Note: All race results are posted in reverse chronological order of the race dates, not in the order of receipt. Therefore, some newly arrived information may be inserted in the middle of the page. Furthermore, additional comments and notes are inserted frequently. So browse carefully!

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HARVEST FESTIVAL 5K, Denville, NJ (September 27, 2000)

FRED LEBOW CROSS-COUNTRY 5K, Van Cortlandt Park, NYC (September 24, 2000)

MEN, 2nd place open team

WOMEN

RACE TO DELIVER (4 MILES), Central Park, NYC (September 24, 2000)

Toby Tanser, 20:06, 2nd overall

Note:  Toby did the daily double --- the Race to Deliver at 10am in Central Park, then the Fred Lebow XC 5K at 12 noon in Van Cortlandt Park.  This technical feat is made complicated by the fact that it was necessary to get off the #1 train to take a shuttlebus between 96th Street and 137th Street due to subway construction.  Combined with last week's results, this meant he had four second-place finishes in two weekends.  The monotony was interrupted by a first-place finish during the week on Wednesday.

RUNNERS CROSS COUNTRY (Half Marathon), Yuzawa, Japan (September 24, 2000)

Charles Allard wrote: "So I entered my first race in over six months. And I learned not to overestimate the power of a cross-country course. I entered the Runners Cross Country in Yuzawa (1/2 marathon distance). Yuzawa being famous for the Nobel prize winning novel, Snow Country, which was written and set there. Anyway, the course itself was run in light rain basically up a ski slope to the top of a mountain, back down the mountain to the valley, along the valley's river then back up to the ski lift.  My arms hurt, my shoulder blades hurt, muscles on the sides on my legs hurt, and I didn't even win! The winning time was 1:21:17 followed by 1:21:21 and 1:22:29. I struggled in at 1:32:20. I was too tired to find my placing among the 250 or so runners but it was around 20th. My excuse? No training, tough work schedule and two back to back nights of drinking to 3 in the morning. Plus I was the only one wearing a Central Park Track Club jersey! Ahh, the loneliness!"

LIBERTY SHORE HALF MARATHON, Jersey City, NJ (September 24, 2000)

FIFTH AVENUE MILE, New York City, NYC (September 23, 2000)

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OPEN MEN
Isaya Okwiya, 4:26, 2nd place
John Scherrer, 4:30, 8th place
Stephen Sipe, 4:43, 15th place
Doug Bell, 4:48, 32nd place
Jeff Kisseloff, 5:19, 50th place
Yves-Marc Courtines, 5:20 (PR), 53rd place
Karel Matousek*, 6:03, 180th place

OPEN WOMEN
Lauren Eckhart, 5:30 (PR), 5th place
Kim Mannen, 5:41, 7th place
Shelley Farmer, 5:52, 15th place (after doing that 20 mile marathon training run!!!)
Janice Brown, 6:13, 24th place

MASTERS MEN
Alston Brown, 4:37.0, 3rd place overall, 1st M50-59
Tom Hartshorne, 4:45.1, 8th place
Craig Plummer, 4:59.4, 13th place

MASTERS WOMEN
Sue Krogstad-Hill, 5:47.7, 4th place
Mary Rosado, 6:14.0, 9th place

GEORGE SHEEHAN MILE (60-69)
Sid Howard, 5:06.9, 2nd place
Jim Aneshansely, 5:36.5, 5th place
Carol Tyler, 6:54.2, 3rd place

INVITATIONAL MILE - WOMEN
Devon Sargent, 5:24.6, 5th place

INVITATIONAL MILE - MEN
Jonathan Pillow, 4:19.4, 6th place

Jeff Kisseloff writes: "I'm not blaming my miserable outing today on this, but two weeks ago, an NYRRC rep assured on this site that the club is doing everything in its power to make the running experience the best possible for race participants. So can someone tell me why the NYRRC didn't see fit to post quarter split clocks along the Fifth Avenue Mile course? We were left with a clock on back of a truck (which, alas, due to my decrepitude was to far away for me to see less than 400 yards into the race), and a half split. That's ridiculous for a mile race."

AHA WALL STREET RUN (3.3 Miles), Wall Street, NYC (September 20, 2000)

NORTH AMERICAN TRIATHLON SERIES, Playland Park, Rye, NY (September 17, 2000)

ODYSSEY TRIPLE IRONMAN TRIATHLON, Colonial Beach, Virginia (September 15-17, 2000)

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Ross Galitsky, 42 hours 27 minutes, 3rd place overall

Technical note:  In case you don't know, the triple ironman triathlon consists of 7.2 miles of swimming, 336 miles of biking and 78.6 miles of running.  Ross finished about 10 hours ahead of his predicted time!

