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Aggie Masters - 2002 Year in Review
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Sunday, January 13
Cal 10 : Aggies over Hoys: Jose, Linda Win
Jose Aispuro and Linda Somers Smith both opened the PA Road season with vicotries at the Cal 10 in Stockton today. The team battle for the men is a close one with Hoy's, while RBS/WVTC looks to be third.
Mike Galligan may have run the race of the day. He came down from Marysville way to put his larger-than-when-he-went-to-Sac-State body to sub 60 pace and was the fifth man, holding off Hartig and Fabris.
Jose wasn't surprised by his win, but Rios was. Daddy had a battle with Jesus Garcia of Hoys and our own Dennis Rinde. "I got ahead of them bad boys and pushed, thinking they must be the leaders," said Daddy. "But when I was about to cross the finish line, there was Jose walking back from the shoot saying 'Way to go Carmelo!' There went all the juice from Daddy's legs"
Mislick was shooting to break 57 minutes, and he found himself locked in a tet-a-tet with Tim Keenan of EBS. "At nine miles I calculated I needed a 5:35 to my goal of 57 minutes," noted Slick. He surged on Keenan, Keenan surged back, and while Keenan held the last surge, it drove Greg to a 5:33 and personal victory.
1 Aispuro 52:39 5:16 100.00% (15th overall)
4 Rios 55:20 5:32 105.06%
7 Rinde 55:57 5:33 105.41%
13 Mislick 56:58 5:39 107.31%
24 Galligan 59:34 6:00 113.80%
27 Hartig 1:00:30? 6:03 114.91%
37 Fabris 1:01:58 6:12 117.70%
1 Linda Somers Smith 57:32, 3RD overall - KILLER! EAD!!!
Results
Aggies
Hoys
EBS/WVTC
Saturday, February 9
OTC Edges Aggies at Winter Nats by 10 Seconds
The official results weren't yet posted, but it looks like the Oregon Track Club pulled out the big guns and handed the Men in Black a close loss in the Winter 6K Cross Nationals in Vancouver, Washington.
"I wasn't sure OTC had a team," said defending champion and third placer Tim Minor, "until I could hear the crowd yelling at the guys behind me to close up, so I knew someone was giving us a race."
The front of the field featured Masters Runner of the Year Eddy Helleybuck in his cross country debut. "He checked out," said Tim, "but I was always trying to close the gap."
Daddy Rios and Jeff Shaver(moto) reprised their Mobile positions, getting 8th and 10th and grabbing individual medals.
Greg Mislick, who hasn't every really run Masters Cross and wasn't sure what spikes to put in his shoes (I brought 1/4 inch, is that too much?), didn't show his freshman status in his performance. He ran a solid 19th, just ahead of fifth man Dr. Palladino in 24th.
Complete Results Link
1 Helleybeck 19:15
3 Minor 19:45 5:19 102.60%
4 OTC 20:01
5 OTC 20:08
8 Rios 20:27 5:30 106.23%
10 Shaver 20:38 5:33 107.19%
11 OTC 20:42
12 OTC 20:42
19 Mislick 20:59 5:38 109.00%
23 Trimble EBS
24 Palladino 21:19 5:44 110.74%
26 Cushman 21:24 5:45 111.17%
27 OTC 21:25
31 Keenan EBS
32 Ross EBS
36 Fong EBS
44 Searls 22:22 6:01 116.19%
57 Lesley EBS
85 Hashim 25:34 6:52 132.81%
Teams
1 OTC 1:42:58, 59 Pts. (4,5,11,12,27)
2 Aggies 1:43:08, 64 Pts. (3,8,10,19,24)
? EBS/WVTC 179? Pts.
Monday, February 18
Rios and Shaver Team up for 5K Assualt in All Comers
Daddy Rios and Jeff Shaver(moto)grouped up at the final winter all comer meet in Los gatos to assualt the club record of 15:35. The two brothers have been inseperable since Shaver moved jobs close to Rios' house and the two can train together.
Jeff took it out, Rios statyed close, then closed the gap at a mile. The ran together for the next 200 but then Rios eeked out for a lead that he held to the finish.
Final time 15:50 and 16:10. Those are the 2nd and eight best Aggie masters marks.
Sunday, March 3
Palladino Pops Pretty 5K at Napa
I caught a chest cold on Monday of this week, so I new that I had to cut back the training. So, I thought as long as I was cutting back, maybe I could recover from the cough in time for the March 3 Napa Valley 5K and take advantage of the forced taper. Hacked about 2x/mile (not too bad), but got passed by Keenan in the last 1/2mile
(and I had beat him by 20+ seconds at the Winter Cross).
Napa Valley 5K (in association with the Napa Valley Marathon)
weather: cool, clear, windless (perfect)
1. Duke Bristow UC Davis guy 22yo 16:11
5. Tim Keenan EBS/WVTC 40yo 16:24
6. Steve Palladino Reebok Aggies 45yo 16:30 (new mastersPB)
7-187 a bunch other other people
Steve
Sunday, March 17
Rios and Shaver In Mercury Duel
In a near Masters blanket finish for the overall, Aggies did well at the Mercury News 10k. Carmelo Rios and Jeff Shaver were second and third masters and 6th and 7th overall. New Master Craig Steinmaus of Hoy's led the over 40's in 3rd place. But looming on the horizon is our own Danny Gonzales, who will be 40 this spring.
This year's Merc was a cold and wet one, with rain and temperatures under 50 degrees for the race.
Steinmaus' time was nearly identical to the time Mando used last year to defeat Tyrone.
Rios and Shaver have been battling over the last year and added thier Merc performances to the Aggie all-time top ten certififed road times. Daddy and Shaver were part of the twenty who stayed for the awards ceremony, where Daddy declared "Where's the raffle? I got number 99, he's got number 253, draw me some prizes!" He got a thing of yogurt.
2. Gonzales 31:13 (39 - Fastest Age-graded time of the day)
3. Steinmaus (Hoys) 31:48 Masters Winner
6. Rios 33:26 5:24 105.1% 2nd Master
7. Shaver 33:29 5:24 105.3% 3rd Master
17 Jim Brewer 35:20
27 Ryan McGuire 36:20
61 John Graham 39:19 Master
2 Rachel Brewer 37:00
Sunday, March 17
Minor Wins at 'Lina 5k
In an Aggie field decimated by illness and injury, Tyrone Minor managed to still bring home the Aggie accolades by wining outright the Catalina Island 5K.
The sick and injured list included Kevin Searls (see the Aggie Message board for his hospitalization record), both Groves, Rubio Joe and others. As a result of the injuries, Rubio noted that many Aggies "Went out Hard" on Friday night to the local watering holes, where the drink of choice was "Surfers on Acid."
Catalina 5K (Pretty Flat)
1 Minor 15:45 (Master)
1 Noreen 19:45
10K (Very Hilly)
Griff 35:45
Rubio 36:30
Marathon (Very Hilly)
1 Jeff Atkinson 2:58
Ted Brown 3:06
John Brown 3:30
Jim Hurley 4:30 (injured Master)
Sunday, March 17
Linda Puts a 5K into the Record Books.
Linda Somers Smith lowered the club record and established the new masters record in the womens' 5K on the track on a cold windy Cal Poly day, winning the invite over Jen DeRego 16:52.59 to 17:08.62. Katy Spink held the established open club record of 16:57 set at the Cardinal Invite in '99.
Christine Olen was in town doing her annual track camp at Aeron Arlin-Genet house, and the two ran the 5K as part of their training.
1 Linda Somers AGGIES 16:52.59
2 Jen DeRego CAL POLY 17:08.62
18 Christine Olin AGGIES 18:29.43
19 Aeron Arlin-Genet AGGIES 18:36.46
Sunday, March 24
Maria and Jose Take the 12K of Houlihans
Maria Trujillo, in her first Aggie appearance, raced to an overall second and Masters first at Houlihans. Not to be outdone, Jose Aispuro backed up his victory at the Cal 10 with the 12k title.
Missus Daddy Rios was second place master, ahead of teammate Dennis Rinde. Rounding out the top five were Colonel Mislick and Mike Galligan, then Mike Davis and David Ahn completed the team.
