Upcoming Team Events The adidas Garden State Track Club has dozens of team runs every week, including a Sunday long run posted on Facebook. However, there are a few bigger team events we encourage all members to put on their calendar.
March 22: USATF-NJ 20k Team Championship. The first team race of the year for "all divisions."
March 29: Leadership Team Meeting. We usually do these meetings after team long runs. All dues-paying members are welcome to sit in and participate in the conversation.
April 25: USATF-NJ 15k Team Championship. The second "all-divisions" team race. April 26: NJ Marathon Baggage. A long-standing club tradition, we bring forty volunteers to help collect, transport, and disseminate bags for 10,000 runners in the NJ Marathon and Half Marathon. If you volunteer, we will pay for your College Ave Mile entry!
May 2: USATF-NJ 10k Team Championship. Just for open men and open women, but a fast course with big prize money along the NYC skyline.
May 30th: adidas Grand Prix Youth Qualifier/ Garden State Invitational. We are honored to announce that Global Athletics and adidas have asked the aGSTC to host this youth qualifier event. In addition, we will be adding several Olympic Development/post-collegiate events to the menu after the youth meet. Should be fun.
June 6: College Ave Mile. This is our most important team event of the year. Please be there! June 13: adidas Grand Prix. All hands on deck for this one, as the club once again brings over one hundred volunteers to the best track meet on the East Coast...and you get free adidas shoes and polo shirt to do so!
June 15: President's Cup. Just the open men's 5k championship, but it's a fast, fun, awesome event.
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aGSTC SPRING PLAN WEEK TEN Those who have paid dues will have the spring training plan sent to them; it is built around the team schedule. It will be done via a google doc. There are other plans available as well.
Intermediate/advanced 1500m-5k: on the track for indoor and outdoor track, 6-7 days a week of running, 2 weekly workouts and a long run
Intermediate/Advance Marathon: 6-7 days of runningThe focus being on a weekly workout and long run
Beginner 5k-HM: 4 days a week of running focus on weekly workout and long run
Email ken_goglas@hotmail.com for access to other plans or a specific individualized plan that fits your needs and goals. Spring plan built around USATF-NJ team races here Marathon Plan (Intermediate/Advanced) here 5k-Half Marathon Beginner: here
Kyle's Campground by Kyle Price
Montez Blair Kyle's Korner is a segment of the Club's weekly email that will focus on reacquainting you with a different current club member each week. We will catch you up on how they are doing with regards to their training, their lives, and other general nonsense. This segment intends to be informative and educational while attempting humor in a purely inoffensive way. Mostly.This week's edition of the Korner is an all-star interview with the very talented Montez Blair. Most of us first learned about him at the 2013 Outdoor Track Nationals when he won the High Jump for the good old Black and Gold. Well he certainly hasn't stopped there. The Cornell Alum has been literally raising his bar and we have the follow up interview to his great performance at this years Indoor Championship Meet.Kyle: Hello Montez! Thank you for joining us.Mr. Blair: Hi. Thanks for having me Kyle.Kyle: So let's start with the big weekend everyone is talking about. Can you give us a little play by play on your Boston performance?Mr. Blair: This was my first USA indoor meet. It was pretty fun actually. There were the usual jumpers minus a few, but still a good showing. I might have to say it was one of the premiere events in Boston last weekend. I don't think it was the best for me but it was still fun nonetheless. I felt I should have gotten the 2.25 bar and attempted the 2.28 bar for an indoor PR. The crowd was behind me and I felt I should have boomed that bar. I've been adjusting a lot in practice so trying to put it all together at once was a bit tough. I wasn't suppose to actually have an indoor season but my coach decided it best I have some test runs.Kyle: I'd say the test runs went pretty successfully. Jumping right at your PR while working in some new tweaks is a huge accomplishment. What's your next big competition that you're looking at?Mr. Blair: I haven't decided upon an outdoor schedule just yet. I have to