FLRC’s July track meet is in the books, once again showcasing some of the area’s fastest runners and introducing lots of youngsters to running, thanks to the Ithaca Youth Bureau, Lansing Lightning, Auburn Pulsars, and Team PREFO clubs. We had 133 finishers total, nearly 40 percent of whom were under age 10.
The meet led off with the 3000m, which Joshua Derrick took out hard and won handily in 8:59, outpacing Dave Cook’s 9:34. 46-year-old Mary Bushallow won for the women in 13:33.
More exciting was the 200m, with the early heats suffering some timing chaos as the “littles,” as they came to be called, had trouble staying in their lanes. In the final heat, though, Leon Atkins of the Auburn Pulsars ran a 23.67, outleaning Christopher Simmons, who came through in 23.84, Isaiah Smith, in 24.45. For the women, 19-year-old Maddie Schattinger had no significant competition, winning in 32.77, well ahead of 11-year-old Elena Ruffer’s 34.97.
In the mile, 21-year-old Andrew Davis went out fast but couldn’t hold off Cornell grad student Adam Pacheck, who took time out from volunteering at the meet to run an impressive 4:28, just 4 seconds off his PR, followed by Davis’s 4:42. In his second race of the night, Joshua Derrick was third in 4:48. Also notable were some fast times from High Noon runners Mike Stewart (5:17), Alex Colvin (5:18), and Scott Dawson (5:21). For the women, 52-year-old Michelle Rohl showed the kids how it’s done, looking super smooth while running a 5:45 for the win. She reportedly has the 5th fastest 800m time in the country this year for her age group. 12-year-old Elizabeth Baroody of the Auburn Pulsars was second in 6:12.
Remember, FLRC is running the MITHACAL MILE SERIES and at FLRC’s Annual Picnic on August 25th, we’ll be giving age-group–based awards to those who have the fastest mile races across four of our seven meets, plus the Ithaca Festival Mile. Check your standings!
The final individual race of the night was the 400m, and Leon Atkins upped the excitement for the final heat by predicting that he’d run under 50 seconds. Alas, he came up short, sort of, recording a time of exactly 50.00 seconds for the win. Christopher Simmons was second in 53.69. Continuing the trend of older women taking the crown, 67-year-old Coreen Steinbach of the Athena Track Club won in 1:18.64, just ahead of 12-year-old Annoura Stewart of the Lansing Lightning in 1:20.19.
Huge thanks once again to our dedicated volunteers. Josh Brockner stepped in as head timer, Bruce Roebal started the races, Becca Lovenheim and Carl Franck juggled the heats as clerks-of-course, Jullien Flynn untangled our spaghetti results with help from Casey Carlstrom, Tonya Engst and David Keifer handled registration, Adam Pacheck, Ally Salce, Tom Rishel, and Sandy Gregorich managed lap counting, backup timing, result reading, and numerous other tasks. And, finally, a fond farewell to Julie Quinn, who has recorded finishers at FLRC track meets for years, but is now heading off to a new job at the University of Virginia.
200m RESULTS
400m RESULTS
1 Mile RESULTS
3000m RESULTS
4x400m RELAY RESULTS
ABOUT
Looking for a family-friendly event for a warm summer evening? Come run FLRC’s summer track meets at Lansing High School, where you can test your fitness on the 400-meter track as the heat of the day subsides. All ages (seriously!) and abilities (really!) are welcome in these low-key meets, and when you’re not running, you can enjoy watching some of the area’s best runners compete against one another. Join the fun!
Run the mile in at least four of FLRC’s indoor and outdoor track meets in 2018 to compete in our MITHACAL MILE Series. Average your best four times, and we’ll award prizes at an end-of-summer ceremony to the fastest male and female in each age group (1–10, 11–15, 16–19, 20–29, 30–39, 40–49, 50-59, 60–69, 70+).
EVENTS
July’s events will be run in this order:
- 3000m
- 200m
- 1 mile
- 400m
- 4x400m relay (sign up on a relay card at the meet)
WHERE
The meet takes place at the Lansing High School track, 76 Brickyard Road, Lansing, NY, 14882. Note that Brickyard Road is a right turn (when driving from Ithaca on 34B/Ridge Road) before you get to Lansing High School. There is ample free parking.
WHEN
- Bib pickup and day-of-race registration from 5:00–5:45 PM.
- No registration or bib pickup after 5:45 PM!
- First event starts at 6:00 PM and meets generally go until 8:00 PM.
REGISTRATION
Online pre-registration strongly encouraged and is open until 12:00 PM the day of the meet.
If you have trouble pre-registering online contact meet director Adam Engst via email with your name, age, and event seed times.
Day-of-race registration is available for those who cannot pre-register online.
DirectAthletics Registration Notes:
- You need to a DirectAthletics account to register, so if you created one for a previous meet, you can log into that and register. Be sure to log in to your existing account rather than creating a new account.
- If you’ve never run an FLRC meet before, you’ll have to make a DirectAthletics account; be sure to record your username and password for the future. You’ll use this account to pre-register for other indoor and outdoor track meets as well.
- For families, each person will need an account, regardless of age. If your kids are running, you must create separate DirectAthletics accounts for them and register them for events separately. Fussy, we know, but it’s just like filling out separate registration and entry cards for them in the past. Be careful to log out and log back in with the children’s accounts when registering them.
FEES
Pre-registration Fees: FLRC members: Free; Students: $3; Adults: $5
Day-of-meet Fee for Everyone: $10
Teams: Up to 12 runners: $20; 13–50 runners: $35; over 50 runners: $50
Fees are payable at bib pickup and cover the meet as a whole regardless of the number of events run.
NOTES
- Registration for relays is available only at the meet; fill out and submit a relay registration card at the desk.
- Please predict realistic finish times when registering so we can seed you in an appropriate heat.
- Events run in the order listed, with seeded heats run slow to fast. The number of heats and times will be announced.
- Timing is done by hand, with a Time Machine, not a camera-based fully automatic timing (FAT) system.
- Spikes are fine, and if you choose to wear spikes, pyramid spikes are recommended.
- There are no field events due to restrictions in our Road Runners Club of America insurance coverage.
- The meets are not USATF-sanctioned, so performances cannot be used as World Championship or Olympic qualifiers.
- For remaining questions, or to pre-register manually, contact meet director Adam Engst.