Nationwide Run For Aspire 10k

On Saturday 3/27 several members of the Sayville Running Company Racing Team were at it again. The second race on the GLIRC race calender was the Run For Aspire 10k. I would have to say that it was another great showing by the men of SRC especially the Masters Men Team. Here is a look at the SRC Racing Team Results:

3) Michael Petrina         32:40  5:16
4) Christopher Green       33:45  5:26
9) Paul Murphy             35:31  5:43 *1st Overall Master
18)Craig Banger            37:34  6:03
38)Timothy Henderson       39:52  6:25
43)Wayne Vartabedian       40:18  6:30
52)Karnik Seferian         41:02  6:37

Full Results Here

For those of you who have never run the Aspire 10k I would highly recommend it. The course is a very challenging yet fair course. It has the right mix of uphills, downhills and flat fast sections. It is a race that every runner should get out and do at least once. I am sure that the other team members would back me up on that.

Suffolk County Half Marathon

The following day (3/28) some members of the SRC team ran at the Suffolk County Half Marathon. Great results again from those team members.

1) CHRISTOPHER GREEN       1:16:20  5:50 *1st Overall
4) MARK CARBONE            1:21:30  6:14
20)KATIE DIPIETRO          1:27:59  6:43 *2nd Female Overall

Full Results Here

Great job by Chris Green who was pulling double duty, 10k and half marathon in one weekend is a pretty solid weekend. Congratulations also goes out to Katie who PRed by 2 and a half minutes over the Half Marathon distance.

Look for SRC Racing Team to be in full force over the next few weeks leading into the Long Island Marathon. Come and hang out with members of the SRC Racing at the 4th Anniversary Prediction run on April 4th at 10AM.

Polar has released a brand new model in their heart-rate monitor line, the RS300x Series.  It comes in three different variations:

RS300x: standard heart rate monitor

RS300x G1: heart rate monitor plus GPS speed and distance system

RS300x SD: heart rate monitor plus SD foot pod speed and distance system (useful on both treadmills and outdoors)

Check out all of our Polar products here: SayvilleRunning.com Polar Products

Check out all of our watches and heart rate monitors here: SayvilleRunning.com heart rate monitors and watches

Believe it or not, this April SRC will have been open for 3 years.  We figured this calls for a celebration, runner’s style.

Come join us on April 25th at 4pm for a Prediction Run and post-run party.  We’ll have food, beer, gatorade, prizes and all the essentials.  Options for the prediction run will be 3 or 6 miles.  We’ll also be throwing a gigantic sale that whole weekend, so stop by for some killer deals on shoes and apparel.

Entry fee is free, but we do ask that you RSVP by calling (631-589-5700) or emailing (brendan@sayvillerunning.com) the store and letting us know you’re coming so we can get a headcount for food.
If you don’t know what a Prediction Run is, check out this explanation from a previous post.

Merry Christmas!



Video courtesy of Kiwi/SRC Runner Mike Petrina

Don’t forget!  Thursdays at 6 there will be training runs ranging from 3 to 7 miles for high school and college athletes preparing for the cross country season.  We meet at the store, run and stretch.  Come down and meet other runners and learn about summer training from experienced collegiate and post-collegiate athletes.  There might even be a few fun freebies along the way.

The Olmpic Trials are almost upon us.  This could only mean one thing: LetsRun.com is holding a prediction contest!  For those of you not familiar with LetsRun, it’s a website updated daily by two brothers who also happen to be humungous running fanatics.  They post articles from all over the world and even write a few of their own, covering elite running and big time college and pro track meets. 

Every time there is a particularly noteworthy meet or race they hold a prediction contest where they put up large sums of money as prizes for perfectly predicting the outcome of the event.  This time, there is a $280,000 prize up for anyone who can correctly choose the top 3 finishers in each event of the American Olympic Trials.

To play visit: http://www.letsrun.com/letsruncontest/wccontest.php
Be sure to sign up under the Sayville Running Company group and test your place picking knowledge against the staff and customers of SRC!

There is a new blog in town and it’s called “Once a Blogger.”  It’s got some interesting articles on various running topics, but the highlight is clearly the “Weekend Recap” which is written by SRC’s own Sean Hopkins.  It’s posted at the beginning of each week and details the best performances and results in the world of running.

So head over to Once a Blogger and let site author Geoff Decker (Hopkins’ former Marist teammate) know that more than just his mom reads the posts!

Here’s a really interesting read on the racing shoes Asics is working on for their elite athletes to use at the Beijing Olympics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/sports/olympics/11shoes.html?ex=1370923200&en=ad6acaeba7eabc74&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink