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Michael Grzelecki
Mike Grzelecki spent the last two weeks of August on the easternmost edge
of Provincetown. Just beyond the garage-door knockoffs of Warhol's Marilyns
and before the entrance to Truro, the rustic artist's cabin where he set up
shop could not feel farther from the buzz and bustle of P-Town and yet
Grzelecki was just a five-minute bike ride to the Boatslip for afternoon "tea" or
an evening of debauchery at the town's (in)famous A-House.
"This location suits me," he offers with a grin as toothy as it is contagious.
During a tour of the three-room residence, he points out some of the space's
hidden eccentricities, stopping at one point to unlock a wooden barrel
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�mounted to the kitchen wall that opens into a kitschy bar inspired by (or
perhaps crafted in) the 1950s. The small front patio peeks out through a
zigzag of dunes and seaside shacks to the rich blue horizon where the bay
touches the sky. The simple house brims with these unexpected details. "It's
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kind of like the Brooklyn of P-Town," he beams with trademark selfeffacement.
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Rick Buckheit, Sharon Abbott and Jeff Werner!) "Mike has been living in Park
Slope since the early 90s, which makes him somewhat of a pioneer," says
fellow Brooklyn-phile Brendan Moroney. "He was there before the Food Coop,
before all the gentrification, and possibly even before (gasp!) it became
popular in the lesbian community." Of his beloved borough, Grzelecki picks
Prospect Park - which he bikes through every day to work as a seventh grade
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English teacher in Ditmas Park - as his favorite spot of all. "It's all about
being a quiet haven from city-living," he adds of the experience.
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A representative Brooklynite among this year's Front Runner New York race
captains, Grzelecki has been a breath of fresh air since joining the club in
2009. President Megan Jenkins went to the same church in Brooklyn as
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Grzelecki and urged him to run with the club. "He's super relaxed and very
easy to spend time with," says Jenkins. "And he doesn't get his feathers
ruffled about much, which is an essential race captain trait." His leadership
role in the club began in 2010 when he offered to join long-time Brooklyn
ambassador Peter Doebele as a co-head of the Tuesday runs in Prospect
Park. Grzelecki opened up his apartment to fellow runners for bag drop and along with Megan McDavid, Holly Brewster, Karl Rutter and Messieurs
Doebele and Moroney - helped ensure a stable and fun presence in
Brooklyn, with attendance creeping past 15 runners on many Tuesday
evenings. But much like Brooklyn itself or that easternmost edge of P-Town,
there is more to Grzelecki than meets the eye.
Despite his laid back attitude and surfer dude speech patterns (marked most
adorably by his ability to stretch the word "nice" over about six seconds and a
chorus of undulating syllables), Grzelecki hails from Schenectady, where he
comes from a hardworking family, in which his father - a self-taught electrical
engineer - spent 50 years as a loyal employee of General Electric. He still
misses certain of the simple pastoral pleasures offered by Upstate New
York, but finds living in close proximity to Prospect Park helps sate his
desires to commune with nature.
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�Grzelecki never doubts his decision to move to New York City - and, like many
gay youth before him, he heard the city's siren song at a very early age. In
Grzelecki's case, the melody was carried equally within the bleak chords of
"Taxi Driver" and "Midnight Cowboy" as on the lighter notes of "Tootsie" and
"Working Girl." And so Grzelecki headed to college at Fordham University in
the Bronx to study English and Communications. "I could barely contain my
enthusiasm when I saw the city skyline in the distance," he recalls. (Can
anyone else hear the opening lines of Let the River Run rising through the
soundtrack of his life?) "The first thing I did, after saying goodbye to my
parents, was to go for a run, to try to get my excitement and my nerves under
control."
Running has long played this type of therapeutic role in Grzelecki's life. As a
teenager, Grzelecki used running to quell some of the pangs of self-criticism
that plagued him. He ran on the track team in high school but with no real
focus or specific ambitions and continued to find himself running to quiet his
overactive synapses and smooth out those dendritic frays. In his twenties,
that meant running to sort through the "mess" of coming out and the journey
of coming into his own - as well as the trauma of a vanishing hairline.
Running also provided comfort during romantic travails that included the
dissolution of two long-term relationships and during professional upheaval
that included turning in his fundraising career for the pursuit of teaching.
But these last two years Grzelecki has really hit his stride, so to speak. "Front
Runners has helped me incorporate running into my daily life," he says. "If
you had told me a year ago that I'd be running outdoors in winter and in the
crazy NYC heat I would not have believed you." As is so often the case, the
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�social aspect of Front Runners fueled the athletic and fitness interests for
Grzelecki, who has recently broken 6:30 pace in shorter races and is training
for his first NYC marathon this fall. When asked in P-Town last week about
his irritating absence of body fat, Grzelecki said: "yea, I guess I've become a
little bit of a running psycho lately."
In typical Front Runner fashion, this fever has proven highly communicable.
Moroney notes that Grzelecki, who was the first Front Runner he met,
encouraged him to attend not just the Tuesday night but also the Saturday
morning fun runs. Grzelecki also added Moroney as a contact for the Brooklyn
fun runs. As for the fast times that both men have been clocking lately, with
Moroney smashing 1:30 by several minutes in his debut half-marathon this
past May? "Those super-intense Tuesday evening runs in Prospect Park
must be the culprit," posits Moroney.
So could this chill dude with the carefree attitude actually be upping the
volume in Brooklyn? Come find out for yourself. "We meet every Tuesday at 7
PM at the Third Street entrance and begin running at 7:15," says Grzelecki.
"This fall we are hoping to add a few long runs in and around the borough,
and a few socials as well." Keeping Front Runners on its toes with a healthy
mix of tradition and innovation - well, no surprise there.
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Favorite Songs by Madge: "Get Together" and "Give It To Me"
Coming Out Drama: Shortly after "fessing up" to friends about his sexuality at
a rooftop party, Grzelecki witnessed the fuzz swooping in and had to slink
down a fire escape
Relationship Status: Single
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Michael Benjamin
Shortly after Mike Benjamin moved to New York City in 2001, he was violently
attacked while waiting patiently for the train one night. Out of nowhere a man
draped in black with a long scowling face and hollow eyes raced up and slid
his machete right into Benjamin's chest. The bystanders all applauded after
Benjamin let out his girlish wail and the crew surreptitiously filming the
incident thanked him for being such a good sport.
In many ways, that gives an apt snapshot of Benjamin, the FRNY president
for 2007. Those who know him well might easily picture his boyish face
brightening red as he stood there in the aftermath, perhaps giggling to
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�himself in embarrassment. Born and bred in Rolling Prairie, Indiana
(population 500), Benjamin brings a certain aw-shucksism to the FRNY
presidency. Coming off the go-go Kelsey Louie years (or should we say gogo boy dancing?), Benjamin seeks to re-establish a placidity and sane
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as "a nice guy who tried his best." Humbleness aside, he'll naturally be
remembered for much more than that. Benjamin combines a no-nonsense
Midwestern sensibility with the fun-loving ease of a gay New Yorker in his
general approach to life, his outlook on the presidency, and in his own
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Growing up in rural Indiana farm country about 90 miles outside Chicago a
place his father, a truck driver, visited daily for work but may as well have
been an ocean or continent away as far as the family was concerned
Benjamin had few friends to play with and formed close ties and friendships
with his three sisters. His particular admiration for his older sister Lori's track
prowess led Benjamin to first test out his own running ability.
Benjamin quickly gained a lot more than speed from his efforts. "I was quite
shy," he says, "and through running I found an outlet to excel and meet new
friends." In high school, Benjamin found his true niche on the track, where he
broke the two-minute mark in the 800-meter and clocked approximately 52
seconds in the 400-meter dash. He even finished "a heartbreakingly, oh-soclose" second place in his high school conference championships.
Like many runners, Benjamin lapsed into a sabbatical of sorts after going to
college at Indiana University. But there were other obstacles for Benjamin to
tackle at the time. "The mid-to-late 80s were still a difficult time to be yourself
as a gay person in Indiana," says Benjamin. "I was very closeted and did not
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�come out voluntarily, but was publicly outed in a humiliating manner by old
high school friends." In college and living off campus at the time, Benjamin
came back to his house one day to discover that pages from a muscle
magazine he had hidden in his room were papered all over the walls.
The difficult period in Benjamin's life continued as he struggled through a
several-year-long relationship with an abusive alcoholic who ended up
stalking and threatening to kill Benjamin after he broke up with him. Never
one to play the victim, Benjamin laughs off this period of his life as "very
Lifetime television." Fair enough, particularly given that like any good survivor
story, Benjamin's ends up with his breaking free and escaping to sunny Fort
Lauderdale to start a new life.
Benjamin left Indiana with no money, no job prospects and no place to live
once he got to Florida. "It was a scary time," he admits. "I slept on the sofa of
a friend for a couple of months I got a job waiting tables, then working for the
State, and then gradually in my chosen field of health care." Today, Benjamin
works as a consultant auditing hospitals.
But what about the running? A hater of the humidity and heat, Benjamin found
it difficult to immerse himself in running while in the Sunshine State. He did a
casual 5-miler or 10-K here and there, and even checked out the local Front
Runner club once or twice but nothing really took.
It was not until he heard the siren call of the big city (don't they always?) in
2001 that the desire to really get back into racing shape stirred again within
Benjamin. After accidentally intersecting the back-of-the-pack in the 2001
New York City marathon, Benjamin had one of those "If they can do it, I can
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�do it" moments. He did a little research on the Front Runner chapter in New
York, and, discovering that it was slightly more active and in-shape than its
Floridian counterpart, Benjamin decided he needed to be able to complete a
loop of Central Park before debuting at Rutgers. After a warm welcoming
from Dan Armstrong and Paul Racine on his first Wednesday with the club,
Benjamin slowly became a fixture at Front Runners.
The running muscles dormant within him were soon reawakened through
his training, and Benjamin smashed his marathon goal time of four hours,
premiering at the distance with a jaw- dropping 3:12 in 2002. (It's a sore point
for our club president that this is, indeed, still his marathon PR.) With running
once again part of his life, Benjamin became integral to the club, with the
club offering him the invaluable social outlet he needed at the time. Benjamin
grew more visible to himself and to others through his participation in the
club.
Always one to skirt attention, Benjamin would never toot his own racing horn,
but he has completed 10 marathons since that first one back in the fall of
2002. He has finished Boston three times and qualified even more times
than that. Still looking to break 3:10 at this distance, Benjamin is currently
gearing up for the Virginia Beach marathon on March 18th and is also
holding this year's New York City marathon in his back pocket in case
Virginia doesn't work out.
And all this while also trying to keep a few hundred gay and lesbian runners
happy. Surprisingly serene about the impossibility of his chosen mission,
Benjamin states that the club is in good shape, and his main goal is to "keep
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�the momentum going and not to screw up!"
With the earnest diligence that he brings to the table, Benjamin will certainly
make sure the club maintains its rising trajectory. But he offers the club
something more intangible than all that. Like the marathon runners who
unwittingly inspired him back in 2001, Benjamin embodies the heart, the
spirit and the humanity that never actually voice, but always insist: We're all in
this together.
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He knew he was gay when he lined his room with posters of Andy Gibb and
Sean Cassidy as an eight-year-old. "I guess I liked big hair," he says.
And the hunks of today? Patrick Dempsey and Dermot Mulroney
Latest CD purchased The Dreamgirls Soundtrack
If he had a free round-trip ticket anywhere? "Always wanted to go to Australia.
But anyone can go there, so maybe something like the Great Pyramids or the
Greek Isles."
Future Racing Goals To complete the marathon major series (New York,
London, Berlin, Chicago and Boston) "Three down and just two to go." He
just needs the European venues now if only the London lottery would
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Mark Gilrain
Mark Gilrain's running mileage has dwindled to a fraction of what it once was.
But Front Runners' First Spouse more than makes up for that by running after
the two boys he is raising with our club's president, Rob Lennon, as a stayat-home dad.
A stellar runner since high school, he estimates he now only runs a couple of
times every month, but the former Accenture technology consultant said his
gig as Mr. Mom and being a man about town keeping up with his three-yearolds, Dash and Ephraim, on playdates and playgrounds near their Upper
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"It's the period in their life where they look to you many, many times per day
for comfort, explanation, stimulation, connection, reassurance," said Mark,
who in November 2008 walked away from a 21-year career in consulting and
wants to fully enjoy this stage in the boys' lives. "I also do an incredible
amount of stooping and lifting. One rarely sits down."
Yet despite spending more time on monkey bars and less time on training
with the club, Mark feels as connected as ever to Front Runners.
"The amazing thing about the club is that the number of miles you run doesn't
dictate the welcome you get, " Mark said. "Nor does it prevent participation
even if it's in new ways."
For Mark, one of those ways has been the "great Monday night multi-sport
training sessions" with Rachel Cutler and Mike Totaro. "I get to them
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feeling I still know people and that I still am an athlete," Mark said.
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Another activity is the unofficial toddler time on Saturday mornings that Mark
and other parents in the club have integrated into the club's activities and
literally turning the club into a family. "Rob and I literally couldn't be the
parents we are without everybody in Front Runners," Mark said.
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The doting FRNY uncles and aunts are everywhere: George Mayer playing
'bakketball'; Mike Benjamin tossing a boy high; Michael Orzechowski acting
as a best friend; Kelsey Louie and John MacConnell showing how the
speedsters play "One...Two... Three... Go", Dennis Giza instigating half of
Mark's runs; Jeff Werner saying "come to the Brooklyn Children's museum";
Peter Shearer and Dan Gallagher pushing Dash and Ephraim's running
stroller; Diane, Les, Johnny, Patrick, Linda, Phoebe, Katrina, Leah and others
fielding nights of babysitting; and most every member taking an interest and
being kind to the members of the club who stand less than 3 feet tall and to
their tired parents.
"I always knew Front Runners to be supportive -- definitively around running
and frequently in so many other areas of my life, but this has taken my breath
away," Mark said.
Mark's easygoing nature is part of what has won him such devoted friends
among his fellow Front Runners since he joined the club in 1996. For
example, when badgered by a certain interviewer about how he ranks among
First Spouses, he conceded that the current First Lady bests him on at least
one count. "Who has better arms than Michelle Obama? She probably gets to
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�work out though," Mark said.
Despite his current break from serious running, he remains trim and fit, and
ran at a 7:18 minute per mile pace at the recent Pride race -- his first scored
race since last August -- to get a respectable 64.1 percent age graded result.
The 45 year-old Mark has his rich history of being a jock to thank for still
being a solid runner.
He ran cross country at Williams College in Massachusetts, and his
personal records at several distances are something to behold: 4:03 to run
1,500 meters; running a mile in 4:20 when he was 21, a 5-miler run in 26:15,
school record holder for 9 years in the 4 x 1 mile, and running his one
marathon (on only two 10+ mile training runs) in New York in 1990 in 3:16, to
achieve the numerological oddity of ranking 1990th among male finishers.
And in a display of characteristic butchness, Mark once finished a race
despite breaking his foot during the competition.
Hiatus or not, he still entertains running goals. Mark's most tantalizing
running objective is running a 5-miler in 30 minutes, but he said his horizon
for attempting that is two years away, when the boys start kindergarten.
Still, he was tortured ahead of the Pride run by the idea of putting in a sub-par
performance. ""I love competing -- I'm not loving the idea that I'm going to run
the Pride run and I'm going to go slow."
But Mark knows the value of patience. It took him sometime to love New York,
and now he can scarcely imagine living somewhere else.
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�Mark grew up near Hartford and did not relish the idea of moving to New York
after he graduated from Williams College in 1987. Upon graduation, Mark
had a job lined up at Arthur Andersen's Stamford office, but the firm shut
down that office, leaving Mark little choice but to come to New York for work.
(He officially became a Manhattan resident in 1991 after stints in Norwalk,
Greenwich and Jersey City.)
"I just didn't see myself as a New Yorker," he said. "I had grown up in a small
town." And now look at him -- a New Yorker through and through.
He grew to love New York and build a busy, rich life. But at one point, Mark
asked himself what he could do to meet more like-minded gay people in
New York, especially given his hectic travel schedule for Accenture, so he
joined Front Runners in June of 1996.
Mark recalled that veterans such as Mike McMahon and David Laurence were
always quick to welcome a newcomer. He conceded some initial misgivings
about joining the club but said running with companionship that first Saturday
and feeling the camaraderie of Saturday bagels persuaded him that being
part of the club was something to continue.
Throughout the years, the club has continued to be a central part of his life.
Perhaps the most central part occurring in the development of his
relationship with Rob, whom he met through the club.
"For many he's the club president, but for me he is my co-adventurer, partner,
and best friend," Mark said. Mark had two serious relationships before Rob,
but with Rob, he got it right. "I am in a relationship with the real Rob and he
with the real me -- we have each other's backs for good and bad."
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�with the real me -- we have each other's backs for good and bad."
After months of friendliness, flirting, and wondering at the boxer waistband
teasing from beneath Rob's gym shorts at track practices in late 2003 and
early 2004, Mark finally had his first date with Rob on April 4, 2004 (or, 04-0404 in another example of numerological sympatico.) Their date? Playing a
game of Boggle just after running a relay race -- how decadent!
From there, the pair got hitched in a commitment ceremony in May 2006 on
the way to gay yuppiedom and parenthood.
Mark is patient and knows he'll eventually be able to train more avidly again.
On top of that quick 30-minute 5 miler, his other goals include possibly one
doing another marathon, perhaps when he turns 50. Mark predicted his
running abilities could quickly return, with the right training.
"I'm very confident about my running," he said. "I love running."
Mark has no plans to return to work just yet, but said that when he does, it
would likely take the form of a career switch, like teaching high school math.
For now though, it's all childrearing, all the time. And he wouldn't have it any
other way.
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The Rats played a big part in Megan Jenkins' introduction to lesbian life. Mike
Benjamin (and anonymous cheerleaders) had a lot to do with her joining
Front Runners. And 20th century music has a lot to do with her life.
Jenkins, 2009 FRNY Women's Vice President and the person who pins new
fun runners with their first FRNY insignia, didn't join the club as soon as she
landed in New York City in 2004. She trained by herself for the 2005 NYC
Marathon and didn't find out about Front Runners until she started scouting
through club listings after noticing all the club singlets on review in Central
Park.
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�Park.
"I must've been such a pain in the ass," Jenkins says, recalling her early
contact with the club. Right after sending in her first membership dues she emailed then-president Mike Benjamin and declared that she needed a club
singlet for the 2007 Brooklyn half-marathon. The ever-obliging Mikey met
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singlet.
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"I didn't know a single person in the club," she remembers. "And all along the
road people were cheering, 'Go, Front Runner!' They were cheering for me!
Then a week or two afterwards I got a picture of myself in the mail from Ted,
the club photographer! I thought, wow, this is incredible. This group is so
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�together, and they're so nice!" Besides that, she notched a half-marathon PR
(a since-bettered 1:46:43), partly because of the boost she got from Front
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But Jenkins didn't bond with the club until she ran a Reach-the-Beach relay in
the fall of 2007. "I don't know why I thought it would be a good idea to run a
relay with 11 people I'd never met before," but she did, ending up in a van
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with club stalwarts Claudia Cummings, Audra Farrell, Debbie Li, Hilary
Lorenz, and Loren Mooney. After that heady experience, she started coming
to fun runs and social events and, before long, immersed herself in FRNY
cross-currents with a vengeance.
