HEALTHY KIDNEY RESULTS..WHO\'S GOT EM!

Overall Male Winner(s)

1 Dathan Ritzenhein 24 NIKE U.S.A. 28:08

2 Craig Mottram 26 NIKE Australi 28:25

3 Demesse Tefera 24 WTC Ethiopia 28:31

4 Chala Lemi 20 Ethiopia 28:38

5 Richard Kiplagat 26 NEWB Kenya 28:41

6 Matt Gonzales 25 NIKE U.S.A. 28:50

7 Martin Fagan 23 REEB Ireland 28:54

8 Andrew Letherby 33 ASIC Australi 29:16

Overall Female Winner(s)

1 Teresa Ricciardi 25 NY 32:31

2 Alemtsehay Misganaw 26 WTC NY 35:31

3 Caroline Bierbaum 23 NY 35:50

Men's Age-Group Awards

12 - 19

1 John Montes 19 UATH NY 37:10

2 Julio Bolivar 18 NY 39:41

3 Arthur Chan 18 NY 40:24

20 - 29

1 Patrick Gildea 27 NYAC U.S.A. 29:29

2 Stephen Chemlany 24 WTC Kenya 29:43

3 Macharia Yuot 25 Sudan 29:49

4 Timothy Psitet 26 WTC NY 29:50

5 Justin Young 27 U.S.A. 30:06

30 - 39

1 Michael Aish 30 NIKE New Zeal 29:23

2 Khalid Khannouchi 35 NEWB U.S.A. 30:06

3 Abidi Bouazza 35 WTC NY 31:31

4 Jorge Real 36 WSX NY 31:39

5 Jorge Pardo 38 UATH NY 32:26

6 Joel Martinez-Delon 30 WSX NY 32:35

7 Jacek Boral 35 PRC NY 32:41

40 - 44

1 Paul Thompson 41 WS NY 31:35

2 Jimmy Lynch 42 UATH NY 32:46

3 Alfonso Polania 44 WSX NY 33:48

45 - 49

1 Piotr Karasiewicz 45 PRC NY 33:33

2 Hank Berkowitz 45 CPTC CT 35:18

3 Antonio Bautista 45 WSX NY 35:39

50 - 54

1 Steve Calidonna 52 TRR NY 34:49

2 Alan Ruben 50 CPTC NY 34:51

3 Greg Diamond 50 TRR NY 35:25

55 - 59

1 Joseph Porcaro 58 TRR NY 37:41

2 John Peace 56 GNY NY 39:28

3 Kenneth Pickell 55 RKTS NY 39:39

60 - 64

1 Julio Aguirre 60 GNY NJ 39:49

2 John Samsel 63 WTC NY 40:44

3 Edgar Sandoval 60 NY 41:53

65 - 69

1 Roland Ratmeyer 69 SHSS NJ 45:41

2 Arnold Gore 66 VCTC NY 48:34

3 Ark Maciak 65 NY 49:24

70 - 74

1 Carlo Digiorgio 74 AMAZ NJ 50:33

2 Eric Seiff 74 NY 54:01

3 Konstantin Goulianos 71 NY 56:02

75 - 79

1 Joseph La Bruno 75 CJTC NJ 57:28

2 Leo Schonhaut 77 NATL NY 59:32

3 Edward Lasso 78 WIT NY 1:08:44

Women's Age-Group Awards

12 - 19

1 Karina Kononenko 18 CPTC NY 44:23

2 Daniella Orton 19 NJ 48:14

3 Nicole Ng 19 NY 51:06

20 - 29

1 Michelle Rorke 23 NYAR NY 36:04

2 Lesley Higgins 26 NYAC NY 36:44

3 Kathryn Boyles 24 UATH NY 36:54

4 Megan Guiney 26 NYAC NY 37:09

5 Andrea Costella 28 CPTC NY 37:51

30 - 39

1 Kathryn Masselam 30 CPTC NY 36:10

2 Jill Vollweiler 38 WTC NY 38:19

3 Rondi Davies 37 NY 38:47

4 Monika Schnee 34 NYH NY 39:01

5 Sheila Casey 37 RRR NJ 39:29

6 Hermela Romero 36 WSX NJ 39:37

7 Heather Williams 31 GNY NY 39:38

40 - 44

1 Laura Dimarino 40 RRR NY 39:44

2 Deborah Gaebler 42 GNY NY 40:09

3 Emily Sanderson 40 PPTC NY 40:19

45 - 49

1 Gordon Bakoulis 46 MCNY NY 38:35

2 Jean Chodnicki-Stemm 47 WS NY 39:54

3 Yumi Ogita 45 CPTC NY 39:59

First, as regards your earlier remark that this is Ritz's PR for a road 10k by three seconds, you really need to keep in mind that road courses are not comparable to each other. The course he ran 28:10 (I think that was his time in the National 10K) on was completely flat (it was, however, warm that day), which couldn't be much more different from the Central Park course. Second, last year, Ritz ran 13:16.61 at the Nationals, on a warm day, in a tactical race, finishing ahead of Goucher, who later that summer ran 13:10, and less than two seconds behind Teg, who later on ran 13:04. Ritz has more than enough speed to run under 13:10. But to get back to today's race. Ritz beat Mottram handily. That's big stuff. He ran 28:08 in his first race back after yet another injury, on a very difficult course, running faster than Mottram ever ran on the same course. That's big stuff, too.

