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• \ The official world and U.S. publication for masters track & field, long distance running and racewalking 304th Issue December 2003 $3.00 Kipng'ok, Sui ova-Zhdanova Butn Fast and Fade to NYC 40+ Wins BY SUSANNAH BECK Dominique Chauvelier, 47, France, The 34th running of the arduou but rebounded from a slow perfonnance glamorous ING New York City here last year to top the M45, 2:37:18. Marathon got under way Nov. 2 under He kept Alan Ruben, 46, GBRJNY, in a warming sun and enough hurrudity to second place for the second year, scale back PR hopes for most runner . 2:39:36. Undeterred, hot masters racer Frenchman Jose Picazo, 55, Jackson IGpng'ok, 43, Kenya, 2:18:55, 2:57:48, out-dueled Maine's pride, 18th overall, wa5 the master winner at Stephen Reed, 55, 2:59:24, for the the event, which does little to how M55 honors. ca e masters. Half-marathon sphts of Walter Koch, 63, Germany, returned 1: 05:40/1: 13: 15 suggest an ambitious after an absence last year to reclaim pace abandoned. the M60 crown, 2:53:52. Globetrotter All the same, Kipng'ok beat the Alejandro Ulluoa, 60, Chile, 2:59:12, competition. Gennady Temnikov, 42, cruised in under three hours. Ru ta!Maryland, 2:24:36, by more Two-time M65 winner Manuel than a mile. Peder Troldborg, 40, Rosales, 68, Spain, was displaced by SHANNON OTTLEY Denmark, 2:25:51, was third. In spite Theodore Rogers, 69, New York, in the Winning M40-49 Syracuse Chargers team (I tor, standing): Mark Rybinski, Mtke Plan, Dave O'Keeffe, of vomiung ru s way through Central M65 this year, 3:07:04 to 3:08:37. (kneeling): Gary Radford and Ed Lindo, National Masters 8K Cross-Country Champtonshtps. Park, Joe McVeigh, 40, New Jersey. a Brian Campbell, 70, GBR, 3:49:38, 2:16-marathoner, was the top U.S. sauntered to the win in the M70, while Syracuse Chargers. Finger Lakes RC Take Tean1 Titles m aster, 2:28:30, and fourth master Chabane Ketfi, 76, France, 4:08:57. -- -~- overall Cononued on page 3 Bagley, Mar-tin First in National Reed Sets U.S. Track Record in SK Cross-Country By PETER GLAVIN Northport, Long Island's Kathryn Scott Bagley, 40, Pittsford, N.Y., upset Martin, 52, won her third straight masters Winning USA 24-Hour Run two-time defending champion Torn 8K title with an easy 65-second victory over Debra Morris-Allen of Buffalo's By DAN BRANNEN fourth overall in the race, with only the Dalton, 45, Schenectady, N.Y., on Nov. Checkers AC. The 160 competitors came American UltraRunning Association U.S. men's gold, silver and bronze 2, to finish first at the USATF National SAN DIEGO, Calif. - One month medalists out-distancing her around Masters 8K Cross-Country Champion from ten states and Ontario, Canada. Until Sunday, Dalton had not lost a after her sixth-place finish at the World the 400m track in the all-day, all-night ships at a very soggy Black Creek Park, 24-Hour Title event in The Nether event. Rochester, N.Y. Conbnued on page 6 lands, Pam Reed, 42, Tucson, Ariz., Reed's impressive victory and unex took her first U.S. national title, Nov. pected record capped a brilliant year in 8-9, in winning the San Diego 1-Day which she won the Badwater 135-mile Race, which hosted the USA 24-Hour race (Death Valley to Mount Whitney) Track Championships, at UC-San outright, then led the U.S. women's Diego. team to a fourth-place finish in the In doing so, Reed took down the 12- World 24-Hour with 136+ miles in year-old U.S. track record of leg The Netherlands. endary Sue Ellen Trapp, bettering Janet Runyan, 44, Boulder, Colo., Trapp's mark by almost three miles was second W40+ and third woman with a final total of 138.96 in, taking the U.S. silver medal to miles/223,634 meters (Trapp still match her runner-up award from holds the U.S. road and absolute September's national 100-rnile cham- record of 145.28 miles). Reed fmi shed Continued on page 8 -- USATF Celebrates Silver Anniversary With the theme of "25 Year~ of available at the USATF Web site: Excellence," USA Track & Field will www.usatf.org hold 1ts 25th Annual Meeting at the Agenda items mcludc the accep Sheraton Greensboro at Four tance of b1ds for future championship Seasons, Greensboro. N.C., on Dec. meets and road races, the selection of 4-7. Athletes of the Year in track & field, The agendas for the Masters LDR racewalking, and long d1stance run SHANNON OTTLEY SHANNON OTTLEY ~d T &F committees were pubhshed ning. the Masters Hall of Fame Kathy Martin, 52, first woman overall (31 :06.31 ), Scott Bagley (r), 40, battles Tom Dalton, 45, on m the November issue and are also Contmued on page 5 National Masters 8K Cross-Country Champion Black Creek Park's signature "ski hill," National ships . 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