PRESIDENT’S CUP NIGHT RACE WILL BE AN AFTERNOON RACE THIS YEAR Well you can’t expect things to not change in forty years. The first year that the President’s Cup Night Race was run it started at the Milburn high school and it was a 10K. In 2019 it will start on Milburn Avenue instead of…
A windy Clinton 15K challenged the runners on Saturday
Just how windy was it? Two porta potties got blown off their feet in the parking lot at Bundt Park in Clinton. The good news, if having a porta potty go down can actually have any good news, is that they were blown on their backs. How many runners were blown off their feet? I…
Clinton Country Run 15K on Saturday
Clinton Country Run, Woods and Lakes, and national race in Dedham MA this weekend The second New Jersey Long Distance Running championship is taking place this Saturday (April 27th) in Clinton. The Clinton Country Run 15K is the championship for all divisions and features a mile race and a 5K. The mile starts at 8:30…
Gary Leaman does it all on less than fifty miles a week
Every week is different for Gary Leaman of Hardwick. His job at UPS involves tractor-trailers; switching them, moving them, and yes, driving them out on the interstates. Just about everything but loading them. How does he find the time to train I asked him. For those who think this 59 year old must put in…
Win, Win, Win!
New Jersey runners had a field day in Virginia Beach on Saturday (March 16, 2019). Several came home with medals and big smiles after competing at the USATF national masters 8K championship. You read it here. Roberta Groner of East Ledgewood won the 8K masters division of the race and was the first woman…
Virginia Beach here we come!
When people read on Facebook that the Daily Record of Morris County was dropping the Running Column along with the Hunting and Fishing, and Bowling columns, many said, “When one door closes another opens.” And it has. Thanks to the expertise of Alberto Artasanchez of the Raritan Valley Road Runners club at the computer and…
No Column this week
Posted Friday on FacebookAfter 27 years of meeting a deadline every Friday, or nearly every Friday, today I have none. In a cost cutting effort, the Daily Record will no longer carry my Running Column. It feels funny. 😐
Collin Frost of Randolph is one speedy guy
Published by the DAILY RECORD of Morris County, New Jersey On Sunday, February 24, 2019 By MADELINE BOST, 973-584-9302 COLLIN FROST OF RANDOLPH IS ONE SPEEDY GUY You have to wonder if this man can be beat. Not in New Jersey so it seems. When Collin Frost of Randolph toed the starting line in…
New Jersey athletes in the Big Apple
NEW JERSEY ATHLETES IN THE BIG APPLE It doesn’t get a bigger than the Millrose Games track meet in New York City every February. Once held at Madison Square Garden, the meet is now held at the New York Armory. The meet was held this year on Friday, February 8th. What many casual observers of…
You have to be in it to win it
Published in the Daily Record on Sunday, February 3, 2019 YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT In the movie On the Waterfront, Marlon Brando’s boxer character says plaintively, “I couda’ been a contenda’”. Justin Scheid of Succasunna could also have been a contenda’ had he just run two more races in the…