2 25 66 http://archives.frny.org/files/original/1a4128e1b42ad394c1b47356f0559b2e.pdf 1a6a127e75ce2ca0f28bcad93dde510a PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Josh O’Sullivan Not Just Another Pretty Face Josh O’Sullivan wants to raise people’s spirits…when he’s not dashing them in a race. Thursday, 9:00 AM: The lanky black-haired guy in a Yankees hat and radiant red down jacket virtually jumps the steps into Penelope, a cute little down-home hotspot at the head of Curry Hill. He was up at 2:18 when he emailed a double confirmation, so he had to scramble to get here. But you get the sense that this guy isn’t late for anything. “I was going to go to sleep early but I’ve been so stressed over these essays, open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �I had to go out and have fun,” he says rapid fire. The essays are for a scholarship application for the vaunted Vassar writing program. Telling his own story is a new concept for him, he explains, even though he’s spent the better part of his adult life selling himself for the camera (We’ll get to that shortly). “How do I tell them about my whole life and answer all the questions Facebook Twitter Instagram they ask within the cap?” he asks. Before you laugh, I should tell you this 25-year-old student has toured the world as a brand model, competed in six Junior Olympics in two different sports, and penned a regional newspaper column for three years running. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 9:49 AM EDT Not so easy to fit into 500 words. 81° Global pose Josh grew up in a village of 3,000 outside Calgary, where “sports were my life.” Ironically enough, he never ran cross-country or track, and only High: 87° Low: 69° discovered distance running last year. He started with dance, baseball, and Partly Cloudy badminton; played hockey for the team his dad coached; and then diving Feels like: 81 °F found him. Literally. A diving coach spotted the lithe 12-year-old at a birthday pool party, had him try a few moves, and immediately called over his mother and signed him up. Josh went on to swim for Canada in the Junior Olympics the next four years, and on two of those trips also played on the Canadian volleyball team. Then volleyball got him a ticket around the world. A modeling scout approached Josh at a volleyball tournament during his senior year, and said he could be working immediately in Toronto. Even though he’d already Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 49% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 6 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am earned college scholarships for swimming and volleyball, Josh headed for open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Sunset: 8:10 pm pdfcrowd.com �the city as soon as he’d finished final exams. Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search “School was never a big priority for me, and college was never a requirement in my family or my town,” he says. “I was so burned out my Mom had to do my homework while I practiced. I had no idea what I wanted to do in school, so it would have been a waste.” He certainly didn’t waste the modeling opportunity. He got to New York the first year, built a portfolio, and then traveled the world working three months at a time in 10 countries on four continents (including Greece, Turkey, Thailand, open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Singapore, China, Hong Kong and London). After five years, though, shuttling between casting calls in a van from 9AM to 9PM took its toll. On a Sprint audition in New York early last year, the panelists’ questions exposed a raw nerve. “I felt ridiculous telling a panel of people what my favorite app on my phone is,” he says. “I suddenly hated everything about the experience, because it really didn’t matter what I said, it was really about whether my face could make them money. I felt like I wasn’t doing any good for anyone else. When I walked out I called my Mom and said ‘I can’t do this anymore.’” open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Positive writing Ironically enough, he got the job, and his face still greets customers at Sprint stores across the country. Then he stopped modeling, switched his visa to student status, and landed in the Class of 2016 at Manhattan College. There he’s found professors he can admire and learn from and relate to, most notably the advisor who’s sponsoring his Vassar application. Ultimately, he has his sights on an Ivy League school. He’s already a published author. Three years ago, after writing his way through five journals, he pitched his hometown newspaper on a column focusing on “positivity and perspective.” He’s been writing it monthly ever since. To hear him tell it, sharing his positive outlook is nothing short of a calling: “I want to make people think in a different way about things that are open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �sad, hard, or unchangeable.” He gets the attitude in large measure from his family. His sister, “an adventurous hippie to say the least,” tours the world on a whim with nothing but a backpack. His parents are nothing but understanding. “My family’s incredible,” says Josh. “They’re the biggest part of my life, and their support is the reason I’m doing what I’m doing today. There’s never been a lack of support in any area of my life.” He’s not exaggerating. After he came out to his sister five years ago, she danced through the kitchen. His mother gave him a hug he could feel all over and said, “This only brings more color to my family.” After he broke the news to his father, the former hockey star known locally as Bull called the next day to thank him for coming out to him. It’s more than rubbed off. “Josh has overwhelming compassion for life and for others,” says friend and FRNY teammate Tony Majewski. “He lives every day thoughtfully and to the fullest, and he makes sure whoever he’s with gets a piece of that.” open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Accidental obsession Like his other passions, running found Josh. He was asking around about volleyball leagues a year ago when he met Front Runner Tony Forte. Tony told him about doing 9+1 to get into the next year’s New York Marathon, and suddenly Josh was signed up for the Scotland Run 10K. He’d never run more than three miles before, but his competitiveness kicked in and he “just went.” He was hooked. By the end of the year, he’d run 13 NYRR races and established himself as a local elite runner. Now that he has access to open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �training, he’s ticking off middle-distance PRs and building his distance toward this year’s NYM. “What got me obsessed was that I got to see what I did, where I placed, where I was faster or slower, and where I was relative to everyone,” he says. “You get out what you put in. There’s a direct connection and nobody else has a say in it. I love that.” Tony got Josh to a fun run last spring, and the welcome he received drew him back. Then he experienced the unique team camaraderie of the Pride Parade, where he met a soul mate in Tony Majewski. The Armory made him feel like a world-class athlete again, and Awards Night drove home how open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �much members care about the club and each other. “That’s who Josh is,” says Forte. “He’s a genuine person. I’ve never had to go to him for a crisis, but if I needed to, I know he’d drop everything on a dime for me. He cares about people more than he cares about anything else.” In Front Runners, Josh has found a place that returns the energy. “I feel so connected to so many Front Runners already, and I’ve just started,” he says. “I couldn’t ask for a better support system, or a better group of people to open myself up to on every level. I can be myself and be vulnerable and grow here. My life will never be the same, because Front Runners is opening door after door.” open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �April 1, 2013 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_profile_of_the_month_josh_osullivan.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/ddb8862494b17715d7e409523335a9b1.pdf 46b2388607f2dfaab5dcf01cdf83be71 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › John MacConnell John MacConnell is in denial about his Front Runner celebrity status. "It's really embarrassing for people to know I'm fast," he says. "I'm just here to have fun." MacConnell certainly shirks the spotlight in favor of cool selfeffacement, describing himself pithily as "a dork that likes to run and draw" on his onlinefacebook profile. But don't be fooled by the blasé candor. MacConnell is a far cry from some casual jogger or paint-by-number dilettante. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Facebook When it comes to both running and art, MacConnell illustrates the best of what can happen when deep natural talent is cultivated not through toil and discipline but through the joyful pursuit of what one loves. Since joining FRNY Twitter Instagram in early fall 2007, MacConnell has run with the club because he enjoys the company - not because he's training to quicken his race times. "If I wanted to run by myself and really fast every run," he says. "I'd stay home and run." That collegial philosophy has helped establish MacConnell as not only the fastest member on the team today but also one of the fastest men to Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT ever run for FRNY. Similarly, he describes himself as a kid who had always kept sketchbooks without ever really thinking of himself as an artist. At the 81° tender age of 23, MacConnell has already graduated from one of the country's most prestigious art schools, is pursuing a graduate degree in illustration and has a sleek website showcasing his art. His successes lend credence to the bumper-sticker wisdom: "Follow Your Bliss." High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search As a young boy growing up in Richmond, Virginia and then in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, MacConnell played soccer every fall and swam every summer. It wasn't until a soccer coach told him that he would play significantly better if he were just a little faster that MacConnell turned to running. "I decided to run with the cross country team to prepare for the soccer season," he says. "My brother (MacConnell is the youngest of three boys) did cross country so the coach made me feel right at home "I never went back to soccer." MacConnell adapted to running so well that, with the exception of freshman year when he wrestled in winter, he ran all three seasons for his entire high open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �school career. "The team became my best friends," asserts MacConnell. "We trained seven days a week, sometimes twice a day, year round - wind, rain, snow, sleet or shine." Looking back MacConnell agrees the intensity was "a little crazy," but the results sure paid off for the team, which won the State Championship his junior year. With a running resume artisanal crafted for ascendance into Division 1 sports and complemented by a knockout academic record that included salutatorian-ship, MacConnell could have had Stanford or the Ivy League wooing at his trellis. Despite his love of racing and his graduating high school one of the fastest runners in the state of Pennsylvania, MacConnell chose a college that had no sports programs whatsoever. Pursuing his lifelong passion to draw, MacConnell instead matriculated into the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he would receive his BFA in Illustration with a minor in Art History. Not that he forsook running all together in college. MacConnell helped keep alive an intramural running group that never had more than a dozen members and was not competitive. "[At] an art school, there's no way one can do their school work and be on a competitive team," he says. The four-year hiatus from racing did not hamper MacConnell's instincts or his abilities. By mostly training alone and casually running with the Baltimore Front Runners ("It was slower and shorter than I usually run," he says of the experience, "but it was better than running by myself all the time"), MacConnell clocked a marathon debut of 2:40 in October 2006. An MFA program in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts then brought him to New York last August where fame and adulation awaited him among FRNY's open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �racing divas. (Now, now John, these profiles are supposed to make you blush.) The truth is that MacConnell managed to run under the radar for several weeks after joining the club. It wasn't until Steve Vizena cajoled him into racing the Joe Kleinerman 10K - the ultimate club points race of 2007 - in December that MacConnell's speed was revealed to the club. In that race, he placed 37 th overall, running 5:34 pace and finishing almost three minutes ahead of the next Front Runner. Clearly, a star was born. He next helped teammates Kelsey Louie and Rob Lennon win the Cherry Tree 10-mile relay in Prospect Park in February of this year. Since then, MacConnell has competed in five NYRR races for the team, varying from 4 miles to the halfmarathon-all distances he had never raced before joining Front Runners. "I really don't have a lot of experience running anything but the 800 meters, the mile and the 5K," says MacConnell. Well, he's a quick study. MacConnell came in first for the team in all but one of the races he competed in, and he won the 5K at the International Front Runner Games in May and the Steve Gerben award at the Pride Run in June. MacConnell's fastest pace (so far) has been 5:14 at the Run for the Parks 4-miler in July. "Racing regularly has been fun," he says. "It's great to have such an enthusiastic group." Despite his ever-quickening times, MacConnell stays true to his mantra that the fun runs are about running with others and not whizzing by teammates to showcase his immense natural talent. But the genius part is how readily this easy-going affability swaps out for cold bloodthirst come race day. "I'm a fierce competitor once I step to the line," he admits. "If it's a race, I'm going for the win." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �That same energy fuels his career in art. MacConnell has done a wide range of successful commercial work and also has a portfolio full of more imaginative and graphic drawings that often draw on comics as a source of inspiration. "I think a lot of things draw gays to superheroes," MacConnell says of his own fascination. "A lot of us grew up (and maybe still are) living double lives. Scared to come out, we find ourselves hiding under a "secret identity" feeling like we can only be ourselves with a special group of people." Well John, we hope you've found that group in FRNY. Now, it's time to come out and embrace your stardom. Random Data Favorite Superhero - "Spiderman - he's cute, funny, smart and athletic what's not to love." Coveted Superpower - "Telekinesis - the ability to lift and move objects with the mind. Think Jean Grey/Phoenix from the X-men movies (I think my inner nerd is showing)" Celebrity Crush - Jake Gyllenhaal Running Accomplishment of which you are most proud? - "First marathon, 2:40, being my own coach while trying to graduate college with honors." Running Goal - Running 2:30ish in NYC this year. "2:40 is what I ran in my first marathon. It'd be nice to beat it. I'm not putting in the miles to achieve this, but a boy can dream." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Running Advice - "Two things and they don't need to be contradictory: (1) Running is an equal equation. What you put in = What you get out; (2) Remember to have fun. If you're not enjoying yourself, your times WILL suffer." Written by Robert Lennon January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_john_macconnell.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/6c52ec5eabafdc7f70ff4b9f240d6312.pdf f7e273c511eb1929d60b8c0e41f12621 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Mike Keohane Fire Within FRNY’s new coach has the moxie inside. - By Fred Pfaff The only thing mild about Mike Keohane is his manner. The new coach of Front Runners has the competitive grit to run with the world’s best – just don’t expect him to boast about it. He doesn’t back down from a challenge, and nothing seems to daunt him. This Jersey boy’s stared down plenty of disappointment and come out a contented man. His boyhood love was soccer, but he “wasn’t any good.” He could run all day, though, and the track coach at Seton Hall Prep stole him away for cross-country his senior year. He went on to run for Wilkes College, qualify for the NCAA Championship his senior year, and then run the NYC Marathon in 2:30. “It was a very painful experience,” he says, “and I open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �was hooked.” His college coach hooked him up with Tom Fleming, and he started clocking 2:16 and 2:17 performances. The first time he tried to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, he missed by five seconds, running a 2:20:05 in Columbus, OH in 1990. “I could see the clock from a half mile away,” he recalls, “and I was running as hard as I could. People told me if you write a letter they’ll let you in, and I said ‘no, I want to qualify.’” open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �He went back to Columbus the next year and ran 2:17. But then a nagging foot injury hobbled him at mile 22 in the Trials. The road to retail When the foot injury lingered too long, he traded his Olympic aspirations for a shot at a career in making prosthetics. He’d studied engineering in order to make prostheses, after living his life without a left arm and, ironically enough, deciding in high school to abandon the artificial limbs that were either cumbersome or uncomfortable. But as soon as he moved to New York, NYU, the only school offering a graduate degree at the time, ended its program. So he volunteered in the prosthetics department at Hospital for Special Surgery, only to discover that prosthetics engineers have to deal with toxic fumes daily, and most consider it simply an occupational hazard. He wanted too much to run for the rest of his life to take that chance. Then his passion made a home for him. A new store called Super Runners needed an assistant manager, and Mike found he could do a lot more than sell shoes on the floor. Retail proved an avenue to share with other runners, and he soon developed the empathy that longtime students say makes him such a great coach. At the same time, he made his coaching debut with the Columbia University women’s cross-country team. Now the manager of RUN by Foot Locker in Union Square, Mike has found a natural expression in retail. “I understand runners, especially people who run in New York,” he says. “It’s such a stress release. It’s my drug of choice. If I can’t run, I’m not a happy person. When I say that to customers, they get it immediately. Someone who is having problems with their running wants to talk to someone who has been there.” His fascination for engineering led him to take the podiatric industry’s certification program – something unheard of for a running store manager. Now he’s arguably the best fitter in New York. And, of course, there’s coaching. While coaching the Columbia women in the early Nineties, he started doing running classes as a way to promote his Super Runners store. Before he knew it, he was coaching speed sessions, marathon training clinics, shoe clinics, doctor’s office clinics and private lessons. In recent years he’s cut his coaching back to a Tuesday night class and a few private clients, in order to devote more time to family – he and Raleigh, his wife of 23 years, have a 15-year-old daughter, Maud. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Front Runners has Maud to thank for our new coach, actually. At the last Thursday Night at the Races this past winter, Front Runners lined the finishing stretch of the 10,000-meter relay and cheered her on as she finished out the race for Mike’s team. Marty McElhiney approached Mike after the relay with a flyer for the FRNY track meet and an application for the FRNY coaching job. Mike turned and asked his daughter, “Do you think I should apply for this job?” Without hesitation, she said, “That would be awesome.” Subtle tweaks with significant impact Awesome for FRNY, too, according to students who’ve seen times drop and satisfaction soar over the past several years. “Everybody can tell you splits and can give you a program, but Mike will learn your break point especially on mileage,” says Murat Beyazit, a member of The New York Flyers who’s been coached by Mike for the past three years and at 53 is clocking his most impressive times. “He takes the time to get to know your running form, he’s positive and realistic, and he’s open to suggestion. Unlike a lot of other coaches, he has zero arrogance. He doesn’t use fancy terminology though he knows running inside out, and he never talks about himself. It’s all about you.” “Mike’s not the guy hollering at you, he’s the guy who runs up next to you and whispers subtle tweaks that make a huge difference,” says Sondra Martinez, another Flyers member who has trained with him for three years. “Mike has a superior knowledge of form. He looks at each person and sees a couple subtle things that make a huge difference but don’t fundamentally change the way you run.” For Sondra, that’s meant learning to reach back with her elbows, particularly running uphill, and remembering to run tall. She’s mastering hills on her way to what she intends as a Boston Marathon qualifying time this year. “He’s so subtle but open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �She’s mastering hills on her way to what she intends as a Boston Marathon qualifying time this year. “He’s so subtle but the workouts are so hard,” she says. “I’ve done workouts with him that I can’t believe I finished. Every aspect of every workout is down to a science.” Mike’s low-key style stands in sharp contrast to past Front Runners coaches, and he’s a straight man. That was a consideration for the search committee, until he garnered the highest praise among candidates in a test at a track workout. “On the surface, Mike might not be whom people would imagine as our coach,” says Rachel Cutler, who led the search committee along with Marty McElhiney. “We need someone consistent, solid, logical, knowledgeable, experienced; someone who’s going to be patient. Someone reliable. We’re going to end up finding he is that person. He won’t take over the coaching program; he’ll shape it. And people will reach potential they would not otherwise.” Longer, stronger, injury-free Mike has his sights set broadly, because he appreciates runners at all levels. In his words, “The person who finishes their first marathon and is thrilled with the experience is as gratifying as the person who runs a couple marathons a year and wants to break three hours.” For his own running, he’s learned to take the long view. At 48, he’s setting his sights on a return to national competition at 50. Experience tells him he’ll make it there with continuity. Students, coaches, and longtime competitors agree he’ll make a formidable re-entry. Mike applies the long view to coaching, too, and he prizes consistency over extreme effort. “All of us have the capacity to build cardiovascular and muscular strength,” he says. “It’s about going back out day after day, and getting stronger every time out. You don’t have to run faster; you’ll still get stronger. It’s not about leaving it all out there.” Longer, stronger, injury-free – who wouldn’t want that? open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �June 1, 2013 new s letter, profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. 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That sardonic yet level-headed insight by Jeff Werner says much about his approach to running, and maybe as much about his approach to life. The Front Runner board member and perennial Reach-the-Beach trooper goes beyond the standard don't-sweat-the-small-stuff counsel of pop psychology. His attitudes on running and working and living in New York suggest a broader perspective, something like "don't let the big stuff overwhelm you, either." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Werner suspects, for example, that he may be the only Ivy League law school graduate who never bothered to check his grades after the first year, when he needed to demonstrate his academic acumen to prospective summer employers. After that, he figured knowing his grades wasn't going to change how hard he worked. Facebook Twitter Instagram Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy "I told myself it didn't matter," Werner explains. "I know I'm working as hard as I feel comfortable working. Could I work harder? Yes, but I don't really feel like Feels like: 81 °F it. If I'm not doing well, it'll get me upset. And if I'm doing well, that's good." Barometer: 29.83 in and steady A few weeks before graduation day, though, he admits to a spasm of Humidity: 52% "hyperpracticality" when he asked a dean to check his grades, just to make sure he passed everything and could pick up his diploma, "and I was Visibility: 10 mi perfectly fine." Dewpoint: 69 °F This insouciant attitude to results that many of us obsess-or at least worry- Wind: 7 mph about carries over into Werner's work life and into his running. He loves his job as an attorney for the Office of Management and Budget of the City of New open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Sunrise: 5:50 am pdfcrowd.com �York, reviewing projects across the five boroughs and helping the city issue Sunset: 8:10 pm bonds to pay for them. "But I'm not one of those people who goes around telling people what I do all the time and why I think it's important. There are a POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER lot of people who do that, especially in New York City. They get on my nerves." And Werner may be the only committed FRNY racer who doesn't know, or care about, most of his PRs. After this June's Pride Race, he didn't bother search checking finish times until teammates asked him a day later whether he made it onto "the first page" of the New York Road Runner Club online results. He checked, and he hadn't, but he didn't fret. "I want to do my best in every race, but I could not tell you the fastest time I've done for almost any race," Werner says. "If I cared about my times as much as most people cared, I think it would stress me out and I don't think I could run." Although he has run a 5-mile race in 32:43 and a half-marathon in 1:29:56, Werner's marathon PR is 3:26:55. If you put the 5-mile time into an online race-pace calculator, it predicts a 3:12 marathon. The half-marathon PR predicts under a 3:10 marathon finish. Why the discrepancy? In his first marathon, for which he trained hard, Werner committed the hallowed strategic error of starting too fast: 6:15 miles in Brooklyn turned into 11s in Manhattan. And he ran later marathons with too little training. "Every year around July I say I'm going to train for the marathon and I don't," Werner admits. "This year because of running slowly in the Pride run, I want to get better. I say I really am going to try this year. But it's possible that I won't." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �And marathon results that might drive equally fast runners nuts haven't dimmed Werner's enthusiasm for the 26-mile tour of Gotham. "I get emotional every time I do the New York Marathon because you run through different neighborhoods and you see the city and there are so many people cheering," he says. "I think around mile 8 last year I was almost tearing up." Front Runner Dennis Giza remembers watching the New York Marathon from mile 17 two years ago-another race for which Werner had trained little. "Scores of Front Runners passed before him and few looked particularly happy," Giza remembers. "No one on the course did. But then came Jeff. He CLEARLY was enjoying the race. I saw in his beaming smile, his jaunty step, his ease in pushing forward an indescribable love of running, of the marathon, and of New York." Werner's love affair with New York City-all of it-might seem natural for someone born and raised here. But today he describes an insular existence as a child, adolescent, and even a Columbia Law student whose life revolved around the Upper East Side where he lived, the Upper West Side where he went to school, the downtown grid where his parents worked, and his grandmother's Gramercy Park enclave. "I had never even heard of Park Slope until I graduated from college," Werner confesses. And when he finished law school he rented an apartment in the same East Side building where his parents lived. But soon the multifarious lure of a multiethnic metropolis began to exert its lure as he sampled neighborhood after neighborhood on walking tours. When his friends started settling in Brooklyn, he considered buying an apartment there-but farther open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �afield than the gentrified reaches of Cobble Hill and Park Slope. While on a walking tour of Bedford Stuyvesant with fellow FRNY Mike Arden, Werner decided to sink his roots there-in a neighborhood remembered by many New Yorkers only for the 1960s riots. Before long, Werner started supplementing his walking-tour research and on-the-job explorations with bike rides through Brooklyn and Queens. After this year's Pride Race, he brunched with FRNY chums, then met a friend and pedaled to Jacob Riis Park for a dip in the Atlantic. "That morning I was in Central Park running the Pride Race," he recalls, "and that afternoon I was sitting on the beach in Queens and looking at the sunset. It's just amazing." Another recent outing took Werner to Brooklyn's Mill Basin, where he sought out a locally esteemed diner, noshed on stuffed cabbage, read the newspaper, "and soaked up the ambience. It didn't feel anything like the New York City most people know, but it is New York City, and it was really cool." Contrary to what many nonnative gay and lesbian New Yorkers may suspect, Werner doesn't believe growing up in the city puts you on a faster track to coming out. Although his extended family had gay and lesbian friends, he kept his sexual leanings under wraps throughout high school and his college years at Bowdoin in Maine. Only when his best high school friend came out to him right before his junior year in college did Werner decide it was time to start leading a frankly gay life. "I didn't date women or anything; I wasn't intending to be straight; but I wasn't open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �gay either," he says now. If his high school pal hadn't declared his preference, Werner wonders "how much longer I would've waited-he sort of forced the issue." Feeling his way into his new lifestyle, Werner perused the Lesbian and Gay Community Center's Website "to look for an activity I'd like that would allow me to expand my horizons" in the gay community. Since he'd run crosscountry in high school, he focused on Front Runners, a club he'd never heard of before. Like many first-timers, he put off his initial FRNY foray-partly because he considered 10 AM on Saturday mornings outrageously early, and partly because of "being a little intimidated." He finally settled on a debut at the Wednesday evening fun run, where he remembers meeting Dan Armstrong. The next Saturday he recalls Michael Orzechowski being particularly welcoming, "and the rest is history." Werner added his speed to the first Front Runner team to compete in the day-long Reach-the-Beach relay, sharing a van with teammates Peter McGrane, Ryan Singer, Kelsey Louie, Patrick Thomas, and Peter Boyden. Werner has run all eight RTBs with the club since then and helps organize FRNY teams every year. He believes anyone who can run a half-marathon can run Reach-the-Beach, and he assures would-be baton passers that they're going to love it. But "honestly," he allows "you don't really like it until it's over." Today Werner is a club regular, inserting himself in pre- and postrun banter with an arch "Hey, what are you talking about?" His pal Dennis Giza says "those who have been fortunate enough to get to know him better are open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �rewarded with a singular individual who is warm, adventurous, thoughtful, caring, generous-and really smart." Last year Werner deepened his commitment to the club by winning the treasurer's position on the FRNY board, and this year he holds the post of secretary. The proximate reason for his joining the board was simple: thenpresident Mike Benjamin asked if he'd be interested. When Werner thought about it, he figured "being someone who worries about details" would make him a good addition to the FRNY leadership, and he thinks that talent has paid off in clarifying that all club donations, including membership dues, are tax deductible and organizing an online registration process that helped boost club membership close to 600. "Being on the board is hard work, and I don't think people realize that this thing just doesn't happen," Werner says. Before joining the board, "even I thought, you show up on a Wednesday, you show up on a Saturday, and you run. What do you guys actually need to do? But there are some real decisions that need to be made. And being president, I can't imagine, it's a second job." But when asked to explain what he loves best about FRNY, it's not his contributions as a board member, his perfect Reach-the-Beach record, or his romping New York City Marathons. "Front Runners has become a family in some sense," Werner believes. "You take the good and the bad. There are people who get on your nerves, but it comes with the territory. Even the people you love, you get into fights with them. I think what makes FRNY special is the people, not the races and not the running." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Quick Q&A What's your favorite book about New York City? Why are you a member of the Monica Seles fan club? Monica [a tennis great of the early 90s] had real grit and determination and I respect that. She won nine grand slams over a very short time. Then she got stabbed on the court by a fan of her rival. It really was one of the great tragedies of sports history. I know it sounds not that important in the scheme of life, but it really is tragic. If you could date any man in the United States, whom would you date? Anderson Cooper's really cute, but I don't think I could date someone who worked his hours. How many pairs of running shoes do you own? I'm really bad. I tend not to throw out my running shoes, so I have a bunch. But I have only one pair I run in, usually for too long. It's part of my not taking running seriously enough. It's very intimidating to buy new shoes. If you could excel in any pursuit in which you don't currently excel, what would it be? I'm pretty happy the way I am. My life isn't perfect, but I am what I am and I'm striving to be a better person every day and I'm satisfied with that. I'm not disappointed with myself and the things I'm not good at. I could be a faster runner, or maybe I can't be a faster runner, but so what? open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Written by Mark Mascolini January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_jeff_werner.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/476b4f1c84c261b1800918142e79f400.pdf b90ddd0ecdb6053f52ee7379e9561adb PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Paul Racine Why can Paul Racine calculate (in his head) how much longer one travels per Armory lap by running in lane 2 instead of lane 1? How can he reckon whether he's on pace at mile 18 of a marathon without reference to a wrist band? And why can he tell you how to figure your age-graded percent result in a road race that doesn't report AG%? Racine suggests the answer to all these questions is his near-perfect score on the math SAT. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �That calculatory acumen probably also partly explains his success as a computer systems analyst in the pharmacy department at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. But it doesn't explain why Racine quickly became one of the most popular Front Runners when he joined the Facebook Twitter Instagram club over a decade ago, and why he remains so high on the FRNY popularity chart today. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph To understand those feats, you need only talk to anyone who has run, raced, Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �or trained with Racine in the past decade, like one of his 2009 FRNY co-race Sunset: 8:10 pm captains, Kerstin Marx. She tells how he abandoned his plan to run last year's 18-mile Marathon Tune-up as a building run, slowing down to pace POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER Marx through the final miles and help her peak for her PR 2008 New York City Marathon. After training with Racine in tune-ups, on the track, and over Harlem Hill, Marx started calling him 'The Clock' for his chronometric ability to search stay on pace whether running 200 meters or 18 miles. How does he do it? "It's just a sense, just a perception of effort," says Racine, a self-described phlegmatic who protests that fellow FRNYs will be "bored by these picayunish details of how to run like a metronome." But anyone in the club with even a passing interest in racing must want to know more about Racine's steady pace and staying power since his 5K debut on September 18, 1994 and even more about the laurel-laden 2008 comeback that gave him one of the best racing records in the club. Since the mid-1990s, Racine consistently raced with an AG% in the mid-60s. But that changed last year, when he reeled off an AG% string of 70s, culminating with a 73.3% in the August Team Championships, a 73.6% in the September 5th Avenue Mile, and an age-group first in October?s 1.7-mile Norway Run. 'The Clock' also clicked out a 3:43:30 in the Hartford Marathon, snagging a sixth place in his age group and racing his second Boston Marathon-qualifying time in 2008 and his fastest marathon since 2002. All told, Racine finished among the top 10 in the 60+ age group nine times in 2008, in distances ranging from the mile to the marathon. Along the way, he helped FRNY's 60+ Supervets to a smashing third-place finish among 18 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �other area clubs that fielded Supervet teams in 2008, after contributing to a fourth-place Supervet placing in 2007. Last year he scored for the Supervets in every points race he ran. In the process, Racine almost accomplished the impossible -- snatching the 2008 FRNY 60+ age-group trophy from that Force of Nature otherwise known as David Pitches. Late in the year, Racine led Pitches in this contest; both of them finished with prodigious points totals exceeding 400. And don't think Mr. Pitches was unaware of the stealthy Racine on his heels: "I kept my eye on him," Pitches concedes. "In all of my races last year, I was looking over my shoulder, and he was there all the time, slowly and deliberately moving up on me, out to get me. I won't be able to hold him off much longer. He's back! Aaaggghhhh!" Whence this athletic prowess? Racine avers it's not inborn. Growing up in Hopedale, Massachusetts, he confesses, "I was a sissy: I couldn't throw a baseball or hit one either." But after joining the gay outdoor club Sundance as a biker, Racine fell in love with biker/runner Bob Nelson. After the two completed several Boston to Provincetown Rides -- a feat Nelson likens to completing a marathon -- Nelson sweet-talked his bike mate into running with FRNY, which Racine had already joined for 'social reasons.' Although not immediately hooked on running, Racine "went from 0 miles in August of 1994 to a marathon in May of 1995," finishing with a 3:36:48 (gun time) at the tender age of 47. Hey, I can do this, and I like it,? Racine concluded. But it was a bumpy road between the hometown Racine calls Hopelessdale ("If you ever find yourself open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �there, you're lost") and success in New York, in FRNY, and in his career. After earning a BS in pharmacy at the University of Connecticut, Racine got drafted and found himself dispensing drugs at an Army hospital in Fort Lee, Virginia during the Vietnam war. After his discharge, he worked 6 years as a pharmacist in Petersburg, Virginia, then decided to go after a graduate degree at St. John's in Queens Still in the closet, Racine hated New York. His "life as a gay man," he recalls now, "consisted of wandering around Greenwich Village, waiting for someone to drag me into a gay bar, which didn't happen." What did happen is that Racine learned of a group called Gay People in Health Care, "mustered the courage" to attend a meeting, espied a coworker sitting across the room from him, and got picked up by somebody else. Racine was 33, and it was off to the races. (Although single today, he wears a triplelooped commitment ring in memory of his partner of 4 years, who died in 1993.) Dave Pitches is not mistaken when he suggests Racine's 2008 comeback was calculated. Although Racine rejects the label "goal oriented" ("It's kind of hard for me to make goals and stick to them; I also procrastinate a lot"), he did aim to take advantage of his first full year at age 60 to gather some agegroup and AG% garlands. And (listen up, Vets and Supervets) he makes no secret of his success formula: First, find yourself a coach named Kelsey Louie. Second, listen to him. Third, don't overdo it: Run 4 or 5 days a week instead of 6 or 7, maybe crosstraining on no-run days. (Racine looped Central Park on his bike, aiming for open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �22 minutes per 6-mile lap.) Fourth, avoid injury by limiting weekly miles to the 40s when peaking for a marathon. (Earlier, he peaked in the high 50s.) Fifth, eat well, which for Racine means grazing the "four basic food groups: Haagen-Dazs, chocolate, peanut butter, and potato chips." After a great race, he suggests, "eat a great breakfast." Despite Racine's professed love of high-calorie munchables, only when injury forces a layoff from running does he "balloon up" to 135 pounds. When in racing form, the streamlined Racine typically carries 125 to 128 pounds on his lanky 5'10" frame. That gives him a body mass index (weight/height figured as kg/m2) of 18.2, far, far below the overweight threshold of 25. ?I?m basically full of air,? he explains. When not running, biking, working, eating, or sleeping, Racine is usually learning a new language. He has studied (in order) Latin, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and Greek. "Fantastischer Marathon!" he e-mailed Dusseldorf native Marx minutes after her stellar 2008 outing. He hopes to brush up his German, perhaps with personal tutoring from Marx, in time for the Cologne gay games of 2010. Among his most satisfying road-racing exploits, Racine lists his first marathon, his first Boston qualifier (a PR 3:28:51 at Disney World in 1999), his first Boston (a 3:33:40 in 2000), and Reach-the-Beach, the 200-mile allday-all-night relay that sends teams of 6 or 12 from Franconia to Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. Right now, he's focused on Boston 2009, but he might run Reach-the-Beach again, especially "if we could make a team of geezers." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �But he insists that his medal-winning 2008 did not stoke the fires of racing mania: "I never really got too excited about it, and I never got any runner's high after a workout or a race. I mostly got hungry." And since Racine's first race, he's never stopped egging on his teammates, says co-Supervet Pitches: "His quiet encouragement and support to me and other Front Runners, for so many years, embodies the true meaning of sportsmanship and love that is Front Runners." Random Data Favorite running shoe color: Orange. That's my favorite color anything. I am a high-visibility runner. Favorite digital device: My iPod Shuffle, because it's a no-brainer. You just turn it on. Favorite building in New York City: The Chrysler Building. I like deco and I can see it from my office. Ideal actor for his movie biography: David Bowie. Years ago, I would be told that I looked like David Bowie, because I used to spend a lot of time outdoors in the summer and my hair would bleach. Favorite animal movie: "Ratatouille," because it's my favorite food movie too. Written by Mark Mascolini January 2, 2012 open in browser PRO version profile Perm alink Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �© Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_paul_racine.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/232118c2ca0fe8a7518ba20f5bb5c7a7.pdf 8b66f2ec913bd0c1cca578534036a2a0 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › “I Thought People Who Ran Marathons Were Insane” Kerri Fox — a Brown University International Relations/Russian Studies major and long-distance cyclist — never thought of herself as a runner until late 2013. She has asthma and didn’t think she could do it, and even once she was doing it she found it hard to actually call herself a runner. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Facebook Twitter Instagram Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 9:49 AM EDT 81° As recently as a year and a half ago, Fox thought that marathon runners were crazy. “I thought people who ran marathons were insane,” Fox told me over the phone on a recent workday, taking a break from her job in project finance. High: 87° Low: 69° Partly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F These days Fox is not only an active member of Front Runners New York, but she has also run four marathons. When New York’s 2012 marathon got canceled after Hurricane Sandy, she went up to Central Park intending to do Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 49% a 13-14 mile training run, but was swept away by the crowds of DIY marathoners and unofficial support, and ended up running the full 26.2 Visibility: 10 mi miles. She had only gone into the park with one Gu, but ended up getting a Dewpoint: 69 °F banana, bagel and Gatorade from total strangers. A few weeks later, Fox ran the Seattle Marathon — her first official marathon but not her last. Wind: 6 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search In June 2013 she ran the San Francisco Marathon, and finally, in November 2013, Fox got to race through all five boroughs during the New York City Marathon. She wore a Front Runners singlet with her name in big letters and made a photo taken by fellow Front Runner Da Ping Luo her main Facebook profile picture. It was only after that race, that she finally started calling herself a runner. She also realized she had found an incredible community. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �So, how did Fox become one of those crazy marathon runners and a happy one at that? Fox decided to start running when she was visiting the Bay Area in February 2012 and realized she had never run San Francisco’s Bay to Breakers Race. The 12-kilometer race bills itself as the oldest consecutively run annual footrace in the world, dating back to 1912. It starts near the San Francisco Bay and ends at the Great Highway where waves crash into the beach.< open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Fox is from the Bay Area, and she realized it was a crime that she’d never done the iconic race. She took a beginners running class at Jack Rabbit, joined FRNY and made preparing for the May race her big project. That’s when Fox realized running was fun – she remembers spectators holding signs advising runners to run, “because dieting is not an option,” and other runners running the course backwards dressed as salmon. “To my surprise, I was able to run every inch. I was expecting to have to walk,” she told me. “I woke up the next day, and I was like, ‘Now what?’” Fox came back and decided to start training for her first half marathon - the SF “First Half” in July. Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge on foot was magnificent, but the distance was really hard for Fox and she remembers watching other runners continuing past her in Golden Gate Park for the full marathon – and thinking “who would be crazy enough to do that to themselves?” open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Upon returning to New York at the end of July, a cycling buddy asked when she planned to ramp up to run a full marathon. Her response: “never.” Less than a week later, however, long-time FRNY member Rachel Cutler urged her to take that next step and train for the 2012 New York City marathon as part of an AIDS/HIV fundraiser for Harlem United. While that marathon was canceled, over the course of 2013 Fox became increasingly active in Front Runners. She had already lived in New York for nearly 19 years when she joined the team, but FRNY opened her up to an entirely new circle of friends. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Recently, Fox, who does not consider herself one of the more gifted runners in the group, went to an indoor track relay. She was moved by the encouraging attitude of virtually every FRNY member who was there. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �“It was just so much fun,” she told me. “My relay team was the last team to finish, and everybody stuck around and still cheered to the end. I love the fact that our club has really amazing elite runners and also has people like me who do whatever they can. It is the people that make it great.” Long time FRNY member Michelle Mazzara and Coach Mike are now engaged helping Fox stretch for her next goal (which, to her, still seems extremely distant) – a BQ time. Meanwhile, her 8 pound papillon, Napoleon, has made two recent appearances at FRNY Long Runs and intends to learn how to run in a straight line in 2014. He is also hoping for his own singlet. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �March 10, 2014 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_i_thought_people_who_ran_marathons_were_insane.