1 25 66 http://archives.frny.org/files/original/4f20a61e1e9ae76d1b8f297d30f9dec3.pdf ba91c4fed44a510362317dc0cbbadb09 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 › Anthony Ng You've seen him at all our First Fridays. He seems to always have a cocktail in his hand and a big, wide grin on his face. But Anthony Ng, a stalwart of the FRNY social scene, is about more than just having fun. Born and raised in the very same one bedroom apartment on the edge of Chinatown where he lives today, Anthony is a native New Yorker through and through. The younger of two sons born to garment-factory workers who spoke little to no English, Anthony has gone through life being independent, trying to improve the world around him, and bringing joy to the people in his life. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �life. Facebook He describes his upbringing in New York as "sheltered." "I never had friends over," nor was he allowed to go outside and play, or attend sleepovers. To say Anthony's parents were overprotective of him would be an understatement. And it didn't help that Anthony grew up in his older brother's Twitter Instagram shadow. "He was the athletic one," says Anthony, describing his brother as gifted in both in baseball and basketball. As the overweight kid brother, Anthony had to deal with the constant teasing, enduring names like "fei nu," a Chinese Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT term meaning "fat woman." At the time, Anthony weighed about 200 pounds. 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 High school, however, provided an opportunity for Anthony's individuality to blossom. As a member of the Baruch College Campus High School's very first graduating class, Anthony was one of only 90 students. He found himself very involved in high school, where he started the Multicultural Society at BCCHS. He then found religion and was attending church regularly, and later formed his high school's Christianity Club. By senior year, Anthony started to discover his sexuality, which caused him to struggle with his religion. "I prayed to God to accept me for who I was." He soon discovered the chat rooms of AOL, and was able to reach out to other gay people to help him deal with his sexual orientation. After he started at Hamilton College in upstate New York, despite the gay community on campus, Anthony continued to struggle with his sexuality. It was a long process of coming out, but towards his senior year, Anthony was out and proud. He even became the coordinator of the Hamilton LGBT organization ("I did the same thing that Megan does with FRNY," he jokes). After Hamilton, Anthony decided he wanted to put his talents to use bettering open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �society. So he enrolled in the Peace Corps and was sent to Guyana in South America. "I was a Health Advocate," he says, "assigned to a village to educate the Guyanese to be more health conscious." Part of Anthony's role was to educate villagers about HIV/AIDS prevention. The stint in Guyana turned out to be more difficult than Anthony had imagined. "You have to have a lot of patience, because you're completely immersed in the community." Being away from home, dealing with the constant exposure to illness and poverty, and struggling to embrace his gay identity, in a place where it was unheard of, Anthony decided to end his post after five months. So in 2006, Anthony returned to New York and started back at the job where he worked a few months before he left--as an office administrator in a doctor's office. He continues to work there to this day. Living in New York after college was certainly different from growing up as a child here. One of the first things he did when he came back to the city was to seek out gay organizations. At first he joined the gay volleyball league Gotham, and then one day in 2007, he and a friend came to Front Runners together. But after feeling like he wasn't able to keep up during the fun run, he didn't come back. It was a year later, in April 2008, that Anthony decided to give FRNY another try. This time, he came to a Wednesday night fun run when Koach Kelsey happened to announce an upcoming meeting for the outdoor training season. Not being one to shy away from anything, and with some encouragement from then President Mikey B and former President Michael O, Anthony went to the meeting, and "learned all about VO-2 max and lactic open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �threshold training," and he jumped right into the workouts. Before he knew it, Anthony became a four-day-a-week Front Runner. "I really got into running," Anthony recalls, "no one else ran my pace, but I stuck with it." And stick with it he did! Although he had just started running in 2008, by 2009, Anthony had decided that he was going to run all of the NYRR Club Points Races (except the Marathon, which he didn't get into, but volunteered for instead), and all five half-marathons in the NYRR Grand Prix Series. On top of that, he ran Reach the Beach and the Philadelphia Marathon--all in 2009! But that didn't mean the runs came easy to him. After running his first two half-marathons at an 8:21, and then an 8:16 pace, Anthony decided he was going to break the 8:00 mile barrier. With the help of a support crew that included Koach Kelsey, Cenk, Bernd, Ray-K, and Walter, Anthony set out to hit that goal in the 2009 Bronx Half. Despite the encouragement of his FRNY teammates, the notoriously difficult course took the better of him, and left Anthony with a disappointing 8:37 pace. But Anthony just picked himself up and tried again, and again, and again. An 8:59 in Brooklyn, followed by a 9:00 pace in Queens (one day after Reach the Beach) and a painfully close 8:07 at Grete's. But then it happened, in October 2009. It was the day of the Blue Line Run, but Anthony had other things on his mind: he was determined to meet his goal at the Staten Island Half. And that's when he did it, finishing the race in 1:44:05, a 7:56 pace! That thrill of victory indeed set off a love affair Anthony has had for distance running. After running the Philadelphia Marathon in 2009, Anthony decided to train for an Ultramarathon, and set his sights on the following year's open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Knickerbocker 60K. In the process of training for the 37.2 mile race, Anthony "accidentally" PR'd at the New York City Marathon, shaving a whopping 40 minutes off of his Philly time with an enviable 3:40:26. Two weeks later, he ran Knickerbocker in 6:08:09 (9:53 pace), being one of only 209 runners to tackle the grueling nine-loop course. What's on his racing calendar now? The Victoria (Canada) Marathon on October 9, the New York City Marathon on November 6, and the Knickerbocker on November 19 (he's trying for sub-6 hours this time). But most importantly, he wants to be healthy, says Anthony, "After the Philadelphia Marathon in 2009, I was injured for six months, with a stress fracture in my left tibia." But how did Anthony get into Ultras? He has Front Runners to thank for that: Patrick Guilfoyle piqued his interest, and then Tim Guscott hooked him up with a training plan. In addition, he credits his fantastic finish at Knickerbocker to all of his "stars" aligning that day: the many, many Front Runners who paced him, cheered for him, and encouraged him along those 37.2 miles. "If there is ever a chance that I can repay you in some way," he wants everyone to know, "please do not hesitate to ask." Running, though, isn't all that Anthony does for FRNY. For the past two years, Anthony has been serving on the Board of Directors as Treasurer. "I wanted to give back to the club in a concrete way," he explains as his decision for joining the Board. But when pressed for some juicy details of his board experience, Anthony is uncharacteristically mum. Anything to say about his hotly contested election open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �for Treasurer in 2009? Nope. Thoughts about the leadership styles of the two different FRNY presidents he's worked with? Silence. Controversial Board actions? Nada. One thing he's happy to talk about, though, is his role on the Social Committee. "I love working with Sandi and Timmy." He's also proud of his role in taking the First Fridays to new and exciting venues, including straight bars like Desire in the West Village and the Bohemian Beer Garden in Astoria. But, alas, all good things must come to an end. "I'm definitely leaving the Board next year," says Anthony, who plans to go back to school to pursue a Masters Degree in Social Work. It is a field that has personal significance to Anthony, who for the past four years has volunteered every month to counsel victims of domestic violence. Although he hasn't applied for schools yet, he is spending the next year to focus on other things in his life. Anthony expects to quit his job at the end of January, after which he will travel, work on his grad school applications, and most importantly--spend time with his family. "My mom was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer last year," explains Anthony. He learned about the diagnosis in the days before leaving for the Gay Games in Cologne. Although it has been a difficult time for him, Anthony says that it was through running and the support of his FRNY friends that he's been able to cope with his mom's illness. "You can just run and forget about the world," he reflects. These days, Anthony's parents are both retired, having moved out of the apartment in Chinatown into a house in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn; Anthony diligently makes the trek to meet them for open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �dinner every week. It's in his mother's honor, he says, that he has decided to pursue graduate studies. Although he's not sure where he'll end up studying social work, he thinks it's a 50/50 chance that he will leave New York. "If I don't do it now when I'm 28, I won't be able to do it as I get older." Wherever he ends up, we can be sure that Anthony will be working hard to improve the lives of those around him, either through his counseling and education work, or by just sharing a cocktail and a laugh with his friends. By Dave Lin 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_anthony_ng.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/7db58e2bd796f3b00ce1fa8bd25d9337.pdf 505ac676d9bd4fe6d312d8a204a87d8e 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 › Audra Farrell It's got to be the magic pig tails. How else to explain Front Runner Audra Farrell's explosion of excellent running in recent months, beating one PR after another? Audra has set new personal bests at every distance she has run this year, most recently at the 5-mile Gay Pride Run last weekend, which she ran in 37:16 minutes. She has also PR'ed in a 5k, a 4-miler, a 10k, a 10k, a 10miler, a half marathon, and a full marathon. And we are only halfway through the year. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �As anyone who follows her every move on Facebook knows, Audra credits wearing her hair in pigtails to explain some of those explosive performances. But more probably, her secret sauce is quite simple: "Just running and more of it," Audra said, and watch your times melt away. (It probably doesn't hurt that her girlfriend with whom she shares an apartment and some pets, and Facebook Twitter Instagram sometime coach, Loren, is an accomplished runner herself. See October 2008 profile ) 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 �Her Gay Pride PR came just over 10 years to the day after her first ever NYRR Sunset: 8:10 pm race, the 1999 Gay Pride run, which she ran 8 minutes slower. That summer, Audra joined the club to have people to run with, and to train for her first POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER marathon. "I hadn't run since high school and had no idea how to get going again," said the South Bend, Indiana native, who spent most of her childhood in Philadelphia's South Jersey suburbs. But because her high school did not have a soccer team and would not allow her to play with on the boys' team --"I search have three brothers, boys have never scared me", she says -- she ran track, but eventually gave that up after tiring of "running in circles." Audra, now a 38 year-old graphic designer, stopped running in her early 20's to move to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts, and be an agent provocateur with ACT UP! and Queer Nation, among other groups. But though she has since mellowed (a little), Audra still has a fire in her belly -she became obsessed in recent years with qualifying for the Boston Marathon (needing a 3:45 time to qualify), reaching her goal this year at the New Jersey marathon -- "Much to the relief of Loren who doesn't think she would have been able to live with me through another miss," she said. In her time with FRNY, Audra has been an active leader. In 2008, she served as women's Vice President and had an active role in helping to design the Pride program and has always been an advocate of the club's training programs. Always a serious athlete, she won two honors at the last awards dinner -- the points award for her age group and the inaugural Sue Foster Distance Runner of the Year. Of course, many in the club know Audra first and foremost as a triathlete; she has helped to promote the visibility of Tritons over the last decade. Many open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �probably did not know that Audra chose to put cycling and swimming aside in the pursuit of that Boston qualifying team. "I realized after a failed attempt in October of 2008 (Steamtown Marathon, in Pennsylvania) that if I was going to do that, I was going to have to run more. Actually, only run," Audra said. In fact she hasn't ridden her road bike or swum since the Keuka Lake triathlon on just over a year ago. "I put triathlons and cycling on hold to just run and just qualify for Boston," she said. Like many of our athletes who have seen tremendous improvements in their performance, Audra credits the club workouts for much of her progress. "Kelsey's outdoor workouts are great. It's a great way to meet and run with other Front Runners who run different paces and allows us all to run together," Audra said. We can look forward to seeing Audra at FRNY into the fall. Her running goal for the next year? "I'd like to go sub 3:40 in NY." No one smart doubts you'll do it, Audra. Written by 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 �open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_audra_farrell.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/5b39a977b4833afce541720c31adeb71.pdf 4347c9213e3b36a836d3fa8f8ffb3255 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 › Bernd Erpenbeck Front Runners New York is a lucky bunch. What other club has its own aerial photographer to snap members running their hearts out at races? With his towering frame, our director-at-large Bernd Erpenbeck can't help but take pictures of his fellow Front Runners from above, as he often did regularly last year. Such is his dedication to FRNY that Bernd, a Dortmund, Germany native fast approaching his fifth anniversary as a Front Runner, still showed up at most races last year even though he was sidelined for five open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �months with a stress fracture. He has valiantly represented the club, running in 65 NYRR races in those five years, including his 19:21 climb of a fellow skyscraper, the Empire State Building, in February. 