MOUNT PENN MUDFEST (15K TRAIL RUN), Reading, PA (March 30, 2002)

Ramon Bermo, 1:04:50, 10th place
G'mo Rojas, 1:10:53, 25th place
J.P. Cheuvront, 1:12:14, 29th place

RABBIT RUN 5K, Central Park, NYC (March 30, 2002)

MEN, 2nd place open team

WOMEN, 3rd place open team

CENTRAL PARK TRACK CLUB RELAYS, The Armory, NYC (March 26, 2002)

PHOTO ALBUM

200m-400m-800m-1200m-1600m

Team A, 12:36:28
    Bill Schaaf, 30.46
    Frank Handelman, 62.17
    Craig Plummer, 2:24.95
    Charlotte Cutler, 3:46.72
    Tom Phillips, 4:52.02

Team B, 12:48.1
    Jonathan Cane, 27.2
    Denise Whittaker-Crain, 1:18.3
    Audrey Kingsley, 2:4.2
    John Affleck, 3:37.2
    Erik Goetze, 4:40.2

Team C, 12:31.43 (CHAMPIONS!)
    Bola Awofeso, 29.10
    Chris Potter, 54.69
    Norman Goluskin, 2:41.87
    Zeb Nelessen, 3:40.70
    Isaya Okwiya, 4:45.07

Team D, 12:43.90
    Raphael Devalle, 27.78
    Frank Morton, 1:09.03
    Sid Howard, 2:26.0
    Jerome O'Shaughnessy, 4:00.3
    Steve Paddock, 4:41.15

Team E, 12:49.99
    Sarah Gross, 34.92
    Bob Laufer, 73.19
    James Siegel, 2:25.89
    Margaret Angell, 3:41.93
    Craig Chilton, 4:44.06

Team F, 13:34.53
    Mary V. Rosado, 34.87
    Jesse Lansner, 1:01.63
    Adam Newman, 2:28.54
    Dion Mulvihill, 4:31.21
    Kevin Arlyck, 4:58.38

Team G, 14:09.58
    Melissa Tidwell, 26.7
    Sue Pearsall, 67.3
    John Gleason, 2:48.5
    Marie Davis, 4:16.9
    Chele Modica, 5:30.3

Team H, 13:11.0
    Julio Rodriguez, 26.4
    Kim Mannen, 67.4
    Harry Lichtenstein, 2:54.46
    Hugh Watson, 3:20
    Margaret Schotte, 5:24.24

Team I, 12:41.7
    Elena, 29.0
    Marty Levine, 65.8
    Eugene Lingner, 2:34.2
    Paul Bendich, 3:52.7
    Armando Oliveira, 4:40.0

Technical note:  Please!  These times were self-reported, so don't take them too seriously!

OCEAN DRIVE MARATHON, Cape May, NJ (March 24, 2002)

Steve Eick, 2:58:32, 4th place overall, 2nd M30-39

ARAKAWA SHIMIN MARATHON, Tokyo, Japan (March 24, 2002)

From Charles Allard Jr:

I have been amiss in reporting my running foibles. I only report these as I am afraid of being found out.

On the 13th of March I decided to test my pacing skills in the Tokyo City Marathon Run & Walk. Billed as Tokyo's version of the NYC Marathon before it became commercial, what it lacks in size it makes up for in enthusiasim. There are two races, a 10k and 20k, each with no time limits. They are run in laps around the Imperial Palace. One lap consists of about 2k of flat, 1.5k up a long hill and 1.5k down the same hill forming an almost a perfect 5k circle around acres of parkland and grass. Not being a democracy (constitutional monarchy) this oasis is virtually entirely closed to the public of course. Central park is real jewel in case anyone forgets. I used the race as an attempt to get my pacing down for the up coming London Marathon (any one else running???) and out of 33 people ended up third in 1:21:50. This was a particularly happy race for me as I ran the entire way with a visitor from the UK running in his first race in Japan who used me to push himself to a PB.  Not quite my own PB but pretty neat anyway.

On the 21st of March on a public holiday, I attempted to do a modified Thursday workout by entering a 10k race (2002 Tokyo Spring Race) available on www3.runnet.co.jp. Running the first half at about 10 seconds per k slower than the 2nd half I eked out a 38 min 10k and still came in 12th out of 357, 30 year olds (only two more years of this!!) and 34th of 1133 total guys. This only goes to show how hard CPTC runners do their workouts!!