MIW (Master In Waiting) Tony Coffey (April 1) was close, in 90th.
"It looks like two of Hoys' top masters sat this one out," said Aggie Captain Ahn Solo, "so I think we took them today, but EBS ran us really tough and it looks like we got second to them by 37 seconds."
Houlihans Results Link
17th 1M Aispuro 39:58 5:22 100.00%
23rd 4M Rios 40:39 5:28 101.71%
34th 9M Rinde 41:50 5:37 104.67%
49 13 Mislick 42:43 5:44 106.88%
90 MIW Coffey 44:49 6:01 112.14%
121 Galligan 46:10 6:12 115.51%
303 Davis 51:51 6:58 129.73%
328 Ahn 52:19 7:02 130.90%
Team Time 3:29:59
2nd 1M Trujillo 44:35
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| Maria Trujillo by BARN |
Sunday, March 24
Linda 6th Overall, 1st Master at Shamrock
Distance: 8K, Chicago Shamrock
Linda Somers Smith got a last minute invitation to fly out to Chicago for the La Salle Bank Shamrock 8k, so she took the bank's money and ran.
6th, 64th overall, 1st Master, Linda Somers Smith 27:36
Runners World Online Article:
Creighton Wins the Lasalle Bank Shamrock Shuffle 8-K
The LaSalle Bank Shamrock Shuffle 8-K brought more than 17,000 participants to Grant Park yesterday morning to kick off the start of Chicago's running season
The LaSalle Bank Shamrock Shuffle 8-K brought more than 17,000 participants to Grant Park yesterday morning to kick off the start of Chicago's running season. Australian Shaun Creighton successfully defended his title in 22:57, while new-comer Priscilla Hein led the women in 26:08.
A total of 17,470 participants took part in Sunday's event, including 15,917 runners in the 8-K race, 1,298 walkers in the 5-K Fitness Walk and 255 youngsters in the quarter-mile Kids Shuffle.
The men's race was very competitive from the start as the lead pack -- including former champions Creighton, John Kariuki and Mark Coogan, as well as new-comer Michael Aish -- stayed together until mile 4. Creighton pulled away from the pack for the sprint down Columbus Drive, winning for the second consecutive year, 9 seconds ahead of runner-up Aish (23:06).
Priscilla Hein, a cross-country and track specialist, had never entered an 8-K road race until Sunday. Running away from the women's field, Hein finished comfortably ahead of runner-up Nicole Jefferson. Linda Somers-Smith, the 1992 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon Champion and a 1996 Olympian in the marathon, finished first in the masters division with 27:36.
Creighton and Hein each took home $1,250 for their victories out of the $8,800 event purse.
Sunday, April 7
Shaver Gets the 5K Mark at Mathis
Includes Johnny Mathis, Carlsbad 5K - by Shaver
Yeah, I know Mando, Huff, Tyrone, Daddy, KO, Jose, etc, etc are all better than me, but the fact is they haven't yet strapped on the club singlet and tugged it around the track for 12.5 laps.
Yeah, I know Raul and Barley Bob are 39-11/12 years old and will run much faster than me when they get old next month, but the fact is I still have another month.
Yeah, I know Gruber ran a 32:32 10,000m earlier that August 1996 morning in Spokane, that he won the 5000m by over two minutes, and was tripped twice while lapping the 1st 70-79 female wheelchair racer, but the fact is the official results show 15:35.0.
Yeah, I know Denis O'H will pull a yellowed Marin Independent Journal clipping out of a dusty Converse Pahelon shoe box showing a 14:55 at age 45 at the Stanford Invite, but the fact is once he's able to bend those arthritic knees enough to pull that box out from under his bed, he won't be able to get back up and get to his keyboard to tell us about it.
"What the hell is he talking about?" you ask. Well, I'm just tooting my own
horn about my first, only, and last Aggie club record. "So what, it'll be gone in a week!" you say. Well, the fact is I'll have it for that blessed week. Enough bragging. Back to the track before Carmelo catches back up.
...and now for the results...
Johnny Mathis Invitational - SFSU
April 6, 2002
Aggies at the meet...
Men's 800m - Heat 2
8. Kevin Pierpoint (youngster) - 2:13.75 (I heard he ran a 1:59, but this is what the results say)
Men's 1500m - Heat 1
9. Kevin Pierpoint (youngster) - 4:01.79
Men's 5000m - Heat 1
2. Danny Gonzalez (age 39-325/365) - 14:34.59
21. Jeff Shaver (1st master) - 15:33.79 - Aggie Masters Record
Men's 5000m - Heat 2
6. Jeff Magallanes (age 39-330/365, 1st submaster, master of the dip) - 15:59.06
10. Jason Blank (youngster) - 16:11.61
Men's 1000m
4. Tony Coffey (age 39-356/365) - 37:38.93
Women's High Jump
6. Robyn Harms, unattached - 4'6" (bad ankle)
full results at http://athletics.sfsu.edu/docs/mathis/Resultjm.htm
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Carlsbad 5000, Carlsbad, CA
April 7, 2002
Masters Men Overall Results
12 Tim Minor M 44 Reno NV 15:52
26 Greg Mislick M 44 Carmel Valley 16:44
Invite Women Overall Results
17 Nicole Kulikov CO 16:39
Masters Women Overall Results
2 Maria TrujilloF 42 Los Gatos 17:28
full results at http://tnt.eliteracing.com/results/cbad/
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Great Race 4 Mile, Saratoga to Los Gatos
April 7, 2002
results unavailable at press time
-Jeff-
Sunday, April 21
Compaq Up and Running 10K
Compaq Race Link
This Double Points Race was a payday for the Masters Men and Individual Masters Women.
Compaq Photo Album
At two miles, Carmelo "Gonzales is Going Down" Rios looked around as he caught Jeff Shaver(moto). Out of the corner of his eye appeared "Vapor Man", Dennis Rinde. Vapor Man's powers are the ability to arrive at a race undetected, run like stink on a monkey, and then egress from said race without detection. "Here we go," thought Rios, "Vapor Man looks fit."
From a few yards behind, Terence "One Man Down" Boynton looked up at almost the exact moment to get his first glance at Vapor Man. A warm feeling went through his heart as he too realized that V'Man was there to help the Aggies.
Two simultaneous sightings of Vapor Man unlocks his fearsome mid race drive. The rest of the super hero masters hooked their tethers together and pulled off a great pack victory. Even the ailing Jose "Can You See" Aispuro, slowed by illness, was able to muster the butter and stay in the pack.
This year's 1-5 spread was about a minute, compared to last year's 4:30.
That left Greg Mislick to lead the charge for the second team. No one on the second team ever got a glimpse of Vapor Man, so they were left to battle with their considerable mortal powers. Still, Hank and Joe ran pack style with Ernie Lee through 3, taking turns at the lead, with Hank and Joe then pulling away in the second half.
John Graham, recently turned 40, ran his first PA race for the crew. David "Ahn Solo" once again performed his workhorse role, making sure we had full teams and sacrificing himself to keep us in the points.
On the women's side, it went beyond super hero into the next astral plane. Linda Somers Smith won the whole enchilada. With Sauce. Maria Trujillo was sixth overall. Newest Agg Barb Acosta got into a mid race altercation with another female runner and tweaked her leg, but still solderied on to a finish. It's the first Masters Women race victory, but the women chose to score as Open, where we have a great shot at the Grand Prix title this year.