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 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 Bernd's New York saga goes back about 13 years when he moved here to take an analyst position at a German's bank's office. Though he was already a runner -- his first NYRR race was the Wall Street 5K in 1997-- Bernd was more of a soccer player, becoming an active member of the New York Ramblers, a gay soccer team. It apparently took some Canadians to turn him into a more serious runner. "I got the bug in Toronto," he said of his three-year stint there to open a Canadian office for his bank between 2001 and 2004. "While in Toronto, I did a 10K down Yonge Street and so I started competing regularly." Luckily for FRNY, the tall Teuton returned to New York in 2004 and hit the ground running. "When I got back I said let's try it -- and here I am," he said. Bernd also quickly fell for the charms of our club after taking part in a charity race consisting of two lower loops of Central Park. "The first ones I met (at that race) were Marty McElhiney, and Kelsey (Louie) and then starting going to Saturday and Wednesday runs," he said, showing just how important it is to reach out to prospective members. But FRNY paid him back handsomely. After all, it was at FRNY in 2005 that he met a certain fellow runner who answers to the name "T.J." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �In 2005, shortly after arriving back in the states, Bernd snagged the much coveted permanent resident status. But he soon realized that putting in face time at corporate headquarters was important in climbing the company ladder and returned to Germany from 2006 to 2008. (Bernd did return to run the NYC marathon in 2006 under the FRNY banner.) Bernd agreed to the assignment in Germany on the condition that he be able to permanently return to a more senior position in New York, a city with which he first fell in love in 1992 when he did a 10-week internship at Dresdner Bank in New York. (He had also spent a month in 1994 exploring America by hopping from place to place on a Delta Airlines airpass.) Though he feared his English was not good enough back then, Bernd was drawn to New York in part because, "It was freer and I was late coming out of closet," he said, giving him room to discover what being gay meant. FRNY has also certainly been a boon to his running, he said. A diligent runner and a regular at FRNY's Armory workouts, Bernd sees the club as a way to maintain discipline in his running. "I immediately met the people I liked? I have made great friends," he said. "It helps you have a time and a place to go running -- keeps on you track for training. If you don't go, you hear about it next day- others ask you, "Where were you , slacking off?" Though he is certainly not a slacker, he is mindful about pacing himself and avoiding other injuries like the stress fracture that sidelined him last year. "Over 40, it takes longer to gain back your stamina," he said, displaying a candor rare in gay circles. Another goal is to qualify for the Boston Marathon, and he is hedging his open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �bets. Bernd has signed up for both the Chicago and New York marathons this fall. Besides his NYC marathon, which he ran in 3:43, he has run only one other marathon, in Berlin in 2007. But more immediately, he is still working on his comeback from last year's injury and plans to run 1,200 miles this year. "I want to do Coogan's (5k race in march) at 7-minute per mile pace," Bernd said. Longer term, though, his goal is simpler: "I just want to keep running." 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_bernd_erpenbeck.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/50bb2816fa57261c8ae0c5523976f9fa.pdf d3738e1af37e3c1932428cca7a454f4c 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 › Bernie Janelle and Cindy Hearing One of the first things Bernie Janelle and Cindy Hearing tell you when you sit down with them is that they are completely different. Bernie's the extrovert, and Cindy's the reserved one. Bernie loves running, and Cindy says she only runs because she knows it's good for her. And whereas Bernie said there was "no way" she would ever move to New York, Cindy knew that she was destined for the Big Apple. But somehow, after 17 years of being together, the two of them have made open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �their differences work, becoming an inspiration to those around them, not only in their commitment to each other, but in their drive to excel at their sport and overcome the challenges life throws at them. 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 Bernie, the youngest of 10 children, was the popular and super-involved one in growing up. Attending an all-girls Catholic high school, she was senior Humidity: 52% Visibility: 10 mi class president, president of the student council, captain of the basketball team, and active on the track, tennis and softball teams. Interestingly, Bernie Dewpoint: 69 °F also had a crush on her gym teacher. Although Bernie's first relationship was Wind: 7 mph with a girl when she was 13, after high school, she went back into the closet due to family pressure to live a traditional, straight life. "After 8 years, even my open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Sunrise: 5:50 am pdfcrowd.com �family wanted me to divorce the man I married," recalls Bernie. In the early 1990's, both Bernie and Cindy found themselves in New Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER Hampshire. Cindy had finished college in Pennsylvania and was obtaining her law degree and Masters in Intellectual Property in NH. Bernie had gone to undergrad at UNH and Springfield College. She then received her Masters in Education Administration and Supervision at Antioch University, the New search England Graduate campus. Bernie had also returned to New Hampshire to run her own education consulting business. The two met in a women's social group meeting at someone's home. After that initial meeting, it was pure happiness forevermore. Well, not exactly. "On or first date, we had our first fight," recalls Cindy. "We just butted heads the whole time." "I didn't think we'd see each other after that," says Bernie. "It's just a miracle we survived," agrees Cindy (seemingly one of the few thing the two agreed on). The second date apparently went a little better. Bernie called Cindy, said she just happened to be in the neighborhood, and brought over a cherry pie and a squeaky toy for Cindy's dog. But despite the baked goods and doggy toys, the beginning of Bernie and Cindy's relationship had a rocky start. Although they count their relationship as 17-years long, the first five years were pretty difficult, something Cindy attributes to the fact that she was hard to get to know and that she was constantly studying because of her joint degree program. "We definitely did not have Lesbian U-Haul Syndrome," open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �explains Cindy. Bernie, though, had the patience to work things out, and thought that the "on again, off again" nature of their relationship actually helped to slow it down and allow the two to move at the right pace for them. After Cindy finished her studies, the two decided to move to Boston--Cindy first, followed shortly by Bernie. "By that time," recounts Bernie, "we knew we were going to make it work." And after six years in Boston, that's when the two decided to move to New York. At first, Bernie was against the idea, wanting to go to San Francisco instead. But through several visits to the city to see Cindy's sister in Washington Heights, she eventually fell in love with the neighborhood. And amazingly, while still a Boston resident, she joined New York Road Runners and decided she would one day run the New York City Marathon. Today, Bernie balances her training with a career dedicated to students as a special education teacher, coordinator and college advisor at Millennium High School in Manhattan. Cindy works as an estate and business-planning lawyer for closely-held business owners. And the two live in Washington Heights with their adopted 14 year-old terrier chihuahua, Cosmo. As for their running, this is another area where Bernie and Cindy differ. Bernie was the first to take up marathoning, running the Jamaica Marathon in 2001. Cindy at that time had no interest in the sport, and showed up to Jamaica, "in my cute bikini" just to cheer on Bernie. But, says Cindy, when Bernie crossed the finish line, "she looked so happy, so I wanted to do one too." So just a few months later, Cindy did her first marathon in Paris ("I wanted to go to Paris to shop!" she now recounts). open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Bernie was the one who found Front Runners. She used to see FRNY at the races, with the women gathered around baggage area no. 5. She remembers at the time "checking out" the FRNY ladies, and maybe being "checked out" by them. (Cindy says she doesn't remember any of these details.) But it took the two several years to finally take the plunge and join Front Runners. At the time, both were deeply involved in Women About, a New York lesbian social and recreational organization where they both served as board members. They were so active that they couldn't find the time to join another gay organization. But eventually, wanting a community that helped them develop their interest in running, they decided to sign up with FRNY in 2007. The first year or so found the couple easing their way slowly into the group. As the two started to become more serious about their running goals, they wanted to participate in more FRNY activities. What changed it all for Bernie were the Armory Indoor Track Workouts. Not only did the workouts help her to focus and increase her training efforts, but they allowed her get to know many of the other runners, especially the men. At the time, men far outnumbered the women at the Armory, and Bernie notes in particular that the FRNY men were eager to welcome her and run with her during the workouts. According to Cindy, the fact that the two of them joined FRNY as a couple made things difficult, since she felt that she and Bernie weren't always recognized for their individual characteristics. And asked if the two were competitive with each other, Cindy says that "for a while, it caused a lot of stress within the relationship because I would try to keep up." But that all open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �changed when Cindy started getting involved in the club's Multisport program. With the discovery of triathlons, she was able to spend more time on the bike, a sport that Cindy was truly passionate about. And while swimming didn't start off easy for Cindy, fellow multisporter Alison McKenna notes: "Cindy has made an absolutely huge transformation in terms of her swimming from last summer until now (and will only continue to improve!)." Perhaps more significant, Cindy's involvement in Multisport allowed her and Bernie to each have their own separate identities in the club. And what amazing identities they've had so far! This past November, Bernie ran the Philadelphia Marathon in an inspiring 4:00:39, qualifying for Boston. She's training now to race the Mohawk-Hudson Marathon in 3:58 on October 9th and will run this one in honor of her dad (her 8th marathon after 5 NYCs, Philly and Jamaica). She also has thoughts of tackling an Ultra-distance race, maybe the Knickerbocker 60k. Cindy recently completed her first onemile ocean swim in Bradley Beach, NJ, and then she did her second one a week later! She's also planning to run the NYC Marathon again (her 7th after Paris and 5 NYCs). And she's signed up for the 2012 Ironman U.S. Championships in New York next August. This will be a busy year of training for Bernie and Cindy, but if anyone can step up to the plate, they can. Speak to anyone in the club who knows them well, and you'll hear two recurring refrains: that they both are great at having a goal and going for it, and that their long-lasting relationship and generosity of spirit and good will is an inspiration for others. Fellow Washington Heights resident Linda Paparella echoes that sentiment, as she has experienced first-hand the couple's selfless nature: "They are incredibly funny but also open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �incredibly generous with time, deeds and caring. Bernie and Cindy were kind enough to call me when I was hospitalized in Thailand and the call really lifted my spirits. When I came back, Bernie naturally ran with me when I was cleared for running and was encouraging and supportive, making sure I wasn't pushing it too much but also complimenting me on all my efforts." It's obvious that the two of them have found a home at Front Runners New York. "FRNY has given us renewed appreciation and respect for other athletes," say Cindy and Bernie. "There's always an opportunity to both give support to and get encouragement from others within the club." And the competition between the two that used to cause friction in the relationship has given way to the support and inspiration that the two provide for each other. "I'm always so happy for Cindy and so proud of her," says Bernie. "We're both very supportive of each other's goals and aspirations," agrees Cindy. "We always have fun, laugh a lot and celebrate every event in life." And if anyone didn't know how much FRNY is a part of their lives and how much Bernie and Cindy both mean to FRNY, you just had to see them during Pride Weekend. Two days after the New York state legislature passed the law allowing same-sex marriage, in front of over a hundred Front Runners marching in the Pride Parade with seemingly the whole world watching, Bernie proposed marriage to Cindy in what was quite possibly the most beautiful showing of love many of us have ever seen. And Cindy, of course, said YES! They both agree that, "Our relationship has a strong history built on trust, respect and unconditional love." The public proposal was a magical moment, and those of us who witnessed open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �it feel so fortunate to have been a part of it, just as the club is so fortunate to have Cindy and Bernie as members. Written Dave Lin 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_bernie_janelle_and_cindy_hearing.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/afc6ea463a636a1ad91c1eadd67db768.pdf d6dc019a4cb945b4fa100a0a346e98e8 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 › Brendan Moroney by Robert Lennon Prospect Park can be a cold and lonesome place on a Tuesday night in mid-February. But harsh conditions and lack of company can do little to dampen Brendan Moroney's spirits. "If it's 10 degrees with a wind-chill of 10," says Mike Grzelecki, Moroney's good friend and fellow organizer of the Brooklyn fun run, "he just laughs it off and picks up the pace. When I would be in a funk and we'd be sharing war stories on a run, he would always put a positive twist on it." 