Besides being FRNY Women's Vice President, Jenkins also attends every
Tuesday night Brooklyn fun run with Peter Doebele and heads the club's
Diversity Initiative, making sure FRNY is welcoming to all, regardless of
gender, ethnicity, or athletic prowess. She cochairs the Development
Committee with Dane Grams and helped craft a mission statement aimed at
improving the financial stability and charitable giving of the club.
"Megan Jenkins is always the first to volunteer for a task or to take on a new
challenge," says FRNY president Rob Lennon. "The determination and
strides she has made in her own running and the dedication she has shown
toward others is inspiring."
Jenkins is not only the official new-member greeter at fun runs, but also an
avid unofficial greeter any time Front Runners gather. Sandi Rowe recalls her
first social outing with the club, a "homo hoedown" she attended after her first
two fun runs. Rowe got to the dance late, after the instructional hour, and
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�found herself playing the wallflower.
"Then, out of nowhere, this curly-haired girl dragged me by the arm to the
dance floor," Rowe remembers. "It was Megan. She could tell (who couldn't?)
that I didn't know any of the steps. She guided me through the song, teaching
me the steps and reminding me not to look at my feet. Because she took the
time to reach out to a newbie, not only did I have a great time that night, but I
made some great friends and have continued to come to as many social
events as my calendar can hold."
Jenkins herself was a late-bloomer in the lesbian world. "I was mostly
straight until I was 26," she says. "I remember when I was 15 telling people,
'I'm bisexual,' but in a way half believing it was just a phase and just a cool
thing to be. I always had a crush on my best friend, but I thought, 'Oh, that's
my best friend. Of course I love that girl.'"
This sideways approach to sexuality continued until Jenkins was working on
a masters degree at the University of Iowa. While dating a guy, she decided
to join a largely lesbian softball team, The Rats. The team had no rule that
players must be same-sex oriented, "but it was sort of understood," Jenkins
explains. So she figured the easiest approach would be to "pose" as a
lesbian. Next thing she knew, the pose became the truth.
Though Jenkins has yet to win a Front Runner racing award (she freely
admits she's gunning for one), she has won a club prize for her musical
virtuosity. Playing three Bartok duets with I.J. Frame, she took second prize at
the 2009 FRNY Variety Show. Bartok composed the duets for two violins, but
Jenkins played her runs on the flute, making light of the difficulty inherent in
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�executing a piece composed for strings on a wind instrument.
Jenkins' interest in classical music-particularly 20th century music-is not an
avocation; it's her career. Her already-gaudy resume boasts a bachelor's
degree in music theory and composition from the University of Delaware, a
masters in musicology from the University of Iowa, and a masters in flute
performance from Delaware. Now she's wrapping up a PhD in musicology at
the CUNY Graduate Center. Her compelling thesis is that-in numerous
musical landmarks of the 20th century-variance from the norm in gender or
sexual expression usually leads to a diagnosis of madness. She explores
that idea in four pieces, Strauss's Salome, Schoenberg's Erwartung, Weill's
The Seven Deadly Sins, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.
But Jenkins is hardly a full-time student. Besides the hours she spends
pondering Strauss's precocious princess and helping run FRNY, she works
full time as a fundraiser. Jenkins' 14-mile bike commute to work has become
part of her training. Her goal is to log two roundtrips a week while ramping up
her road-running mileage, mixing in FRNY track workouts at 137th Street.
Why this arduous routine by someone who insists "you've got to believe me
when I tell you I'm a social runner"? One reason is her goal of running this
year's NYC Marathon in a Boston Marathon-qualifying time. Another is the
discovery that running fast is both possible and intoxicating. This news
dawned at last winter's Thursday Night at the Races, where Jenkins shocked
herself by uncorking a 6:22 mile on the Armory's tight 200-meter track. "I
always thought I was a 10-minute miler," she avers. "So the feeling of going
that fast, it was exhilarating."
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�As 2008 wound down, Jenkins discovered herself locked in a contest for the
18-to-29-year-old FRNY age group award with-who else?- "Lightening" Lucia
Muntean. "Of course, Lucia wins every race she runs, so I could never catch
her, but I was trying really hard: 'I must go faster! I must finish second!' I was
really pushing myself in the last three races of 2008." This race-pace training
trimmed Jenkins' 4-mile time to 28:57 in December's Holiday 4-Miler. By
March 22, 2009, she'd clipped another 50 seconds off her 4-mile PR and
was running at a 7:01 pace. In the precipitous Coogan's 5K, she blasted out
a 21:52.
"Her drive to be outstanding is contagious," says duet and race partner I.J.
Frame. "When Dane Grams and I agreed to run the Prospect Park Cherry
Tree Relay with Megan, she made it clear that we're in it to win it, and I started
thinking the same thing! Though we didn't win, we had a pretty awesome
6:38/mile pace."
Jenkins still has her sights fixed on that Front Runner age-group award, but it
won't be easy. Muntean moved to San Diego, only to be replaced by
alacritous newcomer Rachel (RayKay) Kleigman. Audra Farrell, Sandi Rowe,
and Loren Mooney haunt the same age range. As if beating those dynamos
weren't daunting enough, she's also pondering yet another challenge. Yes,
that was Megan Jenkins in the pool getting pointers from Tritons Claudia
Cummings and Les Jones. And if you add swimming to biking to marathon
training, you have . . . a triathlon!
"Yeah," Jenkins admits. "I feel anxious about the act of signing up for my first
triathlon, but every time I go to a swim session with Claudia and Les, I come
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�away with a revelation about swimming and how it works: A light has come
on!"
Despite these competitive aspirations, Jenkins maintains that what keeps
her running, and training, and working for Front Runners is the same
communal boost she felt in her first race in an FRNY singlet. "I get out there
because the Front Runners are there to support me. That's the thing about
Front Runners: They're never going to let you do worse than your best."
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Lucia Muntean
Lucia Muntean was a little apprehensive before joining Front Runners this
past winter. What would people think? Would she be accepted? Were the
members going to be able to see past her sexuality? Muntean is, after all, a
straight woman who has been married for two years. "How funny is that?"
she laughs now, having been an integral part of the club for the last seven
months. "My concerns were laid to rest after the first workout."
Since first approaching the team at an indoor training session in The Armory
last January, Muntean has become a force to be reckoned with. In addition to
coming in first for the women's team in every race she has run since that
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increase female presence at track workouts and has been a boom-box of a
cheerleader for her fellow teammates. And don't let her über-petite 5-foot,
95-pound frame fool you; she's tough as nails. During June's Prostate 5-
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goad runners toward faster times. She decided to help Vet superstar Mark
Mascolini by accompanying him for the last mile. "When I started
whimpering about a side stitch," remembers Mascolini, now fondly, "she
snarled 'Suck it up!'"
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With gargantuan running talent and a strong personality, Muntean has some
definite ideas about training. A 27-year-old graduate student in microbiology,
she was a star runner at the high school and college levels, garnering
considerable accolades at Shippensburg University, a small Division II
school outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In her freshman year, she helped
the team finish sixth at the Nationals and followed that up with an even more
impressive, podium-perching third-place her sophomore year. But that
proved to be her final year competing with the team. Muntean decided not to
run for Shippensburg her junior and senior years due to the arrival of a new
coach. "He and I didn't have the same training philosophies," she says,
snarkily. "I didn't think everyone on the team should have an eating disorder
to run."
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�For three years after that break, Muntean continued to run regularly on her
own but then took a three-year hiatus from the sport before getting the racing
itch again at the beginning of 2006. "I knew I was too lazy to make myself do
track workouts," she admits, "so I began to look into running groups." After
surfing the NYRR website for clubs that offered structured workouts but were
not militant about racing, Muntean decided to check out Central Park Track
Club. "I knew they had super fast girls," she says, "and I enjoyed the thought
of training with them and really pushing myself to get back into shape." The
team definitely scored high on the seriousness scale, but it left a little to be
desired in terms of warmth and congeniality, though Muntean did manage to
win over coach Tony Ruiz. "He was pretty impressed that I was holding my
own against his 'elite' women," she recalls, "and he talked to me about
joining." But after a month of participating without getting to know anyone,
Muntean stopped training with CPTC. After trolling the Internet some more,
she landed at a Harriers workout, only to discover that the club definitely
earns its reputation as a drinking group with a running problem: "Talk about
the complete opposite of CPTC," says Muntean, "some days they would have
a workout and other days a fun run but regardless they always would have a
beer (or 2 or 3) afterwards."
But as Goldilocks discovered after burning her tongue on a bowl of porridge
or two, sometimes it takes a little trial and error to find something just right .
Initially drawn to the twice per week workouts offered by Front Runners,
Muntean approached some team members last January at an Armory
training session. "It was clear to me from our very first conversation that she
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�was serious," says Front Runner coach Kelsey Louie. "She said that she
had a goal of breaking 7-minute pace in a 5-miler...and not only has she
accomplished that, but she also ran that pace in a 10-K. I wouldn't be
surprised if she could do that in a half marathon." Muntean quickly warmed
to Louie's training program, speaking so glowingly of Front Runners that she
convinced her friend and fellow Columbia University lab rat Christina to join
as well. When first asked by Muntean to join the Front Runner workouts,
Christina wondered aloud whether her friend knew the club was for gays and
lesbians. Her response? "I replied to her (and to anyone else who asks)
that Front Runners is for gay and gay-FRIENDLY people."
Muntean credits Front Runners with rekindling her love for the sport, as the
club has provided a sense of camaraderie that she had not felt since high
school. "It's really great to have people who can share in your PRs and
understand the frustration of not hitting your goals, but who will also tell you
not to give up," says Muntean. Collegial and disciplined by design, Muntean
not only supported teammates at workouts throughout the winter but also
raced like a champion at the Front Runner track meet, placing second overall
in the women's mile with a time of 5:42.
A short distance runner at heart, Muntean has focused on 4- and 5-mile
races where her work on the track has paid off in spades. Her four-mile time
dropped from 28:00 in February to 26:17 in April (her pace sped from 7:00
miles to 6:34s). Knowing she could go even faster and always happy to test
her limits, Muntean came to June's Pride Run with a sense of purpose. She
blistered through the first four miles of the race in a faster time than her 4mile PR and ended up chopping 3 minutes off her former 5-mile PR for a
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�time of 32:05 (6:25 pace). In addition to placing 11 th overall among female
finishers, Muntean won the inaugural Steve Gerben award as the first female
Front Runner to cross the line.
And Muntean plans to slash even more time off the clock—setting a goal of
sub-25:00 for a 4-miler and, ultimately, of running a sub-5:00 mile. Finding
inspiration in the recent NASCAR comedy Talladega Nights, Muntean
declares: "As Ricky Bobby says, 'I wanna go fast! I wanna go fast!'" Her
coach has nothing but faith in her. "Once she sets a goal, she's determined
to achieve it," says Louie. "So far, there's no reason to doubt that she will."
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Matt Tivy
PERSONAL RHYTHM
You may not know him yet, but he's already made you smile. That is, if you've
been at any number of FRNY catered functions in the past decade. There's
no doubt FRNY is the best fed running club in Manhattan, and Matt Tivy is the
reason. For more than 10 years, Matt has been bringing 4-star touch to the
club for next to nothing and a nod.
"I haven't done that much for the club really," says the 50-year-old, blond
marathoner.
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�Try telling that to his friends.
Facebook
"I don't buy that at all!" yells longtime friend and former race director T.J.
Twitter
Storch. "Make sure you let people know how much Matt has done for Front
Runners," insists pal Phil Wahba.
Instagram
"He's done so much for the club, year in year out on an unsung basis," says
former FRNY president Mike McMahon. "Matt's an example that you don't have
to hold an office to give meaningfully to Front Runners."
All told, Matt has produced, catered, or assisted with well over 40 FRNY
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Matt Tivy in his chef coat
Untrained marathon
That was the story yesterday in the 2011 New York Marathon, which he ran
against doctor's orders, partner's pleading, and friends' admonitions. Last
year a routine physical detected a heart valve condition that deteriorates with
prolonged or intense exercise. This summer his doctor told him not to do the
marathon. He hadn't run more than 5 miles since June, instead going to the
gym four days a week to row, run or bike for half an hour (read: total weekly
run mileage just 4-8 miles). But he felt so good on a 4-miler in mid-October
in Riverside Park that he just decided he had to be on the Verrazano Bridge
on November 6.
"I'll walk a bit, jog a bit, but I'll be out there just to participate," he told me two
weeks ago. "I just love the experience so much, and this will probably be my
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�last one."
Yesterday, he passed the FRNY-run 24 Mile Water Station in Central Park
completely focused, running tall and looking straight ahead. He didn't stop for
water because he couldn't afford to break stride. And, well, he wanted to
make a statement. He crossed the line in 3:52, 20 minutes behind his PR
but miles ahead of anyone's expectations.
"When I got into Brooklyn, I thought, 'this feels right!'" Matt told me on Monday,
the day after the marathon, after a nap and 12-hour sleep. "Then I turned in a
great half and I thought, 'you can do under 4 hours, so you have to go for it.'"
Running the 2009 Brooklyn Half with longtime partner Keith Jameson
showed Matt he could run a long distance without training, so long as he kept
the pace smooth and slow. And years of experience have him convinced that
he's better when he goes out faster than coaches advise; he gets confidence
from having fast miles "in the bank."
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�"I was not happy at all about Matt doing the race," says Keith. "But he makes
his own song, always. He's completely individual, which is what I love most
about him. So I had to support his going for one last hurrah."
This might not be the last hurrah, though. Emboldened, Matt aims to plot an
unconventional training schedule for the 2013 New York Marathon and enroll
his doctor in it. In this case, unconventional means avoiding the rigor of highmileage weeks punctuated by hill and interval workouts.
For a man who knows his instrument and isn't afraid to wail 100%, who
knows? Besides, he might not be able to resist one-upping Phil Wahba one
more time. In 2009, Phil out-trained him but Matt beat him by nearly 10
minutes. This year, Phil got a shock at the medals area. "What are you doing
here?" he yelled, followed almost instantly by, "You b itch!" (For those
unfamiliar, this ranks as the ultimate compliment between them.)
From stardom to stability
It's 4:30 on a sparkling Sunday afternoon in October, and yet already an early
dinner crowd is ambling in to Café du Soleil at 104th and Broadway. Most
have no idea the tall blond Englishman facing me at a side table is the
owner, let alone the chef with A-list pedigree and icons like Daniel Boulud
and Alain Ducasse on his speed dial. When I acquiesce to escargots-it's
hard for an owner chef to sit with a guest for long without offering him food-he
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�quietly gets up and approaches a waiter at the bar. No gestures of influence.
It wasn't always this way. He's gained a humbler perspective since trading
stardom for stability.
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�Fast start: Chef Matthew at age 3
From the moment he could distinguish flavor, Matthew began a love affair
with food. By 10, he was pushing his mother to teach him to make his
favorites. That summer, "Matt's Place" opened on the Tivys' back patio, with 3cent items including PB&J and Campbell's chicken noodle soup. At 15, he
was working in a restaurant kitchen. When he graduated high school, he
headed straight for Culinary Institute of America.
He started as a sous chef for a little French inn in the Berkshires and quickly
replaced his alcoholic boss. When that place closed after the owner suffered
a stroke, he became the first chef of Blantyre, a Relais Chateau property in
the Berkshires. After two years at the summertime resort-he wintered as a
private Chef in the Caribbean and at top-level restaurants in Strasbourg,
France-he was itching for the big time. So Mark Sarazin, a celebrated butcher,
took the 24-year-old to lunch with Daniel Boulud, who hired him on the spot
as a sous chef at his new Plaza Athenee hotspot.
When Matthew got antsy again 18 months later, Daniel set him up as the
chef of Maurice in the Parker Meridien. But Maurice only lasted six months,
and a gig as Executive Chef at the reborn QV restaurant another six months.
So Matthew took the summer off to operate a catering service for
Tanglewood. He returned to Manhattan to work for magnate Brian McNally
(Odeon, Indochine). While overseeing the kitchen design of the soon to open
Royalton restaurant, Matthew stepped in to rescue McNally's newly opened
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�open Canal Bar. After the celebrity outscored the food on opening night,
McNally woke Matt with a panicked call. "It was a disaster," he cried. "Nobody
even mentioned the food!"
Matt put a new menu together, and Canal Bar reopened three days later. It
was slammed from the start. When McNally's next venue dulled the sheen on
Canal two years later, Matthew redid ManRay in Chelsea.
Celebrity came with a high cost, though. The work was all consuming, and it
was a way to hide from what Matt needed most: coming to terms with
himself. "I thought I was God's gift to the kitchen back then," he says. "I put
everything into my work and career so I didn't have to acknowledge or face
what I knew to be there."
Out and true
He'd long been attracted to men, but his only two one-night-stands-in high
school and after culinary school-left him so ashamed he couldn't do it again.
During his Tanglewood summer, he'd met Jen, a vivacious blonde Columbia
student who was a former high school track star. They ended up married,
with Matt "putting everything into making that work to avoid coming out." When
the marriage started to unravel, Jen urged him into therapy to save the
relationship. He was so bound up he came out to his therapist in a letter, but
he got it done. Jen went on to marry another Englishman, and Uncle Matt is a
favorite with her four kids.
The breakup cleared the way for a life. Ultimately. Matt took a job at La
Cremaeliere in Westchester, using the well-staffed, routine venue as the
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�foundation for a new, stable personal life. Being too shy for the bar scene
and wanting a younger guy-"I felt I'd totally missed the boat in that part of my
life"-he joined a 20-Something group at The Center. Then a youthful looking
34, he met a 24-year-old attorney, had a brief relationship, and then met with
frustration on the dating scene. He joined Front Runners in 1994 hoping for a
boyfriend, but discovered running and community instead.
Two friends had met partners through personal ads, so he plunked down
$250 on a New York classified. The most intriguing of the 25 letters with
photos he got back was from an opera singer named Keith. They rollerbladed in Central Park, then dined at Café Luxembourg, and then started
dating in earnest. Their age difference-Keith is six years younger-bothered
Matt until his therapist asked, "Why don't you just do what you want for a
change?"
He did. And he's pretty much been doing it ever since. He and Keith have
been together 15 years now, and have lived together since 2005. Typical of a
Matt endeavor, their relationship takes extra effort. When the job calls, Keith
has to fly. Last year, that meant nearly 11 months away from New York. Matt
flies out to meet him as much as possible-last year in Santa Fe, Los Angeles
and Chicago-and Keith bargains retreats when he has a few days clear (he's
building it into his contracts now). The two got to take an extended vacation
together this summer, at long last, heading through England and Italy for two
and a half weeks. Luckily, Keith just landed an annual contract with The
Metropolitan Opera that will keep him in New York fulltime starting next
September.
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�"I always said I'd never date another singer, because singers are crazy," says
Keith. "Lucky for me, Matt's good but he's not a pro. He's chef crazy, which is
just different enough. And he's so loving and loyal."