Master Greys (winning Times = 32:05 - Steinmaus)
2 Rios 32:45 5:17 102.1% $100
5 Rinde 33:15 5:22 103.6%
6 Boynton 33:17 5:22 103.7%
8 Shaver 33:35 5:25 104.7%
10 Aispuro 33:45 5:27 105.2%
Estimated Time: 2:46:35
Probably a team Win: $300
Master Blues
12 Mislick 34:04 5:30 106.2%
21 Fabris 35:19 5:41 109.9%
24 Lawson 35:38 5:45 110.1%
~45 Graham 38:11 6:10 119.0%
~60 Ahn 42:55 6:55 133.5%
Master Women (Will be scored as Open)
1 Somers Smith 34:51 (1st Overall - $350, 1st Masster $200)
2 Trujillo de Rios 36:43 (2nd Master - $100)
4 Acosta 38:00
Open Teams:
2 Gonzales 31:02 (2nd - $200)
12 Phillips 32:09
44 Magallanes 34:06
49 Blank 34:16
56 Nast 34:40
60 McGuire 34:50
102 Lee 36:00
Open Women
1 Somers Smith 34:51
4 Adams 35:45
6 Trujillo de Rios 36:43
13 Lund 37:16
16 Acosta 38:00
57 Saxena 42:55
Looks like a team Win. If so, $500
2 Mile
14 Amol Saxena 11:47
Kristin Jacobs - 2nd 12:332
Liz Nast - 2nd Master 13:17
Kids Race
Nast 1st
Shaver 2nd
Monday, April 22
Aggie Masters Update Shoe Builders Awards
Tired of post race discussions on "who should be scored as an open guy so he can get shoes," a core of dedicated masters sat under the Aggie Tent at the Compaq 10K, and over a few Pepsi's built the new Master Shoe Builders Award to augment the Master of the Meet Award.
Here's what these cafinated bad boys have come up with.
For the PA road season and for a few selected mass appeal races, if you are on a scoring Aggie Master Team, you get a shoe.
First you get the left shoe. Next race you get the right shoe. Then you get some laces. On the fourth race, you get the box and they are shipped in the mail.
The Races Are:
Cal 10
Houlihans 12K
Mercury 10K
Compaq 10K
Big Sur 5K
Breakers
Zippy 5k
Tahoe Relays
Shriners 8K
Cap Mile
Wharf
Paso 10K
Humboldt Half
Clarksberg 30K
Cal Int. Marathon
You can be top 7 on a scoring team, or in the case where we field multiple full teams, if you are scored, you get a shoe. We'll use the web page to keep score.
Check the "Records" tab on the left for the tabulation.
Masters Pede Shaping Up for Bay to Breakers
apparently the East Bay/WVTC coalition has been recruiting any and all fast masters guys for an "allstar" pede at Bay to Breakers.
Their sole purpose; kick the Aggie Masters mens pede's ass. It's time to step up brothers. You don't want Rubio sending out another scathing email like he did last year. Who's in? If you are, please email Greg Mislick at gkmislic@nps.navy.mil.
Now we also have a bet with the Aggie Open Women. When we beat them, we will get to lead them around on a leash while they chant "Men Rule, Women Drool" at a PA CC race this fall.
Definites: Minor, Shaver, OMD, KO, Aispuro, Jeff and Emil Magallanes,Mislick, Lawson, Rinde, Cushman, Townsend. These 12 can all break 6:00 per mile, which is our goal.
> Maybe's --
- Mark Conover
- Brooks Geiken
- John Graham
- Ron Richardson
- Linda Somers
- Scott Steinmaus
- Matt Yeo
> Can't Be There: Fabris - Pussy, Rios - Pussy Whipped, Snake, Ginger Bread Man, Huff
This is a "Shoe Builders Race" - Get a shoe dude!
Linda Somers noted all the crying and offered this: "I have been honored to receive the recent "pussy-referenced" Aggie 40 e-males (pun intended).
"I can't take it anymore. Although I have sworn retirement after my stellar performance at the World Half Marathon, I will run up and down the damn hills in the men's 40 peed. I just got my hair cut, so no disguise necessary. And, I am sure I can run 6 minute pace, having done nothing but tapper for the last week.
"I will say, in my opinion, having a gal in the peed really would be the end of the world as we know it. Good luck getting your crips together. I really don't want to run."
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| One to Go by Tyler Abbott |
 | Sunday, April 28
Big Sur 5K
The Aggie Masters women once again dominated a PA race with a stellar 1-2-3 shutout. Linda Somers got the overall win in a close finish line drive with Tenaya. Maria Trujillo de Rios was second master and Barb Acosta was right with her in third.
Big Sur Photos
1 Somers Smith 17:36 5:41
2 Trujillo de Rios 18:10 5:52
3 Acosta 18:28 5:57
We were half way through the big team warm down, as Susan and Tenaya were relating the story about the previous night next door to the newlywed couple on their honeymoon night in the Motel Paper Thin, when Daddi Rios quietly materialized with a "There you all are. Daddi's home."
"So loud cloud," we asked, "did you take it today?"
"Oh let Daddi tell you, I was right on Tim ’Silver Hair’ Minor and I had him. I mean he was my prize today. I was already thinking what I was going to turn around and tell him in the chute.
"Just when we got back on the road and I was going to drop the hammer, he dropped me. You know why? 'cause the wind was only blowing on me 'cause I'm a Puerto Rican and this here Carmel is white man's land."
While Rios was busy getting beat by Minor, Jose and Rinde were solidly in the 16's and 47 year old Hank Lawson ran 17:17 for second in his age group. "That's the first medal I've got in a PA race since Stanford Cross Country back in the 90's," said a happy Hank.
That five, pushed by Fabris, Hartig and Ahn, took the team title by about a minute. "I couldn't have asked for much more today from our close pack," said team captain David Ahn. "We beat Hoy's and East Bay even though Hoy's went 1-2 on us."
3 Minor 15:56
4 Rios 16:04
5 Aispuro 16:32
8 Rinde 16:50
15 Lawson 17:20
18 Fabris 17:34
27 Hartig 18:46
40 Ahn 21:10
Shoe Builders from Big Sur:
Aispuro Boxed
Fabris Laces
Hartig Right Shoe
Lawson Right Shoe
Minor Left Shoe
Rinde Boxed
Rios Left Shoe - Start of 2nd Pair
Win 15:44 - Steimaus
3 Minor 15:56 5:08 101.27%
4 Rios 16:04 5:11 102.12%
5 Aispuro 16:32 5:20 105.08%
8 Rinde 16:50 5:26 106.99%
15 Lawson 17:20 5:35 110.17%
18 Fabris 17:34 5:40 111.65%
27 Hartig 18:46 6:03 119.28%
40 Ahn 21:10 6:50 134.53%
Aggies1:22:42
Hoys: 1:23:28
EBS: 1:26:21
Saturday, April 27
Ostenberg 6th at Drake Masters Mile
Reports Kevin:
It was cold, windy and I sucked.
The Irish guy went out in 2:06 (I didn't), the place was unbelievably loud and almost full (14000+) despite rain, wind, cold (40), lightning and later in the afternoon - tornadoes. I hope to be smarter next year and get in some meets before this one. Confidence in that atmosphere would help. It was a tough opener!
1 Colm Rothery Ireland 4:16.54
2 Mike Egle 4:24.59
3 Peter Magill, So Cal Track Club 4:25.28
4 Graeme Fell, Powerbar Track Club 4:26.43
5 Angel Roman, Runner's High Track Club 4:29.06
6 Kevin Ostenberg, Reebok Aggies4:35.29
7 Conor O'Driscoll, Westchester Puma 4:39.25
8 Jamin Aasmum, So Cal Track Club 4:41.27
Saturday, April 20
Fabris 8th Overall at Folsom Singletrack Duathalon
Putting on the Aggie Jersey for a Run-Bike-Run singletrack for the first time was bad boy Fab boy.
He led the first run, coming in with about a 20 to 30 second lead. Lost it in the transition. Then the mountain bikers had their way with him and put 5 minutes on him over the next 8 miles. He blew it again in the transition, loosing two more spots before he could redeem himself in the run again. He nabbed 5 spots back over the 2 miles and ended up 8th overall, 2nd master.
Sunday, May 5
Linda 55th at World 1/2 Marathon Champs
Linda represented the USA as an open athlete at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Brussels on Saturday. She was 55th. All four USA women finished serialy, with Linda third lass in 1:17:38.
Link to Brussels Results
http://www.iaaf.org/WHM02/results/data/W/HMAR/Rf.html
Monday, May 6
Devil Mtn. Misc
Noreen Searls was 3rd at the DM 10K in 40:03. Master Mike Davis was 6th in the 40+ in 40:38.
Over in the 5K, new Aggie Martin Eng was 2nd in the 50+ in 18:18.
Fabris went mountain biking again, this time up in Redding in the Shasta Lemurian Classic. Top 20 overall, 5th Veteran on the 23 mile race.
Breakers still needs masters, and it's shaping up to be a good one. Jamey is getting more fast guys in the main pede, letting the faster master blasters back where they belong.
Grand Prix Standings Thru Big Sur
Masters Men - 1st - Up 5.5 points
Open Women 2nd - down 2.5 points (all our Masters Women are scored here)
Open Men 4th - down 15 points (using the occasional Master)
Individuals
1t Jose
1t Carmelo
4t Dennis
12 Mislick
18 Boynton
20 Shaver
25 Minor
31 Fabris
34 Lawson
Women - Open SHort
1 LInda (Master)
2 Tenaya
3 Maria (Master)
10 Acosta (Master)
16 Lund
22 Young
Women Open Long
1 Tenaya
2 Maria
9 Jacobs
15 Somers
16 Lund
28 Young
31 Ortenberger
Sunday, May 12
Go to Zippy, Do the Dippy - 4 Masters Under 16
One Guy Shy.
Not happy with the great success of our two teams, we greybeards were focused on the fact that we were only one guy shy of three full teams at the Zippy.
Daddi Mac Rios started the day by talking trash on the warmup. New master John Graham, Rios, Fabris, the Magallanes brothers were warming up when Rios lit into Graham. "Oh, what's wrong with you? Are you hurt? You don't really run with that form, do you? Oh, that's a punishment looking for a crime."
Speaking of Punishment, Rios went out hard, 4:55 at the mile, 9:54 at two. From behind, 40-years-and-1-day-year-old Jeff Magallanes noted "Parts started falling off of Carmelo. There went a lung. His kneecap was just hanging there. His arms were flapping like a duck hit with buckshot." Carmelo was coming back.
Jose Can You See Aispuro and Jeff closed like a tin-siding salesmen on a roll. Jose almost nipped the listing Porta Potty Rican at the line. But Rios prevailed. KO surpised everyone with his presence "Got to get ready for the pede next week," was all he said. Vapor Man Rinde materialized at the mile mark and hung in there for fith man honors.
Meanwhile, back in mid-Pakistan, Scott Steinmaus, Fabris, and Mislick were fighting for first man honors for the second team. It's either a sad day or a great day when you run in the mid sixteens and you're not on the first team. Depends on how you look at it.
Doug Steedman, freshly fathered with a new baby girl earlier this month, has not been doing much running. But he brothered up and made Zippy. Congrats on the new girl Doug! The race result for Doug relfected his sleep deprivations training methods.
Looks like our Grey Team Won easily and our Blue Team was a close fourth.
Times were fast this year, with our top 4 under 16 and our top 9 under 17.
Masters Winner - C. Steinmaus 15:30
2 Rios 15:43 5:04 101.40%
3 Aispuro 15:45 5:05 101.61%
5 Ostenberg 15:52 5:07 102.37%
6 Magallanes, J 15:59 5:09 103.01%
10 Rinde 16:14 5:14 104.73%
12 Fabris 16:30 5:19 106.45%
15 Mislick 16:38 5:22 107.31%
17 Steinmaus 16:44 5:21 106.88%
22 Magallanes, E 17:00 5:29 108.17%
35 Coffey 18:05 5:50 116.67%
36 Graham 18:08 5:51 116.99%
~42 Steedman 18:45 6:03 120.97%
~50 Davis 19:00 6:08 122.58%
~60 Ahn 20:49 6:43 134.30%
Liz Nast and Hillary Fong ran the womens' race as masters.
Aggie Grey 1:19:32
Hoy's 1:22:33
EBS 1:23:06
Aggie Blue 1:24:33
Aggie Black Doh!
Monday, May 20
Masters Pede - Women to Wear Leashes
by Hank Lawson
Special Brother Points to Emil and Ron for dragging thier carcasses from far away worlds at late hours to build the pede.
Cloudy and overcast but no rain at the start. Biggest pain is they corraled us up at 7:30 and shut the toilets down at 7:45 - so we were either running in circles or holding it in.
14 starters and I got to be the floater/blocker for the first mile which we went thru in 5:52 - opps. Brooks felt the pain a half mile later and so I hopped in.
Bottom of Hayes street and we could still see the Open Pede. Half way up the hill a cry came out from John to back off - he's feeling the pain. We see Purple Haze right before the top and I forget to turn around and look behind me (must've been a sight). Lots of bands, but no nude people. We run a 6:38 3rd mile and start to go thru the Panhandle.
Half mile later we loose John and we send Terrence back to go get Searls. Half mile later we find Steedman so he jumps in and we send Jose back to go get Terrence. Terrence gets Searls, they move to 5:20 pace, Terrence looses Searls. Jose finds Terrence and they drop to 5:00 pace to try and catch the pede. Meanwhile, we're running 6:05 pace and can't see Jose, Terrence or the women.
Right before 6 miles Jose & Terrence catch the Pede, we swing wide and take up the whole street for the 6 mile Kodak moment - for a picture we'll never see - and then decide it's time to Rock & Roll (oh yea, it starts to rain at this point in the race).
A 5:38 7th mile and we can smell the ocean - "Ron, how you doing"?
We continue to pick up the pace and make the left hand turn - no mention of a 'lenichi' turn for us old guys. Kicking in the crowd goes wild and we get a yellow flag escort as well. Finishing time of 45:02 - new Masters World Record.
We hear how the Open Pede does - and their mishap - watch the women finish, find John & Brooks and say goodbye to KO. We jog to the polo fields, get interviewed with KGO - pick up some wet T-shirts and go to the party tent. They let us in with no problem. We drink their beer, eat their food, talk with reporters then get kicked out. But we continue to drink their beer thanks to Mike Finelli and Nancy Ditz.
After a couple of hours we realize it's NOT going to stop raining so we jog back to Minor's place to get a ride back to the start. At this point Tim sees one of the most gorgeous naked ladies that his eyes have ever beheld. A fine ending to a fine day.
hank
Open Pede 25th 39:20
Masters Pede 85 45:01
Women?
Story Links
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/3299414.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/20/SP182406.DTL
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Monday, May 27
Pacific Sun Shiney
IN great condidtions on the twisty streets of Ross and on the College of Marin Campus, the Aggies made another strong roads statement with a 1-2-3 finish featuring Danny Gonzales in his PA Masters debut.
PacSun Photo Album
Carmelo Rios and Jose Aispuro mixed it up with Lloyd Stevenson to get the better end of the bargain, and our own Barley Bob Jeff
Magallanes was right behind them. Vapor Man Dennis Rinde materialized at the starting line, zoomed to 5th man, 7th place, and vaporized at the finish. Nice running for the Grey Team. They ended up running 5:15 per man avereage, faster than the Compaq 10K where they were 5:22 per man.
ON the Blue Team, comprised of the leftovers that most other teams would kill for, Greg Mislick was on his way to 33 minutes when he had a terrible stitch at 4 miles that killed his race. Joe Fabris caught him and Greg, being the soldier he is, said "Go on without me, you can make it Joe, Continue with the mission to blow up EBS/WVTC."
Hank Lawson ran with Tenaya almost the whole way, working his way through some negative splits. John Graham "Crackah" got his masters PR with a 37 minute tribute to his daughter Ruth, the new CCS 3200m champion. David Ahn Solo made five and earned his pair of laces. The Blue team also ran faster per man than at Compaq, 5:59 p/m to 6:00 p/m.
1 Gonzales 31:14 5:02 100.0%
2 Rios 32:29 5:14 104.0%
3 Aispuro 32:33 05:15 104.2%
5 Magallanes 33:10 5:21 106.2%
7 Rinde 33:33 5:25 107.4%
13 Fabris 34:18 5:32 109.9%
18 Mislick 35:06 5:40 112.4%
20 Lawson 35:28 5:43 113.6%
Graham 37:34 6:04 120.3%
Ahn 42:50 6:55 137.1%
Grey 2:42:59 5:15 per runner
Blue 3:05:17 5:59 per runner
Our victorious open womens team featured two masters, Barb
Acosta and Margaret
Lang. Barb was second woman and second masters. Margaret made her road debut to help round out the team. She's mostly biking these days, staying healthy unitl the cross season.
