Holiday Party Scheduled:
Club Social Director Rachel Bleacher has secured the upstairs room at Timothy’s, 100 Creek View Rd. off Paper Mill Rd. in Newark for the club’s Holiday Party. It will be on Wednesday, December 7 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. This is always a good time to renew your dues for 2012. Invite prospective club members to come as well. There will be a donation box towards food in case they are not prepared to join at that time.
Your input will be appreciated on potential award winners for 2011 and club events in 2012.
From President Ray:
Run the Bridge 10K recap
Sunday’s 10K on the Ben Franklin Bridge brought out over 3000 finishers,
including a great group of at least 13 club members. Weather was
spectacular for crossing from Camden to Philly and back, past the Battleship
New Jersey and finishing inside a minor league baseball stadium. Josh
Loren, Austin Gee & Jay Coughener all finished in the top 20 overall and we
grabbed four age group awards. We also grabbed bags of “Brunch”. If you’re
not a USATF member, consider joining for next year to carpool with friends
to fun races outside Wilmington!
Philly Marathon, Half, 8K, Expo
Contact Ray if interested in carpooling to Expo for bib p/u on Friday, Nov. 18, at
noon. While there, you’re encouraged to participate in my 1pm presentation
of “how running with partners or a club improves performance”. I’m sure that we’ve got people interested in driving together for Saturday’s 8K and for Sunday’s races.
Evansburg Ten Miler, Oct. 30 – Dirk Sweigart
Picture of some of the participants posted on PCVRC’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/289855916248/?ref=ts
The day dawned cold at Evansburg with that incredible four-inch October snow still lying on the ground. But as the sun began to turn the trails to ten miles of mud rivers and bogs, the hearty band of Pike Creek trail runners stomped around to keep warm and laughed at Ron Horn’s cynical humor. Yes, they had eliminated the worst water crossings, but no one had any doubt that they would be getting VERY wet and VERY muddy. Evansburg could have been a nice pleasant trail run…but not this day. No one would be here if it wasn’t for the USATF “off-road competition. And we of the PCVRC want some of that championship…
The hazards were many…shoe-sucking mud, slippery bridges, oh the usual trees and rocks, but now with ice and snow. Up and down hills, through fields, ya know. Spots where the best footing was running up a muddy rivulet. You can count the number of team members who didn’t fall at least once on one hand and have fingers left over.
Cooler heads prevailed at Radnor where they postponed (wimps!)…but Rich brought Epi and Carol F. to Evansburg instead! We also had “just-in-time” new member Carol Giampietro, welcome! Tom S (still recovering) encouraged the team at strategic points. Rounding out the team were Lisa, Sheri, Andrea, Fred, Bob K and Dirk. The team collected 5 medals including Lisa’s 2nd woman overall. Our third place seems safe, dare we hope to overtake the Greater Philly Track Club for second?
Results from the Evansburg Ten Miler:
1 15:06 SHUFFLEBARGER FRED UNIONVILLE PA M 63 – 75.29
1 14:40 CAMMACHO EPI WILMINGTON M 55 – 70.45
1 16:41 KLESZICS BOB HOCKESSIN DE M 54 – 68.00
1 27:21 GIAMPIETRO CAROL GARNET VALLEYPA F 53 – 66.89
1 28:50 FEOLE CAROLE WILMINGTON DE F 53 – 65.78
1 19:37 JALOT LISA WILMINGTON DE F 40 – 64.47
1 24:32 HERRMANN SHERI WILMINGTON DE F 42 – 61.52
1 23:31 SWEIGART DIRK WILMINGTON DE M 51 – 60.86
1 40:54 RUBINOFF ANDREA BEAR DE F 56 – 60.23
To answer Dirk’s question, the club appears to have a firm hold on third place in the Off-road Series. Barring any particular club having a problem and not being able to score in the last event, that is where PCVRC will end up. The last event is the Delaware Open XC Championship at Brandywine Creek State Park on November 26.
Grand Prix Series Results:
Due to the unusual weather a couple of weekends ago, the Radnor Run Five Miler was postponed until this past Sunday. Because the Bridge Run 10K was already scheduled for Sunday, MA-USATF decided to combine the results of both races into one club score and dropped the number of total events in which a club must score to six from seven.
Here are the combined results with “B” for the Bridge Run and “R” for the Radnor run. PCVRC currently holds sixth place among ten teams. Competition this year is at a higher level than I’ve ever seen. While our team scores are close to those of past years when our team finished higher, this year new teams have found some very high scoring runners increasing the difficulty of finishing higher for a small club such as ours. The final event of the series will be the combined competition of the Philadelphia Marathon, Half-Marathon and 8K on November 20.
R 29:24 84.297 Greg Cauller
B 35:48 83.054 Jay Coughenour
R 32:01 79.386 Epi Camacho
B 43:46 79.056 Dan Simmons
B 45.57 77.657 Carole Feole
B 34:57 77.206 Josh Loren
B 35:20 75.991 Austin Gee
B 42:27 73.852 Lisa Jalot
B 43:36 70.986 Dirk Sweigart
B 44:48 70.908 Sheri Herrmann
R 38:27 70.438 Theresa Kauffman
B 39:38 70.101 Chris James
B 49:39 69.218 Lorri Fencer
B 47:20 64.331 Ray Christensen
B 1:13:16 58.303 John Schultz
B 1:01:05 58.226 Jerry Herman
R 47:03 50.620 Rich Szymanski
New York City Marathon
2:39:18 Enos Benbow, BQ, 140th Overall
3:27:01 Lee Kauffman, BQ
4:37:27 Tony Chelpaty
Delaware Futures 5K
17:36 Greg Cauller, 3rd Overall, 1st Master
Turkey Round-Up 5K
17:42 Greg Cauller, 2nd Overall, 1st Master
Veterans Day 5K
17:53 Greg Cauller, Overall Winner
Note that Greg Cauller ran four races in two days (actually within the space of 28 hours), achieving a first, a second and a third overall and contributing the club’s highest age-grade score in the MA-USATF events.