Hamilton High performance 10,000m Results

[young]

These are hot off the presses, unofficial...

Brad Young

Race Details
Time – 9:30pm
Weather – 18 Degrees C, Calm.
Timing - Finishlynx

HAMILTON HIGH-PERFORMANCE 10,000m FOOTRACE (M)

Place Time Name Affiliation
1 29:09.35 Gittah Macharia Niagara Oly Club
2 29:10.19 Danny Kassap UTTC/New Balance
3 29:30.64 Richie Brinker Hanson-Brooks
4 29:36.97 Brian Sell Hanson-Brooks
5 29:49.40 Greg Jimmerson Nike Farm Team
6 29:50.53 Kevin Doyle Hanson-Brooks
7 29:51.53 Josh Eberly Hanson-Brooks
8 30:03.35 Michael Muturi Kibe Unattached
9 30:11.99 Clint Verran Hanson-Brooks
10 30:18.79 James Lander West Virginia U
11 30:28.76 Wes Alkin Tri-City TC
12 30:42.65 Kyle O’brien Hanson-Brooks
13 30:47.60 Robert Wong Boston U
14 32:04.35 David O’Keeffe Syracuse Chargers
DNF Joe Driscoll Zap-Fitness/Adidas
DNF Paul Ryan Unattached
DNF Mark Menefee Hanson-Brooks
DNF Ben Rosario Hanson-Brooks
DNF Nick Allen Hanson-Brooks
DNF Anthony Gitau Unattached
DNS Donnie Fellows Indiana Invaders
DNS Henry Githuka Unattached
DNS Danial Kipyab Unattached

[young]

Congrats to Mike Woods who finally made the 1500m standard for World Juniors...I won't have 1500m results up until tomorrow, but he was in about 3:47.6 I think.

Cantin edged Reid Coolsaet at the wire. Winning time 3:42 low.

Cheers, I am sure others will log in with more details this evening and tomorrow morn. Thanks to all who came out. Hope to see you all again at next Tuesday's twilight.

Brad Young

[Delisle]

congratz to giitah, way to represent NOC, seems like it was a fairly close finish between him and danny.

anyone there with details on how it came to an end?

[Chris Moulton]

Mens 1500
Cantin 3:42.6
Reid 3:42.7 PB
Blake Boldon 3:44 SB
Woods 3:47 PB

Section 2
Gillis 3:51 PB
Staples 3:53 (first time under 4 mins at 26 years of age never give up the dream kids!)
Desourmeaux 3:54 PB
Caldwell 3:54 SB

The 10,000 went out quick 8:32 at 3k,14:18 at 5k, Danny and Gitah broke away at about 4k, Gitah build a 10 meter and then Danny came back and was leading for the last 3k, Gitah over took him with 100 to go. Great finish.

A great night of racing, looking forward to next year, thanks to Brad Young, Pete Self, Martin Dixon, Calvin Staples and Kevin Beatty for making the night possible.

[SI]

Chris said:

(first time under 4 mins at 26 years of age never give up the dream kids!)

26! He's a baby still! Look at O'Keeffe up there. Damn near 50 I think and kitest was all worried he was going to take down his ranked facility time of 31:37.

[Delisle]

where can full results be found?

[Bubba]

www.athrec.mcmaster.ca/athletics/teams/crosscountry/summertrack.htm

not up quite yet...

[young]

Thanks for your patience. Our regular media/website guy at Mac is in North Carolina so the results have not been posted as quickly as I would have liked.

So here is the cut and paste...full results will be up very soon at the link posted by Bubba above.