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 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 Moroney may not be a well-known entity to those in that other borough who only hit Prospect Park once a year for the Cherry Tree Relay (that POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER is, if they hit it at all). But even if you ran alongside him on a Saturday morning fun run in Central Park -- an event Moroney had attended frequently before a calf injury sidelined him for a bit this past fall -- it is unlikely that he chewed your ear off. A self-proclaimed introvert and search relatively new member of the tribe, Moroney blends Irish stoicism and a certain loner mystique in a way that may make him appear aloof or impenetrable. Even Jeff Werner, a denizen of Brooklyn who's rarely at a loss for words, struggles to describe his Reach the Beach teammate. "He's so quiet, it's hard to get to know him," says Werner. "But the first thing that comes to mind is that he wears shirts that are way too tight for him -- though he does have the body for it." Moroney might redden over that characterization (we'll find out when this hits the cyber-stands), but he marches to the beat of his own drum. He does not have a Facebook account, has never gone to a Broadway musical and counts boxing among his favorite sporting activities. (Simmer down now, boys, he is also in a long-term relationship and impervious to persuasion.) Luckily, as with many of our less garrulous brethren, such as Patrick Guilfoyle or Rick Buckheit, Moroney can open up quite a bit once properly plied. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Growing up in an upper-middle class Irish-Catholic family in Bronxville, New York, Moroney had to grapple from an early age with the fact that open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �his DNA may not have been perfectly aligned to the life he was born into. From age five, Moroney was forced into suburban little league sports such as soccer, basketball and baseball. None of them took. "A particularly low moment in soccer was when I accidentally scored a goal for the other team," recalls Moroney. "It was not good." Moroney also had to clear certain familial hurdles to connect with his true identity. "An Irish-Catholic upbringing has less to do with religion...it is more of a cultural thing," Moroney offers astutely. Though his family did not attend Church regularly aside from high holy holidays, he did find himself working his way through parochial school right up through college (Moroney attended Holy Cross), so religion always lurked close by in the background. But Moroney managed to spread his wings by taking advantage of the prime real estate chosen by his parents. From the age of about 13, he would hop the 28-minute train into Grand Central with friends on weekends to see the wider world. Another cherished resource for a gay boy in an affluent suburb was the local college. "My parents' house is literally 400 meters from the Sarah Lawrence College campus," he says. "I spent a good bit of time at the college library [and] Sarah Lawrence also has a large LGBT population." Moroney soon discovered running as a healthy outlet and release. "I was drawn to the sport because it required less social interaction than other sports," says Moroney. "You just ran your time and that was that. There was no sitting the bench and much less politics/favoritism." (Note: he is clearly talking about the physical act of running and not the machinations of being part of a vibrant gay running team.) Running also offered the ancillary benefit of boosting Moroney's confidence. As a freshman in high school, he blazed through the mile in under fiveopen in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �As a freshman in high school, he blazed through the mile in under fiveminutes, and by senior year he had been anointed co-captain of the school's cross country team. Even with these lofty credentials, Moroney had initially felt significant trepidation about fitting in with the FRNY community. His initial cozy runs with six or seven Brooklynites in Prospect Park had offered some ease and comfort, but the size and scope of the Saturday runs in Central Park shocked Moroney. "My first Saturday Fun Run was very intimidating," he says. "It took me several visits to the Saturday Run to feel confident enough to go to the brunch at Rutger's Church after." As with anything, some encouragement from fellow runners led to much assimilation and success. And now Moroney has participated in two overnight relays -- the Cape Relay in May 2011 and New Hampshire's Reach the Beach the following September. Despite minor tumbles in both events ("The first was an ankle sprain. The second, I tore my calf muscle to shreds I'm a spaz..."), Moroney finished both events with a positive feeling and will be toeing the line this May as part of Rachel Cutler's mixed ultra in the spring iteration of Reach the Beach. Moroney grew close to the reigning Front Runner of the Year in his role helping to augment Brooklyn gay running life. He has helped better organize the Brooklyn crew by creating an email distribution for the runners, by bringing people together for dinner after scheduled runs and by organizing socials. The recent FRNY First Friday outing at "Floyd" in Brooklyn Heights was his brainchild. "Brendan has really stepped up as the figure head for Brooklyn running," says Cutler. "Communication among the Brooklyn leaders is improving, as is the programming and communication to the membership open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �and FRNY board." The next step will be a series of specially-designed Prospect Park hill workout in preparation for the Brooklyn Half. Stay tuned. And what about Moroney's own running? After making a splash last February in the Al Gordon Four-miler as the first Front Runner to finish the Prospect Park race, Moroney has raced in four additional NYRR events for the club, breaking 6-minute per mile pace in all but one of those events (the exception being the Brooklyn Half, where he clocked a 1:26:06 in his debut at that distance). Being somewhat injury prone, Moroney cautiously eyes the horizon. "Maybe I'll try to bring my time down for some of the distances I have raced in (the 4- and 5-mile run)," he says. "But at the moment, I'm just focused on getting my calf muscle back to feeling 100%." He has grander designs for the Brooklyn crew. In addition to the localized hill training, Moroney envisions more borough-centered long open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �runs, attracting more women to the Brooklyn fun runs and tailoring some BK socials toward women - a working event title is "T-HER-sday for the Ladies." Through the concerted efforts of Moroney and other BK Front Runners like him, Prospect Park -- and the rest of a borough historically underrepresented in FRNY -- has definitely heated up over the past year. Come check out the scene at the weekly Tuesday Brooklyn fun run this spring: meeting spot is 3rd Street and Prospect Park West entrance to Prospect Park at 7 PM. Random Splits Highlights of Gay Life at Holy Cross: "I tried dating one guy in my class, but after 3 weeks, he ran screaming back into the closet and that was that. So I mostly dated off-campus. The gay men in Worcester, Mass. were messy (I dated more than one drug addict), but I found a slightly better pool to choose from in Boston and Providence." If you were to move anywhere... "Barcelona seems like a fantastic place to live (beautiful people, spectacular architecture, great food, fun nightlife, situated on the water), but I don't speak Spanish...If we're speaking more practically, within the US, I'd probably go with Seattle...it's a liberal city located near the mountains and the ocean." Make-A-Wish Celebrity: "If you mean bed, I have a long list of underwear model-turned-actors starting with Channing Tatum and Mechad Brooks. If you mean date, as in spend time with/have a conversation with etc...I'd go with Michael Pitt (he's sexy and mysterious and he's a talented actor)." Master of Neologisms: Branding himself a "les-bro" due to his affinity for open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �bonding with the Sapphic sisterhood, Moroney, once and always an English major, has a vast facility with coining phrases - "totes"! March 24, 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_brendan_moroney.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/6019618ee1e21aa5efc13432524ef14d.pdf 537ff4f66da6714b52cda4f78025afcc 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 › Brent Peterson He wasn't exactly born in the wagon of a traveling show. He's not exactly a Cher fan. But Brent Peterson was born exactly when Cher's "Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves" was ascendant, so let's go with that, inexactly. Haven't seen him for a while, uh-huh. Peterson has been a bit of a phantom lately, on both the racing and FRNY scenes (more on that in a minute). Chances are, though, if you did see him before this current break, it was at a race, lining up at the front of the pack, and then not again until the race results were posted, when he would usually be near the top. Since joining Front Runners in 2006, Peterson, 38, has typically finished in the top 10 on open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �the team, with age-graded numbers in the 70s or above. Then after scalpeling through the competition, he would sprint to his co-op just off the park, back to his partner of almost 11 years, Jeremy Heilman, and their dog, Ginger, until it was time to race again. His stellar results did garner him Facebook Twitter Instagram enough notice to be named Front Runner Middle Distance Runner of the Year for 2009. The award, he said, "came as a complete surprise. I've always been good at many different things, but I'm never the best (or worst) at anything, either. Falling in the middle certainly has its advantages when you're trying to fit in, to keep a low profile." 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 The unassuming Peterson does seem more comfortable blending into the POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER crowd, or even a plate-glass window at Starbucks, his dark buzz cut tilted down into his New Yorker and unsweetened iced coffee, his size-small Thomas G. Labrecque T-shirt hanging off him, than he does on a podium. But you can't achieve what Peterson has, both on and off the running path search (he's currently pursuing his third Master's degree), without a little pride, even if it's couched in modesty. He'll admit that with his reduced mileage (down, he figures, to 2,000 miles a year from 2,500, still running six days a week), he could still probably run a 1:27 half-marathon, that "1:27" uttered with an undisguised "so what?" in his voice. This questionable humility apparently has followed him from his high-school days in Alaska, when he said he could run 17-minute 5Ks, "good, not great." (Peterson also tried football in high school for a year but "hated it." He wandered over to cross-country "because the guys were cuter.") So with a peak running age, an injury-free body and his FRNY award still shining on his mantel, why would he choose now to scale back the miles? For one, he doesn't like to run in the heat (that Alaska thing), and this summer of all our discontents was actually good timing. His last race was the Scotland 10K in April, and he won't race again until the Reach the Beach relay in September. But more important is his pursuit of that third Master's, which leads us to: Sell a couple b ottles of Dr. Good. Peterson for many years was comfortably ensconced in his job as a physician's assistant. And while it was a steady job, he realized that if he stayed in it, he would be doing the same thing every open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �day "five years down the road." So in 2006, he took a job at a pharmaceuticals company, which led him to eventually pursue an M.B.A. at N.Y.U. "A colleague said that I had 'gone over to the dark side,' " he says. "I prefer to think of it as bringing light to the dark side." Peterson now travels from Philadelphia to Maine in different capacities as a big pharma rep, with an emphasis on Hepatitis B drugs/treatment. "There's something different every day," he says. And he often has to speak in front of large groups, which helps him tackle his shyness. Joining Front Runners also got him over both running and social hurdles. He and Heilman were living in Brooklyn and Peterson was running with Brooklyn Road Runners, a club he enjoyed but found limiting from a competitive point of view. One person would typically show up for a speed workout. "The thing about Brooklyn is that about once a year they get a really fast runner, and then that runner leaves for a faster team." He and Heilman were looking to move anyway - "we were priced out of Brooklyn and into Manhattan" - and he looked up Front Runners. He liked the idea of organized speed workouts and was impressed with the club's philanthropic efforts. "Oh, yeah, and I guess also because I was gay. Here I could wear the jersey comfortably, but not when I lived in Connecticut." (Peterson got his second Master's, in a physician'sassistant program, at Yale. His first was in fisheries.) Peterson's reluctance to wear his gayness on his back is a partly a product of his upbringing in a military family. He told his parents over the phone that he was gay when he was 23, and while his mother was "very concerned," his Air Force father was silent on the subject, and they have never discussed it since. Over the years, though, he says, his family has embraced Heilman, open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �his partner. And he says that living in Alaska when he was starting to acknowledge his gayness had certain advantages: there was a bar in Fairbanks that was gay one night a week, a kind of one-queer-size-fits-all, out of necessity. "There were college kids, bears, drag queens, lesbians all there. It was very open and accepting." Fairbanks also provided the scene for Peterson's favorite marathon, the Equinox, in September 1996. The course ran up and down a mountain, and the weather veered from rain to sleet to snow and then back to rain on the way down. Peterson had a support team there with several changes of clothes, and while it was not his fastest marathon, it was his most rewarding because of the constant shifting and recalibrating the course required, appealing to the vagabond Air Force brat in him. Peterson's other favorite marathon was New York in 2006 (a big year for Peterson, as it turned out), when he ran 2:57. But it wasn't all about time. He ran the same day that one of his sports heroes, Lance Armstrong, did (and beat him), and also ran side by side with one of his running mentors, John Shostrom, a Brooklyn runner whom Peterson met online in the late '90s and who was instrumental in persuading Peterson to move to New York. He plans to run his next marathon in 2011, to coincide with his 40th birthday, but admits that the distance isn't his favorite. "I'm not built for a marathon," he says. "After I run one, I can't walk. I'm not like these guys who can go out and run one the next week." I was 16, he was 21. Actually it was Peterson who was 26 and Heilman who was 19 when they met online. Two years later, in 1999, they started living open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �together. Heilman himself is in grad school now, studying film at Columbia, with a plan to teach. "He's a brilliant critic," Peterson says. They've been known to see 200-300 films a year, though these days are down to just 2-3 a week. Their favorites include "Chinatown," "Manhattan," "Vertigo" and "The Thin Red Line." Together they saw "Magnolia" four times ("or so") in the theater, and "Moulin Rouge" still stands out for them ("great energy, and one of the few recent musicals that I love"). Spending time with Heilman is another reason Peterson is taking a bit of a break from running; they'll embark on a Minnesota vacation this summer - by car, because Peterson would not allow Ginger to travel in a plane's baggage section - before they both return to school in the fall. But just because Peterson has given other areas of his life greater priority lately, it doesn't mean that his competitive fires have dimmed. He'll run that grueling RTB relay in the fall, with an ultra team. And there's the marathon in 2011, and an added reason to look forward to turning 40: "I'll be out of Rich [Velazquez] and Kelsey's age group." Coda: Every [Saturday] night, all the men would come around. "Back when the Roxy was still open for business, I went with some friends and couldn't understand why there was such a massive crowd packed onto the dance floor. . . . My questions were answered when Cher came out onstage and sang a song unknown to me at the time, "Believe," along with a couple other songs from her new (at the time) album. Kind of a random New York experience, but seeing as I lived in Connecticut then, it left an impression on me. . . . It's not often you just 'run into' a Cher performance. I think that's the type of thing you have to plan for, at least in any city other than New York!" open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Exactly. 