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2006 CPTC Award Nominations
November 27, 2006
COMEBACK OF THE YEAR Warren Adler, John Kerner, Noah Lansner, Ligaya Mishan
MULTI SPORTS ATHLETE OF THE YEAR Biff Capune, Anna Fyodorova, Emily Kindlon
MEN'S ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Jay Barry, Michael Basen, Anselm LeBourne, Kimihiko Oishi, Idris Payne, Spencer Van Pelt
WOMEN'S ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Kristel Adler, Liz Colville, Aileen Conlon
MEN'S MOST IMPROVED PERFORMER Ben Gutman, Joe Kennedy, Sasha Kreideweis, Kevin McGuire, Alan Piket, John Roberts, Robert Siegel, Brad Weiss
WOMEN'S MOST IMPROVED PERFORMER Andrea Costella, Tiffanee Hager, Felice Kelly, Tracy Olsen, Louisa Sandes
MEN'S OPEN TRACK Steve Benedict, Kobie Fuller, Sam MacKenzie, Jeff Williams
MEN'S OPEN ROAD – SHORT DISTANCE Will Berriel, Sean Fortune, Jim McQuade, Dan Seidel
MEN'S OPEN ROAD – LONG DISTANCE Kevin Arlyck, Thom Little, Tom McCarney, Steve Monte, Russ Pfeffer, Joe Tumbarello
WOMEN'S OPEN TRACK Kate Cushing, Natalie Gingerich, Kate Irvin, Caryn Waterson
WOMEN'S OPEN ROAD – SHORT DISTANCE Sarah Alaei, Kathy King, Katy Masselam
WOMEN'S OPEN ROAD – LONG DISTANCE Lauren Esposito Nicole Sinquee, Susan Strazza
MEN'S MASTERS TRACK Val Barnwell, Neil Fitzgerald, Darnell Gatling, Sid Howard, Chris Potter, Kenrick Smith
MEN'S MASTERS ROAD – SHORT DISTANCE John Affleck, David Bosch, Alston Brown, Tom Phillips, Mike Trunkes
MEN'S MASTERS ROAD – LONG DISTANCE Peter Allen, Stuart Calderwood, Yasuhiro Makoshi, Alan Ruben, Jeff Wilson
WOMEN'S MASTERS TRACK Sylvie Kimche, Andrea Ostrowski, Sue Pearsall
WOMEN'S MASTERS ROAD – SHORT DISTANCE Stacy Creamer, Mary Diver, Mary-Louise Michelsohn
WOMEN'S MASTERS ROAD – LONG DISTANCE Jeannine Bardo, Yumi Ogita, Mary Rosado, Margot Sheehan
The winners will be announced at our Annual Awards Party this Saturday (Dec 2nd).
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
November 27, 2006
Sorry about the lack of posts here. We've been swamped both at work and at home lately. It's been all we could do just to keep the workouts and race results close to current. And it looks like things won't be slowing down between now and when we go out of town for the last two weeks of the year. So we're looking for a little help to keep this site going for the next month.
So if you're good (or even adequate) at HTML, or if you'd like to write some journal entries, please send us an email. Remember, we're just looking for a little help here; unlike what happened to us four years ago, your one month of help will not result in you being stuck with the entire website.
Belated Marathon Recap
November 27, 2006
Sue Pearsall has photos. Patrick Cowden has photos. We have photos, but haven't had a chance to post them. In other news, Tom McCarney was interviewed on TV, and thanks to Thom Little, we have video of it (including Alan Ruben crossing the finish line at the end of the clip). Roger Liberman won the Lance pool. And speaking of Lance, Stuart Calderwood sent the following story regarding Lance's battle with our own Terence Gerchberg (some you have heard this already):
On Saturday before the Marathon, at a big Niketown meeting, Lance greeted Terence (who works for Nike) with "Hey, didn't we drop you on the 59th Street Bridge?" referring to the 5M run on which Lance couldn't drop Russ and Sean. This peeved Terence, who on Sunday caught Lance`s entourage at 10M and said "Hey, Lance! How`s it feel to get DROPPED? I own New York—go back to Texas!" and threw down a 6:30. To his chagrin, the Lance mass re-passed him around 20M (he tried to hide). Then someone tripped him! He did a semi-cartwheel and, running on pissed-off energy, bridged back to the Lance peloton and then dropped the hammer on them on his way to a 2:57—his first sub-3 and a 4-minute PR. Terence now presumably has the status of a Pantani and is the only reason that Lance would run another marathon.
It just so happens that Lance will be running the NYC Marathon again next year.
Last Marathon Posts
November 3, 2006
Tyson Smith wrote an article for The Modern Spectator bemoaning the lack of recognition for elite marathoners. Coach Tony told a first-time marathoner how nearly everything she's doing is wrong. And the Times wrote more about running this week than they did all year.
Run Like Lance
November 3, 2006
Remember the Lance Armstrong marathon pool? Well, it's too late to enter now, but you can still see how your friends and teammates guessed, thanks to the list below. (You'll notice our name isn't on there. That's becasue we don't approve of any form of gambling where the odds aren't heavily in our favor.) Keep in mind that all these picks were made before it was announced that Alberto Salazar, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Hicham el-Guerrouj will pace Lance in a varation of Coach Tony's famous 10-10-10 strategy. We figure that with Olympic aid like that, Lance should have no trouble beating Laurent Jalabert's time of 2:57:39, which means Frank H., Neil B. and Thom all have good chance of winning some money in this pool. And then buying drinks for the team at the post-marathon party.
| First Name |
Last Name |
Club |
Time Prediction |
| James |
Marks |
CPTC |
2:29:37 |
| Kristal |
Adler |
CPTC |
2:34:56 |
| Dan |
Tripp |
GNY |
2:40:15 |
| Hank |
Schiffman |
GNY |
2:45:00 |
| Tony |
Ruiz |
CPTC |
2:45:29 |
| Edie |
Perkins |
GNY |
2:45:13 |
| George |
Weiner |
GNY |
2:45:23 |
| Mark |
Schoifet |
GNY |
2:45:53 |
| Peter |
Schweitzer |
GNY |
2:47:01 |
| Danielle |
Gall |
|
2:47:15 |
| Sam |
Ayling |
GNY |
2:47:50 |
| Amy |
May |
GNY |
2:48:38 |
| Joe |
Kennedy |
CPTC |
2:48:48 |
| Alex |
Bruskin |
GNY |
2:49:24 |
| Hing |
Wong |
GNY |
2:50:00 |
| Marina |
Shvartsman |
|
2:50:40 |
| Andrea |
Ostrowski |
CPTC |
2:51:03 |
| Sean |
Fortune |
CPTC |
2:51:34 |
| Omri |
Holzman |
GNY |
2:51:37 |
| Armando |
Oliveira |
CPTC |
2:52:11 |
| John |
Roberts |
CPTC |
2:53:15 |
| Patrick |
Hynes |
GNY |
2:53:30 |
| Stuart |
Alexander |
CPTC |
2:53:42 |
| Keith |
Snyder |
|
2:54:16 |
| Rondi |
Davies |
GNY |
2:54:23 |
| Susan |
Strazza |
CPTC |
2:54:32 |
| Ben |
Hermel |
GNY |
2:55:14 |
| Alan |
Ruben |
CPTC |
2:55:27 |
| Brad |
Skillman |
GNY |
2:55:30 |
| Michael |
Basen |
CPTC |
2:55:34 |
| Lisa |
Overton |
|
2:55:37 |
| Thom |
Little |
CPTC |
2:56:24 |
| Neil |
Brenner |
CPTC |
2:56:41 |
| Frank |
Handelman |
CPTC |
2:57:11 |
| Guthrie |
Schweitzer |
|
2:57:36 |
| Russ |
Pfeffer |
CPTC |
2:57:45 |
| Andy |
Moore |
GNY |
2:58:16 |
| Michelle |
Peltier |
GNY |
2:58:33 |
| Alun |
Davies |
CPTC |
2:58:43 |
| Jim |
McQuade |
CPTC |
2:58:46 |
| Roger |
Liberman |
CPTC |
2:59:35 |
| Tom |
Keenan |
GNY |
2:59:59 |
| Donovan |
Rebbechi |
GNY |
3:00:01 |
| Joe |