Their relationship has opened the door to dreams for both. With Matt's
support, Keith went from a day job doing admin for Travelers to a first-rate
tenor on the classical circuit. With his deepest needs met, Chef Matthew
progressed through a series of solid jobs-running La Cremalliere for six
years, Chez Louis in Rockefeller Center for two, Metro Diet for two-on the way
to his dream of his own bistro. "After all the ups and downs of hot
restaurants, I decided I need something more secure," he says. "Popularitydriven, homey cooking is more sustainable than critically acclaimed menus."
Café du Soleil opened in 2005 and instantly filled a need in the
neighborhood below Columbia. Although a pizza place across Broadway
didn't work out, Matt and business partner Alain Chevreux now own the
successful Chez Lucienne, on Harlem's hot new Restaurant Row at
125th and Lenox, next to Red Rooster and Sylvia's. Coming off a PR year
despite the recession, they're now heating up Soleil Caterers, which will
soon add FRNY weddings to its calendar of corporate and personal events.
Matt's place has become the Upper West Side celebration venue for Front
Runners. And, naturally, Soleil Caterers is the first call for official FRNY
events. No matter how busy Soleil gets, there's always room for the club.
Running for keeps
"I love Front Runners," says Matt. "I love the group and what we represent in
the gay community. When I put a Front Runner jersey on in the front pack, I'm
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�going to do the best I possibly can."
Before Sunday's example, Matt had given it his all in more than 50 NYRR
events, including the 2007 and 2009 NY Marathons. In 2007, he targeted 3:45
but went out much faster and maintained it, coming in at 3:32 even with a
bathroom break. In 2009, he stayed with the 8:00 pace group until a tight
hamstring slowed him up to 3:33. 2011 was to be his ticket to Boston.
"I could have trained for the marathon and tried to PR," he says. "But it would
just wear out the valve faster, and it's an open heart surgery. I don't go into the
victim mentality, I just think, 'Let me avoid the surgery as long as I can.'"
Whether there's another marathon (or three) in his future, Matt figures to keep
running in his life. He'll do Pride Run as a fun run, and join the club on
Saturdays in the park. Being outside with everything rolling in stride counts
for something. Don't look for the chef to be anything but lean, as he's
dedicated to core training, and he's as good on the rower and the tennis
court as he is on the roads.
"Marathon running makes me feel like I can get through anything," he says.
"Before my first one, I couldn't imagine doing something that taxing for that
long. Now I know I can just put my head down and get through tough stuff,
whether it's physical or mental or emotional."
Uh huh.
So much energy emanates from his 6' frame that I don't doubt him when he
says he wants to find another intense outlet. It could be a music business of
sorts. His mother sang professionally, and Matt studied guitar, oboe and
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�music in high school and for a year after in England. He leads a band of
talented musicians, Evil Prince Ludwig The Indestructible, through covers of
tougher Seventies to current pop rock. Anything but the usual cover band
stuff, the band shines on intricate harmonies. Whether the gig is at Cafe du
Soleil or The Bitter End, the audience is largely faithful family and friends out
to see people they like playing stuff pretty well.
"I miss music when I'm not playing it," Matt says. "But we don't play that often
and I never had the discipline to try to do it as a profession. I would like to
incorporate music into my catering. It might different music and food
packages, like a private dinner with a jazz trio. I'm just building a catering
website now, and I can see a food and music pairing section."
Bet on it. Matt doesn't dawdle on ideas, and he's run through risk a time or
two. Just because the next thing hasn't manifested doesn't mean it's not in
full motion.
"Doing what you like to do the way you like to do it, that's success to me,"
says Matt.
"That's what I strive for. It's not easy. I have to keep refining because life
intervenes. But I get to love all of my life today."
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January 3, 2012
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Loren Mooney
In each of the three triathlons she has competed in, Loren Mooney finished
about tenth from last after the swimming portion. "And that's not tenth from
last in my age group," she clarifies. "That's tenth from last in the whole event."
Is that rough on a former NCAA Division I All-American cross-country/track
athlete's ego? Hardly. In fact, Mooney is having the time of her life. "I've found
it kind of fun to start at such a basic level at something," she says. "As I was
learning to swim, every little milestone was like a victory ... I celebrated the
little things like a kid."
Having to actually learn a sport must be new territory for Mooney. After all,
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�running was something that she excelled at from the very beginning. Mooney
ran a 5:18 mile in seventh grade and was down to a 5:08 by her junior year of
high school. As a high school track star in the Birmingham suburbs, Mooney
was never beaten in the mile or the 1500-meter by someone from the state of
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championships with a PR time of 4:39. For those fast-twitch worshippers out
there (you know who you are), other PRs include a 2:08 in the 800-meter and
a 9:30 in the 3,000-meter. And this is just the short list that Mooney can rattle
off from memory. "I think I have all this stuff written down in an old running log
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Mooney clearly does not live in the past. There's far too much ground for her
to cover up ahead. In the 15 years since her college running career ended,
Mooney has succeeded in the world of journalism, become a star and a
leader within FRNY, forged a solid romantic relationship (with FRNY
women's VP Audra Farrell) and deepened her commitment to cycling. And,
yes, she continues to run pretty darn fast too.
Growing up in the Deep South, Mooney never quite related to the country club
coterie or cheerleader cliques, but she always felt at home on sports teams.
As a kid, she played soccer, basketball and, starting with the Junior Olympics
at age 9, ran track. "By junior high, at the ripe old age of 13, I was good
enough at running that I gave up other sports to focus exclusively on running,"
she remembers. A smart decision, indeed. Being the fastest female miler in
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�the state of Alabama drew the attention of the top running colleges, including
powerhouses Stanford and Cornell.
Something about Cornell just clicked for Mooney, though it took time for her to
acclimate—in the literal sense. "Turns out when the bank clock says 1
degree, you should be wearing more than cotton sweat pants and a cotton
bandanna on your head," she notes with trademark sarcasm. "I figured it out
over the years." For Mooney, enjoying team camaraderie was a key to her
sustained motivation and fulfillment in the sport—the element that truly
pushed her to succeed. In addition to consistently vaulting her college team
to the Ivy League championships, Mooney helped the Cornell cross-country
team place fourth nationwide in both her junior and senior year.
After college, Mooney stuck around Ithaca hoping to find her calling. To stay in
shape, she joined a fun local team called the High Noon Athletic Club that
consisted of Cornell professors, grad students and staff. The group
participated in a cross-country racing series that offered cases of beer to the
winning team. The High Nooners would save their loot and throw a party at
the end of the season.
During this time, Mooney had also begun to intern at Cornell's alumni
magazine. The field of journalism struck a chord, but she initially hesitated on
moving to Manhattan, the epicenter of the publishing world, thinking city life
was at odds with her love of the outdoors. (Ithaca is, after all, gorges.) But in
1996, Mooney took the plunge. "Turns out, all the jobs are here, and I kind of
like it after all," she says of New York. After working for Time magazine
covering the Atlantic Olympic Games, Mooney reported on motor sports for
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�Sports Illustrated and was the family and relationships editor of Reader's
Digest . An eclectic resume? "I have range," she notes dryly.
Over the last decade, Mooney has climbed the heights of the magazine world
and is now the editor-in-chief of Bicycling . "I became a cycling fan during the
years Greg LeMond was winning Tour de France," she says. "It always took a
back seat to running, but these days I ride more than I run." Speaking
glowingly about her job, she lists some of her upcoming projects, which
include a bike tour with readers through California wine country and a trip to
Swaziland to build bikes for home healthcare workers to aid in their delivery
of HIV drugs and the administration of medical care. And after interviewing
the medal-stripped Tour de France winner Floyd Landis for Bicycling
magazine, Mooney ghost wrote his story in a book entitled "Positively False,"
an experience she describes as both "fascinating" and "absorbing." By the
end of the project, she could accurately predict what he had said in given
circumstances.
Despite the demands of her current work schedule, Mooney still finds time
for FRNY. A member of the club since 2002, she initially showed up to
counter the deleterious effects of sedentary corporate life by running with a
social group. Back then, Mooney mostly ran with the men of the club, who
were more often at her pace, but she has since formed a firmer connection to
the women of FRNY. "I've started running more slowly," she says, "and many
of the women have started running faster—and there are more women
overall, which is fantastic, so I now run with the women a lot more."
As a result of the burgeoning collegiality, Mooney even started racing on
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�occasion to aid Front Runner women in the NYRR club points competition.
"As more women started coming around and getting excited about running
faster, I started pinning on a number here and there," she says. Despite her
times being off-prime, Mooney has still managed to score first for the women
in almost every event she has entered, often running sub-6:30 pace. Just last
month, she bonded with 11 other FRNY women in the 24-hour Reach the
Beach relay in New Hampshire, helping them claim third place in their
division.
But Mooney insists she will never return again to serious racing. Her work
and cycling schedules prohibit the requisite training. "I don't think I'd be able
to ever approach running times I ran 10-15 years ago again," she says. "And
the idea of working my ass off so that I can approach my early junior high
times doesn't hold much appeal. Been there, done that."
Mooney definitely has a knack for keeping her life in balance and her
priorities in perspective—and running remains very much in the forefront.
"Running is in my DNA," she says. "I'll hopefully keep doing it until I can't
stand anymore. At which point, I'll just ride."
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I've read in the last year. I've had ADD lately when it comes to books."
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Martin McElhiney
In 1972, Mark Spitz wowed America by returning home form Munich with
seven gold medals. Young women (and men!) everywhere wanted to run
their fingers through his wild mane of black curls. Front Runner Marty
McElhiney decided to one-up the Olympic legend, lugging home an
unimaginable eight golds from the Chicago Gay Games this July. Needless
to say, scores of Front Runners dream of combing their fingers through
McElhiney's equally Samson-like locks. (Sorry, you'll have to get past
boyfriend Adam first.)
For the record, McElhiney stood atop the podium for his individual
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sprints and in four relay events at the Chicago Games. Not to engender
medal envy, but McElhiney captured four in individual events in Sydney (two
golds, two silvers) in 2002 and anoth
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er four in Amsterdam (two golds, two silvers) in 1998. He even picked up a
nemesis along the way -- the surest sign that you've truly arrived. McElhiney
describes 800-meter foe Eric Saborin as Salieri to his Mozart (okay, I'm
editorializing), but the French Canadian, who beat McElhiney in the 800meter in the 1994 New York Games, has watched McElhiney sprint past him
for gold in Amsterdam, Sydney, and now Chicago. "Not this time," Saborin
sorely swears before each defeat. Alas, their next face-off will have to wait
eight years as they will be in different age groups at the next Gay Games.
McElhiney's fleet-footed future was foreshadowed early when he shocked
classmates at an elementary school field day by taking home the blue ribbon
in the dash. "No one could believe that 'Marty Mouse' won the race,"
McElhiney says, explaining in jest that he was "three feet tall and weighed
about 20 ounces." Clearly speed was in his genes. He found his calling as a
gay runner many years later when he met former FRNY presidents Patrick
Barker and Gary Apruzzese at one of Bob Glover's speed workouts in 1987.
They inspired McElhiney, who was only just poking his head out of the closet
at this time, to run in his first Pride Run. McElhiney recalls crouching in
amongst the tank-topped masses, hoping not to be seen at the start of that
race, only to hear everyone shouting his name in encouragement midway
though the five-miler. "I felt like the jig was up," says McElhiney, "that the
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�whole world knew I was gay -- and there were numerous cameras
documenting this fact." In a now-humorous coincidence of pacing, McElhiney
had been striding alongside former FRNY president Marty King during that
race.
McElhiney may have entered the club in timid fashion, but he became a
regular quickly and hsa remained a dedicated member for the last 19 years.
A fixture at speed training sessions, McElhiney helped organize the first
FRNY indoor track meet and served as race director for most of the eight
meets. His athleticism and service to the club were recognized at the
inaugural club awards night in 2003 where McElhiney received the evening's
top honor: Front Runner of the Year.
So how does McElhiney do it year after year after year? "Having an event in
the future is what really keeps me going," he says. "I always like to have
some race on the horizon." For September, that race is the Reach the Beach
relay from the mountains to the shoreline of New Hampshire. He is also
considering racing down museum mile in the Fifth Avenue Mile, as well as
tearing up the hills of Van Cortlandt Park in some quality cross-country races
this fall. Admittedly "all over the map," McElhiney also has his sights set on a
marathon sometime soon. (His last was more than six years ago.)
He'll have to get that distance running out of his system well before the 2010
Cologne Games. "I will definitely be there to defend my medals!" he says.
Note to the Gay Games organizers: add a sprinting event or two so that
McElhiney can best his 2006 medal count.
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Fashion Faux Pas: Wearing a unitard as part of a "dream team" relay in the
1994 New York Gay Games
The Digs: Recently moved to the Upper West Side after 17 years on the
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Les James
Les James is a gal who trusts her instincts. After high school, she left her
home in Louisville, Kentucky for Smith College in Massachusetts without
once visiting the campus. Looking at the marketing brochures alone instilled
James with the unshakable belief it was the place for her. "I knew instantly,"
she says. "It wasn't until my Mom and I drove up the weekend before classes
started that I realized it was the lesbian capital of the world!" (Good instincts,
indeed.)
James felt that same immediate connection when she bumped into a few
rowdy Front Runner women at Cubby Hole late last December.
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not looking for a life-altering event on that fateful evening. But Mickey
Comerford and Sarah Whitcomb proved as strong an advertising tool as
those Smith brochures. "I had no idea there was a running club for GLBT
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anticipation, James made her Front Runner debut on January 5th of this year.
True to form, James followed her gut and quickly made a name for herself
within the organization. This spring she dug her FRNY heels in deeper by
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Athletics and activism have been continuous threads in James's life.
Growing up she played basketball and field hockey but was also active in the
GLBT scene at Atherton High School. "I started a Gay-Straight Alliance at my
high school," she says, "which aimed to give GLBT students and their allies
a safe space to congregate and build community." James emphasizes that
the outreach at Saturday morning bagels beats those high school showings
of "The Times of Harvey Milk." Needless to say, the seeds of leadership were
germinating in James from very early on.
For the first time in her life, James did not pursue organized sports her
freshman year at Smith. She was soon sucked into the bleak undertow of the
Northampton winter. Running buoyed her. "It seemed like a good way to get
the endorphins pumping and overcome the winter blues," she says. A senior
from her hall helped James, who was still unaccustomed to running,
improve her conditioning. In her initial jogs, James could not even finish a
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�mile without stopping. Her patience and perseverance paid off, and she soon
grew to love the sport. Two years later, while studying abroad in Paris, James
would successfully complete the Paris marathon. "The images I have of
Paris while running that race are something that I will never forget," she
adds.
Despite such running accomplishments, James, like many women and men
before her, felt very intimidated and vulnerable walking down those long
flights of stairs to Rutgers on her first Saturday. "I have always felt a little
insecure about my running abilities," admits James, "and felt like I was going
to embarrass myself in front of all these people." The warmth and collegiality
of the club immediately dispelled her fears, and she now considers herself
part of a real community. "When I moved to New York City a year ago, I could
count on one hand the number of gay friends I had," she says. "Now I have a
great group of people that I see at least once a week."
Feeling such gratitude can inspire a person to give back. James volunteered
to be co-director of the Charitable Foundation because she wanted to expand
her role in Front Runners and because she sensed that with its current pool
of talented and enthusiastic members, the club could do truly great things
within the GLBT community in New York.
The Charitable Foundation was founded by FRNY during quite a different
period in club, and in gay, history. The foundation began as an ad hoc
response to the acute AIDS crisis that plagued the club during its first ten
years, with members providing vital assistance to their teammates who were
dying of AIDS. In the early 90s, Front Runners galvanized to help Guy
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memory FRNY gives its annual volunteer award), in his battle with the
disease. "Guy was in the hospital a fairly long time and many members
would visit Guy on a daily basis," remembers Gary Apruzzese, a former FRNY
president and a founding member of the Charitable Foundation. "They would
bring race numbers, T-shirts and medals -- the wall in his room was
covered."
Seeing more and more friends, family and teammates suffer alone and
without financial resources, Front Runners decided to formalize its response.
Greg Valerie, club president in 1992 when the foundation formed, suggested
modeling the foundation after one started by Boston Front Runners, which
supported AIDS organizations through funds generated by its Yuletide Stride.
FRNY extended the mission of its foundation to include other life-threatening
diseases, such as breast cancer, but kept the tradition of giving holiday gift
baskets to organizations in need.
Many newer club members are blessed never to have witnessed the ravages
of AIDS first hand. But with that great privilege comes an equally great
responsibility to those who were not as lucky. Knowing this, James wants to
honor the original mission of the Charitable Foundation while also extending
its reach within today's gay community--not just during the holiday season
but throughout the year. "I would like to see the Charitable Foundation
participate in youth mentoring and outreach programs, particularly for GLBTQ
youth," she says, "and to give back to the NYC parks we frequent and also
partner with organizations like God's Love We Deliver."
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�Actively involved with JPMorgan's Global Pride Networking group, James
definitely has the analytical and organizational skills to increase the visibility
and purpose of the Charitable Foundation. Front Runners has evolved and
thrived over the last three decades through the energy and talents of new
members like James. So trust those instincts, Les!
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Desert Island iTunes? Tiger Lou: "The Loyal," The Best of Everything But The
Girl, and the Philadelphia Soundtrack.
A Scoop of You? Les would be the flavor Mint Chocolate Chip ("traditional but
not boring -- a refreshing zesty taste")
Racing Goals? Breaking 34 minutes in a 4-miler and finishing the Queens or
Staten Island Half Marathon in under 1 hour 57 minutes
What's She Reading? Currently enjoying David Sedaris's "When You Are
Engulfed in Flames" and Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
(incidentally, many FRs have cited this as a good read)
Surprising Fact?"I used to be pretty shy and quiet. Well, that and I love to
shop."
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Mark Mascolini
Watching him sprint shirtless around the East Sixth Street track on any given
Tuesday, one could easily mistake Mark Mascolini for a footloose runner in
his late thirties. (One with abs that a gymmed-out twenty-year old would die
for.) For those Front Runners with briefer club histories, Mark might even
appear to be a new face on the scene. In truth, Mark was one of the select
few who was at both the first Pride Run in 1982 (where he volunteered) as
well as at the 25th anniversary race last month (37:26, to place 5th in his age
group.)
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�mid-1970s when he lived in a $200-a-month studio on the Upper West Side,
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soon escorted him out into the light of day. A benefactor of the Frank Shorter
running craze of the 80s, Mark soon jettisoned his three-pack-a-day cigarette
habit for a pair of cadet-blue running shorts and a Front Runners New York
membership. He claims the club transformed his life for the first time (yes,
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�George Washington Bridge, fellow member Bill McGlinn took a shine to him.
The romance has been astride for almost as long as our Pride Run; they will
be partners (or lovers as Mark prefers to call it) for 24 years this August. So in
love were they that they crossed the finish line of the 1984 race together. "Bill
was always faster than I but never trained as hard," says Mark. "I wanted to
sprint at the end; he didn't -- Jeez." They stayed stride by stride in other facets
of life, and when business called Bill to Pennsylvania in 1989, Mark packed
up and put his FRNY singlet in storage.
At least for a while. Running the Pride Race again in 2003 whetted Mark's
competitive juices, and it wasn't long before he rediscovered the club and
FRNY transformed his life for the second time (as promised above.) "When I
rejoined the club three years ago," he says, "the beautiful boys and girls now
populating the membership rolls -- and even the old coots my own age -made me feel young all over again." Mark became a part-time New Yorker
with an apartment sublet so that he could train with the team twice a week.
