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Streakin’ Stuart in WSJ

David Greenberg — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:38:00 +0000

Our own American record holder Stuart Calderwood speaks of his 25 year habit, running in (airport) jail, and streaking and drinking, to the Wall Street Journal. That didn’t sound right. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577207343060231050.html?KEYWORDS=calderwood#articleTabs%3Darticle

4 New Club Records and 4 Big Wins!

Coach Devon — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:24:57 +0000

New Club Records in 60, Mile, 3000 & 5000 and Wins in the 60, 1500, LJ & HJ.
Results from BU, Armory, US Open and Colgate.

NEW CLUB RECORDS
60m
6.75 Jeremy – PR

Mile
4:04.05 Carlos – PR by 6 seconds (1st time breaking 4:10)

3000m
8:14.22 Andrew – PR by 16 seconds

5000m – Indoor Club Record & Thai National Record!
17:20 Jane – PR

WINS
60m Champion at BU Terrier
6.75 Jeremy

1500m Champion at Colgate Games at Madison Square Garden
5:02.40 Terry

Long Jump Champion at BU Terrier
7.49m Chaz

High Jump Champion at Colgate Games at Madison Square Garden
5’6″ Shemayra

OTHER TOP PERFORMANCES
Shot Put – 2nd place
17.10m Langhauser – Season PR

Triple Jump
14.33m Rolston – 5th place

60m Hurdles – 7th place
8.23 prelims Rolston
8.34 final

500m
1:20.68 Deana PR

800m
2:16.22 Maureen – 7th place
2:17.50 Andrea – 10th place

3000m
8:25 Kenworthy
8:43 Stan

5000m
15:40 Brendan

US Open – 5th place
1:26 Jonevan – tore calf in race & kept going
63 Les
36 Muktar
42 Vernon

Top Performances of CPTC Summer-College Athletes
3000m
9:30 Sergio PR by 20 seconds

Mile
4:39 Sergio PR by 6 seconds

500m Champion at BU Terrier – Top 20 World Best Mark for 2012
62.81 Hadj – PR by 1 second

55m Colgate Runnerup
7.17 Tobi

Julius qualifies for World Indoors and Cat qualifies for USA Nationals!

Coach Devon — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:30:29 +0000

Julius Mutekanga and Cat Beck of Central Park Track Club New Balance each qualified for major championships with performances on Saturday.

CPTC New Balance’s Mutekanga hit the IAAF World Indoor Championships qualifying standard in the 800 meters at the New Balance Games. His time of 1:48.00 is among the top ten fastest times in the World for 2012. The World Championships start March 9 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Mutekanga, a graduate of Long Island University, continues his breakout year running for CPTC New Balance. Last summer, he ran 1:46.30 to qualify for the IAAF World Outdoor Championships in Daegu and also hit the “B” Qualifier for the Olympic Games in London with that time. Mutekanga is currently Uganda’s top-ranked 800 meter runner.

CPTC New Balance’s Beck qualified for the USA Indoor National Championships with a time of 4:45.02 in the mile today. This will be Beck’s second time competing at this event at USA Indoor Nationals in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is scheduled for February 26.

Beck was an 11-time All-American for Tufts University and an NCAA Division III runner-up in the 1500m and 5000m. Since joining CPTC New Balance in 2009, Beck has drastically improved in the mile.

New Club Records in the 60m, 1000m, Sprint Medley and Pole Vault!

Coach Devon — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:14:02 +0000

2012 HAS STARTED OFF WITH A BANG! 7 BIG PRs!!!!

NEW CLUB RECORDS
60m
6.78 Jeremy Bascom

1000m
2:49.52 Cat Beck

Women’s Sprint Medley
4:06.34

Pole Vault
5.0m Jordan Yamoah

PRs
60m Hurdles
8.21 Rolston Braitwaite

60m
6.78 Jeremy Bascom – 1st place

800m
2:01.3 Giancarlos drops 5 seconds

1000m
2:27 Carlos Jamieson drops 3 seconds & 1st place
2:27 Julius Mutekanga drops 3 seconds
2:49 Cat Beck drops 7 seconds — Top 3 US Mark List
2:51 Steph Herrick drops 2 seconds — Top 6 US Mark List

