Scores To Be Settled at the MB 10K on October 1st

As Coach of the club, a key objective has been to motivate you all to achieve. Thus, I was surprised during a recent Saturday run when one of the club members mentioned how surprised he was that with only a few weeks to go to the Hometown 10K, there really hadn’t been much trash-talking leading up to the race…

SO LISTEN UP! The Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair 10K (now in its 34th edition) has historically been the line in the sand, the moment of truth, the proof of the pudding, the ... (well,you get the picture).

It is the race where nothing is at stake…except your pride, your performance in front of your neighbors, the settling of that grudge between you and that person that has no business beating you, your chance to set the record straight, to make a statement for the next year…so get ready to rumble!

We are opening up a blog for taunts, challenges, predictions, “motivational comments” for that 07:30 starting gun on Saturday October 1st when you need to show me what you’ve got!

I know there is a lot of pent-up talk out there, so use your words…write it out…here…now. 

Name	Age/Sex	Time	Points
Jon Megeff	48M	4:33.9	917
Alison Atkinson	44F	5:12.9	890
Nathalie Higley	41F	5:02.7	889
Rich Gust	52M	4:54.4	880
Joe Robinson	25M	4:21.7	853
Will Longyear	47M	5:00.1	828
Sue Reinhardt	65F	7:28.1	825
Humberto Sanchez	36M	4:40.3	817
Ed Avol	59M	5:39.1	809
Kaci Bathurst	39F	5:35.8	786
Karina Bird	45F	6:13.1	754
David Grethen	52M	5:48.9	743
Tamar Gamliel	32F	5:43.1	737
Sabina Helton	47F	6:35.3	729

Club Ed delivers at the Mile!  As reported earlier, we had a great team showing at the One Mile Road Championships on August 28 in Irvine CA. Fourteen of our racers ran a straightaway mile down one of the former El Toro Marine Air Base runways, to keep us competing in the 2011 Club Road Championships.

The Club scorings have now been posted (http://www.scagrandprix.org/), and our team scored amazingly high – 4429 points for our cumulative five best performers! That’s almost 900 points per runner! To put that into perspective, the scoring is roughly interpreted as the following: 700 – local class, 800-national class, 900-international class.

Take a look at our age-graded scoring above – our FIFTH runner scored over 850 points – NICE WORK! The other nice thing to see is we are getting participation and points from several age groups and both sexes. We have two more road races to go (the Long Beach Half on Oct 9 and the Dana Point 10K on Nov 24) to lock in the 2011 Road Championship – keep on truckin’!