As a freelance writer who has covered AIDS since the epidemic was as yet
unnamed, Mark has the luxury of working where the roads -- or his workouts - take him.
His determination and spirit quickly paid off at the races. In the fall of 2005,
he ran Grete's Great Gallop Half Marathon at 7:16 pace to qualify -- strictly on
time -- for the NYC marathon, which he hopes to run in fall 2006. His
enthusiasm has proven osmotic as he has a fully committed team of FRNY
"Veterans" competing fiercely in the points races this year. The club's Vets
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�are perched for a top five finish as a result of efforts by Mark, Steve Vizena,
Bob Dally, Dave Pitches, Scott Emmons, and others.
And what keeps Mark going? His lover Bill imbues all his aspirations and life
goals, but Front Runners helps as well. Running a stretch of the Blue Line
Run this past October with club president Kelsey Louie and Peter McGrane
springs to Mark's mind as a recent highlight of note -- and, of course, there's
those pesky 50+ lads from Taconic Track Club and Brooklyn Running Club to
keep one spry. And, of course, straining to hold back the hand of that darned
race clock.
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Lenore Beaky
"You walked in the door and right there was the bar with all the butches-and I
mean BUTCHES-large, leathered, staring, scanning everyone who came
through the door." The details unfold like the petals of a flower. "The walls
were black ... the place was really scary." No, Lenore Beaky is not describing
her first Front Runner happy hour. It was the early 1980s, the bar was The
Duchess, and Beaky was poking her nose into Manhattan gay life as gingerly
as the proverbial toddler might make acquaintance with the cookie jar.
Beaky remembers Gay New York before all the fabulousness and attitude, a
time when the love that dare not speak its name actually kept its trap shut.
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�There were limited options for a young gay woman-the Center was not yet
established so there were only the few errant meetings, a smattering of
programs for lesbians and, of course, a couple of dyke bars. Then Beaky
came across a feature in a Moonie paper spotlighting Front Runner Sue
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rightly herstory. One of the longest-standing members of the club, Beaky has
seen and done it all, holding posts as racing captain, newsletter editor,
president and perennial points award winner. Her perspective is long and
lush, and it's tinged with love, loss and (oh, yes) lots of running.
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After years of treading the path up and down Riverside Drive all by her
lonesome, Beaky welcomed the opportunity for team support and
camaraderie. She debuted at Front Runners in the spring of 1983 but
became a fixture the following fall when training for her second marathon. "It
was during this time that I think FRNY changed my life," says Beaky. "FRNY
became a whole social center, running center, even political center for me."
On her first Wednesday night run that fall, Beaky strode alongside Mickey
Zacuto, a woman with whom she would grow
to have a very special friendship and romantic relationship. "We discussed
the Russian Revolution, socialism, and the Soviet Union-which won't
surprise people who knew us!" jokes Beaky. (Beaky still nourishes her
activist bent as Vice Chair of the CUNY University Faculty Senate, the
institution at which she's an English professor, and hopes to become more
active in organizations such as Amnesty International when she retires in
three years.)
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�Back in those days, the club didn't just run together; they were part of each
other's lives. "We had women's brunches, Sunday runs for men and women,
Thanksgiving dinners-I cooked the turkey one year. We would do the
Prospect Park Turkey Trot and then eat." Beaky can still spin off the names of
the core group of women from the early 80s-Zacuto, Judy Spina, Connie
Knapp and Anne Corey, Mary Tomich, Kathy Kuzmin, Debbie White, Sue
Foster, Leonora Lucon and Donna Roberts, who recently passed away.
While Beaky would surely resist any den-mother designations, she can't
deny that she quickly assumed her rightful place amid the club's nucleus of
power. After a two-year stint as newsletter editor and some time as directorat-large on the club board, Beaky decided to make a go as Front Runner
president. "Frankly, I ran to see if I could do it," she says. "So one of the
things I learned was that I could." Beaky also discovered her own leadership
style during her 1989-1990 reign as the club's first (and still one of only two)
female president. Coming on the heels of Jim Skofield's presidency, she
worried that she might not have the chutzpah and showmanship to dazzle the
club every Saturday morning. "He was such a queen!" she exclaims, with
nothing but wistful admiration and the utmost respect. When pressed to
define the qualities of queenliness, Beaky offers explanation by example.
Patrick Barker? HRH all the way. Michael Orzechowski? Trusted commoner.
Kelsey Louie? We think he prefers princess, but, yes, there was a coronation.
Mikey Benjamin? Everyday people.
Lacking the punch of flamboyance, Beaky defined herself through
competence and tenacity. Inheriting somewhat of a fiscal disaster at the start
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�of her first administration, Beaky had to make the club solvent again, an
accomplishment of which she is particularly proud. She rallied the
membership to contribute special donations to make ends meet and then
instituted business meetings once a month to avert future financial mishaps.
During her time at the helm, Beaky also had to scramble to find a new
rendezvous point for the club's Saturday morning runs. Through a tip from
some members who were congregants at Rutgers Presbyterian, Beaky
secured the home of almost two decades worth of FRNY meetings. The club
owes the current breakfast system-what Beaky coined "The Bagel Brigade"to her as well. And she is still a beacon of gravitas for young Front Runners
who invariably hang on her every word when she speaks each year at the
club's Awards Night.
One of the burdens of longevity is carrying the weight of memory along with
the knowledge that no matter how wonderful things become, they will never
be what they once were. And as Pride Month draws ever nearer, Beaky
remembers somewhat mistily the early Pride Runs of the mid-to-late 80s.
"The race then had maybe a field of only 500 but it was OURS," says Beaky.
"And everyone, straight and gay, remembered those awards ceremonies."
Before snowballing into both a NYC marathon qualifying event and all-around
racing extravaganza, the Pride Run wore the garb of a small town foot race,
with everyone informally gathering under a shady crest of trees in Central
Park afterwards for a generous awards ceremony and sock raffle. With
increased popularity and more general public acceptance, the race lost
much of its intimacy. But Beaky still runs every year. "I wouldn't miss it unless
I were injured or unavoidably away," she adds.
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�Completing more than 150 NYRR races since 1987 (as far back as the
database stretches), Beaky has never wavered in her commitment to the
sport. "My identity as a runner is still very important to me," she says, "and I try
to race all the points races for the club." Time and
its other thieving cohorts have stolen a bit from Beaky's racing performances,
but they've only burnished her warrior spirit.
"Getting older ... losing mobility ... Alzheimer's ... what a downer, eh?" she
tosses out these inevitable and unsavory facts of life as her greatest fears
but then breezily returns to the more pressing matter of cataloging
memories. "I don't think I mentioned how I led the field for one and a half laps
of the 800 meters at the New York Gay Games in 1994," she begins. "I
finished right in the middle of the pack, exactly where I would have if I'd run
the race the way it's supposed to be run. However, I had the experience of
leading a race-priceless."
Yes, indeed. Thanks for poking your nose into the cookie jar, Lenore.
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Provenance? Bethlehem, PA. (Moved to Brooklyn at age 14.)
Favorite Novel? Bleak House by Dickens
Gossip of Yore? "Mickey Zacuto had an incredible reputation for being a
Lesbian Lothario-she went through all the FRNY women before moving on to
others."
Proudest PRs? 3:58 in the 1988 NYC marathon; 1:44 in the 1986 Brooklyn
Half; 22:33 in the 5K at the 1987 FRNY Track Meet; 6:55 in the mile.
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campaigning against laws prohibiting women from going topless ran the
race topless. "She was pretty hot, as I recall."
2008 Presidential candidate? John Edwards
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Lee Abbey
Keeping tabs on one of the largest gay sports teams in the world takes a lot
of time and more than a little bit of patience. But Lee Abbey sloughs off his
role as keeper of all FRNY directory and member data as a small price to pay
for a seat in a club that has proven to be a family to him. "I enjoy working with
computers and this was something I could do for the club," he says,
modestly. "One person doing this job, with no one having to worry about
transitions each year or the information getting out of date was, I thought,
important." This spring, Abbey will, in fact, transition out of this role as
women's vice president Katrina Amaro moves to a more automated Excel-
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�based membership tracking protocol. Abbey, whose prodigious paper history
of Front Runners is trumped only by his long and colored twenty-five-year-
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who populate Rutgers every Saturday morning. Now, which is T.J. Storch, Ken
Sherada, Donn Peppler, Lee Ab b ey? (All members could use a reminder to
introduce themselves to folks they do not already know.) A regular at bagels,
Abbey wears the adorably affable look of a favorite uncle, often donning
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the record, he looks nothing like ex-Pride run director and former member of
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Active with Front Runners since January 1980, Abbey represents a sort of
living history of a club that proves the more things change, the more they stay
the same. In the last quarter-plus century, the club has expanded and
contracted, membership has blossomed and denuded and Front Runners at
large has reinvented itself only to relive drama after drama with slightly
altered cast of characters.
"The dynamics of large groups are difficult to deal with and often seem
cliquish," says Abbey. "Also, meeting the needs of fast runners and racers
and the slow runners - these are issues that are never resolved and
continually resurface." And while Abbey remains purse-lipped about any
gossip that lines the annals of FRNY history, rest assured that trysts,
dalliances and all things untoward have also been on spin cycle since the
club's inception.
A member of Gay People in Health Care looking for more gay friends, the still
somewhat closeted Abbey came to his first club run after seeing a Front
Runners ad in Christopher Street magazine. With some apprehension,
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�Abbey met up with the group, which then had about a dozen members at any
given run, outside Tavern on the Green. Abbey recalls that club founder and
then president Malcolm Robinson was vocal about the group's presence and
visibility, something that discomfited Abbey at that point in his coming out.
In those halcyon days, Front Runners could afford to be more impromptu
organizationally. Members simply met at each other's apartments after the
runs that sometimes went through Central Park but often meandered
through more adventuresome locales like Coney Island, Prospect Park and
Greenwich Village. "It did get kind of competitive," Abbey says regarding who
had hosting privileges, "so we finally started to go to various diners." One
popular post-run eating spot at that time was Spike Bar. An anomaly, to be
sure, the group vexed the waitress, who could often be heard saying: "Gee,
all you guys want is water. Maybe I should just bring over a hose."
A self-proclaimed slow runner Abbey looked to runners in the club who were
just a little bit faster than he was to find motivation. Guy Zelenak, who is now
deceased but had been one of Abbey's closest friends in the club, conducted
a series of running classes that greatly helped Abbey's running form and
speed. Although Abbey found racing "exhilarating," he, like many racers,
became plagued by injuries, particularly in recent years. Abbey hopes to
begin race walking in the not too distant future.
An integral club member from the get-go, Abbey eventually served on the
FRNY board-as director-at-large from 1989-1991 (first under president
Lenore Beaky and then Greg Valerie) and also as secretary after Zelenak
became ill in 1991-1992. "Board meetings were often heated in those days,"
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�Abbey says. "They were very long and dealt with all manner of things."
Popular topics included fundraising ideas for the depleted treasury, the team
uniforms and methods of making new members feel welcomed. (Board
members from throughout the years, please take a moment for a collective
chuckle at the timelessness of these burning issues.)
In 1988, then-president Richard Walker asked Abbey to take on a role he
would carry with him for the greater part of the next two decades:
membership. At that point in time, Abbey mailed out the membership forms
with labels that he got from Zelenak, who held the master membership list.
"Each month would be a big production since we mailed up to 500 pieces,"
he says. After Zelenak fell ill, Abbey took control of the master list because he
had one of the only Apple IIs in the club and could, therefore, read Zelenak's
disks. Every year Abbey would also take on the Herculean task of mailing
everyone who had done the Pride Run in recent years and updating his
databases after mail got returned. The task was rife with labeling, stuffing
and data control minutiae. "People tried to help but sometimes shortcircuiting the process gave unexpected results-the ones I was trying to
avoid," he says. "I got a reputation for being more of a control queen than I
really am." Pause. "I must admit that I do like to have things under control."
Beaky light-heartedly describes Abbey as "very precise." At times it could be
unnerving to hear him dissect a recent run segment by segment to prove the
distance was, in fact, 4.9 miles and not 5 miles. But Beaky relied on Abbey's
eye for detail and his razor-sharp memory during her presidency. "He knew
everybody in the club," she says. "Whenever I had a question about who was
this person, who was that person-Lee always knew."
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�Abbey believes that the continuity, the data and the records are far more than
a historical footprint of the club-they are its passageway to the future. And, in
a way, so is Abbey. Given the increasing burden of personal and
professional responsibilities, Abbey understands that a huge weight will be
lifted with the more automated membership controls in place. But that is of
little import when it comes to the bigger picture. "Front Runners is a
constant," he says, "a center to which I can return and feel at home."
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Front Runner Lore? The longest board meetings were Steve Gerben, the
shortest Jim Skofield
Movie Pics? Curse of the Golden Flower (a visual feast, dysfunctional family,
palace intrigue) and before that The Queen (an interesting look at the British
Royal family and their lives)
Provenance? Born in the Bronx, raised in Mount Vernon
Profession? Rheumatologist
Dream Job ? Maybe a musician. Or a foreign language teacher - French or
Chinese
Front Runner Memory? All the races, the parties-the Runettes, the Shangrilezzies (both FRNY drag groups, gay male and lesbian, respectively)-
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Miles Harter
When exhausted Front Runners reach the club's water station at Mile 24 of
Sunday's marathon for some much needed hydration and succor, they will be
in good hands: those of Miles Harter. For the second year in a row, Miles,
with Marty Tracy, is heading up the station, and making sure all their
apprentices mix Gatorade powder and water in a way to make Mary
Wittenberg proud.
Many of those harried runners also benefited from Miles' generosity during
training season this fall, when he hosted bag drops several times at his
apartment, conveniently located across the street from Rutgers.
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�apartment, conveniently located across the street from Rutgers.
His cool under fire is the result of a long career in securities law that has
seen him prosecute miscreants and advise regulators in many other
countries, and his closeness to his ex-wife and two daughters nearly 20
years after coming out is a testament to his kindness and willingness to put
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"The kids are the most important part of my life still," said 54-year-old Miles.
And he apparently passed on the altruism gene - his elder daughter is now
on a Peace Corps assignment.
He is also the type who sees his commitments through. While he came out
in 1992, at age 36, he waited until his younger daughter started college
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�before fulfilling his long term dream of moving in New York, a dream that was
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nurtured by teenage years spent reading J.D. Salinger books. Miles' career
included a 16-year stint at NASD, the self-governing body of Nasdaq dealers,
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prosecuting miscreants, and time at the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC).
His upbringing in Cleveland, as an evangelical Christian, and the time he
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needed to make peace with being gay led Miles to volunteer to give
speeches for Marriage Equality New York about marriage as a civil right at
church groups, schools, or any place that will have him and help kids
understand there is nothing wrong with being gay.
"I prayed every night from about high school on for God to make me straight, "
Miles said, noting that his path to self acceptance started when he read
Christian journals that showed there are other ways to interpret Scripture. "I
started feeling good about myself and that I wasn't going to go to hell." (He
points out he no longer believes hell exists.)
"We just need to educate," he said about the plague of bullying against gay
kids.
Miles remains dedicated to his faith and considers his ex-wife one of his
best friends. He is a vegan but also goes easy on proselytizing on that front.
Moving to New York in 2008 was one way for the former high school musical
performer ("Music Man") to indulge more often in one of his greatest
passions: the theater. In fact, he is also known in some circles as a Glee
addict.
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�"It makes me yearn for the past when we were so cheerful and so optimistic
about everything," he said of the popular TV program.
Underneath that exterior of a generous, gentle theater-loving man, lives a
fierce competitor. Miles has been sidelined by injuries from hardcore
training. But he still has his eye on what is for him the ultimate running prize a sub 3-hour marathon.
Miles has run sub-40-minute 10ks, and ran the Marine Corps Marathon in
2007 in 3:21 without pulling out all the training stops. If he can lead FRNY in
easing the thirst of 45,000 runners, there is little doubt he'll reach his goal if
injuries stay out of his way.
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Mike Terry
Dawn in the financial district: the grid has long vanished, west is mostly east
and the traders are still dozing on their commuter trains. Without the Wall
Street bustle, the zigzagging mews and alleys take on a dark, Gotham City
cast; it's hard to imagine anyone living here. And then Mike Terry emerges
from the lobby of his high-rise for his morning run, and a few switches get
thrown.
"I moved here two weeks after I graduated from college in 2007," the 24-yearold Terry says. "In some ways it's still like a dorm; no one has kids, not many
people are over 30." A greater continuity was also at play, that of Terry's
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�immersive personality. He doesn't just move to New York immediately after
college, he moves to one of its most in-your-face neighborhoods; when he
prepares for marathons, he does 23-mile training runs; when he ran Reach
the Beach a couple of weeks ago, he ran with the ultra team. And for good
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the Greek (he was a classics major at Bowdin, in Maine). "I'm a plunger," he
says.
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That intensity might seem at odds with Terry's boyish demeanor, his blondand-blue features tied up in a Midwestern bale of aw-shucks. Yet there are
also times when his head tilts, his eyebrows arch and the words roll off his
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lips with a subtle slice, and you know that his Midwest was a suburb of
Chicago. His hard underbelly has served him well as he has forged his gay
and running identities in New York.
"When I got here, I didn't really know anybody," he says. "There was a group
from college that I would hang out with, the kind of guys who went out every
night and got up for work the next day. I tried it for a week or two, but I knew it
wasn't for me."
Terry's next attempt at integration was Front Runners. He started going to the
Saturday fun runs in July 2007 just as the club was in the midst of its own
"post-" moment: that is, when the groundbreaking men's teams of 2003-6
suddenly turned around to find younger runners nipping at their heels, much
as Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi must have looked across the net one
day and seen Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. In Front Runners the "new
laces" have included Terry, I.J. Frame, Brad Gayman, Ryan Quinn, John
MacConnell, Derek Petti, Josh Korth and the architect of the youth movement,
Dave Swinarski.
"A friend of mine knew Dave and said he was going to give him my e-mail
address," Terry recalls. "Five minutes later I got an e-mail from Dave inviting
me to the club. He found me the first day and ran the loop with me."
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�Though Terry swam in high school and rowed in college, he says he was at
best a "recreational" runner when he joined FRNY. His frame suggests as
much: broad shoulders, muscled torso, shortish legs. "A funny shape," he
says. Yet he claims running was a better a fit. "Now no one would look at me
and blow me off because I was 5-8 and not 6-2." In those heady first months
with Front Runners, he raced at short and long distances, and also "fell in"
with the long-run group as he prepared for the Philadelphia Marathon in
November 2007, a race he smoked at 3:08, qualifying for Boston in his first
try.
"Qualifying for Boston I felt I could really call myself a marathoner," he says. "I
felt it validated my place on the team. I realized that distance was my thing."
Terry became a captain of the 2008 spring-marathon long runs, one of which
included, for him and fellow Front Runner Dave Lin, a loop of Central Park
and then an out-and-back to the George Washington Bridge. Though he
recalls Boston that year being hot and sunny and hard, he still pulled in a
3:10. A return to his hometown that fall for the Chicago Marathon brought him
a PR (3:06), but an even more significant event might have been when about
15 Front Runners descended upon his parents' Evanston home for a pasta
dinner. "That dinner was my most memorable moment of the weekend,"
Dave Lin says. "Mikey just knew that being around good friends was the best
way to prepare for a big race."
