From Ani Go of the W 40+:
Bring it on! in our first points race of the season, the women’s 40+ team rides high in first place! we had a great group of women racing, Andrea Ostrowski comes off the track to tackle the hills of the Coogan’s course along with road warriors Wanda Wang, and the ever versatile Sue Pearsall and Jill Vollweiler.
Despite the crowded course and being boxed in, Jill Vollweiller made like a piranha and chewed her way out, placing 3rd in her age group and scoring big with her time of 19:34. the great Sue Pearsall, after running the Ekiden last weekend, came to the game grabbing our gold in 21:14 and also placing 3rd in her age group. I threw down 21:10 to round up the scoring team.
Thanks to all our fantastic ladies who raced, they all represented big! and thanks to all the orange cheering on the course!
Ladies, the mini 10k just opened up, another big points race for us. Please sign up asap so we can be assured of another strong (and winning) team!
Scotland 10k is our next scoring race. Its starting to fill up, so please sign up asap!
GO ORANGE!
–ani
From Sylvie Kimche of the W 60+:
After picking up their award for their 2011 first place W60+ team at NYRR Club Night on Thursday evening, the CPTC W60+ started the year with a bang!
At the Coogan’s 5K, the first NYRR team race of 2012, the team of Lynn Blackstone, Judith Tripp and Sylvie Kimche took first place in 1:20:23, a whole four minutes ahead of Mercury Masters (1:24:23)
Judith fitted the race into her scheduled long run to train for another long race (she just took first place in her age group in a Half Marathon in Myrtle Beach 2 weeks ago!) She came in 2nd in her age group in 25:54. Knowing how much Judith hates crowded starts (and the start of this race is indeed narrow and crowded if there ever was one!), I want to personally thank her for adjusting her schedule to run the race!!!
Lynn is getting back into racing and finished 5th in her age group in 31:17. This was her 3rd race of the year and her pace was 14 seconds faster per mile (on a slightly shorter race but definitely hillier terrain with more potholes!!!) than in her last race in CP (the Al Gordon Classic 4 miler). So congrats to Lynn, you go girl! 🙂
Sylvie got first place in her new age group in 23:12 (16 seconds slower than last year’s race in the rain), still good for 1st place women’s age graded results (under 90% though…Will have to try harder next time!)
A great celebration of running with all the bands lining the course, and a great participation of all the CPTC teams.
Congrats to all. And special congrats to the W60+ team!
Sylvie
PS: Judith and Sylvie also scored for the W50+ team (6th W50+ team), rounded out by Jane Kenney in her only race of the year before she starts her soccer season!