April 2021 • Vol 21 • Issue 4
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footnotesLong Island GREATER LONG ISLAND RUNNING CLUB • WWW.GLIRC.ORG APRIL 2021 • VOL 21 • ISSUE 4 Jossi Fritz-Mauer outspeeds the field in the March 7th EisnerAmper Four Mile Race to Feed Long Island GLIRC APRIL 2021 • FOOTNOTES 1 CUSHIONED. SOFT. LIGHT. BONDI 7 MEN BONDI 7 WOMEN CLIFTON 7 MEN CLIFTON 7 WOMEN built to help you go your own way WHY RUN WHEN YOU CAN FLY? 516.420.7963 STORE HOURS: Mon through Fri 10:00am-6:00pm 242 MAIN STREET, FARMINGDALE, NY 11735 Sat 10:00am-5:00pm runnersedgeny.com Sun 11:00am-4:00pm HOURS Curbside Pickup Available *Percentage is off the regular price. Excludes web sales. Excludes wetsuits, accessories, electronics, gift certificates, certain makes/models, clearance, and lower priced items. Not to be combined with any other sales or promotions. 2 FOOTNOTES APRIL 2021 GLIRC A MESSAGE FROM MIKE Greater Long Island Running Club Officers and Executive Board April is always a month for new beginnings, and this April may President, Mike Polansky be even more so, both for our Club, the Long Island Running Executive Director, Sue Fitzpatrick Community, and society generally. Vice President, Mindy Davidson Vice President, Carl Grossbard* Looking ahead, we’ve got three, repeat THREE, events Treasurer, Melissa Altschuler scheduled for the month of April, starting with The Longest Secretary, Jaime Pita Day Virtual Run/Walk Challenge to Benefit The Alzheimer’s Coordinator of Development, Ken Carmel Association Presented by Nationwide Mortgage Bankers, Inc. Social Media Coordinator, Suzanne Nelson We have been joking in the office that this is the longest name of any race we’ve ever heard of, but it’s an unusual event that hopefully will be raising a Director of Logistics, Christopher Acord lot of money for a very important charity – the Alheimer’s Association, and will deliver Director, Caumsett Runs, Carl Grossbard* a lot of swag to those who participate, including a very attractive long sleeve hooded T Director, Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid Kings Park 15K, Steven Toto shirt donated by our friends at Nationwide Mortgage Bankers. Director, Jonas Chiropractic Sports Injury Care Aspire 10K, Director, Heart & Sole Run, Karen Schackner On April 11th, we’ll be staging another one of our Clubhouse Fun Runs. Nothing fancy, Director, L.I. Greenbelt Trail Run, Nick Palazzo* no frills, but a chance for a bunch of runners to get together, run with their buddies Director, Marcum Workplace Challenge, Mindy Davidson and/or to make new buddies! Refreshments after the run will be provided by the ever generous Glen Wolther and his All Round Foods company. Director, Fred von der Heydt Memorial 6 Hour 60th Birthday Run, Myron Bellovin* Director, L.I. Women’s Run, Jaime Pita The proverbial icing on April’s cake will be on Saturday, April 24th – the Spring 5K at Title Sponsor Runner’s Edge TOBAY, an eclectic 5 Kilometer course that will take you through both the TOBAY Beach Co-Directors, Runner’s Edge-TOBAY Triathlon, Marina and the TOBAY JFK Wildlife Sanctuary. This is one you definitely don’t want to Ray Farrell, Mindy Davidson miss! Director, Sayville Running Company 10 Mile Run to the Blue Point Brewery, Great South Bay Brewery Runs, Port Looking ahead to May, we are hopefully only a couple of days away from getting approval Jeff Brewery Run, Ric Diveglio to host our Greenbelt 50K and 25K Runs on May 8th. It’s a wonderful trek through the Director, TOB Supervisor’s 5K, Mike Polansky trails, and we are looking forward to staging it. Co-Directors, Rob’s Run, Jim Murray, Sue Fitzpatrick Title Sponsor Lynn Gartner Dunne, LLP All of this is on top of the highly successful EisnerAmper Four Mile Race to Feed Long Co Directors, UJA - Federation Race Against Poverty Island that we held on March 7th, an outstaning 4 miler in Eisenhower Park that you can Steve & Holly Jonas, Mindy Davidson read about elsewhere in this issue. All the returns aren’t in yet, but it is clear that we Director, Ocean to Sound Relay, Bob Sherman will have raised over $7500 to go to the Food Drive that has already donated over 25,000 Director Ho Ho Ho Holiday Run: Ric Diveglio pounds of food and personal hygiene items PLUS over $30,000 in supermarket gift cards Title Sponsor Gold Coast/Steel Equities to food pantries and soup kitchens all over Long Island. We can all be pretty proud of Club & Team Coach, Ed Melnik that...and the job will continue! Blood Drive Director, Gina Gelman Scholarship Program Director, Erica Gassen No, things are not yet back to normal, but they are starting to move in that direction, Membership Director, Sherry Bellovin and as the weather gets warmer and more and more people get vaccinated for the Virus, Senior Feet Coordinator, Bert Jablon we can look ahead to “happy days are here again” this spring and summer! Trustees at Large, Alan Baisch, Amy Goldstein, Saniyyah Greene, Scott Fairgrieve, Paul Fetscher, Lou LaFleur, Jossi See you on the roads and trails. Fritz-Mauer, Rebecca McDonald, Glenn Morse, Robert Tollin *Denotes Board members Best regards, FOOTNOTES: Volume 21, Issue 4, APRIL 2021 Published monthly by FOOTNOTES Mike 101 Dupont Street, Suite 24, Plainview, New York 11803 Mike Polansky, President Periodical Postage Rates Greater Long Island Running Club U.S.P.S. #020237 Hicksville, New York Post Office ISSN: 1538-8964 Postmaster: Send address changes to: Footnotes, 101 Dupont Street, Suite 24 Plainview, New York 11803 GLIRC Note: No matter what your age or ability, there’s a place for you in the Greater Long Island Running Club. GLIRC Phone: (516) 349-7646 GLIRC Fax: (516) 349-7647 GLIRC Website: www.glirc.org GLIRC Email: [email protected] GLIRC APRIL 2021 • FOOTNOTES 3 GLIRC Clubhouse Fun Run Sunday April 11, 2021 8:00 AM 101 Dupont St. #24 Plainview, NY 11803 • Must be a current GLIRC member of any age/ability • Run is FREE, but you must pre-register! Scan below with your smart device! • Run any distance you choose on the bike path or run the trails. • All runners will be checked in when they arrive, and only registered runners with signed COVID waivers will be allowed to participate. • GLIRC will provide pre-packaged post-race snacks courtesy of All Round Foods and bottled water. • A porta-potty will be available before and after your run. • You MUST have a mask with you, and masks must be worn when you are not running. 4 FOOTNOTES APRIL 2021 GLIRC GLIRC DONATES $2000 TO THE OPENING WORD GLIRC was happy to make a donation of $2000 to The Opening Word, a literacy program which teaches the English language and job readiness skills to immigrant women on Long Island, a DON’T MISS OUT ON THESE UPCOMING population which is often underserved, undereducated, and/or GLIRC EVENTS!!!! underemployed. The program launches many of the participants down the road to U.S. citizenship. Thursday, April 1 through April 30 The Longest Day Virtual Run/Walk Challenge to The donation comes out of the proceeds of last December’s Benefit The Alzheimer’s Association traditional Gold Coast Studios/Steel Equities Ho Ho Ho Holiday Presented by Nationwide Mortgage Bankers, Inc. Run, which was held as a “virtual” event in 2020, and the check for $2000 was presented to Opening Word Executive Director Sunday, April 11 Gillian Kessinger by GLIRC Executive Director Sue Fitzpatrick GLIRC Clubhouse Fun Run and GLIRC Run Director Ric DiVeglio at the GLIRC office on February 25th. Saturday April 24 The Opening Word Program is hosted by the Dominican Sisters TOBAY Beach Spring 5K at locations in Amityville, Wyandanch and Huntington Station. Saturday, May 8 More than 7,000 women have attended the program since its Greenbelt Trail 50K and 25K Runs inception. Since the spring of 2020 the Program’s classes have thrived in an online format allowing students, teachers and community partners to continue learning from and with each other in a safe, 2020 GLIRC TUESDAY EVENING WORKOUTS socially distant way. Registration and attendance continues to be robust. Over the past several months the Program has distributed GLIRC’s weekly track workouts will more than 500 packages of food, toiletries and essential items such resume on Tuesday evening March 16th! as masks and hand sanitizer to the students and their families. As always, they will be held every Tuesday evening at the track serving “Giving back to the community is one of the key missions of our the H.B. Mattlin Middle Schoool/John Club,” said GLIRC Run Director Ric DiVeglio. “The Dominican F. Kennedy High Scholl in Plainview Sisters are doing amazing work with The Opening Word, and on through October 26th. behalf of the Long Island running community it is our pleasure to All workouts start at 7:00 PM preceded use the proceeds of this event to support that work.” by warmups at 6:30 PM. Please park in the North Parking Lot of the Mattlin Middle School (directly below the track). For information (or inspiration) call Coach Ed at (516) 428-3904 or [email protected] RUNNERS OF ALL AGES AND ALL LEVELS OF ABILITY ARE VERY MUCH WELCOME! TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE DONE! If you are running in an out-of-town race (i.e. any race not held in Nassau or Suffolk Counties), please make sure to let us know how you do, so that we can accurately report your accomplishment in Long Island Footnotes. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO INCLUDE A PHOTO! THE DEADLINE FOR THE MAY ISSUE OF FOOTNOTES Pictured here, GLIRC Executive Director Sue Fitzpatrick (L) and GLIRC Gold Coast Studios/ IS APRIL 19 Steel Equities Ho Ho Ho Holiday Run Director Ric DiVeglio (R) present the check to Gillian Kessinger, the Executive Director of The Opening Word GLIRC APRIL 2021 • FOOTNOTES 5 LONG ISLAND PresentsPresents the the HelpHelp us celebrate us celebrate 29th30th Annual Annual POLICE LongLong Island’s Island’s Finest Finest APPRECIATION RUN DATE AND TIME COMPUTERIZED TIMING & RESULTS 6:30 PM Thursday, Sept.