Terry's parents were supportive when he came out to them after his
sophomore year of college, but the discussion was like an extended dance
mix. "I grew up in a pretty liberal area," he says, "but my parents didn't have
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�any gay friends, so it was hard, at first, especially for my mom, to imagine a
happy, successful life for me." His younger brother, he says, was shocked to
hear the news. "He was a real jock, very popular, and in that culture it was
'gay' this and 'fag' that. But he called me recently to ask if he could interview
me for a paper on minorities for his psych class. So that said to me that not
only did he accept me, but also that he wasn't ashamed to share the fact that
I was gay."
Not long after Chicago, Terry himself began to question his own career and
social paths. His first New York romance had been over for almost a year,
and there were long gaps in the night that running and his job for a humanresources consulting company weren't filling. So he dived in again, this time
to an 18-hour-a-week course at the French Culinary Institute. "I could always
follow a recipe, but I didn't have enough knowledge to be creative, to whip up
something with whatever was in the fridge," he says. The class coincided
with his training for his second Boston Marathon last spring. The race was
cake: a PR at 3:05; but by the end of the cooking course, he found himself
with his first serious injury, a case of plantar fasciitis caused by being on his
feet in the kitchen for six hours straight. But the course was worth the pain.
Now he can make "a fabulous apple tart," and know when he's eating
something how much better it would taste with "another egg, double the salt,
a little cumin."
The brief break ("maybe two weeks") he took from running after the injury was
a kind of reality check. When he returned, he still had big running goals: that
RTB ultra, and in November, his first NYC marathon. He's thinking about a
triathlon. But he says he also knows that, as competitive as he can be,
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�maybe his main goal should be to focus on the unfettered enjoyment he gets
from running, to keep it fun. To that end he and his boyfriend John
MacConnell have gone on a few destination runs: one of them recently
included a few miles up the Hudson, then a break for some kayaking, then
back down again.
And then there's that morning run, during which, if he times it right, he can
catch the sun rising over the Manhattan Bridge. During his post-run stretch
on the rooftop solarium of his building, he has almost all of Manhattan in his
view, including the World Trade Center site, which is just a racing flat's toss
away. "So much is being rebuilt there," he says. "I was in high school when
9/11 happened, and so not affected personally, but I know that that pit in the
ground has shaped so much of the world that we've lived in for the last eight
years. It's amazing to think that the epicenter of all that is four blocks away."
It's a different kind of intensity, but it's immersion just the same.
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Zodiac sign: Aries (that explains all the charging ahead).
No. 1 song on the day he wasborn (4/14/85): "We Are the World," USA for
Africa.
First marathon: The First Marathon, as in the one from Marathon, Greece, into
Athens. Terry ran it during a semester abroad, and says it was "not as
romantic as people make it out to be. You run on a lot of highways." Still,
when he crossed the finish line in Olympic Stadium in Athens, he started
bawling. He ran 3:38, faring better than the first guy who ran that course, who
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Guilty pleasure: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. "It's the only thing that tasted
good after all that Gu and Gatorade during Reach the Beach."
If he had $150,000 to burn, he'd buy: A Mazerati. "I was a big car guy in high
school," he says. "My old bedroom in Evanston is still lined with rows and
rows of car magazines." (In his current bedroom, he tapes his racing bibs on
the wall above his headboard.)
Queer (sports) theory: "Running and rowing are good fits for gay men,
because they don't require a ton of coordination. As long as you've got some
legs under you. I mean, they're not ball sports. My first boyfriend was on my
rowing team. We were in the same boat."
On being in the same boat with your first boyfriend: "He was in the front, and I
was in the back."
Number of runners he has dated: Two.
On dating runners: "It's better if they run at a different pace from you." (Each of
his runner boyfriends has been faster.) "It gives you some distance in Front
Runners. When we do run together, it can feel like a pity run."
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Kerstin Marx
Kerstin Marx can indirectly trace her love of running to the U.S. television
show "Fame."
As a youngster in her native Germany, she was an avid watcher of the
performing arts school drama, and like many Amerophile ex-pats, Kerstin
was first drawn to the charms of the U.S. through its pop culture. When at the
age of 17, she spent a year of high school in New Jersey as an exchange
student, the deal was sealed, and she dreamt of moving to America. "I lost
my heart somehow," Kerstin, 34, said of her adopted country, which gave her
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�a green card in 2007.
Her stint at a high school in Basking Ridge didn't just make her dream of
America-it also turned her on to running. "Running was a real sport there,"
she said. And back then, as it is now, it was a central component of her
social life. "I met friends through running even in high school."
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In 1999, Kerstin made it back to the United States, for an internship in New
York, while studying Latin American cultural studies at a university in Berlin.
During that stint, Kerstin discovered Front Runners New York at a sports fair,
and ran her inaugural race under the FRNY banner at the Lesbian and Gay
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States and worked for a while helping companies from Georgia sell products
into Europe.But she felt her degree offered little chance of returning to the
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U.S. permanently, so she began applying to graduate schools, but only
wanted to live in New York, and turned down a scholarship to study in
Virginia. She was luckily accepted into the MBA program at New York
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At business school, Kerstin all but stopped running. But once she was done
and got her new career underway-she currently works as an on-line
marketing manager for the Financial Times newspaper-she could focus
more on racing. And she has. Since graduating two and a half years ago, she
has run 38 New York Road Runners races, and regularly lands among the
top female Front Runners. The club has recognized Kerstin's exceptional
running, awarding her its 2007 award for female distance runner of the year.
Kerstin has become a fixture at FRNY's speed training sessions, and her
diligence has paid off. In her first ever marathon in 2007, she qualified for the
Boston Marathon with two seconds to spare, finishing the New York City
Marathon in 3:39:58. She shaved almost five more minutes off her time in
2008, again in New York. In both years Kerstin was the first female to cross
the line for Front Runners New York.
Kerstin is hooked on marathons and focuses on long distance running now.
"My strength is endurance," she said, though she is no slouch in the shorter
distances.
Like many members whose performance has surged in recent years, she
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�credits FRNY and its coaches for the strides she's made. "Kelsey Louie
really taught me to run a marathon," Kerstin said. "I learned from Kelsey how
to pace myself."
The club's camaraderie has also motivated her to excel at what is ultimately
a solitary sport.
"Mark Mascolini sends me e-mails with tips like run the tangents,'" she said.
Any number of the women runners, of whom she is happy there are more in
the club now, motivate her to pick up her own game in friendly competition.
Kerstin was appointed a club race captain in 2009 for her commitment to
racing and training and looks forward to leading FRNY through another
strong year of individual and team achievement.
Like the majority of competitive athletes, Kerstin says running suits her
personality to a tee. "It brings together people from different walks of life and
it is about kicking your own butt, and showing your drive," she said."Runners
are never satisfied, they can always do better." And for that reason, Kerstin
will be a regular at FRNY's track workouts this winter.
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Dave Laurence and Mike McMahon share the worst-kept secret in Front
Runners New York: how to forge a decades-long gay union that continues to
embrace a widening circle of Front Runner friends.
"They're inseparable," explains FRNY pal TJ Jones. "It's so wonderful to see
two people together who truly enjoy each other."
"They truly like each other -- not just love each other," adds their long-time
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�either one of them put the other down." Dave and Mike's knotty bond extends
even to gustation, suggests FRNY's gourmet chef Matthew Tivy. When they
dine out with friends, "they order two dishes they both want to try and exactly
half way through the plate they do a switcheroo," Matthew reveals. "I've even
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Mike and Dave met when they joined Front Runners in 1983, soon after they
moved to New York-Dave from Pennsylvania, Mike from the West Coast. They
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shared a few post-fun-run Wednesday dinners at the American Diner, the
FRNY hangout adjacent to the Beacon Hotel, where Criscione reports he
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happenstancially) sitting thigh-to-thigh on a Long Island Railroad ride to a
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feelings, Mike discloses, by "bringing me home-made chicken soup when I
had a bad cold."
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Dave and Mike started sharing an address in 1984 with a test in contraction
other would-be life partners might try--if they are brave. Soon after Dave
moved from a one-bedroom on Brooklyn's Prospect Place to "the smallest
studio apartment I have ever seen," Criscione says, Mike moved in with him.
Dave didn't have second thoughts about cohabitation, but his eyes widened a
mite when Mike arrived at the elfin studio with a flotilla of boxed sundries he
hadn't opened since his journey from California. "What did I get myself into?"
Dave wondered (silently). "This apartment's really small and now there are
two people--and lots of boxes--here. But it worked out."
Why? Besides sharing food, coffee, and a yen for road running? "We laugh a
lot." Dave offers. "We try not to take anything too seriously." And they do agree
on other interests, like travel, movies, and entertaining friends with homecooked cuisine. (Dave studied for a year at the French Culinary Institute in
New York, and friends attest to the toothsome results). Interests they did not
share right off, they learned to share, or at least to tolerate. Mike warmed up
to Dave's ardor for museum hopping, for treks around town taking photos,
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�and for lake swimming: Dave lured Mike into FRNY swim training and then tri
competition.
But they also know how to draw the line--and live happily on opposite sides.
Dave loves hiking and climbing heights; Mike doesn't. "I'm not fond of bugs
that love to bite me," Mike explains. Although they've tromped through Bryce
Canyon, Zion National Park, and the Grand Canyon together, when Dave
scampers up rocky massifs, "I like to stay at the base camp," Mike confides.
Another incompatibility, Mike points out, is that "we can't share all our clothes"
because Dave is a one or two sizes taller. That's a disadvantage, Mike
observes, because "Dave is the more daring one and has more of the fun
clothes in the family."
Though Mike maintains he's still "quite challenged by open-water
swimming," they've toughed through several open-water triathlons together
and have an Olympic-distance outing slated for May 21 in Harriman State
Park. Dave remains the stronger open-water swimmer, while Mike shines in
road races, routinely scoring for the FRNY Vets in points races. But when they
met, "Dave was the better runner and the more consistent runner," Mike
divulges. Both attest that they remain fierce competitors. Mike confesses that
he gets wound tighter than a mainspring before every race, and Dave parses
results to see how he's doing vis-à-vis people who run at his pace and
where he stands in age-graded rankings.
For Mike, the competition doesn't have to be another Front Runner or another
Vet. He competes with himself, working to maintain a certain rare pace year
after year. And sometimes he competes with Clorox. Trying to reassure Mike
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�about the Hudson River swim for the NYC Triathlon last year, Front Runner
Bob Nelson noted the swim portion of the race follows the current, so even a
Clorox bottle gets downstream easily. After the race, Mike advised Bob, "yeah,
but the Clorox bottle passed me."
Dave has run the New York City marathon three times and Mike once.
Although they haven't registered for 2011 yet, they both can because they ran
nine qualifying races in 2010 and volunteered. Dave, at least, is tempted to
tour the five boroughs one more time. "I'd like to see if it's possible to do it
under 4 hours," he says.
The youngest of four siblings, Dave was born when his dad was in his 50s,
and the family's contact with sports consisted mostly of watching them on TV.
Growing up and going to college in the only hyphenated city in the United
States (Wilkes-Barre, Pa), Dave never started running till he left town to take a
retail job a few counties south in Allentown. Noting some unwanted
abdominal girth, he joined a running group and took to the road. He tried
something else new around the same time-going to a gay bar. A friend at
work "had her finger on me more than I had my finger on myself," Dave
recalls. She suggested a guys-only hangout he might enjoy, "and I did have a
good time-sort of an eye-opening experience."
After two years Dave jumped to a bigger retail chain, Gimbels, and a bigger
city, Philadelphia. Front Runners Philly didn't exist in those days, but Dave
kept running with friends, up and down the scenic Schuylkill. Making his mark
as a furniture display manager, Dave got noticed by New York management,
who lured him to Gotham with more money. Gimbels succumbed to across-
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�the-street rival Macy's in 1987, but Dave had already moved on. Now he
works as showroom and sales manager for Walters Wicker, a high-end
wholesale furniture company catering to architects and designers.
How Mike started running, came out, and came to New York City takes a little
longer to tell. If you don't know Mike personally and wonder why an Asian
man has an Irish name, you probably guessed (correctly) that he was
adopted. His adoptive Irish-American father and adoptive Chinese mother
met in Hong Kong, where his dad worked in intelligence for Uncle Sam and
his mom immigrated after a series of tumultuous translocations starting in
Shanghai, trekking to Nanking (now called Nanjing), then fleeing again after
the notorious Rape of Nanking by the Japanese army in late 1937 and early
1938. Mike says her story reflects the ordeals of one character in Amy Tan's
The Joy Luck Club.
The small family's peripatetic life continued as Mike's dad followed mostly
government jobs to San Francisco, Baltimore (his dad's home town),
Columbus, Ohio, and finally Los Angeles, where Mike grew up in the South
Bay area. Recruited onto the high-school cross-country team, Mike recollects
overlong jaunts to LAX and back and races that climaxed in mass emesis.
"Everyone would tell you that if you ran well, you threw up at the end," Mike
remembers ruefully. He quit racing, tried wrestling, but soon found he had
enough time only for school and work, which became mandatory when his
dad died during his freshman year in high school.
On his first job Mike took tickets, popped popcorn, and peddled Good &
Plenty at a movie theater in Inglewood-close enough to Watts to attract
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�gangs. When asked to show their tickets, gang members would snap their
Bic butanes and declare, "Here's my ticket." Mike let them in. But he got out
when one gang rumble culminated in a trashcan flying through a front-door
window.
"I was in one of the fringe crowds back in high school," Mike recalls. Going to
school, working, and taking care of his mom (who never learned much
English) limited Mike's social life. He began to guess he might be gay only
when he was in college at the University of Southern California, where he
earned a degree in business, marketing, and finance.
Mike's work résumé began in aerospace out West, but soon landed in more
a more terrestrial profession -- advertising and marketing -- in New York. As
his career evolved, he found himself at a couple of Internet startups just as
the 1990s Internet bubble started to swell. When the bubble burst, he
translated his sales and marketing skills into the nonprofit world and fund
raising, working first for the New York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project.
Now at the National Urban League, the pioneering civil rights group founded
in 1910 in New York City, Mike heads a move to develop e-giving initiatives.
He resumed running after college with postcollege roommates in West
Hollywood.
Since the early 80s, Front Runners "has changed dramatically," Dave says.
He and Mike remember the era when then-president Steve Gerben showed
up every Saturday with a bag full of FRNY singlets and a minute of random
announcements, followed by the days of stuffing envelopes with monthly
newsletters, or answering the FRNY phone machine that resided in their
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�apartment during Mike's presidential tenure.
Through nearly 30 years of club synergy, what distinguishes Mike and Dave
from other durable FRNY couples is their unflinching commitment to the club.
Mike has served on the FRNY board as director at large, men's vice
president, and president (in 1995). Together, they've headed up the
membership committee, the clothing committee, and the election committee
and organized club outings.
But friends say the most important aspect of their FRNY membership
remains their warm and ready outreach to runners new and not-so-new. TJ
Jones remembers meeting Dave and Mike when they invited him and Bernd
Erpenbeck to dinner after a First Friday social, then many times again to their
Lincoln Towers apartment. Mike and Dave "are committed to welcoming new
people to the club and building lasting friendships," says TJ. "For me this
embodies what Front Runners New York is about on its best day!"
Dave voices some regret that long-time pals drifted away from FRNY over the
years -- often because they stopped running -- and wishes Front Runners
who give up circling Central Park in Sauconys would stay linked to the club
through swimming or biking or social revels.
And Mike stresses the familial bounties of FRNY. "We've always felt that the
core of our friends have been from Front Runners," he says. "Biologically or
in terms of adoption, you don't get to pick who your family is. But at Front
Runners you get to pick your family. And I can't think of a better group of
people to choose from."
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Growing up, Kent Lau was fascinated with water. From playing in the
beaches of Taiwan and splashing in the bathtub, to being obsessed with
keeping fishes as pets, he always sought out ways to be surrounded by it. It
may come as quite a surprise, then, that Kent--the Swim Coach for FRNY's
Multisport Mondays-wasn't really a swimmer until much later in life.
In fact, although Kent's father was on the basketball, tennis, volleyball and
soccer teams, Kent says that he just didn't get the athletic gene at all. And
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�when he did make an effort to play sports growing up, he often felt that he did
not live up to his father's expectations.
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That changed, though, when Kent discovered running in high school,
specifically track running. Not only did Kent enjoy sprinting, he was great at it.
"I'm all fast twitch," says Kent, whose specialty was distances between the
100m and 800m. "And I loved how track running was all about technique and
form." But the journey from a high school track runner to the Front Runners
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Swim Coach was a long one-separated by over 30 years of trying to find
himself, both as an athlete and on a personal level.
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When he was just four, Kent and his family moved from Taiwan to the
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did to his classmates. "I had friends, but mostly kept to myself." It didn't help
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�did to his classmates. "I had friends, but mostly kept to myself." It didn't help
that he knew very early on (around first grade) that he had an attraction
towards other boys.
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Things changed for the better when he went to college at Harvard. "That's
where I blossomed...There couldn't have been a better place to be involved
politically," Kent explains. He was involved in the Gay Students Union and
serving on the board as Publicity Co-Chair. And he spent his free time
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volunteering at a local AIDS organization.
It was during college that Kent came out to his family-which wasn't exactly a
smooth process, Kent recalls. While his father didn't say much, his mother
"spent four hours on the phone crying." The process was compounded by the
fact that Kent was the only son in a Chinese family with traditional values. His
sisters provided a lot of support, however. And today, he continues to be
extremely close to his sisters, and a terrific uncle to five nieces and nephews.
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�Kent also found his first love in college. The boy, who Kent met at a Harvard
Queer Nation meeting, was year ahead of Kent, and moved to New York
upon graduation. After two semesters spent commuting between New York
and Cambridge, Kent finally moved to the big city when he himself graduated.
The move to NYC wasn't exactly smooth. For six months, Kent couldn't find a
job that made use of his design degree. He finally decided to take a volunteer
position with the Gay Games. That eventually led into a full time job as
Assistant Design Coordinator with the Games. While it was an entry level
position, Kent got his foot in the door at a major LGBT organization, and got
to work directly with photographers, designers and writers. "For 20 years, I
worked nonstop." He soon parlayed his job at the Gay Games to gigs at HX
Magazine, Out Magazine, and POZ magazine.
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�Eventually, the publishing industry took a hit, and Kent found himself starting
his own creative directing business. As a Creative Director, Kent produces all
sorts of creative projects, such as photoshoots, websites, and graphic
design. As his own boss, Kent now relishes the opportunity to set his own
hours and choose his projects, allowing him the time to attend swim
competitions and, of coach, coach FRNY swim workouts.
But it wasn't until 2002, at the age of 40 and newly single, that he first started
swimming regularly. He had heard that New York's gay swim team, Team
New York Aquatics (TNYA) was holding free introductory practices. He
decided to give it a try, and immediately realized that he had a lot to learn.