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/5ca0161592f41be87c5e79aea06692b4.pdf 38637fd18da400a6d35f3936a99a3f0a PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Patrick Guilfoyle Patrick Guilfoyle doesn't waste a lot of words. You can run with him for the better part of a twenty-mile training run (if you're fleet enough of foot) and share little more than the street directions on the course turn sheet. But like many befitting the label "the strong silent type," when he does open up there are tomes within annals amid compendia that he can offer on life, love, and the pursuit of happiness. All as it relates to running, of course. While Guilfoyle claims not to have been a natural runner, he has spent the last thirty-plus years burnishing his talent and seeking to understand, relate to and grow with the sport. In many ways, the same could be said of his open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �affiliation with Front Runners. Both aspects of his life dovetailed beautifully in 2006 as Guilfoyle, at 47, raced his heart (and likely several hundreds of dollars worth of shoes) out. Facebook Twitter Instagram Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F "I'm usually not a goal setter," Guilfoyle says, "but in 2006 I changed my philosophy a bit ... I wanted to run a spring and a fall marathon and every points race." But Guilfoyle, who has always picked the paces, distances and Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �frequency with which he runs strictly on feel, happened to have ample spring Sunset: 8:10 pm on his step to far surpass his racing goal for the year. He ran in 20 NYRR races (including 10 points races), the Boston and Chicago marathons, the POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER Reach the Beach 208-mile New Hampshire relay and in at least one other out of town race. His results have been sterling across the board, as he placed in the top ten for his age group in 16 NYRR races (including three search first-place age group finishes), broke three hours in both marathons and placed for the team multiple times for both the open and masters men in club points races. Guilfoyle admits that hitting all the points races was not always pain-free and easy. He altered summer vacation plans to make the Club Team championships and raced the Queens Half just twelve muscle-healing days after the Boston marathon. Not that he's complaining. Guilfoyle considers the commitment his "personal way to say thank you to Front Runners for all it has meant to (him) over the years." For Guilfoyle, there definitely was racing life before Front Runners. While living in Brooklyn in the early eighties, he signed up with Prospect Park Track Club, initially to help secure plac ement in the NYC marathon. After five years running for them, Guilfoyle had not found the camaraderie he had been hoping to feel. Still somewhat closeted, Guilfoyle struggled with the idea of joining Front Runners, which would openly identify him as a gay male. But after his first partner, Eric, drowned in a failed rescue attempt in the Hudson River (for which he was lauded and eemed a hero by Mayor David Dinkins), Guilfoyle made an effort to honor his partner's memory by being more accepting of his own sexuality. There was, however, another roadblock to his open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �joining the club. As someone who puts a premium on his running time and commitment to the sport, Guilfoyle viewed Front Runners as more social than athletic and had been considering signing up with one of the more "competitive" local clubs. "But I kept seeing (former Front Runner president) Patrick Barker run in races or just with other people in the Park," Guilfoyle notes. "He was definitely 'out' and also a very good runner -- he was the Kelsey of my group." In choosing to participate in the points races, "those that by their very design self-select the fastest runners in the entire New York metro area." Guilfoyle hopes he serves as an example that you can be a serious, fast runner and a proud gay runner. "I hope that on some level I might inspire others to join Front Runners," says Guilfoyle, "much like Patrick Barker inspired me." As a runner who has thrived through more than three decades of competitive racing, Guilfoyle resists being distinguished as a guru who can impart wisdom on willing acolytes. True to his economical sensibility, he says only that his goal "has always been to keep running, not to run as hard as (he) can." It's painfully clear that running means too much to Guilfoyle for him to ever risk not having it in his life. Makes perfect sense considering that lacing up his trainers has brought Guilfoyle far more than trophies, medals, and fan adoration, though it has brought him those, too. Running helpd him mourn the loss of his partner, battle depression and loneliness, accept his sexuality and place in this world and -- yes, there is even more --it provided the outlet for him to meet his current partner of four years, Johnny Fraser. Given the unassailably holy place that running holds in Guilfoyle's life, it is not open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �all that surprising that he chooses to keep his thoughts, feelings and insights largely to himself. But if you can get in shape to stay stride for stride with him, try to ply a story or two. It may yield only a "think we make this left turn up ahead," but when the stories do come, they are more than worth the wait. Random Data: Fun Family Fact: One of 8 children, Patrick has 6 brothers and one sister. "We were a mix of the Waltons and Eight is Enough," he says. Marathon Moment: After training with his little brother for the entire summer and fall to break 2:50 in the 1996 NYC marathon, Guilfoyle, who had been clocking consistent 6:30s with his brother for two and a half hours, realized he needed to slow down at mile 24. His brother insisted on easing up too. Guilfoyle wouldn't let him but says "the generosity in that sentiment has never left him." (Guilfoyle finished in 2:50:51; his little brother crossed the mat in 2:49:15.) Racing for a Purpose: After his first partner Eric died, Guilfoyle decided to race a 100K in Prospect Park as a way of dealing with his torment and pain. He won the race. "That day should have been one of the happiest moments of my life," he says, "but it only caused me to miss Eric more." Marathon Man Loses Count: While Guilfoyle doesn't have a current tab on the number of marathons he has run, he has definitely mixed it up by racing the Long Island, New York, Boston, Twin Cities, Chicago, Miami, Dublin and New Orleans iterations. (He does have handy his average time over ten NYC marathons -- 2:59:36.) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �marathons -- 2:59:36.) Other Passions?: Here's a hint: If you're ever stuck trying to find a five-letter word for an ancient Buddhist rite of passage and can't get Will Shortz on the line, call Guilfoyle. January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_patrick_guilfoyle.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/02cda3cad0375d7fbaa017c99329c888.pdf e60a6630b233884be363d6d87f041428 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › IJ Frame "I want to run forever." If you want some background music while reading this profile of IJ Frame, search your iPod for Radiohead tracks. Or maybe try Ravel's "Tzigane." If you need to consult a Frame photo during this profile perusal, there's the now nearly iconic shot of Frame-flinty determination etched on his facesteaming through the 2007 Colon Cancer 15K. (The New York Road Runners [NYRR] site has used it at least three times.) Or you might pick one of 26 facebook shots showing Frame mugging impishly at each mile marker open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �of a Steamboat Springs Marathon in Colorado. Facebook If you want to summon a single object that best says IJ Frame, you can try a Twitter Mizuno Wave Inspire, a Petri dish, or a Stradivarius. Instagram Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER And if you're starting to get the sense that IJ Frame is a man of search contradictions, stop right there and make the operative word 'multiplicity.' Or breadth, or scope, or sweep. Writers usually tack words like those on people who've hit their stride in life. But Frame is a 26-year-old who?s still accelerating. With a degree in music, a degree in nutrition, and a research post at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he's now eyeing medical school (and taking the MCAT this month, just before running the Boston Marathon). If Frame could devote half of his life to running and half to something else, he says the something else would not be some empyrean fantasy, but a job that means a lot. "I want to have a fulfilling life," he explains, "and I think part of that is having an interesting career." Meanwhile, Frame suggests running already does occupy half his life. He also insists he's not a 'competitive' runner, putting in all those wintery preBoston long runs and gut-wracking track sessions just for fun. You decide. Here's some evidence. 1. When asked to name some FRNY role models, the first name off his lips is Patrick Guilfoyle (who won last year's club 40-to-49 age-group award with a walloping 497 points, finished in the top 30 in his age group at last year?s New York City Marathon with a 2:52:08, and just loped through a 50-mile trail open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �race in Mississippi). "He's a real runner's runner," Frame affirms. 2. Frame logged the second-highest overall place finish in a NYRR race last year, sixth in a rain-swept 2008 Knickerbocker 60K-two weeks after posting a Boston-qualifying 3:05:07 at the NYC Marathon. (He lagged only speed merchant Ryan Quinn in the 2008 overall place competition; Quinn finished fifth overall in the NYRR 50th Anniversary 5-Miler.) 3. He doesn't do bad in out-of-town races either. In 2007 he snagged fourth place overall in the Pocatello (Idaho) Marathon, though he rated his 3:12 finish a disappointment at the time because it fell 2 minutes long of his Boston-qualifying time. "I got off course," he explains. "It was a small marathon and it wasn't very well marked. Had I not got off course, maybe I would've made the qualifying time. I was really irritated." 4. Frame's dream race is the Badwater Ultramarathon, which traverses 135 miles on the way from Death Valley to Mount Whitney. (But he is mulling the Badwater for the sheer enjoyment of climbing 8642 feet in a single race that starts in 100-plus temperatures: "It seems like a crazy thing to do, and that sounds like a lot of fun.") At this point it would not be inaccurate to call IJ Frame a club fixture. So it's surprising to recall that he joined Front Runners only 2 years ago, running his first race in FRNY colors at the February 11, 2007 Bronx Half-Marathon with a 1:31:39. Since then he's run 27 NYRR races for Front Runners, a third of them half-marathons. With Mike Terry, Frame has organized the club's spring long training runs for 2 years. He served as race cocaptain in 2008, finished first in the co-ed division with Annette Pufall at the 2008 FRNY cross- open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �country meet and the 2008 Van Cortlandt Track Club cross-country relay, snared a nomination for 2008 Front Runner of the Year, and won the 2008 Sue Foster Male Long-Distance Runner of the Year Award. Frame found out about Front Runners on the NYRR Web site and credits Dave Lin and Dave Swinarski for sealing his commitment to the club. He showed up expecting a gaggle of 30 or 40 gays and lesbians, not more than 200 people committed to running-and socializing-together. Besides Guilfoyle, he looks up to distance doyens Zander Ross and Richard Ervais, to members who've devoted time and effort to the club, like Mikey Benjamin and Rob Lennon, and to club coach Kelsey Louie, "who helped me through many races," including a PR 5:17 at an Armory 1600 last winter. But Frame doesn't list that fleet foray over the Armory boards as his most memorable race. Or his Pocatello fourth, his 60K sixth, his handful of Bostonqualifying marathons, or his first Boston in 2008. Rather, he picks last year's Reach-the-Beach relay, in which he teamed with Mike Benjamin, Gerritt Jackson, Marty McElhiney, Peter McGrane, and Mike Totaro to form an 'ultra' team that attacked the 200-mile course with each racer contributing six legs. The sextet finished second in their ultra division, and they're teaming up for another try in 2009. "I just loved the team aspect of it," Frame recalls. "When you're on leg 5 you think, 'I can't do this anymore,' but the team support pulls you through." What he doesn't mention is that, after running approximately 35 miles for the past 24 hours, he drove his team's van from Hampton Beach, New Hampshire back to New York City. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �"IJ is generally chipper without the capriciousness that sometimes comes with being chipper," one of his RTB teammates suggests. "He's very dependable and always has his shit together." With so many long-distance credentials on his racing resume, no one will be surprised to learn that Frame's first race was a half-marathon. Majoring in music at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he found himself sitting in an orchestra pit next to a distance runner who persuaded him to sign up for a local half-marathon. Chubby as an adolescent-and hating it-he decided to start running and training for his health. He also figured (correctly) that running would force him to stop smoking. So at the age of 21, he showed up for a high-altitude half-marathon. "It destroyed my body," Frame says. "I couldn't run for 2 months." But when he could, he started again and kept his focus on distance. Maybe not coincidentally, Frame emerged from the closet at the same time. "Throughout my adolescence I always knew I was gay, and because of my religious background I tried very hard to ignore it," he explains. "I tried to do everything I could to make it go away. And that's a very bad way to live. I had a really, really hard time in college dealing with this issue." Frame grew up in a traditional Mormon family that gave him a Biblical name. IJ stands for Ithiel (pronounced with a long I) James, but he's been called IJ ever since he can remember. Every generation of the Frame family has an Ithiel with a J-name as the second part of his first name. But being a gay man means not being a Mormon ("I've done some things that are certainly excommunicatable"), and Frame told most of his family members he's gay open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �last year. (Frame's middle name is Llego, the maiden name of his Filipina mother.) Although Frame majored in music in college, studied composition, and nurtures a fondness for the fiddle, the urge to make a career in music never matured. "It turned out that music was very agonizing for me," he says. "When you depend on something for your livelihood, it can start to interfere with your enjoyment of it." But Frame still plays the violin, sitting in with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn and coaxing friends to read through chamber pieces with him. When he stayed at Megan Jenkins' apartment the night before the 2009 Cherry Tree Relay, he brought along the score for a set of Bartok violin duets and the versatile FRNY VP played one of the violin parts on her flute. "I do strive to be an amateur who enjoys it," Frame maintains. "But sometimes it's really hard to enjoy it, just because I had so many negative thoughts about it.? Frame left Grand Junction, Colorado for New York "sort of on a whim," he allows. Visiting a friend then attending NYU, he fell in love with the city and "made the declaration that I'm going to move here." After finding a Columbia graduate program in nutrition that met his liking, and getting accepted, he did. And he brought his running shoes with him. In July 2006, Frame completed his first NYRR race, the inaugural New York City Half-Marathon, which he ran with a decided handicap. Still unfamiliar with the vicissitudes of the New York open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �subway, he reached the starting line 15 minutes late. Baggage was closed. Instead of turning around and going home, he dashed down 7th Avenue and through Times Square carrying his street clothes in a plastic bag. Photographic evidence can be found in one of Frame's facebook albums. Now that Frame has 12 NYRR half-marathons, one Boston marathon, and the Sue Foster Male Long Distance Runner of the Year award under his belt, what are his running goals? "I want to win the Sue Foster Long Distance Runner of the Year award again," he jokes. (Or is he?) "Long term," he adds, "I want to run forever." Random Data Favorite pop musicians: Radiohead. They produce the best music. They?re solid musicians. I saw them live and their live concert was as amazing as any of their recordings. Favorite classical musician: Anne-Sophie Mutter, the violinist. She can produce so many different timbres on the instrument. I think she has such tasteful vibrato. And I like the repertoire she plays. She's one of the most exciting violinists. She's also one of the highest paid. She's awesome. Program for (fantasy) violin debut at Carnegie Hall: Ravel's "Tzigane." I love it so much, I wrote a paper on it in college. Then some Bartok duos. A string quartet?maybe a Bartok quartet! And maybe something I wrote. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Written by Mark Mascolini January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_ij_frame.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/304a8467f917dc985979627006cbfbdd.pdf ee6f4ecd521725879004a34080fce188 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Mollie Berliss Some people skim their toes along the surface of the pool while others dive right in. Mollie Berliss prefers to cannonball in off the 10-meter platform. So she has not caused quite a splash since joining Front Runners at the beginning of this year. Newly named women's vice president, Berliss has big plans for the rest of the year -- for the club, for her own running and beyond. As is so often the case, Berliss hooked up with the running club after meeting someone -Lindsay Rubel -- who was already a member and who sang Front Runners praises. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �praises. Facebook Looking to both become more involved in the LGBT community in New York and improve her own running, Berliss clicked with the club instantly. She volunteered at the club's water station at last fall's NYC Marathon and has been a veritable Front Runner Zelig ever since -- popping up at six New York Twitter Instagram Road Runners races, the FRNY Awards Night, club council meetings, Tuesday night speed training sessions, and even marching with the club at the Pride Parade. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search "When I first started coming, everyone was so friendly and welcoming," Berliss says. "It was nice to find my niche here." Niche might be a tad modest. The 26-year-old deputy director of Covenant House landed the women's VP spot after just a few months as a club member, after Emily Siegel had to resign mid-term for personal reasons. But even before ascending the Front Runner ranks, Berliss had stamped out a name for herself. Eager to increase the membership of the women's team, she stickered flyers around college campuses and lesbian bars. "I like starting new projects," says Berliss, "and getting people involved." In late March, Berliss continued to do just that, competing in the Millrose Easy Does It 10K relay with Theresa Ocol, Katrina Amaro, and Jenna McAuley to place 3rd amongst women's teams and win $100 for the club. During Pride weekend, Berliss helped further pad the club's coffers by open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �corralling a dozen female members to volunteer at Rapture on the River. The FRNY women served drinks at the lesbian Pier Dance and received a $1,000 grant for their hard work. In July, another of Berliss's projects -- to host monthly "First Friday" happy ours for the club -- came to fruition as more than 30 Front Runners descended on Barrage for a night of drunken debauchery and misadventure (at least we hope it was, for some lucky members.) So what else does Berliss have in store for FRNY? "My main focus as vice president is recruitment," she says. "Getting more women involved is important because it is hard for gay women to meet in New York City." Berliss appreciates the fact that Front Runners provides an unpretentious and warm community for its members and wants to build on that while also tapping into the competitive aspects of the club. "This is especially important for women," she adds, "who are somewhat discouraged from being competitive the way men are." Understanding that runners often find these two goals contradictory, Berliss knows one of her challenges will be to rally women runners around both efforts. So far she's off to a blistering start. Berliss has helped encourage a squadron of new female runners to participate in the club's speed workouts, and the traditionally male crowd has embraced the new gender diversity. It just so happens that creating more ties between the men and women of open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Front Runners was another of Berliss's goals this year. Of course, Berliss is not entirely selfless. Like all runners, she has a competitive streak and desires to drop her own times and compete at new and longer distances. Among her many upcoming goals are running under 7:00 minute mile pace in distances up to 10K, completing her first triathlon and gearing up to complete her first marathon in 2007. Seem like a lot? Toe dippers should move out of the way; Berliss is about to jump into the pool. Random Data: Born: New Jersey Other Physical Activities: Softball, swimming, and pilates Pastimes: Playing violin, reading Favorite Music: Celine Dion, Def Leppard, Ellipsis, and Lucy Kaplansky Quirk?: Vegetarian since age ten Dating Status: Unattached January 2, 2012 open in browser PRO version profile Perm alink Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �© Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_mollie_berliss.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/ec0b4e698a7953893ec2c94e06f270e2.pdf 8e157cbb198dad497885efccc9583c4b PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Hilary Lorenz In a recent exhibition of artists' work in a Brooklyn event space, Hilary Lorenz showed a drawing entitled, "Laughing Caterpillar." In the drawing, a tubular mass of teeny red and black circles suggesting the cellular forms of reproduction fans out in Peacock sprays of interlocking and concentric semicircles of bright green, yellow, purple, orange and red-an image recalling the Partridge Family. The work displays Lorenz's endless fascination withorganic shapes and the clean, simple topographical beauty of nature. And though she doesn't force many connections between her art and her open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �other life passions or her personal history, Lorenz is a bit of a laughing caterpillar herself-perhaps a little shy and tentative but ready to transform at any moment into a burst of color. By never following the obvious course, Lorenz has measured success on her own terms and according to her own Facebook Twitter Instagram timeline in both her art and her running. With new art shows and fellowships as well as her very first ever marathon on the horizon after a near 20-year hiatus from running, Lorenz is now witnessing (at least to this themeseeking outsider) the many complex strains of her past coming together. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search Growing up in the small factory-scarred town of Montague on the shores of Lake Michigan, Lorenz did not entertain escapist dreams of becoming an artist. She had never even heard of the profession. "We did not have art, music, or theater," she says. "I had never even been to an art museum." But Lorenz didn't need finger paints and an easel to develop the soul of an artist. She sensitively observed her often dreary surroundings, in which big chemical companies polluted the air and waters while everyone silently accepted their powerlessness against the biggest employers in town. Four of Lorenz's friends died of leukemia while she was in high school. "I thought it was normal for people to have cancer," she says. Though she knew by age 10 (after seeing the movie "Rear Window" made her desire an apartment that looked onto a brick wall) that she would eventually move to New York City, Lorenz made the most of small town open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Michigan life, finding her inner mirth in running fast. "It was amazing," she says, "I am a fast kid and, yes, I do get obsessive about my activities." Lorenz describes a routine that consisted of running before school, at track practice and then again after dinner. She was running 5:50 miles at the time, but injuries and illnesses sidelined her for much of the rest of her high school running career. Once she arrived at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Lorenz began embarking on other adventures. "My second semester at college, I took a design class and I knew-this is what I want to study," she says. She lucked into a job as a research assistant in an immunology lab where she studied and photographed cellular structures. Though seemingly miles apart from her chosen course of study, the examination and sequencing of DNA greatly informed her future artwork. She created installations from lab items and developed a fascination with genetically engineered animals. "I have a lot of really creepy mice photos," she admits. After receiving her BS in Fine Arts and pursuing graduate work in printmaking, Lorenz made her way to New York in 1993, taking up residence in the epicenter of the art world-the Lower East Side's Suffolk Street. "I worked like mad in the studio and at a community printmaking workshop," she says of how she managed to make it in a city with more than 300,000 artists and only 500 galleries, "I made a lot of connections." Check out Lorenz's CV online (her website is, aptly, www.hilarylorenz.com) and you'll see just how many. She has shown in an astonishing number of group and solo exhibitions. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �In 2005, Lorenz's passion for art and her love of physical activity, which had lain somewhat dormant for almost two decades, collided. Lured by a Sierra Club ad she saw during an artist-in-residence stint in Santa Fe, Lorenz decided to take up hiking and had a revelation. "We did a 17-mile hike that began with 90-degree heat and ended on a snow-topped mountain," she says. "I never felt so high." This feeling of elation turned into a muse, and Lorenz has since been drawing and printing works that lovingly record her movement through nature. In the summer of 2006, a hiking friend suggested that Lorenz participate in the Nike NYC half marathon, which runs through Central Park into Times Square and ends in downtown Manhattan. The whole experience unlocked Lorenz's long forgotten love of running. "I got rather weepy before the start and at the finish," she says. "In some ways I felt like that kid again running but this time doing it on my own terms and for me, not to prove anything to anyone else." Lorenz took about six months off after the 2006 Nike Half and then decided to commit herself fully to running and became a regular at Front Runner training events. (She had first seen the club "looking so cute in their singlets" at the Pride March in 2006 and came twice that summer but trailed off after the Nike Half.) Delving into hill and speedwork made Lorenz feel strong and curious of what her body would be capable of with her mind dedicated to fitness. "I want to be as fast as I possibly can," she says. Now there's a worthy long term goal. She's only at the beginning of the quest and has already lopped 17 minutes off her 2006 half marathon time by open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �running a 1:50:44 at Grete's Great Gallop this October. Looking focused and hungry, she has been a dutiful speed warrior at the track at Riverbank stadium all fall and hopes to break 3:50 at this year's NYC marathon. But no matter how much time transpires between the Verrazano-Narrows and Tavern on the Green, Lorenz knows it will be an emotional journey. "I think I will cry when I complete the NYC marathon," she says. "I always dreamed of running it when I was a kid, but for whatever reason some things get sidelined." Maybe there were stops and starts along the way, but now Lorenz is moving ahead full throttle. She will become a race captain for Front Runners at the beginning of 2008 and is gearing up for a 6-week winter art project where she will live electricity and water free in a shack in Provincetown, Massachusetts. "I will make drawings that are essentially visual maps of my daily life," she explains. The world may finally get to see the imprint of a dune-filled morning jog on a beautiful open canvas. Random Data Lower East Side Soundbite - "I don't like all the party kids. I would take the heroin addicts any day-at least they were quiet." Mental Health Day? - Backpacking the Adirondacks Best Book of 2007? - The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston Artistic Holy Grail? - "There is no one Holy Grail, but being in the Whitney open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Biennial would be nice." FRNY Suggestion Box? - "I wish I could offer a solution, but to rally all 400 members (almost 500, really) to participate." January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_hilary_lorenz.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/e196e6cd1dbc997c3e882e9b6a6d48cc.pdf 8df81fc2f4466c9328eb02e6dc2913b8 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Gabriel Celis Running, Running Away, and Running Toward You can call him Gabby (as most Front Runners do), or Gabi (if you're French), or G (if you work with him at Media6degrees), or Gabe (as a few clients do), or Gabriel (his full name), or maybe even Carlos. But if Gabby Celis hears you calling him Carlos(his real first name), he'll figure you're a telemarketer who bought his name, because no one else in the world calls him Carlos. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �And these days no one calls him GAY-briel, the taunt of gradeschool mates who probably had no notion of his sexual yearnings. But even at that early age, Gabriel knew he "liked boys in a different way." Only when he reached high school did he begin to realize what liking boys in this particular way Facebook Twitter Instagram meant. But he didn't know anyone he could talk to about it, "so I started going online." It worked. He met two guys who've been close friends ever since, including David Moran #151 the culprit who christened him Gabby, eased his Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT transition to New York City, brought him to his first Front Runner fun run, and inspired him to get serious about running. 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph "NEVER in a million years would I have imagined seeing Gabby transition Sunrise: 5:50 am from couch potato to a burly sub-6 mile on the track," Moran confides. But open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �he's not surprised because "Gabby is a very passionate person and throws himself into anything he loves." Heading for his third consecutive Reach-the- Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER Beach relay this year with a recent 4-mile PR under his belt, Gabby keeps adding to his racing renown. But his own running has recently finished second to the endeavor most Front Runner know Gabby for&#151organizing the annual Pride Race. search The club turned to Gabby and David Moran in 2008, as four-time Pride director Michael Orzechowski looked to hand the reins to the next generation of Front Runners, encouraging them to bring fresh ideas to race planning and to get their contemporaries excited about this trademark footrace. Gabby's now in his third year as Pride director or codirector, and by all accounts doing a bang-up job. Michael O confirms that Gabby brought "lots of energy, tech savvy, and a younger sensibility" to race planning. And anyone even remotely familiar with concocting a 3800-person party, complete with pompoms, popsicles, and paramedics, knows it's not easy. Gabby takes most of 1 microsecond to pinpoint the biggest challenge in organizing the race: sponsorship. Last year the Pride Race cost $80,000, and this year the budget's even higher. Why does it cost so much? It's not cheap to mount an ad campaign, pay the New York Road Runners' licensing fee, rent sound equipment, hire entertainers, and shut down Central Park. Cups cost $2000. With codirector Seth Richardson, Gabby started planning this year's June race last November, and much of his time so far has gone toward attracting new sponsors and getting former sponsors itching to give all over again. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Under Michael O's tutelage, and now on his own, Gabby has helped transform the Pride Race from a break-even proposition to a money-maker. The surplus lets FRNY expand its community involvement by supporting a sound cause. In 2009 the FRNY Charitable Foundation redirected thousands from the Pride Race profit to New York's AIDS Service Center, which will name its new wellness center after the club. This year the FRNY board agreed to make the primary beneficiary SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders), which advocates for LGBT rights and offers a host of services to older New Yorkers. Although race-day responsibilities mean Gabby can't run Pride this year, the excitement of standing at the start line and watching 3800 people dash past more than makes up for the missed chance to sharpen his racing skills. And his two running and racing goals for 2010&#151have fun and get faster&#151are not likely to suffer. Planning the 2009 race proved particularly challenging, not only because it was the first year Michael O officially stepped away from the event, but also because the most intense planning period coincided with a spell of unemployment. Gabby came to New York in July 2007 to help open an office for his employer, eSearch Vision, a pay-per-click (PPC) Internet advertising company. But they closed the New York office and told Gabby good-bye just as race planning ramped up. Paradoxically, the timing proved fortuitous, as Gabby made Pride work his full-time job. "It gave me a reason to want to get out there and do things, and it filled my time," he recalls. Gabby started interviewing for a spot with open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Media6degrees just before the race, and on the Monday after Pride weekend the job offer came through. His business-honed Internet expertise, knack for client coddling, and numbers know-how (he lists Excel as one of his best friends) all contribute to his race-arranging excellence. And they haven't hurt his work life either. "Gabby's as smart as a whip," says FRNY pal Anthony Cocciolo. "He lives and breathes Internet marketing and advertising, and I'm certain one day he will be a major force in this area." Gabby and Anthony trace their roots to the Inland Empire (or the IE), the gritty, off-the-coast stretch of southern California embracing Riverside and San Bernardino counties. After meeting online, Gabby and David Moran met in person when David ran a half-marathon in Gabby's hometown, Fontana&#151California's Ku Klux Klan base. What was it like growing up in Fontana? "It's not pretty; it's not nice; the schools aren't safe," Gabby explains. He fled just after high school, partly because he saw no future in the IE, and partly because his parents kicked him out of the house when he told them he was gay. Always a self-motivated student, never grounded for wild behavior, Gabby suddenly rebelled at age 17, for reasons he's still at pains to explain. When Gabby missed a midnight curfew, his parents called his friend's house, where Gabby told them he'd gone for a party. He reassured them he'd simply lost track of time and was on his way, but he stayed put. When he finally did get home, with no sound excuse for his absence, his father asked if he was gay and assured him that answering yes would not change his love for him. Gabby said no, but a month later he told the truth&#151only to endure an onslaught of church counseling and threats of exile to an "ex-gay camp." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �When Gabby declined this version of paternal love, he found himself on the street. His brother took him in, and Gabby tried once to return home, but the rift remained too deep. Gabby dropped out of college, moved in with a friend who had a drug problem, saw that wouldn't work, and got accepted at California State University in Monterey. The move north marked the first total break from his family. Gabby had "a huge growth period," came all the way out (complete with rainbow necklace), and "started to realize that there could be more to my life." But he didn't talk to his father for a long time, and "the relationship with my Mom was really strained for a few years." The road between Monterey and New York ran mainly through San Francisco, where Gabby worked all day in the offices of The Sharper Image and went to school at night at San Francisco State. But he hated his boss and he hated his boss's boss, so at age 21 he marched into the executive VP's office and recommended that he take over the whole department himself. "I was a cocky little boy," Gabby concedes. But instead of laughing him off or showing him the door, the VP took Gabby under his wing and groomed him for higher positions. "He really looked after me," Gabby recalls of the man he came to call Mother. "He made sure things in my personal life were going well, but he also taught me how to be professional." The eventual move to New York was another first for Gabby. He figures it took him 4 years to find his footing in San Francisco, "but once I did I felt that life could never be better." To continue growing, though, "I needed to try something bigger&#151and New York open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �seemed bigger and better. And it seemed right for me, rather than to be running away from something, to be moving toward something, to see something as an opportunity and to try leaving a place when I was extremely happy." As good as San Francisco was, for Gabby it lacked one thing New York provided: Front Runners. "It was an immediate group of friends, and it made my life here amazing." With a challenging job, a challenging race to run, olds friends and new, "I can't imagine being any happier in my life," Gabby says now. "The only way to make my life better would be if my family could somehow be closer to me." Written by FRNY member Mark Mascolini January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_gabriel_celis.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/af640bdfa7c087e9493a4b20ef89b072.pdf fe47bbf1737f36b48ec80560ba1f1062 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Sandi Rowe Like many ascendant runners, Sandi Rowe had occasionally indulged in magical thinking to get her through a tough run. In the last year, Sandi has turned to Front Runners to be the source of much of that magic. Since becoming an active member just before the 2008 New York marathon, Sandi has tapped the camaraderie of Front Runners to gradually, but surely, improve her running times. "Running with people made me forget how hard some of the runs were, she said. "The more I ran with people, the more I'd think I could run further." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �That fellowship, coupled with her unbridled enthusiasm (she is, unshockingly, an ex-cheerleader), have helped her improve her times. In the past year, her age-graded performances have risen and she now routinely hits the lower 60's. She hit a PR at the NYRR Team Championships in August, clocking in at her fastest pace ever, 8:01 minutes miles over a five- Facebook Twitter Instagram mile race. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Despite her newfound running prowess, Sandi still often needs external Sunset: 8:10 pm prodding to run. "It never grabbed me," she said of running when she was a high schooler back in her Missouri town of 10,000 people. Maybe all she POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER needed was a New York kick in the pants. As a child, Sandi and her friends would imagine themselves staging Broadway plays, with Sandi the director setting all the stories in New York. Her dream became reality when she moved to New York at age 19, and was was hired as a nanny with a Park search Avenue family. "I always knew I would to move New York from very little," she said. Sandi, an art director at Avon, moved to Brooklyn from Far Rockaway last year and then became more active with the Front Runners to help build her social network. She had joined the club several years earlier but found the near absence of female members off-putting. But last year the Lowell, Mass. native decided to give the club another go after seeing how many more women were now active in the group. Sandi is serious too about becoming a speedier runner, something she says being part of team facilitates. And to hear her describe her training runs, that old cliché "Misery loves company" is true. "I can go further if I am distracted by talking," she said. Sometimes she'd go further than the she realized. At one point this year, she discovered that some of her fellow Front Runner women were tricking her and taking her on longer runs than she realized. Some of her progress has to do with runner's pride. "I never thought I could go faster-running with people, you want to save face," she said. Last year when running with some speedy FRNY ladies, she found it tough to keep up, but forged ahead. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sandi has run each New York City marathon since 2006, though she still has a ways to go before reaching her long term goal: running as many marathons as her age. So maybe that's a cue for the Front Runners women to keep tricking her into longer runs. Written by Phil Wahba January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_sandi_rowe.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/5fcd7b2e43708a4b7352c39c53d19239.pdf 6fe7c88d795dcc9670dbd5a27ede091f PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › FRNY After interviewing more than 30 people in connection with this column over the last two and a half years (and proudly never employing the first person), I am using the space of my last profile to write about the club itself. It's the one character that has inhabited each and every profile, and it now deserves center stage. Front Runners ignites passion in its members. Some people find refuge in the club and mold it into the family they never had, while others meet heartache or disappointment and walk away in disgust. There are members who have met friends, roommates, lovers, spouses, lawyers, accountants, open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �masseuses, interior designers, one night stands, soul mates, tennis partners, cycling companions, life coaches, travel buddies, drinking buddies, rhymes-with-duck buddies, running mates and movie dates. Front Runners have discovered the bottomless generosity of their fellow man and woman Facebook Twitter Instagram and have also learned the hidden depths of their potential as they have reached new goals and, in some cases, completely reinvented themselves. Some come churchlike every Saturday, and others disappear for long spells but are instantly brought back into the fold. Some mill about on the periphery of the meeting circle on Saturdays, and others stay within arm's reach of the Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT cream cheese station. There are moments of unexpected grace, and there are times when minor drama erupts like lava onto the gymnasium floor at 81° Rutgers. That's right. We've got it all. Like the famous gay novel that gave us our name, Front Runners New York is-first and foremost-a love story. High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �When Lenore Beaky accepted FRNY's first-ever AREA award for sustained commitment to the club, she remarked on how every year at Awards Night Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER some runner stepped onto stage and said: "Front Runners New York has changed my life." The men and women I have interviewed for these profiles have echoed the same sentiment-but everyone finds something a little different in their FRNY journey. search Finding life: In reflecting on his times with Front Runners in the mid-1980s, former club president Marty King credited his still being alive to FRNY. He told me that looking back he realized that the runner's regimen of early morning training and marathon preparation with the club helped keep him from the bar scene during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The bulk of today's members will (quite luckily) not have such a literal connection to "finding life" in Front Runners. But most dedicated Front Runners have experienced this phenomenon-the first time that you complete the 6-mile loop without wanting to keel over and die, when you suddenly feel a burst of energy in the middle of the afternoon and find yourself counting down the minutes to the Wednesday night fun run, or maybe it's the moment you are finally confident enough to run shirtless or in a tank top during the summer. Finding a posse: We'll always have Viand. One of the special things about Front Runners is that a newcomer can visit the club once or twice and feel instantly at home and wonder how life without FRNY was ever possible. Today, the groups of new friends may meet for Wednesday night drinks at Therapy or on Roosevelt Island for the lesbian homecoming event of the season, with their pictures popping up on desktops across Manhattan as people get their daily facebook fix. But looking through faded photos of open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �friends huddled in Central Park after the early Pride Runs, one can see this trend existed since the club's inception. Lee Abbey spoke to me fondly of his memories of The Runettes and the Shangri-lezzies, the club's gay and lesbian drag groups of yore. I know from personal experience that as you're first finding your groove in the club, nothing can go wrong. The impromptu invitations flow like Franzia in a trailer park, the weekend runs feed your soul in a social smorgasbord, and that bitter cocktail that is New York City sweetens up just for you. Then you know you've found your posse. Finding a thrill: Being a Front Runner is an exhilarating ride. The frisson can take on multiple forms, but for many lesbians and gay men the main thrill is competition. Many Front Runners have told me that they never felt accepted or validated as an athlete before joining the club. The committed and talented runners over the years - Sue Foster and Patrick Barker and Gary Apruzzese up through Loren Mooney and Kelsey Louie and Rich Velazquez and John MacConnell (with age-defying runners such as Julie Delaurier, Rick Buckheit and Patrick Guilfoyle bridging the gaps) - have inspired those of us not preternaturally gifted to dig deep and reach our personal best. In his History Channel column, Steve Gerben described a group of hearty Front Runners in the mid-80s who competed in a 24-hour relay in Staten Island on invitation from the local powerhouse team at that time. Two decades later that same competitive desire spirited our 2005 men's Reach the Beach ultra team to battle to a first-place finish and led FRNY to win the inaugural Need for Speed Relay in 2006. But more important than these wins have been the countless men and women who have tasted the thrill of personal triumph. Stephanie Tuerk qualifying for Boston at her first-ever marathon in New York open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �in 2005. Lucia Muntean breaking 25 minutes in a 4-miler this year. Kelsey Louie achieving a lifelong quest of breaking 2 minutes in the 800 meters at the 2004 FRNY track meet. Paul Racine snatching a Boston qualifier by more than 17 minutes this year at age 61. Rich Velazquez capturing the club NYC marathon record by breaking 2:40 in November 2006. And the list could go on for days. Front Runners New York knows how to keep the thrill alive. We just do. Finding love: It's bound to happen when you put a group of in-shape men and women together week after week, fun run after fun run, race after race. Somewhere along the trails polite chitchat slips into innuendo or a faster runner slows down for the object of her affection, and the seeds of love are sown. Just this past Saturday, I was talking with Lenore and Ruth, two women who met on a special fun run from Washington Heights to the Village in 1991. When Lenore suggested a post-run trip to Fairway, Ruth jumped on the opportunity. (And no, she was not in need of discount produce.) Over 17 years later, they are still together and live in Rhode Island with their sevenyear-old daughter Leah. "We like to drop by when we're in town," they said, "just to know this place is still here." Bill McGlinn took a shine to a trimwaisted runner in cadet blue shorts on a George Washington Bridge long run well over 20 years ago. To this day he calls Mark Mascolini his lover, the preferred term of their generation. The buds of romance bloom all about the Front Runner garden. Dave Pitches and Dan Elliot. Audra Farrell and Loren Mooney. Patrick Guilfoyle and Johnny Fraser. TJ Jones and Bernd Erpenbeck. Yes, the list could go on for days. Finding purpose: Every time I am tempted to say that Front Runners New open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �York is just a running club, I am reminded of the profound sense of purpose behind so many things that our members do. We really do love and take care of one another. By 1992, the club had already seen too many of its members succumb to AIDS, and the battle of Guy Zelenak, a particularly beloved member, with the disease sparked the team into action. Former presidents Greg Valerie and Gary Apruzzese helped mobilize club resources to form the Charitable Foundation, which is active to this day, to aid those in the lesbian and gay community battling severe and debilitating illnesses. But each member finds purpose, and a way to give back, in his or her own way. Joe Criscione offers up his Park Slope apartment as a rendezvous point for our annual Blue Line Run. Members like Rob Lyons and Jay Smith help make our Saturday morning breakfasts more cost efficient by going on periodic bulk shopping runs. Joe Lim brought our website into the 21st century, and Alex Kristofcak made the club's newsletter relevant again. And that truly is only a teensy dose of what Front Runners do. Finding yourself : It's easy to feel lost in New York City. And-even at the bitter end of 2008-it's still all too easy to feel lost as a gay man or woman. For those Front Runners whom I know best, and who stick with FRNY most vehemently, what the club has done is help them find-or remember-who they are. Sarah Whitcomb told me that the club allowed her to develop her identity as a lesbian runner after a difficult break-up. "For me it is incredible, nourishing, relaxing, empowering, to (now) have a place where I feel like in some fundamental way I am just like everyone," she had told me when I profiled her this past April. The club allowed Michael Orzechowski to start over. Within months of joining the club, he had sloughed off the chains of a open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �dysfunctional and corrosive relationship and was rediscovering his worth. Within a few years, Michael would become one of the club's most successful presidents. When I first worked with Mikey Benjamin on the board of Front Runners, he often struggled with asserting himself and sometimes blushed when speaking publicly. Of course, Mikey now has a natural and assured presence on Saturday mornings. Leading the club has allowed him to grow as a person, to tap into his confidence and to find his voice. When it comes down to it, we will always be a group of men and women who run together. The notion sounds simple enough, but every avid runner knows the elation and the agony, the triumph and the disappointment, the blue skies and the windy downpours that come with the sport. And Front Runners lives and dies on those same dualities. Some days you're a washed up hasbeen and other days you're swimming in a fountain of youth. It's joyous, fulfilling and life-affirming, and it's torturous, sad and soul-crushing. As I said, it's a love story. Xoxoxo , Rob ert Lennon January 2, 2012 open in browser PRO version profile Perm alink Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �© Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. 