Top 10 Reasons Why Road Relays
Will Rock in 2014
Sign up here. Last day to do so, online, is Thursday. Hurry up!!!!
10. You get a sweet RR ear warmer, or as the website calls them, “ear band poly fleece with ant-pilling.” Either way, it looks like we’ll be getting snow through Labor Day, so this will come in handy for a while.
9. Kyle Price requested to wear the gorilla outfit, or as he calls it, the monkey costume. Who knows what this means.
8. DUDE. It’s gonna be 50 degrees and partly sunny on race day. WHOA.
7. You can meet the GSTC sprinters, who volunteer the race. Goodness only knows anything that lasts longer than 60 seconds…they aren’t gonna run in it!
6. Tons of GSTC’ers attend, so it’s just a nice opportunity to say, “Hello, good day.”
5. POST-RACE FUN AT MIKE’S COURTSIDE BAR AND GRILL.
4. When was the last time you ran with a baton? High school? It’s fun. Trust us on this.
3. Have you ever attempted to eat a green banana? We offered tons of them last year. Yummy.
2. The Princeton Running Club (PRC) and Rutgers Running Club (RRC) are both bringing about ten relay teams to compete for the “Karnes Cup” in the “Route 1 Rivalry.” This thing looks a good bit like the Stanley Cup, and it’ll be interesting to see if Rutgers can beat Princeton in anything. Luckily this isn’t an SAT contest.
1. YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO ON SUNDAY. So get your butt out here.
You may pickup your bib number at North Brunswick's Road Runner Sports on Saturday from 12-5. And if you do...we get a few bucks for every bib picked up!
****There is also a Leadership Team Meeting after the race at Mike's to discuss the adidas partnership. As always...all are welcome to attend.****
RRC Lineups
Co-Ed Teams
Rob Marczydlo & Bri Florovito
Kyle Flyer & Molly Pretznel
Kevin Gruber & Lindsey Williams
Women's Teams
Kelly Thow & Kristen Prazenica
Erin LaCosta & Monika Juzwiak
Christina Parry & Katherine Kneisel
Men's Teams
David Fett & Dan Teichmann
Jay Wunnava & Mike Soskind
Mohamed El Hedi & Ezra Chefitz
Joe Pellegrino & Zach Bennett
Jonathan Ropke & Mike Mudrak
Ryan DeGregorio & Rob Klink
Joey Lupo & Dan Siegel
Millrose Games Results
Women Finish 3rd in DMR
The GSTC women Distance Medley Relay highlighted the club’s performances at the Millrose Games, finishing 3rd overall in 12:08.37.
After a hard opening 800m, Robin Evangelist held on in the final 400m and passed the baton in 3:43.30, putting the Gold in 5th place. Eva Gay McKenzie split 60.25 on the 400 leg, handing off to Chelsea Callan who then ran 2:21.49 on the 800m leg, pushing the team into 4th place.
Anchor Cheyenne Ogletree then went to work, grinding out a 5:03.24 anchor to bring the team into third place. It was really all she could have done, as the 2nd place Syracuse Chargers were 17 seconds ahead.
For the first time in club history, then GSTC women had a B Team in the DMR. Nicole Salge opened up with a 3:50.84 1200m leg, followed by Erin LaCosta’s 61.8 400m carry. Erika Meling then ran a season best in the 800m (2:29.40), followed by a 5:39.37 anchor by women’s co-captain Angela Dunn. The team finished 6th overall in 13:01.64. Only the Central Park Track Club fielded a women’s B Team in the Distance Medley.
Combined, Men Run Faster in 2014
In 2013, the GSTC men fielded two DMRs that finished in 10:02 and 10:30. Added up, that’s 20:32 for the two team times.
In 2014, despite harsher training conditions thanks to ten snowstorms, the two teams ran 10:11 and 10:13, thus making a combined time of 20:24 –a sizeable eight seconds faster than last year.
Both teams had legitimate chances at breaking 10:00, but the race was mired by a very pedestrian opening leg. B Team lead-off Kyle Price stormed to the lead from the gun, but then hit the brakes. A Team lead-off Andrew Golato sat far back in the pack—often times in last place. Neither made a hard push to make the race an honest, hard one…and both paid the price. With 400m to go, both weren’t in good position, resulting in both handing off alongside the last place team, Pacers New Balance.
From there, the next three relay members fought desperately to get back into the race. Unfortunately, it was an endeavor of futility. Kevin Persson split 49.93, the third fastest 400m leg in the race, but it just wasn’t enough. Ricky Garcia ran an indoor best of 1:53.84 on the 800m leg, but they still trailed the pack by three seconds. Dennie Waite finished the relay in 4:19.66, running the majority of the race alone. For a few moments, the Pacers anchor was nearby, but he ended up splitting 4:11.
The B Team had Josh Chavanne, making his first Millrose appearance, run 51.52 for the 400m leg, followed by an impressive—and alone—Mike Saparito 1:54.63 carry. Eric DuBois had the fastest GSTC anchor of the evening, running 4:18.40. Out of six teams, the club finished 5th and 6th overall.
4x200 Finishes 6 of 12
Despite a few setbacks, the GSTC men finished 6th in the 4x200 relay at Millrose Games with a 1:31.17 finish. Darnell Mickle, the club record holder in the 200m, put the Gold in the lead with a 22.2 leg. Ryan Gonzelez struggled in the second leg, splitting 23.4 as the club faded to 2nd. Garcia, making an unusual appearance in the short relay, rolled a 22.5, followed by Persson’s 22.7 carry to finish 2nd in their heat.
Team Runs
Monday: (Central Enclave) 5:30 track workout at Highland Park HS
Tuesday: (Central Enclave) 5:30 group run @ Rutgers Student Center (RSC)
Wednesday: (Central Enclave) 5:30 group run @ RSC
Wednesday: (Central Enclave) 5:30 track workout at HPHS
Wednesday: (Morristown Enclave) 6:15 group run @ Morristown Running Company
Thursday: (Central Enclave) 5:30 group run @ RSC
Friday: (Central Enclave) UNIFORM RUN. 4:15 AT RUNNER’S HIGH IN METUCHEN. QUICK FOOD, THEN WE DECIDE ON 2014-2015 ADIDAS UNIFORMS. ALL ARE WELCOME.
Saturday: (Morristown) 9:00 group run @ Morristown Running Company
Saturday: (Central Enclave) 10:00am track workout at HPHS
Sunday: ROAD RELAYS, 11AM AT BUCCLEUCH PARK @ NEW BRUNSWICK! Post Race Party, and Leadership Team Meeting, afterward!
Quotes of the Week
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” -Nicole Salge, FB
“Sooo anybody want to run with me late tonight whenever the hell I get back from Toms River (NJ State Meet)?” -Kyle Price, via FB
“I just wanna run for a living and call it a day.” -Robyn Evangelist, via FB
“Happy birthday Frab. One more year til a new age group.” -Peter Auteri, writing on Fran Beideman’s wall. If you aren’t a runner, you just wouldn’t understand.
“Today was amazing! Great job to all you girls and guys, as well!” -Erika Meling, via FB, celebrating after Millrose
“So race walking is hellla interesting to witness…kinda embarrassing to say that some of the girls walked faster than I raced so far this season.” -Aysha Mirza, FB. Hmmm….time to run faster!
“Can’t let go of the dream. Millrose Games.” -Mike Saparito, via FB
“Managed to get flipped off while running…it has been a while.” -Tim Murphy, via FB.
“So excited for today! Been wanting to go here for so long and now I get to compete with my awesome team here-MILLROSE GAMES.” -Robin Evangelist, via FB
“Good luck to all the GSTC’ers at the Millrose Games today!!!!! I’ll be watching and cheering from Ohio!” -Zak Martins, via FB
“Fellas, still don’t have anything for your lady? Get her a rose and take her for a nice run on your favorite loop. No better date.” -Josh Neyhart, via GSTC Twitter account
“My valentine: the gym. My gift to my valentine: sweat. My valentine’s gift to me: pain.” -Lenny Joseph, GSTC record holder in the hammer throw, via FB. (EN: we loved this guy, even though he almost made the car tip over when we picked him up from the train station. He ain’t small.)
“Getting my ears lowered today.” -Timmy Terrific, via FB. A very important update, indeed.
“’I am so excited for this snow day’ said no track coach ever.” -Chris Tafelski, via FB
“Out there grinding before the storm hits; GSTC does not rest on its laurels.” -Josh Neyhart, via GSTC Twitter
“Nooooo! Keep fighting! The end is in sight! You will be so thankful for training in the elements once it actually is nice out.” -Diana Stavrou, to Jonathan Campanaro, urging him to not locate and run in an indoor track where there’s like five thousand laps to a mile.
“secret: I get inspired by reading the weekly email.” -4:10 miler Iuri Pinto, a man working on his long-awaited comeback after missing a few years due to injury and work
“Glad to see the team doing so well. Keep working hard. Miss you guys.” -Allyson Guieb, via FB
TMA
While the GSTC loves competing at the Millrose Games, we hope the club registration process evolves for 2015. This year, we were told our C Team DMR couldn’t race because it was a full field of nine teams. Race day, three teams scratched, leaving only six teams on the starting line. Womp womp.
In the 4x200, the GSTC ran 1:30 and 1:31 last year with their A and B teams, but this year—the B Team was denied a lane. However, with a little research, several participating clubs weren’t USATF clubs (it was mandatory to be so, along with USATF members)—and one team ran 1:42.08….a time so slow it would have barely gotten third in the women’s race.
We hope some changes are made to ensure good teams, with good athletes, are allowed the opportunity they deserve to compete.
Sidenote, when researching Pennsylvania USATF clubs, there is a registered team called Ghetto Fabulous Track Club.
This Week in Club History
This week in club history, absolutely nothing interesting happened.
Gold Star
By Ashwin Anantharaman
Micah Leonard
Micah has been looking for a club team to join for most of the fall after her graduation from Moravian college. She loves running track and was looking for the right organization that could help take her skills to the next level. She heard about GSTC through one of our members and decided to check out the website and liked what she saw. She is a long and triple jumper with PRs of 18'7 for the LJ and 40'11 for the TJ. Her goal is to continue on in the triple jump and take her jumping to the next level of competitive competition. She has 3 things she must do before she jumps. First she always buys a back of temporary butterfly tattoos and wears one during competition because butterflies have a special meaning to her. The second thing is she listens to her favorite instrumental music to calm her down and let her focus. The third thing she does it so remind herself that she is only there to jump and not impress people with her talents or beat a rival; just jump because she loves it. Her hobbies outside of running include spoken word poetry, spending a day watching her favorite movies or rereading her favorite books. She also loves to sing and hangs out with her family.
Nick Olson
Nick worked with the GSTC in the past through a support role with his restaurant, Jimmy John's, in New Brunswick. He has been a lifelong runner, but this will be his first time running with the GSTC.He is racing in a 7 mile trail race in PA (The Humdinger) on March 1st. After that he
would like to complete his first marathon sometime this year. He would also like to crack the 5 minute mark during the College Avenue Mile this Summer.He has no real pre race routines yet as he is working on converting to full-time Vibram running especially when most of the running he has done the past 6 months have been on trails. He loves 6 mile run and the Sourland Mountains to do his training runs. Outside of running he owns Jimmy John's in New Brunswick and it takes up most of his life. He loves to plan/organize/help new businesses, garden, homebrew (he grows hops), organize social events, meet new people and play sports any chance he gets
Steady Striders
By Amy Denholtz
Thanks to the steady striders who came out on Saturday to brave the cold (and ice) for a Road Relays Preview. This upcoming week, instead of a weekend run we encourage all members to find a partner, grab a baton, and get your road relays on! It's a fun day that has been a welcoming race for many new members, no matter the pace, and we plan to keep it that way. So invite a friend to take their first step, with the club as a member or just through the enjoyable race we host as a team. Please remember to sign up online soon!
TEAM STUFF
Sunday Morning, 2/23: Road Relays www.roadrelays.org
Yearly dues----à https://runsignup.com/Club/NJ/NewBrunswick/GardenStateTrackClub
Team website---------------> www.gardenstatetc.org
Team Facebook Fan Page----> https://www.facebook.com/groups/159501487397707/
Team Blog---------------> http://gardenstatetc.blogspot.com/
Team YouTube Channel---> http://www.youtube.com/user/GardenStateTC
This Week in Training
By Chris Tafelski (cjtafelski@yahoo.com)
Monday - comfortable run + 7x8-10s hill sprints
Tuesday - progression run. Start out very easy, and progress down to threshold pace, then get down to 5k pace for the last 2-3 mins. For an idea of what something like this looks like, if I had a 60-minute progression run, I would start out very easy, and progress to Daniels M pace by the 20 minute mark. By the 45 minute mark I would be at T pace, and with 5 to go I would really be rolling. You should finish feeling like you could have gone another mile in the middle if you had to. You don't want to be all-out at the end.
Wednesday - medium run of 15-20% of weekly mileage
Thursday - super easy 40-60 mins or OFF.
Friday - 7-10x1k @T pace with 1:00-1:30 recoveries. If your 1k reps are longer than 4:00, run 800s instead. Finish with 4x200 at mile pace
Saturday - same as Monday
Sunday - long run!
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