahoglu of Manville raced each other
to the finish line in 22:29 and 22:30 – at 5:37 pace. Neither time even came close to 80% PLP,
which might tell us what the course was like.
Or, were the two just taking it easy with no other challengers chasing
them.
This year will be quite different. The
Garden State Track Club with its overflowing stable of open runners will likely
capture the top spots down through the clubs C, D, E teams on the men’s side.
Nothing is certain though. At last week’s 10,000 in Jersey City, Garden
State took first and second place, but third went to the growing Freedom
Running Club, with Mennitt and Sabahoglu the first two men on the team.
Mennitt’s 32:00 put him at the head of the New Jersey
elite list, followed by Morristown’s Aaron Leskow in 32:13. The race was won by Abinet Adraro of
Albuquerque in 29:52 and on the women’s side, Kaitlin Goodman of Providence RI
in 34:12. The second woman finisher was
Amanda Marino of Asbury Park, who scored on the winning women’s team, the Shore
Athletic Club. The Shore team won by the
slim margin of four seconds over second place Garden State; 3:23:02 to 3:23:06.
Seventeen complete men’s teams competed and thirteen
women’s teams, with an impressive 1,632 finishers.
RACES BLOOMING ALL OVER
Runners can find a race in just about every town this
month and plenty close to home in Morris County. There is almost always a link at the end of
this column where runners can find race calendars.
Two local races of note are of note for two different
reasons. The first race to mention is
the Mind Maters 5K in Madison. It is the
first race to take place this season on a weekday evening. It is this Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and is run
through and around the Giralda Farms corporate campus.
The other race is nearly four times as large when
including the number of runners doing the relay in the Super Hero Half Marathon. It features an early 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning
start at Ginty Field in Morris Township, with a finish at Loantaka Park off
South Street.
NEW JERSEY ELITES SCORE VICTORIES AWAY FROM HOME
While New Jersey was hosting the 10,000 meters with
invited elites from around the country, some of our own runners traveled
outside the state to compete. Randolph’s
Roberta Groner placed 7th woman overall in the Pittsburg Half
Marathon last weekend. Her time of
1:12:35 put her first masters woman and age graded at 92.9%.
Johnathan Frieder, formerly of Randolph, and now of Rye
Brook NY placed first in the M45 division, and third of all men over 40 at the
Blue Cross Broad Street ten mile run, in 53:58.
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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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