CPTC masters won three medals in the Marathon Tune-Up on Sunday. Unfortunately, I can’t rank the performances statistically by age-graded percentages because the NYRRC doesn’t include such stats for the oddball 18-mile distance. So instead I’ll rank performances by the seat of my pants. Interestingly, masters had the five fastest CPTC times today – I can’t remember that happening recently.

I’ll put Steven Monte and Michael Rennock in the next-to-lead paragraph since they placed highest in their respective age groups: second.  Steven and Michael have been racing almost every weekend, with Steven doing six races since July 19 and Michael five. Looks like marathon training to me – Steven ran 2:41 last year and Michael 2:55. Let’s hope to see repeat performances November 2.

Yasuhiro Makoshi also deserves the big orange spotlight for his race. Yasuhiro is the undisputed champion of the heavy race schedule; he has raced 23 times over the past 52 weeks, more than anyone else in the club. He has won his age group no fewer than 15 times in that period and scored as high as 86% on the age graded tables. This week he took home third place.

None of our women masters ran today, so nothing to report.

Finally, we should cheer our women’s 50+ and men’s 50+ teams particularly heartily at Grete’s, because they both lead the points competitions as they go into the final three races of the year. Men’s 40+ also needs support – they are tied for the lead with Warren Street.