Finally I ran a complete marathon (The Arakawa Shimin Marathon) on Sunday. Why? Well, I went out for a 20 mile run (as per my marathon training schedule) and FULLY INTENED TO STOP (as I did in the same race last year). BUT, the weather was nice, the cherry trees were in full bloom and I had just completed 20 miles close to my target time of 2:10 so I slowed down and walked and jogged the last ten k very, very slowly.  Will someone please, please please tell me if I am totally out of my mind and have totally wasted my chances for a good London Marathon finishing time??

16th ANNUAL MARCH MADNESS BIATHLON, Central Park, NYC (March 24, 2002)

Toby Tanser, 55:57, 6th overall, 2nd M30-34
Noel Comess, 1:01:21, 23rd overall, 2nd M40-44
Jerome O'Shaughnessy, 1:10:35, 130th overall, 9th M45-49

WASHINGTON DC MARATHON, Washington, DC (March 24, 2002)

Sylvie Burlot, 3:08:39 (7:11 min/mile) (44:13 at 10K, 1:32:40 at half, 2:12.31 at 30K), 7th overall female, 5th F25-29
Vincent Trinquesse, 3:23:02 (7:43 min/mile) (48:14 at 10K, 1:40:52 at half, 2:24:26 at 30K), 222nd overall male, 41st M35-39

USATF NATIONAL MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS, Reggie Lewis Center, Boston, MA (March 22-24, 2002)

PHOTO ALBUM

200m
Alan Bautista, 25.54, 8th M35-39
Luca Trovato, 26.73, 11th M40-44

400m
Denise Whittaker-Crain, 1:10:16, 3rd F45-49
Mary V. Rosado, 1:16.55, 6th W50-54
Sylvie Kimché, 1:14:08, 4th W55-59

Alan Bautista, 54.98, 3rd M35-39
Pat Lewis, 56.14, 5th M40-44
Alston Brown, 53.36, (non-US)
Frank Handelman, 1:01.81, 7th M55-59 

800m
Devon Sargent, 2:21.30, 2nd W30-34
Lauren Eckhart, 2:29.66 (non-US)
Kim Mannen, 2:28.44, 1st W35-39 (national champion)
Sue Pearsall, 2:40.06, 4th W35-39
Denise Whittaker-Crain, 2:44.36, 2nd W45-49
Mary Diver, 2:58.73, 4th W45-49
Mary V. Rosado, 2:51.84, 5th W50-54
Sylvie Kimché, 2:46.78, 2nd W55-59

Craig Chilton, 2:04.76 (non-US)
Chris Potter, 2:06.46, 4th M35-39
Pat Lewis, 2:08.57, 5th M40-44
Craig Plummer, 2:18.14, 9th, M40-44
Bola Awofeso, 2:31.04, 11th M40-44
Alston Brown, 2:06.73, (non-US)
Richard Hamner, 2:20.39, 3rd M55-59
Frank Handelman, 2:25.79, 7th M55-59
Sid Howard, 2:20.87, 1st M60-64 (national champion)
Dan Hamner, 2:31.32, 5th M60-64
Norman Goluskin, 2:45.77, 12th M60-64
Bob Laufer, 2:46.13, 13th M60-64
Jim Aneshansley, 2:34.35, 5th M65-69

Mile
Lauren Eckhart, 5:23.77 (non-US)
Devon Sargent, 5:37.49, 2nd W30-34
Sue Pearsall, 5:56.15, 1st W35-39 (national champion)
Mary V. Rosado, 6:06.00, 5th W50-54
Sylvie Kimché, 6:09.49, 3rd W55-59

Craig Chilton, 4:33.33 (non-US)
Erik Goetze, 4:33.38, 3rd M30-34
Craig Plummer, 5:18.03, 20th M40-44
Bola Awofeso, 5:42.02, 22nd M40-44
Marty Levine, 5:48.02, 23rd M40-44
Sid Howard, 5:10.59, 1st M60-64 (national champion)
Bob Laufer, 5:57.69, 8th M60-64

3000m
Erik Goetze, 9:07.65, 5th M30-39

Pentathlon
Craig Plummer, 2375 points, 7th M40-49

4x400m
Central Park Track Club, 4:41.16, 2nd M60-69

POWER-BAR 20 MILE RUN & RELAY, Central Park, NYC (March 23, 2002)