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Despite his claim, Rosario is back at the top of his running game after a few years of running less frequently while he built a family for himself. He is once again dazzling us as he did about six years ago, when he would often run races at around a 6-minute per mile pace. Sure, some of the lower mileage in recent years had something to do with meeting a certain Vermonter. But Rosario was MIA in large part because he and that Vermonter, his partner Alex, were pursuing parenthood, a trying process to say the least, but a nearly three-year endeavor that yielded their open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �adorable 15-month-old daughter Matilde. Facebook One of a growing number of dashing Front Runner dads, Rosario is often Twitter seen not just doing loops Central Park, but also running after Matilde at Rutgers during Saturday morning bagels, urging her in Italian to come back. Instagram Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady But Matilde has been kind to her dad, letting him again find time in his schedule to train and bring his game back up. Rosario has done just that -- Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi and in a big way -- getting age graded results around the 70 percent mark of late, after having hovered around 60 percent during those slower years. Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph "In order to run quickly, I have to be consistent with my training," said Rosario, Sunrise: 5:50 am over an iced tea recently at an Upper West Side Starbucks, even as Matilde Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm was attempting to remove the ice cubes from his drink. "If everything is a mess, I don't train." POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER The camaraderie of Front Runners has certainly helped him, he said. "Front Runners became my social network, and it kicked up my training, just by hanging out with the club." search Rosario is also a feisty tri-athlete, and has completed two Iron Mans, both in Florida, in the past two years. He is ambitious -- his goal is to finish his third Olympic triathlon in less than 2:30. While he is a gifted runner, he claims he loves biking just for the fun of it, keeping his competitive instincts for road racing. Whenever Rosario is not busy raising Matilde, he is busy working in computer and network security for IBM. Not just a mere jock, Rosario came to the United States from his native Sicily in 1990 to pursue a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has lived in New York since 1996. He became a U.S. citizen last year. The opera buff- his favorite is Mozart's "Don Giovanni"-says that his life is back to normal and that he is back to a regular training schedule. So now that he is back into the groove of all things running, Rosario's goals include getting a PR in the Healthy Kidney 10K in May, and he also hopes his performance at the Chicago Marathon in the fall will qualify him for the Boston marathon. At 41, he needs to run a 3:20 and, with a PR of 3:25 in Paris in 2004, that is clearly within Rosario's reach. But let's hope he puts in more training than the open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �five weeks he took to train for the Copenhagen marathon in 2005 -- and that Matilde will continue to let her daddy train for his marathon so Rosario can continue his glorious return to form. Written by Phil Wahba January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_rosario_gennaro.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/f649e86d29c46bfb854ab5ce5d631dc0.pdf 68241ad83285deb5ab24e160f2e3fc20 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Derek Petti "Fast Twitch" "The man is built for speed. He's a Porsche. Or maybe a Maserati is more fitting." That's Marty McElhiney, dean of FRNY track demons, talking about his next-generation doppelganger, Derek Petti. "Derek is a coach's dream--he's not afraid to push it in a workout, or in a race." That's what Koach Kelsey Louie has to say. Derek Petti on the track open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �Another assessment, from ultraquick Josh Korth: "All of Derek's speed comes from that cute butt of his." OK, there's always one wiseguy. "But really," Josh continues, "Derek is one of the hardest workers I know." Because Derek limits his racing exploits mainly to the oval, Front Runners Facebook Twitter Instagram who eschew track workouts and races may not know what a ferocious (yet silky smooth) racer he is. Derek certainly ranks among the fastest FRNY ever at the 200. Or the 400. Or the 800. Has anyone in the club tossed off a 1:55 at 800 meters recently? At Lockport High in Niagara County, New York, he also tested his mettle at the long jump and 400 hurdles, mastering both. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am But speed is only one factor in the Petti equation. There's also the brain open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �But speed is only one factor in the Petti equation. There's also the brain Sunset: 8:10 pm (class valedictorian at Long Island University with a near-perfect grade-point average), the breath control (standout saxophone player in high school and POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER college), and the bravado (two-time FRNY Variety Show winner for his part in a minimally clad quartet of boy singer/dancers). Nice voice, too. Still, Derek insists his lifestyle is anything but labyrinthine: "I run, I sleep, I search school," his Facebook bio avers. "It's a simple life really." Derek's academic focus at LIU and now at the CUNY Graduate Center-audiology--derives partly from his own partial hearing loss in one ear, a result of malpractice when he was a child. His interest in hearing "made sense," he says. "I was always surrounded by audiologists and speech pathologists." He picked LIU because it combined his chosen course of study with a track team and a wind ensemble that Derek joined as one of only two non-music majors. He also held a track scholarship and helped lead LIU to conference championships every year he was there. When Derek learned just before graduating that the school planned to scuttle the track program the following year, he revised his valedictory address to challenge alumni about supporting an athletic department set to ax a track team that cost exactly as much as the fodder dished out to football players in pre-season camp. "I almost got the plug pulled on me," he recalls, "but I kept it short and sweet." Now Derek's working toward a PhD and a clinical Doctor of Audiology (AuD) degree at CUNY, while doing cochlear implant research at New York's Eye and Ear Infirmary and teaching speech and audiology at Lehman College in open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �the Bronx. He loves the research, but he seems to love teaching more. Part of that fulfillment comes from his success in convincing kids aiming for a degree in speech pathology that audiology is a lot more than a requirement to slog through on their way to graduation. And part of it Derek attributes to "selfish reasons" he admits "it's nice being that person in the front of the class who knows what's going on." You might think someone who relishes a know-it-all teacher role, who vamps through louche Variety Show acts, and who (with John MacConnell) ably represented FRNY in a skimpy underpants pageant, could call himself a card-carrying extrovert. But Derek demurs. "It's funny--I wouldn't say that I am, unless I'm in an environment that I'm extremely comfortable with. I've never been to a gay bar by myself; I just can't do it. I get so intimidated by it and freaked out. If I'm in a room full of people, I'm the most uncomfortable person. But if I'm with friends, I don't mind being the center of attention." And Derek can readily grab a group's attention with his arch sense of humor-mirrored in permanently arched eyebrows.It's among the prime traits friends cite when construing his charm. "You can count on him to say the funniest thing of the entire night," Kelsey Louie attests. "He can always make me laugh, even when I'm in a bad mood," says Josh Korth. "Derek's an extremely loyal and hilarious person." The aversion to gay bars--harder to explain--has nothing to do with a traumatic coming-out saga. Growing up as a gay boy in Niagara county "wasn't so bad," Derek recalls. "I never felt that I liked girls. I think I remember open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �liking guys from when I was 7 or 8." When the Pettis plugged in their first family computer, Derek learned to find, rename, and bookmark certain websites featuring "things that interested me." When his father surprised him in the bathroom by asking whether he was looking at gay porn online, "I almost spit my toothbrush out," Derek remembers. "Of course not!" he claimed. Heart racing, thinking fast, he suggested that his father had stumbled upon pop-up windows that emerged innocuously and sullied the computer's memory--and his father bought it. When Derek decided to give his family the news, he found the task not so arduous.His older brother, also gay, had already come out. And his mother's family was "riddled with gays," including two twin gay uncles "and lesbians all over the place." So when Derek gathered his family and announced his news, the only immediate reaction came from his father, who raised upturned palms in the international "so?" gesture. "That's a little anticlimactic," Derek remembers thinking. "You mean that's it? Does anyone have any questions?" Although he took no pains to hide his sexual identity in high school or college, Derek didn't proclaim his preference because of his prominence on the track teams. Encouraged by his mother and others, he started racing as an eighth-grader, running the 100-meter dash and sometimes the 200 outdoors. "When you're in eighth grade, everything else seems way too long," he explains. "And I wasn't that good. I ran 14- or 13-second hundreds, but I didn't know I wasn't good." When he started running indoor track in the ninth grade, Derek moved up to open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �the 300, 400, and 600. Then he added the long jump "just to avoid having to run every day of the week," and he leapt his way to long-jump stardom, becoming one of the best jumpers in his conference section by his senior year. As a sophomore, Derek qualified for the 300 at the state meet. That "made me so cocky," he concedes. "It was so bad for my ego. But it's a self-fulfilling prophesy: If you believe you're that fast, you get fast. In my junior year I got really good," qualifying for states in the 600 again and slicing 4 seconds off his time. Because he couldn't match a schoolmate in the 400, he switched to the 400 hurdles to increase the team's depth. "I was fast and I could just bullshit the hurdles," Derek explains. But he honed his technique, got comfortable clearing hurdles, and ended up breaking the school record, one of the oldest. "I was always good at picking up things that had technique to them," he allows. In college, Derek specialized in the 800 and had perhaps his most memorable race in a 4 x 800 relay. The LIU team set out to finish under 7:50, which meant an average 1:57.5 per racer. When his first-leg teammate managed only a 2:00-flat, prospects looked grim. "OK, there goes that," Derek recalls concluding. But the second-leg man turned in a 1:57, so when Derek grabbed the baton, "I decided to go for it." His coach advocated topdown 800s, meaning go out as fast as you can and try to hold on. And that's what Derek did. Never having run under 2:00 in an 800, he found himself at 1:26 after 600 meters, his 600 state-qualifying time in high school. Derek clocked the last lap in 0:29, finishing at 1:55 and shearing more than 5 seconds off his 800 PR. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �But the joy began to bleed out of racing during college, mainly because Derek's coach started using the scholarship as a bludgeon to keep him racing flat-out all season long, through the indoor and outdoor seasons and through cross-country. "I got to the point where I was always injured and never felt at my best. I also felt like there was somebody right behind me waiting to take my scholarship, and I was depending on that money, so it became a job." But when he graduated and moved to New York City (well, Ozone Park), Derek resolved to keep running. And because he knew he needed running pals to keep going, he looked online for a team. He found Front Runners. For a whole year after joining he didn't race and "trained" only by helping pace the fast pack on Wednesday fun runs (AKA Wednesday Night at the Races). A year after joining the club, Derek ran his first race, the 2008 Pride 5-miler, turning in a 30:26. Since then he's run only three more NYRR road races, including a 29:03 in the 2010 Pride race. Aside from the Reach-the-Beach relay, all of Derek's other racing has been on the indoor track. And this year he organized the Front Runner track meet with Kelsey Louie. But Derek is taking care not to let competition become a chore again, and in that endeavor "Kelsey's workouts are perfect for me because they're not as intensive as it was when I was running in college. I prefer having more say in how I'm racing, and Kelsey allows you to do that, and he sets you up to run that way. I ran the easiest 1:59 in an 800 that I've ever run in my life indoors this year and I'm training significantly less than I did in college. So I consider that actually better than I was doing in college." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �...that moment when you're running as fast as you possibly can and the dreamlike feeling of almost flying... Getting back to the question of what makes Derek so fast on the track, even the casual observer can divine one answer: form. Watch him do 200 or 400meter repeats and you'll notice two things: First, he finishes in front of everyone. Second, he seems to do so with perfect ease. The form is fluid, economical, dispassionate. The good news for all track tyros is that this mellifluous carriage can be learned. Probably must be learned. Derek says it hardly came naturally to him. He worked on every piece--steadfastly, discretely--until he folded each bit into his running repertoire. Arm swing, foot strike, back kick (see photo!). Did you know your face should be so relaxed that your jaw bounces? "It's impossible to concentrate on all that at once," Derek explains, "especially when you're tired. It just comes with time: concentrating on one thing at a time. When that thing gets better, when that becomes habitual, you can move on to something else that needs work. So after 20 years of running, you're at a point where you're comfortable with it." (Twenty years? Better start today.) "His races are so exciting to watch because he's a smart runner,"Kelsey suggests. "On the track, he'll let guys take it out too fast. Confidently, Derek runs at his own pace, and runs strong the entire race, while others slowly fade. I'm so glad he's on our team. He's the type of runner you don't want to race." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Someone who has honed his track style for 20 years (and maybe even a few weeks more), Marty McElhiney, thinks Derek "has the perfect trifecta required of a speedster (and that us trackees yearn for): an uncommon capacity to develop fast-twitch muscle fibers; a fast-twitch brain (he loves the feeling of speed); and a competitive nature, which motivates him to train hard." Marty recalls a chat with Derek "about that moment when you're running as fast as you possibly can and the dreamlike feeling of almost flying." - by Mark Mascolini January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_derek_petti.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/00259efcdc9040e49d3173d57c943dd2.pdf e41145cf32225d4b025a6cd6974d4d91 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Rob Lennon I am on a quest to find out what is quintessential Rob, and my hope is that this profile starts to answer that question. Rob describes himself as an open book as we meet at Toast, a neighborhood favorite of the Lennon/Gilrain family. As a club, we have learned much about him in the last two years of his presidency, yet there is still much more to learn about this "smart and progressive" leader of ours as Coach Kelsey Louie states. Even as an open book, we do not know all about Rob: the runner, FRNY President, father, husband and writer who has a day job managing global business open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �development for a large law firm on Wall Street. Mark Gilrain also points out that he has the breadwinner role at home and the leader role in FRNY, yet he still has made it to at least two or three things every week with Frontrunners for the past two years! (Can you tell that he has a Type A personality?) So, I Facebook Twitter Instagram will start with an excerpt from a poem about running and love that Rob has written and Mark Gilrain has passed on to me: I fell in love today as you woke me early Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT with promises of cold powder 81° sky and of the sun -- High: 87° Low: 69° low and new -peeking through the cracks in this tall city You followed me over Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady worn, bent streets Humidity: 52% and out to the river, Visibility: 10 mi filling me, cold and empty, Dewpoint: 69 °F with your warm Wind: 7 mph thump-thump, Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �glug-glug Stepping lighter and faster Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER we whirred the frozen air our gentle beating battle cry search a blurred echo on the horizon The etiology of Robert Lennon's running can date back to the 4th to 6th grade, when he describes himself as a shy, chubby kid. However, despite open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �these factors, he always did well in the 100 meter dash and the presidential fitness tests in gym class. During his junior high school years in Rockland County, the coach of the track team encouraged Rob to join the team. This was the start of a very successful running career that is still progressing. In high school, Rob wanted to run short distances and run them fast! He had aspirations of running the 400 in 54 seconds (which he achieved), but his coach saw him as more of a miler and middle distance runner. Still wanting to run shorter, Rob would deliberately try to run slow when placed in the mile to teach his coach a lesson. Ironically, one of Rob's best races was in the mile at FRNY Track Meet in 2005, when he ran a 4:50 mile. These were the days when Kelsey Louie and Rich Velazquez were duking it out, and Rob was right up there after them. Rob is still one of our fastest runners, and he has many goals to improve on like running a 10k faster than his personal record at 6:02 pace. This is the result of being as driven and constantly onthe-go as Rob Lennon is! Rob continued to run recreationally at Duke, but when he graduated, Rob felt depressed. So, he made the move to New York City and came out around age 22. Rob had a good job, a lovely apartment downtown, and would meet these "great, talented guys." However, even with these great, talented guys around, the relationships were never focused on him. He would find himself overshadowed by these men and feeling unsure of where his life was around ages 27 to 28. He reached out to his sister for guidance, but the only advice she could offer was, "I don't know why you're depressed - you have so much going for you!" Then, on a whim, he entered the lottery for the ING New York City Marathon and got in. This was the catalyst for the self-actualized open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Rob that we see today. Training for that first marathon helped satiate his desire for something more in life, and it contributed to how Rob's views on life and running evolved. With every long run, it seemed that new ideas would come to him. Rob described running like a drug, and it kept taking more and more to replicate the rewarding effects that he was experiencing. There was also the realization that each time he ran, he would get something different out of it, and he was no longer feeling depressed. So that fall of 2003 as a 29-year-old, Rob Lennon started the culmination of a very long journey on the bouncy open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Verrazano-Narrows bridge. He ran his first marathon in a respectable 3:17:00 after months of cathartic training done all on his own. The week after his first marathon, Rob joined Front Runners New York. One of Rob's best running moments as a Front Runner was during a 5k in 2005 on Randall's Island. For years, Rob had had friendly competitions with Kevin Brewer, and the two were head to head at the 2-mile mark of the race that was to finish at the newly opened Icahn Stadium. Rob recalls passing Brewer and never looking back; he was the second Front Runner to finish the race in a smokin' 17:49. Rob points out that running well requires being in shape physically. However, he believes the difference between a good runner and a great runner can be the mental aspect of the sport. For, running can be both "analgesic and therapeutic" as Rob describes, and this is true even without the added thrills of competition. If you are in a good place with running mentally, you are more likely to stick with running for the long term. Some runners may run super well and then disappear, but Rob is in it for the long run. In fact, Mark adds that from the very start, "[Rob] made contributions as a top finisher in all kinds of races as well as being a reliable participant in all range of training activities, volunteer activities, and social activities." Rob's best ideas and epiphanies occur on the run, and these are what keep him coming back for more. Rob seems to have moved through life as though he was moving through a race--aware that each step counts, and trying to learn from every ache, every pain and every victory along the way. For, it was at the Armory Track that he met his now husband, Mark Gilrain. When I asked Kelsey about the couple, open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �he says "They were basically the same as they are now, which is the best part about their relationship." Kelsey recalls watching the pre-relationship unfold not only at the Armory, but also at the movies, at one of his 29th birthday parties, and at the first morning race where the two showed up together. "I think they still deny spending that night together," Kelsey asserts with a chuckle. Mark says their first date was after the Millrose "Easy Does It" Relays on 4/4/04! Rob started asking Kelsey about Mark that November of 2003 at the Armory. Not long after Kelsey's birthday in March, Rob sent an email to Mark with the word flirtation in the subject line. The e-mail said, "Definition: to behave amorously, without serious intent. We have the first part down, but I'd like to change the second part." Mark confesses, "He made an immediate impression on me, particularly his eyes and the fringe of his boxer shorts which peeked from beneath the gym shorts he wore circling the track on Tuesday and Thursday nights." At the age of 29, Rob was bold enough to meet Mark where he was in his life, and everything with Mark was completely different than what he had experienced in past relationships. There were no more mind games or doubts, and the two were happy. Rob was happy with himself, and he still is with his "amazing husband and beautiful children." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Even though he has a fulfilling life, Rob still works extremely hard to maintain his familial relationships, keep up with a demanding job, and also be an advocate for change in FRNY. As you may guess, he does not get a lot of sleep! There are many facets to the legacy that Rob will leave FRNY after his two year term as our President. He has always been a proponent that there are strength in numbers. Over the last few years, we have seen this club grow substantially. As Rob has pointed out, "the success of the club and the growth of the club are not mutually exclusive." We are doing the best we ever have in races and have had huge attendance at the Pride Run and 113 participants in this year's ING New York City Marathon. As Mark points out, our most recent directory has "721 members - more than any other time in the clubs history by a couple of hundred. There are a higher number of women than ever, a higher number of young runners than ever, a higher number of older runners, a higher number of first time runners, and a higher number of runners of different colors and different languages." The club's logo is omnipresent at many NYRR races and events, and it makes Rob proud that we have so many great, talented people in our club. Now, more than ever, FRNY is a space to find others, make friends, and make goals become reality. Rob believes that a lot of his success and the success of the team is founded on mutualism. He gains advice and has helped out FRNY talents Rachel Cutler and John MacConell, and in turn open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �helped out FRNY talents Rachel Cutler and John MacConell, and in turn Rachel has been wholly instrumental in FRNY Multisport and John has been an ever-present running sensation that has helped out with the Pride Run tshirts and design of the Annual Report. John describes joining the club as a shy newcomer who wanted to race but did not know how to get involved. Immediately, Rob included him in his Cherry Tree relay along with Kelsey to form Team MacLouLen. The trio took home gold, and John immediately felt welcomed. As for that lovely Pride Run shirt, John sums it up best with the following words, "I regularly see the 2010 Pride Run shirt running through the park, at the gym, and even in strangers' profile pictures online. I'm so grateful Rob pushed to spend a little extra money on a shirt he knew would be a hit in the whole running community and that he trusted me to create a design for it. Creating an item that adds visibility to the club is bound to bring in more runners to the club and let people know that Front Runners New York is a serious force in the running community." These cases of mutualism speak to the foundation of this club on volunteerism, and Rob going with his gut to help the club diversify and change. He is a firm believer of turning ideas into realities and helping things fall into place where he believed there should be beneficial changes to our organization. Kelsey believes that "Rob will be known for galvanizing change. I am happy that he continued the tradition of honoring the past while allowing for new changes." Another of Rob's proudest moments as President is being a proponent and component of the Beginner's Running Program with Kelsey. Teammate Brian Schiesser approached Rob with the question of how to do a better job with newcomers. Newcomers to the club and to the sport of running would often ask themselves, "Am I fast enough to join FRNY?" or "Do I have to train open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �first?" To formalize a clinic, Rob needed Kelsey's help, and the two went to The Center to co-present their idea. He could not have farmed the idea without Kelsey's help, and the clinic ran from March to June with a graduation at the Pride Run. During this period, Rob was doing fun runs with the newcomers and felt enormously proud to introduce running into other LGBT persons in the city. "As a club," he notes, "we have the power to change lives, and this is pretty awesome." Lennon hopes that all the smart, talented people in our club continue to do this in as many ways as we can in the running community as well as the LGBT community. As Rob says, "We never know what it will lead to, but it could be pretty amazing!" Even upon ending his term, Rob continues to glean advice from others. He has been writing down feedback, suggestions, and new ideas as recently as the Homocoming event last month. We'll always remember his lovely writing and strength with words. Rich Velazquez and Kelsey Louie jokingly believed that "his words" would be his super power if there were to be altercation with another RTB team. Kelsey describes the following hypothetical scenario, "We knew that Rob could cut someone down to size with his use of words. What makes Rob special is that he'll use these words to defend his friends against anyone who tries to disparage them. With a few simple words, he can convey that he understands exactly how you feel, make you feel right and supported, make you laugh, and insult someone else who makes you feel bad - all at once!" I have no doubt that Rob will continue to be a prominent voice within the club for many years to come. It's been 7 wonderful years Rob and one heck of a presidency, so now on to your next mission! As we say in Hebrew, Mazel tov! open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �by Josh Korth January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_rob_lennon.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/5771170bf76372954bc8c426616274fe.pdf af77655b09844e5745e42ddae042f8a4 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Robert Dalley Random Data Moonlighting? Dally drives a tractor-trailer every Saturday night Number of marathons completed? 14 Average training mileage the last 6 months? 57 miles (running/cycling) Favorite ice cream flavor? Häagen-Dazs pineapple coconut open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Facebook Twitter Instagram Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Last vacation? Week in Nassau with his family (June 2005) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Sunrise: 5:50 am pdfcrowd.com �Study Abroad? Lived in Paris for two years and received both Un Certificat de Sunset: 8:10 pm Français Parlé and La Dîplome de Langue Française POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER Favorite Place to Run? Central Park January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 search PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_robert_dalley.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/fd8d5ea683801b4e55c09847809c6a7e.pdf 53dd840c79d685ef19288eaa46253c3d PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Dennis Giza Dennis Giza does not do anything halfway.When he decided to join Front Runners New York three years ago, he mailed in his dues before even arriving at Rutgers for his Saturday fun run debut.After nervously participating in his first-ever NYRR race in November 2003, he went on to race 29 times in 2004 (more than any other Front Runner that year), everything from the 2.5mile Downtown Dash to the NYC marathon, suffering the tundra-like temps at the Frostbite 10-miler and the soupy heat of the Bronx Half.You name it; he was there.Giza operates full throttle in world of vices as well. When he used to hit the bars regularly, Giza could be found closing up the East Village open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �several nights a week.And back in the day when he smoked, the first cigarette of his two-pack day graced his lips before his feet touched the floor Facebook in the morning. Twitter It's of little surprise, then, that after Giza successfully tackled his 2004 Instagram inaugural NYC marathon in a time of 4:28:13, he set off in dogged pursuit of breaking the four-hour barrier.Running a tad shy of his goal under the wilting heat and humidity of the 2005 NYC marathon, Giza re-strategized, running slightly fewer races, mixing up his workouts by adding in some speed training and picking a flatter and faster course. The formula proved a Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT smashing success for Giza who ran a 3:55:44 in Chicago this October for an astounding 17-minute PR.Interestingly, the 8:59 pace he sustained over the 81° 26.2 miles matches exactly the pace of his debut NYRR race back in 2003 but that was a mere 5K.(In other words, You've come a long way, b ab y! ) High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search People discover running at different times in their lives and for very different reasons.The director of an after-school special might tie Giza's kicking his 25-year smoking habit in the butt with his inspirational emergence as marathon man.But Giza, who really only began donning his New Balance 991s in his mid-forties, does not take himself that seriously. I continue running, he says, because I am now afraid to stop.I now depend on running to keep my life the way I want it. And Giza is not referring to VO2 max and increased lactic acid threshold."If I begin cheating on smoking," he notes, "I start feeling pudgy okay, okay, pudgier. I depend on running to bring my life into balance." And much to Giza's inebriation-loving surprise, running has proven a great antidote for his hangovers.Put that tidbit in your Lifetime movie of the week. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �As a veteran of other gay organizations, including a stint in ACT UP during its early 90's heyday, Giza anticipated that joining a club like Front Runners wouldn't be all shits and giggles.For Giza, some insecurities were immediately unearthed."It's a long-running organization with established cliques and groupings," he explains."And that can be off-putting to a first timer and it was to me." And so Giza played the part of the mysteriously laconic new guy for a while before fully drinking in the Front Runner Kool Aid.Perhaps it was being part of the prize-winning masters team at the 2005 "Easy Does It" 10K relay that helped warm his heart to the club.In addition to that relay, Giza also raced two terrain-twisting legs of the inaugural 60-mile "Need for Speed" relay from Bear Mountain through Westchester County this past June. Still, for Giza running is a solitary pursuit."When running -- even in a race wearing one of my four Front Runner shirts -- it sort of is just me out there trying to beat me and my previous times."With that end in mind, Giza has signed up to train indoors at the armory this winter along with a couple dozen of his teammates.Having met his marathon goal, Giza now looks to test his fast-twitch fibers on the 200-meter banked track and discover what he's capable of at shorter distances. He's playing it coy about concrete racing goals, but if history is any guide, Giza will be a speed freak in no time at all.Smart money says to look for him at the Front Runner track meet (Friday night, March 2nd -- it's never too early to mark your calendars), four-milers and 5Ks this winter.Of course, he can also be found, Bud Light draft in hand, at club First Friday happy hours.Now open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �that's team spirit. Random Data: Fondest FRNY Memory: "The ride back from the Need for Speed relay as several in our van, myself included, violated the law against driving with open alcoholic beverages." Favorite Race Shirt: The Labrecque Classic (loves the faux wick) Favorite Spectator Cheer: "A woman near Marcus Garvey Park, at mile 22 of the NYC marathon, stepped right in front of me and, seeing the name in marker on my shirt, screamed I love you Dennis! at the top of her lungs." Best Cultural Event of 2006: Kiki & Herb on Broadway Pageantry Lore: Won Honorable Mention Blue Ribbon in upstate NY children's beauty contest Surprising Fact : Carried a lady bug bauble in his pocket as a good luck charm during Chicago Marathon. January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_dennis_giza.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/895c241518b68797474e00c005413b81.pdf bc780cdb1fda865e30d1923e46a55c46 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Rich Velazquez Standing among the lithe and gangly masses in the elite corral at this year's inaugural New York City Half Marathon, Rich Velazquez looks a bit out of place. With a compact body busting with muscles, Velazquez might be better suited to the professionals lifting circuit than to a test of the fleet of foot. Can this guy really do 6:00 pace for 13.1 miles?, one dubious runner seems to ask with his glance askance and his brow furrowed. It's doubtful that runner saw Velazquez cross the finish line at a pace quite a bit faster than that -- 5:36 pace, to be exact, for a chip time of 1:13:23. After all, only 29 of the 10,302 runners who raced that morning actually finished ahead open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �of Velazquez -- and almost all of those were professional runners. Well practiced in the art of self-effacement, Velazquez just shrugs and giggles when complimented by fellow runners for his fine finishes. And there are a lot of fine finishes. Velazquez has been the alpha runner on FRNY for more than Facebook Twitter Instagram two years; in fact, the last time a fellow team member actually crossed the line before him in a race was August 2004. His running achievements alone could fill up this entire profile, but doing so would be paying Velazquez considerable disservice. What's really interesting Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT about Rich Velazquez -- what gaunt runners everywhere have been learning for years -- is that he defies expectation, in running and all else. 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm For starters, there was a time in his life when Velazquez had to actually work POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER to get noticed. The middle child in a family of three boys, he claims to have been a victim of Jan Brady syndrome. "That's the reason I developed my loud laugh," he says. "It was the only time I would get attention as a kid." And somewhat shockingly, Velazquez was not the standout star of his high search school track team either. Geographically cursed, Velazquez went to the same Suffolk County high school as many highly gifted runners, most notably New York City professional runner Anthony Famiglietti. But that did not dampen Velazquez's love of running. He ran on the track team for all four of his years at Appalachian State University, a college tucked away in a North Carolina mountain town called Boone, where he competed in distances of quartermile to two miles. Always more buff than wispy, Velazquez struggled at that time of his life to look more the part of a fast runner, dieting strenuously to morph into the skeletal frame of an elite racer. "I was on the losing end of a battle with anorexia," Velazquez says. "The pressure to look like a distance runner really took its toll on me mentally and I took it to an extreme and dangerous place." Now a muscular but lean 160 pounds, Velazquez, who is about 5-feet 6inches tall, actually plummeted to 131 pounds when he was in the throes of his eating disorder. "After getting healthy, I decided I wanted to help people in similar situations," he says. "This is how I came to major in heath promotion and exercise science." Now at 26, Velazquez has been successfully changing people's lives (and bodies) for years. He currently manages the Equinox gym on 63rd open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �street in Manhattan's Upper East Side and aspires to grow in the company, potentially ascending to a regional or national manager. Even though Velazquez has a busy and erratic work schedule, he finds time to stay in the best shape of his life. Okay, maybe that isn't such a surprise given that free gym membership is a bonus of his day job. He claims that his weight training has been an absolutely integral part of his recent racing breakthroughs. "I do a lot of power training," he says. "That's heavy weight, low reps, and very explosive. It allows me to develop my fast twitch muscle fibers which most distance runners don't do." True, and this explains how Velazquez can start his races slowly (these are, of course, relative terms) and speed up efficiently throughout the race. And to think that when he first graduated from college, Velazquez was running a mere three times per week and for only twenty minutes at a clip. He attributes the spike in his enthusiasm and his increased focus on training to joining Front Runners. Now isn't that just about the best testimonial the club could ever hope for? Random Data: Non-Running Exercise: Pool, volleyball Non-Exercise Activity: Movies Best Movie This Year: The Illusionist Object of Desire: Paul Walker ("I forgive him for all his bad movies; he's so cute!") open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Running Goal: Sub-2:45 in the 2006 New York City Marathon Advice to Fellow Front Runners: Even though we all have goals and want to train hard, listen to your body and REST." January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_rich_velazquez.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/53fbf126a7d837daf3f4b97b9c81c215.pdf e3a53aacc4e98481b73bcf38f15a5bac PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › David Swinarski If you joined Front Runners any time within the last two and a half years, there's a fair chance that David Swinarski approached you with his trademark mix of good manners and Midwestern hospitality - " Hi, my name is Dave. Have you b een coming to Front Runners for a while? " No, it isn't a come-on (at least not necessarily). Swinarski simply values the healthy social and athletic outlet Front Runners has offered him and wants to make certain that others feel the same love. "It takes a few seconds and costs nothing to introduce ourselves to new people," he says, "and (it) makes them feel like a million bucks just for showing up." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �Since joining FRNY in the winter of 2006, Swinarski has supported the club's training programs both through his own involvement as well as through the active recruitment and encouragement of new members. The verdant quads of Columbia's campus, where Swinarski received his Ph.D in mathematics Facebook Twitter Instagram this spring, proved fertile ground for these efforts. His persuasive talents lured not only gay runners but also scores of straight students to the club's speed workouts the past two years. At 28, Swinarski forms a bit of a bridge between the crop of new twenty-somethings (the club now has members who were born well after "Thriller" made history and Kevin Bacon brought Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT dancing back to a joyless Midwestern town in "Footloose") and the old guard of Front Runners who are mostly in their mid-30s to mid-50s. Sadly, 81° someone new will have to ford that chasm now. As of August 1 st , Swinarski will be doing three years of post-doctorate work at University of Georgia in Athens. High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search The warm and familial aspects of Front Runners held immediate appeal for Swinarski, whose idyllic upbringing recalls a Mark Twain novel or Norman Rockwell painting. Growing up on the Minnesota shores of the Mississippi, Swinarski was the middle child of three and the first son of Dave, a pharmacist at the local hospital, and his wife Dee, a physical therapist in the county school district. "It's a beautiful, historic river town," he says of Red Wing, where he was raised and his parents still live. "It was a great place to grow up in the 80s; we had great schools and lots of opportunities-sports, open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �music, outdoors-for kids." Math, science and music played an integral role in Swinarski's formative years. In junior high, he helped his school reach the national Science Olympiad, where his team won a gold medal for building a musical instrument and then explaining the physics of how it produced sound. (Perhaps these early accomplishments foreshadowed a doctoral thesis in algebraic geometry?) "But I wasn't purely a science nerd," he insists. "I took piano lessons for 14 years, played cello in orchestra, sang in choir and performed in my high school's musicals." Swinarski ran cross-country in high school as well, and while his talents were estimable, his spirits ran high. "My 5K PR from high school is barely under 20 minutes," he says, "but I loved being on a sports team." Running only one season a year and increasing his weekly mileage from zero to 40 overnight taxed his body to the point of shin splints. This vicious cycle of injuries convinced Swinarski that his body was not built for running, and he fled from the sport for many years-not running again until post-graduate studies brought him to Oxford. The beautiful English countryside and a desire to "feel the wind in (his) hair" tempted Swinarski back out onto the trails. "Once I got up to 4-5 miles 3-4 times a week, the curse was lifted," he says. "I finally believed that I could run without hurting myself." Swinarski kept up the momentum after moving to New York City in August 2003 for graduate school. Within two years in Manhattan, he had run his first half marathon and joined both New York Road Runners and Columbia Road open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Runners. While accumulating his nine qualifying races for the 2006 NYC marathon, Swinarski began to notice blue and orange singlets throughout the park. "They looked like they were having fun," he recalls. "Then, I noticed Kelsey cheering and coaching - and thought, I want him coaching me !" When his Columbia membership expired, Swinarski joined Front Runners. Swinarski's debut season with Front Runners in winter-spring 2006 proved to be a high point in his running career. "That spring I worked my way up to 45 miles a week, was lifting regularly, and doing regular speed workouts and long runs," he recalls. "I felt great, loved the way I looked and was PRing at every distance." In Queens that April Swinarski raced his half marathon PR of 1:27:37-the running accomplishment of which he remains most proud. As happens all too frequently, the newfound love of racing and the yearning for continued improvement led to overtraining and injury. "I took a good thing too far," he admits, "and got a stress fracture in my heel." Attempts to first run through the pain, and then to curtail his hiatus from training, turned the injury into a six-month saga that sidelined Swinarski for the latter half of 2006, forcing him to defer his marathon entry to 2007. Testament to Swinarski's commitment to the team and support of fellow runners, he remained active in the Front Runner scene throughout this painful time. (Any runner who has suffered an injury knows how difficult it is to be around healthy friends imbibing in their love of running.) To stay connected, Swinarski invited teammates to dinner after a summer track workout, drove a van for the Reach the Beach relay and made the rounds at Front Runner First Friday socials. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Back in action and healthy for the past year and a half, Swinarski has discovered that physical injury is not the only obstacle to peak performance. Daily life can thwart the best of intentions. "I didn't get to train the way I wanted to for NY (marathon) last year and my time showed it," he says. "School got in the way this spring, and now I'm out of shape again." Though he may have been disappointed, Swinarski did earn both a 3:19:22 marathon debut and a doctorate in mathematics within the last year. And despite being overworked in his school life, he has maintained his role as one of the premier ambassadors of the club. Front Runners has had 115 new members in 2008 alone, and that success is due in part to the outreach and efforts of Swinarski and others like him. The rest of the club will have to practice its best greetings to fill the void, but we know there's nothing like the real thing. We'll miss you, Dave. Random Data Friendly Advice? - "I have a very important formula for everyone: Body Glide + Dri-fit clothing (including underwear) = no chafing." Best Movie of Last Year? - "Hairspray: Sometimes when I'm by myself on long runs, I sing through You Can't Stop the Beat in my head to pump myself up." Celeb rity Crush? - "Wil Wheaton from Star Trek" Non-Running Pastime? - "Does goofing off on the Internet qualify as a pastime?" Lifetime Running Goals? - "1:23 in a half marathon, 3 hours for a full open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �marathon, a 5K under 18 minutes and a 10-mile in under an hour." Written by Robert Lennon January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_david_swinarski.