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LEGEND
American record W55-59 800m 2:37.5 (Sylvie Kimché)
American record M35-39 4x800m 8:17.6 (Paul Groce,
Chris Potter, Glen Carnes, Armando Oliveira)
World record W35-39 4x800m 10:01.9 (Kim Mannen, Darlene
Miloski, Sue Pearsall, Devon Martin)
World Record W40-49 10:16.7 4x800m (Alayne Adams, Stacy
Creamer, Sue Krogstad-Hill, Catherine Stone-Borkowski)
Women 4x800m relay
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01 Three teams in the race. Here are the
lead-off runners: Jessica Reifer for the Central Park
Track open team, Kim Mannen for the Central Park Track
Club W35-39 team and Alayne Adams for the Central Park
Track Club W40-49 team. The W35-39 is hoping to break
their own AR/WR time of 10:23.6, while the W40-49 team is aiming
for the AR/WR time of 10:26.5.
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02 Zoooming by after one lap, still together.
In the back, Stuart Calderwood is screaming: "Hold
back, Alayne!" Alayne is a total rookie without a
800m time ever. Over many years of running, she has also
made sure that she does not have a mile time either. She
does have a 400m time of 70.2 at the Millrose Games this year
while running a 101.5 degree fever.
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03 Two laps in the race, Alayne Adams falls
back a little bit as Jessica Reifer tolls Kim Mannen
along.
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04 Three laps in the race, Jessica Reifer pulls
away from Kim Mannen
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05 Second leg runners on the line: Alexandra
Horowitz (open), Darlene Miloski (35-39) and Stacy
Creamer (40-49)
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06 Final straightway on the last lap, Jessica
Reifer tolls Kim Mannen to a personal best of 2:22.
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07 Darlene Miloski shadowed by Alexandra
Horowitz
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08 Darlene Miloski and Alexandra Horowitz
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09 Darlene Miloski
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10 Stacy Creamer
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11 Third leg runners on the line: Sue Pearsall
(35-39), Ana Echeverri (open) and Sue Krogstad-Hill
(40-49)
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12 Final drive towards the exchange from Alexandra
Horowitz and Darlene Miloski
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13 Sue Pearsall and Ana Echeverri
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14 Sue Pearsall and Ana Echeverri
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15 Sue Krogstad-Hill
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16 Sue Pearsall and Ana Echeverri
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17 Sue Krogstad-Hill
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18 Anchor leg runners on the line: Devon Martin,
Marie Davis and Catherine Stone-Borkowski
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19 Catherine Stone-Borkowski ready to receive
the baton. For the W40-49 team, the average for the first
three legs was 2:39, which is behind the target time of 2:37.
Not to fear, because this anchor leg runner just ran 2:21 at
the MAC Championships two weeks ago. The fact is that
the idea for this team did not even occur until after she arrived.
After all, Alayne Adams would not be running an 800m
for recreation, would she?
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20 Devon Martin, cheered by John Gleason
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21 Catherine Stone-Borkowski passing Marie
Davis
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22 Devon Martin. For the W35-39 team,
Kim Mannen ran 5 seconds faster than the first race for
a personal record, and Darlene Miloski had a season best
too. There was no question that would break their own
world record. The only suspense is if they could go under
the 10 minute mark.
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23 Devon Martin crossing the finish line
in 10:01.9. New world record for W35-39.
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24 Catherine Stone-Borkowski crossing the
finish line in 10:16.7. New world record for W40-49.
Catherine's split time was 2:20, a season best. Yes, she
has made an impact on the team in her first race.
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25 Group photo of W40-49 team: Catherine Stone-Borkowski,
Alayne Adams, Stacy Creamer and Sue Krogstad-Hill.
Catherine has the National Masters Indoor Championships next
week, and then she will be on the roads with our masters team,
which is so far undefeated this season.
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48 Alternate group photo of W40-49 team: Catherine
Stone-Borkowski, Alayne Adams, Stacy Creamer and
Sue Krogstad-Hill. Alayne has already changed because
she needs to get to the airport to catch a plane. Imagaine
this wonderful matter-of-fact statement: "Oh, I'm flying
somewhere this afternoon. But I think I'll stop by the
Armory to set a world record on the way ..."