After three months of attending the TNYA workouts, he suffered several
severe bouts of cramping and hypothermia, and realized that he actually
hated long distance swimming. He ended up quitting the team.
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�Six months later, he randomly ran into one of his former TNYA teammates at
Therapy, who "shamed" him into going back. Kent returned, this time intent
on avoiding the cramping and hyperthermia he experienced before. He
doubled down on Gatorade, bananas and pre-workout stretching, while
drinking hot water and wearing two swimcaps during the workouts to avoid
getting cold. The efforts worked. Eventually, fellow TNYA member and Front
Runner Onesimo DeMira convinced him to start competing in swim meets.
To prepare, Kent took "every conceivable stroke clinic" and refined his form
for two full years before finally attending his first meet. It was the Metro
Championships, and Kent swam on a relay team. "After the meet," Kent
recalls, "the Head Coach came up to me and handed me a silver medal!" He
was instantly hooked.
Meanwhile, a small cadre of joint FRNY/TNYA members was slowly trying to
get Kent to return to running. Tom Malcolm encouraged Kent to check out the
Armory track workouts and Kelsey Louie's coaching. But it wasn't until about
two years ago that Kent first dipped his toes in Front Runners-in the FRNY
pool, to be precise. At that time, Onesimo was substitute coaching the
Monday Night FRNY swim workouts, and told Kent that he should consider
helping to coach as well. As a result, Kent called Multisport Coordinator
Rachel Cutler, who had him come in and help coach Lane 1. The rest is
history, and eventually Kent became FRNY's official swim coach.
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�"Monday is now my favorite day of the week," Kent says of his position as
Swim Coach. He says that coaching is a lot of work, but the rewards are
huge. "The idea of passing on what I know, the great coaching I received,
that's what drives me every week." Especially in a group such as the FRNY
swimmers, where the range in abilities is so wide, Kent says that he loves
seeing each of the new swimmers reach a new milestone, or understand a
new technique. "There's something about Front Runners," Kent explains,
"people are all so athletic-even if they're not swimmers-that it's such a
pleasure to be able to coach them."
So.... has becoming the FRNY Swim Coach led Kent to start running again?
"I'll always be a track runner," he says. Since joining Front Runners, Kent has
shown that he is indeed very comfortable and capable on the track. He was a
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�regular at the Armory indoor track workouts last year, and for the past two
years was part of the all-Gaysian 10x5x200 track relay at NYRR's Thursday
Night at the Races. "And there's a strong probability that I'm going to do
triathlons."
You'd never know this by looking or talking to him, but Kent will be celebrating
his fiftieth birthday this coming November. Yet with a half-century of
experience behind him, Kent shows no signs of slowly down. In fact, after
trying for seven years, Kent recently received his very first individual medal at
the IGLA swim meet (International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics)-a bronze in the
200m breast stroke.
Does this mean that Kent will start running some road races? "I definitely can
see myself doing some short distance races, like 5Ks and 4-milers." That
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�should make our award-winning Men's Vets team very excited (or nervous).
"People's perceptions of age-I find it very intriguing," Kent explains. "I just
medaled for the first time as a 50 year old. Who's to say I won't be running my
first marathon at 60?"
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Michael Totaro
Michael Totaro seems a little conflicted about being labeled a newbie. "I have
no problem with it, but when does the term stop? he wonders. "Once I am
with the club for a year, will I no longer be a newbie? Ah, if only such discrete
vesting schedules existed within Front Runners; it's just not as predictable
as all that. Luckily, Totaro views the newbie cup as half-full not empty and
continues to make the most of the opportunities afforded to his neophyte
status. "There's an air of mystery when you are new, he says. "You can cast a
whole new persona.
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�months or so has undoubtedly seen them the fresh faces and dewy-eyed
men and women who are part of the newbie nation. They might be found
clustered in giggling trios and quartets, their twenty-something limbs akimbo
on the floor mats at Rutgers. They're the next generation and a crucial
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running community. Just beginning to come into his own as a runner, the 27year-old Totaro has the natural talent, self-possession and slight caginess to
make him a leading light in this group. (And if he's as skilled at cultivating a
mystique as he purports, then things could be even more interesting down
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Totaro's effortless running style belies his relative newness to the sport. After
failing at soccer, basketball and baseball due to a self-diagnosed case of
"horrible hand-eye coordination, he took to swimming as a sport throughout
his high school athletic career. It was only two years ago that Totaro, a native
of northern California, gave running a go, signing up for the Bay to Breakers a
12K run through San Francisco that has, in many years, been the most
popular road race in the world "just to say [he] did it. On the bus back home
after the race, Totaro overheard some runners talking about their marathon
training plans, and the seeds of a more ambitious endeavor were soon
sown. Though his training for the Honolulu marathon was derailed when he
fractured his foot, Totaro learned something about himself, and his running,
from the experience. "I was forced to wear a boot and hobble around for six
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�weeks"I was a bit more on edge and perturbed, he admits. "Ever since then, I
know my sanity depends on running.
Girding himself for life as a stressed-out first year student at New York Law
School, Totaro incorporated running into his New York routine from the getgo, debuting at FRNY just two days after landing in the city last August.
Though he viewed joining the club chiefly as "a great way to meet people, he
was pleasantly surprised to find the club offered much more than social
running. "I was impressed with the seriousness of the club and how many
fast runners there were, he says. Totaro also appreciated the fact that it
wasn't all about the running. "I discovered that a lot of the runners were like
me, where they like to work out hard, but like to play hard too, he says, "[and]
grabbing a beer can be the perfect way to end a good run.
From the outset, Totaro regularly partook in the club's speed training
sessions, first on the track at Riverbank Stadium and then, throughout the fall
and winter, at the Armory's indoor track facility. Totaro sprinted interval after
interval with the lead pack and showed no traces of the side stitches and dry
heaving that often accompany speed training. But, anomalously, when he
donned his singlet at NYRR races, he crossed the finish line well after the
teammates whom he bested routinely in practices. Did Totaro suffer a case
of performance anxiety? Not exactly. "I really enjoyed the shorter distances [in
workouts] because I could push myself a bit harder, he explains. "My problem
with racing was that I wasn't used to sustaining a fast pace for a longer
period of time.
That all changed for Totaro this spring. Aware that he had been making a
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�conscious decision to slow down whenever his race pace became
uncomfortably effortful, Totaro adopted quite a contrary strategy racing
through the pain. "Everyone kept telling me just muscle through and it will get
easier from there,' remarks Totaro. "And they were right. Now when he races,
Totaro visualizes the course beforehand and then, as the lactic acid and
exhaustion set in, repeats a truism of the speed-time continuum that Front
Runner Ryan Singer taught him: The faster you run, the sooner you finish the
race.
His results immediately followed. In April, Totaro lopped 35 seconds off his
four-mile PR, netting a 24:28 and coming within striking distance of scoring
for the men's open team at the Tom Labrecque "Run as One points race. In
May, he was a mere second away from the fifth place spot at the Healthy
Kidney 10K, racing a 38:24 to scissor almost two and a half minutes off his
Kleinerman 10K time from just five months prior. And at the Prostate 5-miler
in June, Totaro finally busted into the top five, finishing third overall for FRNY,
snagging another PR and also hitting a 70% age-graded percentage for the
first time. (As he kept narrowly missing this target throughout races in April
and May, Totaro made reaching 70% the designation for "local elite status a
short-term goal.)
Perhaps it's just the residue of some West Coast nonchalance talking, but
Totaro swears his recent successes have not turned him into a PR junkie,
the addiction that drives many new racers to compete week after week in the
ceaseless hope of beating their former times. "I don't pay that much attention
to my times, and I couldn't tell you any PRs, he says. "Simple goals are what
drive me. Right now that means properly training for his next marathon, which
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�will likely not happen until November 2008 due to the demands of law
school.
A year and a half can be an eternity in running time, particularly for a newbie.
By November 2008, Totaro will hopefully be an established entity atop the
Front Runner racing roster. His running career holds considerable and
varied promise. What the future does not hold is what he should savor now
the intangible wonder of being new to it all, the magic of unlocked potential.
While no one can pinpoint when exactly a Front Runner moves from newbie
to vet, everyone will agree it happens too quickly.
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California Dreamin' Totaro misses his home state most on Sunday nights,
when he would traditionally have dinner with his parents and cousin amid
pinochle, cocktails and pleasant conversation.
One Scoop of Totaro, Please If Totaro were an ice cream flavor, he would be
"organic dulce de leche with bits of dark chocolate (somewhat bitter, but
tasty) and toffee (sweet and hard to break).
Summer Job Working for the New Jersey Public Defender's Office in Newark.
Single? Yes. But don't get your hopes up; Totaro claims that with work,
school and running he doesn't have much time for a romantic life.
Newbie Gossip "It all revolves around who's into who"but if I shared what I
did know, people would stop telling me gossip.
Latest and Greatest Read "Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan's book
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Kelsey Louie
In the spring of 2005,Kelsey Louie found himselfat a crossroads. After three
years of service to the club, coach Brady Crain had somewhat abruptly
rendered his resignation. For some time prior, Front Runners had tried
unsuccessfully to push Crain, a speed demon by design,to focus workouts
on endurance and the longer intervals needed for distance running. While
the parting of ways made practical sense for everyone involved, Louie had to
figure out, as both the club president and a staunch proponent of the speed
training program, how to quickly pick up the pieces with Crain now gone.
Never fearful of donning multiple hats, Louie stepped in as the interim FRNY
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"Although it came on suddenly, I think it was a natural transition," says Louie.
"I was already helping others, giving little tidbits of advice ... even before I
became coach." The membership responded so favorably that any thoughts
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of successas a runner knitted together so neatly withhis intimate knowledge
of Front Runners and its members that he had the trust of his team, which
can take a coach years to build,from the very outset. "Having a top-notch
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Over his three years as coach (affectionately written "koach" at times), Louie
has remained committed to training the team even as he endured many life
changes, including switching jobs, entering a relationship and returning to
graduate school. He stuck with the role even as it defied all logic and
thwarted common sense. Understanding Louie's own need to run and the
role this sport plays in his life can be likened to solving for the digits of pi, a
never-ending pursuit that beguiles and lures and hoodwinks. Louie's
determination to keep revisiting the equation, even as it foils him, has made
him an invaluable asset to Front Runners, both as a runner and a coach.
As the youngest of four children in a culturally Chinese household in Bay
Ridge, Louie learned the value of hard work early in life. "Growing up,
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�academics were stressed," he says, "certainly more than athletics." This may
explain why Louie spent most of his free time freshman year at the
notoriously nerdy Stuyvesant High School canoodling with the math team and
not cavorting with the jocks. But an admiration of his older brother's track
trophies and a sibling's competitive desires sparked an initial interest in
running that led to his joining the track team sophomore year.
"I also wanted to lose weight," Louie says of his early goals. "I was a chubby
little kid-I mean, really chubby." As with many runners' goals, initial success
devolved into unhealthy compulsion, with Louie pursuing a goal of hitting 99
pounds. (By his early 20s, Louie successfully battled anorexia; he currently
weighs 125 pounds.) Louie quickly morphed into a runner and ascended the
ranks of the high school running scene, winning the NYRR "Male Junior
Runner of the Year" award in 1993, as a senior.
A local celebrity in the New York City running scene, Louie found himself in a
very odd and lonely place as a freshman at Stanford University that following
fall. Still in a quest to break 2 minutes in the 800 meter (a goal that he would
not achieve for another eleven years), Louie immediately realized the titans of
the Stanford track team were in another league, racing in the low 1:50s-an
eternity of difference on the track. "Up until that point, running had been a
confidence booster," admits Louie, "but running at Stanford made me a
much mature runner, forcing me to take stock in why I ran."
Due to personal and family events, Louie would return to New York City and
finish college at New York University, where he not only had a much warmer
athletic experience but also had the room to focus on other aspects of his
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�life. Immediately one of the top members of his new team, Louie played a key
role in many successful relays, including a 4 x 1500 meter race for which he
helped score a school record that still stands and is commemorated in the
school's gymnasium. Louie's coach quickly nicknamed him "Killer" because
of the fierceness with which he trained and competed. During this time,
Louie began the coming out process with his teammates and his coach,
which led to his being rebranded "Special K," the moniker that stuck. "The
athlete in me wanted so desperately to be Killer,'" he says. "It made me train
harder and harder."
The importance of nicknames soon faded with the onset of adult
responsibilities like working both a full and a part-time job to pay for his
graduate program in social work. Running now took a backseat to real life.
Louie's entrée into gay nightlife did, however, help keep him fit while on a
hiatus from running. "The four hours of non-stop dancing every Friday and
Saturday helped me cardiovascularly," he jokes. Even during this busy time,
Louie managed to run the Chase Corporate Challenge and the Gay Pride
Race each year.
Like many great runners before him (and scores to follow), Louie began his
FRNY career as that really fast guy who vanished into thin air upon crossing
the finish line first for the team. This had been the case with the Pride Run in
both 2000 and 2001, but a turning point came when Louie decided to partake
in the member-led speed training sessions in Central Park. (At the time Jeff
Singleton, Geoffrey Perry and Donna Checkan were coaching.) A fast
friendship bloomed between Louie and regular Marty McElhiney, which
ultimately led to the two training together for the 2002 Gay Games in Sydney.
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�His participation in those games, including a gold medal performance in the
800 meter event, vaulted Louie into the FRNY limelight overnight. Though a
member of the club since 1998, Louie became ubiquitous after Sydney. And
the timing could not have been better for then-FRNY president Michael
Orzechowski, who seized the opportunity to make Louie the much needed
poster boy for the young, fast gay runner demographic he'd been targeting. "I
like to think that Kelsey and I had one of those great partnerships people talk
about," says Orzechowski. "I think we both helped each other be more than
we thought possible-at least where it concerns FRNY and running in NYC." In
helping to promote the club within citywide racing, Louie went from running
four races in 2002 to a whopping 28 in 2003. His amped up involvement also
included acting as club treasurer under the Orzechowski administration.
After winning the club's highest honor of Front Runner of the Year for 2003
and helping the men's team win the NYRR "B" division championship that
same year, Louie refused to rest on his laurels, continuing to race heavily in
2004 to support the club's speed training program. "The small speed training
groups were very nurturing to me," he says in reflection on that time. "In many
ways, I feel like I grew up within Front Runners." Part of that maturation was
finally, after more than a decade of near misses, achieving his goal of racing
the ½ mile in under 2 minutes-a feat made all the sweeter by its being
accomplished at the FRNY annual spring track meet.
But as any runner knows, this sport turns fickle and fair-weather with little to
no warning. After training for months in preparation for his first marathon in
NYC that November (2004), Louie became hobbled by leg cramps the final
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�third of the race and finished in a personally disappointing time of 3:18:58.
Unbeknownst to him then, Louie had slipped into a new phase of his racing
and would, for the first time in his FRNY career, be regularly challenged and
on occasion beaten by his fellow teammates. Bear in mind, Louie now led
and coached the team while holding down a full-time job. It's impressive that
he raced at all.
Over the years since, Louie's star has burned more brightly than ever in the
Front Runner firmament. Any adoration that had been reserved for him as a
racer only magnified for him as coach, with a chorus of delighted Front
Runners regularly singing his praises. "Kelsey has been an unbelievable
asset to my running," says Lucia Muntean, a training aficionado and the
club's "Middle Distance Runner of the Year" for 2007. "Kelsey has challenged
me to challenge myself, to train and race outside my comfort zone." The
payoff for Muntean includes breaking 25 minutes in the 4-miler, knocking off
almost three minutes from her time in the past year and a half. Louie also
coached Barry Abrams to his fastest-ever mile. "I never could have run subfive (minutes) without Kelsey," says Abrams. "There was a level of personal
investment on his part that really inspired me to work hard."
As coach, Louie has certainly enjoyed living vicariously through these
runners. "I absolutely love it when I see someone excited about their own
accomplishments," he says. "I know exactly what it's like to achieve a goal."
And Louie can take further pride in knowing that the recent onslaught of talent
runners - the Ryan Quinns and John MacConnells and Brad Gaymen - is, in
many ways, his legacy.
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�But that may not be enough to satisfy the fierce competitor within. "Another
coach told me that I couldn't do both-run well and coach," says Louie. "I have
been trying to prove her wrong ever since." Louie has not recorded a PR at
any distance other than the marathon since he became coach, leaving one to
wonder whether there was truth in that cautionary advice. Then again, Louie
has shown glimmers of his racing past this spring, running the TGL Classic
4-miler a full minute faster than he did last year and hitting sub-5:40 pace for
the first time in three years. Special K, Killer and Koach may still be battling
for Louie's soul-which Kelsey will win out has yet to be seen.
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Michael Orzechowski
Michael Orzechowski has always dreamed big. His hope allowed him to
know, as a five-year-old living in a fractured household on a soybean farm in
rural Illinois, that he would transcend his upbringing and one day live in New
York City. Perfecting his vocal gifts as a depressed, closeted and altogether
lost soul at Southern Illinois University, Orzechowski had the faith to take a
gamble and follow his vocal coach to unknown Delaware after his third year
of college. And this deft ability to see beyond what currently is and grasp at
what could be also allowed him, as president of Front Runners from 20022003, to change the face of the club forever.
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With a flair for drama and gay snarkiness, Orzechowski likes to fancy himself
a "big ol' bitch," but in truth he has the bottomless faith of a child when it
comes to the people he loves and the things he believes in. This has been
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his work with Front Runners over the last decade. "He saw the potential in
the club as a running force that the others didn't," says Dave Pitches, current
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As a high school student in southern Illinois, Orzechowski did not appear
destined for a future as president of a running club. "I was never good at
sports," he admits, "and would do whatever I could to get out of gym class."
He did, however, love many other extracurricular activities, including drama,
choir, speech and student council. (Anyone who has worked with him on the
Front Runner board can see the seeds of both histrionics and exquisite
orderliness being sown herein.) Through the encouragement of his friends
and his mother, Orzechowski availed himself of the discipline to wake at the
crack of dawn on Saturdays and bike ten miles to professional voice lessons
that cost a whopping $5 a pop.
The investment paid off. Orzechowski's voice allowed him to travel beyond
the claustrophobic confines of his dysfunctional family and past the
provincialism of his prairie town youth. And while his first steps forward were
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�not exactly onto the Great White Way, he did enter a completely new world by
following a football player friend to Southern Illinois University. "I hated it
there, but it is where I came out, had sex for the first time, had my first
relationship," says Orzechowski. "And it's where I learned to be a musical
artist."
In starting his own life away from his roots, Orzechowski began to form
strong relationships in the hope, still unconscious but very real, of having a
loving family for the first time. As a result, he became involved with two
controlling men who would shape his life over the next two decades Dan, his
voice teacher, and Sven, the man with whom Orzechowski would have his
first long-term romantic relationship.
Having always found acceptance and encouragement through his singing,
Orzechowski took a leap of faith and followed his voice coach to the
University of Delaware Music Department after his junior year. "I actually lived
with him and his family for awhile," says Orzechowski. "He made me believe
he was the only person who could teach me to sing." Though a spate of lowend dinner theater jobs and long spells of depression made this one his
darkest periods, Orzechowski still worked at his singing and continued the
journey that was bringing him closer and closer to New York. Perseverance
paid off when, through a recommendation from the brother of a friend,
Orzechowski landed a job in the facilities department at Union Seminary in
the summer of 1984. His childhood fantasy had been realized.
