Race Results for 2000

RACE RESULTS FOR 2000
compiled by Joel Ange

THE MORRIS COUNTY STRIDERS RACE RESULTS
SEPTEMBER

On September 3rd, Betty joined a new age group. She has been looking forward to it because there was the
Run2Finish 5K run in Boonton (where she grew up) and she wanted to get an age group award on her birthday. She did that and more. Betty's parents came to the race to watch. Course marshals called out Happy Birthday greetings. The Striders had a men's and a women's team. After the end of the race, the results were posted and we had to update the Compuscore data base that still had Betty as a 49 year old. When Betty went up to accept her age group award, the announcer asked her to wait as they pulled out a helium balloon that said Happy 50th Birthday and everyone sang Happy Birthday. After all this, no one seemed to notice that the Strider women took 1st place in the team competition. The girl with the birthday balloon had her age group prize AND a team prize.

Doug Clark 17:21
Steve Kohorst 17:44
Gonzalo Medina 17:49
Bruce Langenkamp 18:00 1 AG
Rob Nestor 19:07
Ron Ayre 19:09
Will DeRoberts 19:13
Joe Sikora 19:14
Tom Bobsein 19:28
George Wittmann 19:31
Joel Ange 19:59
Wayne Bell 20:32
Ed Neighbour 20:55
Steve Yaros 21:02
Linda Mirabella 21:06 1 AG
Tom Faruolo 21:35
Sue Muhaw 21:45 2 AG

Ron Gatzke 21:52
Ken Baker 22:12
Dennis Rears 22:18
Eric Nutter 22:26
Sherri Jubin 22:49
Barbara Hoess 23:14
Vicky Duke 23:17
David Dixon 24:26
Christine Ange 24:37 2 AG
Debi Hopkins 25:13
Jim Romer 25:16
Frank Diorio 26:06
Gary Zeek 27:46
Betty Langenkamp 28:13 PR
Glenys Nutter 29:32
Nancy Baker 41:23

A beautiful night for racing led to some very fast times. Brian Boyett, a local high school runner from Parsippany won the race in 15:23. Many of you may recognize him since he has run in the Striders series for the past couple of years. Many of the Striders also ran very well. Linda Mirabella ran her fastest time of the year just missing her goal of breaking 21 minutes. Betty easily set a PR by over 30 seconds. Bruce thought that he had run under 18 minutes, but when he looked at the official time it was 18:00. On the other hand I managed to just break 20 minutes finishing in 19:59.

As always, with over 1500 runners, the start of the race is very chaotic. This year was no exception. Chris and I managed to position ourselves within sight of the starting line. The race started suddenly when the starter just fired the starting gun. I took off and did not realize that Chris was tripped after about 4 steps. She landed very hard on her hands and legs scraping her elbow, knees and hands. After a short period of time she was able to get up without anyone running into her. In spite of the injuries she was still able to run faster than last year and for the third year in a row finished in the top three in her age group. After the race Chris stopped at the first aid station and they applied the biggest bandage that you can imagine.

The Striders women’s team, led by a bunch of 40 year old runners finished in second place just ahead of the Livingston High School cross country team. The Striders men’s team did not do as well finishing in fourth place just behind the Livingston High School cross country team.

Scott Fawcett 17:49 2 OA / 1 AG
Gonzalo Medina 18:14 4 OA / 2 AG
Ken Krah 18:25 1 AG
Bill Trengove 18:50 2 AG
Pete Lee 22:33

Madeline Bost 24:19 1 AG
Carol Krah 27:50 2 AG
Betty Langenkamp 29:03 1 AG
Diane Stone 37:17 2 AG

Bruce Langekamp 37:10 1 AG
Bill Hagman 38:58 1 AG
Steve Yaros 43:38
Ron Gatzke 47:41 4 AG

Florham Park Jaycees 5K: 23 September 2000
Bruce Langenkamp 17:59 5 OA / 1 AG
Ron Gatzke 21:53
Sheri Jubin 22:43 2 AG

Gene Mizzoni 1:22:50
Tom Fitzgerald 1:23:27 3 AG
Steve Kohorst 1:23:54
Mike Los 1:23:54
Gary Wallace 1:25:11 2 AG
Bill Trengove 1:26:56
Ken Krah 1:28:34
Ron Ayre 1:29:11 2 AG

Robert Nestor 1:30:49
Will DeRoberts 1:33:22
Barbara Hoess 1:50:16
Alissa Okrent 1:52:54
Debbie Ripps 1:54:20
Ann Gillespie 1:54:59
Janet Polizois 1:59:06
Meg Brandt 2:00:03

The Striders open men’s team had a great day finishing in fifth place. Janet did an excellent job finding 5 runners for the women’s team. Unfortunately they were only able to finish in tenth place and did not receive any team points.
Below left: Steve Kohorst finishing....
Below right: Steve's view of Tom Fitzgerald for much of race...

Webmaster addendum: Very humid day, 70's! Striders ran well as a team (as in together), with myself (GW) dropping off around 7 and then making a comeback of sorts. Gene came out of hiding and led the way - welcome back! Tom Fitzgerald ran really tough, never letting up - despite Steve Kohorst's wishes to the contrary. It was good to see the women put a team together (the men's open team doesn't always) - congrats to all who toed the line and finished!!
P.S. Joel was rounding into top shape and suffered a foot injury before race time - best wishes for a speedy recovery. - Webby

Gary Wallace 17:29 2 AG
Bruce Langenkamp 17:34 4 AG
Scott Fawcett 17:36 4 AG
Gonzalo Medina 17:45 4 AG
Bill Hagman 18:35 1 AG
Ron Ayre 18:41 2 AG
Will DeRoberts 19:07
Joe Sikora 19:51
Bill Thalman Sr. 20:44
Steve Yaros 20:47
Linda Mirabella 21:03 1 AG
Richard Stowe 21:05 2 AG
Bob Meade 21:39
Ron Gatzke 22:00
Bill Thalman Jr. 22:01
Vicky Duke 22:22 3 AG
Richard Hotchkiss 22:59
Barbara Hoess 23:07 3 AG
David Dixon 23:22

Jim Romer 23:29
David Grossman 23:39
Christine Ange 23:44 4 AG
Ann Gillespie 24:38 3 AG
Madeline Bost 25:00 1 AG
Frank Diorio 25:16 2 AG
Wes Beal 25:19
Jessica Thalman 26:18
Gary Zeek 26:29
Wayne Neumann 27:26
Betty Langenkamp 28:25
Cassandra Thalman 29:34
Kim DeFillippis 29:41
Marlene Thalman 30:05
Richard Wilde 32:42
Carolyn Weaver 34:57 2 AG
Claudia Monse 36:28
Alice Guerrieri 43:21

A beautiful night for racing resulted in some very fast times. Fouzi Aloui won the race in 14:50 with Brian Boyett, a local high runner who ran the Striders summer series, finishing second in 15:33. With Roger Price getting an overall Masters award, the 50 year age group award came down to Gary Wallace passing both Bill Bosmann and Bruce Langenkamp toward the end of the race. Bruce lost out to Bill by 3 seconds with all three runners finishing within 5 seconds of each other. Scott Fawcett was the third Strider to finish with the team taking second place. The women’s team also finished in second place.

At 2 miles Betty was on track to set another PR when a stitch in her side caused her to walk for a while. She still was able to run her second fastest time. Chris also ran her fastest time in two years when she set a PR at this very race. Alice Guerrieri was the lucky winner of one of the $50 raffles. Fortunately someone told her that she had won, since she was not paying attention to the announcer who was calling out the winning numbers.