Fun Running Races April-August 2011

Fun Running Races April-August 2011 Selected by Kenneth Vercammen

If you are attending any of these races, please call or email Ken V. Often we car pool or meet at these events.

4/9/11 Brick Beach to Bay 5k

4/ 9/11 Run w Eagles 5k Allentown 10am

4/ 9/11 HIPHOP Piscataway

April 10, 2011 Blue Claws 5k 10:00 Lakewood

4/16/11 Cocoa Beach 5k

4/16, 2011 Runapoloza Jersey Shore Relay For Special Olympics 5,4,3,2,1 teams 26 miles, 9am From Seaside Hts To Asbury Park 732-681-9464 free beer! If you cant run, you can volunteer or pay to go to party

4/17/11 Lincoln Tunnel Challenge

4/23/11 Celtic Tribute 5K with the JSRC Kid’s Races and Nephcure Foundation 2-Mile Family Walk 11:00 start, Long Branch, NJ www.celtictribute5k.com

April 30, 2011 Colonia 5k 9am

April 30, 2011 Lake Como 5k 10:00 Lake Como

4/30/11 Cream Ridge Winery 5k 9am

May 1 Franklin Food Bank 62 mile & 40-mile bike 62 Mile Metric Century - NEW TIME - 7:30 AM, $45.00

40 Mile 6 Towns of Franklin - NEW TIME - 8:00 AM, $40.00http://www.franklinfoodbank.org/events/registra_tour.htm

5/1/11 NJ Marathon and Relay- Long Branch Relay- 9:00am Start/Finish Long Branch ocean Promenade near the Hotel, the Ocean Place Resort & Spa.

5/7/11 Newport 10k Jersey City 8:30 free beer afterwards

May 7 Farmlands 62 mile bike- Central Jersey Bike Club Middletown

5/ 7 Lighthouse 5k Sandy Hook 9:30

5/ 7/ 2011 Monmouth Beach 5k 9am

5/8/ 2011 Rumson 5 mile 9:30

5/8/11 Lawrenceville Big Red 5k 10:15

5/14/11 Kick Off tri Bayville

5/15/2011 Thorne 4m W. Long Branch 9am free beer afterwards

5/15/11 Red Bank Tri

5/14/11 Jersey Shore Kick Off Sprint Triathlon Berkeley Island County Park, Bayville (Exit 77 GSP) 6:50am

5/ 21/11 Commotion By The Ocean Rumson Hash- Seaside Park Free beer includes great hash, multiple beer checks, lunch music. dinner foods and more beer at night beer. https://sites.google.com/site/comotionbytheocean2011/ and

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5/ 21/11 CASA Kids 5K Run 9am Princeton Pike Corporate Center

1009 Lenox Drive Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 When you register, write down under the team category- "RVRR."

5/21/11 Spring into Summer Middletown 8:30

5/22/11 Highland Park 5k 9am

5/ 22/11 Robbinsville Hair of Dog 5k 10am

5/26/11 Legal Run Around Somerville 7pm

May 27, 2011 - Legends of Belmar Night- . Join Ken V and friends the Friday night before Spring Lake 5 race for "Legends Night" in Belmar at D’Jays, Bar A & Columns not a race, just social event

5/28/2011 Spring Lake 5 mile

5/29/11 Navesink 1.2 mile swim 8:30

5/29/2011 North Brunswick 5k 8:45

6/__ Sea Isle City Heart Walk/5K Run

6/4/11 Elk’s Flag Day Parade, Wildwood

June 10, 2011 Friday Bicycle to Scranton, PA approx 140 miles

6/11/11 JSRC Pre Father's Day 5K, 9:00 Allenhurst/Ocean Mike W race director 9am

6/11/11 LavaMan Triathlon, Lavallette Jersey Shore Tri Club

6/14/11 Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series New Brunswick Buccleuch Park 7pm [suds in cooler]

6/17/11 Friday June Moon 5k 7:15pm Somerset NJ Quality CJRR event. Post race food

6/18/11 Long Branch Sprint Triathlon Series-1 .5k swim, 9.5 mile bike, 3 mile run 6:45am Long Branch NJ 732-614-6028 Sandyhookers.org

6/18 George Sheehan Classic 5 mile 5M, 8:30 Red Bank jsrc.org

6/18 Metuchen Fuce 5k 8:30

6/19/11 ACS Run For Dad West Windsor 9am

6/20/11 PRESIDENT'S CUP NIGHT RACE, 5K, 8pm, Charlie Browns, Millburn, 973-376-6094, (USATF-700pts) Free beer, big post race party

6/21/11 ETS 5k 7:30 Race Information Race Director Gerard Fennelly 
(609) 631-9211

6/__ Rumson 10 mile, 10 bar Long Branch to Belmar This is not a race. You run, bike or walk 10 miles to between 10-13 bars. Cheap beer Finish at Bar A,

6/_ Frog Hollow 5k South Amboy- Free food, use swim club for entire day

6/26/11 Pine Beach 5K 9am Vista Park, [near Toms River] Sunday Very well run shore area event.