"Within three months of moving to New York, I had a job, an apartment and a
boyfriend," he recalls. "How could life be better?" Indeed, Orzechowski quickly
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�became part of the Union family and was also a regular on the family visits to
his ex-partner Sven's childhood home in Astoria. But honeymoons yield all
too fast to the harsh light of day. Orzechowski soon realized that Sven
preferred a hermit-like existence of chain smoking and drinking. "The more
we were together, the less Sven wanted to go out," he says. "I think I cooked
dinner just about every day for almost 14 years well, it felt that way."
Mired in a personally destructive relationship, Orzechowski still sang in a
church on weekends and decided, in 1986, to finish his degree at Manhattan
School of Music. He flourished immediately in the competitive setting. "Music
conservatories are very much a sink or swim mentality," he says, "but even
there I made friends and admirers." His talent won him work in opera
productions as well as in three prestigious summer festivals. This fairy-tale
turn in Orzechowski's career didn't dovetail well with his partner's inert
lifestyle. "He wanted to stay home all the time," says Orzechowski, "and I
wanted to do what I had come to New York to do." After a successful summer
at the Tanglewood festival, Orzechowski had a chance to return with the
future career prospect of working with the Boston Symphony. He declined
due to the strains on his relationship. "It was the biggest professional
mistake I ever made," he says.
Orzechowski was not afforded the luxury of navel-gazing over lost
possibilities during the ensuing years. His partner Sven had begun to drink
more heavily, to sleep incessantly and to dwindle down to sinew and skin.
These were the early 90s in New York and the ghastly pall of AIDS darkened
every aspect of gay life. "So many people died and died horribly. And alone,"
recalls Orzechowski. "And I can't say I did anything to help." For months and
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�perhaps even years, Orzechowski had blamed Sven's increasingly harrowing
state on poor nutrition and the alcoholism that he knew all too well from his
youth. Sven was eventually diagnosed with full-blown AIDS with dementia,
and Orzechowski vowed to nurse him back to health. "People admired me so
much," he says, "but I was doing it for me as much as for him. I wanted to
appease my guilt for our failed relationship, for my not helping others who
had died."
Through therapy Orzechowski learned to focus on moving ahead with his
own life. In the summer of 1998, that effort led him to the basement of
Rutgers on the morning of his first fun run. "It immediately reminded me of
the first time I went to a gay bar," he says. "When you walked in, everyone
would turn to check you out it was an intimidating experience." This
sensation continued once he realized that he had to wear a rainbow pin
identifying him as a newcomer in the park and that he was slower than
almost every other runner there that day. Finishing the lower five-mile loop
almost killed him, but the social hour connections made with fellow newbies
Reuben Danzing, Jim Brigaitis and Sean Butler sold him immediately on the
club. Front Runners offered Orzechowski as it had done for countless other
members before and since a chance to begin again.
A leader by nature, Orzechowski immediately ran for secretary of the board
under then-president Ken Majerus. After two more years on the board, he
seized his opportunity to helm the club, feeling that Front Runners could
relive its heyday. "Joe (Criscione) had often told me what the club was like in
the 80s, how people would go to races, party together, men and women,"
remembers Orzechowski. "I didn't see why we couldn't be a club like that
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�again."
Living in a spacious loft with lovely rooftop access, Orzechowski opened his
home to many parties as president, fostering a come-one-come-all
mentality. He came to realize two important things to be equal in the running
world, Front Runners would need to attract the best gay runners in the city
and compete seriously with the local elite teams, and to stay vital in the gay
community and grow as a club, FRNY needed to do far better in the
recruitment of younger female and male runners.
To enhance the racing component of the Front Runner experience,
Orzechowski rewarded runners who had done well for themselves and for
the team. He sent personalized e-mails and gave them shout-outs at general
meetings on Saturdays. "He raised our expectations of what we as
individuals and as a club could attain," says Pitches. "Maybe we were not
latent homosexuals, but we may have been latent competitors he outed us
as racers."
Aware of his own limitations, Orzechowski needed a faithful cohort to
complement his style and talents. Orzechowski loved showering runners
with attention, but he himself did not have the fast-twitch chops to lure the
fleet-of-foot to Front Runners. In summer 2002, just before the Gay Games,
he met the then 27-year-old Kelsey Louie. "It was a match made in Front
Runner heaven!" exclaims Orzechowski. "The synergy between us was
amazing," concurs Louie. "Mike O's emphasis on competitive running is what
led me and others to be more active and involved with Front Runners."
In 2003, the second year of his presidency, everything came together for
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�Orzechowki. The year kicked off with Front Runners inaugural Awards Night
in the Great Hall at Union Seminary. The competitive spirit and team
camaraderie rippled out from there as runners such as Louie and Kevin
Brewer (an active master's runner at the time) and Rich Velazquez began
posting marquis performances, culminating in FRNY's citywide victory
among the NYRR "B" Division.
"2003 was a magic year for me," Orzechowski says, still very emotional over it
all. "Everything I could have hoped for happened." And amazingly
Orzechowski chose not to ride off into the sunset, watching FRNY from the
sidelines in his beloved president's jacket (though he certainly wore the
damn thing enough). In the years since his presidency, Orzechowski served
as a race captain, won the highly coveted Guy Zelenak award for
volunteerism and is in his fourth year as director of the Pride Run. Three
years ago, at age 49, he also managed to qualify for the Boston marathon for
the first time.
This summer Orzechowski will celebrate his ten-year anniversary with the
club. A decade can be an eternity in an organization like Front Runners, and
many new members may never know the indelible mark that Orzechowski left
on the club. But it's easy to see Orzechowski has no real desire for legend
status. Like any visionary, his dreams have always taken place in the future.
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Katrina Amaro
Katrina Amaro likes to get her hands dirty. Since joining Front Runners in
August 2005, Amaro has been behind the scenes at every major club
undertaking and on the front lines of exciting new initiatives to increase the
team's membership and visibility. These are the attributes that so clearly
distinguished Amaro as the 2006 recipient of the Guy Zelenak Award for
volunteerism. But even while she slaves away selflessly for Front Runners,
referring to herself on Awards Night as a "volunteer nerd," Amaro finds time
to reflect on her past, focus on her future and nurture her love of fine arts and
running.
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�Amaro is relatively new to Manhattan , having moved here just about four
years ago because, like so many before her, she "always wanted to live in
New York City ." She still waxes nostalgic for her native San Antonio and
speaks quite eloquently about the gentle rhythms and unique patterns of the
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Lone Star State . "I miss long open highways and rolling hills-I miss really
old country dance halls," she says. "The oldest one in Texas is near where I
grew up." And upon close inspection, it's clear that Amaro hasn't shaken all
the dust from her San Antonio shoes. After all, Amaro donned a pair of opentoed sandals to our January Awards, a charming (though seasonally
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readying her for dancing outside under a warm blanket of stars. Of course,
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While still fond of her past, Amaro is now firmly a New Yorker. And one of the
first things she noticed and became curious about upon moving here were
all the fanatical joggers. While she hadn't taken to running in her twenties,
Amaro was quickly turned onto the sport after moving to New York and
meeting a woman who was training for the marathon. "Her experience
inspired me," explains Amaro, "so I started and became hooked on running."
An Upper East Sider, Amaro did most of her running along the East River but
eventually grew bored and looked into becoming part of a team. She was very
efficient in her searching. "I googled gay and lesbian running clubs, found
Front Runners New York and went to a Saturday morning run," Amaro says.
After being warmly welcomed by then-women's VP Emily Siegel and FRNY
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�veteran Claudia Cummings at her Saturday debut, Amaro felt such an
immediate bond that she joined the club on the spot and purchased a team
singlet that very day.
Given Amaro's confessed weakness for volunteering, it's not surprising she
soon became a serial bagel helper, rivaling the membership for the most
Saturdays covered in 2006, who also lent a hand at, oh, almost every event
the club sponsored. Amaro helped with fundraising and publicity for "Rapture
on the River," the lesbian dance event hosted during Pride Weekend, two
LGBT expos, and the club's cross country meet. During NYC marathon
weekend, Amaro completed the volunteering triumvirate by helping out at the
Friday night pasta dinner, the Saturday morning pancake breakfast and the
24-mile water station on marathon Sunday. To promote the team, she helped
create membership postcards and has been integral in keeping the club's
newly revamped website fully stocked with pictures from runs, races and
social events. The list goes on and on - of course, culminating in Amaro's
stepping into the role of women's vice president at the start of 2007.
It's not all Front Runner toil, though. Professionally, Amaro is lucky enough to
be in a job she loves, working as a broadcast designer for FOX 5 Television
where she creates still and motion graphics for news, promotional and
topical projects. And in her free time, Amaro enjoys getting her hands dirty the
old-fashioned way-with tubes of acrylic paints or pastel chalk, that is. In her
art, Amaro prefers to work in mixed media and describes her style as
abstract expressionism, though lately she says that she has been
experimenting more with light and shadow of the human form. While she
would never toot her own horn, Amaro has garnered some successes in her
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�artistic endeavors, having sold two paintings that were displayed in a tea
shop in Brooklyn.
Even with her new responsibilities as women's VP, Amaro looks to 2007 as
a year for her to forge ahead on her own running goals. "I'm not the fastest
runner on the planet," she jokes, "so my goal is to shave a minute off my
pace to get under 8:15 or so." Other big strides Amaro hopes to make this
year include her first sprint distance triathlon in July, Olympic distance in
August and completion of her first marathon in NYC in November.
Amaro is a doer not a talker so there's not doubt she'll find a way to fuel the
runner inside this year-while staying true to her inner volunteer nerd too.
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Finest FRNY Memory -Tunnel of Cheers from August's Club Team
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Dream Job? -Amaro loves her job but says "working graphics for ESPN or
Nickelodeon would be awesome!"
Five Desert Island CDs -U2 "The Unforgettable Fire," Toad the Wet Sprocket
"Fear," The Sundays "Blind," Zero 7 "When It Falls," and Dido "Life for Rent."
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Michael Klein
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
By Fred Pfaff - published on October 12, 2012 in The Next Mile
Young, committed, cheerful, helpful and fast – Michael Klein is turning heads
and winning fans as fast as he’s piling up race PRs.
Michael Klein knows what he wants.At seven, his parents gave him a cruise
for his birthday. Not your usual kid gift, but Michael had made it clear early
that ships were his obsession. While classmates in high school fought their
way toward Chapel Hill or the Ivy League, he went all in for one of 26 spots in
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And while his classmates at Webb sought jobs, Michael started a business.
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Just one year out, he’s partnered up with a contemporary and an industry
veteran to start sustainable ships – cargo vessels that run on non-polluting
sources of energy. He’s hitting the home stretch on financing his first venture,
building a $20 million hydrogen-powered freighter to transport Northern
California wines down the West Coast.
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FRNY teammates won’t find the resolve surprising. Less than a year since
joining FRNY, Michael’s already a membership coordinator, hill workout
coach and key member of the 2012 winning Reach the Beach relay team.
He’s now training for the New York Marathon – his first – looking to break
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Don’t bet against him. He’s not one of the former high school track stars
getting a second wind in the club, but he combines a natural ability with
willingness, patience and drive. “He’s a dream to coach,” says FRNY coach
Kelsey Louie. “He’s eager, he has goals, he’s smart about it, and he listens.”
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It shows. Already, Michael consistently finishes with AG (Age Graded
percentage) over 70%, which designates him as a regional elite runner. Most
recently, he posted a 4:46 in the Fifth Avenue Mile and the next day ran the 18
mile Marathon Tune-Up as a training run at 7:13 pace. Since his first race in
the front corral – the December 2011 Jingle Bell Jog, where he went out fast
and struggled to the finish – he has racked up a series of PRs from the 4
mile to the 10K.
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�Helpful nature
But it’s not finish times that have heads turning throughout the FRNY
leadership; it’s the speed with which Michael dives into volunteering. You
could say it’s in his nature.
“The best thing about Michael,” says FRNY president Megan Coryat, “is he
does everything with great attention to detail and with a cheery attitude.”
Michael greets you with an upbeat, outgoing personality that belies a
methodical man with wisdom well beyond his 24 years. He’s ahead of time
for both interviews (the original and the makeup, which he graciously
accepted after I mistakenly deleted our first recording) and determined to
satisfy the interviewer. On the first, we meet at the Engineers Gate. He’s
carrying a bright little shopping bag.
“I don’t get to the East Side often, so when I do, I have to go to Lady M,” he
says a little sheepishly. As we stake out a park bench beside the NYRR
information booth, he pulls out two elegant slices of gourmet cake – one
chocolate caramel, the other strawberry cheesecake – with two forks. On
hearing I’m allergic to strawberries, he keeps that piece at a distance, and
despite my urging only agrees to try the chocolate once I’ve convinced him
I’m satiated.
This thoughtfulness is a trademark. As far as he can tell, he gets it from his
mother, who raised him as a single mom. “My mom’s resilient and good
about making sure that everyone around her gets the attention they need
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�from her,” he says. “And she instilled in me that sense of responsibility no
matter what.”
She also helped him come out gracefully in high school in North Carolina
(not the easiest place to be a gay student). By junior year, his mom had
remarried, they’d move to North Carolina and Michael had a new baby sister
(he now has two, for whom he’s “more of an uncle”). He’d had some
experiences and was confident he knew himself, so he told his mom. She’d
had the “quintessential gay best friend” when they’d lived in Miami, so she
was predisposed to acceptance. But ironically enough, she didn’t believe
Michael at first. A day later, his step-dad called him into the living room, and
after getting a few answers, helped him define and become comfortable with
his orientation. From then on, “they were really accepting and supportive.”
Their support helped at school. Michael had a reputation as “the nerdy smart
one” who made people laugh, and his confidence kept it that way. “It was a
relatively easy time actually,” he says. “I was never bullied for anything in
school. I think I’m quite fortunate in that regard.”
Accidental obsession
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�In high school, Michael studied violin and experimented with the flute, the
cello and the oboe. He played in the youth orchestra and the marching band,
and honed an appreciation of early music (1600s composers such as Bach
and Handel) that’s endured. Exercise, let alone dedication to a demanding
sport, wasn’t in the picture.
He only started running after college while doing an internship in Houston.
Looking for something to do and feeling the need to get in shape, he made a
habit of the treadmill in the mini gym of his condo complex. When he moved
to New York, he discovered running outside. He liked the scenery and
change of perspective, but something was missing. It occurred to him that it
might be more fun to run with others, so he googled “gay running club NYC”
and landed on www.frny.org.
“Before I joined Front Runners I’d do the same run over and over,” he says.
“I’d do short runs and then 10 mile runs. I’d change up the route but I never
felt the need to vary the mileage. After I joined and ran my first race, I ran
more, I ran differently, I became faster, and I became cognizant of running
strategy – how to approach different races to perform my best.”
“I made a lot of mistakes, mostly starting out too fast,” he adds. “The first time
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�I got into a blue corral, I took off with everyone else and I saw my first split, in
the 5:40 range, which was not sustainable for me at the time. By the end, I
was doing like 6:30 and feeling so awful. That’s what disappointed me more
– not my number performance but how I felt after the race. I didn’t feel good
about it at all. Now I know I’ve done a good race when I feel good. Maybe tired
and achy and sore, but good.”
He didn’t want to run a marathon because he worried the intensity of training
would take the fun out of running. But then he worked the water station and
got caught up in the excitement. “It’s been mostly fun, which is not what I
thought it would be,” he says of training, which is giving him plenty of practice
for the last 10K of the marathon, when soreness and fatigue set in. For him,
the solution is positive projection.
“When I performed musically, I could hardly recover from making a mistake
onstage,” he says. “Now when I think of a big race or presentation, I envision
myself gloriously finishing and seeming triumphant. It’s lofty and
unachievable, but it helps me get to where I want to be.”
Future leader
It’s hard to imagine Michael not extending himself.
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�On the subway home from an Armory workout last winter, Kelsey talked of
wanting to be able to get up early to do yoga or workout. Michael chimed in
that he, too, wanted to work out in the morning. When Kelsey said he works
out at Equinox at 59th and Columbus Circle, Michael said, “perfect.” When
Kelsey learned that Michael lived in Brooklyn (he’s since moved to the Upper
West Side) and worked downtown, he was puzzled. “It’s ok, I’m up early,”
Michael said.
When Michael texted Kelsey that Sunday night to join him at a yoga class the
next morning at 6:30, Kelsey warned that he’s not good at yoga. Michael
responded, “I’ve never done yoga before. And I’ve never done spin class
either.” Michael just wanted a workout buddy, but now he’s also got a fan and
dear friend. Twice a week, the pair meets up around dawn at the gym for a
stretch or a spin. They hit the road for long runs, and expand the bounds of
silliness – what Kelsey terms “being 14-year-old girls together” – constantly.
What has his friend “impressed,” though, is Michael’s commitment. “He’s
everything Front Runners stands for,” says Kelsey. “Hardworking,
volunteering, team-spirited and involved. He’s definitely a future leader of the
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�club.”
Most importantly, Michael represents what’s possible in Front Runners. As
Rachel Cutler, Chair of the Multisport Committee, explains it, FRNY’s size
and energy can be a little intimidating to newcomers – from navigating the
first Saturday bagel breakfast that can feel like lunchroom on the first day of
9th grade, to toeing the starting line wondering if your time will meet
unspoken club standards, to finding a spot to contribute when it seems the
club’s already a well-oiled machine. As a result, many members hesitate to
get involved early on.
“Michael’s a great example of how you can go from not being a runner to
immersing yourself in a role and a community of running,” says Rachel. “He
has overcome barriers that other people identify as why they don’t get
involved as quickly. Everything he could volunteer for, he has. As long as
Front Runners continues to make room for him to make an impact, he will.”
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Karl Rutter
You know you've got a memorable story when it can survive a failed tape
recorder.
Here's the scene: I'm heading uptown on a bus after interviewing Karl Rutter
in the dim elegance of Forty-Four, the Royalton lounge. I check my trusty
recorder, only to find that it shut off after 15 seconds. Turns out I needed to
replace, not recharge, its batteries earlier that day. So I start punching the
main points into the iPad, and they come back fast.
"Figures," Karl tells me the next morning. "Welcome to my life. If something
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He's not exaggerating altogether. His life has taken some swerves. But what
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Karl isn't your typical running club profile. The boys won't beg him to go
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shirtless at Gym Bar. He'll never compete in the club standings. He won't
ever be anyone's poster child for athletic performance.
But he's got heart. He is a poster child for participation, determination and
inspiration. He doesn't back down. He gives to the people around him in
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�Karl is an accomplished scholar, marketing man and professor. But he'll
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never hit you over the head with it. He's not about the fanfare; he doesn't do
things for the credit. And most of the things he does, he never would have
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predicted he'd be doing, anyway.
After finishing his MBA from Fordham (Global Marketing Management) in
2002 and completing a Fulbright Scholarship in Mexico (NAFTA impact on
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global retail), Karl celebrated with a trip through Australia and New Zealand.
One sweltering Saturday he tagged along with the daredevil in the group to
the spot where bungee jumping was born. He'd never done anything like it,
and he was reticent. But his companion prevailed.