Race Details
Time – 7:30pm
Weather – 18 Degrees Celsius, Calm.
Timing - FinishLynx

1500m, heat 1, all male

Place Name Affiliation DOB Time
1 Jay Cantin Speed River TC 77-04-23 3:42.62
2 Reid Coolsaet Speed River TC 79-07-29 3:42.72
3 Blake Boldon Kansas City Smoke 79-10-08 3:44.82
4 Mike Woods Ottawa Lions 86-10-12 3:47.39
5 Andrew Maloney TOC 82-12-07 3:52.57
6 Braden Novakowski Kingston Napanee 86- 3:53.03
7 Cleve M. Thorson Saugeen TFC 81-03-27 3:54.81
8 Angus Macauley Speed River TC 84-01-09 DNF

1500m, heat 2, all male

Place Name Affiliation DOB Time
1 Eric Gillis Speed River TC 80-03-08 3:51.56
2 Calvin Staples Tri-City 76-10-28 3:53.82
3 Kyle Desormeaux Speed River TC 80-11-07 3:54.38
4 Trevor Caldwell UTTC 79-08-18 3:54.58
5 Greg Hutchinson Speed River TC 82-06-07 3:58.60
6 Brendan Brooks TOC 84-05-19 3:59.17
7 Andrew Catton Speed River TC 79-12-06 4:01.63
8 Nathan Jowett UTTC 81-05-23 4:02.74
9 Chris Leverette Tri-City 84-05-29 DNF

1500m, heat 3, all male

Place Name Affiliation DOB Time
1 Eric Morrison HOC 82-05-31 3:59.26


So Graham Hood's (1999) twilight series record remains. Cantin and Coolsaet run the 2nd and 3rd fastest times in our McMaster twilight series over the past nine years, Boldon the 5th fastest, and Woods makes Wrld Junior standard and checks in at number 8 on our twilight ranking list.

Brad Young

[ScottyMac]

Looks like I am fading fast in your Twilight rankings, Brad.

Let me also give a quick Go Blue! for the Michigan content in the 1500m. Cantin gets the win, and the Pride of the Lions (and future Wolverine) Woods gets his standard. Now all we have to do is raise some money so that he can represent his country (but that is another story).

Most importantly though, with all of these Twilight Series going on in the province, what do others (Brad in particular, but other lurkers as well) think about supporting each other's meets. Perhaps we could create a mini Ontario Series. We could each cancel a few of our own meets, and send a busload of athletes to a few of the other Twilights.

It just seems that this is where the best performances are occurring in Ontario, so why not try to capitalize on that, and increase the depth in some of these races. Twilight Meets are perfect for this sort of trip. Since they are in the evening, and only take a few hours, travel and accomodations costs are minimal to the individual clubs.

It may not be feasible to set something up this year, but perhaps it is something to put into motion for next year. This might be a way to revive a Northeast Series that was the place to go for competition a few years ago.

Just a Few thoughts,

Scott MacDonald
Ottawa Lions Track & Field Club
www.ottawalions.com

[coldneck]

I say keep ALL the meets, but identify some races that will be invitational sections (Mac already does this). This way if someone can't get off work early or is just starting out in the sport they don't have to drive a long way to get to a meet every few weeks. But, the invitaional sections will allow the faster people to meet up together to get their times. These meets can and will be fast. People are starting to recognize this and the competition is getting stronger at the top end. We can't neglect the 6th and 7th heats because these are the athletes who will be coming up or those who help suppport the sport.

Thanks to everyone who puts on and helps out at these meets.

Also, try not to schedule twilight meets on the same night (York and Mac next tuesday if I'm not mistaken).

[runfan]

sounds like a good idea to keep all of the meets and make some of them invitational - like with the mac ones.
as well - with scheduling on the same nights - simple communication between meet organizers could help this out. sometimes facility availability doesn't allow for changes i'm sure.

something else to add on to that for maybe next summer is acquiring sponsorship money so guys and girls from out west or east would come for the big meets. this year there wasn't enough interest in womens' invitationals in hamilton to hold those as well. there was local television coverage of the event on June 23rd. with the higher profile meets it would help increase media coverage and general interest in the events held.

[young]

Full results are now posted:

www.athrec.mcmaster.ca/athletics/teams/crosscountry/summertrack.htm

Article on the race:

www.athrec.mcmaster.ca/athletics/index.htm

Article on Woods from late edition of Hamilton Spectator:

Copyright 2004 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada)

June 24, 2004 Thursday Final Edition

SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. SP15

LENGTH: 404 words

HEADLINE: Woods makes the grade for World Junior championship 1500m race

SOURCE: The Hamilton Spectator

BYLINE: ALGE BORUSAS

BODY:
It's those little races within a race that can make a race interesting.

