Team Update & News

Hey guys & gals; don’t forget to register for July to September NYRR races this week. 

They sell out fast these days.

While some of us raced this weekend, some of us had brunch.  Looks like the men of Agony were busy this weekend. Here’s our weekend highlight:

Tom had a big PR weekend with a 1:38:18 finish at the Long Island Half Marathon.  He wanted to crack 1:40 for as long as I’ve known him (…all of 1 year and a month) so this was a big PR come true for Tom.

Victor & Hiroki went north of the border and ran the Toronto Goodlife Marathon.  Not to be confused with Toronto Waterfront Marathon, the Goodlife is a point-to-point course that starts in suburbs of Toronto and ends in the downtown area.  Yea, kinda like that little race in Boston in April.  It even has a giant downhill at the start, killing everybody’s legs!  Victor came in at 3:38:24 and Hiroki posted 3:28:53.  Good Job Guys!!

At brunch, we talked about race participation without our race director, Tom. HA! 

•       We’re currently finalizing the 5 brave men for the Brooklyn Half.  The ladies are ready as always.  Just need the dudes to stand up to the challenge!
•       We think we have 5 dudes for the Portugal “dudes” Race (5M), but we’re not sure.  Cesar had volunteered with a disclaimer that he’ll show up in a drunken mess, having attended a birth party the night before.
•       We’re all set (as always) for the ladies’ Mini 10K.  Not only are the ladies running 1.2 miles more than the Portugal “dudes” Race, we’re all going to try to set PRs.  The dudes got nothing on us.

Then we talked about random ideas & plans for the summer-fall season:

•       An idea to participate in some sort of relay race was brought up.  Since there are a few of us, here’s a painful sounding race that’s looks like loads of fun in hot summer heat!!!!  (http://www.100on100.org/) 100 miles on Route 100.  In Vermont.  Hey, it’s also an official 100 mile ULTRA.  Didn’t Maria want to do an 100 mile Ultra??? She can run it by herself while we take turns taunting her. 
•       Chris announced that the Speed Work Class for the summer might be changed to Mondays & Wednesdays.  Well, I personally, don’t like this because it doesn’t fit to any of my schedule…and I really wanted to take the class in the summer.  Monday is bad for anyone who does long runs on Sundays.  Wednesdays are Cesar’s Happy Hour in the summer (and the entire team is invited!!!).  Who wants to run throw up suicide mile repeats in 90F-90% humidity when you could be sitting on the Frying Pan, enjoying a cold adult beverage?!?!  Pleeeeaaaasssseeee keep it Tuesdays & Thursdays.
•       Finally the highlight came when Cesar was forced into doing NYC Marathon.  His legs started to cramp at the thought of training…