wait until I get back to Arizona and have a sit down with coach. I would like to open up in April at Mt. Sac. I was invited to jump there two years ago, but my college coach wouldn't allow it. I hear it's a pretty fun meet and I know the competition is amazing! So I think it would be great to represent New Jersey on the West Coast!Kyle: Coast to coast rep! Are you looking forward to another big showing at outdoor track nationals?Mr. Blair: I certainly have high expectations for myself. If I don't hold myself accountable and keep myself on top of things, I don't know anyone else who will. So I intend to have fun, and do better than I did in Boston for indoor nationals. Kyle: Lets hit the rewind button. Did you start out as a high jumper in highschool track?Mr. Blair: I did jump in high school. Started jumping in middle school but sprinting was always my thing. I didn't get recognition for high jump until my freshman year of high school. Even then, I was still better as a sprinter. Sophomore year, high jump and sprinting were equal in recognition but junior year, high jump eventually eclipsed the 100m, 200m, and relays. Ha but over track and field in general, basketball was my life since 4 years old. I played college basketball my freshmen and sophomore year on the D1 level.Kyle: A natural born athlete. Do you miss the high level basketball?Mr. Blair: Yes! I actually intend to go overseas and play professionally at some point in my life.Kyle: I'm assuming you have quite an impressive dunk.Mr. Blair: Lol ehhh. I'm okay.Kyle: Haha. One last question, to combine the basketball and high jumping conveniently. Can you shed some light on Erik Kynard? Is actually sponsored by Air Jordan for track?Mr. Blair: Yes, he is. There are a few track athletes sponsored by Jordan, including A. Felix, B. Barrett, and Kori Carter.Kyle: Interesting. Well good luck with your outdoor training and thank you for speaking with us!Mr. Blair: Anytime! I was happy to be a part of this.Kyle: Glad to hear it!Tune in next week to see who we interview!
Check out Montez take an attempt at high jumping 7-4 here. |
| 80,000 Miles and Still Running by John Bergacs On an early Thursday morning in January 2015, I ran past my house in Edison and passed 80,000 miles in my running career. When my "running career" started in 1976, I never could have imagined that 40 years later that I would still be running, that my career mileage would have surpassed 80,000 miles, and that I would run more than 600 races, including 54 marathons and two ultra-marathons. Well here I am, getting slower and older and even slower yet. It only seems like yesterday that I remember passing 50,000 miles in 1997, while being lost in a housing development in Atlanta, and then 60,000 miles in 2002. As I think back about some of my crazy training runs and racing, running three marathons in 22 days in 1982 seems like only a few years ago. There are some other notable runs that also stand out. These include a 2:47 Jersey Shore Marathon in1982, a 2:49 NYC Marathon in 1981, a 2:52 Marine Corp Marathon at age 38, a 2:59 Boston Marathon at age 41, three Mt. Washington Road Races (Only One Hill), winning a 5 mile race in 1981, running 15 Boston Marathons in a 20 year span (1981-2000), and now joining the adidas Garden State Track Club (60s team).  Unfortunately my mind is still living in the good old days, while my legs, knees, and heart are still living in the "old" days. The age stuff began with the ski injuries...a torn right ACL in 1999, a left meniscus tear in 2010, and then a broken right leg in 2012...with surgery in each case. Sandwiched in the middle of all of this was my heart's Atrial Fibrillation that began in 2002. I took a lot of heart and blood thinning medications for about 10 years and I had 3 cardiac ablations between 2008 and 2012. Because of all of this, the races, marathons, and running hard took a back seat. In 2014 as the heart and legs have started coming back, I decided to give this racing stuff another try with the aGSTC and I am glad I did !!! I would like to acknowledge and thank those wonderful people who I have run with and talked with over all these miles. Thanks for the miles and the memories. May God Bless All of You !!! John Bergacs III, Edison, NJ
Weekend Results Most club members stay as far away as they can from police cars, but we do appreciate the comfort Karl Leitz and Aya Takeichi have in this picture taken from one of their two races this weekend.