MEN, 2nd place open team

WOMEN

RELAY TEAMS

2-person males
David Howard-Michael Sarnoff, 2:10:24 (1:01:36-1:08:49), 2:10:25, 3rd overall

2-person co-ed
Josh Feldman-Audrey Kingsley, 2:06:09 (58:16-1:07:53), 2nd overall

4-person coed
Sarah Gross-Tyronne Culpepper-Shelley Farmer, Jesus Montero, 2:14:29 (36:06, 33:06, 35:42, 29:35), 1st place

4-person masters coed
Tom Phillips-Graeme Reid-Tim Evans-Alayne Adams, 1:58:57 (27:17-29:44-31:51-30:05), 1st place

4th ANNUAL FRONT RUNNERS TRACK MEET, The Armory, NYC (March 17, 2002)

PHOTO ALBUM

60m
Ardian Krasniqi, 7.6
Julio Rodriguez, 8.1

200m
Pat Lewis, 26.1
Luca Trovato, 26.5
Julio Rodriguez, 27.2

400m
Mary Rosado, 1:13.9
Sylvie Kimché, 1:14.2
Hugh Watson, 53.3
Pat Lewis, 55.5 (RP)
Richie Hamner, 55.8 (PR)
Luca Trovato, 61.1

800m
Mary Diver, 3:02.4
Sylvie Kimché, 2:44.0
Craig Chilton, 2:03.6
Armando Oliveira, 2:03.9
Ardian Krasniqi, 2:07.8
Tom Hartshorne, 2:11.3
Jesse Lansner, 2:21.91
Frank Morton, 2:39.1

Mile
Marie Davis, 5:50.3 (PR)
Eve Bois, 5:51.7 (PR)
Steve Paddock, 4:39.8 
Stuart Calderwood, 4:49.3
Bill Schaaf, 4:59.7
Harry Lichtenstein, 5:44.2
Marty Levine, 5:49.5 (PR)
Bob Laufer, 6:06.1

3000m
Marissa Tiamfook, 12:48.3

4x800m relay
Central Park Track Club Men 60-69 (Jim Aneshansley, Dan Hamner, Norman Goluskin, Sid Howard), 9:58.0 (new world record)
Central Park Track Club Women 30-39 (Sue Pearsall, Kim Mannen, Denise Whittaker-Crain, Devon Sargent),  10:20.5 (new American record)

SPLITS FOR MEN

Jim Aneshansley, 2:31.00
Dan Hamner, 2:30.74
Norman Goluskin, 2:38.33
Sid Howard, 2:17.91

Runner	Distance	Clock time	Time/200m
Jim Aneshansley	200m 400m 600m 800m	36:07 1:14:87 1:52:79 2:31:00	36.07 38.80 37.92 38.21
Dan Hamner	1000m 1200m 1400m 1600m	3:06.95 3:43.92 4:22.79 5:07.74	35.95 36.97 38.87 38.95
Norman Goluskin	1800m 2000m 2200m 2400m	5:39.23 6:18.62 6:59.29 7:40.07	37.49 39.39 40.67 40.78
Sid Howard	2600m 2800m 3000m 3200m	8:10.98 8:45.48 9:22.07 9:57.98	30.91 34.50 36.59 35.91

SPLITS FOR WOMEN

Watch #1:
Sue Pearsall, 2:38.10
Kim Mannen, 2:34.69
Denise Whittaker-Crain, 2:44.06
Devon Sargent, 2:23.40

Watch #2
Sue Pearsall, 2:37.97
Kim Mannen, 2:34.71
Denise Whittaker-Crain, 2:44.08
Devon Sargent, 2:23.56

Watch #3

Runner	Distance	Clock time	Time/200m
Sue Pearsall	200m 400m 600m 800m	35:77 74.95 1:55.66 2:38.10	35.77 39.18 40.71 42.54
Kim Mannen	1000m 1200m 1400m 1600m	3:12.13 3:48.86 4:29.31 5:12.79	36.03 36.73 40.55 43.48
Denise Whittaker-Crain	1800m 2000m 2200m 2400m	5:49.21 6:30.09 7:13.28 7:56.85	36.42 40.88 43.19 43.57
Devon Sargent	2600m 2800m 3000m 3200m	8:29.02 9:03.31 9:41.86 10:20.45	32.17 33.29 38.55 37.59

SPLITS FOR OTHER RACES (from Jeff Wilson)

