RUDY AT THE WORLD CHALLENGE

 

Mid July found Rudy and his wife Lucy, in Worschach, Austria where Rudy and eight other runners represented the United States in the World Challenge twenty – four hour race. As usual, he did us proud by being the second American with a distance of 228,60255km.  He was 23^rd of 177 runners from about 27 countries.  Lucy was his support “team” for this event.

Rudy said the people in this small town were wonderful hosts with many of them staying up all night and through the rain to cheer for the runners.  It was through the fund raising ability of Ken Demulder and the generosity of club members that made Rudy’s participation in this event extra special to all of us.

 

 

 

Joe Cordero ran the 5000m, 10,000m, 2000m Steeplechase and the 8K National Road Race.  He placed 4^th in the 5000m, 2^nd in the 10,000m and 1^st in the steeplechase.  Joe also placed 2^nd in the road race.  Joe said his 5000m run was a little flat and he predicted he would win the steeplechase the following day and true to form he ran the race from the front and never looked back.  I was up to my usual, competing in as many as eleven events plus the pentathlon.  I finally had a good hurdle time and actually beat out my competitor in the division but was disappointed that the time did not earn points toward the pentathlon scoring.  I also did well in the 800m but my opponent out scored me in the jumps (long jump and high jump) and also had a better throw, so in the end, I placed second to LaTanya.  In the steeplechase, I was a little hesitant.  This was the first time I was doing the steeplechase since I broke my arm in the event at the World’s in 2003.  There is not one steeplechase course in all of Maui so I could not practice.  But I ran a steady pace and managed to finish the race.  The time 11L24 was far from my best time in the event but I was healthy, happy and the National Champion.  In the discus, Sue Nesbihal and I were duking it out for third place.  Sue had only started throwing again a week before the Nationals so she almost did not compete but after doing well in practice she decided to give it a go.  Sue’s best throws would have put her solidly in third place but on each occasion when the discus really took off so did her balance.  On her best throws she was called for a foot fault and a sector fault.  Sue came in 4^th and only a few inches separated her best “legal” throw and mine.

In the pole vault I managed to clear a few heights but my final height was not as high as I would have liked.  On the other hand in the long jump and the triple jump I had two PR’s.  Long jumping 3.24m and my triple jump was 6.02.  With that jump I became the National Champion in the triple and placed 3^rd in the long jump.

In the relays on the final day, Joe joined a 4x800m team and a 4x400 team to place 1^st and 2^nd in the 60-69 men’s division.  In my relay, I organized a team from the east coast of Kathy Martin , Carolyn Smith-Hanna and Ann Makoskie for the women’s 50-59 team.  We not only placed 1^st but we set a new meet record!

Kathy Martin, our friend from Northport, also had an amazing meet.  She placed 1^st in the 5000m, 10,000m and 800m.  In the two longer races she lapped the field.  She also ran the 8K USATF National Championship and came in first woman overall.  Congratulations to Joe, Sue, Marie Louise and Kathy for a great showing at the Championships.

 

 

Congratulations to all for the great performance in the Grand Prix.

 

Upcoming grand prix races are the Oysterfest - October 15^th and our race Nov. 13^th , the Mustang Run Nov 20^th and finally the Snowball 5 Mile Run Dec. 10^th.

I cannot be at the Oysterfest.  I will be in London visiting David and Kate.  The Oysterfest is a team scoring race.  If you are planning to run that race be sure to form teams and if you are planning to run the Elite and or Mustang Runs please give me a call.

For those interested in running xc here is the schedule for upcoming races: It would be nice to have a team of men and women for each of these races.  Remember in cross country your time is not important only your place in the race.  If you are interested in having a nice run through the hills and meadows of Long Island, then come and run cross country.  I am setting up a women’s masters team for the USATF-LI 8K championships and Rob’s run.  Anyone interested in running on 10/23 or 11/27 please give me a call @979-8445 or email me at: mtrotto@liu.edu.  Usually 3 or 4 runners are needed to score.  The men can check with Joe Cordero for team organization.

Unfortunately, the USA Masters (see below) is being held on the same day as the 60^th Birthday 6 hour run at Sunken Meadow and many of our BTC members will be running this race.  Betty Horstmann will be honored as one of the runners turning 60 this year.  Anyone wishing to go upstate and run the National Championships you can find the application on the USATF web site.  Organizing a BTC team would be great and there is prize money for the top masters team both men and women to finish.  I can not go to this race but if others are interested I will help you organize the team and send in the team application. 

10/16/05  USA Masters 5 km Cross Country Championships  Saratoga Springs , NY

Sunday 10/23/05 USATF-LI 8K championship @ Sunken Meadow

Saturday 11/12/05 Northport VA Hospital 4K @ Northport

Saturday 11/19/05 USATF Club Championships @ Rochester

Sunday 11/27/05 Rob’s Run 5K @ Stillwell Woods Syosset

 

First Annual Pace-Maker 4 Mile Run 9-10-05

Z. Denis          54        1/7       33:02  8:16    M. Fraker       49        4/9       33:44  8:27

A. Gonzalez   54        3/7       35:57  9:00    P. Carroll        54        4/7       36:34  9:09

J. Ackerman  63        ½         43:59  11:00

 

New Island Hospital XC 5k 9-11-05

J. Cordero      67        1/3       23:45  7:39    M. Trotto         58        1/1       29:18  9:26

 

The Great Cow Harbor 10K 9-17-05 Northport

S. Murray         43        4/364  38:34  6:13               T. Deleo         40        4/142  40:13  6:29

F. Notarstefano 53    5/237  42:18  6:49                L. Eastman    59        7/142  44:32  7:11

J. Mendez      66        2/25    47:26  7:39                B. Horstmann 60        1/7       47:36  7:40   

M. Krummenacker12 5/31  48:51  7:52                 M. Service      63        14/82  50:26  8:08   

J. Oliveras      53        53/237 50:27 8:08                Z. Denis          54        3/82    51:12  8:15   

C. Bozzi          55        4/38    51:24  8:17                E. Krummenacker 48           120/313 52:55 8:32

M. Fraker       49        26/136 54:27 8:46                A. Gonzalez   54        15/82  56:26  9:05   

A. Finger        70        2/2       1:06:12 10:40           J. Ackerman  63        5/7       1:08:42 11:04

C. Cheek        57       138/142 1:16:27 12:19         D. Mendez     66        6/6       1:24:57 13:41

 

 

Bayshore Half Marathon 10-01-05

R. Afanador   47        1/28     1:21:38          6:14     T. Deleo         40        2/29    1:25:58  6:34

J. Masten       47        3/28    1:31:45           7:00     K. Stamm       43        5/23    1:39:35  7:36

J. Oliveras      54       10/30  1:48:22            8:16    J. Mendez      66        1/8       1:48:40 8:18

Z. Denis          54        3/12    1:49:44           8:23    M. Service      63        3/21    1:50:59 8:28

A. Scheick     31         5/16    1:51:29           8:31    M. Fraker       49        5/19    1:54:12 8:43

P. Carroll        54        7/12    2:04:01           9:28    J. Ackerman  63        2/2       2:31:27 11:34

 

Bayshore 10K 10-01-05

S. Murray         43        1/25     37:26          6:02              D. Williams    50        12/13  1:12:1911:39

D. Mendez     66         1/2       1:22:19     13:14

Bayshore 5K 10-01-05

C. Williams    22        1/7        21:52          7:03               J. Carroll         59        2/7       29:50  9:37

N. Service      55        5/7        38:59        12:33

Dennis Cross 5K Eagle Run, Islip Terrace 10-01-05