MAC DEVELOPMENT MEET #1 (4K CROSS COUNTRY), Van Cortlandt, NYC (September 17, 2000)

Brian Barry, 18:55, 41st place

YONKERS HALF MARATHON, Yonkers, NY (September 17, 2000)

Toby Tanser, 1:13:13, 2nd place overall
Craig Plummer, 1:31:23, 31st place overall
Terri Sonenclar, 1:35:02, 5th place overall female, 1st masters

RACE REPORT:  According to Toby, this famously hilly course "should come with a Surgeon General's health warning.  We ran the first 8 miles at an average of 6 minute miling (the first 2 miles were 6:30's), then I pushed to get rid of 2 heel-clipping Mexican runners, and then Fouzi Aloui pushed even harder at 10 and got rid of me - easily."

Technical note:  This is a weekend double for Toby: 2nd place in the 5K yesterday and 2nd place here today.

PHILADELPHIA DISTANCE RUN, Philadelphia, PA (September 17, 2000)

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MEN

WOMEN, 5th place open team

First-place open mixed team:  Gordon Streeter, Graeme Reid, Rick Shaver, Alex Peterhansl, Mindy Solkin 

DEWEY BEACH SPRINT TRIATHLON, Dewey Beach, Delaware (September 16, 2000)

Randy Ehrlich, 1:22:53, 31st overall, 7th M30-34, 17:31 swim (150th place), 45:06 bike (40th place), 20:16 run (5th place)

THE LITTLE RED HOUSE 7.8 MILE SWIM, New York City, NY (September 16, 2000)

Scott Willett, 1:26:52, 1st overall

Technical note:  This is a 7.8 mile swim from the Little Red Lighthouse at the George Washington Bridge down the Hudson River and with the current to Chelsea Piers, Pier 62 at 23rd Street in Hudson River Park.  The race is 'tide-assisted' which explained why it took Scott 19:30 to swim one mile in the Park to Park race on August 20 but only 1:26:52 to do 7.8 miles today.

MARCUS O'SULLIVAN 5K, Central Park, NYC (September 16, 2000)

Toby Janser (yes, that's how it was spelt), 15:52 (5:07 min/mile), 2nd overall (behind --- you guessed it --- Marcus O'Sullivan!)
Frank Schneiger, 22:18 (7:11 min/mile), 18th overall, 1st M50-59

GREAT COW HARBOR 10K RUN, Northport, LI (September 16, 2000)

Craig Plummer, 39:48 (6:25 min/mile), 141th place, 20th age group
Arthur Cooke, 41:12 (6:38 min/mile), 193rd place, 34th age group
Kim Mannen, 43:12 (6:58 min/mile), 331st place, 14th age group

16th ANNUAL NEW YORK CITY BIATHLON, Central Park, NY (September 10, 2000)

John Megaw, 1:28:56, 24th overall, 1st M45-49
Laura Miller, 1:36:41, 3rd overall female
Margaret Nolan, 1:49:46, 15th overall female, 4th F40-44

SURVIVAL OF THE SHAWANGUNKS, Ulster County, NY (September 10, 2000)

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Scott Willett, 6th overall, 2nd M35-39, 4:34:44
Ramon Bermo, 16th overall, 5th M30-34, 4:52:30 (note: 1 flat tire)
Stefani Jackenthal, 21st overall, 4th female, 1st F30-34, 4:54:52
Julie Denney, 24th overall, 5th female, 2nd F30-34, 4:58:30
Olivier Baillet, 32nd overall, 4th M25-29, 5:09:08 (note: 1 flat tire and 1 crash)

PERIVALE 5 MILE, West London, United Kingdom (September 10, 2000)

Paul Stuart-Smith, 27:27, 3rd place overall

Technical note:  Weather was hot and humid (believe it or not!)

MIGHTY HAMPTONS, East Hampton, Long Island (September 10, 2000)

Michael Trunkes, 2:09:04.2, 9th overall, 1st M35-39, 22:34 swim (27th place), 1:46 transition, 1:03:16 bike (13th place), 1:03 transition, 40:23 run (12th place)

HARRY MURPHY XC 5K, Van Cortlandt Park, NYC (September 10, 2000)

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MEN, 2nd place open team, 1st place masters team

WOMEN, 4th place open team

BROADWAY ON BROADWAY, New York City, NYC (September 10, 2000)

MEN

Blair Boyer said, "I can't believe that I am the team leader."

WOMEN

USAT NATIONAL AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS, St Joseph, Missouri (September 9, 2000)

Shelley Farmer, swim 23:40 (17th division), 1:56 transition, bike 1:18:01 (12th division), 0:50 transition, run 43:27 (7th division), total time 2:27:53 (7th F30-34)

Bob Summers, swim 26:24 (44th division), 2:12 transition, bike 1:18:34 (40th division), 1:14 transition, run 49:29 (46th division), total time 2:37:41 (44th M30-34)

Note:  The first six finishers in each division qualify to go to the 2001 World Championships.  Shelley was 7th.  Ugh!  But she will get another chance next June in Lake Placid, where another six slots will be allocated. 

HARLEM RENAISSANCE 5 MILER, Harlem, NYC (September 9, 2000)

The CPTC Women's team of Sarah Gross, Eve Kaplan, Irene Jackson-Schon, Sandra Sibelli, and Caryl Baron won the Harlem Renaissance 5-miler on Saturday 9/9. First place age group awards went to Sarah, Eve, Irene and Sid Howard.  Sarah was 4th overall and Eve was 7th overall after doing the full Thursday workout, but the team would not have won without Sandra jumping in at the last minute after completing 18 miles of her long run.

MIRACLE MILES RUN 15K, Orlando, FL (September 4, 2000)

NEW HAVEN 20K ROAD RACE, New Haven, CT (September 4, 2000)

Alan Ruben, 1:10:42 (5:42 min/mile), 39th overall, 3rd age group
Shula Sarner, 1:30:59 (7:20 min/mile), 321st overall, 23rd age group

GREAT BONAC 10K FOOT RACE, East Hampton, Long Island (September 4, 2000)

Brian Barry, 46:08, 87th place

Brian Barry wrote:  "I did that killer middle-distance workout on Thursday.   I think I left it all there.  Is that a good excuse?  Also there were some fireworks at the race, when some guy named Kevin Barry, who is the coach of East Hampton, was mouthing off about our club president chickening out and not showing.  But I took care of him and made sure that he didn't finish first which he didn.t.  He won't be dissing our Prez again."

LABOR DAY 5K RUN, South Plainfield, NJ (September 4, 2000)

Sid Howard, 18:53 (6:05 min/mile), 24th overall, 1st M60+

JOHN DALY SR OCEAN MILE SWIM, Long Beach, NY (September 4, 2000)

Shelley Farmer, 27:53, 19th overall, 6th female, 2nd female 30-34
Bob Summers, 32:08, 39th overall

HENRY ISOLA CROSS COUNTRY (4 MILES), Van Cortlandt Park, NYC (September 3, 2000)

Race report from Jeff Kisseloff:

I tend to avoid NYRRC races because I am fed up with the lousy routes in Central Park and the general rotten treatment that runners receive at the hands of the club (*), but today's cross country race took the cake.  Someone could have died out there, and if so, NYRRC and MAC should be held criminally responsible.

From what I understand, the NYRRC designated today's Henry Isola cross-country race as one of its scoring races.  So if you ran this race, it counts as one of nine races that will guarantee entry into the next year's New York City Marathon.  As a result, there were many runners showing up in Van Cortlandt Park today so they can run in the marathon next year, and the people who do the registration for the race, which normally draws 150 or so people, were suddenly faced with a crush of hundreds of runners, and they simply couldn't handle it. 

So here's what happened.  At 10:30am or so, when it was already incredibly hot and humid, they told us, "Oh, we have too many applicants.  So the women are going off at 11:30am, but and men will have to wait until 12 noon."  So, that was another hour and a half in the sun.  Of course, they had one igloo barrel for everybody.  At 11:30am or so the women went off, and they sent the men to the line before noon, where we had to wait around for more than 40 minutes in the sun with the awful heat and humidity and with no water available. 

Of course, there were no apologies or explanations.  Now, of course there are never any water stops at Van Cortlandt Park, but they also do not usually send us off after 45 minutes in the sun, no water, and twice up the aptly named Cemetery Hill yet.  (Expletive), they should have called it the Bataan Memorial Cross Country Race!  It was insane.  People really could have died out there, and when I said something to one of the race officials, he couldn't have given a damn.  

