Fifth Avenue Mile! (And Karma)

Most of us Agonites are long distance runners, but that didn't stop a handful of speedsters to get out and compete in NYRR's Fifth Avenue Mile this past weekend.

Here's the new raffle tally!

Name	Raffle Ticket Count
Baldassari	3
Caine	4
Feyisa	1
Finn	5
Gormanly	5
Iwasaki	3
Kern	1
Laytham	1
Liriano	6
Lubin	3
Martin	6
Masi	5
Miller	3
Montagna	2
Pascual	1
Pathak	4
Rallakis	2
Roberts	3
Silvestro	5
Sobti	1
Tanaka	4
Wengroff Spencer	2
Yamada	5
Grand Total	75

With the year fast ending, it looks like Junior Captain Jenny from the Block and Captain Crunch has a tie in number of raffle tickets!  Amazing!  Go Jen!! 

So with Fall Marathon season in full swing, it’s important for us to recognize something…KARMA.  Boys and Girls, now is the season to rack up some seriously good Karma to make sure your race goes well!!  Do something shady…and oh yes, you will pay. 

Some Karma Whoring Ideas:

1)      Donate to Charity.  It’s like the good old fashioned pertinence scheme.  Pay money, get out of sin.  Even giving a dollar to your local homeless person may bring some points.

2)      Help the Disabled.  Tired from your 23M long run and you finally get a seat on the train.  You see a preggers.  GIVE YOUR SEAT TO PREGGERS.  Giving up a seat for preggers is double points.  One from the mom to be and one from the baby to be born.

3)      Cleaning Up.  Do not toss gel package empties around the Park or wherever else your run.  Those packs aren’t exactly compostable.  Throwing away your own garbage is important Karma trick.

4)      Cheering.  The charity runners of all kinds are in the park right now.  They have gathered some mega Karma by incredible feats of fund raising.  Get some trickle down Karma effect by cheering on a random charity runner.  They usually appreciate it a lot too!

5)      Saying Thank You.  Always, always, remember to say thank you to people, in general.  When somebody holds a door for you, rings your groceries at the Whole Foods, serves you at a restaurant…showing appreciation to other people’s services is a always good Karma!

Now with these pointers…Go and SPREAD GOOD, AGONITES!

Club News!

Random news from a random weekend!

First and most importantly, bunch of birthdays!!
9/15 - Xena.  OMG, has it been a year already?!
9/17 - Veggie Rachana.  Make sure you attend her all nigher crazy blast karaoke party!  She goes up an age group!!
9/27 - Thelma-n-Louise.  Our secret scoring weapon!


This past weekend was the big big Lehigh Valley Marathon, where a few of us attempted crack this new course.  Jenny from the Block ran a respectable 3:39!  Congrats!! We hear bunch of us did the half marathon version, so we're waiting to hear from them on their results!!

NYRR had it's Team Points race, where prior to this race, it was LOUDLY announced that Agony o'de Feet was in TOP 5 in the women's B category.  We don't know how this happened... We were missing a lot of people for this race and since 5 of us ran so we don't know where we are now.  hmmmm.  There were lots of NBRs running in this race.  Are they like short distance specialist or something? 

Anyways, here's the raffle tally for this race:

Name	Raffle Ticket Count
Baldassari	2
Caine	4
Feyisa	1
Finn	5
Gormanly	5
Iwasaki	3
Kern	1
Laytham	1
Liriano	5
Lubin	3
Martin	6
Masi	4
Miller	2
Montagna	2
Pascual	1
Pathak	4
Rallakis	1
Roberts	3
Silvestro	4
Sobti	1
Tanaka	4
Wengroff Spencer	2
Yamada	5
Grand Total	69

And with that, we're off to our next round of training.  Fall Marathon Season is in full swing.  Some are expected to run the Hartford Marathon, Toronto Waterfront Marathon, Chicago Marathon and of course, NYC Marathon. 

AGONY SPEEDWORK CLASS:  If anyone is interested in joining for a mini-speedwork, please contact Miki.  She will be available Wednesday and Thursday evenings, schedule permitting. 

Good Luck Kids!

So it's a big week for Agonites.

Some are attempting to BQ or set massive PRs at the Lehigh Valley Health Network Marathon.  While we question their giant bibs (really, why are the bibs so big?), We think this would be a nice race for many.  Just don't get too carried away on the early elevation drops, keep your head in the game for the last 10K, hydrate and fuel well, and it should be a good race for all.

Those staying in the NYC area will have the NYRR team race to test out your speed.  It's a 4M race in middle of fall marathon training.  It's a good race to time trial to see where your training is.  It's still open, so register today if you haven't already done so.

Good Luck and Great Race to ALL!