Mike Woods, a recent graduate of Ottawa's Hillcrest High School, was only fourth in the 1500m race fast section during the McMaster Twilight Series track meet last night, but may have ended up as the big winner of the meet.

Woods, who is entering University of Michigan this fall, needed to break the 3:48 qualifying standard to be eligible for the World Junior Track and Field Meet in Italy on July 13-18.

He squeaked in under that time with a 3:47.39 clocking.

"It's pretty rare that I can get into a race like that with a bunch of guys pushing me that way, so it's pretty wicked," said Woods, who runs with the Ottawa Lions Track Club.

Woods had come off a double win at the provincial high school track and field meet three weeks ago in the senior boys' 1500 and 3,000m races.

He won the 1500 metres in 3:48.28, very close to the standard, but was a litle disappointed with his 3,000m performance.

"I was going for the record, but I started off too quickly," he said, finishing in 8:19.74, a few seconds off the record.

Jay Cantin of Guelph's Speed River Track Club won the race in 3:42.62, while fellow Speed River member and Westdale Secondary School grad Reid Coolsaet
was second in 3:42.72 and American Blake Boldin of Kansas City was third in 3:44.82.

The following Hamilton Performance 10,000-Metre Footrace also had some of its runners seeking specific time targets, if not the actual win itself.

There was the Ontario track record of 28:13.54 and the U.S. Olympic trials provisional qualifying standard of 28:15 within possible reach of most of the participants.

Despite the mild temperature, low wind and favourable track conditions, the best anyone could achieve was being able to be in the company of other excellent athletes.

Giitha Macharia, a Congolese athlete training with the Niagara Olympic Club, won the race in 29:09.35.

Danny Kassap, another Congolese runner and member of the University of Toronto Track Club, came second in 29:10.19 and Richie Brinker of the Hanson-Brooks Racing Team of Michigan was third in 29:30.64.

These twilight meets at Mac tend to attract a lot of American runners because of its unique features. The events are run in the cooler evening hours, the phys-ed building offers wind protection and there's a slick
running surface.

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[young]

Scott et al. Some good musings about the future of races here in Ontario. We know that we've got it good here at Mac and we are very appreciative of it. I miss the races up at Mooney's Bay...

The schedule is challenging in places this year, with overlap in some places. However, some of the problems have been rectified, for example, York offers mainly sprints/field events one night, followed with distance events the next evening in Hamilton.

In the past there has been very good communication between meet directors. This year things were a bit more disjointed, there seemed to be a little less communication, and the result is the schedule we have now. I don't think the unfounded rumours of Mac's track getting torn up helped us protect exclusive dates either...and I think the absence of the Great Lakes series has hurt too..

I like Scott's idea of several identified Allcomers distance fixtures in Ontario - perhaps a more expansive version of the defunct Great Lakes Series. I also like the notion of Allcomers with a few select Invites. So each meet would offer an invite or an elite section (with pre-reg) in one selected distance event. At the same time, protect the Allcomers philosophy, it is cool to come out to the Mac track in early July and see 8 heats of 800s and 6 or7 heats of 1500s...

I don't think we have saturated the schedule with meets. I think the schedule should be more directed. But I do believe that the future of distance running in Ontario is in good hands because there are quite a few people looking to organize and get people out in numbers to their events...I think we have a good problem on our hands, we just need to "shape" our schedule better.

An Ontario Open Distance Series with 1) Windsor, 2) London or Cambridge, 3) KW or Guelph, 4) McMaster, 5) York, and 6) Ottawa sounds good to me with a 7) Ontario Open and Invitational Season Finale (based on accumulated points) at McMaster (I admit, I am biased).

That's far too long a post, sorry, hopefully it helps keep the conversation going,

Brad