On Saturday, the due ran the NYPD vs FDNY 5 Miler in Central Park. Finishing together in 33:39, Aya was first female and 38th overall; Karl was second in his age group in the civilian division.
A day later, the gloves came off in the Cherry Hill 10 Miler in Prospect Park. Aya finished an impressive 71:20 for 6th female overall, and first in her age group, while Karl was 73:02. They raced in short sleeves...a good sign for warmer weather on its way.
Kaspszyk Wins Florida 5k Somewhere in Florida- Sandi Kaspszyk won the women's race in the USGBO Green Mile 5k last weekend in 19:17. She likes to go to warm places for vacation, post pictures of them on FB, and make us all feel much colder than we already do. We still love her though.
Padilla, Price, Marten, Van Leeuwen Win in NYC | | | Marten in the triple jump |
168th Armory, NYC- In her club debut, Manhattan University alum Bianca Marten won the 60 high hurdles, long jump, and triple jump at the USATF-NY Masters and Open Championships yesterday at the NYC Armory. Her marks were 8.65, 5.94m, and 12.18m, respectively--quite a long, yet fruitful, day at the office.
Kyle Price and Stephen Ellwood executed a perfect one mile race, finishing 1-2 respectively with times of 4:17.44 and 4:18.42. Jarrett Kunze continued to quietly have a breakthrough indoor season, as he PRed, again, with a 4:23.90 effort for 4th overall. Antoinette Padilla won her first race in black and gold. Despite have the second fastest time after the 60m prelims with a 7.75, she blasted a 7.67 in the finals, running away with the gold medal by .11. See her do it here. Craig Van Leeuwen, falling just inches short of a USAs qualifier weeks ago, won the pole vault in 5.0m even.
Alica Ross, in her first race for the aGSTC, finished 2nd in the 200m with a 26.19 performance. Kelsey Lewis, normally a high jumper, finished 2nd in the long jump with a 5.23m effort.
Quotes of the Week
"I just saw a tow truck drive past with our team van on the back. I'm not kidding." -Peter Bolgert, via text. Yeah, North Brunswick tows during snow events. And we forgot. Womp womp. "I do ice sheet fartleks. If there is ice, it's an off. If there is road, it's an on." -Adin Mickle, via FB
"I am 24 years old. I have represented my country in World university games in Kazan, Russia in 2013. I have also trained in IAAF HPTC Beijing, China for five months.." -Altaf Hussain Shah, via email from Pakistan
"Welcome Anselm. I am glad I joined the team before we instituted the WR (world record) requirement. Wow! ." -Wes Cole, via email, to masters men
A Message from the President If you haven't already, please email back your captains so they can best plan the upcoming team race lineups. You probably received an email a few weeks ago; if not, message us at gardenstatetrackclub@gmail.com. Oh, and would you like to purchase a magnet? We have just seven left.
2015 adidas GSTC Spring Racing Schedule March 22 Miles for Music 20k All Divisions April 25 Clinton 15k All Divisions May 2 Newport 10k Open Men, Women May 25 Ridgewood 10k Masters Men June 6 *College Ave Mile All Divisions June 15 President's Cup Open Men June 28 Lager Run Masters Women
2015 adidas aGSTC Winter/Spring Track Schedule April 3-4 Sam Howell (Princeton) April 11 Rider Invite April 17-18 Larry Ellis (Princeton) April 23-25 Penn Relays April 25 TCNJ Lions Invite May 11 Swarthmore Last Chance May 30 GSTC Invitational (Highland Park) |
| It's time to pay your 2015 Team Dues. The club has many operating expenses that depend on membership dues.
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The team has two under-the-lights track practices at Highland Park HS: Monday and Wednesday (5:30pm). We also train Saturday mornings at 10:00am at the same location. All are welcome....come do your workout! |
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