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1998 Club Championship
PRE-RACE ACTIVITIES
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1: Peter Allen told his sons
to smile at the camera. Meanwhile, Alan Turner is
now sporting a Westchester Track Club singlet.
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2: Sylvie Kimche was probably telling Irene
Jackson about her new house in Columbus. Sylvie has
promised to send us a picture of that house, so that she won't
have to describe it to everyone. So far, Sylvie said that
she is enjoying the country life. Hmmm?
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3: John Sargent is putting on those ultra-fast
neon green Nike shoes for this longest race in his life.
The good thing is that this is guaranteed to be a personal record.
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4: Michael Garland entered the race at the last
moment, out of team loyalty. He has been running sparingly
since injuring himself at the 52 second (oops, 62 second) quartermile
race at the MAC mini-meet in early August. He was partly
reassured by a teammate, who claimed to have done wonderfully
well in a similar situation. After the race, that was revealed
to be a white lie.
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5: Jud Santos changed in his personal dressing
room.
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6: Here are Tyronne Culpepper (in the extra-heavy
official club t-shirt), Carsten Strandlod (in the contraband
orange NB singlet) and Hank Berkowitz (in the extra-light
contraband official club singlet).
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7: The two Italians want you all to know about their loyalty.
Carmine Petracca got off his job at 8am and ran over here
for the 830am race start. Michele Tagliati finished
his shift at Mount Sinai, caught 3 hours of sleep, bounced up
and came to the race. "Forza Pantani!"
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8: Victor Osayi and Fasil Yilma posed in
front of someone they had better beat in the race.
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9: Tony Ruiz made it to this year's championship
race. The unconfirmed rumor is that he missed last year's
race in order to hang out in a pool. This year, he kept
the partying on the night before the race.
FIRST MILE
4.75 MILE (400m to go)
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20: This is the overall winner
of the race, Brian Clas (of NYAC), who set a course record.
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21: Alan Ruben led the team with a PR-setting performance.
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22: Hank Berkowitz checked his watch.
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23: Peter Allen had his whole family waiting at
the finish line.
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24: This is the overall female winner Kim Griffin
(of Warren Street), with our friend Stuart Calderwood running
on the far side.
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25: Victor Osayi set a PR as well as struck terror
in Jud Santos, who was just a precious few seconds ahead
but kept hearing people yelling Victor's name.
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26: Tony Ruiz did alright in the initial stages
but slowed down to a jog near the end. His analysis of his
present conditioning was that he could do great in anything under
5K, he could possibly gut it out for a four miler, but a five
miler is one mile too long. However, based upon the depth
of the team, he figured that he would be able to score if he ran
around 29 minutes.
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27: Here is yet another blurry picture (same thing the
previous week at the Manhattan Half Marathon) of Carsten Strandlod,
who swung to the outside as soon as he came up to the photographer's
spot. He claimed that it was unintentional. Right!
In this picture, the more visible people may be Tim Robinson
and Michael Garland in the far background.
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28: Here are Tim Robinson, Michael Garland
and our friend Jean Chodnicki (of Warren Street).
Tim has just passed Michael and seized the tenth (and last scoring)
position on the club. The last time that Tim finished as
the tenth runner in this race, his time was about two minutes
faster ...
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29: Tyronne Culpepper was the beacon for Michele
Tagliati in the far background
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30: Michele Tagliati ran close to his PR despite
having only 3 hours of sleep. It certainly looked very painful
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31: Fasil Yilma was running right with Michele
for a while, until Fasil had to stop and go through his usual
stretching routine because of the mysterious pain.
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32: Stacy Creamer managed to tie her personal record,
which was set some eleven years ago. Judging from the picture,
she has certainly put in the effort.
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33: Frank Handelman has been down this path many
times over the years.
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34: Jack Brennan has been down this path many times
over the years, usually with Frank Handelman.
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35: Sarah Gross led our Women's Masters.
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36: Someone in a white singlet went quickly by.
We would have missed her completely but for the fact that her
personal cheerleader (Scott Willet) was running along the
bridle path while yelling encouragement. Yes, that swinging
ponytail belonged to Aubin Sullivan.
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37: Mary Messite is being chased by Irene Jackson
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38: Jane Harris was our third Women's Master!
CHEERING SQUAD
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17: Betty Marolla formed
the (ex-)presidential cheering squad of one near East 95th Street.
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41: Our critic Frank Schiro was present, with Brian
and Darlene. Frank was duly unimpressed with a team whose
fastest runner is 41 years old.
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42: Scott Willet was down on his knees because
he was exhausted from running all over the park to cheer the runners.
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43: Bola Awofeso said that he could not run this
race because he did that very tough road workout on Thursday.
Huh? Excuse us!? And look closely --- he
is wearing a bicycling shirt! It makes us wonder where his
loyalties lie.
POST-RACE ACTIVITIES
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51: Alayne Adams, Carsten
Strandlod, Michael Garland and Tim Robinson
exchanged notes on team running. Alayne thanked Carsten
for being a tall orange beacon leading the way before her.
Tim apologised to Michael for passing him near the end, although
he did that sufficiently early that it was not considered to be
in bad taste.
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52: Here is the cabal of master runners Sid Howard,
Frank Handelman, Jack Brennan and Joe Simonte.
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53: Michele Tagliati and Fasil Yilma
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54: The web photographer had the pleasure of meeting Caryl
and Steve Baron for the first time, even though all of
us are longtime members.
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55: Here are the two merry pranksters Raphael Devalle
and John Sargent. They got behind the web photographer
and then said loudly, "Look! This guy has a nice camera.
Let's rip it off!"
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56: According to the finger-wagging Sid Howard,
Kevin Arlyck's good performance today was due to the set
of 600m-300m repeats that Sid prescribed for the track workout
a few days ago.
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57: Alayne Adams and Carol Tyler
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58: In a major role reversal, Sid Howard found
Scott Willett yelling "Keep the jog alive!" at
the crest of Cat Hill.
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59: Aubin Sullivan and Audrey Kingsley (note:
they will be shocked to find that there was no accompanying annotation)
TEAM PHOTO
Okay, here are the disastrous series of pictures
of the team taken after the race. The problem is that the
digital camera takes photos with 640x480 pixels, and we have thirty
people or so in the picture. This means that the resolution
is low for individual faces. Even Adobe Photoshop could not
help. However, you may still be able to discern certain people
because of their unique characteristics (e.g. Frank Schiro's
hair). An interesting question is why these five pictures
should be slightly different in the number of people present and
their positioning. Well, it is just that this team of individualists
was very difficult to assemble, and people kept showing up ...
BRUNCH AT CAROL'S (photo credit: Sylvie Kimché)
After the club championship race, some people went
to have brunch at Carol Tyler's place before the softball
game.
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73 Lynn Blackstone, Carsten Strandlod and Metta
Strandlod soak in some sun on the terrace.
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71 Mary Rosado and Lynn Blackstone lay back in
the sun.
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74 Carol Tyler readies Sid Howard for the food.
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72 Here are Sid Howard and Carol Tyler a
while later. Observe very carefully that Carol Tyler
was still eating, while Sid Howard had nothing but a contented
smile on his face and two stacks of empty plates before him.
Impressive!
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75 Jud Santos and Sarah Gross in the back, Dave
Blackstone in front, all with very perplexing expressions.
Let's hope it was not the food.
BEST PHOTO AWARD
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99: This photo is in the best tradition of this web site.
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