Men's Mile
Steven Paddock: 34.21, 67.96, 1:42.59, 2:55.11, 3:31.61, 4:05.52, 4:39.73
Bill Schaaf: 37.58, 75.12, 1:53.77, 2:33.0, 3:47.52, 4:25.59, 4:59.66
Stuart Calderwood: 35.13, 69.98, 1:45.94, 2:22.70, 2:59.57, 3:36.98, 4:12.40, 4:49.29
Marty Levine: 41.5, 82.94, 2:06.67, 2:52.45, 3:38.29, 4:24.04, 5:49.0
Harry Lichtenstein: 42.01, 83.10, 2:07.15, 2:53.87, 3:39.59, 4:26.0, 5:44.2
Bob Laufer: 44.42, 2:13.00, 2:58.45, 3:44.48, 4:32.16, 5:20.51

Women's 400
Mary Rosado 33.22, 1:11.05
Sylvie Kimché: 33.8, 1:11.4

Women's 800
Sylvie Kimché: 41.28, 1:22.43, 2:03.66, 2:44.05
Mary Diver: 43.78, 1:29.17, 2:16.47, 3:02.36

Men's 800
Jessie Lansner: 32.32, 68.23, 1:45.73, 2:21.89
Craig Chilton 30.00, 62.39, 1:33.32, 2:03.70
Armando Oliveira: 30.9, 62.43, 1:32.93, 2:03.71
Frank Morton: 38.99, 1:18.51, 1:58.88, 2:38.97

Women's Mile (starting at 600meters due to drink on ink)
Marie Davis: 2:08.02, 2:51.8, 3:35.89, 4:20.39, 5:05.02, 5:49.05
Eve Bois: 2:08.52, 2:52.3, 3:36.52, 4:21.41, 5:06.52, 5:52.68

Men's 400
Hugh Watson: 25.16, 53.37
Pat Lewis: 26.63, 55.53
Luca Trovato: 30.05, 61.02
Richard Hamner: 26.83, 55.81

200m Splits from Relay
Jessie Lansner: 27.31
Armando Oliveira: 26.32
Frank Morton: 31.73
Eve Kaplan: 35.39

Men's 200
Pat Lewis: 26.1
Luca Trovato: 26.45

ST. PATRICK'S DAY SPRING FLING 4M, Central Park, NYC (March 17, 2002)

MEN, 2nd place open team

WOMEN, 2nd place open team

GATE RIVER RUN 15K, Jacksonville, FL (March 9, 2002)

David Howard, 56:25
Michelle Santomassino, 1:10:08
Jane Monti, 1:13:03

From David Howard

We just got back from Jacksonville, Fla. today.  Michelle and I ran on the beach everyday except when we ran in the hellatious (sic) Gate River Run.  The temperatures during the entire race were in the 80s-- and there were plenty of long shadeless stretches. 

 

Michelle and I did our 3 year personal worsts in this race-- we were each more than 3 minutes slower than our times in the Al Gordon 15-K.   The race was completely flat until the 7th mile-- one mile up the Hart Bridge (a.k.a. The Green Monster)-- with the sun firing down on us it made this hill especially unbearable, in fact so bad that it was hard to have any power on the downhill stretch.

 

Still, a record was set for the women (there are some fast Americans in this race)-- the top woman finished with a course record time of 48:14; and the top man, 42:49. 

 

I did a 56:25:00 (my age was wrong in these results-- I am 29, not 24).  Michelle did a 1:10:08.  While hanging out at the post-race keg party shortly after we finished we met another CPTC runner, Jane Monti -- she ran a 1:13:03.

 

Apart from the race we had plenty of fun at the party.  And a great time in Jacksonville.  Michelle got to visit my old neighborhood, hang out on the beach, and eat more shrimp than she has ever eaten in a week.  The weather at the beach was great-- we did have some good training runs here.'

This attached picture was taken by my grandfather in Jacksonville following the River Run, and the race party. The setting is my old neighborhood of Ortega Forest (in Jax Ortega is pronounced OR TIG UH, not Or tay guh).  

