2001 Snowflake Four Miler

Eve Kaplan

SUNDRIES

  • Photo 01:  Your limousine could not bring you to the starting line, because car traffic is banned from the park on weekends.  So you do the next best thing --- you ride your bike to the starting line, as David Monti does.
  • Photo 02Margaret Nolan concurs with the above opinion, as she explains to Lynn Blackstone --- "There is no other way to get to the races!"
  • Photo 03Stacy Creamer and Stuart Calderwood.  There is color (meaning orange) and then there is the practical matter of keeping warm.
  • Photo 04:  As far as we can tell, this picture does not belong on this website since it violates the operating principle (or is it operating principal?)
  • Photo 05:  The key to a successful team (first-place men's team and second-place women's team) is a singularity of purpose and a united front facing the challenges of the world.
  • Photo 06Sylvie Kimché and Mary Rosado.  There is no such thing as the over-exposure of the PowerBar logo.
  • Photo 07:  At the post-race get-together at The Parlor, somebody ordered this unusual meal of a small order of tomato sauce.  This is what gives us runners such bad reputation ...
  • Photo 08:  A delayed presentation of the Sixth Man Award by Audrey Kingsley to Craig Chilton.  It was three months ago that the award was first announced, and things have changed since.  Based upon the men's scoring race last week, Craig's stock has gone up to the Tenth Man Award.  Meanwhile, based upon today's race, Audrey is up for the seventh woman award ...
  • Movie 01:  People who get out of bed too early look lethargic until they get their first dose of caffeine.  Sasha has apparent not had her cup of coffee yet, as she resisted attempts to get her to smile and even ignored how perilously she is close to being stepped upon.

MEN'S RACE

MILE 1

  • Photo 11Toby Tanser tugs right behind Peter Sherry (NYAC), a Virginia resident who had qualified for the US Olympic Trials at 5000m and 10000m
  • Photo 12:  Orange pack running with Alan Ruben, Stuart Calderwood, Peter Allen and Tom Phillips.
  • Photo 13Charlie Stark, and if you look hard and long enough, you will also find Fasil Yilma.
  • Photo 14Rich Hollander, Larry King, Mark Gumbiner and Blair Boyer
  • Photo 15Arthur Cooke

MILE 3.5 (East 92nd Street) (photo credit: Bola Awofeso)

  • Photo 21Toby Tanser is now by himself.  Here is what he has to say about Peter Sherry: "We ran together to the two mile mark.  When he heard the split of 9:45 called out, he must have thought that it was too slow and he just stepped on the pedal and took off."
  • Photo 22: Alan Ruben
  • Photo 23: Peter Allen
  • Photo 24: Stuart Calderwood
  • Photo 25: Noel Comess and Tom Phillips
  • Photo 26: Graeme Reid and Kevin Arlyck
  • Photo 27: James Siegel
  • Photo 28Jon Weilbaker
  • Photo 29Victor Osayi, Vincent Trinquesse, Charlie Stark, Tyronne Culpepper
  • Photo 30Larry King
  • Photo 31Rich Hollander
  • Photo 32Gordon Streeter
  • Photo 33Bob Summers
  • Photo 35Blair Boyer
  • Photo 36Roger Liberman
  • Photo 37Arthur Cooke
  • Photo 38: Craig Plummer
  • Photo 39Jeff Wilson
  • Photo 40Jerome O'Shaughnessy, taking it easy in the middle of his 20-mile run in preparation for the Boston Marathon
  • Photo 41Chip Olsen
  • Photo 42:  How much is that doggy in the window ... ?

MILE 3.9 (East 96th Street)


WOMEN'S RACE

1 MILE (West 91st Street)

  • Photo 71Margaret Angell in third place, leading the chase pack
  • Photo 72Stephanie Gould and Margaret Schotte, not a single orange thread to be seen anywhere on them.  But what of the orange growing out of Stephanie's ears?  They belong to Stacy Creamer!
  • Photo 73Shula Sarner, behind Amy Stein (GNY)
  • Photo 74Kim Mannen
  • Photo 75Mary Rosado
  • Photo 76Sylvie Kimché

3 MILES (CAT HILL) (photo credit: Bola Awofeso)

3.75 MILES (East 94th Street)

  • Photo 91Margaret Angell and the gap on her pursuer
  • Photo 92Stacy Creamer, with Margaret Schotte and Stephanie Gould in the background.  This photo should be read in conjunction with these final times:
     
    Stacy Creamer (CPTC), bib 3911, 13th place, 24:13
    Tara Maguire (TRR), bib 3573, 14th place, 24:13
    Marisa Hanson (WTC), not in photo, 15th place, 24:15
    Michele Magdo (GNY), bib 2508, 16th place, 24:17
    Margaret Schotte (CPTC), blue hat+white top+black tights, 17th place, 24:18
    Jamie Sutherland (NYH), bib 3209, 18th place, 24:19
    Stephanie Gould (CPTC), dark top+black tight shorts, 19th place, 24:26
     
    This just goes to show you how much can happen in the last 400m (and especially how our two track runners Stacy and Margaret were able to improve their positions)
     
  • Photo 93Margaret Schotte, ahead of Stephanie GouldMargaret Schotte's pre-race equipment check: "Look!  Not a single piece of orange!"  Her  post-race comment: "What you mean there is no picture of me?  I was waving at you when I passed by!"
  • Photo 94Shula Sarner, followed by Lauren Eckhart
  • Photo 95Audrey Kingsley
  • Photo 96Kellie Quinones and Kim Mannen
  • Photo 97Sarah Gross
  • Photo 98Eve Kaplan (cheered by a French-accented voice!)
  • Photo 99Mary Rosado
  • Photo 100Diane Lebowitz
  • Photo 101Sandra Scibelli and Mindy Solkin
  • Photo 102Ana Echeverri
  • Photo 103Carol Tyler

Individual accomplishments:

  • Margaret Angell bettered her time of 23:47 of last year to 23:17 this year
  • Stacy Creamer set another PR at 24:13, with a 5:58 last mile.
  • Shula Sarner got a personal record by a stunning amount of three minutes, going from 28+ to 25:02
  • Lauren Eckhart's time today should be considered in light of being flu-ridden during the week.  This is a shame, because she just had an amazing Colgate Games indoor track series.
  • Kim Mannen, now a track runner instead of a marathon runner, treated this race as 8x800m knowing that nobody around her is going to beat her in the last 800m.  She set a PR by over a minute.  (P.S.  She did not fall off the course)
  • Even though she wore a bright orange fleece jacket, there was not a single picture of Cat Goodridge.  Just as well, since Jerome O'Shaughnessy will not be able to email her annotated copies ...

Historical note: The women's race was a club scoring race with a huge turnout.  The race was won by Zofia Wieciorkowska in a official time of 22:03.  This means that the course record of 22:01 held by our Candace Strobach is safe for another year.  Last year, Zofia Wieciorkowska won in a time of 22:02 and surely would have broken the course record if she did not have to fight her way through the back of the men's pack.

Team accomplishment:

  • TEAM PHOTO:  Collectively, the team finished in second place, just two points out.  This is one of our best finishes in years.
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