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Road Runners Club | N.Y. Association Newsletter P.O. Box 881, FDR Station, New York, N.Y. 10022 a^^—M^^^^NO. 57 SUMMER 1973 5 OVER 2000 EXPEDITED IN NATIONAL RRC AGE It Is A "Good Year" For The GROUP XC CHAMPIONSHIP IN VAN CORTLANDT The highlight of the Road you have any children, this is a Long Distance Runner Runners Club-New York fine program to introduce them The year 1973 is an un- The following four top winners Association's Age Group to long-^stance running. precedented one for the long in the May 12 RRC Mini- program will take place on distance runner in the USA. Top Marathon for Women have Sunday, November 4, at Van ROBIN CAMPBELL runners who could make it to received an all-expenses paid Cortlandt Park when the IS HONORED three specific races would have a invitation to run in the 5-mile First National Age Group XC Cham- shot at earning foreign trips as Feminist International Marathon Robin Campbell of Washington pionships will be held starting at winners of those races. Guayanilla, Puerto Rico-sponsored Sports Club, age 14, has been 12 Noon. The meet, helped by a A 50 kilometer running by Sertoma International^ Nov.4: donation from the Benjamin selected as the 1973 Outstanding Age Group Athlete of the RRC of championship was added to the Katherine Shrader, Anita Electrical Engineering Inc. of America for the period Sep- long distance program this year, Scandurra, Nina Kuscsik and New York City, will feature races tember 1972 to August 1973. She meaning that it can be held as Kathy Sweitzer. for all ages, and over 2,000 district, regional and national will receive the Alice Moran The New York Marathon, to be participants are expected. championships. It is a distance Memorial Trophy on November held Sept. 30, will send its winner There will be races at IV2 mile that most fit marathoners can 4, 1973, prior to the first race of to compete in the Athens, Greece over the Van Cortlandt Park run without any special ad- the 1973 National RRCA XC Age Marathon. course for ages as follows: 6 and 7 Group Championship. ditional training. The USA is year-old boys and girls, 8 and 9, probably the only country in the The winner and the winning 10 and 11, 12 and 13, 14 and 15, Robin Campbell was selected history of athletics to have team at the Oct. 20 International for winning National RRCA XC with a special race of 2Vz miles designated national running Two Bridges Race, Washington, for women 16 years and over, and and Postal Mile Run Cham- championships at 50 kilometers D.C., will be sent to the twin of -the same distance for men 16 pionship for Girls during this ant^ pft miles. Our Aide Scandurrgthi. s 36 miler in Scotland. This 36 years and over. The Vets race for season, and for her outstandmg has been a prime force in these miler is part of the National runners 40 and over will be at 21/2 performance as a member of the program changes. Capital Marathon Festival and is miles. The mile course will be U.S. Team that competed in sponsored by the National Park IV2 The RRC of America expanded on the high school course, and the Europe this season to include Service in Washington. victories against the Soviet Union its national postal championship 2V2 mile course will be on the It is not expected that these in the 800 meters and scoring on program this year. This will college course. three trips will be up for grabs the winning 1600 meter relay further increase the number of next year but perhaps one or two Meet Director is Barry Geisler, team in the same dual meet. She accurately measured courses of them will be repeated. Sr., and Race Director is Kurt also performed well during this and will put more races on the Steiner. Entry fee is $2 with post past indoor season. program in some areas of the The number of long distance entry fees $3. Entry fees for U.S. runners continues to increase but chil^en as admission into the The National 50 Kilometers (31 a negative factor is that "race Road Runners Club. Large 300 III NAT. AOIE GROUP miles 121 yards) Championship officials" appear to be getting trophies will be to the first three was taken Sept. 2 by the Boston scarcer. If you know of any finishers in each age group both HALF MILE CHAMPIONSHIP Athletic Association's fair-haired prospective officials, including Boys and Girls. Trophies will be Three hundred runners of all Max White. He