Women
2 Adams 35:21 5:42
6 Acosta 37:28 6:03 2nd MASTER
7 Young 37:32 6:03
Jacobs 39:05 6:18
Lang 39:43 6:24 MASTER
Team Time 3:09:09 6:06 per runner
Saturday, June 8
Aggies Win Tahoe Relays
Not much is known yet, but what is fact is that the Aggie Masters won the darn thing and were third overall.
Joe:
No time to write the story, but I will provide you with the highlights:
1st Leg: Steve Haase, 57:11 (Aggie Masters leg 1 record, :39 faster than last year), hands off in 2nd place 2 minutes behind Chico TC.
2nd Leg: Ron Richardson, 55:10 (Matt Yeo holds Masters record of 49:28, 1995), hands off in 3rd place (passed by High Sierra TC of Visalia).
3rd Leg: Kevin Searls , 64:00 (Jeff Townsend holds Masters record of 59:11, 2001), maintains 3rd place.
4th Leg: Tim Minor, 72:00 (tim ran 69:04 last year for Masters record), still in 3rd place no-man's land.
5th Leg: Terence Boynton, 63:32 (New Aggie Masters record, old record 64:48-Searls in 1999), despite severe headwind. Still in major No-man's land 12 minutes behind 2nd, 15 minutes ahead of 4th.
6th Leg: Matt Yeo, 64:06 (Tom Cushman holds Masters record of 61:30, 1995). Now entrenched in 3rd.
7th Leg: Tom Cushman, 64:57 (Terence Boynton holds Masters leg 7 record of 60:06, 1999).
Finish time of 7:20:58, 3rd fastest masters time ever, 3rd place overall.
1st - Chico TC - 7:05 +
2nd - High Sierra TC - 7:07+
Another great day at the Lake!
R O N
Saturday, June 22
Shiners at the Shriners - Big Win
Twelve Masters. First and Third place for our two teams. The weather was great considering the heat here in past races. Today the clouds provided necessary air cover for our land assualt.
The course is point to point with some turns at the start and some turns at the finish with a loooong straight down the middle.
Speaking of the start, most of the Aggies and other front liners were somewhere near the start, mostly pointing in the wrong direction, when they heard "3, 2, 1 - GO" over the loudspeaker.
Nothing to do but turn around, wait for the wave to catch up, and start running.
At the front, Danny Gonzales was pushing new open Aggie Ryan Miller for a top ten spot. Ryan was the victum of the start, being way behind and sprinting the first 400 to make sure he got to the front. "What a welcome to the PA," he said afterwards.
Carmelo Rios and Jose Aispuro had a tight battle for second with Stinkinson, Tibaduiza, and Vitas. Jose got the nod, but stinky got daddy, and that just ain't right. Vitas also snuck ahead of Rios, still sore from Dipsea. But the surprise was that they all beat Steinmaus, who ended up in sixth, just ahead of Joe Fabris.
Fabris, Steve Haase and Dennis Rinde ran in a tight pack of masters along with Gouwens and O'Rourke of Hoys and Teeters of EBS. They caught Matt Yeo at 3 miles. That pack held until 4.2 when Joe hooked on to open runner Selby as he pushed the pace and the pack strung to the finish. Haase closed like a madman, leaving all in his wake and nearly snatching A Dying Guy Named Joe.
Meanwhile, New Aggie Tony Areola was leading a chase string with Hank Lawson, Tenaya Adams, and Greg Mislick, fresh from a two week break, in the mix. Hank ended up being 10th man in 27:40. Talk about Depth!
Maria Trujillo won the masters womens title while placing a close fourth to Tenaya.
Full Shriners Results
1 Gonzales 24:38 4:58 100.00%
2 Aispuro 25:41 5:11 104.26%
5 Rios 26:02 5:15 105.68%
9 Fabris 26:32 5:21 107.71%
11 Haase 26:36 5:22 107.98%
14 Rinde 26:52 5:25 109.07%
15 Yeo 26:59 5:26 109.54%
18 Arreola 27:18 5:30 110.83%
21 Mislick 27:23 5:31 111.16%
25 Lawson 27:46 5:36 112.72%
50 Bashiruddin 33:07 6:41 134.44%
55 Ahn 33:43 6:48 136.87%
Unofficial Team Results
Grey 2:09:29 5:13
Hoys 2:12:44
Blue 2:16:18 5:30
Sunday, June 9
Dispea Do
Hank Falls. Daddy Cheeses. Social Ag Abbott leads our pack.
Social Ag Gordon Abbott, took the top Aggie spot at the venerable Dipsea, placing in the top twenty. Hank knows, because he was ahead of Hank, and Hank was 20th. Hank Headered about 7/8th of the way to the finish that cost him a possible top ten. Daddy was contrite in defeat, saying he plans to retire to the rooftops of NY and raise his pidgeons.
"I know you guy's love raggin' on Daddy Rios so here's some ammo. On a warm Puerto Rican day Daddy did the Dipsea and got hammered by honkies." GA
16. 52:10 Gordon Abbott
20. 52:34 Hank Lawson
55. 56:15 Carmelo Rios
Wednesday, July 3
Yanqi Hanky in Beantown
Sunday, June 30th... it's time to race in Boston. So I find myself a nice 7 miler (Charles River Run) where they ...
Thursday, July 4
Party at Pozo
Some of the top marks from this SLO area Aggie race.
1. Ryan Hayes
8. David Beals
14 Brent Griffiths
19 (3rd Master) Scott Steinmaus
20 (4th Master) Mando
22 Jim West
26 (1st Woman, 1st Master) Linda
28 Kevin Searls
32 Adam Boothe
39 Nancy Steinmaus
37 French
Sunday, July 7
See Saw at the Cap Mile - HAASE
Daddy Rios and Jose Can You See Aispuro have been batting the Grand Prix lead between them like a shuttle cock at a badmitten match. Today, Grand Daddy took the lead by putting two spaces between himself and Aispuro.
And the see saw didn't stop there. With 600 to go it was all Danny Gee Gonzales. But a see saw move by the master of this strip of macadam, Steve Haase, gave Haase his fourth win in a row at the Mile. KO followed Steve's wake and snuck in for second.
Jose went out slow, keying off Fabris. Unfortunately, Joe took a big shot to the ribs in an endo on his mountain bike on Tuesday and was not a factor. Jose soon figured that out and set his sights on Daddy.
Tony Coffey and Mike Davis made the B heat a hot one, trading the lead several times before settling into 2nd and 3rd.
Maria ran all alone at the front of the Womens' pack and had a fairly strong lead at the end for the win.
Haase, when asked about his dominence in this event said, "Get a rowing machine. I've been doing 5k a night and it seems to be doing the trick." Fabris went out that night on eBay and put in a bid...
Full Cap Mile Results
1 Haase 4:29 100.00%
2 KO 4:30 100.37%
3 Gonzales 4:31 100.74%
8 Rios 4:37 102.97%
10 Aispuro 4:42 104.83%
15 Fabris 4:52 108.55%
20 Rinde 4:57 110.41%
27 Galligan 5:07 114.13%
2B Davis 5:08 114.50%
3B Coffey 5:10 115.24%
50+
15th Dan Cruz 5:57
Grey 22:49 4:34
Blue 25:14 5:03
1 Maria Trujillo de Rios 5:18
Saturday, August 17
Dammit!
Maria wins the Masters today in the Los Gatos Dammit Run. Townsend won the Masters men.
Yvonne Lund of the Aggies won the overall women's race ahead of teammate Maria Trujillo. The two were in the middle of a 15 mile workout. Ellen Thompson of the Aggie Juniors was 5th in the high school divison.
Saturday, August 24
Season Opens at Santa Cruz
Call it pre-season since it's before Camp, but still some boys came out to run the first race on the docket.
