Wagner Invitational: Men's results

Just a few results from Friday afternoon at Ocean Breeze, highlighted by Pax's solid 3km PR. The team returns for practice in the coming days and we'll have more athletes competing next Saturday at the Armory. Welcome to 2023! 

Wagner Invitational

Friday, January 6, 2023

Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex

Men’s results and splits

Mile run

13. Gabe Rodriguez 4:24.53

35.35, 69.09 (33.75), 1:41.86 (32.77), 2:14.64 (32.79), 2:46.68 (32.04), 3:20.36 (33.68), 3:53.00 (32.65), 4:24.53 (31.54)

15. Daniel Czop 4:26.21

34.33, 66.80 (32.47), 1:39.69 (32.90), 2:13.14 (33.45), 2:47.03 (33.89), 3:20.68 (33.64), 3:53.97 (33.29), 4:26.21 (32.25)

3,000-meter run

2-Christopher Paxis 8:29.39

32.81, 67.32 (34.51), 1:43.02 (35.70), 2:18.23 (35.21), 2:52.31 (34.09)

3:26.13 (33.83), 4:00.08 (33.95), 4:34.34 (34.26), 5:08.56 (34.23), 5:43.13 (34.58)

6:17.52 (34.40), 6:51.44 (33.92), 7:25.57 (34.13), 7:58.72 (33.16), 8:29.39 (30.68)

Kilometer splits: 2:52.31, 2:50.72, 2:46.26

29. Anthony Citera 9:49.04

36.73, 73.56 (36.83), 1:51.16 (37.60), 2:29.62 (38.46), 3:08.89 (39.28)

3:48.43 (39.54), 4:28.57 (40.14), 5:08.77 (40.20), 5:49.65 (40.89), 6:29.84 (40.19)

7:10.11 (40.28), 7:50.20 (40.10), 8:30.80 (40.60), 9:11.19 (40.40), 9:49.04 (37.85)

Kilometer splits: 3:08.89, 3:20.94, 3:19.20

 

Running column returns, on new platform

For those of you who are not on Facebook (where I recently posted) and who might be interested in this topic (which was covered in a recent blog post here), the weekly running column (“On The Run”) that I wrote for the Poughkeepsie Journal (and which was cancelled a few weeks ago, as posted here) is returning on a different platform and format. After mulling over several different options and strategies, I settled on Substack, which is a newsletter/blog Web site populated by famous and not-so-famous writers (I most definitely fall into the latter category!). It is a subscription-based model = $5 per month or $30 per year. I’m not looking to get rich on this venture – far from it! It will provide another, continued outlet for writing about local and regional running, something I had enjoyed doing for several decades. As you will read in my initial post, I am asking for your support in subscribing to the column, so that I can make a sustained effort out of it. Here is a link to my first post, where you can read about the format of the new column as well as subscribe to it on a monthly or yearly basis. Thanks, in advance, for your support of this new writing venture.

Wagner Invitational (for a few)

A few men’s track athletes are opting to race on Friday afternoon at Ocean Breeze. These guys are providing their own transportation and just looking to get a jump-start on 2023 racing. Order of events is below, with bolded events the ones in which some of our guys are entered. Small crew to start. Practice begins next week and our season resumes in earnest on Saturday night, Jan. 14, at the Armory for the TCNJ meet.

 

Wagner Invitational

Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex

Staten Island, NY

Friday, January 6, 2023

Time schedule/order of events (men/women)

1p: 60 hurdles prelims

1:25p: 60 dash prelims

1:50p: Mile run

2:30p: 60 hurdles final

2:40p: 60 dash final

2:50p: 400 dash final

3:15p: 500 dash

3:35p: 800 run

4p: 200 dash

4:40p: 3,000 run

5:20p: 4x400 relay

Wings

This family photo is a snapshot of where we’re at as 2022 merges into 2023. It was taken on New Year’s Eve night at our aunt and uncle’s home on Long Island. Four of us were about to drive back home to Hyde Park in a warmish rain, the old man behind the wheel fueled by caffeine and an ancient NYE Grateful Dead concert on Sirius XM radio. The tallest among us, the sharp-looking young man in the middle, would not be making that trip north with us. He was staying on Long Island in advance of an early-morning flight back to points south, where he is stationed as an active-duty member of the United States Air Force. We all wondered aloud (some through tears) when we would see our oldest son again in 2023. I reminded everyone that San Antonio is a relatively easy flight away (unless, of course, one chooses to fly on Southwest = yikes!) and that there would be occasion(s) for us to get together again. But you never know how these things work. Weeks become months and inertia is difficult to overcome. We must make the effort. Families growing into adulthood with scattered locales … this is nothing new or unique to our family. But when you live it, you live it, and as a result we must cherish these moments together and a photo like this to commemorate us all being under the same roof. Something we used to take for granted but now more the exception rather than the rule. Until our flight patterns intersect again … Happy New Year and onward to 2023. OK.