From Lauren Carter of the Open:

Saturday may have a wet and dreary day, but for the Women’s Open Team it was a chance to shine.  Leading the Women to their 2nd Place finish in the Road Team Championships was Kate Pallardy.  Kate ran for a finish of 28:49, setting a small PR along the way.

 Kate Pallardy

Photo: Nigel Francis

Hot on her heels with a time of 28:52 was Cat Beck. Kir Selert finished her first 5M in Central Park as the Women’s Open 3rd scorer. Grateful to have survived, Kir finished in a time of 29:53. Lauren Carter finished just steps behind her in a time of 30:06, conquering the course on little training.  

Stephanie Herrick and Lauren Carter

Photo: Andy Kiss

Lady Orange continued to cross the finish line strong with Katie Casto’s huge 1 minute PR of 30:14, thanks to cooler temps, and Alex Bernardi finished right with Katie in a time of 30:16.  On their push to the finish, they had passed Steph Herrick, who depsite some stomach issues in the final stretch, finished tough in a time of 30:19.  Andrea Bradshaw and Christina Argueta both ran strong to finish in times of 30:36 and 30:57, respectively.  And rounding out the scoring with a big PR of 50 seconds was Katherine Carrington, completing the race in 31:10.

Jacy Kruzel, Katherine Carrington, Alyssia Dusseau, Christina Argueta

Photo: Nigel Francis

Other notable performances on the day include yet another PR for Shawnessy Dusseau.  Shawnessy completed the 5M race in 34:53 taking 26s off her last 5M race.  Melanie Broder finished just in front of her on her second 5M ever.  Melanie set a PR with a time of 34:31.

Melanie Broder

Photo: Andy Kiss

Congratulations to all of our Lady Orange Racers!  Don’t forget to sign up for our next race on September 6th, the Autism 4M, which is currentlynearing capacity.

We’re a little late with this one, but everyone’s was a winner on the 4th of July!

 

From Ani Go of the 40+:

For once, it was ladies first for team champs, which traditionally had us in the later race. And one would think that Mother Nature would favor us the early start, but she decided to shed some wet tears on us. However, the cooler temperature made up for the inconvenience of rain!

There was a strong showing amongst the 40+ team, including the debut of Roberta Little into our fold! Roberta had a great race, with a PR (38:37) in this distance despite a terrible leg cramp in the last 800m! How many can do that? Congrats Roberta!

Roberta Little

Our scoring team was led by the newly platinum blonde Judy Stobbe (34:55), gearing up for 5th ave by gracing the pavement with her talented feet. Says Judy: “Unfortunately the timing of this race wasn’t suited for a PR for me, but happy to run and it was a good workout …Gearing up for 5th Ave and XC…whoo hoo! The weather worked out to be nice…it has to be one of the coolest Club Champs in a long time!

Our next scorer was our Lady VP Sue P, disguising herself sans glasses in 36:38, appearing in the top 10. The Lady VP prefers the track to the road, but is still a great presence when she does choose to slap the asphalt. Right on Sue’s heels and rounding out our great team is Nicole Rodriguez, (36:48). Nicole’s plan is to tackle the hills of Harlem at Percy Sutton next, and chase down that mile on 5th ave.

 

Great job ladies! Let’s keep representing!

And congrats to both our open and masters teams!

GO ORANGE!

Ani

From Judith Tripp of the 60+:

Our 60+ team was ably represented by Barbara, Lynn, Caryl and myself, and despite the weather we were glad to be there and happy to see each other!

Barbara, contending with a large hand cast which looked like it could double as a weapon, nonetheless ran a 40:44 for 1st place in her age group, running negative splits to boot. (She wants to apologize to anyone running close to her for the plastic bag over her cast flapping in the wind.)

Barbara Byrne

Photo: Andy Kiss

I ran a 47:43 for 2nd in mine, and Lynn and Caryl ran 55:34 and 58:18, respectively, for 4th and 6th places in their age group.

Lynn Blackstone

Photo: Andy Kiss

More important as a team we finished 3rd! Congratulations to my team and all other team members who ran today! And, we all want to thank Tony and our great CPTC support team for cheering us on and urging that last bit of effort out of us. And thanks teammates Deb and Ani for coming out for us!!! —

Team Points Standings after Team Champs:

Second Place: Open

Third Place: 60+

Fifth Place: 40+

Sixth Place: 50+

 

Photo: Nigel Francis