earned an ex- members of your family, please awarded to each finisher. A ages competed in the National pense paid trip to race in the 52.6 put them in touch with the limited amount of post entries RRCA 1/2 mile Age Group mile London to Brighton race Chairman of the AAU Long will be taken up to 10:45 AM the Championship at Van Cortlandt Sept. 30 against most of the Distance Running Committee or day of the meet. Age at race time Park on the 440 cinder track, fastest ultramarathoners in the with the RRC. determines age group par- under the direction of Meet world. ticipation. Runners will report to Director Barry Geisler, Sr., and The Road Runners Club has the Van Cortlandt Park flats for Race Director Kurt Steiner, with |C0ME AND CHEER ON | available various club items: numbers and instruction at 10 AM the aid of 20 RRC Officials, before R.R.C. Tee Shirts (s-m-1) .. .$2.50 with the first race scheduled for a capacity crowd at the Stadium. THE RUNNERS Decals 1—$.35 or 3—$1.00 12 Noon. Entries should be sent to Outstanding performance was R.R.C. Patches $1.00 Kurt Steiner: 1660 E. 21st St., turned in by Baron Goff, 13 years IN THE Brooklyn, NY 11210. If blanks or of age, in the 12 and 13 year age Regular Membership $4.00 other data is desired, send a self- N.Y.C. MARATHON group. His time of 2:16.6 over- 20 Years and Under $2.00 addressed stamped envelope to shadowed second place, 12-year- Family Membership $8.00 Kurt Steiner. SUN. SEPT. 30 old finisher Richard Moore, Sponsor Membership $10.00 The Age Group program whose time was 2:20 in the same 11 AM directed by Barry Geisler Sr. and race. In the Boys 8 and 9 Division, Ronald Geisler won in 2:49; 8- assisted by Kurt Steiner is an all- ^ CENTRAL PARK year program, with races on the year-old Michael Di Tommaso Newsletter Committee Members road in the winter, on the track in finished in second place in 3:01, Editor: Ted Corbitt, Apt. 8H the spring and summer, and on which was noteworthy. A total of Sect 4 the hills cross-country in the fall. 18 youngsters under 5 years of RRC NEW YORK ASSOCIATION 150 W. 225 St., NY, NY 10463 There are meets each week at age, boys and girls, ran 1/4 mile OFFICERS: Dr. Sid Gendin differznt sites throughout the with 4-year-old Shawneea President: Fred Lebow Bill Wiklund Met. area. The cross-country O'Toole winning in 1:38.4. The 1st Veep: Joe Kleinerman Terri Sander championships is the top affair of youngest runner was 21/2 years of 2nd Veep: Nina Kuscsik Dr. Norb Sander the program. All members of the age! Trophies went to the first Treasurer: Brian Crawford Gary Corbitt RRC-NYAssn. are invited to three in each age group, and were Executive Secretary: Jimmy John Chodes attend the meet and lend their presented Olympic style on the Dunn Fred Lebow help in making it a success as it track at the conclusion of each Member Secretary: Michele Joe Kleinerman has been the past few years. If Age Group Event. Epstein Jason Greller EASTERN REGIONAL R.R.C. MEEHNG Sal. Sept. 29.1973 7:30 PJH. West Side V.MXJt. 5 WesI 63rd SI. If the reader thinks this is a BUSY SUMMER heavy program they should NEWS: ALONG THE COURSE become aware of the program of SCHEDULE runs staged in the New England area during the same period of by Joe Kleinerman time. Bob Campbell, the New by J.Kleinerman and T.Corbitt England LDR Chairman, wrote will bid for the Senior National The Runners in the Met. area me that they had a race almost The July 1973 Nor-Cal Running Marathon Championship for June have just completed a very busy every day with two or more on Review reported that the First 2, 1974 ... A delegation of RRC summer schedule of runs held the weekends. The New England World Masters Track & Field m6n will attend the National AAU during July and August. The area has always been the "Cradle Championships will be held in Convention in Oct. in Montana Road Runners Club sponsored or of Long Distance running." The Toronto, Canada, Aug. 11-17, . Following a letter to the conducted most of the races. The area has many small towns and 1975. Athletes must be age 40 or Parks Department, the Van following runs sponsored by the during the summer each puts on more. Competition will be con- Cortlandt Park cross-country Road Runners Club or conducted a long distance run with great ducted in 5 year age groups, but courses have been put into shape by the Road Runner Club drew prizes and great hospitality.