Join the Voices: Reports from the Masters Men

From Cap’n Hank of the M 60+:

This was a perfect day for a road race; no sun, temperatures in the 40s and calm. So many of us pounding out the miles, alone, sometimes in the dark, today we all ran together, in the light of day.

I could see Tim Delaney of Taconic slowly motoring away from me, and Jack McShane, not quite 60, doing the same to him, all the way to the finish line. Within a minute the rest of the fastest older guys came across with wet noses. Even though we ran on different teams, the mutual feeling was like a sunshine gang pulling off a bank robbery, no one hurt of course! Blessing is the word for having breezed or wheezed across the line. Chris, every the smile on his face came across. I waited for Dave and Chip. Never saw Dave, worrying if he was injured (he reported in; fine). Found Chip talking with friends, knew we had a score. But it was only a few moments ago when the results were posted online did I see that our third 60+ guy is 15 years my senior at 77; George Hirsch. He came, he ran, and he conquered. George and I share a second place in our age groups. [I actually share my second with another guy as well] Thank you George!

The upshot is that, if uncontested, we have taken 3rd place in this race. What this means in terms of the final standings, I am in a fog. I thought I heard Mary announce this was a double point scorer. How the mulligans are subtracted eludes me. This is now out of our hands. If we are one of the first 3 mens 60+ teams, some of us will have to dress up for club night.

We have put in a year of races. Next year a number of 59 year old CPTC guys turn the corner, our corner!

See you at our Xmas party, and thanks to all who ran, supported us, or harbored good feelings that permeated the ether to bring us to this day,

Hank

(Hank continued later in the day – ed.)

My older brother has a doctorate in math. I count on my fingers.

If my calculations on the marathon are correct – NYRR still isn’t calling it official.

If today’s results are final.

If today’s race is only a single scored race.

If my 2 mulligans are correct.

These are the final scores for Mens 60+ this year:

if single score: if lowest 2 scores from single:

TRR 132 0 & 12 120

Witold 78 0 & 6 72

WSR 75 0 & 0 75

CPTC 73 0 & 0 73

GNY 64 0 & 3 61

NYF 56 0 & 0 56

VCT 58 0 & 0 58

FR 49 0 & 0 49

Rockland 46 0 & 3 43

Prospect 15 0 & 0 15

Which gives Taconic 1st, West Side 2nd, and we dust Witold by a point. We have so many unscored races due to not having 3 guys cross the line, we could export them.

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 From Cap’n Andrew of the M 50+: