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November 20
While they were braving the elements last month in Newport, the more than 2,000 runners who participated in the Amica Marathon and UnitedHealthcare Half-Marathon helped raise nearly $12,000 for the Providence Ronald McDonald House, according to Amica Insurance and Eident Sports Marketing. The proceeds will help benefit the nonprofit organization, which for the past two decades has served as a temporary home to more than 5,000 families whose children received medical care for premature birth, serious injury, illness or surgery at area hospitals. "We are extremely grateful for support from the Amica Marathon," Michael Fantom, Chief Executive Officer of the Ronald McDonald House of Providence, said in a statement released by Eident Sports Marketing. "Our programs allow families to spend additional time with a sick child, help ease financial burdens, provide a sense of normalcy and keep families together during times of medical crisis. The funds provided from the Amica Marathon will help us to continue to reach that goal." November 16
Race director Bob Jackman predicted it would be a "Martin-Ben duel," and indeed it was at the inaugural Rhode Island 6 Hour Ultramarathon and Relay, held Sunday at City Park in Warwick. The duo led the field of nearly 70 runners throughout the race, which consisted of a 2.7-mile loop through the park. After running neck and neck for most of 51.323 miles, Nephew, 34, of Mansfield, Mass., edged Tighe by one minute, capturing the 2009 USA Track & Field New England Ultra Championship with a time of 5 hours, 58 minutes and 41 seconds. Tighe didn't go away empty handed, though, as the 51-year-old Providence resident was crowned the top master for his efforts.
Daniele Cherniak, 48, of Cohoes, N.Y. was the top woman, sixth overall competitor, covering 41.409 miles in 5:59:14. Tighe's running club, the Tuesday Night Turtles, claimed top honors in the accompanying relay competition. The TNT "A" Team of Pat Meachem, Shad Miller, Michaela Driscoll, Jackie Jackman, Ken Kirecyk and Chris Jasparro combined to run 51.323 miles in 5:54:00. Other award winners that day are as follows: OVERALL FEMALE USATF-NE OPEN MALE USATF-NE OPEN FEMALE USATF-NE MASTER MALE USATF-NE MASTER FEMALE RELAY 2nd Overall Team - 2nd Place Medal 3rd Overall Team - 3rd Place Medal Rhode Island 6 Hour ULTRA Run and Relay RELAY RESULTS
November 13
Now in its 26th year, the Christmas Run/Walk will be held Dec. 13 at 10 a.m., beginning and ending at Rogers High School, 15 Wickham Rd. in Newport. For information, contact Melanie Cahill by phone at (401) 741-9708 or via e-mail at zepgoddess@juno.com. Register at: http://www.needtorace.com More information also available at: http://www.coolrunning.com
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Ed Poirier, a family wellness specialist at the Attleboro YMCA and coach of the YMCA's Jaguars youth track club, passes along this information on a series of youth meets that have planned for this winter: Youth Indoor Track & Field Meets Sponsored by the Attleboro YMCA Jaguars & Wheaton College Track Team Field events from 5pm -5:45pm (shot put, long jump, high jump 3'6" starting height) Attleboro YMCA Indoor Games Low key competition for ages 15 & under in: Shot Put, High Jump, 60 meter Shuttle run race, and 4x40 meter relay races. 2 year age group awards, ribbons to top 3 finishers in age group. No Spikes. $3 includes all events. Pay at event. For more information contact: Ed Poirier at epoirier@attleboroymca.org or (508) 222-7422, ext. 100. November 9
The cross country, indoor track and outdoor track and field programs at the Community College of Rhode Island will be hosting a series of Monday night age-group track meets on the Flanagan Campus in Lincoln. Meets will be held on the following dates: Dec. 7, 14 and 21; Jan. 4, 11 and 25; Feb. 1, 8 and 22; March 1, 8 and 22. Registration will begin at 6 p.m. Events, which will start at 6:30, will include in the 9-10-year-old division: 300-meter run, 600-meter run and 1,000-meter run; 11-12-year-old division: 300-meter run, 600-meter run, 1,000-meter run and 1,500-meter run; and 13-14-year-old division: 300-meter run, 600-meter run, 1,000-meter run and 1,500-meter run. Ribbons will be awarded to the top 10 finishers in each event in each age group. The cost to register is $5 per night or $25 for all dates, which also includes a T-shirt. All proceeds will benefit CCRI's cross country and track programs. The CCRI Indoor Track facility is an 11-lap per mile, multiple-use track surface (no spikes allowed). Restrooms are available. For more information, e-mail CCRI Cross Country, Indoor Track and Outdoor Track & field Head Coach Gregg Cornell at gcornell@ccri.edu.
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The Falmouth Track Club provides this recap of Saturday's 32nd annual Dunkin' Donuts Cape Cod Marathon and New Balance Marathon Relay, which included a fifth-place finish in the men's division for Anthony Crudale of West Warwick, a seventh-place finish among the women for Kelsey Ripp of Providence and a runner-up finish in the senior men's division by Stephen Grilli: 2009 Ekuom Takes First for Men, Currier Three-peats for Women in the 32nd Annual Dunkin' Donuts Cape Cod Marathon Once again disaster was avoided and the 32 Annual Cape Cod Marathon and 17th New Balance Marathon Relay were blessed with partly cloudy skies, temperatures in the 50's and light winds at start time. A few large puddles were the biggest impediments to an otherwise beautiful running day. Leading the pack the entire race was Joseph Ekuom from High Falls, NY, formerly of Kenya, who finished first with a PR in 2:33:13 in what was only his second marathon appearance. Ekuom, 33, found the course to be "tough and the second half was very hilly" but he managed to beat the second place finisher by 6 minutes 8 seconds. Ekuom was pleased with his time but felt he would have done better if he had someone to push him during the second half of the race. He ran from mile 15 on alone with no challengers to contend with. Ekuom said "I liked the course but it was not easy." Second place male finisher, Nicolas Karr, 22 also ran a PR in 2:39:05. Karr, who hales from Portland, OR but now lives in Allston, MA won his only other marathon, Crater Lake Marathon in Orgeon. Karr "didn't realize there would be so many hills."Using the Cape Cod Marathon as his qualifier, Karr plans on running Boston next spring. Benjamin Ndaya, 33 from Chelmsford, MA was the third male finisher in 2:41:36. The women's race was a lot tighter than the men's. Mary-Lynn Currier, from Canton, CT crossed the finish line 39 seconds ahead of Megan Malgeri, 28 from Burlington, VT to take first place with a time of 2:56:14. Currier, 45, won the Cape Cod Marathon on 1996 and again in 1997. She finished second in last years marathon. Currier ran a "nice steady pace the whole way". She ran neck and neck with third place finisher Laurie Cass until about mile 10 when Cass cramped up and had to slow her pace. Currier also experienced cramps in her calf muscle at Nobska Lighthouse, about 23 miles into the race. "I thought it was over," said Currier, "but I felt I had to keep going". Currier was not aware that second place finisher, Malgeri 28 from Burlington, VT was following close on her heals to finish in 2:25:53. This was Malgeri's first official marathon. She was pleased with her second place finish. Cass, 35 from Plymouth, MA came in third 3:05:19. In the simultaneous New Balance Relay, the New Balance 1- Habitat Team running for CCAC , won the men's race in a time of 2:29:16. The women's winning relay team was Eliot Loungers Mimi's Masters finishing in 2:55:00, while the mixed relay champion was Team Chill from North Andover., which clocked a time of 2:48:14. In the men's Master's race John Piggott, 44 from Williamsburg, VA took first (9th overall male) in 2:54:27, followed by Sadik Tokgoz, 41 from Boston, MA in 2:56:06 for second,(12 overall male) and Jamie Kreider, 41 from Newton, MA with 2:29:37 for third place (13th overall male). The women's Master's race was won by Mary-Lynn Currier, 45, from Canton, CT, in a time of 2:56:14.