6/28/11 Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series New Brunswick Buccleuch Park 7pm [suds in cooler]

6/ 30/11 SUNSET CLASSIC, 5 Miles, cancelled in 2010 7:30pm, Foley Field, Bloomfield, 732-381-0318

7/ East Stroudsburg 5k American Freedom Festival

7/4/ Wilkes Barre, PA 5k

7/6/11 Woodbridge 4-mile 7pm free pizza

7/7/11 Lawyers for Kids 5k Morris 7pm

7/9 Belmar Five Mile Run 5 mile, 8:30am Belmar NJ 732-571-2162 free food at Bar a after race and reduced price beer Contact Ken to join our teams. We need 20 runners who can break 40 minutes for 5 mile. jsrc.org

7/12/11 Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series New Brunswick Buccleuch Park 7pm [suds in cooler]

7/17/11 Long Branch Sprint Triathlon Series-2 .5k swim, 9.5 mile bike, 3 mile run 6:45am Long Branch NJ 732-614-6028

7/17/11 Eden Family 5k, 8:30am, Princeton NJ

7/20/11 Downtown Westfield 5K Westfield Pizza Extravaganza 7pm

7/23/11 Ocean Grove Biathlon 2M run, 300 yd swim Ocean Grove fast short event. 9am

7/__ Sea Bright 1-mile swim

7/23/11 New Jersey State Triathlon (Sprint) Mercer County Park

7/24/11 NJ Triathlon- Olympic

7/26/11 Tuesday night Raritan Valley Road Runners RVRR 5k summer series New Brunswick Buccleuch Park

7/30/11 Parker House Fun Run & Beer Party Sea Girt, NJ July 24, 2010 2 mile 9:47 free beer

7/30 Belmar tri

7/31/11 JFK Hospital Roosevelt Park 5k Edison 9am

7/31/11 Belmar Tri

8/6/11 Born to Tri Asbury Park Swim 1/3 mile, Bike 13.5 miles, Run 3.5 miles Jersey Shore Tri

8/6/11 Lavallette 1 mile swim 8am

8/7/11 Jersey Girl Tri- Long Branch women only

8/7/11 Seaside Boyd One-mile open ocean swim. There will be a beach barbecue with the awards ceremony after the swim featuring. Includes, beer, soda, water, hot dogs, hamburgers, and salads

8/7/11 Sea Girt 5k

8/13/11 Long Branch Sprint Triathlon Series-Aug 16 400 mtr swim, 9.5 mile bike, 3 mile run 6:45am or 800 mtr swim, 18 mile bike, 5 mile run, 6:30am SandyHooker.org

8/13 Asbury Park 5k 8:30 jsrc.org [You can do both the Triathlon and 5k in same morning]

8/14/11 Ray Licata Long Branch Ocean Mile Swim 1 mile, & 100 yards for kids, 8am Long Branch NJ 8am

best races April & May in NJ

best races April & May in NJ

4/2/2011 Manasquan Fool’s Run 5k 11am Manasquan

April 3, 2011 Indian Trails 15k, 5k 9am Middletown

4/ 9 Run w Eagles 5k Allentown 10am

4/ 9 HIPHOP Piscataway

4/16, 2011 Runapoloza Jersey Shore Relay For Special Olympics 5,4,3,2,1 teams 26 miles, 9am From Seaside Hts To Asbury Park 732-681-9464 free beer! If you cant run, you can volunteer or pay to go to party

5/ 21 CASA Kids 5K Run 9am Princeton Pike Corporate Center

1009 Lenox Drive Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 When you register, write down under the team category- "RVRR."

5/ 15/2011 Thorne 4m W. Long Branch 9am

April 23. Celtic Tribute 5K, on (Easter Saturday)

Jersey Shore Running Club 21st annual Spring run, remembers all of Long Branch’s Fallen Police Officers

Same great JSRC / PBA Race, with a name change to honor all officers.