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26 Group photo of W35-39 team: Kim Mannen,
Darlene Miloski, Sue Pearsall, Devon Martin
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27 Group photo of W35-39 team: Kim Mannen,
Darlene Miloski, Sue Pearsall, Devon Martin
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28 Group photo of W35-39 team: Kim Mannen,
Darlene Miloski, Sue Pearsall, Devon Martin, in a playful
mood
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29 Group photo: Kim Mannen, Devon Martin, Stacy
Creamer, Sylvie Kimché, Catherine Stone-Borkowski, Sue Pearsall,
Darlene Miloski
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30 Group photo: Kim Mannen, Devon Martin, Stacy
Creamer, Sylvie Kimché, Catherine Stone-Borkowski, Sue Pearsall,
Darlene Miloski
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45 Group photo: Kim Mannen, Devon Martin, Stacy
Creamer, Sylvie Kimché, Catherine Stone-Borkowski, Sue Pearsall,
Darlene Miloski, Sue Krogstad-Hill
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46 Group photo: Kim Mannen, Devon Martin, Stacy
Creamer, Sylvie Kimché, Catherine Stone-Borkowski, Sue Pearsall,
Darlene Miloski, Sue Krogstad-Hill in a playful mood
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From the Journals (3/23/2003)
W55-59 800m In this event, Sylvie Kimché ran
2:37.5 to establish the new American record. She just
fell short of the world record of 2:36.75, which means that
Sylvie's business is still not finished. She has one more
shot at the National Masters Indoor Championships next week.
This has been a long long journey for Sylvie. In her youth,
she was a competitive skier. Running came to her much
later in life. In her first years as a masters runner,
she was dominant in the local scene with a range that goes from
track sprints to the marathon. Then came the years when
she had physical problems and gave up running. Instead,
she moved to Columbus, Ohio and took up golf. In the last
couple of years, she was able to run a bit and then some more
and then some more even faster. In 2002, she was the NYRR
W55-59 Runner of the Year, wining 15 out of 16 local road races
(note: the lone loss was to an out-of-town runner). This
indoor season was her first serious comeback on the track.
After finding that she could run 2:41 for 800m at the MAC Indoor
Championships, she made a dedicated effort to go for the record
this time. Yes, happiness can come again and again in
our lives ...
W35-39 4x800m relay At the last Thursday Night
At The Races meet in February, 2003, the team of Kim Mannen,
Darlene Miloski, Sue Pearsall and Stacy Creamer
set the world best time of 10:23.3. Today's meet was
the last chance to improve on that record. For this race,
Stacy Creamer joined the W40-49 team and Devon Martin
took her place as the anchor leg runner.
On the first leg, Kim Mannen followed
the lead of teammate Jessica Reifer and came through
with a personal best of 2:22. That time would move her
up to 8th all-time best in club history. More importantly,
it was a 5 second improvement in time over that previous race.
On the second leg last time, Darlene Miloski
surprised us with a 5 second improvement on her season best.
In this race, Darlene once again had an improvement of ... 5
seconds to 2:29. Question: Can we find yet another
race for her? But we wouldn't be surprised anymore, would
we?
On the third leg, Sue Pearsall held the
same 2:43 pace as in the previous race.
When Devon Martin took over, there was
already 10 seconds on hand. In the previous race, Devon
was held out for the distance medley relay team at the USATF
National Indoor Championships. Today, Devon improved on
Stacy's time by 12 seconds by running 2:26. There was
no suspense in this race, except whether they may come under
10 minutes. Their final time was 10:01.9, a new world
best.
W40-39 4x800m relay Our original
plan included only two 35-39 teams. At the MAC Indoor Championships,
Catherine Stone-Borkowski indicated to us that she wanted
to join our club. Since she had won the 800m race easily
in 2:21, this led to look us at the possibility of forming a W40-49
team for record purposes. The American/world record was
10:26.5 or 2:37 per person. For our previous personnel,
this was not impossible but we would have to twist a few arms
for a quixotic project. With the arrival of a 2:21 runner,
this became quite feasible.
On the first leg, we had a total rookie in Alayne
Adams, who has no previous 800m/mile times in her long illustrious
career. But if she runs 17:XX for 5,000m road races, how
slow can she be? She did have a 400m time of 70.5 at the
2003 Millrose Games. On that basis, we had projected that
she would run in the low 2:30's. But we were wrong!
That 400m time was run when she was running a 101.5 degree fever,
after which she came down with strep throat and bronchitis.
Today, Alayne's time was 2:28.08, nearly ready to move into
the top 10 best in our history!
