Myriad meet records fell this weekend, as great weather and big numbers resulted in some fast times all around.
In the open division, it was two GSTC teams of Nicole Corre/Erin Higgins (42:01) and Chris Heibell/Adin Mickle (31:23) winning the women's and men's titles, respectively. The former won by 49 seconds, breaking the meet record by nearly 3:00, while the latter handily defeated the GSTC teams of Mike Dixon/Mike Anis (by 1:00) and Tony Harris/Chuck Schneekloth (by 1:33), lowering the former record by 1:13.
Team Nalven was able to hold onto their Co-Ed Rutgers Alumni title, and Cheyenne Ogletree/Steve Mennitt teamed for an incredible 34:32 to destroy the former meet standard. GSTC'ers Ashwin Anatharamn/Elena Tous and Ken Goglas/Claire Tafelski went 2-3 in that division.
Not to be outdone, our GSTC-Rutgers duo of Zach Spiegel/Dan Teichmann ran away with the college men's title, finishing in 34:54- a bit off from last year's record of 34:07 set by Teichmann/Kyle Flyer. GSTC members actually swept this event, with Rutgers' Keith Flyer/Mike Obsuth taking second, and Kean's Jaris Rousseau/Ricardo Garcia grabbing bronze.
Congrats to GSTC's half miler Tyler Foss, who teamed with his sister Hannah to take gold in the sibling co-ed division.
There has been some Facebook chatter that the course was a hair long, but this is coming mostly from Chris Heibell- who is still upset he had to work so hard for so long to finally catch his nemesis/hero, Chuck, in the second leg of the race. There was similar chatter about Harris coming from way back to snatch up Anis in the third leg, but that is for another time and place.
Results
www.njraces.com
Pictures
Our photographer, Will Schneekloth, has been published in Sports Illustrated 11 times. Not bad. Check it out- 2014 pictures here:
http://wlschnee.photoshelter.com/gallery/2012-Garden-State-Track-Club-Road-Relays-II/G0000in5DIArUJZ8
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The Start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_9R3KD0vXw&feature=youtu.be
All 71 Road Relays II videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GardenStateTC
Update: Tim Morgan Award
The TM Award nearly needed to shut down and find a good lawyer this week, as Title 9 was thrown at it on Monday. Accused of gender discrimination, said emailer questioned why no women has ever been in the hunt for the TA Award. We believe, quite honestly, that women should not have to be subjected to this treatment, but we understand. We have subsequently hunted around for nominations, and here we go:
1. Somehow, Nicole Corre didn't realize she had the wrong orthotics on the wrong feet throughout an eight miler. Ouch. That's really like running with shoes on the wrong feet. Wow.
2. Speaking of which, after getting blood work done, Ashwin Anantharanan reportedly felt dizzy after 40 minutes and stopped to stretch. When doing so, he realized he had two different pairs of shoes on his feet!
3. Timmy Morgan does it again. Somehow, his team is in the results twice. We have no idea how, but he pulled it off, continuing the legend indeed.
Men's Monthly Long Run Lottery
Abuse of youtube doesn't do the monthly men's long run draft service. It is videos like this that support the argument of youtube charging customers to keep the garbage out on the sidewalk. Any chance Perrella can NOT do this creepy monthly video from his bed, do you think? Here goes nothing:
Team Runs from RSC
Tuesday-Thursday 5:30; Friday 4:30
Quote of the Week
A text from Marquis Cole, a newcomer to the sprint group from Tennessee: "I originally intended to participate in the Widener indoor track meet Sunday because I wanted to see what my times would have been, so I wasn't gonna show for practice tomorrow (Saturday), but I figured since I'm really devoted to being on the team with you all I'd cancel that and come to practice tomorrow and show up to help in whatever way I can Sunday."
This Week in Training
Distance
I'm not a huge fan of disrupting the schedule to salvage the long run. I'd rather maintain the training rhythm you're used to. If you ran the Road Relay and you're really bent on going long on Monday, then bump Monday's run to Tuesday, Tuesday's run to Wednesday, and pick up the schedule with the easy day on Thursday.
Monday - comfortable run + 8x80m strides (or 6-8x8sec hill sprints)
Tuesday - fartlek run with 8 pickups of 4:00 with 3:00 between pickups - keep the recovery honest! If you have to go super slow on the breaks between pickups, you're running the pickups too fast! There's no set pace to hit on the pickup - go on feel - you don't have to run them all the same.
Wednesday - medium run of 75% long run distance.
Thursday - super easy 40-60 minutes
Friday - long tempo run of 6-9 miles (no more than 50 minutes) at T pace plus 15 seconds. Make sure you get a few miles of cool down.
Saturday - same as Monday
Sunday - long run - if you're planning on running the 20k next month, try to cut down to race pace the last 2-3 miles or so.
Sprints
Tuesday: 800: 45min run + 4 strides; 400: 10x100 stride (w/ acceleration in middle 50m); LIFT
Wednesday: 6:00pm @ Bishop Ahr 800: 5 x (400/200) @ 1600/800 (@40 secs rest/lap jog); 400: 8 x 250 (@27-28 pace), walk 250m
Thursday: 800: 45min run + 4 strides; 400: 8x150 stride; LIFT
Friday: OFF
Saturday 10:00am @ Bishop Ahr 800: 2x1000 @ 3200m, then 4x200 (30, 28, 26, 26) ; 400m: 4 x (2x150) w/ 50m walk, then 3x200 @ 400m pace
Sunday: 800: 60-70 min run; 400: 16x100 stride LIFT
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