From Kristan Dietz of the Open:

Hi Everyone,
First of all, this is a lengthy email. Stick with it. I promise it is worth it.

Congrats to our Women’s Open Team for their second place finish at the Scotland 10K on Saturday! Our team had an incredible day filled with lots of personal bests.

Leading the team with her fourth place finish was Jane Vongvorachoti. Her time of 35:22 was a 37 second PR. Jane was lucky enough to be captured in the Local Female Heros photo album on the NYRR page.

Trading in the track for a road race were Christina Argueta and Andrea Bradshaw, finishing in 7th and 8th place respectively. Both ladies ran huge personal bests. Christina’s time of 36:30 was a 2 minute and 30 second road PR and Andrea’s time of 36:34 was a 70 second personal best. In her first NYRR race in years, Sarah Alaei was 4th on the team in 37:02. It’s nice to have you back, Sarah! Rounding out the scoring team was Lauren Carter, with a 15 second PR of 37:21, which is even more impressive because she stopped to tie her shoe at mile 1! Our speedy ladies (and dude) were captured here and for some reason, they allowed me to be in the photo.

Without further delay, here are the rest of the great performances from Saturday:

– Annie Onishi – 37:41, in what she called a “fat juicy 34 second PR.” Annie had to deal with a lovely gentleman in front of her who decided to “blow snot rockets every few meters” but she noted that “the Orange Wall at the 72nd street traverse gave me the boost I needed to get around him once and for all!”

– Katie Cato – 37:48, a 57 second PR

– Kate Pfeffer – 37:50

– Alysia Dusseau – 38:19, 15 second personal best

– Grace White–  39:43, a 30 second PR. Grace wanted to thank Nigel Francis for helping to push her during the race. Grace also had her photo featured in the NYRR photo albums!

– Bevin Peter – 40:00

– Jacy Kruzel – 40:26

– Alexis Lamb – 41:16

– Rebecca McCollum – 42:53

– Ambreleah Dusseau – 42:55,  a huge 2 minute and 36 second PR

– Lisa Daniels – 43:47, a 30 second personal best in her first race as a club member!

– Alexandra Klein – 44:19

– Dani Sturtz – 44:19

Thanks to everyone who came out to cheer, but special shout out to Veronica Jackson and Alex Brown, who were enthusiastic, loud, and seemed to appear when you needed them the most.

Repping CPTC on the West Coast this weekend was Cat Beck, who ran a 16:55 in the elite field at the Carlsbad 5000. Cat had some enviable experiences mingling with her fellow elites, including rooming with Brenda Martinez, warming up with “red headed running hero Katie McGregor”, and getting a course overview from Shannon Rowbury and Will Leer. However, in Cat’s words, “The highlight for me though was definitely teaching Leo Manzano how to put his D-tag on his shoe!”

As if this wasn’t long enough, here are some reminders. First- pay your dues before April 15th. Second, our next scoring race, Brooklyn Half, registration re-opens tomorrow at noon. Also open are the Mini 10K and the Front Runners pride Run 5M, so let me know if you plan on running any of those. Finally, some of you will be taking to the streets of Boston to run the marathon on Monday. Good luck and let us know how you do!

Congrats again to everyone!

Kristan

 

From Ani Go of the 40+:

On an unseasonably cold spring morning, albeit sunny, 40+ masters ladies represent and take third place at the Scotland 10k!

Debuting on our scoring team is the fabulous Judy Stobbe, stepping off the track and onto the road at 42:25, third in her age group, bringing home some hardware!

Culling the talents of the 60+ team, the swift Barbara Byrne is second for our team in 45:01, second in her age group, and also taking home a nice slice of lucite. Her 88.34% AG is amazing to behold. It is incredibly inspiring to have her and the great Sylvie Kimche (48:12, first as usual in her age group, the only other lady to score 88%–88.85% to be exact!) on our team for this race. Third to score is our tough glamazon (running hard and looking’ good doing it!) Nicole Rodriguez, in 46:14, tenth in her age group. Nicole rules the road as she also ran and scored in Coogan’s last month. Congrats, and fantastic job ladies!