KAWASAKI HALF MARATHON, Tokyo, Japan (March 9, 2002)

From Charles Allard Jr:

Today I ran the Kawasaki 1/2 Marathon and 5K. The publicly certified course (as they told us over the loudspeaker twice for some unknown reason) was run along the banks of the Tamagawa River. The dirt and gravel out-and-back course was completely flat (what do you expect along a river bank?) and aided by superb 16 degree weather (that's about 63 Farenheight ). About 500 of us lined up; some in tights, longsleeve shirts and gloves others in shorts and singlets. Some one was going to suffer and it turned out to be the heavily dressed ones as there were only two water stops.  For me it was even worse because at the first one, some runner had the bad manners (or cunning) to knock down every cup in the first two rows leaving the rest of us without water for a good 15k (10 miles). Further challenges along the course were baseballs whzzing past my head and frisbees tumbling at my feet (the course is bordered by fields the entire way), Despite this, I managed to hang on for a 1:20:49 finish (better than my last 1/2) for a pace of about 6:09 per mile.(my kilometer per hour calculator is missing). This was not good enough for a top six finish (the top guy finished in 1:13:06) but pretty good for me.

Technical note: His pace was 6:10 per mile (or 3:50 per kilometer). 

NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS, The Armory, NYC (March 9, 2002)

Girls 5000m
Naomi Reynolds, 18:58.37, 3rd place overall

BROOKLYN HALF MARATHON, Brooklyn, NYC (March 9, 2002)

PHOTO ALBUM

WOMEN, 1st place open team

MEN, 2nd place open team

REGENT PARK 10K, London, United Kingdom (March 4, 2002)

From Michael Sheren:

On Sunday, 3 March, Paul Stuart-Smith ran a 36.41 10K and came in 7th overall in the last race of the Regents Park six race Grand Prix season.  However, more importantly, Paul won the Regents Park 10 Grad Prix Series in the Vet (40-49) division. Paul did so by participating and placing in 5 out of the 6 races that encompass the Grand Prix. Paul won his division in style by outright winning two of the five races and placing in the top ten in the other three. If I had a digital camera, I would be sending you a photo of Paul (in CPTC racing attire) holding up a very large wooden piece of hardware to commemorate his accomplishment. Jolly good!! Pip pip for CPTC in the UK!!

As a small aside, I did run the race as well placing 46th in a very slow, fat time of 42:39.

BOSTON BUILDUP XXIV (25K), Silvermine CT (March 3, 2002)

Matthew Newman, 1:48:12 (6:58 min/mile), 47th overall, 15th age group
Erica Merrill*, 1:48:14 (6:58 min/mile), 49th overall, 2nd open woman

NEWARK DISTANCE CLASSIC 20K, Newark, NJ (March 3, 2002)

Peter Allen, 1:13:21 (5:54 min/mile), 17th overall, 4th M40-49

COOGAN'S SALSA, BLUES & SHAMROCK 5K, The Armory, NYC (March 3, 2002)

MEN, 2nd place open team

WOMEN

USATF NATIONAL INDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS, The Armory, NYC (March 2, 2002)

PHOTO ALBUM

Women's Distance Medley (1200m-400m-800m-1600m)
Central Park Track Club "A" (Charlotte Cutler-Lee Shearer-Devon Sargent-Margaret Angell), 11:57.57, third place
Central Park Track Club "B" (Lauren Eckhart-Melissa Tidwell-Naomi Reynolds-Margaret Schotte), 12:43.18, sixth place

• CPTC "A" dropped 23 seconds from its previous time 2 weeks ago! 

From Frank Handelman's watch: 
     3:36.8 Charlotte Cutler (season PR)    
     58.5 Lee Shearer (season PR) 
     2:22.7 Devon Sargent (season PR) 
     4:59.57 Margaret Angell (season PR) 

From John Sargent's watch: 
     3:36.30 Charlotte Cutler
     58.13 Lee Shearer
     2:22.67 Devon Sargent
     4:59.38 Margaret Angell

• Congratulations to CPTC "B" who dropped 6 seconds from its previous time 2 weeks ago! 

From Frank Handelman's watch: 
     3:56.8 Lauren Eckhart (season PR) (& she was sick too!)    
     68.2 Melissa Tidwell (coming back from illness) 
     2:29.8 Naomi Reynolds (coming back from knee injury) 
     5:08.3 Margaret Schotte (season PR)

Charlotte Cutler leading in the opening leg

Charlotte Cutler handing off to Lee Shearer

Margaret Angell on the anchor mile leg

FRESH POND 2.5 MILES, Cambridge, MA (March 2, 2002)

Jonathan Federman, 20:07

• Note: Brunch and culture afterwards at nearby Harvard Square.