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/7771d8bf95b24023557e73cea20b7406.pdf 56c3a9deb39411bde273322c71a9a1fc PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Richard White It took a collapsed lung, coupled with a bout of unemployment, 15 years ago to finally turn a man who is now one of Front Runners' most accomplished and active athletes onto the sport of running. It's hard to believe it now, but Richard White, whom many of us know simply as one of those diehard Front Runners always cheering us on as we climb Cat Hill during a race, telling us we look good (even when we know we don't), was once a casual, sometime runner. But in 1995, Richard, who had just lost his job as a buyer for a 35-location open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Washington-based record store chain, found himself suddenly in the hospital for nearly two weeks with a collapsed lung. That unlucky stretch was enough to jolt Richard into action. "I decided that if I get out of here-and I know I will-I'll start racing," Richard said, recounting his thoughts as he plotted life after his two-week Facebook Twitter Instagram hospitalization in Maryland. Sure enough, he has made up for the late start to his running career, having run 30 marathons and 8 ultra-marathons-and counting-in the 15 years since then, and tackling new athletic challenges. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT Becoming a hard core athlete also had the bonus of being a delicious retort 81° to those in school who were unkind. High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F "Part of this is when I was a kid, I was the prototypical last kid picked in gym Wind: 7 mph class-the faggy little kid nobody liked-this is the revenge of the gym class Sunrise: 5:50 am nerd." Amen, brother. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm Three weeks after he left the hospital, he ran a 5-mile race in Baltimore, in 45 minutes. A modest beginning, to be sure, but one that gave him the bug for POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER racing. His professional luck also turned at that point, when he landed a job in Philadelphia working for an independent music industry executive who search managed small record labels, working there for four years until it succumbed to the shrinking music industry in 1999. Out on the road, Richard has just gotten progressively faster, disabusing anyone of the notion that he is peaking in his abilities (or that one must necessarily peak in one's 40's)-last year, he ran his three quickest marathons in one burst, reaching a personal best of 3:19 in Akron Ohio. He has begun to branch out into other disciplines and is plotting his first triathlon in Washington, D.C. in the fall. Richard, who turned 50 in April, marked the milestone birthday by running a 50-mile ultra, his longest distance yet, in an alligator-frequented area in Huntsville, Texas in his first trip to his hometown in decades. (He sprained his ankle at mile 20, but toughed it out for 30 more-luckily, our hobbled teammate encountered no reptiles.) He plans on keep those PRs coming. "I am now in a new age group, babywatch out Patrick Guilfoyle!" Richard said jokingly. His unquestionable athletic prowess aside, Richard is a well-rounded fellow with many other interests beyond road racing. Perhaps that comes from a childhood as an army brat that saw him spend some years in Tehran, Iran open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �and Heidelberg, Germany. Of course, anyone has to have some panache and worldliness to be able to entertain none other than Tina Turner over lunch, as Richard did during his record business days. (He also got to hang out with likes of David Bowie, Crowded House and Donny Osmond, back in the day.) But his career in the record business ended in 2005, after several years of freefalling CD sales, prompting Richard to forge a new career for himself, and getting him to finally relocate permanently to New York from Philadelphia. In 2005, he began a certificate in art appraisal from New York University, and now works independently. (His favorite era and form is French decorative art from the 18th and 19th centuries.) No one can dispute Richard's butchness-after all, he did run a 60 km ultra in Central Park in November, mere weeks after running the New York marathon. But he admits, readily, that he is an avid collector of 18th century porcelain, and makes no apologies for it. Still, for all his athletic achievements, there are still some goals he has yet to achieve. For instance, he has not run a sub-90-minute half-marathon in nearly nine years. (He has come tantalizingly close-hitting 1:30:33 at the Brooklyn Half in 2008.) But he is patient with himself and advises other runners to be as well. "Not open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �every race is a race," Richard explained. "Some days, you phone it in." Not that he isn't diligent-he does strength training via Cat Hill repeats all winterand has started biking more seriously. Of course, his PRs don't fall out of the sky; they come from really wanting it. With two miles to go, at that recent 50-miler, he kicked it up a notch, clocking in the rest of race in sub-8 minute pace. "I'm going to finish this (expletive) race right now or I will kill somebody," Richard recalled thinking to himself. No alligator would have been able to catch up to him Written by Phil Wahba January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_richard_white.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/59ee3080493b4248c59dd285d82966c7.pdf d9474b337bfa3f60b941762c06bc2801 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › David Pitches David Pitches likes to fly under the radar, a tendency he chalks up to the stoicism and gravitas of a Scottish heritage. His 5'4 ½" 132-pound frame definitely enables him to dart past racers unrecognized-as he is all too apt to do-but his athletic prowess and interminable running feats keep him in the constant burn of that damn FRNY spotlight. Apologies in advance, Mr. Pitches , if this profile further irradiates you. When Pitches joined Front Runners (was it 1986 or '87 ... who can remember, really?), he rode the social coattails of his life partner Dan Elliott, who was strictly A-list with the club connections and role in the famous open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �Runnettes drag revue to prove it. "Dan was the well known member," says Pitches . "I was pretty much just his partner tagging along - Mr. Diffident Reticence." While he may have started both his running career and his FRNY journey from behind the scenes, Pitches would eventually light up the sky like Facebook Twitter Instagram a comet hurtling through the atmosphere at jaw-dropping speed. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search Throughout his young adulthood in Yonkers, New York, Pitches did not partake in organized athletic endeavors. But in the idyll of late 50s Westchester County, he maintained a respectable level of fitness and conditioning by avidly bike riding, tree climbing and woods roaming. The 60s then ushered in some attractive alternatives to aerobic exercise, with Pitches surfing the wave of the decade's excesses with psychedelic aplomb. "There was lots to do and smoke and drink," he says, "peace marches, demonstrations, Vietnam, the draft, they asked - I told, college buildings to occupy, music to zonk out on-Cool, can you dig it?" Um, sure. After the hurly-burly of the 60s, Pitches moved to New York City and adopted the life of a hard-working young architect in the gritty enclave of the East Village. The cadence of his existence volleyed between long nights chainsmoking at the drafting table and wanton exploration of the iniquities of the other Village. "The bars on Christopher Street were where the action was," he says, "Gay hippies! Cool guys, hot guys with long hair and bell bottoms, dancing up a sweat - far out, far fuckin' out!" The hard living did exact a toll. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �One day Pitches discovered his boyish vim had withered when a dash across Second Avenue to beat oncoming traffic nearly reduced him to roadkill. He decided it was time for a change and joined the West Side Y. At that time, the exercise regimen at the Y was a tame variation of calisthenics with an emphasis on knee bends. But then Bob Glover came from upstate to shake things up. "Bob was and still is a man with a mission," says Pitches . "Bob was a marathon runner and thought we should all be marathon runners and badgered and cajoled and tricked a bunch of us into doing various NYRRC races." Though Pitches managed to quit smoking and clock a very respectable 3:17:47 in the first five-borough NYC marathon in 1976, he crashed mentally after the ordeal was over and retreated to his former life of hard work and hard living. He did, however, continue to cycle on his own for physical activity. A few events in the early to mid-80s conspired to nudge Pitches back onto the competitive racing scene. In 1982, he met Dan Elliott at Oil Can Harry's on Ventura Boulevard and formed a lasting romantic partnership. Despite Elliott's active involvement in FRNY, Pitches would shy away from the club and competitive running for many more years. In 1987, he quit smoking for good and also discovered triathlons as a beautiful way to keep active and fit while seeing the country on weekends. With an eye toward staying in shape in the off season, Pitches participated in a few winter races during these years. He always signed up under the FRNY name but was far from devout in his affiliation, still preferring to play the tag-along spouse to Elliott's lead role. That being said, and despite his primary focus remaining on triathlons, Pitches had found his way back to the racing circuit by the late 80s. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Throughout the nineties, Pitches kept to an annual diet of six to eight triathlons with a sprinkling of three or four winter races. A quick survey of the whopping 140 NYRR races that Pitches has run (and remember the database excludes the marathon and only archives times from 1987 on) shows an interesting spike about eight years ago. After racing just three times per year as a 51-, 52- and 53-year-old and only once at 54, Pitches went on to race 85 NYRR races over the next eight years-an average of almost 11 per year. Why the change of heart? In his mid-50s, Pitches realized that he was becoming quite competitive in his age group and developed a trophy-lust that simply had to be sated. As part of his augmented training program, Pitches became more of a Front Runner fixture than in years past. Smart and dutiful adherence to the club's workout regimen has yielded Pitches a curio cabinet worth of hardware. In 2007 alone, Pitches has placed in the top five of his age group in a gaspinducing 21 of 24 NYRR races. After spending much of his early 50s at about the 70th percentile mark for age-graded performance, Pitches ratcheted up into the mid- and then high-70s. This April 1st he smashed into the firmament of "national elite" status by running a 41:45 at the Scotland 10K Run and besting the 80th percentile. ( Pitches has run this race in a kilt in years past, but hopefully donned racing duds for this fine performance.) He followed that up with four more national-elite level finish times before the end of the year. So more than thirty years after his first marathon, Pitches brings more enthusiasm and determination than ever to each run. He admits that he has open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �in no way done it alone. He credits the more competitive and professional approach to training brought in under the Michael Orzechowski administration and exemplified by runners such as Kelsey Louie for much of his own increased dedication to the sport. "There were real athletes who had been trained by real coaches and did real events," says Pitches . "That's something I never had or did in my misspent youth." Of course, Pitches has been paying the club back in spades, leading the FRNY SuperVet contingent to its fourth place finish this year, the best of any club division. And though Pitches holds his status as a gay man "at the top of the list, for all the world to see what we can do" as his proudest accomplishment, he gets much more than a powerful sense of purpose and well-deserved encomia from this sport. "Running has sort of been the one constant in my life," he says, "a refuge, a place to go, sort of like Alice going through the looking glass, to another world." In the end, running is just that, an individual journey that can lead you anywhere if you're willing to open yourself up to the possibility. Far more intriguing than Alice's dalliances with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, the other side of the mirror has offered Pitches a world replete with PRs, sleek young runners angling toward the finish line and a Front Runner family to share it all with. Random Data Dream Job? - A 26-year-old dancer with the Paul Taylor Company Favorite NYC architectural space? - Grand Central Terminal: "a wonder of organized multi-functional inter-modal urban infrastructure with the most open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �organized multi-functional inter-modal urban infrastructure with the most gracious and light-filled main hall." Best Movie of 2007? - No Country for Old Men Vacation Itinerary? - Spain and Portugal ... "Portugal is still poor enough to be wonderfully seedy." On the arc of his generation and his running career - "I began running in the early 70s ... Looking back on it, running was a place to find refuge and rest and rejuvenation from the world. The times were culturally and socially such a massive explosion of the tightly restrained world of the 50s that I grew up in. It was both wonderful and exciting and exhilarating and exhausting. In the end the lives we are able to live as openly gay men and women now, unimaginable to my generation, could not have come about without all of this. So running became my sea anchor in the storm." January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_david_pitches.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/f50f8f5780996927c5a29cb4414b936d.pdf 5746fad642229c822cfe22914ec7b6ef PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › David Lin Before he discovered running, David Lin had in no way tapped into his inner athlete. For most of his life, he dwelled in the considerable shadow of jockdom cast by an older brother who was on the high school football, lacrosse and wrestling teams and who later played rugby at Dartmouth. By contrast, eight years of tennis camp had scarcely enabled Lin to hit the ball, so he opted for choir and orchestra as his chosen extracurricular activities. Big brother even beat him to the marathon punch. "When I started running in 2006, I wore his hand-me-downs," explains Lin. "Now my PR is faster than his." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �In fairness, Lin's PR bests that of many an accomplished runner. His 3:22:01 in the New York City marathon this November secured him a place in the top 10 percent of the field and the 15 th spot among the 66 Front Runner finishers (a much more competitive subset, to be sure). Not bad for a guy Facebook Twitter Instagram who clocked a 10:04 mile in gym class his junior year of high school. "If you had known me even a few years ago," he admits, "you never would have guessed that I'd become a runner someday, let alone a marathon runner." Since joining Front Runners in January 2006, Lin has stealthily emerged from behind the scenes, chipping away at his races times and taking on the Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT look, focus and attitude of a serious athlete. 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search For a good part of Lin's history, other life pursuits took the front seat to exercise. "In high school, I gave up athletics completely and was a big drama queen," he says. (His theatrical debut as the captain in Anything Goes may have only involved three lines of dialogue but Lin relished all the tap dancing.) While at Oberlin College, Lin played the role of the typical liberal arts student. Some nights he would cook for the vegetarian hippies, and on others he ended up drunk at the local K-Mart. After college Lin took a very intense job as a paralegal at Cravath, a whiteshoe law firm in midtown that required crazy hours but allowed him to soak up the city's energy. "I was living in the middle of Chelsea in an apartment right above the Barracuda bar," he says. "The drag shows every night would open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �shake my room." Fearing he would never be able to study with all the distractions in New York City, Lin headed south to George Washington Law School in Washington, D.C., for his JD. The peace and quiet worked out well for Lin. His stellar academic efforts landed him an appellate clerkship in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a prestigious post that he couldn't turn down even though it meant delaying his longawaited return to Manhattan by one year. "I totally lucked out," he says of taking the job, "my judge was super cool - Santa Fe was awesome." The experience introduced Lin to some aerobic activity for the first time in a long while, as the beauty of the physical surroundings lured him to hike, ski and golf regularly. The love affair with the great outdoors proved all too brief when an accident while skiing Wolf Creek put Lin out of commission with a broken leg. The four months of channel surfing and chicken enchiladas that ensued had wreaked havoc on Lin's waistline-until one day he decided he had to take action. "When I came back to New York (to start working as a litigator at Paul, Weiss), I was huge," says Lin. He joined New York Sports Club and became an avid fan of the gym's step classes-aided no doubt by the "cute, fun, gay" teacher whose blog Lin was addicted to. It was at this point that the running bug first bit him. A woman in class had run the 2005 New York City marathon, inspiring Lin to make the only New Year's Resolution that he has ever kept-to become a runner. So great was his resolve that he toed the line of his first NYRR race exactly one week later, finishing the 2006 Fred Lebow 5-miler in a time of 44:24 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �(8:52 pace). Joining Front Runners, an organization he stumbled across while trolling the Internet for gay sports clubs one slow work day, soon helped Lin complete his first full 6-mile loop of the park at a challenging clip. "It was the longest-and definitely the most intense-run of my life," he says. "But after that first run, I knew I could do it, and became determined to do it better and faster." After running steadily at 7:30-8:30 pace throughout 2006 and the early part of 2007, Lin had his first breakthrough race in April 2007 at the Scotland 10K, where he ran 44:26 (7:10 pace to break 60% on the age-graded scale for the first time). "Then I did something drastic," says Lin. "I quit smoking." He had considered himself a "closeted smoking Front Runner" for his first year-anda-half with the club. Lin also began to use his runs with the club to test his physical stamina and psychological mettle, choosing to pace off slightly faster runners who pushed him beyond his comfort zone. The results flew in fast and furious. At the Run as One TGL Classic 4-miler just four weeks after the Scotland 10K, Lin reached another milestonebreaking 7-minute pace for the first time (lopping almost a minute off his previous PR to finish in 27:40, 6:55 pace). A five-mile PR followed in short order with Lin breaking 7-minute pace again at the Pride Run this June, crossing the line in 34:32 (6:54 pace). By the time marathon training approached in mid-summer, Lin was at the front of the pack for training runs and had every reason to adjust his expectations for November 4th. With a PR of 3:55 from Paris in April 2007, Lin had set an initial goal of 3:45, but he had transformed himself into a open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �completely different runner in the few months after that race. Fellow Front Runners then encouraged Lin that he could secure a substantial PR. "At one of the long runs, Peter McGrane told me he thought I could get a PR by 20-30 minutes," says Lin. "That really inspired me to break 3:30." Team coach Kelsey Louie advised Lin to pick three goal times - one he would be happy with, one that would make him happier but that would not disappoint him if he didn't make and a "dream" goal. Lin wore a 3:25 bracelet the day of the marathon with the thought that he would be okay with a 3:30 and ecstatic with a 3:22:30. Well, we know how that all turned out. But Lin has not stopped at ecstasy. Just two weeks after the marathon, he knocked more than two minutes off his 4-mile PR with a 25:31 (6:22 pace) at the Race to Deliver. Oh, and he happened to have raced the Front Runners Cross-Country Meet the day before. This winter Lin will look to shave even more time off his PRs with a little help from track workouts with the team at The Armory. It may seem as though Lin has become addicted to running, but he isn't concerned about overdosing. "This is the one habit," he says, "that has made me stronger, healthier, happier and prouder. I've seen so many aspects of my life improve since I started running." Now that sounds even better than a PR. Random Data Provenance - Nashua, New Hampshire (grew up in Lexington, Mass.) Best Part-Time Job - Tour Guide in Historic Lexington (Think Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and tricorn hats) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Paul Revere and tricorn hats) Club Endorsement - "I've found that there's just something about the type of people who join FRNY; it's not like people you meet at bars. It's like a family. People look out after you." Reality TV Show Turn - "Iron Chef. Definitely. And I'd like to go against Chen Kenichi, the king of Sichuan cuisine." Desert Island Soundtrack - Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds, some Madonna and an Anderson Cooper podcast. FRNY Suggestion Box - How about a Wednesday dinner somewhere other than Café Viand? January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource frny_org_david_lin.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/cc24f52b0fc8ecb1727da4e49717b4be.pdf 3608513e1d542c52bf7d4f4073eb3a40 PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Zander Ross Matters of the Heart When he was just a little boy, teasing newspaper boats down a gully in Buenos Aires, Zander Ross could not have imagined he'd one day be flying solo on West End Avenue, penning a monthly sports apparel column, or chatting up Kofi Annan. But he's done all that, and more, including running 80 marathons. And running a marathon a month since November 2006. And running four marathons in 2 weeks in 2010. And running marathons on 7 continents (yes, that includes Antarctica). And running a 50-mile race that open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �started with 15 miles of rock-strewn cliffs and declivities. Facebook Zander Ross"The downhills were so steep, we had to hold onto trees," Twitter Zander says of his JFK 50M with Tim Guscott and Richard White. Rocky obstacles proved so prolific and random that they reminded him of Whac-a- Instagram Mole. But Zander persevered, as he has in a life Whac-a-Moley with misadventure, and early tragedy. His father died when he was 10 and his mother when he was 18. His closest school chum -- and early crush --drowned when his ship sank in the Falklands War. Zander saw two long and rich partnerships Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT devolve to acrid ends. 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm Though he's lived in LA, Paris, and Rio, Zander came out in another homo hotbed--Billings, Montana. What was a nice boy from Buenos Aires doing in POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER Billings? Zander's sister Patty lived in Boulder, Colorado. Looking to start life afresh in his early 20s, he moved in with her, then headed to Montana when Patty's father-in-law offered him a job there at Montgomery Ward. Before he could start, he found another spot, at Yellowstone Country Club, where he search washed dishes, fried eggs, waited tables, tended bar, learned English, learned to drive (in a pushbutton-shift Plymouth Valiant), and fell in love with his boss, Dan. That liaison survived--and indeed grew stronger after--an episode of infidelity Dan perpetrated at year 9. But it didn't survive Dan's decision to split at year 15. Returning to their Brooklyn apartment after a flight, Zander found his key no longer fit the lock to the door, or to Dan's heart. Dan opened the door, told Zander he'd changed the locks, and asked him to leave because Dan's new boyfriend was about to visit. Anticipating the breakup, Zander had already rented his first Manhattan apartment. He slept there that night with his carryon as a pillow and his flight attendant jacket as a blanket. But 28 days later, the plucky Ross was on the rebound. He moved in with his next mate a month after that and still calls Randy "the love of my life." He was "the most awesome man I've ever met," Zander confides. "He gave me the best 10 years of my life. But I know that I will find love again." An episode from Zander's 10-year tryst with Randy--and the reason for its dissolution--bespeak the quality pals cite most in explaining why they cherish Zander's friendship: he always puts the other person first. Living the high life open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Zander's friendship: he always puts the other person first. Living the high life in LA--a house in Hermosa Beach, two flashy cars, a zippy moped--Zander felt Randy's high-pressure job was heading him toward a heart attack, a fate suffered by both Randy's parents. "Why don't we downsize," Zander proposed. "Why don't we sell everything and move someplace where it's less expensive? Save your money for the future," he told Randy, "and we'll try to live on my salary." They did, moving to a Paris flat so petite they didn't need the remote control to change TV channels-they just stuck out a finger. Later they moved to a bigger place, then on to Rio, where Randy shed his workaday woes, cruised Ipanema, and built his body: "He became a 49-year-old Chelsea boy," Zander recalls. "He had muscles everywhere." But it didn't last, because Randy's love of the good life evolved to love of self. "Randy became narcissistic and he put me in second place," Zander says, "and I always put my partners in first place." Returning to New York, Zander spent the next 2 years crying himself to sleep on any night when he didn't get there with a few glasses of wine. "The years after leaving Randy were a rough time," Zander admits. If you're sick, you can do things to help you recover, "but matters of the heart, you can take nothing for it." It's been 5 years, and it's taken him that long to get over it. A big ingredient in that recovery was rejoining Front Runners. Zander first found the club about 25 years ago, but he joined then mostly for the social amenities. He didn't even consider himself a runner, but that changed on Miami Beach two decades ago. The inspiration came from a rich legacy left by his father, not a pot of pesos, but a predisposition to high cholesterol. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �When Zander's doctor advised him to start exercising, he didn't know where to begin. But tautly gleaming boardwalk joggers moved him to give running a try. Without real running shoes, wearing cargo shorts and a polo shirt, he headed up the beach and didn't stop for 45 minutes. Some debut. Zander returned to his hotel with sopping shorts and shirt, but also with the discovery that he loved running. It took him a year and a half to prepare--physically and mentally--for his first marathon, which he ran in San Francisco in the early 90s. "I was thrilled," he recalls. "I came back to New York, I was really excited, I lost tons of weight." Did he have any notion then that marathoning would become such a big part of his life? "Noooo," he laughs. "I had no idea!" Zander credits FRNY not only for helping heal the wounds Randy left, but also for his dedication to distance racing. And Front Runner Richard Ervais played a big part in both. Richard and Zander met at a club breakfast in the summer of 2006. When Richard mentioned a planned trip to Santiago, Zander replied that he loved Santiago and suggested he go along for the ride. Zander's impulsive proposal marked the start of a long two-for-the-road fraternity that soon had a singular focus: running marathons. Richard had tried for 12 marathons in 12 months, but at month 8 he crashed his motorcycle and broke his foot. Zander began his current marathon-a-month streak at the 2006 Philadelphia race, coincidentally the first 26-miler of FRNY's third marathoning musketeer, Tim Guscott. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �With one of those marathon partners or the other--and sometimes alone-Zander has tested himself at 26.2 miles from Istanbul, Reykjavik, and Kigali-to Albany, Duluth, and the Poconos. And getting to the starting line has been half the fun. Richard recalls the time he flew from Munich to JFK to meet Zander for a trip to the Montreal marathon. Disdaining the thought of driving a rental car, Zander cabbed the duo to La Guardia, where they got the last two seats on a New York-Chicago-Montreal route. But bad weather intervened and the Chicago flight ended up in St. Louis. So they rented a car after all, drove all night to Chicago, still couldn't get a flight, and drove another 18 hours to Montreal. "Zander finished with a great time," Richard reports, "but he ended up in the medical tent getting IV fluids and only perked up when he noticed the gorgeous French-Canadian doctor treating him." Because the intrepid couple raced so many miles together--and shared an apartment for a time--many Front Runners take them to be life partners. But they're partners only in megamile odysseys. To clarify this ongoing alliance, Zander calls them "the un-couple." Most mortals may surmise that running monthly megaraces takes a withering toll on muscle and bone. Zander has twice had surgery for severed medial menisci. But both injuries predate his marathon streak. Since churning out one marathon (or more) a month, he has remained remarkably injury free. "I have strong leg muscles," Zander offers. But, really, how does he avoid patellar ruination? Now, in an FRNY newsletter exclusive, he divulges his five-point formula: open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �1. Take an ice bath immediately after racing 2. Have a little something to eat 3. Get outside and walk for at least 3 hours 4. Take the next day off 5. On the following day, run 5 or 6 miles Not only has Zander sidestepped serious injury during his marathon streak, he's getting faster. His marathon PR stands at 3:21:12, set in 2009 on a sultry Australian Gold Coast course. Now he's aiming for a 3:19. No knowledgeable Zander watcher doubts he could run faster than that. Club coach Kelsey Louie tells him, "Stop this insanity and I'll train you for a 3:10!" Zander's job facilitates his globe-trotting marathon itinerary. As a veteran flight attendant for American Airlines, he can usually wangle standby tickets to many a port-of-call. He applied for the job at the suggestion of a friend, went on a lettuce diet to make the weight limit, and wowed his interlocutors with trademark Zanderian savoir-faire and a facility for Romance languages. Now flying regularly as purser in first class, he's met notables from the stately (Kofi Annan) to the studly (Jake Gyllenhaal) to the silly (Judge Judy, "a sweetheart," Zander avers). A photo gallery in Zander's home portrays him beaming at many of these luminaries, as they serve him coffee. What does the racing future hold for FRNY's Dionysian distance runner? First, he wants to continue the marathon-a-month streak, ideally running his 100th at the New York City Marathon. Another 50-miler, without a 15-mile Whac-a-Mole lead-in, has appeal. Perhaps a 12- or 24-hour time trial. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Perchance a 100K. The ultimate lure may be the Western States 100, a quadriceps-gnashing challenge that starts with an 18,000-foot climb into frosty defiles, followed by a 23,000 foot plunge to a 106-degree desert. (Way stations include Dusty Corners, Devil's Thumb, Rucky Chuck, and Last Chance.) Zander recounts feelings familiar to many Front Runners on his return to the club 5 years ago. Could he run as fast as everyone else? Would people wonder at his out-of-town accent? Would he fit in? The answers were yes, no, and definitively yes. Joe Plutz was the first welcoming member he met, and Reuben Danzing guided him through his first fun run. He went on to pioneer the newsletter's Gadgets 'n Gear column, joining Hilary Lorenz, then Audra Farrell, then Emily Meyers to road-test running apparel and accoutrements provided by Urban Athletics. (Zander unspools his reviews in fetching narratives that may feature a motorcycle ride with his dad or rend readers' hearts with the story of Hachi, the dog.) He crowned his first 12-month marathon streak with the 2007 FRNY Male Long Distance Runner Award. But what endears Zander most to his closest friends is an unfailing generosity of spirit. Richard Ervais remembers the time Zander spent every ounce of energy racing toward a fast finish in the Philadelphia marathon, urged on by Cenk Bulbul. Zander was "absolutely exhausted and looked like he was about to faint," says Richard, who nonetheless rushed his un-couple companion from finish time to a wedding reception for Richard's sister. There Zander amped up his best boulevardier charm, "all the time," Richard open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �suspects, "in total pain and exhaustion and absolutely not wanting to be there." Front Runner Tom Henning calls Zander "an accomplished but very humble runner" who had to be cajoled into bringing a few of his marathon medals when he talked to the high-school cross-country team Tom coaches, The Flying Dragons of the High School for Math, Science, and Engineering. Zander has joined the Dragons for many runs and inspirational recountings of his marathon adventures. Zander put his own training on the back burner last year to mentor FRNY Robert Preston. "With his patience, determination, and love for running," Preston says, "he took me under his wing and trained me for my first marathon. That was a year ago; now I've run four. I feel he's with me every time I cross a finish line." Tim Guscott recalls checking into an Istanbul hotel with Zander and Richard when they noticed a knot of Italian runners flustered by an apparent impasse with the concierge. Zander eased himself into the give-and-take, brushed off his workable Italian, and sorted out the dilemma. "He completely changed these peoples' attitudes about how their day was going," Tim says, "and it's not an isolated incident; it's just the most recent one I can remember." (Zander speaks Italian well enough to negotiate hotel-lobby contretemps, and he speaks Portuguese, French, and of course Spanish and English, fluently.)" I'm very, very social," Zander allows. "I can talk to anyone." Rejoining Front Runners revived the social animal that hibernated after his breakup with his open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �second partner. "Then Richard came along, and I love Richard's ideals of experiencing everything in life. I cherish and appreciate my friendship with my other un-boyfriends, Tim, Tom, and Preston. And now I realize I'm happy again. I love running, I love being in my apartment, I love going to work, I love all my friends." by Mark Mascolini January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_zander_ross.pdf Description An account of the resource Member profile from FRNY website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-2014 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright FRNY http://archives.frny.org/files/original/c0a3275eff0f3fb38799ad67d0bbd702.pdf 2be42d460ec7c901c90ad5dd00eb471a PDF Text Text Contact Us Member Resources › Membership Signup Member Login Running Out Front Since 1979 Home Calendar Multisport Social Fun Runs › About › Training › Racing › Pride Run › Tim Guscott Tim Guscott dropped out of college and ran away with the circus. Though he works on the tech side at the Metropolitan Opera, he has appeared on stage, driving a forklift, wearing a wedding gown. He sleeps through fire alarms. If you find these biographical ephemera hard to believe, and if you're vaguely familiar with Tim's racing record, you will reject the following detail outright: When running track in high school, he finished last in every race but one. It was a coed race. He beat one girl. Since returning to racing in 2005, after a 21-year hiatus, Tim has not finished open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �a race remotely near the back of the pack. In New York Road Runner (NYRR) races last year, his age-graded percent always approached or exceeded 70. In 2009 he captured the FRNY 40-to-49 age group award for men, amassing 467 points in 28 NYRR races and snagging a Front Runner of the Year nomination along the way. For good measure, Tim ran 22 non-NYRR races Facebook Twitter Instagram last year, on courses from Tokyo to Scranton, from Berlin to Niagara Falls. All told, Tim cruised through 517.8 miles (roughly), the distance from Central Park's Daniel Webster statue to the White House, back again, then around the park's big loop nine times. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT Launching his racing career on a 400-meter track, instead of cross-country trails, may have been the wrong move, Tim concedes today. "Although I enjoy 81° Thursday Night at the Races track meets," he explains, "I don't have any illusions about being a speedster. I think I really hit my stride when I started thinking about running a little farther." High: 87° Low: 69° Mostly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER search Now that he's savored age-group glory, does he want to take the age crown again and again? "No," Tim says with not a microbeat of hesitation, although "I'm very proud of it and proud of the commitment that I made to myself to try and push all the way through." He often raced three weekends a month and sometimes ran more than one race a week (including one 5-mile points race a day after a 50K ultramarathon). The scheduling alone would challenge the surest datebook juggler. And while nonrunning pursuits sat on the sideline, Tim found himself spending weekend after weekend away from his partner Gregory Aiello (an architect and architecture photographer who transforms stone, steel, and glass into shimmering essays in chiaroscuro; www.gregoryaiello.com). Tim met Gregory in Boston 20 years ago but found him otherwise engaged. Still, enough sparks flew to encourage a phone call the next time Tim fetched up near Faneuil Hall. Dinner at a North End trattoria followed, then a trip back to Gregory's place, then 18 years of connubial ardor. Although Tim lettered in high school track partly to "butch up my image," he never entertained the notion of heterosexuality. "I can't remember a time when I didn't think that I was gay," he says. "I've always been attracted to boys open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �and then men--boys when I was a boy, and men when I was still a boy, and so on." But when he first began the hunt for a steady partner, he found his pick-up savvy unsteady. His first months haunting gay bars passed without a single chat, until the Columbus Eagle bouncer bounded into his life. "I went home with him that night and didn't go back to my apartment for a week," Tim recalls. "Then we were together for a year and a half. I'm kind of impulsive that way." The same mix of diffidence and impulsivity marked Tim's entrée to FRNY in 2006. His 2005 return to running started on the health club treadmill with an aim of avoiding the avoirdupois that come with a largely sedentary job. A friend persuaded him to hit the road in Central Park and he dabbled in interval training while touring Japan with the opera. Keen to continue speedwork--in the company of other dedicated runners--Tim hopped online to find details for joining a Wednesday FRNY fun run. But he went to the wrong spot--down by Daniel Webster instead of up on Central Park West. "I was really nervous and intimidated that these other people were going to be real runners and I wasn't a real runner," he confesses. "And I couldn't understand why no one was there. Then I looked off to the left and saw these really hot guys running down the hill and half of them were shirtless, and I thought, 'Oh, my god,' and I was too intimidated to actually run with them, so I went home." But after "screwing up my courage" for another try, Tim found himself circling the park with graciously welcoming FRNY mainstays who became abiding buddies, Cenk Bulbul and Zander Ross. "I love Tim," Cenk says unblushingly. "He is so responsible, so reliable," open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �doing everything from spending 5 hours hanging blinds in Cenk's apartment to "relentlessly answering my questions about training, even stupid ones." And Tim is a capital training partner, "making the long runs pass by like lullabies." Cenk is hardly the only Front Runner who's reaped the rewards of Tim's training acumen, or his support. While most runners spend the minutes after a race resting their overtaxed heart-lung machine, Tim trots immediately back down the course and cheers until every Front Runner has passed. A regular Pride Race and marathon event volunteer, Tim will share a new volunteer post this year with Bernd Erpenbeck, organizing out-of-town races. They plan to start with one race per quarter, aiming for nearby events that can be reached by public transport or shared van and that feature races at different distances. For 2010, Tim's running goals are (umm . . . ) more modest than running a marathon a month and winning the FRNY age-group award. His top priority is completing the NYRR Half-Marathon Grand Prix (one marathon in each of the five boroughs). But he'd also like to qualify for the NYC Marathon by speed criteria (as he did in 2008), which means running a half-marathon at 1:30. The 2010 calendar also includes two triathlons (Tim's training with Triton stars Claudia Cummings and Les Jones). Also, "running a Boston qualifier in Boston would be nice." Then there's the JFK 50-mile trail race in Maryland. When he's not racing, sleeping, or motorcycle touring with Gregory and friends, Tim can be found in the ceiling of the Metropolitan Opera (called "the Domes"), training a follow spot on feisty divas and vainglorious tenors. He open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �loves the second-by-second link with an ever-unfolding drama ("It's almost like there's a tightwire between the operator and the performer") and can go home "completely energized" to the point where sleep seems impossible. But he has little love for the work schedule, which calls for 16-hour shifts and five shows in four days, often including the Saturday doubleheader. "Since most friends have the reverse schedule," he says, "it makes it really hard to see people." Tim's technologic prowess dates from an early yen for electrical engineering, a course of study he pursued briefly at Philadelphia's Drexel University. But still uncertain of his career path, he returned to his home state to find his way at Ohio State, where he got a work-study job in the theater department. He promptly fell in love with the stage, began taking theater courses, and mastered the off-stage magic that underpins drama's Grand Illusion. "At that point I was already working in my chosen field," Tim recalls, so he left Ohio State, joined the Big Apple Circus, "and never looked back." He went from the Big Top to Dance Theatre of Harlem to European touring companies of "42nd Street," "Evita" (which he managed), and "California Dream Man" (ask Tim for details). Back in New York and working on a site-specific dance project with composer-choreographer Meredith Monk, Tim snagged a spot in the Met's tech crew when the opera house added electricians to set up the Met Title translations. He jumped from the audio side to stage work (which occasioned his onstage drag debut, maneuvering a forklift in "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"). Now he works upstairs, way upstairs, in the follow spot aerie you can see just behind the dome over the orchestra seats. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Late nights at Lincoln Center--and the rush of a supercharged artistic collaboration--do not lend themselves to a solid night's sleep before Saturday and Sunday races. "I've run PR half-marathons on 5 hours of sleep," Tim concedes, "although I wouldn't recommend it." But the need to squeeze in a few hours of prerace sleep apparently stands him in good stead on occasion, according to Tim's multimarathoning pal Zander Ross. "I have never met anyone who can SLEEP like Tim does," Zander avers. He recalls sharing one premarathon hotel room with Tim and Richard Ervais (the third steed in 2009's megamarathon troika) on a night when a clamorous electrical storm knocked out all power. When power popped back on in the middle of the night, so did the room lights, the TV, and a vehement fire alarm. Zander and Richard sprang from their beds; Tim never twitched. Before dawn arrived, the alarm jarred Zander and Richard from slumber twice more, but not Tim. Besides being a reliable wake-up service, "Zander is a tremendous inspiration to me," Tim says. Zander started his current marathon streak with the 2006 Philadelphia race, Tim's first marathon. "I felt a natural bond with him and Richard from the first time I met them." And when Zander and Richard continued their monthly marathon mania into 2009, Tim signed on. "So many people told me you can't run more than two marathons a year and run them well. It's my contrary nature to say, you may be right, but I believe you're wrong, so I'm going to set about finding out whether that's the case or not." During the year, Tim ran a 3:20:04 marathon in New York (not known as a fast course), only a couple minutes off his 3:17:24 Rome PR set in 2007. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Tim lists four other inspirational Front Runners--Patrick Guilfoyle "because he's such a great runner at every distance," Chris Stoia "because he and I are about twice as old as the young fast runners in the club now and he doesn't let that slow him down at all," Dave Pitches because "he taught me about patience and made me realize, especially after my injury, that there was no hurry to be a good runner right now," and Kelsey Louie "because he's just an amazing runner and so generous to the club with his time." Anyone who knows Tim even tangentially knows he approaches running "like a scientist," as Cenk puts it. When it comes to training and racing, "nobody is as methodical and precise as Tim is," adds Zander. "Tim is the most analytical runner I know," Richard Ervais confirms. "He devours running blogs and magazines and parses information into usable and understandable bits which he then spits out at (or to) anybody who needs assistance." What sometimes escapes casual acquaintances is Tim's penchant for training his analytical cunning on everything that absorbs him--running, swimming, motorcycling, stagecraft, digital technology, politics, home repair. Why? "I guess I feel it's important to lead a considered life and not to do things just on autopilot," he offers. "I like to understand why I do certain things a certain way and why I like things or why I don't, rather than just being an automaton about it." Outakes What's your favorite thing to do after a long running workout or a hard race? open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �What's your favorite thing to do after a long running workout or a hard race? After marathons or a long training run, an ice bath, even though it's kind of unpleasant when you're doing it, it's satisfying in the long run. Also, I can't drink coffee before a race. and I'm a coffee person. Consequently, at the end of the race when I can get to my first coffee, that's a key moment. If you could make a bargain with the devil and exchange running a sub-3hour marathon for giving up motorcycling forever, would you do it? No, no. No. One thing Richard Ervais taught me is that you don't have to run every race as fast as you possibly can on that day. Two years ago we both wanted to run the Broad Street Run in Philadelphia, where I had set my 10mile PR. But the Brooklyn half got rescheduled to the day immediately before Broad Street. We literally ran from the Brooklyn finish to New Jersey Transit and got to Philadelphia in time to check in for the race the next day. Richard and I ran that Broad Street Run in 8-minute miles. That to me was a breakthrough because I learned I could enjoy a race that became a 10-mile recovery run. What was your most satisfying race ever? I can't pick just one. The first time I broke 1:30 in a half-marathon was unbelievable because I really didn't think I was going to. But I was training hard for Rome in 2007 and I was in better shape than I thought. It was one of those races where you get into a zone and everything's going right. I wasn't really aware of where I was on my watch, until I turned the corner and saw the clock and I could not believe that was my time. In my first Boston Marathon in 2009, Zander and I made a commitment to stay with each other no matter what. Even though I may have been fresh open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �enough to pull away in the last mile or two, that wasn't what the race was about. So the two of us together, having shared lots of training runs, then coming to that point, streaking down the last straightaway was just an incomparable feeling of satisfaction. Running my first Boston qualifier in Rome was amazing too. It was Zander's 50th marathon and he turned 50 this year, so there was a lot of resonance there. Do you think you'll be racing when you're 77? Definitely. In fact I think Front Runners should announce a new age group of 70-plus instead of just 60-plus. I don't think Sam Lafata should have to run against Dave Pitches next year. And in the interest of full disclosure, I'm not the least bit interested in running against Kelsey Louie when I'm 70. Written by Mark Mascolini January 2, 2012 profile Perm alink © Copy right 2014 PO Box 230087, Ansonia Station, NY . NY 10023 Front Runners New Y ork open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Website Members Profiles, 2012-2014 Description An account of the resource Members profiles were created on the FRNY website from January 2012 until March 2014. This collection includes PDF copies of the member profiles. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://frny.org/category/profile/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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