Race Report: NYRR Team Championships 2017
For a period of time, it looked uncertain as to whether the NYRR Team Championships would go on with the rain and lightning in the area, but in the end, lightning decided to stay away, leaving only humidity behind. A team of 74 PPTC runners (43 men and 31 women) ran 5 miles for glory on August 5th. The men's race started at 8:00 am and the women's race started at 8:45 am. Here are few PPTC highlights.
Men
Congratulations to Ben Collier for being the fastest PPTC man in the NYRR Team Champs (30:15).
Dean Gebhardt and Matt Siefker came in 2nd and 3rd for PPTC men (30:26 and 31:02, respectively). Dean came in 4th for his age group, which is also the highest age group placement for men in PPTC.
Congratulations to Tyrone Sklaren (43:57) and Dan Dougherty (35:29) whose performances garnered them top ten finishes in their age groups (5th and 10th, respectively).
Big birthday PR for Jimmy Leung (38:52)! Congratulations, Cronut Prince!
A PR for Ben Allison (32:18)! Congrats!
Congratulations to Sam Smullen (40:48) for his PR!
Noah Deveraux (31:37) raced his first 5-miler and therefore gets an automatic PR!
Women
Congratulations to Jana Trenk for being the fastest PPTC woman in the NYRR Team Champs (31:39).
Mary Johnston and Missy Burgin came in 2nd and 3rd for PPTC women (33:40 and 35:31, respectively).
Congratulations to Charlene Kohler-Britton whose 7th place in her age group is the highest PPTC women finish we have for the age group divisions (53:36).
It should be noted that Mary Johnston and Claire Dougherty (46:21) finished in the top ten for their age group (9th for both).
Carla Benton (38:30) and Hilary Pauli (43:31) both got new 5-mile PRs in this brutal weather. Great job, ladies!
Congratulations to Rachel G. (41:40) for her PR as well!
Big thanks to Linda Ewing, Crystal Cun, Tom Meany, and Eric Levenstein, our "picnic" organizers, for hauling all the goodies to Starbucks because the weather forced them to pre-emptively cancel the picnic. Post-race fun was had with at Ryan's Daughter.