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Here is the full 2012 schedule of the team points races. These are the one’s we like to focus on for attendance numbers and awesome cheering squads. Our impressive showings at these races helped us win the 2010 NYRR spirit award or “The Freddy” as it is known. Please sign up for these races as soon as they open and then make sure to put your name on the Race Spreadsheet so we’ll have a good idea of who will be out there. The team points races are highlighted in green.

The Official 2012 NYRR Club Points Race Schedule:

• Coogan’s Salsa, Blues & Shamrock’s 5K (March 4th) – Race Full.
• Scotland Run 10k (April 7th) – Sign-Up Now!
• Brooklyn Half Marathon (May 19th) – Not Open Yet.
• NY Mini 10K (Women Only) (June 9th) – Sign-Up Now!
• Portugal Day 5M (Men Scored Only) (June 17th) – Sign-Up Now!
• Central Park Conservancy 4M (July 14th)
• Club Championships 5M (double Points) (August 4th)
• Harlem 5k (August 25th)
• 5th Ave Mile (September 22nd)
• Norway Run Half Marathon (September 29th)
• ING NYC Marathon (November 4th)
• Join The Voices (December 2th)

How To Sign Up:

When you register for a NYRR race , be sure to affiliate with North Brooklyn Runners (NBR).

Hello NBR,

Last Saturday’s race was not a club points race, but we had such a good turnout I thought I’d whip up a little something, so here is your officially unofficial race report from the Al Gordon Classic 4 Miler in Prospect Park, Saturday February 25th.

NBR had a fantastic showing of 54 racers braving the chilly 39F, 26 mph winds at the start. Getting air into your lungs during a four mile race is intense enough on its own, but man-oh-Manischewitz when the wind gusts kicked in on Saturday, you really had to fight for it. That did not deter a number of the NBR flock from turning out some excellent performances. Jerimy Greenberg placed an impressive 11th overall, earning him the 6th place spot in his age group. Derrie Davis absolutely crushed it in his age group, winning that, and taking 14th overall. Brad Skillman took the 10th place slot of his age group. Angela Ortiz ran a strong race and took home the 4th place spot in her age division. Last week’s Cherry Tree Relay superstar (yes!) Gwendolyn Bevis placed 7th in her age division, and Pamela Pratt-Galik cruised in to take the number 4 spot in her division, as well. And our youngest racer – I believe – at just 14 yrs old, Noah Peralta, placed 7th in his age division. Noah, if you and Gabriel can stay away from the Xbox at 4am the night before races, you guys are going to have a great year .

Great racing NBR…see you all at Coogan’s!

The numbers, the numbers:

54 Total.

-Mike Hill

If I only had a $30 budget for running, beer and cupcakes for next year, the most intelligent use of my money would be to just blow the whole wad on the Sayville Ten Mile Run to the Brewery. I mean this race really had it all.

Anna inspired a group of 12 of us to postpone our Friday drinking until roughly 11 a.m. over at the Blue Point Brewery in Siskiyou County – the first venture into the “long” portion of Long Island for many of us.  And bless her heart she designated herself driver of one of the three soccer momobiles we needed to cart us to a start of inconvenient location and unfortunate name in Patchogue, N.Y. (incorrectly pronounced puh-CHOO-ga).

*Results*: We had five runners finish under 1:10, multiple PRs and solid team representation at the beer tent. Anna rolled off the couch to a 4th place finish in her age group, within five seconds of top three status and a coveted Blue Point pint glass (awarded to top three of each category, not including top three overall for guys and gals, who got the superior beer vessel, a stein, mmmm, Munich). A split-second and perhaps just a costume choice behind Anna was Mishka,  5th in that same age group. Our great young hope Aviva forgot this was a 10 miler and proceeded to run her 10K pace, wrapping up fifth place in the 20-25 ladies. Joe Runner came in 9th in a highly competitive master’s category. Evan capped our under 1:10 group off in the longest distance he’s ever raced. I’m certain I was top ten in my weight class for beer consumed post-race. And just for romance’s sake, I think pretty much everyone else PRed (see full race results below). We had no representation in the Clydesdale category – someone mentioned there was one though I didn’t see it – but along those lines Tara Costa from Biggest Loser Season 3 was in attendance! And she continues to inspire with a respectable 1:39:17. Props to big fan Aviva for noticing and engaging in
conversation.

“Oh my god, are you Tara from the Biggest loser?”

“Hi, yeah, where’s the beer?”

“Oh, the beer tent is over there.”

“Great thanks, have fun!”

*Further details:* Put on by the Greater Long Island Running Club – GLIRC– sponsored by the Sayville Running Company and most importantly the Brewery, it was quite possibly the best value I’ve ever gotten in a race – and after all these market forces acting on and perpetrated by NYRR makes me really feel like NYRR can just go GLIRC itself from now on.

*What you get for your $30:* a scored race on a flat out-and-back 10-mile course through small-town streets (minor driveway issues), a micro-fiber t-shirt with a picture of running beers on it, Asics arm warmers, all-you-can-eat pasta (both rigatoni and mostaccioli), giant cupcakes of all flavors, bananas, donuts, juice boxes, bagels with all the peanut butter, jelly, cream cheese, etc. you can slather on them, live music, celebrity(ies?) sightings, and… beer unlimited. When I learned that this year’s registration was double that of last year’s I was certain it’d be one, at most two beers per person. Nope. All. You. Could. Drink. Of pretty much every beer they brew over there. My best experiences with NBR and beer always seem to revolve around Hoptical Illusion (see Scavenger Hunt). They had that, as well as Blue Point’s Oatmeal stout, Pale ale, Oktoberfest, Golden Ale, Extra Special Bitter, and a few others. I mean holy shit. Did I mention how delightful this was?

Us:

Place Name             Bib Gend Age Group Total Time     Pace
56    Max Frumes       270    M  10 30-34  1:06:12.8   6:38/M 
63    Jose LaSalle     458    M   9 40-44  1:07:18.1   6:44/M 
91    Anna McCusker    533    F   4 30-34  1:09:23.2   6:57/M 
92    Mishka Vertin    832    F   5 30-34  1:09:23.6   6:57/M 
98    Evan Schnittman  730    M  13 25-29  1:09:44.3   7:00/M 
112   Kenneth Allen     13    M  16 40-44  1:11:08.2   7:08/M 
153   Aviva Gat        285    F   5 20-24  1:12:57.0   7:19/M 
246   Beverly Walley   844    F  15 30-34  1:16:51.2   7:44/M 
251   Daeha Ko        1318    M  29 30-34  1:17:05.0   7:44/M 
385   Karen Marmon     512    F  25 30-34  1:21:50.0   8:12/M 
816   Marie Mcgill    1322    F  65 30-34  1:39:14.3   9:59/M 
898   Amanda Caton     108    F  45 25-29  1:46:05.1  10:38/M

Ben Starr – Not in attendance due to illness (prepping recipes to maintain MasterChef rep?)

Full Results.

-Max Frumes