irun wrote:

he said he is going to run the 10k at usatf's and wants to compete in osaka. he also said that last year he felt he spent too much time training for the marathon and that he won't need as much time this year, which is why he believes he can run in osaka and then start training for the us olympic trials for the marathon. here's to hoping he stays healthy and fit, and i doubt we'll see him run under 13:10 this summer. he really needs to work on his 1500m/3k time/speed.

Is Fagan not running for Providence anymore? The results have him listed as being sponsored by Reebok. Not a bad showing for Fagan. I didn't expect KK and Chemlany to be back so far though. Anyone have any idea what the course is like with regards to rolling hills, turns, etc.?

Fantastic run by a great athlete. I do hope Ritz concentrates on the 10k - and masters it - even if he does not have the closing speed of some of the world class athletes from Africa. I am a firm believer in mastering the track and shorter events before even thinking of moving up to the marathon (see e.g. Frank Shorter. Carlos Lopes) - and while I understand money is in marathons I really think they disrupt long term development for a runner like Ritz.

So it is a pretty difficult course? Your points about Ritzenhein being able to finish with Tegenkamp and Lagat and ahead of Goucher are very valid points; but it's also hard to say that because runner x improves so much that runner y should improve so much also. obviously since he ran 13:16 at the beginning of the season, anyone would expect him to improve he continued to train for the event. he closed really well in that race; i think they ran the last 1k in 2:27 or something like that, which is a pretty blistering pace. Here's to hoping we see bigger and better things from him in the future, and yes, it is an encouraging notion to see Ritzenhein run faster on the healthy kidney 10k course than mottram did last year.

Yes, it's a fairly difficult course but not exceedingly hilly. Still, a course record shows that few people could have beaten Ritz today.

And KK is not a 10k guy and his time shows it. I imagine he got a good appearance fee though. Hopefully he'll run the Marathon trial here in November and make the team.

Except he donated the $7,500 back to the Kidney foundation. It was unclear if he also donated the 20K, but definitely the 7.5K

irun wrote:

there's a nice little financial base for his new child's college tuition.

Martin is running for Reebok. He finished eligibility after Indoor season.

awards... wrote:

Except he donated the $7,500 back to the Kidney foundation. It was unclear if he also donated the 20K, but definitely the 7.5K

irun wrote:

there's a nice little financial base for his new child's college tuition.

wow that's really awesome that he did that, you never hear about athletes donating money back to the cause they just raced for.

That was a really classy move by Ritz!

are those women's results really true? the female winner ran 32:51??? that would be ridiculous and extremely impressive....

Sam wrote:

awards... wrote:

Except he donated the $7,500 back to the Kidney foundation. It was unclear if he also donated the 20K, but definitely the 7.5K

wow that's really awesome that he did that, you never hear about athletes donating money back to the cause they just raced for.

Ritz mentioned that his family, too, has a history of kidney disease. Quality gesture by him indeed.