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_brent_peterson.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/0afcc145f2c9c1cca6e7a572c80cf9e3.pdf 5632dd5057cc8c6e22610da69d08a51c 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 › Cenk Bulbul Gays can’t come out in Turkey. The language lacks the words, the culture lacks the concept.Only after moving from Turkey to Pittsburgh did Cenk Bülbül see himself as gay, and he came all the way out only after sinking roots in New York. Cenk (pronounced Jenk) felt a leaning for guys since his youth, but he told himself everyone fancies both women and men. "It's a spectrum," he thought, "and I'm attracted to women too." But he wasn't. After earning a degree in industrial engineering at Turkey's top school, he headed to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon because a mentor advised him to go after an MBA at a open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �technical school. Facebook There he saw men getting close, men holding hands. Twitter Instagram Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 9:49 AM EDT 81° High: 87° Low: 69° Partly Cloudy Feels like: 81 °F Barometer: 29.83 in and steady Humidity: 49% "They were kissing, man to man, and I thought, 'That's me!'" But he didn't abandon himself forthwith to same-sex frolics. Once while running laps on the school track, he noted another man staring with more than athletic interest. Intrigued, abashed, Cenk fumbled for a response, but "the only response I could give was to run back home immediately." MBA in hand, Cenk searched for a US job, but he found none and headed open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 6 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am Sunset: 8:10 pm pdfcrowd.com �back to Turkey -- and back into bisexual musings. Rationalizing that he liked kids and could probably spawn one or two, he started seeking women, but Sunset: 8:10 pm POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER only certain women. "They were all flat-chested, very manly, strong women," Cenk recalls. He tried dating women throughout his 20s, but with slim success. Meanwhile, he was making big money working long hours, adding adipocytes to his waist, and holing up every night in a large, smartly search furnished, lonely apartment. "I said, fuck it. I dumped everything, sold as much as I could, quit my job." Inspired by Asli, a close friend (and decidedly unmanly woman), Cenk set his sights on a marketing PhD from NYU and made NYC his new home 2002. "It was a second start for me," he notes. And this time he didn't run away from cruisers. "Within 3 months I was totally out," he recalls. "And the fourth month after I moved to New York, I lost my virginity. I was 30. I had never even kissed a man before." His family's reaction to the news proved varied, partly because Turkish media at the time portrayed gay men in only three ways: as prostitutes, drag queens, or effusively effeminate men-and Cenk clearly didn't answer to any of those descriptions. Cenk's dismayed father, an army general, told him Turkish has only a word for gay, "bottom," and somehow he didn't see his son as a sexually passive swish. "No, that's only in Turkey," Cenk explained, "not in real life." His mother "rejected the concept viscerally--she cried every time she saw me." Cenk's sister, a professor of medicine and OB/GYN researcher, helped calm parental qualms by spelling out the clinical ABCs of homosexuality and open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �assuring them no blame could be assigned any party for a blameless verity. Cenk's mother "doesn't cry anymore, but she doesn't want to hear about it." His father, in contrast, became closer with Cenk and now even offers a firm shoulder "whenever I have a heartbreak." With an MBA, a PhD, and years of on-the-job savvy, Cenk nailed down a post at Ogilvy & Mather, the storied ad giant, where he now heads of team of six that molds the marketing aura of megabuck multinationals like American Express, Cisco, and Siemens. His doctoral work delved the fertile depths of how emotions influence consumer decisions, and he continues to publish research on that topic in peer-reviewed journals. His latest study, coauthored with a Wharton School colleague, posits two types of emotional appeal in ads, abstract affect and concrete affect. Two surveys yielded evidence that abstract affect (which is warm, fuzzy, and nonspecific) drives long-term buying behavior, while concrete affect (which is hot, vivid, and visceral) holds more sway over short-term behavior. Cenk construes his decision to settle in New York for PhD work as an example of abstract affect, with its Apollonian focus on long-range life planning. But if you ask Cenk's friends for a quick-stroke portrait, they sketch a Dionysian concrete-affect guy. "The best way to describe Cenk in one word is 'intense,' offers Alex Kristofcak. "Whether it's in love, friendship, or running, Cenk doesn't do 'casual.' Tim Guscott concurs: "One of Cenk's most endearing qualities is his 110% commitment to anything in which he is involved, whether it is an athletic goal that he has set for himself, the defense of a friend perceived as open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �having been wronged, or an idea in which he believes deeply." These days Cenk focuses that welder's-torch intensity on half-marathons and marathons, with 26.2s in Madrid, San Francisco, and New York City on the docket for 2011. But his racing life didn't start that way. Unlike many Front Running men who've divulged their life stories in these pages, Cenk was a crackerjack athlete in his youth, boasting two skills that set him apart from confreres: He could jump higher than anyone else, and he could jump sideways farther than anyone else. Those talents made him a tip-top basketball rebounder, not to mention the preferred point man on fast breaks. Sprawling leaps across two dimensions also positioned him as the perfect soccer goalie. But when he went to college, Cenk decided to try distance running. Sizing up Cenk's oaken thighs and I-beam shoulders, the coach had another idea: "When I look at you, I see a sprinter, nothing else." Applying his mettle to 100 meters, Cenk whittled his time to 11.2. During his workaholic 20s, Cenk had no time for running, but in New York he found his way back into training and eventually into a local road race, the precipitous Coogan's 5K. He ran that race with a Front Runner boyfriend, but when they broke up shortly afterwards, Cenk felt reluctant to join FRNY runs or workouts because the ex might be there. When he told this story to Kerstin Marx, a fellow NYU scholar and FRNY stalwart, she urged him to join a Saturday fun run and come to breakfast. If the ex-boyfriend showed up, Kerstin promised, she would hold Cenk's hand. The ex showed up! Kerstin held Cenk's hand! And all went well when the former flame welcomed Cenk warmly to the club. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Soon Cenk met Alex Kristofcak, they became fast friends, and fast racers too. A year after his Coogan's debut, Cenk once again found himself scooting up and down Fort Washington Ave, and carving more than a minute off his inaugural time. Cenk and Alex trained for the 2006 NYC marathon, but injury forced Cenk to withdraw. Since then, Cenk has run five marathons, setting his PR last year in New York with a 3:25. A few months before that, running the Mohawk-Hudson half-marathon as a warm-up, he found himself tagging along with lead-pack women and decided to hang on as long as he could. He hung on well enough to set a PR there, too, crossing the line in a sub-7minute pace at 1:31:14. And he set both records as a smoker. Cenk's nicotine habit started when he was a kid, getting perfect-10 grades in all his classes and earning the censure of his peers. To shed his egghead image and join the crowd, they told him, he must drink and smoke, so he did. Never loving his addiction, Cenk became a perennial quitter called "My-Last-Smoke Cenk" by his pals. He got serious about stopping when an acupuncturist treating him for track injuries tried to ablate his tobacco dependence by swiveling needles into his ears. When Cenk complained it wasn't working, the needle ninja, who apparently minored in mental health, blamed the failure on his "deep psychological problems." Bleeding concrete affect, Cenk set out to disprove that diagnosis and went cold turkey. At his next acupuncture session, he declared himself a nonsmoker and psychologically sound. But he relapsed a few years later when enduring three tibial stress fractures and a boyfriend bust-up. In 2011, he made quitting his New Year's resolution, announced his resolve on facebook, and stopped. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �"I made a switch in my mind," he explains. "I categorized myself as a nonsmoker. Every time I wanted a cigarette, I remembered that I don't smoke anymore." And his running endurance improved dramatically. Training with a heart rate monitor as part of an aerobic base-building plan, Cenk found that within a few days of quitting he could go 20% faster at the same heart rate. "It's just crazy," he exclaims. "Three days!" Shortly thereafter, the nicotine stains on his fingers vanished. Now his goal is to set another marathon PR, and once again in New York, justly reputed as a non-PR course. Soon after becoming a racing regular, Cenk threw himself into FRNY functions with gusto, serving as club secretary in 2007, organizing the FRNY cross-country meet as a fund raiser for the Bronx Community Center, and writing "Bibs & Chips" for the newsletter. It's no secret that Cenk served a stormy tenure on the FRNY board. Believing Front Runners could tap his rich marketing know-how to launch new membership and club-communication plans, he felt frustrated when his proposals met resistance. The club later did enact one of his initiatives, transferring the Front Runner Gram to a professional e-mail program. Yet, ironically, Cenk unsubscribed from this weekly update, feeling it has grown prolix. Friends see this heart-on-sleeve single-mindedness as a two-sided plus. "Cenk is one of the most open people I've ever met," Tim Guscott observes. "I never have to wonder what he might be thinking, and I can't think of anyone who so easily bursts into tears of joy!" And Cenk remains deeply committed to training and racing as a Front Runner. "I love Chris [Stoia] and Kelsey," Cenk says. "I love the track, the hill open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �workouts -- and the long runs are very motivating. I see extreme value in the coached workouts." He reckons that more than two thirds of his friends are Front Runners and that he spends three quarters of his free time with them. And Chris loves having training maniacs like Cenk under his tutelage. Like almost all goal-setting runners, Chris says, Cenk spends more than a little time doubting his potential-doubting not only whether he can notch a new PR, but even whether he can complete a workout. Chris remembers one night when Cenk nearly quit before finishing the assigned track repeats. Chris suggested Cenk focus on running the straightaways faster, not by lunging into longer strides, but by "taking fast little steps, pushing off quickly -- bip, bip, bip!" It worked. Cenk finished his repeats, and finished fast with an ear-to-ear grin. When the workout's over, "he's always a sweaty mess," Chris allows, "but one sweaty mess I am ALWAYS happy to see at the track." Running is hardly Cenk's only exudative passion. He derives "immense pleasure" simply from discovering things: "news, songs, a little shop." He loves writing, traveling, spoiling his miniature schnauzer Hiro, and "to this day I'm researching human behavior." Why did his PhD work analyze how emotions affect choice?"Because I'm very interested in how people make these stupid decisions. And in the process I learned so much about myself." 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/. 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Those watching the 17th season of Survivor , which is set in Gabon on the west coast of Africa, have witnessed the chemistry, and bloggers worldwide have heralded their relationship the "bromance" of the century. Marcus aside, the experience of being on Survivor was nothing short of a open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �dream come true for Herschel. "I created a Survivor shrine in college and pasted cut-out pictures from magazines of the Survivor contestants on my wall," he admits, proudly. "It's the ultimate physical, social and mental challenge." The complete obliteration of standard social hierarchy and Facebook Twitter Instagram pecking order drew Herschel to the show. After all, at tribal council no one cares if you practice law at a prestigious firm (like Herschel) or are working at Domino's to pay off a mountain of credit card debt. "All that matters," observes Herschel, "is what is your core." Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT It's no real wonder then that Herschel has performed beautifully on the show thus far. Raised by two "down to earth" math teachers and growing up the 81° middle of three sons, he had a balanced upbringing that was an enviable mix of city stimulation and country simplicity. The Herschels lived on the Upper High: 87° Low: 69° West Side but weekended about two hours outside of Manhattan in Warren, Connecticut. "I grew up seeing Broadway shows on Tuesday nights and seeing trannies on the way to pre-school, but I also spent my weekends catching frogs in our pond and mowing our grass," he explains. "I am very fortunate." 