But I put the blame on the New York Road Runners Club, which I guess isn't content to foul up its own races, but must find others to destroy. The XC tradition up at Van Cortlandt has been a very special one.  It draws the cross country fans, who are often track runners never found at road races.  These cross-countries races are intimate, the registration is easy (just walk up and put down $3), and the races go off on time.  I guess that this displeases the New York Road Runners Club, so they set out to draw more people to the race while ignoring to provide the additional race management resources.  It is time that the New York Road Runners Club realizes that the whole world doesn't revolve around the damned marathon. If they think so, they're wrong and today they could have been dead wrong.

I second Jeff's opinion wholeheartedly and like to add that this race was the pits.  The heat was nothing for a trained runner.  I was exhausted from cursing because I am not trained in THAT.

One had to admire the people that were volunteering for the race. They kept calm, at least, that's what I observed. The questions are: Didn't they learn from the last cross country race last year (Pete McArdle 15K) when everybody rushed to get their sixth race in?  That race was a mess too. And why would anybody turn me down, when I offered my help the moment I saw that there was trouble ahead? It is clear that nobody prepared for the race's necessary logistics.  Could it really be that nobody cares for the runners, as Jeff says?  I' ll miss Van Cortlandt Park ...

Yes, it's clearly time for a revolution. Let's start with NYRRC and end with the world. It was hilarious before yesterday's race to listen to these young chubby guys, these aspiring 4:50 marathoners, asking the race director for their t-shirts and "Do we need our chips?" This is what cross country has come down to, thanks to the NYRRC.  

I still remember going to an NYRRC staff meeting when Allan Steinfeld said that all runners really care about are t-shirts and getting their names in the back of the magazine. He felt that the club does that better than any other, and you know he's right. It's very good at that, but what it really excels at is treating runners like shit. We're just some commodity whose size guarantees the club TV money when the marathon rolls around, and hopefully it's enough money to pay the mortgage on a building they don't need.  

Everything is geared toward the marathon, and the fact is the marathon is a joke if you are a middle-of-the-pack runner trying to run a good time. They have stuffed so many people into it that running lanes are non- existent. They send you out on the bridge so early you stand around and watch people pee on each other because they can't get to a bathroom.  Having moved up to Westchester after 20 years of living in New York City, I've come to experience what races used to be in New York in the pre-Steinfeld days --- starts that are on time, races that are safe and well- planned on different and challenging courses and responsive race officials. 

What amazes me is that people in New York aren't up in arms about the way they are treated (maybe Steinfeld is right, they just want their names in magazines).  I've been in races during the winter, where hundreds of runners are herded into one half of the roadway at the start and directly up ahead is a long patch of ice; I've been herded at the start and made to stand there a half hour in the summer sun so Giuliani can show up and start the gun on national TV ("So what if we kill off a few runners, we got thousands left and we look good on national TV.")  I've been in races where nobody bothered to measure the course and it came up short and others where runners have nearly gotten killed by bike riders because no one had bothered to clear the course.  

The club doesn't only screw its runners out in the streets.  Look at the magazine, whose purpose is to glorify its advertisers and race sponsors in its editorial pages. That's called screwing the reader, or in this case, the runner, too. What is more important to Allan Steinfeld that runners have an enjoyable and challenging racing experience or that Tylenol, or whoever, forks over the big bucks and gets its ego massaged by having the faces of its executives on the cover and in the pages of the magazine. The fact is runners will run whether there is a sponsor or not. The club is supposed to exist to serve the running community and not the other way around. That's what it has forgotten.

Speaking of revolutions, there is an account that a spontaneously self-organized coup almost took place successfully in this race.  After waiting and waiting in 85 degree weather with humidity under the sun, some of the guys decided to start the race on their own initiative.  Using an old whistle, various members of the most prestigious clubs in the area assembled a starting line and were about to start the race with a volunteer timer, when the race officials frentically raced over to give the official start.  It would have been quite a sight otherwise ...

Technical footnote:  Did anyone read the cross-country race notes?: "Cross country is not for the faint of heart or fitness.  It is rugged; fun, but rugged; with few facilities, tough rocky hills, no water on the course, dirt spraying everywhere, shadeless stretches, no tee-shirts, no post-race treats... We love it and hope you will too but be prepared!"  They delivered on everything that they promised in those notes --- rugged terrain, no facilities, tough rocky hills, no water on the course, spraying dirt, shadeless stretches, no tee-shirts, no post-race treats --- and then they delivered even more goodies --- long unscheduled delays, information blackout and bad attitudes!

