TEAM EVENT: YANKEE GAME
For those who are interested, Ken is trying to set up a GSTC outing to a Yankee game. Based on Facebook responses, the best day seems to be Friday 8/22 at 7:05. Send him an email at Ken_goglas@hotmail.com or Facebook message if you are interested in going. Respond by THIS THURSDAY as tickets will be purchased this Friday as long as 10 people are interested in going.
TEAM EVENT: FRI RUN, BBQ, PING PONG
This Friday night, at 6:15pm, the Central Enclave will host a team run from 944 Hermann Road in North Brunswick. Afterward, there will be a BBQ and ping pong. YES...ping pong. All are welcomed, yet it would be helpful to RSVP to we know how much food to buy!
Nicaragua Olympic Committee Selects aGSTC
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| After coaching the Vietnamese national women's 4x400 relay this spring, standing center in light blue, the aGSTC has been asked to work with Nicaraguan athletes and coaches. |
North Brunswick- After carefully reviewing dozens of applications and interviewing three finalists through the United States Embassy in Miami, the Nicaraguan Olympic Committee announced it has selected the president of the adidas Garden State Track Club, Chuck Schneekloth, to lead a week-long "Sports Diplomacy Workshop" in its country.
During the third week of August, Schneekloth will be taken to three cities: Somoto, Managua, and Nandaime. In each location, he will discuss training theory, sprinting periodization, and technical sprint elements to fifteen regional coaches. Afterward, he will demonstrate practical application to this workshop with forty members of the country's regional under-19 national team.
The government will provide a stipend along with paying for all expenses.
Tholis Bombs Away in Chi-Town
Matt Tholis, the 2013 USATF Club National Champion in the javelin, make his 2014 debut in Chicago last weekend at the Chicagoland Challenge. After having "Tommy John Surgery" shortly after club nationals in June of 2013, he has carefully rehabilitated it for six months, slowly gaining back flexibility and strength.
Last weekend, he finally uncorked his first real throw of the 2014 season, launching a 70.72m toss at the prestigious Chicagoland Challenge. While short of his PR, this 218' throw finished
5th out of 10 competitors. Pretty darn good for a guy using his full approach for the first time this season.
Tholis is considered one of America's best javelin throwers and is in the hunt to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Trials. Last year, as a collegiate senior in East Stroudsburg, he ranked 28th on the USATF list, yet only 22 throwers were accepted into the USA Outdoor National Track and Field Championships.
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| Tholis in Chicago last weekend |
Gravesande, Riddick Highlight NYC Meet
NYC- Clayton Gravesande and Monique Riddick concluded their seasons with the NY Track and Field Invitational last weekend at St. John's University.
Gravesande, coming off a solid season at South Carolina that concluded with a showing at the USA Champs in the 400m trials in Sacramento weeks ago, finished 3rd overall in 47.55. Riddick, in her final competition of the year, won the women's shot in 16.00, outdistancing second place by thirteen feet. Now THAT is a win.
TMA
On July 4th, Tony Harris sent the Weekly Email a picture of his winnings (trophy, gift card) from the Milltown 5k with the caption "What did you win on your last 5k?" This resulted in us misstating that weekend email that he won the race, not teammate Kyle Price. However, it wasn't until the next day we learned, from various sources, that it was Price who won--not Harris. So, a TMA goes to Mr. Harris for the misleading text that implied he won...leaving out the valuable information that his trophy was for "First Milltown Finisher," not "First Overall Finisher."
So, some Swedish 54 year-old woman decides, while getting paid to be on sick leave because her feet, legs, and back were in pain, decides to win her age group at numerous races. Uh oh. Someone is in trouble now, including having to pay back all the sick pay she collected since 2005.
Read about it here: http://www.thelocal.se/20140716/woman-claims-sick-pay-despite-running-career
Quotes of the Week
"I would say you should write home about it, but not with the cost of postage these days." -Adin Mickle, via FB, responding to Bri Teichmann's run splits where she stated "I know it's nothing to write home about."
"Or, you could man down and run with us." -Mark Parisen, in response to Ken Goglas' statement at the team long run, "Looks like someone is gonna have to man up and run with me."
Masters Report: Growth, Consistency
2014 has been a good year for the aGSTC thus far, as they currently lead the USATF-NJ Grand Prix with 349 points. More on the standings next week, as the club has some fall work to do if it hopes to breaks its own single-season USATF-NJ association record of 582 total team points.
However, one huge shift this spring has been the size, consistency, and growth of the men's masters team. Never before have the masters chipped in so many points, thanks to fourteen total athletes participating , as Matt Baker and Fran Beideman had perfect 4/4 attendance at masters races.
From there, Kenny Huryk, Brian Harris, Peter Auteri, and Don Weise competed in three, as Andrew Tschenok, Lee Mooney, Julius Pontecorvo, Eric Davis, Chris Sallade, Steve Herring, and Hernan Rozemberg ll competed either once or twice.
What makes this consistency impressive is that, as many young folks forget, masters runners have incredibly busy lives. Between a heavy work load, raising kids, paying mortgages, and significant life responsibilities (keeping up a house, for example), it ain't easy to find time to train AND race, let alone both.
GOLD STAR
by Ashwin Anantharaman
Anna Steinman
Anna met Chuck in Starbucks while he was with her former high school xc coach from Rutgers Prep Erin Varga as it seems that Mr. Schneekloth has an act for meeting people in Starbucks. She heard about GSTC through her own collegiate racing career at Salisbury University because she has been at meets that GSTC attended. Being from around the area in Jersey, she noticed the team at the meets and has raced in some 5k's with some of our women.
Right now she is in Grad School at Salisbury University with one more year to go, studying Applied Health Physiology/Strength & Conditioning. She also went to Salisbury for my undergrad degree and ran xc/track. This summer she is interning at University Orthopaedic Associates in Somerset, where she's working in the sports performance department training athletes and any adults, mainly returning from injury and physical therapy. Currently she is beginning her training for the NYC Marathon in November which will be her first full marathon with a goal of running between 3:05 and 3:10. This past year she ran 2 half marathons which helped her get ready for the upcoming marathon. She ran the Philly Rock n Roll in 1:27:14 and the Rutgers half in 1:25:54. She also has stepped on the track a couple of times this season running 10:55 in the 3k indoors and 18:53 in the 5k outdoors. Her Prs are 1845 in the 5k, 4:58 in the 1500 and 22:52 in the XC 6k.
New Website Peek
It's gonna be sweet.
Eli is joining GSTC after he graduates from Dickinson College because he is looking for a group to run with over the summer that is competitive but functions as a team.His prs are 
Chris is looking to join GSTC because he wants to be able to have a group to train with. His goals are to train hard smart, have fun, race, get close to his college PRs. His pre-race routine includes a nice warmup, stretches, drills and striders. After his warmup, he gets ready to run a great race and tries not to psyche himself out. Outside of running he is a software developer for by day and a huge Brooklyn Nets fan by night.