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 While Herschel has also fared well during the show's physical challenges, peak fitness has not always been a given for him. He describes himself as a natural athlete in youth who tired of hockey at an early age and packed on the pounds during a sedentary phase in adolescence. A low point came when he lied during a physical fitness test and told his gym teacher that he had completed the mile, which was nine rotations of the high school roof, after doing only three laps. By 17, Herschel was fed up (pun intended) with himself and decided to make a lifestyle change. "I just felt gross and sad for myself all the time," he says, "and something went off in my mind that just made me very stubborn about losing the weight." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Tenacity, discipline and a healthy dose of moderation helped Herschel shed 60 pounds his junior year of high school. He started running to burn calories but built up slowly, feeling a huge sense of achievement the first time he could complete a lap of the Central Park reservoir (about 1.6 miles). By running three times a week and monitoring his diet, Herschel managed his weight effectively through college. With his current more rigorous running schedule, he worries less about calories than he once did but still eats low fat foods like yogurt and fruit when alone, allowing himself to "pig out" in the company of friends. As with so many who try it, Herschel got hooked on running and finished his first marathon in Philadelphia, where he received his undergraduate degree from University of Pennsylvania in 2000 at the age of 21. "I was sobbing the entire last three miles," he admits. "Four years before that, I couldn't even complete one mile!" For the record, he smashed his goal of four hours that day, crossing the finish line in 3:44. That marathon whetted Herschel's appetite for competition. As a law student at Fordham in 2004-2005, he began to race quite frequently, often at an admirable 6:20-6:30 pace. In 2006, he started donning a Front Runner New York singlet. Herschel gave the club a chance despite being decidedly underwhelmed by his visit to Boston FRs while working there as a consultant after college. Unlike in Boston where only three people showed for the run he attended, Herschel discovered hundreds of kindred spirits at FRNY. "I find it fascinating when people become obsessed with any one thing," he says, "and there are definitely a lot of people in the group who are obsessed with running." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Herschel can count himself among them. Racing in a whopping 20 NYRR events in 2007, and performing quite well along the way, he garnered the club's points award for the 20-29 age division at last year's awards ceremony. Topping off that heady accomplishment, Herschel placed sixth out of 73 Front Runners at the 2007 NYC marathon in a personal best of 3:12 (32 minutes faster than his Philadelphia debut). Herschel's competitive fire may have also sparked his decision to finally try out for Survivor. Initially, the hugely unfavorable odds of being chosen had deterred him. "I am a realist and I never thought I had an honest shot at getting cast," he says. But something made him send a tape in this past year. Describing the casting process as a "rollercoaster," Herschel says that at first he felt like a shoe-in but then failed to make the final cut, only to be asked back to audition in a second round of finals. "I felt so silly putting my life on hold and flying to LA for a week for a shot in the dark," he says. Amazingly, seven of the 10 people chosen to meet studio executives and series creator Mark Burnett on that trip were cast on the show. And Herschel's dream had been realized only now he had to flee the country for seven weeks without saying a word to a soul. (He did tell his parents, who then also had to sign a confidentiality agreement.) His employers at Weil, Gotshal amiably allowed him to "follow a dream" without any details, and Herschel figured everyone else would assume he was buried under an avalanche of legal documents. Herschel has looked like a natural on the show, but he insists that it has not been a cakewalk. "Being the gay on reality TV shows is like being Sarah open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Palin at a Planned Parenthood convention," he jokes. "It is very isolating and lonely, and I think the producers like that tension." Perhaps, but the frisson with Marcus clearly has the Chelsea set glued to the TV screen. In fact, the show has been so engrossing that it can be difficult to believe Herschel is actually back from Gabon. It seems like he's living a double-life, foraging for food in "Earth's Last Eden" during the week and training for the marathon in Central Park on weekends. That's right, Herschel will be in exotic Staten Island come November 2nd. "This year will be the hardest marathon for me," he says. "Survivor completely weakened me we ate 200 calories a day." Smart money says that competitive instinct and experience will pull him through the tough patches. And let's not forget the crowd support. Surely, many fans will go wild when All-American Charlie boy passes. Who knows, maybe a certain 28-year-old physician from Jacksonville will even be looking to cheer him on? We'll just have to tune in to see. Written by Robert Lennon Random Data Coming Out Quote: "Coming out [at age 19] was a huge deal " I was very lucky though my parents have a lot of gay friends and I grew up in New York City!" Survivor the First Season: "I remember cheering for the 'good' people like Colleen and Gretchen it was shocking to see evil people last longer than the good." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Last Meal Before Gab on: Brunch of Eggs Benedict with Lox at Extra Virgin Is Survivor Reality?: "The show is completely real-you don't eat, you barely sleep, you are cold and uncomfortable." That Kiss-and-Tell Gab Session?: "Jeff Probst is a hell of a kisser." [Anyone else thinking that might be code?] 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_charlie_herschel.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/28eb549f357a1745083af1c3699fbbec.pdf 247a868a12ff5b64dfaa89a74375213f 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 › Sarah Whitcomb Sarah Whitcomb has learned over the past few years that—even in 2008— coming out is not a fleeting moment so much as it is a gradual process. While in an intense long-term relationship with another woman, Whitcomb had felt that the lesbian aspect of her identity was fully realized and that she did not need affiliations with any gay interest groups to make her life complete. But when that relationship ended in a difficult break-up, Whitcomb discovered she needed to reinvest some energy in herself. "Single again, I realized that I had a lot more coming out to do," she says. "I realized that somehow my sexual identity was dependent on my actually being in a open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �relationship with a woman, and when that ended, I felt stranded." And so she joined Front Runners. Sound familiar? Almost thirty years after the first Front Runners gathered informally in Central Park (a few years before Whitcomb, 27, was born), the Facebook Twitter Instagram club still offers the same invaluable resource to lesbian and gay runners — a space to find yourself or perhaps to lose yourself, whichever proves more useful. It's easy to think, particularly living in New York City, that such a space is unnecessary and that being gay in the new millennium is a non-issue. Indeed, Whitcomb had felt that way herself before discovering Front Runners. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT "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," 81° says Whitcomb. 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 There are many fundamental ways in which Whitcomb is just like the rest of search her Front Runner family—not the least of which is her love of competition. An avid player of both basketball and soccer in high school, Whitcomb found athletic competition early but soon encountered the bodily wear-and-tear that all too often comes part and parcel with the sporting life. "I got tendonitis from all that pounding on hard wood floors," says Whitcomb of her basketball days. "It didn't feel right for a 14-year-old to have knee pain." Soccer leveled its own laundry list of maladies. "Traumatic injuries," she says amid a series of unsavory descriptives, "sudden, debilitating, crutches, swollen, black and blue, long lasting." Oddly enough (to those battle-scarred by running), jogging was one of the ways that Whitcomb stayed in shape while on injury sabbatical from other sports. Running was always a temporary fix while in rehab from the other recreational sports she dabbled in. It took some time for running to become her sport of choice. When she moved to Japan to teach English after finishing her undergraduate degree at Columbia, Whitcomb temporarily increased her running for the practical reason that she could explore the terrain more quickly than by walking. It took two more years, after she came back to New York to pursue a PhD in biology at the Rockefeller University, open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �before Whitcomb would look to running as solace from the workaday trappings of daily life. "A year into grad school, feeling a bit overwhelmed and lost, I knew I needed a different kind of challenge," she says. "I needed something I could chip away at, something I could reasonably expect a decent return on my investment of time and effort — and lab work wasn't reliable for that!" Whitcomb quickly cashed in on her investment of discipline and hard work. Over the summer of 2005, she trained smartly on her own for the Grete's Gallop Half Marathon in October. Crossing the finish line in a fantastic road race debut of 1:39:15 (net time), Whitcomb was very pleased with her accomplishment, but was still not quite ready yet to convert to the religion of running. Sometimes embracing oneself as a runner can be as slow and gradual a process as coming out sexually. With the dissolution of her long-term relationship, Whitcomb yearned for social outlets that might reinforce a solid sense of identity. Front Runners proved a perfect fit. "Historically, it has been difficult for me to feel integrated into large groups or teams," admits Whitcomb. "But for some reason, with FRNY it was so easy and natural — so many people were actively welcoming." Since joining the club in September 2007, Whitcomb has grown within the gay community and has blossomed as a runner. She became one of a hard core group of about six women who trained faithfully at the Armory this past fall and winter. "I didn't believe it would ever be possible for me to run and talk," she says of the social boon that increased training has provided. The open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �results have also shown on the race course. Whitcomb has consistently placed among the top three women for FRNY, coming in second and third, respectively, for the women's team in the last two points races — the Colon Cancer 15K in March and the Kleinerman 10K in December. In 2008, Whitcomb also stepped up to the role of treasurer of FRNY's Charitable Foundation. With nothing but thriving team pride, Whitcomb plans to ride this forward momentum. "There have been days when I have felt beaten down," she says, "but I have put on my FRNY singlet and headed up to the track to train hard with my friends, and wearing that jersey I just get such a lift, a confidence boost from declaring that I am a lesbian runner." Front Runners has been helping people arrive at that conclusion for three decades, but to Whitcomb the feeling is all brand new. Now, that's a gift. Written by Rob Lennon Random Data Provenance — Madison, WI 2008 Racing Goals — Run first marathon with best friend from high school; qualify for 2009 NYC marathon with half marathon time; run 4 miles at sub-7 minute pace Celeb to Stalk? — "Jodi Foster — exceptional actress, beautiful, so smart, and almost certainly still in the closet." Biggest difference between FRNY men and women? — "The numbers!" open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �PhD Studies — "Very, very, very broadly, I am studying how a given cell type decides what genes to express and what genes to repress." 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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While calling it divine intervention or the auspices of serendipity may be a tad overblown, the circumstances do qualify, at the very least, as uncanny. After a more than 15-year hiatus from racing, Stoia decided to give the NYC marathon another go in 2006, and the call of 800-meter repeats brought him to the Riverbank Track on Tuesdays and Thursdays. (Those involved with speed training may see where this is headed.) During his initial courtship with the club, Stoia would linger on the bleachers after his workout to size up and time the clearly gay runners, while Front Runners would collectively open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �puzzle: "Who is that gay guy watching us? Should we ask if he wants to join our workouts?" Given how integrated Stoia - a 2007 nominee for FR of the Year, recent race captain addition and near weekly provider of fresh baked goods on Saturday Facebook Twitter Instagram mornings - has become into the fiber of the club, it is difficult to imagine that a mere 18 months ago he could not muster the nerve to approach FRNY. But as Front Runners through the decades have learned, once you're home, it doesn't really matter how you got there. This club allows you to check your past at the door to Rutgers. No questions asked. For Stoia, the past involved Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT a wonderful family, an active social life and great running glories, but, as is often the case for gay runners, many elements of his self worth and inner 81° peace were inextricably knotted together with athletic performance and acceptance of his sexuality. During his 15-year break from competition, Stoia still relied on running as a "leveler," but in many ways he kept the sport at a High: 87° Low: 69° safe distance. Over the last year and a half, he has reawakened his inner Mostly Cloudy athlete and found a way back home. 