(1st overall female). Second place was Julie Musselman, 43 from Shorewood, MN in 3:17:40, (6th overall female)and in third place Bridget Riordan, 43 from Madison, CT in 3:26:12 (11th overall female). Top three in the men's senior division were John Shepherd, 53, from Essex, CT in 3:10:46, Stephen Grilli, 52, from Narragansett, RI in 3:14:15 and Adrian Forde, 51, from Sudbury, MA in 3:19:24. First women's senior was Mary Baldwin, 50, from Chelsea, MA who finished in 3:35:03. Second was Brigid Rodin, 50 from Andover, MA in 4:15:14. Third women's senior was Luanne Roy, 54, from Seymour, CT in 4:18:17. In the men's veteran's division Neil LeBlanc, 61 from Athol, MA finished first in 3:30:01. Second male veteran was John Levreault, 60, from Oxford, MA in 3:43:54 . Third was Dave Kemp, 65, from Marlborough, MA in 3:46:48. The first place women's veteran was Rosemary Rusin, 66 from Florence, VT in 4:37:35. Rosemary holds the record for the most Cape Cod Marathons runs, having completed 23. Second women's veteran was Holly J. Vogel 62, from Rochester, MA in 4:42:49. In third place was Barbara Wnek, 60, from Brentwood, MO in 5:38:21. Top Cape and Island finisher for the men was Ian Clark , 21, from Eastham, MA in 2:51:16 who finished 6th overall. Top Cape and Island finisher for women was Reiko Sagioka, from W. Falmouth, MA who ran in 3:39:28. The Dunkin' Donuts Cape Cod Marathon is hosted by the Falmouth Track Club and supported by over 800 volunteers from the community. Dunkin' Donuts has been the major sponsor for the past 11 years. New Balance has sponsored the Marathon Relay for 3 years. TOP TEN OVERALL FINISHERS
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The Boston Athletic Association provides this recap of yesterday's Mayor's Cup: BOSTON - Sean Quigley, 24, originally from Braintree, Massachusetts, won in a lean over last year's champion Jacob Korir, of Kenya, to win the 20th Mayor's Cup Cross Country 8k Championship at Boston's Franklin Park on Sunday in a time of 23 minutes, 54 seconds. Quigley, a graduate of LaSalle University in Philadelphia and who now runs for Puma, returned to the course where he won the MIAA Division II (state) championship in 2002 while attending Archbishop Williams High School and beat a talented field of 144 finishers on a picture perfect day (sunny, 60-degrees F). Quigley and Korir - along with Andrew Ledwith, Timothy Ritchie, Patrick Mellea - ran together for four miles until the duo separated themselves from the other co-leaders on the final loop and the course's landmark Bear Cage Hill. Quigley did not lead during the race but timed his finish perfectly, outsprinting Korir. A close, but clear finish gave the local kid the victory, and he recorded the same winning time as did Korir in 2008. Korir finished one second behind as runner-up (23:55), while Ledwith followed in third (23:57). Quigley was an NCAA All-American and placed ninth at the 2008 US Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at 10,000 meters, his professional debut. New Balance Boston was led by Roland Lavallee, scored 75 points, and won the men's championship team competition. The host Boston Athletic Association was second (78 pts.) and Genesee Valley Harriers was third (96 pts.) among the 11-team field. In the women's 5-kilometer championship race, Irene Kimaiyo, a 26-year old native of Kenya who runs for the female winning club Riadha, based in Maryland, outpaced Virginia's Samia Akbar. Kimaiyo's time was 16:39, 13 seconds better than Akbar's 16:52, who was fifth at the Mayor's Cup last year. Riadha - victorious with 43 points - placed three runners among the top four, as Delilah Dicrescenzo (17:05) was third and Serena Burla (17:16) was fourth. There were 95 finishers and eight teams in the contest. New Balance Boston (53 pts.) was the runner-up team and the B.A.A. was third (53 pts.). Click here for a complete list of results. Boston Mayor's Cup - Men's Championship 8k Results Team Results Boston Mayor's Cup - Women's 5k Championship Team Results Boston Mayor's Cup - Franklin Park 5k Results (356 finishers) Boston Mayor's Cup Youth Races (1.1 miles) Girls
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