Upstate XC Race #3
A depleted but undaunted Roadkill Racing team took to the trails at Fairport Center Park this weekend for the 3rd race in the Pete Glavin Upstate Cross Country Series. We were without the services of Jeff, Rob and Dan, but Mike made the trip up from Maryland and Pete drove in from Buffalo so we were able to field a 6 person team. There were several races going on Saturday at Center Park, the first being the open series race, which was followed by the women’s and then men’s USATF National Masters Championship races.
It was perfect morning to race, cloudy and cool with hardly any wind. Looking up and down the start line it was clear that we were going head to head to head with GVH again, with Syracuse Track Club fielding only a few runners on their men’s team. GVH was racing with their strongest team of the series having recently recruited Tim Chichester, 3rd place finisher at last week’s Hospice 5k, but we had very solid team even missing 3 of our runners and if things broke just right I thought we had a shot at winning our 3rd race in a row.
Everyone on the Roadkill Racing team stepped up big time for this race. Chanse lead the way with a 3rd place finish (2nd in the team scoring) finally outkicking Dave Bradshaw of GVH after a back and forth race. Mike who hadn’t raced since July jumped back into things with a 5th place finish pushing past several runners in the last 1000 meters. I was 3rd for RKR with my best performance of the season, followed by Matt who gutted out a hell of race less than a week after running a marathon PR of 2:42. According to Lisa, Matt had “labor pain face” at the finish, that is RUNNING TUFF! Pete put in another strong race for us finishing out our top 5, and Ryan who continues to improve each race rounded out our team.
Despite great efforts all around, we were not able to beat out GVH. We ended up finishing 2nd (last) by a score of 25 to 30. That puts the series standings at:
RKR: 16
GVH: 14
STC: 3
HN: 2
On the bright side it did not appear as if any beer was awarded during this race so we didn’t miss out on anything too important.
Mixed 5k Run CC Upstate/Open |
Comp# Name Team Time Points |
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1 351 Chichester, Tim M23 Genesee Valley Open I 16:13 |
2 343 O’Hara, Chip M30 Syracuse TC Open I 17:08 |
3 337 Hungerford, Chanse M23 Road Kill Open I 17:23 |
4 315 Bradshaw, Dave M32 Genesee Valley Open I 17:26 |
5 338 Insler, Michael M27 Road Kill Open I 17:36 |
6 317 Crandall, Adam M35 Genesee Valley Open I 17:39 |
7 339 Perks, Joshua M37 Road Kill Open I 17:47 |
8 342 Nicholson, Marty M24 Syracuse TC Open I 17:56 |
9 319 Harter, Josh M36 Genesee Valley Open I 18:03 |
10 340 Roberts, Matt M27 Road Kill Open I 18:15 |
11 318 Frahm, Matt M31 Genesee Valley Open I 18:22 |
12 336 Gratien, Peter M23 Road Kill Open I 18:25 |
13 358 Geiger, Everett M13 Unattached Open I 18:30 |
14 353 Sweeney, Francis M18 Unattached Open I 18:41 |
15 360 Hall, Alex M16 Unattached Open I 19:06 |
16 334 Lam, Michael M21 High Noon AC Open I 19:08 |
17 328 Snyder, Jessica W27 Genesee Valley Open I 19:09 |
18 333 Clemens, Kristian M6 High Noon AC Open I 19:21 |
19 335 Burke, Ryan M24 Road Kill Open I 19:35 |
20 349 Langerfeld, Donna W25 Syracuse TC Open I 19:52 |
21 356 Williams, Josh M37 Unattached Open I 20:17 |
22 362 Rodriguez, Victoria W32 Unattached Open I 20:28 |
23 359 Kelly, Natalie W28 Unattached Open I 21:07 |
24 355 Ryan, Kelsey W24 Checkers AC Open I 21:08 |
25 345 Wattles, Jeremy M28 Syracuse TC Open I 21:39 |
26 330 Stillings, Hannah W22 Genesee Valley Open I 21:51 |
27 352 Boyd, Joe M33 Genesee Valley Open I 22:06 |
28 323 Duffy, Joanna W25 Genesee Valley Open I 22:34 |
29 421 Sweeney, Richard M46 Unattached Open I 23:15 |
30 357 Branch, Jackie W36 Unattached Open I 23:16 |
31 320 Heerkens Jr, Ron M31 Genesee Valley Open I 24:23 |
32 329 Steenburgh, Megan W23 Genesee Valley Open I 24:39 |
33 324 Johnson, Rebecca W26 Genesee Valley Open I 24:40 |
34 325 Orner, Caitlin W22 Genesee Valley Open I 25:33 |
35 447 Telarico, Dick M73 Unattached Super Vet I 30:22 |
36 432 Leyrer, Gary M57 unattached 32:20 |