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 A scrappy Long Island teenager with quick feet but no hope of ever bending it like Beckham, Stoia was gently nudged from the high school soccer team to the track team. Impossibly determined, Stoia self-trained the entire summer after his debut spring track season. His father, who worked for an electronics company, built a large digital clock to time his son's nightly laps around the open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �block. "I did get better, faster and stronger," says Stoia, "just like the 6 Million Dollar Man." The training worked so well, in fact, that junior year he earned the name "blood and guts Stoia," and in his senior year, he was crowned MVP for cross country and both indoor and outdoor track. "It had only happened once before (that an athlete won for all three seasons)," says Stoia, "and when I got those awards and my parents were there and the crowd cheered, I could have died and gone to heaven." With trademark gumption, Stoia went on to run all three seasons at Cornell University his freshman year. But he soon discovered that he wasn't in Deer Park, LI anymore. "I loved it but was way out of my league and totally overtraining," he admits. "Guys were doing 100-plus mile weeks all the time and I couldn't get over 85." Although he blistered through the 1500 (just shy of a mile) in an astonishing 4:10 and sped through the 800 in 2:03, he wasn't cutting it on the team and decided to pursue other pastimes. Through a hometown friend, Stoia had explored African dance soon after starting at Cornell and used the extra time he had after quitting the team to delve further into various dance programs. "I wasn't very good at first," he says, "but like everything else I did, I threw everything into it." Participation in the student dance group yielded more than a tight butt and late night fodder. To fulfill a volunteer requirement of the club, Stoia lent a hand with costume design and production. But first he had to learn to sew. His home ecology professor was so impressed with his workmanship that she suggested he switch his major from botany to design. "The light bulb went off," says Stoia, "so what if I had no design or art background at all. Landscaping and plants are all just shape and color!" (The choice stuck; Stoia now runs production open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �design for bohemian fashion phenom Nanette Lepore.) After college, Stoia borough surfed for a while, riding the waves between Queens, Washington Heights and the South Bronx. It was the late 80s and Stoia was a little bit John Travolta and a little bit Richard Simmons. A typical weekend? "Go to a bar on Friday night and dance there, drag myself home to go to aerobics Saturday morning for 2-3 hours and then the club that night until sun up," he explains. "And then Sunday was the day - 3 to 4 hours of aerobics and feed my face and go home and collapse." Despite apparent sleep deprivation and a lifestyle not conducive to top performance, Stoia still completed the 1988 NYC marathon in an impressive 3:06. Nearing the 3hour mark inspired Stoia to "train like an animal" to break that milestone the next year. He crossed the line angry and vexed, with a time of 3:04. "All that training for what! Two f*#!ing minutes, no way! I swore I would never, ever, EVER run the marathon again." Chasing goals can be tricky business, and it doesn't take a psychotherapist to know that the numbers on the clock can represent something more than minutes and seconds. "I was having a mental/emotional meltdown," admits Stoia. "I was doing too many things to get approval from people." To truly settle the troubled tides within, Stoia needed his parents to at least be able to speak openly about his being gay. While they loved him unconditionally and knew the truth about his sexuality (did you read the part above about his penchant for design and jazzercise?), his family had never even said the word "gay" before. Over time and with work, his familial relationships only grew stronger, but he still refrained from racing because he couldn't decide if he was doing it for approval or for himself. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �By 2006, Stoia had decided to tackle the marathon again - this time, on his own terms. Through the dumb luck of coincidence, he ended up doing his speed training in the same place and at almost the same time as Front Runners, and he needed only the teensiest bit of cajoling to join the team. "If the club hadn't invited me," he says, "I doubt I would have joined or even tested the waters - it's not my way." The last 18 months have shown that once in the mix, Stoia is the consummate team player and performer. Since joining FRNY, he has chipped away at his marathon time, hitting 3:03 in 2006 and 3:00 flat (just 28 seconds shy of his goal) in 2007 and is clearly on his way to greater and better performances. His consistent support of FRNY, through stellar racing, relay participation and generous volunteerism led to his nomination for the club's most prestigious honor at this February's Awards Night. Reflecting on that night, Stoia has coquettishly said how good it is to "finally feel part of something." Welcome home, Chris. Written by Robert Lennon Random Data 2008 Racing Goals? - 2:57 NYC Marathon and breaking 6-minute pace for 3-, 4- and 5-milers Hollywood Hottie? - "This one's easy-Benjamin Bratt.There's always Dave Navarro if Ben is busy." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Proudest Running Moment? - "4:10 in the 1500 because I don't hear many fellow runners saying they've done it, and I like to think I'm special." Favorite designer? - Balenciaga and Scaasi Dream Job? - Landscape architect - high-end plants 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_chris_stoia.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/81f2204f4e5cede084569bf62661464e.pdf 914ae9c40d8b434f3852cdc96d49404f 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 › Sharon Abbott Many of us know Sharon Abbott best for her monthly "Sharon's Box" column in the Front Runner newsletter. That provocative title is hardly surprising once you know that Sharon is a doctor of sociology, specializing in human sexuality. She can quickly rattle off the benefits of male circumcision in fighting AIDS in Africa and is happy to share with you highlights of her summer spent in an S&M dungeon in San Francisco when she was training (as a sociologist, not a dominatrix). We have her keen interest in the sociology of sexuality to thank for landing open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �her, however circuitously, in our FRNY lap. Facebook Sharon got her PhD from Indiana University in 1997 and then became a Twitter professor, first at Wittenberg University in Ohio, then at Fairfield University in Connecticut. (She moved to Brooklyn in 2003 with her then partner, preferring Instagram to reverse commute to Connecticut as needed.) 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 But she eventually tired of teaching, which she called "dreadful," and quit her job at Fairfield in 2005, taking a break before she found her true calling in POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER non profit work. She landed a job in AIDS prevention research at an NGO, Population Council, where the Massachusetts-native has worked since 2006. Her job has taken her to South Africa repeatedly and she expects to spend a good chunk of 2010 in Zambia and India. search Her career is not the only area of her life where Sharon bloomed late. Sharon ran her first ever mile at the ripe age of 37. "I had a shit of a time," she said of her breakup with her partner in 2006, among other woes rocking her personal life. And with some prodding from friends, running turned out to be a balm. One of her closest friends who saw her through that dark period, Front Runner Karen Stevenson, gave her two choices. "Either I could get really fat and cry and be bitter, or I could run," Sharon said. So she and Karen began running together in Brooklyn, though Sharon struggled her first time out in Prospect Park. "I ran a mile and thought I was going to die." But she quickly found her running legs. Sharon made her New York Road Runner debut at the Dash and Splash 5-miler in July 2006 in just over 50 minutes and caught the running bug. Sharon's friends then challenged her to run a full marathon sometime in the following year. She did, completing the Tampa Marathon in February 2007 in open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �just under 4 hours, barely eight months after she began running at all. So in preparation for that run, Sharon started running with FRNY in late 2006, running with stalwarts such as Jen Ishii who has been known to inspire a Front Runner or two to up her game. At a women's party soon after, Front Runner Julie Delaurier volunteered Molly Berliss and Kerstin Marx among others to run with Sharon and get her out on the road, giving her the support she was seeking to develop her abilities. Thus a Front Runner was born. Despite a work schedule and travel that are making running tougher to fit into her routine, Sharon is hoping to return to her form in 2007 when she ran her fast pace ever. She ran the 5-miler Father's Day race that year at an average pace of 8 minutes and 9 seconds per mile, in her honor of her Dad, who the previous year had pushed back prostate cancer. Sharon, who is of French Canadian and Nova Scotia descent, plans to run the New York Marathon in 2010 and continue running half marathons, her favorite distance. She hopes to improve on her first New York marathon, run in 2008, when she fell just short of a PR in a way only Sharon can: the exhausted Sharon took a four-minute break at Mile 22 in Harlem to munch on some oranges with a pal, unaware of how closely she was to matching her Tampa marathon. She ended up finishing the race only 4 minutes slower than her first marathon "I don't plan to stop for oranges again," she said of her next New York marathon in November. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �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_sharon_abbott.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/c3e4ac8f6beb3505597d3b26651bc727.pdf b94a4d44daff5c4957134ca82145411d 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 › Claudia Cummings It didn't take long for Claudia Cummings to slide down the slippery slope of Front Runner volunteerism. In 1997, just one year after she had joined the club, the then-coach of FRNY Jeff Singleton gently cajoled Cummings into filling the post of race captain. It was in that same year, fresh from her 1996 marathon debut and her inaugural triathlon, Cummings wrote Bob Nelson to ask who was organizing the triathletes for the 1998 Amsterdam Gay Games. "You are honey!" he wrote back. "My first thought was 'WHAT??!'" says Cummings "and my second was 'Well, why not?'" Little did Cummings know that that fateful e-mail would be seminal to the open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Facebook pdfcrowd.com �founding of Tritons, the multi-sport arm of Front Runners that celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. As is still the favored protocol, Cummings chose the Saturday fun run as the forum to first gauge membership interest. "About a dozen people showed up, which seemed pretty respectable to me," says Facebook Twitter Instagram Cummings. "By the spring we had almost three dozen people ... 25 of us raced in Amsterdam." Though the initial purpose of the group had ended with the closing ceremonies in Amsterdam, the triathletes decided to forge ahead, having established a sense of solidarity and camaraderie important in a sport that was then still very straight, very male and very homogenous. Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT The team, which officially became a part of FRNY as "Team New York Triathlon" in 1998 and adopted the name Tritons in 2002, currently boasts 81° membership of more than 100 multi-sport athletes. 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 An amazing success in and of itself, the Tritons represent just one jewel in search Cummings's Front Runner crown. She is also a former Cross-Country Athlete of the Year, Front Runner of the Year and a perennial leader of both the women's team and the triathlete contingent of the club. "She and I were co-race captains together and were in the minority of women for a long, long time," says Audra Farrell, current women's vice-president and longtime friend of Cummings. "She is very encouraging to people who are just getting into triathlons." Given her long and evolving history as an athlete, Cummings brings an appreciation for the hard work and dedication required to dig deep and realize one's goals and aspirations. In fact, Cummings herself did not seem slated for the world of Olympic distance triathlons, Half Ironmen or even plain old vanilla marathons as a little girl growing up in Euclid, Ohio. A self-proclaimed "tomboy weirdo" who loved playing athletics with her younger brother, Cummings had the natural chops for only one of the three triathlon sports. "I learned to swim when I was three because my mom literally couldn't keep me out of the water," she says. "If there was a lake, pond, river, pool or creek, I wanted to be in it." Cycling offers an interesting counterpoint. Her father did not take the training wheels off her bike until excessive taunting mandated their removal when Cummings hit age seven. Always coming in last in elementary school open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �sprinting drills, Cummings had completely forsaken runnerly ambitions until placing second in a school "Olympics" challenge showed her that she might have some distance potential. Though Cummings did not pursue organized track or cross-country in high school or college, she did use running as an athletic outlet and stress reducer when she moved to New York City to study film at NYU in 1987. "I would run laps of the park at ten o'clock at night," remembers Cummings, "... fending off drug dealers who apparently thought I was out there to buy pot." As Cummings struggled to come to terms with her sexuality during her fiveyear marriage to a man she'd met in film school, she sought the therapeutic solace of running more and more frequently. "Long runs gave me a chance to get out and think," she explains, "and racing gave me a feeling of accomplishment and confidence that I really needed to move forward and take control of my life - which I finally did at 27." Cummings's growth as a runner continued to parallel her coming out journey. She first poked her head out of the closet door by racing with a friend "to show support" during the 1995 Pride Run. Then, two days after she split up with her husband in March of 1996, Cummings ran the Brooklyn Half Marathon, a debut for her at this distance. "I saw some women in Front Runner uniforms on the boardwalk at Coney Island," she says, "but I was too intimidated to go up and talk to them." It was not until a few weeks after the 1996 Pride Run that Cummings mustered enough moxie to attend a Saturday fun run. "I walked into Rutgers and looked down into the gym-and there were NO women there," she remembers. "I panicked and turned around to walk out." Cummings credits then-president Jim Gibb for open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �convincing her to stay for the run. ( Note to women: It's important to represent! ) On subsequent occasions, she discovered that there were in fact active women in the club; Cummings still has the snippet of rainbow ribbon that she received as a newcomer that day. Cummings has paid back any debts owed to those women who so willingly welcomed her in the early days - Sue Foster, Sue Lund, Donna Checkan, Paulette Meggoe, Maryann Piamonte, Dororthy Fuscaldo and, of course, Lenore Beaky. After the high times of the mid-90s, participation by women waned, but Cummings stuck it out even as the FRNY gender divide grew into a gaping maw. "It seemed like for a few years it was just me and her," notes Farrell, "which led to people not being able to tell us apart." ( Note to readers: That's about as obtuse as mistaking Mollie Ringwald for Ally Sheedy. ) The ceaselessly egalitarian outreach embraced by Cummings, which has included both triathlon and cross-country clinics, women-focused speed workouts on Wednesday nights and five years of race captaining, engendered the tremendous and continuing growth and involvement of both FRNY women and multi-sport athletes in the club over the last five years. Constantly eschewing the spotlight, Cummings laughs off the idea that she's a superstar or Front Runner celeb. When recalling her proudest moments, she turns to the women's team's tenth place NYRR finish in 2005. "Those points were scored by women of every age and ability level," Cummings says. "Everyone was part of that success." Random Data open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Dream Race? - "Some day I'd like to have the nerve to try to race the Ironman in Kona, Hawaii, but that's one race venue that still scares the pant off me!" FRNY Suggestion Box? - "I'd like to see a suggestion box that every member could feel comfortable using" (Um, did you just steal my thunder?) Favorite Post-Workout Food? - Chocolate soy milk, apples, salt bagels, Red Bull (not all at the same time) Tri-athlete or Runner? "I've worked hard over the years to become a triathlete rather than a runner who is also swimming and biking." Items to Save when Apartment in Flames - "I would rescue as many of my six bicycles as possible, starting with my tri bike." Admired Athletes - Paula Newby-Fraser, Karen Smyers and Chris McCormick (all professional triathletes) 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. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_claudia_cummings.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/b0a407984366643a85e667ef62d55438.pdf 6e49e9910f809dbdefd061a4a690c2bd 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 › Steven Vizena On April 18, 2004, a couple of Front Runners who thought they had scored for the team in the Niketown "Run for the Parks" 4-mile points race were stunned to discover an interloper—a virtual unknown—had bested them. "I think I saw him at the last fun run," said one. "Was it the ex-smoker with arthritis who beat me?" wondered another. Yes dear , it was. Steven Vizena had officially parachuted back onto the racing scene, and he had hit the ground running — fast. Over the three-and-a-half years since that fateful spring day, Vizena has become an invaluable member of Front Runners, adding joie de vivre, razor-sharp intensity and quite a bit of zip to the club, open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �both on and off the racecourse. Facebook As with so many runners, Vizena [pronounced "Viz-na," despite the Front Twitter Runner penchant to add syllables, most elaborately manifesting itself in "Vincen-za"] has had an on-again off-again romance with the sport, returning to it Instagram always like a battered lover to an abusive spouse. In fact, before rejoining Front Runners in 2004, Vizena had taken a near 20-year sabbatical from the sport due to chronic joint injury brought on by running. With the advent of antiinflammatory drugs like Celebrex, Vizena had the chance to experience the sport anew and underwent a racing renaissance that has brought him Current Weather CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR NEW Y ORK AS OF SAT, 01 AUG 2015 10:49 AM EDT several top age-place finishes and made him a regular scorer for the FRNY open, masters and veterans teams. More than anything, Vizena's approach to 81° running echoes his philosophy on life and of art, his love of self-exploration and his desire to push boundaries and test limits. 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 The fourth son in a family of six, Vizena turned to running at a very early age as a way of distinguishing himself from his older brothers who were more athletically inclined in team sports involving balls. Self taught from the beginning, Vizena coaxed a friend to run around the playground with him every day at recess. "Genetics and discipline paid off," says Vizena. At the high school level, Vizena's myriad achievements included lettering a total of nine times in varsity cross-country, swimming and track and qualifying for Michigan's statewide meet his sophomore year by breaking the ten-minute mark in the two-miler. (That's sub-5:00 pace for any mathematicallychallenged readers.) Once in college at Michigan State University, Vizena channeled much of his focus, energy and discipline into the creative arts. "Like running, the making of art involves a process," he says, "with anticipation and expectations, a open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �beginning, middle and end in the production of a piece." In addition to discovering creative outlets in painting and the visual arts, Vizena engaged in self-exploration, pursuing various relationships with both men and women while in college. He did not, however, jettison athletics and kept in shape by rowing with the crew team and taking up intramural running. With a hankering to be at the epicenter of a happening art scene, Vizena moved to the New York area in the early 80s. Ever resourceful and self reliant, he restored an abandoned house in Jersey City into both a residence and an artist's studio. In those years, Vizena immersed himself in the carnival life of the West Village, where he worked nights at the restaurant "Christopher's" (where "The Hangar" bar now resides) and became a denizen of the dance floor in the wee hours after. Vizena urges that this all served a higher purpose. "Late night dancing after work kept my legs and ass in shape," he explains, "not that I've ever had much use for a chair—other than as a still life." True to his belief that both life and art are what you make them, Vizena embraced the artistic opportunities in his everyday life by using costume as a vehicle for performance art. Dressed as candy, with edible sweets coating his entire body and red shoestring licorice substituting for hair, Vizena once approached a group of hookers on his way to a club and invited them to "trick or treat." Immediately dropping their streetwalking countenance, they gigglingly plucked smarties and jawbreakers from his body. "My intent as an artist," explains Vizena, "is to excite, entertain and challenge the viewer's visual capacity and heighten their visual awareness." open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Although his life was very full, Vizena still made time for running in the mid80s and had a very emotional debut at the FRNY Pride Run. Vizena's parents, whom he was not yet out to, ended up visiting the weekend of the race, and his father, who had never had the opportunity to see his son race before, expressed a desire to watch the five-miler. Vizena demurred, saying it would make him nervous. "I came in second in that first Pride Run of mine and I wept tears of joy and disappointment at my father's exclusion as I crossed the finish line," admits Vizena. "I vowed never again to limit my relationships with my family or others out of fear of their disapproval." The Pride Run precipitated Vizena's coming out to his family and joining the club the following year. Shortly thereafter severe joint pain in his hips required Vizena to push running aside and redirect his energies into other life pursuits, most notably the new romantic relationship he had begun. That turned out to be a smart investment, as Vizena has been with his partner Paul for 21 years and counting. Of course, the siren song of running began to coo its dulcet tones into Vizena's ear back in 2004. And with a little help from Celebrex, Vizena was soon elbowing his way to the starting line of many a NYRR race. The results flew in immediately. In the 22 races he has run since reconnecting with FRNY, Vizena has scored above 70% for age-graded performance all 22 times. Of the 13 races he has run since turning 50 in 2006, Vizena has scored above the 80 th percentile — the standard for a "national class" athlete — 11 times, hitting 85% at this year's "Run as One TGL Classic" 4miler, where he finished first for Front Runners in a time of 22:50. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �But the adrenaline rush of racing at peak performance exacts a high price— to maintain the top level requires more frequent racing and, with that, an increased risk of injury. It's a tightrope walk Vizena knows all too well. "I've enjoyed contributing to the team's standings through recent efforts," he says, "but also realize I must cut back to safeguard my mobility." For someone like Vizena who mines the depths of his abilities in all aspects of life, reining it in and finding balance may be a greater challenge than winning age-group awards. But the result—having running part of his life for the long haul—just may be a greater reward. Random Data Ethnicity: English and French Canadian Favorite Painters: Mark Rothko and Vincent Van Gogh If He Couldn't Run: Rowing or Biking — Hard! Guilty Pleasure: "I have no guilt when it comes to any pleasure!" Dream Vacation: "My aspirations to travel are not about the destination but the shared experience and time with Paul." 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_steven_vizena.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/46b3ab5d2b9eeeb009eaabd42bfee5c1.pdf 1b920c3e88558cccac030aa12bf40e5d 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 › Dane Grams Dane Grams thought he'd never get to New York City. And the road from Absegami High in Galloway, New Jersey, to West 57th Street did not run true. On the way, he had addresses in Washington, DC, Spokane, Washington, and St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. "I always wanted to live in New York City," Dane confides. "It was always a dream of mine, and I thought it was always going to be unattainable. I don't know why, but it intimidated me." Now that he calls Manhattan home, without a hint of diffidence, you can open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �usually find him leaving (he loves traveling), all ears-and eyes-in a Broadway theater, bar hopping with friends, hanging out with his dog Jersey, raising money for GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network), or helping run Front Runners. Or running. 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 Athletic archives at Old Absegami don't list Dane as a track standout or a cross-country mud scudder. In fact he never ran-except to catch the bus-until open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Sunrise: 5:50 am pdfcrowd.com �he joined a running club, Front Runners New York. Why would someone who Sunset: 8:10 pm never jogged across the park join a running club? POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER New to New York City, and newly without his boyfriend of 4 years, Dane was looking for a good way "to meet people and do something meaningful." Heeding the counsel of Dave Lin, whom he met in DC in late 2002 when both thought a 7-minute-mile was something a cab did on Constitution Ave in search rush hour, Dane enlisted with Front Runners. "Joining the club was not only a new social experience, it was a new athletic experience as well," he reflects. "So I was sort of a newbie all the way around." Not for long. A club member for only a few months, Dane signed up for his first race, the 4-mile Run for the Park on April 22, 2007, at the age of 34. "He was so excited about both the race and his new Front Runner friends," Dave Lin says, "that we threw a big carbo-loading pasta dinner with about a dozen of us, all having a good time." The dinner was such a hit that Grams and Lin made it a tradition-"usually with a freely flowing box of Franzia wine," an oenophilic Lin divulges. Only 2 and a half years later, Dane has piled up an impressive racing record, including four marathons, sub-7-per-mile paces across an array of middledistance races, and a splendent 3:23 in his first New York City Marathon in 2009. ("I felt like a rock star!") Always the team player, Dane has competed in a few triathlon relays and a couple of all-running relays, including more than one relay win. "As a runner, Dane has improved immensely since starting Front Runners," his buddy Ryan Singer reckons, predicting further gains soon: "I expect that open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �we could see him contributing to the points standing and qualifying for Boston in the coming years." The New York Marathon time was only 8 minutes above Dane's current Boston-qualifying threshold. Next up on the marathon circuit: Phoenix in January and Cologne Gay Games in August. "It's pretty amazing to start something and be so passionate about so far into your life," Dane observes. But he's a two-footer in most of life's pursuits, jumping in with both of them whenever he finds something worth vaulting about. Bungee jumping off the frothy lip of Victoria Falls (360 feet top to bottom) is only the most dramatic example. Once he found Front Runners, Dane quickly decided he could do more than show up at races wearing the team singlet or bending his elbow and others' ears on the social carousel. A year after joining FRNY, Dane ran for the board and got elected secretary. In 2009 he made the move to men's vice-president, and he's running unopposed for that post in 2010. He co-managed the team's mile-24 NYC Marathon spot for 2 years, cochaired the club's Development Committee, headed up the Pride Run fundraiser twice, and played Pearl Mesta as FRNY social calendar planner for the last 2 years. "I learned quickly that if you want to know what's going on in the club socially, just talk to Dane," Seth Richardson advises. "He's the closest thing FRNY has to Cruise Director Julie McCoy. Dane will make sure you make it to the next First Friday Social and is great about introducing you to new people." Dane claims his overdrive commitment to the club is easy to understand. Joining FRNY helped him meet "all these great people of all different shapes and sizes, of all different running capacities, of all different ages, who had open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �come together for running but found much more than that in the club. I found it so rewarding for me personally that I wanted to volunteer my time and energy to make the club the same positive experience for other people." FRNY president Rob Lennon stresses that Dane's contributions to the club extend beyond choosing "a zany slate of bars" for First Fridays. Dane "has also introduced interesting charitable fundraisers like the Sea Tea and Hoedown into the mix." Lennon thinks Dane's success in this effort derives both from his acute sense of "what makes the club fun for people" and his professionally honed skills in fundraising. Kindling the giving spirit has been Dane's professional aim since he took his first job at Greenpeace in late 1993, where he worked for David Lemos, former chief of the Names Project Foundation, which fashioned the AIDS Quilt. From there Dane moved to Human Rights Campaign, where he scared up donations from late 1997 through early 2009 to promote equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans. In March 2009, Dane moved to GLSEN (pronounced "glisten"), the largest national organization working to end anti-LGBT bullying and harassment of students in grades K through 12. With less than a year under his belt at GLSEN, Dane has already run two major events that both exceeded goals, one in record-breaking fashion. This career path leads Ryan Singer to dub Dane "a professional gay." Though he rates the 2009 job switch--and consequently heavy work load and increased responsibility--"certainly daunting," Dane felt the time was right for a change. "I don't think I was pushing myself enough" at Human Rights open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Campaign, Dane says. "I was also afraid if I didn't try something new soon, I would never try anything new." His immediate up-to-the-eyeballs immersion at GLSEN made it harder to find time for running, and Dane's race results plateaued. But he kept pace with club chores, and FRNY remains in tip-top financial shape. One of the challenges for the club now, Dane thinks, is "finding a balance