Santa Cruz is pretty much 2 miles up and then 2 miles down. Jose Aispuro worked his way to the front at about a mile. He had to pass the fast opener Terence Boynton and Kevin Ostenberg on the way up.
On the way down, KO opened up a lead on OMD towards the top, and at the very bottom OMD got him - almost. They finished on the same second.
Meanwhile back in the pack a ways, Joe Fabris, Tony Coffey and Mike Galligan sorted themselves out and finished in that lovely order. As Mike 'Clyde' Galligan came down the hill, one of the lady spectators said "He is the biggest fittest guy I ever saw." So he's got that going for him, which is nice.
The Masters opened with a victory and maybe for the first time lead the Grand Prix from the first race.
1 Jose Can U C 22:28 5:37 100.0%
2 KO 22:43 5:41 101.1%
3 OMD 22:43 5:41 101.1%
7 AGN Joe 24:12 6:03 107.7%
15 Tony Coffey 25:36 6:24 113.9%
24 Clyde 27:18 6:49 121.5%
28 Pts 1:57:42 Team Time
Saturday, September 7
KO @ GGP
Kevin Ostenberg got his first CC victory of the season with a big win at Golden Gate Park. Miler Steve Haase had his best ever finish in the Grand Prix series with a strong second place.
GGP 1 Results Link
1 Ostenberg 21:32 5:23 100.0%
2 Haase 22:20 5:35 103.7%
3 Emil Magallanes 22:27 5:37 104.3%
8 Jeff Shaver 23:23 5:51 108.6%
19 Tony Coffey 24:21 6:05 113.1%
24 David Ahn 29:45 7:26 138.2%
Spectating: Purple Hash Man
Score
Aggies 33
Hoy's 52
EBS/WV 81
Empire 128
Saturday, September 14
Boynton Tames Crystal
Terence Boynton took the masters lead early, and was never challenged on the venerable cross country course. He lead a 1-2,4-5 pack of Aggies across the line for victory over EBS/WV, Hoys, Golden Valley and River City. Tony Coffey continued his run as fifth man, snagging the honor for three straight races.
Mike Galligan came down to get in some more racing and once again was in the top seven. Had Chico resident Tom Cushman not had his back go out that morning at the course, we'd have had two full teams and David Ahn Solo, Hashim Purple Haze Bashiruddin, and Steady Eddie would have scored as well.
Full Crystal Results
1 Boynton 22:07 5:21 100.0%
2 Emil Magallanes 22:31 5:22 100.2%
4 Jeff Magallanes 22:57 5:28 102.2%
5 Fabris 23:05 5:30 102.7%
21 Coffey 25:00 5:57 111.3%
26 Galligan 25:56 6:10 115.4%
38 Klotz 27:35 6:34 122.8%
46 Bashiruddin 29:24 7:00 130.9%
47 Ahn 29:56 7:08 133.2%
Score 33
Team Time 1:56:01
Team Spread 1-5 2:32
Cushman - DNS - Back problem
Monday, September 30
Paso - Four Times a Lady
We do know:
Fact: Danny Wins in about 31:20
Fact: Carmelo's calf fell off at 2.5 miles and he had to retire with a 'mechanical'
Fact: Jose was 2nd in about 32:20 and he takes the Grand Prix lead away from Rios
Fact: Barley Bob got up at 4 AM to drive to Paso and make the top 5
Fact: We won.
Paso Results
1 Gonzales 31:19 5:03 100.0%
2 Aispuro 32:19 5:13 103.2%
7 Rinde 33:27 5:24 106.8%
10 Mislick 34:06 5:30 108.9%
12 Magallanes, J 34:35 5:35 110.4%
Coffey 36:15 5:51 115.8%
Steinmaus 37:08 5:59 118.6%
Bashiruddin 43:14 6:58 138.1%
Team Time 2:45:46
Top Five Average 5:21
Monday, September 30
Linda wins Masters Title at US Marathon Champs
Linda blasted a 2:39 to be third American and first American Master woman at the Twin Cities US Marathon Champs.
Somers Smith was pleased with her marathon and U.S. masters title. "I ran strongly the whole way. I was competitive so I'm happy with that. I was very concerned with the last five miles. I slowed even though the effort was the same. I'm not really an uphill runner." (Running Wire)
1. Linda Somers Smith (CA) 2:39:26 $6,000
2. Kelly Keeler (MN) 2:45:13 $4,000
3. Meghan Arbogast (OR) 2:46:26 $2,500
Linda was also 3rd American open, for an additonal $8,000!
Saturday, October 5
Minor, Masters Win Presidio
Tim Minor and Kevin Searls opened Cross 2002 at Presidio and proceeded to bookend the top five. In the middle, Terence Boynton dealt with an injury, Joe Fabris had a good one, and Steve Haase "thought I went out ok, but it was too hard. Those effect of those hills is cumulative..." With Mike Galligan, Tony Coffey and Hashim Bashiruddin there to pick up the slackers, the GreyFasts kept the score down to 38 points for the victory.
"I couldn't beleive how hard Steinmaus took it out," noted Minor. "I got on his shoulder and the next thing I knew Terence took off and I went with him." Terence was testing an injury he suffered a couple weeks ago, and he was unable to sustain the pace as he treid to defend his title from last year.
Fabris settled into about 10th place coming off the soccer field and worked up to as high as second on the top of the last hill. "I passed Craig Steinmaus into second going up the last hill and I could see Tim. You know, it's the first time I've seen Minor in a cross country race since I became a master. I was trying to get some distance on Steinmaus, but he nailed me at the 3 mile mark after the steep downhill."
Kevin recalled "This is some hard [stuff] to be running as a comeback."
Presidio Results
1 Minor 20:16 5:43 100.0%
3 Fabris 20:37 5:48 101.7%
6 Boynton 21:05 5:56 104.0%
8 Haase 21:23 6:01 105.5%
20 Searls 22:46 6:25 112.3%
30 Galligan 23:27 6:37 115.7%
37 Coffey 24:01 6:46 118.5%
86 Bashiruddin 29:xx 8:16 144.8%
Wednesday, October 9
Portland Does Frankie
From the files of we ain't what we used to be. Frankie decided to run the Portland Marathon last weekend. Here's his report:
I woke up Saturday with a head cold but decided to give it a run anyway on Sunday. My original plan was to run 6:00 pace but, given my condition, thought 6:10-15 might be wiser.
So the gun goes off, and I'm 5:42 (downhill) at the mile, 12:00 at 2 (uphill), 18:15 at 3, then downhill to 29:40 at 5 miles. At that point it was pretty easy.
I didn't feel great at about 8, but we had a nice little group at 6:00 pace so I stayed. A little uphill from 11-13 got us right at 6:00 average, and a couple of us (eventual masters winner Dave Steffens and
me) continued on at that pace thru 16 1/2 when there is a large hill.
As we crested the St. John's bridge (17 1/2) and began the descent my hamstring said to me, "You are an idiot. You've always been an idiot, and you'll always be an idiot." I yelled, "F**k!"
So, I made it through 18 in 1:48:50 (1:48 is 6:00 pace). Then my calves cramped. Pretty soon I was walk/jogging. At 24 my hamstring didn't just hurt, it felt like I'd been shot (not that I've ever really been shot). I stopped, ran backwards off and on, crawled forward, and finished eventually. I was, at least, smiling.
So, 18 @ 6:00, 8 @ 8:00. Not the way they draw it up.
frankie out.
Saturday, October 12
Deputy Danny Dominates at Sierra
Danny Gonzales wins in big style. Yep. He set the new course record and put the rest of us oldsters on notice that there is a new Sherrif in town, and his name ain't Reggie Hammond.
Sierra Photos
The battle for second was a Kevin Ostenberg / Tim Minor seesaw. Minor, KO, then Minor.
River City tried break up the Aggie sweep, with Tom Hannickle and Frank Thomas. sticking their noses in front of Emil Magallanes, Matt Yeo and Tom Cushman. Emil had to bail in order to save his mammy's son's hammy. Rigid Cush and Matt Yee (Not his real name) got by Manickle Hannickle, but Frank kept it from being a 1-5 for the brothers.