"I was terrified," he remembers. "But I did it anyway."
Something snapped for the kid who never got picked for sports, who loved
the High School of Art and Design in part because there was no gym class.
Surprising even himself, he declared he would do a Century Ride the next
year. He'd never ridden more than 20 miles on a bike before. While on a
training ride with a Fast 'n' Fab member she suggested, "Now that you are
doing a Century, the next goal should be a triathlon." The thought stuck. As
winter approached he stayed off the roads until spring and decided to run
with Front Runners to get advice, support and camaraderie and maybe a
boyfriend
So Karl showed up at the Brooklyn fun run and jogged a lap around Prospect
Park with Victor Inada. "I was huffing and puffing," he recalls. "I felt like I was
going to die."
By the following summer, he'd lost 45 pounds. As he crossed the finish line
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�By the following summer, he'd lost 45 pounds. As he crossed the finish line
of that first triathlon in Central Park , he got feeling he could tackle any
challenge he really put his mind to. Taking on a challenge a year is his way of
keeping ahead of the "bad genes" that make diabetes and heart disease
family legacies. His sisters, 10 and 12 years older, struggle with obesity,
along with heart and blood sugar problems.
Three-dozen road races, 20 triathlon and duathlons, and dozens of longdistance bike rides later, Karl has no trouble going the extra mile. Last year
alone, he raced in eight duathlons, ran 14 running races (including the
Philadelphia and Staten Island Half Marathons) and completed four longdistance bike rides.
That's not counting the Half Ironman Triathlon he entered in New Jersey last
summer. After he got through the swim and bike in five hours, it started to
pour. With few competitors around, and a two-hour drive home facing him, he
called it quits. This year, he's cutting out the drive, opting instead to fly to
Colorado for an entire weekend with finishing as the sole focus.
Unlike most runners, Karl isn't enamored of speed. He's only once bettered a
9:00 pace, hitting an 8:43 pace in the 2010 NYC Half Marathon. He'd just
come off treadmill training through the winter, where he'd gotten in speed
sessions for the first time. "I got tendinitis and plantar fasciitis," he says. "I
decided it was like Icarus flying too close to the sun. It isn't worth that to me.
My 9:27 pace (in the 2007 Fitness 4-miler) is the more realistic goal, though I
don't expect to reach it again."
For the most part, he's clocking 10:30 to 12:30 pace in a road race. He's
running with, not racing against. And that's the point for Karl. "One of the great
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�things of not running to compete is I get to meet people in a race," he says.
"One triathlon I'm chugging away at the run and I start talking with a woman
who had breast cancer and promised herself that if she beat it she would do
a tri. This was her tri."
At least one other woman has been grateful for Karl's back-of-the-pack
presence. During a NYRR race two years ago, FRNY teammate Liz Hines
took a bloody tumble after stepping in a pothole. "Karl came along and
without missing a step reached down, hoisted me up and put me back on my
feet," says Liz. "He kept me from bursting into tears. Then he made me keep
going with him. He's a man's man and this lady's hero."
When the Brooklyn Pride Fun Run conflicted with the Mini 10k points race last
year, Karl took over. He arranged a record turnout of volunteers and got
everyone rainbow finisher medals. "Karl just steps up without any fuss or
drama," says FRNY president Megan Jenkins. "For him, the important thing
about running is showing up, doing your best, and celebrating everyone's
achievements. He is one of the kindest people I've ever known."
Four years ago, when his mother became bed-ridden with arterial sclerosis
and his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Karl moved into the second
floor of his parents' Sunset Park townhouse to preside over their care. "They
changed my diapers, I can change theirs," he figured.
At the same time, he traded corporate for non-profit. He took a job running the
Global Studies program at St. John's University in Queens. He had already
been working as an adjunct marketing professor at Fordham business
school so full time academia was a good move. "The Fordham community
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�was so wonderful to me," he says, "I felt like I had to give some of it back."
The universities aren't complaining. Karl brought them the same tenacity that
made him a star in growing companies. He opened the Hard Rock Cafe in
Berlin; brought the Zagat guides to Canada, England, France, and Japan;
launched the Book Market division of DC Comics; and boosted business
150% for digital agency Studio 23. Not surprisingly, what was a fledgling
extension in 2007 has become an attraction for St. John's. The Global
Studies program sent more than 700 students abroad last year, and the
expansion continues.
The hardest part of the transition: becoming a morning person. Living in
Brooklyn and working in Queens doesn't leave much time for training,
especially for the combined endurance events Karl likes to do. In order to
prep his dad for a daytime aide coming at 9:00 AM, he gets up at 4:00 AM,
then heads out to train when the aide takes over. Since he's seldom asleep
before 11:00 PM, Karl does it all on sleep deprivation. "I'm ok until Friday," he
says with a wink (we're interviewing Friday night), "and then I crash."
Combine the schedule with the heart wrench of Alzheimer's his father has
entered the advanced stage, while his mother died last year and you have the
recipe for some tough moments. "I have that WASP ethic, you know, --don't
worry about your feelings, just do it,'" Karl says. "I'll hit blue for a few days but
then I come out of it."
With all this on his broad shoulders, Karl's taking on the challenge of a longterm relationship. "So all you single FRNY guys out there" he laughs as he
hoists his martini glass. Joking aside, he lets on, as a 44-year-old with a
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�penchant for younger men, he wonders if he'll ever meet the right guy to go
the distance with.
Well, he was never going to be the runner, teacher or caretaker he is today.
Somehow you just get the feeling the footsteps will fall into place.
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January 2, 2012
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Jonathan Warner
"I was born in the Middle of Nowhere, Southwest Virginia," says Jonathan
Warner, the youngest of three kids and an "unexpected surprise" for his
parents. His mother didn't exactly have the smoothest pregnancy with him.
Several months pregnant, Sharon Warner was involved in a car accident, with
the car door ending up wrapped around her belly. She also took a fall on the
ice, and very nearly gave birth to Jonathan in an airport. Although his parents
had originally planned to name him Douglas, when he arrived into the world,
they decided the more fitting name would be Jonathan-the Biblical figure
whose name means "a gift from God."
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Growing up, Jonathan and his family moved around constantly. By the time
he was eighteen, he had lived in nearly a dozen different houses. As a result,
making and keeping friends proved to be a struggle. It didn't help matters that
he was shy and had thick glasses and a super high voice. "I was a big nerd
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and a bit of a loner as a kid," Jonathan explains. And even before he knew
what it meant to be gay, he was teased as the gay kid at each new school.
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The family situation at home wasn't much better. A four year age difference
and contrasting interests and personalities, with a dose of sibling rivalry,
made for an interesting relationship with his brother, Clay. Although he was
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constant source of strength and comfort, although Jonathan says of his dad,
Bill, "I didn't really know him."
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Jonathan's dad, Bill Warner leading the pack
A series of unexpected events landed him at the University of Georgia in the
fall of 2005 without a major, class schedule, or even a student ID as classes
began. He immediately struggled to find a fit. The fit, or rather the friend, he
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�found surprised him: he met his first love, Wes, at the mailroom of his
freshman dorm. But then lost almost all of his friends when he subsequently
came out to them. And he had little interest in the campus LGBT groups,
either. "They were very out and proud, but I was focused on me, and school,
and running. They all strove to be a very specific type that just wasn't me...
and I liked having facial hair."
The ensuing years each got better as Jonathan found lifelong friends in his
major and his work at a local café and restaurant. Though he was out at
school, Jonathan held off coming out to his parents. Right before leaving for
college, Jonathan and his dad had begun to grow together and started to
develop a good relationship. "I was finally able to give him a real hug, and
was terrified of losing that." By his senior year of college, Jonathan did tell his
sister, his mom and his brother, who were all supportive. But he had yet to
tell Bill.
Then, in 2010, after Jonathan had moved to New York, he got a phone call
from his mom. A pastor friend of the family had supposed Jonathan was gay,
and called his mom urging her to pray for Jonathan's homosexuality. Sharon
relayed the phone call to Jonathan and told him to talk to his dad. And when
he did, his dad said: "Well, yeah. Don't think I didn't know. But you're my son
and I love you. So I hope that a--hole calls me too so I can rip him a new
one."
Less than three years after coming out to him, Jonathan now has a
wonderful relationship with his father. Bill Warner has recently re-discovered
his passion for running, and he and Jonathan enjoy going to races together,
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�often with the whole family. They even have somewhat of a rivalry going on:
until recently, Bill, a sub-3 hour marathoner, boasted of having the Warner
family marathon record, though Jonathan claimed it in Chicago -- 'for now', as
Bill likes to remind him. Jonathan recognizes that he's been "really lucky with
my family and friends." Now, every time they do a race together, his dad asks
him which Front Runners will be there.
That's understandable. In a very short time, Jonathan went from an FRNY
newcomer to one of the club's most involved members. In July 2010,
Jonathan moved to New York to pursue graduate studies in Urban Planning
at Pratt (he recently graduated with a degree in Urban Environmental
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�Systems Management). Less than 24 hours after his Friday afternoon arrival
in the city, he was already at his first Saturday morning fun run, keeping up
his end of a promise to his friend Gina, a former Front Runner. And about
three weeks later, he had agreed to run the second longest leg on an Ultra
Reach-the-Beach Team. "Front Runners were my first friends here, and for a
while almost my only friends, and it's been a home for me ever since."
Running is in Jonathan's genes. When Jonathan's father Bill was younger,
he was actually a bit of a local running legend, and Jonathan's brother and
sister both ran competitively. So naturally Jonathan joined the school team in
the 4th grade. Through the moves to new towns and new schools, through
the life struggles, the one constant in Jonathan's life was running. And he
stuck with it throughout high school.
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�But along with the running came injury. Jonathan spent time on crutches
three of the four years of high school. He also seems to have a knack for
getting himself into some pretty unfortunate situations. Junior year of high
school, Jonathan broke his jaw while playing soccer and ended up going to
the prom with his jaw wired shut. For a while, he was confined to a
wheelchair as his body recovered from 16 stress fractures, and he broke his
toe days after leaving the chair. He broke his forehead, dislocated his
shoulder twice, and shortly after moving to New York, slipped while running
and got a severe concussion in the streets of Brooklyn. He's also been
diagnosed with spina bifada (a problem with his spinal cord), lactic acidosis,
and compartment syndrome (which limit the intensity of his exercise).
Despite this string of misfortunes, Jonathan sees himself as lucky. "With all
the things I've done to myself, I could really easily be not walking, but my body
repairs itself very easily." Jonathan says he tends to live his life very
cautiously; however, when it comes to sports, "I don't see things as
dangerous so much as a challenge." For Jonathan, "it's exciting to overcome
the challenges."
This mentality shows in his running. At first, Jonathan says, Front Runners
gave him a chance to meet other gay guys who were also into running and
didn't think he was a freak. But then he realized that there were others in the
club who ran more than he did and he got inspired. "Once I branched out to
new distances and races, I had a group of people there to support me." Six
months after joining the club, with the encouragement of from a teammate,
Jonathan decided to run the Knickerbocker 60K the morning of the race, and
finished first in his age group! He credits his brother Clay as being an
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�inspiration, encouragement, and great competitor in his growing ultra
marathon adventures. The long hours and miles they have spent on the trails
together have been "invaluable."
It's this passion for long distance running that drove Jonathan to become the
official FRNY Long Distance Assistant Coach this year. In planning out all the
weekly long runs, culminating with the Blue Line Run, Jonathan brought
literally hundreds of his fellow runners through the streets of New York to
help them train for their fall marathons. At first he was a little apprehensive
about having so much responsibility, being one of the youngest members of
the club (he's only 25!). But he had nothing to worry about, and the rewards,
he says, have been immense. His favorite part of the job is "getting to see
people grow every single week as runners."
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�Jonathan says he's excited to bring more Ultra running to FRNY. He explains
that "the races are tough, and you hit rock bottom, but then the high is so
euphoric." "That's one thing I want to share with the club, to help people
discover that potential within them." He's particularly excited about the
Lookout Mountain 50-Miler coming up in December. About ten Front Runners
are signed up to go, a fact that amazes him: "So many NYC gays are going to
Chattanooga to run through the woods. Who would have thought?"
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�When asked about his own running goals, Jonathan has a long list. In April,
he plans to run the Umstead 100, his first 100-miler, and hopes to place in
the top 10. In the next two years he wants to do the Western States 100, the
Lake Placid 100, and the Great Canadian Death Race. "I want to see the
world by running it." Finally, and perhaps most importantly, "I want to do all of
the Marathon Majors with my dad. I can't imagine any greater way to do them
or any greater person to do them with." In the end, he says, "I'll just keep
doing what makes me happy and try to make other people happy too." That's
the true Front Runner spirit.
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Lessons in Relaxation
Rachel Cutler's facebook page lists four activities--triathlons, weight lifting,
hiking, and kayaking. If you ask her what she does to relax, she says "train
harder." And she's not kidding. "Rachel is hardcore," explains FRNY Mollie
Berliss. "Here's the proof. I called her during her Hawaii vacation, and she
picked up the call while biking a 10-mile uphill on a 50-mile ride during a
huge rainstorm."
This always-on approach to training and triathloning has helped
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�Rachel carve out a splendent racing record--and earn the 2009 FRNY female
Tri trophy. And it's helped Front Runners set up and sustain a
multisport training program that broadens the club's value to current and
would-be members.
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Along with Rosario Gennaro, Rachel "has been a savior to FRNY's multisport
efforts in the last year," says club president Rob Lennon. When the triple-
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sport Tritons decided to secede from FRNY, Rachel and Rosario stepped in
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�Sunset: 8:10 pm
"Rachel took the initiative and made things happen--immediately," Rob says.
"She had a game plan and stepped up to bat. I am so proud that she stuck
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with the club through some tricky times and emerged a real leader. That's not
easy to do."
Multisport workouts--either swimming or spinning--happen every
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Monday evening at the Long Island City YMCA, where Rachel (not
coincidentally) runs programming and operations as Senior Director of
Healthy Lifestyles.
For details click on Calendar at the FRNY home page, then on
Multisport Monday, or write to multisport@frny.org
Curious but concerned about how you'll compare with a gang of
rabid trimaniacs? Rachel insists these workouts aren't only for triathletes, or
even mainly for triathletes.
"I want it to be a place where people who are injured can train," Rachel says,
"where people who like to swim and don't have an opportunity can swim,
where people who want to bike and don't want to be outside in bad weather
can bike--whatever it is. I don't feel like it needs to be about people who race
triathlons. I feel it should be an opportunity for Front Runners to be connected
in another way besides speedwork or long runs or fun runs."
She remembers how an older FRNY approached her after she snagged
the 2009 club triathlete award, intrigued by the possibility of
another approach to training since injuries ended his running career. He
came to the next spin class, and although "at a completely different level of
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�fitness" from some people, "he could ride right next to younger teammates
and do a workout and still feel that he's part of Front Runners," Rachel says.
Spinners can pedal as fast or slow as they want; they can crank up the
resistance or dial it down. FRNY swimmers include "the superfast and the
superslow," she adds.
The only requirement is the ability to get from one end of the pool to the other.
"One of the best things about Rachel as a coach is that, while her training is
intense, her personality is not," Mollie Berliss observes. "She has the ability
to meet people where they are at and help them think about improving
whatever their level or situation is."
Rachel's triathlete career had a less-than-likely starting point, as did her tie to
Front Runners. "I was the fat-kid swimmer" on the high school team, she
recalls. Even though that team notched a state championship, she never
thought her athletic interests would reach past the pool, and she stayed "the
fat-kid swimmer" right through college at the University of Florida, where she
earned a masters degree in exercise physiology, and the first years of
her work as an exercise physiologist. Then, when counseling patients at San
Diego's Naval Hospital about using exercise to manage or prevent disease,
she figured she could apply some of those lessons to herself.
At that point she lifted weights and did some cardio exercise daily, but she
paid scant attention to her diet "and I couldn't run a mile." In one year she lost
35 pounds, transformed herself into a triathlete, and started racing 5Ks in 28
minutes, then in 25 minutes, then under 22. "It didn't just happen, because
stuff like that doesn't just happen," Rachel says. "It was a gradual shift in my
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�thought process and my lifestyle."
Swimming remains the mainstay of Rachel's Tris--she's usually among the
top 5 or 10 women out of the water. "Then people pass me on the bike," she
laments. But as her running improved, she could catch many of them on the
road. Now she counts racers who wheel past her in the second leg, then she
hunts them down in racing flats. Rachel often finishes among the top three in
her age group and sometimes takes home gold. She's been racing Tris for
five seasons, starting with sprint Tris, then mixing sprints with the Olympic
distance, and last year essaying her first half-ironman events.
And Rachel's not stopping there. "I want to try a marathon," she confides.
"We'll see if I get bitten." Also on her goal list--breaking the 6-hour mark in a
half-ironman (only 3 minutes to go!) and placing better in all her races.
Though she claims "I'm not one to set goals," Rachel allows that "deep down
maybe I have certain things I want to do."
One thing Rachel never wanted to do was move to New York City. "I never
lived anywhere with cold winters," and she's lived lots of places--Italy, Japan,
Israel--as the daughter in an itinerant military family. After college in
Gainesville's Gatorland, she moved with her former husband to Washington
State, then to San Diego. When he aimed for a medical residency in New
York, she begged him to find a warmer post. Though they moved to New
York, they eventually split and remain friends. And along the way Rachel
found out why her new home's called the City That Never Sleeps.
"Now I can't imagine living anywhere else," Rachel affirms, because being in
New York is like traveling from one culture to another every few blocks. "I'll
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�never get bored in New York," she figures, and racing isn't the only reason for
that. Sometime after her marriage broke up, Rachel realized she might be
limiting her dating options. During the 10 years spent with her boyfriend-thenhusband, "women weren't even on my radar. Now I can't imagine not
being with my girlfriend."
With this happy discovery on record, joining FRNY would seem a logical next
step. But it wasn't an instant match. Rachel met Claudia Cummings and
Emily Siegel at local cross-country races and Tris, and Emily invited her to a
Front Runners cross-country meet. She won!
But at first she found the club's frothy effervescence curious, at best. Who
were these people with that busy-bee coach, and why did they rabidly cheer
every last finisher, and why did they always pose for a postrace photo? But as
these cross-country encounters wore on, somehow they wore down Rachel's
resistance and made her start thinking there were aspects of this crazy club
that might fit her new New York lifestyle very well indeed. The match took
during the 2008-2009 Armory training season when Rachel found the
intense focus and camaraderie that lies behind the club's outwardly antic
disposition.
And lots of people are glad Rachel's around. "Rachel is one of the best
friends a girl (or boy, I'm sure) could have," offers FRNY director-at-large
Megan Jenkins. "I'm constantly impressed by her commitment to triathloning
and to her friends and running club". But Rachel's popularity and importance
to the club don't mean she sees FRNY as a nirvana for bicepual dykes and
PDQ queers. Although the club touts its all-embracing inclusiveness, she
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�thinks more can be done to reach people curious about a gay/lesbian sports
club but anxious about whether they'll fit in or made uneasy by the go-get-em
bravura, as Rachel once was. She hopes the multisport move may be one
way for the slightly skittish to ease their way into the club and maybe--as she
did--to start giving back in a big way.
Written by Mark Mascolini
January 2, 2012
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