CPTC 40+ from Larry Go:
The CPTC 40+ men made a valiant charge at team champs but came up a mere 42 seconds short with another narrow loss to the new and improved Urban Athletics.
We’ve got quite a steep hill to climb in our quest for a 3rd straight team championship with our 2nd place finish at Team Champs. With five races to go we’ll head on to the rest of the season and see how close we can make it. In any case, we can look forward to cooler temperatures and faster racing as we aim for our fall goals.
Unofficial season standings:
All races:
Urban: 98
CPTC: 83
West Side: 76
With two worst races dropped:
Urban: 75
CPTC: 63
West Side: 56
Looks like the hot and humid weather and injuries took a toll. The course change with the addition of the Harlem hills didn’t do us any favors either.
Scorers were:
Matthew Deangelis: 27:50/80.56 %/4th 40-44
Dan Gay: 28:23/ 79.01 %/6th 40-44
Cary Segall: 28:50/ 78.34 %/8th 40-44
Eric Lattin: 28:51/ 79.53 %/9th 40-44
Brad Kelley: 29:08/ 82.62 %/3rd 50-54
Race of the day honor goes to Matt DeAngelis who set a second five mile PR in as many races by knocking off another 39 seconds off his previous PR at Front Runners last month.
Matt DeAngelis:
My game plan for the race was to start conservative due to the humidity (and altered route), run competitive and really focus on the west side hills. I feel like I accomplished all three, despite Cat Hill giving me a reality check (yet again), as it led to a 40 sec (masters) PR on the day. I came into this race a little more rested than the last few I had run and think the speed work I’ve done recently really helped as well. I also want to give a “thank you” to Martin Huber – we ran together most of the race, he pushed the pace in critical parts of the course that helped me run a PR. As for the team, I think we ran well and should be proud of a second place finish – so congrats to all my Masters teammates on the day! Great work out there!
Eric Lattin:
I thought the race was extremely challenging given the hills and the conditions. Being from Nevada I have never run at that intensity in that type of humidity. It was like sprinting in a hot shower for a half hour. Overall we did great as a team just came up a little short. Looking forward to cooler temps. GO ORANGE!
Daniel Ifcher:
I imagine that my race experience was a lot like many other folks – sweaty, smelly, hot, crowded start corral; fast start; painful finish – does that sound about right? Going in I had hoped to run around or under 30 min flat, given the course and weather – I ended up 30:19 and I’m happy with that. It’s a competitive race, as we know, so the start is quite fast and I let the crowd bring me along through the first mile. As I’m sure you know I tend to start on the slower side, but I knew there would be a lot of fast guys so I went with the flow and ran a 6 min mile to start. And that is how the race pretty much went until mile 4 – ouch! That was the slow mile, up cat hill. The last mile I remember 3 Orange cheering sections, each one helped give me a surge so thank you! One consolation we can always say about the race is that we all race in the same conditions, so hot or not, it’s an even playing field.
Top 10s:
Matthew Deangelis: 4th 40-44
Dan Gay: 6th 40-44
Cary Segall: 8th 40-44
Eric Lattin: 9th 40-44
Brad Kelley: 3rd 50-54
Lahseni Mohammed: 2nd 45-49
Daniel Ifcher: 9th 45-49
Participation statistics:
6 races: David Alm
5 races: David Greenberg, Brad Kelley
2016 Scorers:
5 – Brad Kelley
3 – Eric Lattin
3 – Matt DeAngelis
2 – David Greenberg
1 – Mohammed Lahseni
1 – Tim Stockert
1 – Coleman Cowan
1 – Josh Rayman
1 – Peter Brady
1 – Dan Gay
1 – Cary Segall
Photo by NYRR
From Chris Donnelly 50+
From Hank Schiffman 60+
2016 Team Championship CPTC 60+ Men Race Report
The fight for 3rd place in the 60+ men division of the 2016 Team Championships proved beyond our reach. We raced the good race but did not wrest the bone from the teeth of the slightly quicker Front Runners. The Goddess of Running can be fickle but she does not lose track of time. We were 46 seconds out of 3rd place; our fastest scorer was 2:10 behind theirs. But 2 seconds to our good proved to be a barbed wire fence separating us from 5th place Van Cortlandt Park TC. The average age of our 60+ guy running team pointers is increasing. Until (or if ever) NYRR scores solely on AG% the coin of the realm is faster feet. Father Time should be delivering our way a newer, faster crop of older guys in the coming year. Meanwhile, in the street brawl for 1st place in this race Taconic RR left Brooklyn RR with a bloodied nose, proving a pair of aces is a hard hand to beat in this game.
Unofficially, at this turning point race of the season, we are 3rd in the standings with 58 points. Front Runners is in 4th with 54 and Witold 5th with 50. Brooklyn reigns with 99 followed by Taconic’s 74. With too many uncertainties the subtract 2 races formula will not make the view to Club Night any less opaque. We need to fight the good fight up till the end: the Sutton 5k, the Bronx 10 miler, the NYC Marathon and the Ted Corbitt 15k. Percy Sutton and Ted Corbitt are still open.
You ask, what difference in performance did we see in this race run at 74 degrees and 79% humidity verses the LGBT Pride Run, the same course but 67 degrees and 76% humidity? Well I have the numbers right here. The top 6 runners in 60+ men who ran both races saw their AG% drop an average of just shy of 2%. The 4 runners on our team who ran both events: Hank, Gary, Kevin and Phil, averaged the same 2% drop. Only one male runner age 60+ cracked 80% in this race while 3 did so in the Pride Run. The falling tide lowered all boats:
Hank Schiffman: 35:49 7:10 77.3% (Pride Run: 43:51 6:59 79.44%)
Gary Gosselin: 37:41 7:33 70.80% (Pride Run: 36:25 7:17 73.28%)
Chris Neuhoff: 39:28. 7:54 69.48%
Dan Molloy: 39:30 7:54 69.44%
Kevin McGuire: 41:21 8:17 65.72% (Pride Run: 40:03. 8:01 67.85%)
Doug Labar: 42:06 8:26 62.80%
Phil Vasquez: 42:07 8:26 63.93% (Pride Run: 41:18. 8:16. 65.21%)
Chip Olsen: 43:34 8:43 64.76%
Harry Lichtenstein: 45:35 9:07 59.62%
Frank Wilson: 48:39. 9:44 60.70%
Dave Delano: 49:32 9:55 57.53%
Chip Olsen: “I’m not sure how many Club Team Championships I’ve run but it’s always been one of the toughest races of the year – the hills this year (on top of the temperature and humidity) made it the hardest I’ve run yet and Cat Hill really did it for me. Oh well – maybe it will help for the Percy Sutton hills!
My right knee starting stiffening up last night, a day and a half later!
Thanks to the women of CPTC for cheering us on – it meant a LOT to me!”
Hank Schiffman: “Here’s a shout out to the aspiring 60 year olds who ran this race for CPTC: Alan Ruben, Stanley Young, Dennis O’Donnell and Victor Osayi. Also: to Dan Molloy for taking 1st in age group in last week’s NYC Triathlon, you are a monster, to Chris Neuhoff’s fine run after a long injury, to Gary’s climb back into his schedule after a setback, to Kevin, Dave and Phil for their continued presence on the starting line for CPTC, for Doug running this one even though his training and focus is the track, for Chip climbing back onto the saddle upon injury recovery, for Harry working on getting his racing pace back and Frank, our 70+ guy for showing us that it is only a matter of a few years that we will have a determined 70+ team.”
Thanks to our whole team for all the roadside support. Let’s push the envelope in the Percy Sutton 5k.
Captain Hank