The next battle was to remember who that guy in the old school Aggie uniform from 1977 was. Turned out to be Steve White, up from the San Diego downstroke, making a rare PA appearance. He was a strong 8th. Then meet director Ron Richardson caught Steve Hoose Haase and those two locals ran together to the finish.
So starting with Steve, the Blue team was then Ron, Steve, and Mike Galligan again, then another rare bird of paradise, Denis O'Halloran, our first Sr. Master.
Rounding out the crew were Chico brahs Toni Ruggle and Dave Wood plus Steady Eddie Klotz.
More In BARN
Masters
1 Gonzales 26:09 5:37 100.00%
2 Minor 27:03 5:49 103.44%
3 Ostenberg 27:12 5:50 104.02%
5 Cushman 27:54 6:00 106.69%
6 Yeo 27:58 6:00 106.95%
8 White 28:08 6:03 107.58%
10 Richardson 28:55 6:13 110.58%
11 Haase 28:55 6:13 110.58%
31 Galligan 31:12 6:42 119.31%
39 O'Halloran (3rd 50?) 32:03 6:53 122.56%
45 Ruggle 32:36 7:00 124.67%
55 Klotz 34:07 7:20 130.47%
Wood
Aggies win, River City 2nd.
Open Men
1 Gotcher - Stanford Redshirt 24:58
6 Howell - No PA Card 25:28
8 Miller 25:31
10 Pierpoint 25:37
20 Gatlin 26:29
26 Ruane 26:47 New Aggie
28 Phillips 26:49
41 Sartor - Shasta 27:16
44 Gross 26:49
48 Livingston 27:49
55 Blalock 28:20
60 Rainey 28:46
64 McGuire 28:55
65 Beals 28:55
66 Grove 29:04
71 Dix 29:46
Transports win, Aggies Second
Open Women
2 Liebig 22:41
3 Olen 22:46
9 Young 23:14
15 Jenny Tobin 24:01 New Aggie
27 Dipernia 24:42
Impala Wins, Aggies Second
Sunday, October 20
Humboldt Half - Maria Trujillo
So far all we know is that Maria more than likely won the masters in 1:22 and was about 5th overall. Will post more, or course, when known. Other scuttle is that Jose Can U C was 2nd to the rebounding Craig Steinmaus, with Vapor Man Rinde, Yanqi Hanky, Steady Eddie, and Ahn Solo giving the men full team.
2 Jose Aispuro 1:13:00
9 Dennis Rinde 1:16:40
Hank Lawson 1:30?
Ed Klotz 1:36?
David Ahn 1:36:40
Open Women
4. Rachel Cook 1:17:42
5 (1st M) Maria Trujillo 1:21:44
8? Ramona Young 1:23?
Sunday, October 20
Aggie Grey Wins Muddy Buddy
When the fast get slow, they go muddy. There is a bike/run team event called Muddy Buddy with 8 races around the country. Aggie Masters Bill Joseph and Joe Fabris teamed up to win the San Jose race today and qualify for the National Meet on Catalina on December 6th.
Other Aggies showed up to the Lake Alamaden venue to compete, including Eddie Alaniz(Top 50?), and Chris Butterick (3rd).
The race is sort of a Ride and Tie race with a bike. It includes some pretty tame obstacles, with the final barrier a big mud pit to gurantee some grins from the crowd. The race is pretty well presented, lots of tents, sponsors, good PA, and about 200 teams came to play.
Saturday, October 26
Shoreline Cross Country
Last year the Shoreline proved to be a brawl, with a couple Aggie Masters of the Universe hitting the dirt in the first 100 meters. Not this year.
Danny Gonzales was once again dominant on the masters field, establishing a big gap to the next group, who had a heck of a race for second between Terence Boynton, Matt Yeo, Jeff Shaver, Frank Thomas of River City and Tom Hannickle of River City. Frank Thomas prevailed to get second and Shaver broke a testiculator on his shin and had to shut down for a couple miles and then re-group.
Margaret Lang was second Master over in the ladies race, which had a screw up at the finish when the first 7 ladies got off course in the final half mile. They were sorted and scored, but some of the drama for the first seven was removed when there was no big finishing kick for them. Aeron Arlin Genet was the first fem to follow the course correctly, in 8th place.
1 Gonzales 22:33 4:54 100.00%
3 Boynton 23:46 5:10 105.40%
4 Yeo 23:49 5:11 105.62%
7 Shaver 25:33 5:33 113.30%
9 Searls 26:06 5:40 115.74%
10 Galligan 26:23 5:44 117.00%
19 Klotz 29:03 6:19 128.82%
20 Steedman 29:16 6:22 129.79%
25 Bashiruddin 30:30 6:38 135.25%
Open
5 Gotcher - Stanford
6 Pierpoint 22:07
8 Gatlin 22:38
16 Alaniz 23:13
17 St. Onge 23:13
38 Blalock 24:13
55 McGuire 25:24
69 Kuckein 27:16
Women
7 Cook NT
8 Arlin Genet 17:46
11 Young 18:07
12 Liebig 18:11
24 Lang 19:25 2nd Master
Sunday, October 27
Mislick and Graham @ Marine Corp Marathon
Greg sets the #6 time for an Aggie Master with his fith place masters finish in 2:44:10 and John Graham enters ...
Thursday, October 31
Tony A: 2:49 at Venice Marathon
Weather low 60's, course outstanding with the "floating bridge" over the grand canal at 40KM being only one of many highlights. I came through the half in 200th place, 36 in my age group and managed to pick it up and finish 133rd overall, 17 in the 40-44 age group with a 2:49:26. It was strange to see so many runner's with club uniforms unlike most races here in the U.S. I was first U.S.A runner to cross the finish line by about 5 minutes, definitely got some stares and comments on the Aggie uniform. Don't know the exact number of finisher's but they had estimated around 7,000 entrants. Winner ran 2:08:46 CR, amazing on that course.
Tony Arreola
Aggie Masters take Tamalpa XC
The Aggie Masters men won another PA cross country race, defeating the River City Rebels and Hoy's Excelsior at the John Lawson Tamalpa Challenge on Saturday. Employing a "Go out Hard and Die" strategy, Tim Minor hung on to beat Craig Steinmaus of Hoy's by eight seconds. No 49er tickets for the Masters winner this year, Daddy, but at least Tim wasn't awarded the "Tamalpa Runners Greatest Hits" CD; Craig S. was lucky enough to receive that special prize.
Terence dragged his sore hamstring around the challenging 4.612 course for a gutty 4th place finish. JoeFab was a solid 8th, Steve Haase 9th, and Ron Richardson once again stepped up with a great performance for 13th to round out the Aggie top five.
Results:
1. Tim Minor 24:48
2. Craig Steinmaus Hoy's 24:56
4. Terence Boynton 25:32
8. Joe Fabris 26:12
9. Steve Haase 26:18
13. Ron Richardson 26:32
20. Kevin Searls 27:22
38. Mike Galligan 28:22
Thanks to Kevin and Mike for ensuring a complete team. The Aggie Masters men have entered seven PA cross country races and won all seven, each time with a different group of guys. Someone always steps up to the plate. Nice team depth, boys!
Monday, November 11
Masters, Jose and Maria, all Win Clarksburg 30K
Maria Trujillo de Rios and Jose Aispuro both won the masters 30K titles, and Maria went one furhter by taking the overall title as well at Clarksburg this weekend.
Ont the men's side it looks like the Aggies went 1 - Jose,5 - Dennis Rinde, 7 - Matt Yeo, and at this distance, 3 makes a team. THen right behind Yeo was nuevo Aggie Tony Arreola in 9th, fresh from his marathon in Italy. Tony Coffey rounded out the long squad.