On the second leg, Stacy Creamer transferred
from the W35-39 team (note: an older runner can run for a younger
team, which is classified according to the age of its youngest
runner). But it was a risky affair today, as she pulled
a calf muscle more than a week ago. At the Tuesday practice,
she was unable to do the baton passes. Her preparation
for this race consisted of NOT running at all for the last four
days. She was just going to warm up and see how she felt,
with Sylvie Kimché ready to step in if needed.
She was good enough to go, and her time of 2:37 today was even
one second faster than that previous race.
On the third leg, Sue Krogstad-Hill had
one of those races after which she asked us to destroy her splits.
Unfortunately for her, we won't do that. Not because of
any journalistic ethics, but because somewhere we have to take
revenge for the many years that she tortured us on the road
and track while wearing the colors of that other team in town.
Kidding aside (because we really like her), her time was 2:44
at the MAC Indoor Championships so her 2:50 today was somehow
slower. But not that slow.
The average pace for the first three legs was 2:39, slower than
the 2:37 needed. If we had Sylvie Kimché on the
anchor leg, we would probably fall seconds short. We don't
know what Yumi Ogita or Kellie Quinones might
have done instead. But no matter, for on this day we had
the MAC champion to run the anchor leg. Catherine Stone-Borkowski
ran steady splits of 33.06. 34.49, 36.90 and 36.17 for 2:20.62,
which puts her in 6th all-time best 800m in club history in
her first ever race. The final time for the team was 10:16.7,
a new world best.
Men 4x800m relay
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31 The Central Park Track Club M35-39 team had
the identical line-up as the team that set the American record
of 8:28.3. Lead-off runner is Paul Groce.
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32 Paul Groce
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33 Second leg runner on the line: Chris
Potter
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34 Paul Groce
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35 Chris Potter
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36 Chris Potter
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37 Third leg runner on the line: Glen
Carnes
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38 Glen Carnes
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39 Glen Carnes
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40 Glen Carnes
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95 Glen Carnes, cheered by Jerome O'Shaughnessy
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41 Anchor leg runner Armando Oliveira
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96 Armando Oliveira
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42 Armando Oliveira
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43 Armando Oliveira about to reach the
finish line, in 8:17.6. New American record
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44 Team photo: Armando Oliveira, Glen Carnes,
Paul Groce, Chris Potter
M35-39 4x800m relay When our men
set the American record at the last Thursday Night At The Races
meet, they were probably aghast afterwards when they read their
splits. 56 seconds for the first half and 68 seconds for
the second half is no way to run a race. All of them knew
that they could pace themselves better. Today, they went
in with the same line-up. Things also got a bit interesting
because there was some competition from one other team.
On the first leg, Paul Groce went out
in 57 and came back in 63 for 2:00, which was a 3 second improvement
over his previous race. Actually, he looked a lot more
smoother too. The competition was nowhere in sight.
On the second leg, Chris Potter went
out in 61 and came back in 63 for 2:04, which was a 4 second
improvement over his previous race. The competition still
has not appeared yet.
On the third leg, Glen Carnes went out
in 66 and came back in 63 for 2:10, which was a 1 second improvement
over his previous race. Also, this was the first leg in
which anyone ran negative splits. This was motivated by
the runner on the other team making up a huge gap although once
he caught up, he could not pull away. The negative split
was achieved by Glen through battling back and forth with the
other runner.
On the fourth leg, Armando Oliveira stayed
right behind the other runner for two laps. At 500m, he
probed by making a move to pass. When there was no response,
he put in a sustained drive in the last 300m. As seen
in this photo,
the margin of victory was in fact quite large. Armando's
splits were 62 going out and 60 coming back for 2:02, which
was a 4 second improvement over his previous race. The
final time was 8:17.6, a new American record, which was an 11
second improvement. It was a happy way to close the books
for the year.
60m
MILE
400m
800m
3000m
Spectators
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53 Stacy Creamer and Kieran Calderwood
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54 Sue Pearsall, Bola Awofeso and
Darlene Miloski. Sue's explanation: "We're
trying to make an Oreo cookie here." Hmm, the last
time we ate one of those, the colors were reversed ... ?
Next question: Should this photo go on the recruitment
poster?
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55 Kieran Calderwood has the perfect record
of 2-0. Both times when his mother set world relay records,
he was fast asleep
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