Brady |
GNY |
3:01:01 |
| Reinhold |
Heller |
GNY |
3:03:03 |
| Guy |
Helson |
GNY |
3:03:25 |
| Corey |
Henry |
CPTC |
3:03:30 |
| Spencer |
VanPelt |
CPTC |
3:05:00 |
| Jean-Claude |
Periac |
GNY |
3:05:10 |
| Kimi |
Oishi |
CPTC |
3:05:23 |
| Anil |
Bhambhani |
UATH |
3:05:27 |
| Alan |
Picket |
CPTC |
3:06:18 |
| Stacy |
Creamer |
CPTC |
3:07:54 |
| Kevin |
McGuire |
CPTC |
3:08:10 |
| Casey |
Yamakazi |
CPTC |
3:08:11 |
| Seth |
Bender |
CPTC |
3:08:23 |
| Josh |
Scherer |
GNY |
3:10:09 |
| Vicki |
Comechero |
CPTC |
3:15:11 |
| Dave |
Winter |
GNY |
3:15:30 |
| Matt |
Kmetz |
GNY |
3:16:25 |
| Todd |
Weisse |
UATH |
3:17:04 |
| Rich |
Pollner |
GNY |
3:20:00 |
| Jerry |
Macari |
UATH |
3:21:06 |
| John |
DeCsepel |
GNY |
3:23:00 |
| Brian |
Schaffer |
CPTC |
3:23:13 |
| Sarah |
Czeladnicki |
|
3:23:45 |
| Noah |
Isenberg |
GNY |
3:33:33 |
| Fred |
Trilli |
CPTC |
4:15:23 |
Marathon Spectating
November 3, 2006
It's time for the NYC Marathon again, and even if you're not one of the crazy hardy souls running 26.2 miles this Sunday, you can still be part of the fun by joining the famous Wall of Orange, and its Brooklyn cousin, the Fence of Orange (so-called because the orange jackets there tend to be spaced out across the block, rather than abutting each other in true wall-like fashion). As always, the Wall of Orange will be on East Drive in Central Park, at approximately 89th Street, (just after the runners enter the park at 90th street), starting at about 11:30 am (just in time to see the elite women go by). Along that stretch of the course spectators are only allowed on the east side of the road, which is the runners' left side. And runners, would it kill you to move a little closer to the Wall of Orange as you run past?
The Fence of Orange will be on Lafayette Avenue between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street, just after the three starts merge at Mile 8, starting at about 10:00 am (again, just in time for those fast women your mother warned you about). Here spectators are allowed on either side of the street, but we recommend viewing from the south side of the street (runners' right side), because it's easier to get on the subway after that.
As many past spectators can tell you, it's usually very easy to get from the Fence of Orange to the Wall of Orange, and still see nearly every CPTC runner in both places (though you may miss some of the elites at the second location). This year it will be a little more difficult. Becasue of construction, the 4 and 5 trains will not run between Brooklyn and Manhattan. To get to the Fence of Orange, take the N, R, D, M, Q, 2, or 3 train. To get back to the Wall of Orange in Manhattan, take the N, R or Q to Union Square, and transfer for the 4, 5 or 6 there. Hopefully this won't take too much longer than usual.
