(Race photos by Nin Lei)
On Saturday morning, my son Joey and I ran in the Denning’s Point 5K along the Hudson River waterfront in Beacon. This race benefits a local cancer fundraising group and features an awesome trail course.
The first mile and the last mile run along a flat, gravel and dirt path that parallels the Amtrak/Metro North tracks. The middle mile is single-track cross country, with hills, rocks, roots, branches and somewhat challenging footing. Given that Joey will be doing middle school cross country in the fall, this was good practice. He ran a very respectable time of 26:06, accompanied by some old dude in a Marist Track shirt.
Up front in a competitive pack of runners from the southern Dutchess County area was good friend to the program Keith Strudler. Dr. K is a tenured communication professor here at Marist. He is an extremely competitive triathlete, a recently turned master (40 years old) and remains very fit and very competitive.
He won this race against many local road racing stars, and he did so after having completed a vigorous, early-morning cycle and swim workout (not uncommon for competitive triathletes). Nicely done for Dr. K!
Top finishers
1. Keith Strudler (Beacon, 40) 16:19
2. Phil Shea (Beacon, 30) 16:25
3. Knox Robinson (Beacon, 36) 16:38
4. Michael Debronsky (Beacon, 19) 16:49
5. Mike Slinskey (Hopewell Junction, 41) 17:02
6. Mike Chow (Wappingers Falls, 32) 17:09
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