between making sure we have enough money put away for a rainy day, but also doing things with that money, giving back to the club in some way, and being good servants to the community as well." FRNY continues its strong support of local charitable groups, with a stated mission of helping people with HIV infection and other illnesses. When not running, running teas and hoedowns for FRNY, or running after money for GLSEN, Dane is usually flying around the world satisfying his wanderlust or warming a seat in a Broadway theater. High points in his travel log include a gay cruise on the Mediterranean with Dave Lin, and trips to China, Israel, Portugal, Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia, where he took the bungee plunge down Victoria Falls. "They almost had to push me off," Dane confesses, "but I think that counts." Next up-Germany, maybe South America, another African adventure, and lots more giorni in Italia. Back in New York, Dane haunts theaters on and off the Great White Way. "I like everything," he says. "But probably my favorites are musicals." He figures he's seen "hundreds and hundreds" of shows since embracing his limelit addiction, revisiting some blockbuster musicals as many as a dozen times each. He goes with family, with friends, or by himself, sometimes snaring a open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �free ticket or two from his vast network of movers and shakers. And in his spare time, Dane marries people. While living in St. Thomas he got ordained as a minister thanks to an online church "because I thought it might be fun to be able to marry people, and lo and behold two friends of mine in the Virgin Islands were going to get married and the judge who was going to marry them was unable to do it." So Dane stepped in to pace his pals through their vows. Since then, he's also sealed the bond between his oldest childhood friend and her man. Be careful! If Dane doesn't show up at your wedding in ministerial drag, he'll find another way to sweep you into his high-spin vortex. Just ask Dane's Mom. Although it took her a little while to embrace her son's gay lifestyle, she now finds herself flipping flapjacks at the premarathon pancake breakfast and judging acts suave and whacky at the FRNY Variety Show. "She just happened to be in New York" on the Variety Show weekend, Dane explains, "so I asked her and she said, 'sure, that sounds like fun.'" Gregor Mendel would not be surprised. 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. 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He attended a Catholic school in Des Moines, Iowa, so he had just cause for worry. He went to see a priest in the confessional, and he admitted he was gay. The priest said, "That's not something to worry about. Be a good person, and be kind to others. That's what counts." Around the same time, Timmy had a close friend who died unexpectedly, and the combination of the priest's words and the friend's death made Timmy open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �think: "Life is short. I'm going to accept who I am and enjoy the time that I have." When Timmy came out, no one seemed to mind. Timmy feels that his positive attitude and friendliness helped people to see Facebook Twitter Instagram past his sexual orientation-to like him simply for being Timmy. 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% After high school, Timmy went to college to study theater. (He continues to love theater to this day, and is sometimes involved in off-off-Broadway projects. He's more likely to be in the audience than on-stage, currently, and Visibility: 10 mi Dewpoint: 69 °F Wind: 7 mph he's grateful to a close friend in the industry who will occasionally take him to free shows. And musical theater is important to his running: Dan Gallagher open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Sunrise: 5:50 am pdfcrowd.com �has mentioned that Timmy "runs best" when accompanied by show tunes.) Sunset: 8:10 pm Timmy was jobless post-graduation; at the point of returning to his family (now in Seattle) he learned of an opening at MTV in New York City -- he got POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER the job, and he has been with MTV ever since. He has been involved with production and budgets. At our interview, he expressed sadness over the cancellation of MTV's Spring Break -- a staple of his adolescence, and of the search memories of many FRNY members. In NYC, Timmy saw his social life flourish. He took ownership of part of a house on Fire Island, and he became involved in the drag scene there. At our interview, he happily described the annual tradition of a Fourth-of-July drag parade. One summer, years ago, drag queens from Cherry Grove were turned away from a restaurant in the Pines. Since that historic event, every year, queens have stormed the Pines on July 4. Timmy's involvement in the Fire Island scene has not been limited to dressing up. He's also known for his excellent cooking (he relishes the kitchen space and the grilling opportunities Fire Island provides). He has occasionally hosted events at which he's deep-fried wontons, Twinkies, Oreos, and just about anything else he can get his hands on. On Fire Island, years ago, Timmy met two runners-- a couple, Dan Gallagher and Peter Shearer. Dan and Peter encouraged Timmy to run with them, but Timmy worried about his pace. It was not till Gallagher and Shearer adopted a child-- and thus were hampered with a stroller-- that Timmy truly felt he could keep up. Dan and Peter persuaded Timmy to join Front Runners New York, and open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Dan and Peter persuaded Timmy to join Front Runners New York, and though Timmy was initially reluctant, he soon began posting photos of himself in running gear. After five months, he ran his first race -- Grete's Gallop, a half-marathon -- and he felt he had officially caught the running bug. As a member of FRNY, Timmy has contributed more than just his enthusiastic running. He has been a leader of the Social Committee, along with Anthony Ng and Sandi Rowe, and he has occasionally participated in variety-show events. For example, one year, he and some friends memorably performed a tune based on "Hey, Big Spender." Their number was entitled "Hey, Fast Runner," and it told the (true) story of a new, young runner in the club, flanked by rabid admirers. Though Timmy (modestly) says his PRs are not currently as frequent as they once were, he did notably well in the 2011 New Jersey Marathon, where he clocked in at 3:22. He has also participated in races out-of-state, from Phoenix to Disney World, and he hopes to enlist himself in Boston's big run -eventually. He says he will need to shave off twelve minutes of running time before doing so. In the meantime, he keeps active with other races and occasional triathlons, though he claims he is a terrible cyclist. He resists purchasing a new bike, and acknowledges that this purchase would almost definitely help his cause. Timmy speaks fondly of his photogenic boyfriend, Mikey Tran, who was briefly involved in FRNY running events. (Timmy says Mikey gave it "the old college try.") Though Mikey does not currently run with the group, he does escort Timmy to many FRNY social outings, and he has been known to pop up in FRNY website photos. The two met at Baracuda five years ago, when their open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �drunken friends took a shine to each other. (Though these friends never saw each other again, Mikey and Timmy did make a subsequent date, and the rest is history.) Mikey, an up-and-coming figure at Christian Dior, has brought Timmy along on Dior-sponsored trips to Paris and Las Vegas-favorites among Timmy's memories. The swanky hotels have been an added plus. FRNY members may recall Mikey's recent participation in the Boxers Pride Run fundraiser. Timmy persuaded Mikey to sell shots shirtless-and this fundraising endeavor proved quite successful for the club. Upon meeting me, Timmy spoke excitedly about his plans for Halloween 2011. He said he's already debating with himself. Should he dress as Darth Maul? Should he be a villainess from "X-Men"? Would the skin-tight suit be cumbersome?Timmy's friend, Dan Gallagher, has attested to Timmy's unique sense of style. Said Dan: "Timmy's running fashion is quite eclectic. One day he can be in big lady style mumus with accompanying headbands, and the next he's sporting the latest in running tech gear." And: "The only thing that changes faster than his fashion is his hair style: bed-head one minute, gel faux-hawk the next, and a bouffant wig to round out the day." Anthony Ng, Timmy's fellow Social Committee member, also offered a fond report on Timmy. "He is great to work with," said Anthony. "He brings great ideas to the table when it comes to diversifying and stepping out from the conventional social events of the club." It's clear that Timmy is a good guy with a sane head on his shoulders. He says he likes his life and would happily choose more of the same for his open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �says he likes his life and would happily choose more of the same for his future-more running, more MTV, more elaborate costumes. It's to be hoped that Timmy's wish will come true. Many of us are eager to see his impersonation of Darth Maul. 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_timmy_wilson.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/b9c29b99dd4c96ee2d48de44e9ee7cc6.pdf eefaae425047b79e5518c752cbf0934b 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 Caraway This has been a year of milestones for veteran Front Runner David Caraway. Not only is Dave celebrating his 15th anniversary as a member, he turned 40 this year, and recently launched a new law firm. But most importantly, he is having the busiest year in his racing career since making a difficult comeback from knee surgery, competing in 16 road races so far in 2009- bringing his total past 100 races - and once again scoring points for Front Runners. Our favorite francophile lawyer was born in Iowa, where he got his degree open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �from the University of Iowa's College of Law in 1994, but not before setting out to see the world a bit, gathering that certain on ne sait quoi that we love about him-- Dave spent a year in Paris at the Sorbonne and later spent a summer in Arcachon, France studying international law. He even once had a job as head chef of a French language camp during the summers of his Facebook Twitter Instagram college years. 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 He has battled with synovitis in his right knee off and on for about 13 years having first gone under the knife in 1997. Dave, always a fierce speed demon, was sidelined again by a surgery in early 2005 a few months after open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Wind: 7 mph Sunrise: 5:50 am pdfcrowd.com �clocking in his best race ever in terms of age graded percentage (a 4:59 in Sunset: 8:10 pm the Fifth Avenue mile, earning him 76.3 percent). But ever the trooper, he still walked three races in 2005."It was very difficult to lose my running and to not POWERED BY Y AHOO! WEATHER be around so many of the guys I had bonded with on our trail blazing 2003 team. So under strict doctor's orders not to run - I set out walking the races," he said.Since then he's been on the comeback trail, scoring points for the club, most recently in the Father's Day 10k, coming in second for the team in search the masters' category. Dave's adventure with FRNY dates back to 1995, a year after he moved to New York and finished law school. FRNY gave him the camaraderie, and competition to keep him motivated as a runner. His involvement with the club has included a stint as a board member in 2002-2003 and being one of two people relaunching the club's web site and the online calendar which is used to this day. "When it comes to exercise, I am an inherently lazy person, but I'm also social, so I just look forward to seeing everyone and the workout happens by default." Dave said. "The miles go by soooo much faster when there are others to talk to and train with." Because of his injury, Dave has taken a long term view of his running goals, accepting that some things must be sacrificed, including resisting the temptation to run the New York City marathon this year. (He ran the 2003 race in 2:59). "My main goal now is to be able to enjoy running as much as I can and do as much as I can now but still be able to run when I'm 70 which means I really open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �have to listen to my body. Right now my knee is good but not great, so for now I've sworn off anything over 10k's and long term racing goals which could cause me to do more than I should. Letting my automatic marathon entry lapse earlier this year was a difficult decision, but it was the right one," he said. Though he is very much now a big city lawyer, Dave has impeccable heartland credentials. He was raised on a hog farm (pop. 1,500 hogs) near Maquoketa, Iowa (pop. 6,000 people). After a youth spent battling asthma he joined the cross country team in his sophomore year of high school to prove to himself he could do it and not be last, such was his insecurity. In addition to running, Dave has a passion for politics. He got the political bug being a page in Iowa's House of Representatives in 1987, his senior year of high school, when he personally met most of the Presidential hopefuls for the 1988 Iowa caucuses. He started coming out when he was in law school and took part in the AIDS clinic providing estate planning and filing Social Security appeals for AIDS victims, support for whom was quite lacking in the state. To this day, writing wills and estate planning for the LGBT community is much of what he does day in his practice. Dave is currently Vice President of the Chelsea Reform Democrats and is in the race for judicial delegate on the September 15th primary ballot. If he wins, Dave will be one of about 100 delegates in Manhattan able to select New York State's next Supreme Court candidates. SOME RANDOM FACTS: Dave got a shotgun for his 10th birthday. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �Dave got a shotgun for his 10th birthday. His first job off the farm was leading greyhounds out to the races. He once accidentally stepped on a dog's foot and caused it to lose the race. Dave used to play the banjo. OTHER RUNNING ACCOMPLISHMENTS Won of the Mark Nagen Award for Outstanding Front Runner at the International Front Runner Games in Seattle in 2004. Scored for the open team in 10 of 11 points races in the 2003 season when our team won the B division for the very first time and moved into the "A" Division of Road Runners. Was a double bronze medalist in the 2002 Gay Games in Sydney in the 800 meters and 10k. DAVE TAKES ON OLD LADY IN 2005 RACE, in his own words: 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 �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_caraway.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/. 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Title A name given to the resource frny_org_tim_guscott.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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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? 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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