From John Kenney, President of the Central Park Track Club on September 7th, 2000:

Please review the following note regarding the resource problems that plagued this past weekend's cross-country race in Van Cortland Park. It's written by Mary Wittenberg, the NYRRC EVP/COO, and acknowledges these problems in a constructive, conciliatory tone. While long-term measures are promised to avoid this, there is still a good chance that this weekend's Van Cortlandt club scoring race could also experience some logistical problems. Please note Mary's commitments and suggestions, and please try to bear with the NYRRC and the other volunteers as they try to pull off this weekend's race.  And remember that we all love running!"

From Mary Wittenberg, Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer of the New York Road Runners Club on September 6th, 2000:

METROPOLITAN 50 MILE, New York City, NY (September 2, 2000)

Megumi Fukami, 7 hours 33 minutes, 3rd overall and 1st overall female (by a lead of over one hour)

(Technical note:  Oppressively hot and humid conditions)

MEDIA CORPORATE CHALLENGE, Central Park, NYC (August 29, 2000)

Dave Howard, 19:34, 1st place

CATS GREATER HARTFORD TRIATHLON, Hartford, CT (August 27, 2000)

Ramon Bermo, 2:15:17, 10th overall
Scott Willett, 2:15:42, 13th overall
Julie Denney, 2:33:14, 79th overall

NEW YORK CITY MARATHON TUNE-UP (18 MILES) Central Park, NYC, (August 27, 2000)

PHOTO ALBUM

MEN, 3rd place open team

WOMEN

CENTRAL PARK TRIATHLON, Central Park, NYC (August 20, 2000)

Scott Willett, 1:10:49, 2nd place overall
Ross Galitsky, 1:12:03, 4th place overall, 1st M35-39
Olivier Baillett, 1:12:28, 6th place overall, 1st M25-29
Randy Ehrlich, 1:13:35, 8th overall, 1st M30-34
John Megaw, 1:17:32, 13th overall, 1st M40-44
Carlos Stafford, 1:30:55, 51st overall, 3rd M55-59

Julie Denney, 1:16:52, 1st overall female
Stacy Creamer, 1:19:09, 2nd overall female
Margaret Nolan, 1:45:46, 31st overall female, 3rd F40-44

FIELD NOTES

• Weekend doubles (Saturday/Sunday races) by Olivier Baillet, Stacy Creamer, Margaret Nolan, Scott Willett and Julie Denney

• First three out of the water --- Scott Willett, Olivier Baillet, Ross Galitsky

• Julie Denney led the race from start to finish

• How does Scott Willett do it?  The man hasn't run in months due to an injury ...

• Stacy Creamer maintains her streak of second-place finishes over many years in the same race, each time losing to a different person

• What?  No photos?  Sorry, but the alarm clock didn't work (note: should have borrowed Rob Zand's four alarm clocks)

SEACREST TOBAY TRIATHLON, Oyster Bay, NY (August 20, 2000)

Michael Trunkes, 1:00:16, 10th overall, swim 13:11 (74th place), transition  :54 (14th place), bike 26:24 (15th overall), transition :52 (177th overall), run 18:57 (4th place).

PARK TO PARK ONE MILE SWIM, New York City, NY (August 20, 2000)

Scott Willett, 19:30, 2nd male overall
Julie Denney, 23:07, 2nd female overall

FALMOUTH ROAD RACE (7.2 miles), Falmouth, MA (August 20, 2000)

Jennifer Lynch, 60:60 clock, 59:56 net, 658th female overall

MOUNT WASHINGTON BICYCLE HILL CLIMB, Gorham, NH (August 19, 2000)

Guillermo Rojas, 1:15:55, 78th overall, 28th division

Race description: "The Mt. Washington Bicycle Hill Climb is only 7.6 miles long, but it's arguably the toughest 7.6 miles ever raced. The road climbs 4,727 feet at an average 12% grade, with the final 200 yards at 22.5%. A third of the road is unpaved, and there are a total of 72 turns and switchbacks. The longest straightaway is only 3/10 of a mile, and it's on dirt. The wind chill factor plays a role almost every year, as Mt. Washington's summit winds are known as some of the most brutal in the world.  Mount Washington held the highest wind speed (231 miles per hour) recorded on earth, although Guam allegedly wrested this title courtesy of Super Typhoon Paka."

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS, Central Park, NY (August 19, 2000)

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Open Men 3rd place team
Masters Men 1st place team
Senior Masters Men 2nd place team