April 30, 2011 Lake Como 5k 10:00 Lake Como

5/15/2011 Thorne 4m W. Long Branch 9am free beer afterwards

5/ 21/11 Commotion By The Ocean Rumson Hash- Seaside Free beer includes great hash, multiple beer checks, lunch music. foods and lots of beer. https://sites.google.com/site/comotionbytheocean2011/ and

https://store.hashspace.com/product.php?productid=16600

May 27, 2011 - Legends of Belmar Night- . Join Ken V and friends the Friday night before Spring Lake 5 race for "Legends Night" in Belmar at D’Jays, Bar A & Columns

5/28/2011 Spring Lake 5 mile

5/ 21 Commotion By The Ocean Rumson Hash- Seaside & Toms River, NJ Free beer includes great hash, multiple beer checks, lunch music. foods and lots of beer. Prepare a skit of your own or be amazed by the talents of fellow hashers

May 27, 2011 - Legends of Belmar Night- . Join Ken V and friends the Friday night before Spring Lake 5 race for "Legends Night" in Belmar at D’Jays, Bar A & Columns

Fun Upcoming Running Races 2011 Selected by Kenneth Ver

Fun Upcoming Running Races 2011 Selected by Kenneth Vercammen

If you are attending any of these races, please call or email Ken V. Often we car pool or meet at these events. I cannot run due to knee injury, but plan on being a volunteer, or walk the course.

1/1/2011 New Years Day Hangover Run 5k 12-noon CJRR Westfield 1/1/2011 732-236-7651

Jan 2, 2011 Freehold Winter 5k 10:00am FARC

Jan. 8, 2011 Freezing Cold Hash run, Edison, NJ -Start Ken Vercammen Law Office, 2053 Woodbridge Ave, Edison 732-572-0500 Adventure trail run, not a formal race. Featured on TV News12 NJ and Cablevision. Open bar 7:30-11:30

Jan 9, 2011 Freehold Winter 5k 10:00am

Jan 16 2011 Freehold Winter 5k 10:00am

Jan 23 2011 Freehold Winter 5k 10:00am

Jan 23 NJAHPERD Winter run 2 Miles, 3pm Long Branch

Jan 30 Freehold Winter 5k 10:00am

Jan 30-2/21/2011 Ocean Running Club 4 mile 11:00am Lakewood

2/5 RVRR Annual dinner

2/___ Four mile run Sandy hookers

March 6, 11 E. Murray Todd ½ marathon 13.1 miles 9AM Lincroft then join JSRC for Belmar St Patrick’s Day Parade and inexpensive beer

March 12/ 11 Halfway to Brielle Day 5k Brielle

March 13, 2011 Keith McHeffey 3 Mile Fun Run 11am Sea Bright

3/ BORDENTOWN St. PADDY’S DAY 5K, 10AM Clara Barton School

Bordentown City 609-834-9311x1680

3/20/2011 St. Paddy’s 10 miler & 5k 9:30 Freehold Keg of beer and some food great FARC event

3/27/2011 Rat Race 5-mile 11:00 Boston's Bar & Rest. at the corner of Hooper Ave and Fisher Blvd. in Toms River plenty of free beer Fine Bill Scholl party

4/2/2011 Manasquan Fool’s Run 5k 11am Manasquan

April 3, 2011 Indian Trails 15k, 5k 9am Middletown

Polar Bear races, plunge goes on in Asbury Park despite snow

Bob Tona, Lauren Rhatigan and Ken V at Polar Bear race & plunge in a snow storm 12/26/2010 Asbury Park Convention Hall

Polar Bear races, plunge goes on in Asbury Park despite snow

Polar Bear races, plunge goes
on in Asbury Park despite
snow

KIM PREDHAM LUEDDEKE • December 26, 2010

ASBURY PARK — In 47 years, the Shore Athletic
Club of New Jersey has never canceled its Polar Bear
Races.

So for a little thing like snow … even a predicted 16
or more inches … organizers weren't about to call
off Sunday's post-Christmas race along the Asbury
Park boardwalk.

"This was not the worst year,'' Harry Nolan, who has
competed in every Polar Bear race since it began,
told a hardy crowd of runners and fans who stuck
around for a post-race awards ceremony in the
Grand Arcade.

Believed to be the oldest 5-mile run in the nation,
the Shore Athletic Club's annual Polar Bear Race is a
tradition for many area runners. The race was
preceded Sunday by a 10-mile walk won by 24-
year-old Andres Chocho of Ecuador, who completed
the walk in 1 hour, 35 minutes and 1 second.

Nolan, 63, of Middletown, has run in the Polar Bear
Race when the temperature was five below zero, and
when the race course was "pure ice.'' Even so, even
he considered skipping this year's race when he saw
the snow start to fall.

"Any other race, I'd probably go back to bed,'' he
said.

But Nolan did show up, one of 117 runners who
finished the Polar Bear Race, which was cut to three
miles this year because of the weather. Many of the
competitors were bundled up in sweatpants and
jackets to ward off the sleeting snow and chilly
temperatures.

"It was intense,'' said Howell native Joe Rooney, the
first to cross the finish line at 18 minutes 33
seconds.

Rooney, a triathlete, guessed he has run in the
Polar Bear Race four times. This year, he said, "It was
kind of rough. But there was a lot of energy out
there.''

The first female to complete the race was Allison
Linnell of Colts Neck, who runs for University of
Washington's cross-country team.

Linnell, 20, clocked in at 18 minutes 54 seconds.

Ice formed on her eyelashes as she ran and she
could barely see, Linnell said after the race. But, she
said, "It was fun ... Definitely makes you tougher.''

Runners probably got a boost from the sight and
sounds of Dave DeMonico, a fixture at the Polar Bear
Races for years now.

The Ocean Township resident was out there on the
boards once again this year, wearing his trademark
Santa suit and playing tunes on his trumpet for the
competitors.

"It's fun. People seem to like it,'' DeMonico, 43, said
Sunday.

DeMonico was also the one to start another
enduring tradition, the annual plunge into the
Atlantic Ocean after the race.

Immediately following the race Sunday, runners
stripped down to shorts, sports bras and even
bikinis for a quick dip in the rough surf.

Greg Capriotti of Middletown celebrated his 25
birthday by taking the plunge for the first time ever.

"It was actually so cold that you stop feeling,'' said
Capriotti.

Kim Predham Lueddeke: 732-308-7752;

GMC Red Division Wrestling Caps

SOUTH BRUNSWICK

Coach: Joe Dougherty, 23rd season

Last year: 18-6 overall, 6-2 GMC Red

Key losses: Frank Capraro (17-14 at 125), Justin DeAndrea (21-12 at 160), Brendan Vercammen (37-4 at 171), Fabian Jackson (14-4 at 171), Jeff Goldhagen (26-8 at 189); Keith Lewis (12-13 at HWT).

Probable lineup: Parth Patel (So., 103); Jordan Pagano (Fr., 112 or 119); Justin Lopez (Jr., 112 or 119, 22-5 at 112); Chad Capraro (Jr., 119, 17-19 at 103); Tommy Dorsay (Fr., 125 or 130); Fran White (Jr., 125 or 130, 13-18 at 119); David Dominguez (Sr., 135); Matt Baratta (Jr., 135); Ryan Dorsay (Jr., 140); James Pagano (Jr., 145, 18-12 at 130); Luke Rimmer (Jr., 145, 17-13 at 145); Constantine Rissiotis (So., 145); Tyler Jaramillo (Jr., 152, 17-18 at 140); Jake Pietrefessa (Jr., 160, 15-12 at 152); Andre Bankhole-Jones (Sr., 160); Ali Yildiz (So., 171); Lucas DelPiano (Sr., 189, 8-5 at 215); Dallas Siegel (Jr., 215); Kevin Moses (So., HWT). Outlook: The Vikings lost 127 wins to graduation or transfer. Lewis (Franklin) and Jackson (Brick Memorial) are at new schools. Vercammen was South Brunswick's third state medal winner in as many years, placing fifth at 171. He ranks third all-time in victories at the school with 97. DelPiano, who wrestled up at 215 last year, gets to compete at his natural weight. South Brunswick has incredible depth in the lower weights. Tommy Dorsay could be one of the GMC's top newcomers. Yildiz used to lose wrestle-offs by one point to the graduated DeAndrea, so he promises to be solid. Siegel placed second in the 2010 GMC jayvee tourney. The nine returning letterwinners have combined for 214 career wins. Chad Capraro, Lopez and Pagano are incumbent region qualifiers. They all medaled in the 2010 GMCT, along with Jaramillo (5th at 140), Rimmer (6th at 145) and Pietrefesa (7th at 152). http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=201012170350