Down by One Point, GSTC Brings the House this Sunday
Jersey City- No team in New Jersey has ever won the Triple Crown: the USATF National Title, the USATF East Region Title, and the USATF-NJ Overall Grand Prix Title. It takes not just talented runners, but a deep pool of committed team members of all ages to pull off such a feat in the same year.
After checking off the first two boxes this summer, the GSTC looks to take the lead in the USATF-NJ Overall Grand Prix this weekend, a huge step toward achieving such a feat. However, it's going to take a legion of runners to do it, and every single one is going to be extremely important over the next several races. Since teams score ten deep, lots of points are on the table every team race, as every GSTC team has the opportunity to score a few points that will contribute to the overall point total. The distribution is 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for the top ten places.
The GSTC has never lead the overall team competition, and it has never won the overall team title.
A huge shift will be the presence of masters runners wearing gold and black. In last year's half marathon, the GSTC scored their first master's team. This year, the women will have a 40s team, and the men, for the first time in club history, will have a 40s, 50s, and 60s team. Recent additions of Sarah Hersey, Jennifer Briganti, Massoud Messkoub, Andrew Tschesnok, and David Donna are making such a presence possible.
Team co-captains Cathy Stutzman, Alyssa Douma, and Karen Auteri for the women, and Ken Goglas and Ken Walsh for the men, have designed team lineups that will maximize every single participating runner to contribute to the team. If you are interested in running with the GSTC, fast or slow, it isn't too late! Please email and you'll be included!
The Club also will have its "Enclave Brouhaha", a competition between the seven training enclaves. The top five finishers of each GSTC regional group, male or female, will count in the brouhaha scores. At the Belmar Chase, the Princeton Enclave won, followed by the Central, North, Jersey City, Beach, and Morristown Enclaves. The South Enclave was an INC.
All runners will receive an email later today with instructions on signing up, meeting up, uniforms, USATF registration, etc.
2013 USATF-NJ Overall Team Scores
200- Raritan Valley Road Runners
199- Garden State Track Club
149- Clifton Road Runners
124- Garmin Runners
124- Do Run Runners
120- Shore AC
112- Sneaker Factory
105- North Jersey Masters
69- Morris County Striders
50- Fleet Feet
30- Rose City Runners
19- Pearl Izumi Mid-Atlantic
1- Highland Hashers
0- Geezers
Version 2.0: Women's Half Marathon Lineups
Black: Cheyenne Ogletree, Alyssa Douma, Katie Chaput, Erin Higgins, Karen Auteri, Vanessa Chafos
Gold: Chelsea Callan, Erika Meling, Tiff Schwartz, Meghan DeCarlo, Heather Gardiner, Michelle Tuchol
White: Danielle Czohla, Angela Dunn, Ewelina Juzwiak, Danielle Stanton, Courtney Stanton, Terri Rozyla
Golden: Sarah Hersey, Jennifer Briganti, Cathy Stutzman, Jill Zablocki, Joan Darnsteadt, Prudence Jones
Blold: Ingrid Garofalo, Shanna Beirsto, Erin Blum, Christina Chafos, Bri Teichmann, Aysha Mirza
Masters 40s: Sarah Hersey, Jennifer Briganti, Prudence Jones
Version 2.0: Men's Half Marathon Lineups
Black: Ashwin Anatharaman, Steve Mennitt, Timmy Morgan, Chuck Schneekloth, Ken Walsh, Kyle Price
White: Mike Anis, Ken Goglas, Paul Matuszak, Steve Comanto, Tom Viscaro, Dan Teichman, Dave Dos Santos
Gold: Peter Bolgert, Mike Fonder, Bryan McDonnell, Jon Lindenauer, Dennie Waite, Mark Minervini, Rob DeCarlo
Golden: Sean Donohue, Matt Eder, Edsel Flores, Henry Mattingly, Jay McGeever, Jay Margolis, Rob Marczydllo
Whack: Chris Croff, Adin Mickle, Will Griffin, Timmy Terrific, Joe Zeoli, TJ Zablocki
Blold: Darnell Armstrong, David Donna, Sean Cust, Sai Medicherla, Andrew Tschenock, Nick Waclawski, El Hedi Bari
Masters 40's: Brian Harris, Marty Doherty, David Donna, Jeremy Stratton, Andrew Tschesnok
Masters 50's: Brian Harris, Marty Doherty, Fran Beideman, Pete Auteri, Jeremy Stratton
Masters 60's: Fran Beideman, Pete Auteri, Massoud Messkoub
Team Runs: C'mon On Out!
Monday: Princeton Enclave 6pm @ Village Park (Lawrenceville)
Monday: Central Enclave 6pm @ Rutgers Student Center
Monday: GSTC Sprinter/Jumper/Hurdler practice: 5:30 @ Highland Park HS in Highland Park
Tuesday: North Enclave 6pm @ Saddle Brook
Tuesday: Central Enclave 6pm @ Rutgers Student Center
Tuesday: Beach Enclave 6pm @ Holmdel Park
Wednesday: Princeton Enclave 6pm @ Turning Basin Park (Princeton/Alexander Rd)
Wednesday: Central Enclave 6pm @ Rutgers Student Center
Wednesday: Morristown Enclave 6:15pm @ Morristown Running Company
Wednesday: Beach Enclave 6pm @ Pt Boro HS with Coach Greer
Thursday: North Enclave 6pm @ Saddle Brook
Thursday: Central Enclave 6pm @ Rutgers Student Center
Friday: Central Enclave 4pm @ Rutgers Student Center
Saturday: North Enclave 3pm @ DeCarlos House. Shakeout run + pre-half marathon pasta party!
Saturday: GSTC Sprinter/Jumper/Hurdler practice: 9:30 @ Donaldson Park in Highland Park
Saturday: Princeton Enclave TBA @ Village Park (Lawrenceville)
Saturday: Morristown Enclave 9am @ Morristown Running Company
Sunday: Half Marathon Team Championships @ Jersey City
Essays 4 Equipment: Exciting Update
Essays 4 Equipment established an exciting new partnership with Perth Amboy High School's running teams this past week. With this new addition, the time has never been better to look through your closet and decide if you have running gear that would better serve a young runner. If you are interested in making a donation contact GSTCoutreach@gmail.com with any questions. Donations can be given to David Fett or any enclave captain at a weekly run.
Essays 4 Equipment is part of the GSTC outreach program that presents donated running gear to NJ HS runners that submit an essay describing their running goals. We collect gently used running shoes, racing spikes, and running clothes for those in need to reuse. More information can be found on http://gardenstatetc.org/outreach/community.html.
Results: Three Golds and a CR This Weekend
At the Philly Rock and Roll Half Marathon, Greta Sieve broke the GSTC club record in the half marathon, running 81:24. Since it is such a competitive race, her speedy time was 32nd of all 11,024 women finishers, and 206th overall of the approximate 18,068 finishers. Teammates Tiff Schwartz ran 1:28:55, good for the 100th female and 495th overall, and Kelly Polisin finished in 1:48:33, making her the 1,023rd women finisher and 3,098th overall.
There were three GSTC'ers winning 5k races this past weekend as final tune-ups for the half marathon. First, masters runner Brian Harris won his first ever race, the Valley Middle School 5k in Oakland, hitting the tape in 19:26. Peter Bolgert also chalked up a dubya for the gold, winning the Butler-Wilson 5k is 16:23, a charity run on the Princeton University campus. Finally, Ashwin Anantharaman won gold in the Stephanie Beran 5k….or rather, damned near almost 6k, in 18:26. Opening his first mile in 4:53, course officials pulled him along the wrong route, otherwise known as a Chris Heibell Thanksgiving Day Race. Despite being the only runner to do the extra 800m-1000m, he still won the race. There are a few TMAs here, obviously which we'll outline in a moment.
Finally, Jennifer Lucas came in 5th in her age group in the Atlantic City Triathlon. Finishing in one hour and thirteen minutes, she was 52nd overall out of 534 particpants.
Sorry for Delay!
We like finishing and sending the club's weekly email on Sunday evening, but when we get late submissions for the email….we aren't able to produce the goods. Sorry! Next time, we hope!
Sunday's Leadership Meeting
The GSTC's September Leadership Team meeting will be shortly after the half marathon race in Jersey City on Sunday, 9/22. All members are invited and welcome to attend, as we appreciate the input of all of our awesome members. Location and time will be posted on FB, like seemingly everything else in the world.
GSTC Steady Striders
By Amy Denholtz
It was a pleasure meeting some newer members this past Sunday for a run on River Road! This Saturday, September 21st at 8:30am, the steady striders and couch to 5k runners will meet at the North Brunswick Community Park, located on Rt. 130 (heading south, the entrance is shortly after Adams Lane). The park website is available at at http://www.northbrunswicknj.gov/DPRCS/parks_North_Brunswick_Community_Park.html and a map is also available at http://www.northbrunswicknj.gov/parks_map_2006.pdf (see the largest green block - labeled 17 - for the North Brunswick Community Park). We will meet in the parking lot across from the baseball fields for a run along the 2.17 mile loop - all paces and distances welcome! Please email Amy, atadenholtz@gmail.com, with any questions or to RSVP.
GSTC Personal Training Daily Tip
By Alyssa Douma
Foam rolling saves lives! Okay, maybe not seriously, but it really can help. Alyssa shares some secrets about how using the foam roller will keep you healthy and off the disabled list!
http://gstcpersonaltraining.blogspot.com/2013/09/foam-rolling.html
Email her with questions at GSTCpersonaltraining@gmail.com.