Remember, wherever you're watching, wear your orange CPTC jacket, shirt, hat, singlet, or some combination thereof so that your teammates can spot you. And bring a camera if you have one. We promise to be better about posting photos from this race than we have been about other races this year. Also, if you're hungry, check out this Zagat guide to restaurants along the course.
The latest list of CPTC runners from the official marathon site follows:
Kevin Arlyck
Eunsuk Bae
Michael Basen
John Beech
Ramon Bermo
John Blood
Jay Borok
Eric Boucher
Gerald Bueshel
Elizabeth Colville
Marie Davis
Morten Degnemark
Desiree Dixon
Daniel Doebele
David Edwards
Sharon Ekstrom
Maureen Elmaleh
Guenter Erich
Sean Fortune
Samuel Frank
Joseph Frazetta
Anna Fyodorova
Terence Gerchberg
Leandro Germosen
Alan Gremli
Sarah Gross
David Gugino
Tiffanee Hager |
Gregory Hagin
Katherine Han
Blair Heinke
Gordon Holmes
Nathanael Horne
Stefani Jackenthal
Filip Jagodzinski
Robert Jamieson
Elizabeth Kaicher
Joseph Kennedy
Audrey Kingsley
Etsuko Kizawa
Simon Kon
Michael Konig
Sascha Kreideweis
Noel Labat-Comess
Steven Lazen
William Lee
Harry Lichtenstein
Thom Little
Yasuhiro Makoshi
Kathryn Masselam
David Maurice
Thomas Mccarney
Gerard Mccarthy
James Mcquade
Kimihiko Oishi |
Frederick Paredes
Russell Pfeffer
Allan Piket
Ray Prybylski
George Robertson
Alan Ruben
Richard Shaver
Robert Siegel
Michael Siegell
David Smith
James Smyth
Scott Stamp
Matthew Stratton
Susan Strazza
Aubin Sullivan
Jonathan Toto
Frederick Trilli
Vincent Trinquesse
Joseph Tumbarello
Spencer Van Pelt
Susan Weigel
Brad Weiss
Michael Wells
Jeff Wilson
Bernd Wuebben
Takeshi Yamazaki
Jessica Zall |
Marathon Singlets and Shorts
November 3, 2006
The New Orange NIKE CPTC Singlets Have Arrived! These new singlets are complimentary thanks to NIKE, and available to all our fully paid-up members to race in (especially for this Sunday's NYC Marathon). If you haven't yet picked up your complimentary matching blue shorts these can be picked up also.
Today (Friday, Nov 3rd) 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Tomorrow (Saturday, Nov 4th) 7:30am - 10:30am and 2:00pm - 6:00pm
801 West End Avenue, Apt 5E (99th Street)
Where Do They Get Those Wonderful Toys?
November 2, 2006
Remember when Brad Weiss used to wear his headphones during races? According to the Times, he was just ahead of his time, as marathoners today not only run with mp3 players, but also GPS devices, cameras and even cellphones. (As many as 20% of runners may carry a cellphone, but it's not clear from the article if that's on race day or just while training.) In fact, there's even a CPTC runner who carries a camera with him:
As a swift marathoner with a personal best of 3 hours 9 minutes 32 seconds who chooses to slow down to socialize, Chris Solarz is an exception. In the more than 100 marathons he says he has run, Mr. Solarz, 28, has often carried a digital voice recorder (to get the names and numbers of people he meets) and a Canon PowerShot (to “tell the story of the journey,” he said).
But he draws the line at music players. “When I see someone wearing headphones in the New York City Marathon, I feel sorry for them,” Mr. Solarz said. “They don't even know what they are missing. The hoots, the hollers, all the bands, the excitement. When else can a skinny white guy wearing little shorts run in Harlem and get cheers?
Alas, there's no info on how many dates Chris got out of those races. The Times also reports that "Everything You Know About Marathons Is Wrong," which doesn't surprise us, given our results back when we used to run them.