1 Jose Aispuro 1:44:44 5:38 100.0%
5 Dennis Rinde 1:50:42 5:57 105.7%
7 Matt Yeo 1:53:34 6:06 108.4%
9 Tony Arreola 1:53:55 6:07 108.8%
Tony Coffey 2:16:33 7:20 130.4%
Open Women
1 Maria Truillo de Rios 1:59:10
5 Ramona Young 2:05:26
Open Men
1 Jamey Harris 1:41:15
Sunday, November 24
KO wins in a Big Upset, Linda Wins Women at PA
Kevin Ostenberg - our man in black, the Johnny Cash of the Aggies, ran a stellar race today to pull away from bonafide stud Danny Gonzales on the last set of hills in the eucalyptus forest and score an upset win in the Masters 6 mile race today.
Linda Somers Smith was at the pointy end of the Open/Masters Womens race, leading the first loop and eventually placing 4th to some strong Farm Team Open ladies and grabbing the Masters Win.
Pictures by K-Scope Sherlock
Today also marked our first entry in the Seniors category, with Denis O'Halloran, Ron Swart, and Dave Wood making the over 50 team.
Kevin noted, "I kept catching up to Danny in that uphill section, so on the last lap, I pushed hard there and opened a gap."
It was the first time in three years that Tim Minor did not win the PA Meet. Lamented Tim, "I ran faster than last year's winning time and only managed to get fifth. What's a brother gotta do??"
Kevin's winning time was a 40-second record breaker. He drug Danny and Jose under Tim's old record on this course configuration of 33:08.
Matt Yeo had a super race as did Daddi Rios, back from his Jack Keroac On The Road experience.
1 Kevin Ostenberg 32:28 5:22 100.00%
2 Danny Gonzales 32:40 5:24 100.62%
4 Jose Aispuro 32:57 5:27 101.49%
5 Tim Minor 33:10 5:29 102.16%
6 Matt Yeo 33:47 5:35 104.06%
8 Terrance Boynton 34:00 5:37 104.72%
10 Carmelo Rios 34:08 5:39 105.13%
13 Tom Cushman 34:36 5:43 106.57%
14 Joe Fabris 34:43 5:44 106.93%
18 Steve Haase 35:16 5:50 108.62%
19 Jeff Shaver 35:20 5:50 108.83%
24 Ron Richardson 35:54 5:56 110.57%
50 Tony Coffey 38:15 6:19 117.81%
65 Hank Lawson 39:02 6:27 120.23%
71 Denis O'Halloran 39:24 6:31 121.36%
83 Toni Ruggle 40:33 6:42 124.90%
84 Mike Davis 40:36 6:43 125.05%
92 Doug Steedman 41:08 6:48 126.69%
117 Dave Wood 44:02 7:17 135.63%
127 Ron Swart 45:39 7:33 140.61%
131 Hashim Bashiruddin 46:37 7:42 143.58%
Raw scoring at the meet w/o the finality of removing individuals had the Grey team winning with 18 points and the Black team placing 2nd with 88. In intra-squad competitions, the Bombers beat the Caps 27 to 39 while the Wave and the Slugs were incomplete. 21 Aggie Masters men and 5 Masters women ran in the meet today. The M-Squad captured the CC Grand Prix and Terance Boynton placed 2nd in the Individuals ranks.
Women
4 (1) Linda 23:23 5:51
11 Aeron 24:13 6:03
12 Rachel 24:14 6:03
16 (2) Maria 24:19 6:05
17 Christine 24:20 6:05
25 Yvonne 24:53
27 Nancy 24:57
30 Ramona 25:05
56 (9) Denise 26:51
83 Danielle 28:09
137 Hillary Fong 37:39
Open Men
14 howell 31:08 5:09
20 miller 31:35 5:13
26 pierpoint 31:49 5:16
41 the saint 32:52 5:26
49 ruane 33:28 5:32
62 Blalock 34:03 5:38
68 gross 34:23 5:41
84 rainey 36:57 6:06
89 kurt 37:45 6:14
Friday, December 6
Joseph and Hannaford Buddy up for 2nd at MB Nationals
Bill Joseph and Joe Fabris won the San Jose Muddy Buddy race and Qualified for the Nationals, but Fab couldn't make the date. Bill Joseph teammed up with Michelle Hannaford of Impalas and also a neighbor, and traveled to Catalina Island for the OLN televised event. They placed 2nd in the open Coed division. Bill's email account below.
Muddy Buddy WC Results Link
I had a great time! Michelle did too. The course was really tough but it was not quite as tough as the profile showed, so that was good. There were about 40 to 50 teams all together and some real studs. These were all the champions from all over the nation and Austrailia. The overall winning team was from Austrailia and finished in 2:31 and change. Paula Newby Fraiser and the world champion of the xtera ironman series teamed up to kick some butt. Actually we stayed with them until about mile 10 and then they threw it in another gear and left us in the dust. Kenny Souza and Ned Overend finished well up in the pack as well.
I was the oldest guy in the field. The night before the race several younger guys who qualified in the elite male division from some part of the country asked me if I had qualified in the age division category. I told them, there was no age division category. They gave me a look of, then what are you doing here old guy! During the race Michelle and I passed them at about mile 14 and never saw them again. That was the best moment of the whole race.
We placed 2nd in the co-ed division and just missed 1st by about 2 minutes, I believe. We screwed up a couple of our exchanges which probably cost us about 5 minutes. Other than that everything went off without a hitch. I think our overall time was about 3:05.
Sunday, December 8
Rinde Wins CIM in Aggie Record Time
Dennis Rinde, who's road season has gone up and down with illness this year, made a strong statement with his 2:31:32 masters victory at the PA Marathon Championship at CIM on Sunday.
Dennis' mark took about 7 minutes off the club mark of 2:38 held by Rigid Man Cushman. He defeated last year's champion, Vitas Ezerskis, by four minutes.
On the Masters Womens side, Barb Acosta and Maria Trujillo ran together for a 3:15:35. Places yet to be determined.
22 1M Dennis Rinde 2:31:32
216 Ramona Young 3:06:13
367 Barb Acosta 3:15:35
368 Maria Trujillo 3:15:35
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| Saturday, December 14
DG Leads Ags to 4th Straight Masters CC Title
Danny Gonzales led the Aggie Masters Men to a fourth straight Fall Cross Country Title today in Rocklin under severe condiitions on a sloppy course. The Masters B Team, led by Emil Magallanes, was 10th place, but they took pride in beating all the other PA Masters Teams. The C team, lead by Hank Lawson, placed 20th.
Denise Ripley was our sole lady on the Masters race, running a strong 14th. Linda Somers Smith ran on our open team, leading them to 5th place with her first-runner spot on the team and 18th place overall.
Our first ever Seniors team placed 8th, led by newly turned fifty Denis O'Halloran.
The Masters Men's race was the largest of the day with 262 finishers from clubs all around the country including MA, Chatanooga, SoCal, Oregon, and Atlanta, plus the local favorates River City, Tamalpa, EBS, and Hoy's.
3 Danny Gonzales 34:00 5:29 100.7%
7 Tim Minor 34:51 5:37 103.2%
10 Kevin Ostenberg 35:05 5:40 103.9%
14 Jose Aispuro 35:22 5:42 104.7%
21 Terence Boynton 35:33 5:44 105.3%
23 Carmelo Rios 35:41 5:45 105.7%
24 Matt Yeo 35:49 5:47 106.1%
42 Tom Cushman 36:40 5:55 108.6%
48 Emil Magallanes 37:17 6:01 110.4%
52 Joe Fabris 37:32 6:03 111.2%
60 Steve haase 37:49 6:06 112.0%
66 Kevin Searls 38:13 6:10 113.2%
81 Ron Richardson 38:41 6:14 114.6%
101 CK 39:52 6:26 118.1%
106 Hank Lawson 40:09 6:29 118.9%
128 Tony Coffey 41:15 6:39 122.2%
155 Mike Davis 42:03 6:47 124.5%
162 Toni Ruggle 42:38 6:53 126.3%
216 Hashim Bashiruddin 46:45 7:32 138.5%
230 Jim Hurley 48:27 7:49 143.5%
Women
14 Denise Ripley 43:22 6:58
Aggie Senior Team
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1 41:22 Denis O'Halloran 50
2 47:06 Walter Schater *63* 59
3 47:16 Ronald Swart 54
4 48:40 Dave Wood 52
5 52:17 Daniel Cruz 51
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