From Lauren Carter of the Open:

In the Mini 10K this past Saturday, CPTC’s Women’s Open team proved just how effective running in pairs can be.  Cat Beck lead the way with a 35:15 finish in her Mini 10K debut setting a personal best by almost 1 minute.  Jane Vongvorachoti  finished 18s behind Cat, running 35:33.  Continuing to prove strength in pairs, Alex Brown and Annie Onishi finishing just 5s apart at 38:42 and 38:47 respectively.  Emilee Brown helped bring home a third place finish for the Women’s Open team with a 39:19.

This particular race was special, not only because it was only women, but we had a few notable experiences as well.  Alysia Dusseau and Megan Kelly both ran their first races in their new age groups.  This was Megan’s first race in a few months.  She was unsure of how well she would perform, but she did run faster than last year.  Alysia finished strong with a 39:46 even with a bleeding foot!  What a great way tokick off a new age group!  We also had Ivette Ramirez run her first 10k in 3 years in an amazing 43:59…35 weeks pregnant!  She was definitely well under her goal of finishing in 60 minutes.

Please be sure to sign up for our next scoring race, FRNY Pride Run on Saturday, June 29th, and Founders 5k, on Saturday, July 27th.

Congrats to all who raced this weekend!

Lauren

 

From Ani Go of the 40+:

Mother Nature decided that the conditions for our ladies race should be rain-free and it was so. On a mostly clear Saturday morning, our 40+masters took the journey up the West Side and burst into the park on a special course just for this women’s only 10k. Our scoring team starts with Wonder Wanda Wang, in her first club pts race this year, taking the lead in 45:17. The newest star on the 60+ team, Barbara Byrne, followed in 45:52 (with an 86.7% age grading–holy c%^%!), and caboosing it in my first road race in months, is yo’ cap’tn in 46:02. Making our 40+ team whole and also completing her first road race this season is the undefeated Audrey Kingsley in 46:03. Audrey, it was wonderful to be at the finish with you!

Congrats to the open women’s 3rd place finish and the 60+ women’s 1st place finish!

AND we got hot track news–the amazing Judy Stobbe ran a PR in the 800m at the USATF New York Twilight Series #3 with a scorching time of 2:28.83.  in a very competitive field, she placed a respectable 5th.  The next time I have a nice steak, I’m waiting for Ms Judy to run by to cook it!

Next race is the FRNY 5miler on Saturday, June 29th. http://www.nyrr.org/races-and-events/2013/front-runners-new-york-lgbt-pride-run-5m ;

until then, our fellas are running the Portugal Day 5m next sunday.  They did such a great job pumping us up, let’s reciprocate! Come out and cheer our fast men in orange!

GO ORANGE!!!

Ani

 

From Sylvie Kimche of the 50+ and 60+:

 

Congrats to the Women’s 60+ team for their brilliant 1st place W60+ in the Mini 10K.

1st for the team: Barbara in 45:52, 2nd in her 60-64 age group (behind the unbeatable Kathryn Martin) in an excellent 86.70% AG percentage.

2nd for the team: Judith in 53:23, 1st in her 65-69 age group in an excellent AG percentage as well: 80:23%.

3rd for the team, the always reliable Lynn in 1:02:48, 5th in her age group and a 75.13% AG percentage.

As always, Judith, Lynn & Barbara scored for the W50+ team and Barbara scored also in 2nd place for the W40+ team!!!

Of course, congrats to the open team for their 3rd place in this very competitive race.

Again congrats to all and see you at the next team race on June 29!

GO ORANGE!

Sylvie