Mile
4:40 Tom Fitzpatrick – Season PR

Join the Voices – Report from the Masters Women

David Greenberg — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:47:52 +0000

From Sylvie, captain of the 60+:

On an overcast, humid but otherwise not very cold day, the CPTC W60+ team of Deborah Barchat, Lynn Blackstone & Sylvie Kimche took 2nd place in a total time of 2:11:34 (behind Millrose in 2:07:44 & ahead of Mercury Masters in 2:12:33). Which was all we needed to finish the year in 1st place, ahead of Mercury Masters 2nd & Millrose 3rd.

So congrats to the W60+ team! Great team effort!

In Sunday’s race, Deborah ran a strong 42:40 despite breathing problems to finish 4th in the W60-64 age group and 2nd for the team.

Sylvie ran 37:43 and was first for the team but her streak of 45 first place age group finishes in NYRR races was broken but none other than Kathy Martin and she had to be satisfied with a 2nd place in W60-64 age group (….but she can start a new streak soon as she’s turning 65 this Sunday! :-)

However, the most important player in the team was Lynn. Without her, there would have been no team for this race and no 1st place overall.

Lynn stepped up to the plate and ran a very solid 51:11, which placed her 4th in the W70-74 age group and 3rd for the team.

So again, thank you Lynn for being here when it mattered most.

And i want to thank again the competitors -Deborah Barchat, Judith Tripp, Marie-Louise Michelsohn, Lynn Blackstone and Caryl Baron - in the W60+ age group for their participation in the NYRR team races. I hope it will be an incentive for our other W60+ runners to compete in next year’s NYRR team races and make it easier for the rest of us to keep our 1st place result for next year. Remember, even if you don’t feel like you’re in racing shape, it is always better to get a few points in a race just from having a team than getting zero because we have no team. This year, we managed the feat of getting 1st place overall despite not fielding a team at 3 of the 10 team races. So imagine how much easier it will be to stay in 1st place next year if we have a team at all 10 races!

Thanks in advance!!!

Happy Holidays to all and see you at the races! :-)

Go Orange!

Sylvie

Join the Voices: Reports from the Masters Men

David Greenberg — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:39:49 +0000

From Cap’n Hank of the M 60+:

This was a perfect day for a road race; no sun, temperatures in the 40s and calm. So many of us pounding out the miles, alone, sometimes in the dark, today we all ran together, in the light of day.

I could see Tim Delaney of Taconic slowly motoring away from me, and Jack McShane, not quite 60, doing the same to him, all the way to the finish line. Within a minute the rest of the fastest older guys came across with wet noses. Even though we ran on different teams, the mutual feeling was like a sunshine gang pulling off a bank robbery, no one hurt of course! Blessing is the word for having breezed or wheezed across the line. Chris, every the smile on his face came across. I waited for Dave and Chip. Never saw Dave, worrying if he was injured (he reported in; fine). Found Chip talking with friends, knew we had a score. But it was only a few moments ago when the results were posted online did I see that our third 60+ guy is 15 years my senior at 77; George Hirsch. He came, he ran, and he conquered. George and I share a second place in our age groups. [I actually share my second with another guy as well] Thank you George!

The upshot is that, if uncontested, we have taken 3rd place in this race. What this means in terms of the final standings, I am in a fog. I thought I heard Mary announce this was a double point scorer. How the mulligans are subtracted eludes me. This is now out of our hands. If we are one of the first 3 mens 60+ teams, some of us will have to dress up for club night.

We have put in a year of races. Next year a number of 59 year old CPTC guys turn the corner, our corner!

See you at our Xmas party, and thanks to all who ran, supported us, or harbored good feelings that permeated the ether to bring us to this day,

Hank

(Hank continued later in the day – ed.)

My older brother has a doctorate in math. I count on my fingers.

If my calculations on the marathon are correct – NYRR still isn’t calling it official.

If today’s results are final.

If today’s race is only a single scored race.

If my 2 mulligans are correct.

These are the final scores for Mens 60+ this year:

if single score: if lowest 2 scores from single:

TRR 132 0 & 12 120

Witold 78 0 & 6 72

WSR 75 0 & 0 75

CPTC 73 0 & 0 73

GNY 64 0 & 3 61

NYF 56 0 & 0 56

VCT 58 0 & 0 58

FR 49 0 & 0 49

Rockland 46 0 & 3 43

Prospect 15 0 & 0 15

Which gives Taconic 1st, West Side 2nd, and we dust Witold by a point. We have so many unscored races due to not having 3 guys cross the line, we could export them.

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From Cap’n Andrew of the M 50+:

Congrats to our 50+ team for a strong finish to the year. At the “Join the Voices” 5 miler in Central Park yesterday, the team was led again by Alan Ruben (29:13), Peter Allen (29:14) and Mike Rennock (29:20) followed by Budd Hayman, Rick Shaver and Phillip Vasquez – well done!

According to Alan Ruben’s unofficial tabulation, the Men’s 50+ team will finish in 1^st place for the year. Thanks to all for your effort and talents.

NYRR has released dates for some of the 2012 races – but have not announced the team point races yet. Please look at NYRR.org and see which races you may be interested in for the new year – they fill up fast.

Congratulations on all your solid performances this year.

2011 NYC Marathon Photos

Sue Pearsall — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:14:50 +0000

Marathon photos are posted….

http://spear.smugmug.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andykiss/sets/72157628085819578/

http://web.mac.com/patrickcowden/Site/NYC2011.html

Also there are more on facebook by Michael Ahern.

NYCM: Reports from the Masters Men

David Greenberg — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:52:50 +0000

From Andrew Moore of the 50+

NYC MARATHON recap:

Congrats to all our 50+ team mates on a fine day of marathon racing resulting in a team first place finish.

On a beautiful sunny day, leading the 50+ team was Alan Ruben (2:49:17), Michael Rennock (2:54:27), and Peter Allen (3:01:06).

A solid team turnout was backed up by Yasuhiro Makoshi (3:06:17), Noel Labat-Comess (3:13:48), Roger Liberman (3:46:07), Richard Shaver (3:55:09), and James Smyth (4:12:06).

A good job put in by all. – enjoy your recovery days!

There have been reports of NYRR errors in results postings including missing team registrations – if I missed you, please let me know

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From Hank Schiffman of the 60+

Going into the final race of the year, 2nd and 3rd positions of the Club Awards for men 60+, as I had feared, are up for grabs. We are tied for 3rd with West Side Runners after Witold’s Runners fielded a full team for Grete’s and took a solid second place. Greater NY picked up 3 points on their marathon effort. We did not have 3 finishers for either event. Like a metaphor for the USA in the global economy, the world has caught up to us. As of today’s unofficial NYC Marathon results:

NYRR Men 60+ Post 2011 NY Marathon Team Scoring – unofficial

1 NYF 15

2 Clifton 12

3 Korean 10

4 WSR 8

5 GLI 6

6 Rockland 5

7 Millrose 4

8 GNY 3

9 PPTC 2

10 Achilles 1

Current NYRR Men 60+ Post 2011 NY Marathon Team Standings - unofficial

1 TRR 117

2 Witold’s 70

3 WSR 63

4 CPTC 63

5 GNY 58

6 NYF 56

7 VCT 54

8 FR 46

9 Rockland 43

10 Prospect 15

As you can see, as West Side Runners, Greater NY, the Flyers and Van Cortlandt do as well, that we need 3 strong scorers for that 3rd spot. Witold’s too are in the hunt because of the “mulligan” rule: “At the end of the year, each club’s point totals in the 9 best races of the 11-race series (the lowest 2 scores for each club is automatically dropped) are added to determine the club’s overall ranking for the year.” Will NYRR drop just one race from each as we all lost the Percy Sutton 5k?

