Mets results from today

A beautiful day at Vanny. Sunny and mild, not too hot/not too cool ...

--Great to see Marty McGowan (Marist Running, Class of 1973), who made the trip up from Staten Island to see the current crop of Running Red Foxes. He said he was inspired by the performance of our young squad today. Inspiration flows both ways, my friend. At a very youthful 60 years old, your continued loyalty to our program remains awesome. Marty is a good friend to us all.

--Also great to see Greg Salamone (Marist Running, Class of 2001), who lives in nearby Marble Hill and gets to "work from home" on Fridays. Oh shoot. I hope I'm not blowing your cover here, Greg. Really, for those checking up on him, he was on his "lunch break" and he was "gathering material" for ... for ... whatever he's doing these days. Thanks for coming and cheering on a bunch of runners you do not know. Seriously, it is appreciated and we hope you spend your "lunch break" with us again in a few weeks at MAACs.

Here are today's Mets results ...

Metropolitan Championships
Friday, October 7, 2011
Van Cortlandt Park

Team standings: 1-Columbia 22, 2-NYU 61, 3-Fordham 88, 4-St. Francis 124, 5-Manhattan 164, 6-Rutgers 204, 7-Wagner 223, 8-Hofstra 243, 9-Seton Hall 256, 10-LIU 285, 11-St. Peter’s 300, 12-Marist 301, 13-FDU 319

Marist individual results

57-Rob Gorski 27:48 (personal best)
79-Brian Gordon 28:32 (personal best)
91-Doug Ainscow 29:03
109-Brendan Green 29:39 (VCP best)
126-Adam Osowski 30:39 (personal best)
127-Danny Mendoza 30:43 (VCP best)
132-Dominick Corradi 31:38 (personal best)
DNF-Chris Reynolds (hamstring)

How young was this crop of Running Red Foxes? Let's see ... 4 freshmen, 3 sophomores, 1 junior ... that's pretty young.

Random notes:

--Rob Gorski PRed by 54 seconds over CCSU
--Brian Gordon ran his first 8km XC race, just weeks after being diagnosed/treated for Lyme disease
--Dominick Corradi not only ran his first 8km XC race ... it was the first XC race of his life! Welcome aboard.