Gold Star
By Ashwin Anantharaman
Susan Goglas
Susan joined GSTC in the beginning of August-right before the Belmar Chase and after her 60th b-day-joined it due to encouragement from her son and GSTC men's captain Ken Goglas. She thinks he was trying to recruit some master women for the club, also joining a club would give her some structure and improve her knowledge base with regards to working out and staying fit. She figured she would lend a hand,bring along her workout buddy, Wendy Biel. Her goals are to be fit, as healthy as she can, to improve her time for a 5K, 2 mile, mile, improve her endurance, avoid injuries. Her pre-run/race routines include no real routines (don't really run too many races), some stretches and about 15 min. jog. Her hobbies outside of running include reading, weekends at the shore (riding bike, walks on beach.) Plans for her hobbies upon retirement-perhaps learn how to golf, fish, and gardening.
Jarret Kunze
Jarret is the most recent member of GSTC joining Sunday after meeting Peter Bolgert at a race. He joined because he loves track and wanted to be part of a team. Before races he does a 15 minute jog, skips, leg swings, and strides. Outside of running, he likes to play guitar, bike and do other outdoors things.
His PRs and goals for this year goes as follows:
400 relay split: 51.7, 800: 1:57.5 goal:1:55 1000: 2:33 goal 2:30 Mile: 4:26 goal 4:22 5k: 16:21 goal 16:05 8k: 27:10 goal 26:30.
Quotes of the Week
"There definitely is an intimidation factor for seeing one of your singlets. Anytime I do, I assume the person wearing it is really fast." Bob Skorupski, Highland Hashers member, via FB chat (Editor's Note: we appreciate the compliment, but as we all know….we have all ages and abilities rockin' black and gold, even if the uniform is a chilling sight to our adversaries)
"Thanks for participating in the 2013 Belmar Chase. The Garden State Track Club's participation in our event is most appreciated. We see the GSTC as not only the fastest growing club in the state, but also one of the most talented and enthusiastic groups in the region." -Belmar Chase Meet Director and 2000 American Olympian Rich Kenah, via letter to all GSTC participants in the Belmar Chase.
"The only thing better than winning a race is winning a race for someone else. For my father and for my friend, who I hope somehow someway got to watch and knew I was doing it in memory of him.
Now I just can't wait to put on that gold jersey." -new member Jon Lindenauer, FB post on June 16th
"Since I've managed to sleep away the day, a delayed thank you for including me in today's team run (my first one! finally!)…. it's SO much easier running with the team vs doing it on your own. I was definitely scared coming back after a week off. I'm happy to have met more people on the team and placing faces with the names, as well as having a great time & random conversations at brunch today. So really, THANK YOU ALL for having me! Looking forward to many more!" -Aysha Mirza, FB post, after today's long run
"Monday: AM- 4xMcDonalds, PM- KFC, 30 seconds on 2 minutes off for 35-45 minutes. Repeat Tuesday- Saturday. Sunday light jog to maintain blood flow to the vital organs." -John Wlasuk, GSTC thrower, via FB post in response to weekly sprinter sessions
"My ethical framework I these cases is this: what would happen if everyone did it? If everyone boarded (a plane) whenever they wanted, there'd be chaos, so it's unethical, even though nothing bad will come of it. The same logic explains why it's unethical to take shortcuts across grass instead of staying on the sidewalks and walkways." -Peter Bolgert, via text, philosophizing about living a life of integrity. We will pretend he hasn't been lobbying for a gerrymandering of enclave lines for months to improve his Princeton Enclave's Chances at another Brouhahah win.
Tim Morgan Award: Not Quite a Darwin Award
First, Mike Anis gets the obvious nod. For Sunday's long run, he agreed to be one of the carpooling drivers—one of the first times he's ever been able to be a driver due to his work schedule. Lo and behold, when 7:50 came and went, we called Dr. Anis. Muffling something about "alarm", "underwear", and "twerking", the group of five awaiting him had to go to plan b.
Next is the fiasco at Ashwin Anantharaman's race, but we believe two TMAs are in order. First, the race director gets one for not ensuring the runners were taken on the right course during mile two. Second, Ashwin needs to get one as well. This is his "hometown race that he runs every year," yet somehow he follows the lead car the wrong way? Cmon brother- you know the course since you've done it for years! If you had the option of following your GPS or Tim Morgan's car, which would you select?
This Week in Training
By Chris Tafelski
We're going to back off a bit late in the week so we can roll on Sunday. With the great weather, it's possible that you can slack on hydration a bit and still be OK for a day or two. Any longer than that and it will catch up with you - make sure you keep doing all the little things to keep your training as good as it can be!
Monday - 6-8x 8-10sec hill sprints, followed by a comfortable run. Be sure you're well warmed up before doing the sprints!
Tuesday - 2x2M at HM pace, 1xM at T pace, 1x800 at 5k pace. Use heart rate as a guide to how long the recovery should be. Just a crude 6 second measure multiplied by 10 will tell give you a good enough estimate. Once you're down to 130-140, you're ready to run again!
Wednesday - steady-state run of 75% long run duration
Thursday - super easy 40-60 mins
Friday - fartlek run - same distance as Monday. Include some pickups of 5-8 minutes at HM goal pace.
Saturday - shakeout!
Sunday - RACE
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