If you go to: http://www.nyrr.org/resources/clubs/60Men.htm you will see this, which does not include the marathon, my figures above represent the current standings but the table below should change when NYRR gets around to posting it on the site:

Where does that put us? If I have my math correct, we have a statistical advantage against all but West Side in that we get to subtract a couple of zeros while all others have to lose real numbers. Assuming that all the dogs in the fight have 3 finishers for the final race, Witold’s loses 6 and they only get more points if they come in over 5th place in the race. Short of an act of god, Taconic will take first and the 15 points. The fight will be for second place. As West Side is situated like we are with 2 zeros to throw out, they will go for broke, and we must as well. Greater NY has to lose 4 points. Therefore, they too need to get the 12 points of second place to best both us and WSR. Could the Flyers take second and other competitors bottom out, only gaining a few points? I don’t think so. West Side has the talent to give us a run for our money. Conceivably, CPTC and WSR could take 2nd and 3rd, leaving Witold’s to throw out 12 points. It’s a horse race.

The bottom line is that we need to be strong and avoid injuries. We need to score, meaning have at least 4 committed runners for the Join the Voices 5 miler on December 4th at 8:30 am, and have 3 strong finishers. All these teams will be poring over the same numbers, that could change with updated corrections in the marathon results.

Please get back to me if you intend to run this race and register for it ASAP. Next year some of us should be stronger and we will have more talent coming of age, and try to work out some commitments towards those races that we did not score in. In the mean time, don’t miss XC racing season at VC Park. There are 2 upcoming shorter races: the Fred Lebow 5k XC Championships on 11/20 at 11:30, and a NYC USATF XC event expected on November 26.

Train, but don’t strain!

Yours,

Hank

Grete’s Half: Report from the Masters Men

David Greenberg — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:50:52 +0000

From Andrew Moore of the 50+

The CPTC 50+ team took first in their age group again at the Grete’s Great Gallop half marathon in Central Park. The top three scorers were Michael Rennock (1:22:41), Peter Allen (1:23:25), and Alan Ruben (1:23:46). The team had good depth with Andrew Moore, Yasuhiro Makoshi, and Kevin McGuire also running the 13.1 miles and terrific support all along the race course from many cheering team mates – Thanks to all!

Next scoring race is the NYC Marathon. Please let me know if you are registered and plan to run.

Grete’s Half: Report from the Masters Women

David Greenberg — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:49:36 +0000

From Ani Go of the 40+

Hello all! Sorry for the delay in the race recap, the scoring was all messed up for the masters 40+ so I wanted to wait until it was all sorted out before I sent out a report.

Congrats to Resie for her 1st place age finish (10:32) in the Norway Run! way to go Resie!!!

We had a small but stellar team for Grete’s–the amazing Jill Vollweiler (who also scored for the open team!) flew on winged feet finishing in 1:26:06, followed by wonder woman Wanda Wang in 1:34:26, and the mighty Maria Luz Caballero in 1:44:13 for our third place podium finish!

Congrats to everyone who did the half!

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From Captain Sylvie:

Here is the belated recap of last week’s team race, the Grete’s Great Gallop Half Marathon. Sorry for delay. That’s how long it took me to get my energy back after the race….

On Saturday October 1st, the CPTC W60+ team once more took first place, this time in the NYRR Grete’s Great Gallop Half Marathon race, just a week after the Fifth Avenue Mile….Judith came in 3rd for the team (9th in the W60-64 age group) in a time of 1:55:51 She used the race as a barometer on her training for the NYC marathon & was happy with the result.

Deb came in 2nd for the team in 1:51:31 (4th W60-64), only slightly slower than her time in last’s year race, showing that she’s getting her speed back!

Sylvie in her first half marathon in almost a quarter century surprised herself and her teammates by coming in 1st for the team (and 1st W60-64) in a time of 1:47:04 (I was elated that my streak of 1st place W60-64 was still alive, but I was really tired afterwards – still tired as of this writing 8 days later!)This experience has given me much more admiration for my teammates, Judith & Deb who run long distance races day-in & day-out!

It is to be noted that Deb, Judith & Sylvie also got 4th place in the W50+ team competition. As of this writing, the CPTC W60+ team is in 1st place. Unfortunately we do not have a team for the NYC marathon (however, we do have a W50+ team with Yumi, Deb & Judith). So the final standings will be decided in the last race of the year, the “Join the Voices” 5 miler on December 4th. Let’s hope that we will have a strong W60+ team for that race to keep our overall 1st place! Please email me if you are planning to run. Thanks! GO ORANGE! GO 60!!! Sylvie