Also to note–the 60+ ladies took seventh in the 50+team with the strong efforts of the wonderful Lynn Blackstone on deck. And the ladies’ 60+ team came in first outright in their own age group. Congrats!

More greatness in our open women’s (2nd), open men’s (3rd), master’s 40+ men’s (4th), master’s 50+ men (1st), and master’s 60+ men (1st)!

AND…

from the mouth of Lady Sue P herself, some people pick races for fast times…she ran a race to win carrot cake! And indeed she did, placing second in the Urban Environmental Challenge 10K at Vanny. I won’t take credit for her win but I would like part of that cake!

NEXT SCORING RACE…Brooklyn Half in May! Note that the race has opened up again, in case you decide you want to do a half in May.

Also, Mayor’s Cup is next weekend (Friday and Saturday) and we still need volunteers! Please e-mail Devon if you are interested in volunteering.

Lastly, I hope everyone had a chance to fill out the survey. We love to run and it should be fun. As a team, we should decide what kind of season we would like to have. I’m here for you, ladies!

GO ORANGE!

–ani

 

From Sylvie Kimche of the 50+ and 60+:

 

The CPTC W60+ (consisting of the same members as the Coogan’s 5K last month, i.e (still new member) Barbara Byrne, old-timer Sylvie Kimche and very old-timer/founder Lynn Blackstone) continued the year with a BANG! coming in 1st W60+ team in a combined time of 2:36:09 (almost 13 minutes ahead of 2nd team Taconic RRC )

Barbara Byrne came in first again for the team in the excellent time of 45:01, with an excellent 88.34 AG%. Unfortunately for Barbara, Kathryn Martin is back on the NYRR running circuit and Barbara “only” got 2nd place again in her W60-64 age group. However, to compensate for it, Barbara scored not only for the W50+ team but also helped the W40+ team to a 3rd place by being the 2nd runner on the W40+ team!

WAY TO GO, Barbara!!!!

Sylvie, fresh off the plane from Paris – and still recovering from a bout of dysentery from her hiking trip in Ethiopia – managed to run 48:12, 2nd for the team, 1st in her W65-69 age group with an 88.85 AG%.

Many thanks to Tony for all the cheering and screaming! That was very helpful!

The always steady and reliable Lynn was 3rd for the team in 1:02:56, 3nd in her W70-74 age group with a 74.97 AG%. And because running a 10k yesterday was not enough, Lynn ran the Colon Cancer four miler Sunday morning and was first in her age group in a time of 40:50 and a 73.28 AG%!  WAY TO GO, Lynn!!!

In the absence of younger masters…., Barbara, Sylvie and Lynn also scored for the W50+ (again 7th place = 4 pts).

As mentioned above, Barbara also helped the W40+ team to a 3rd place finish, with her 2nd place for the W40+ team

Again, many thanks to Tony (and the CPTC cheering squad) for the cheering & encouragements! And congrats to all the CPTC teams for their great results!

FYI, we do not have a W60+ team for the Brooklyn Half – However, NYRR announced yesterday that they will reopen the Brooklyn Half on Wed, April 10 at 12:00noon. So if anyone has 2nd thought about entering the Brooklyn Half, please let me know asap – if 2 of my W60+ teammates decide to sign up, i’ll sign up too so we can have a team. In any case, please see my separate email about the Brooklyn Half.

So if we don’t get a team for the Brooklyn Half, our next team race will be the Mini 10K.

So far, I have only Judith & Lynn committed to run it. We need one more runner (sorryI won’t be in NYC for that race, otherwise, I’d sign up for it!).

Please advise if you’re planning to run the Mini 10K to make sure we have a team. Thanks!

Happy Spring!

GO Orange!