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Glen Ridge Board of Education accept the generous gift of $2,500
from the Ashenfelter 8K Classic Road Race to be used for student athletes
and coaches to be trained in strength and conditioning.
http://www.glenridge.org/boe/agendas/1-13-03.htm
Classic continues its storied history. There were a record 798 entrants
and 800 stories among them for Glen Ridges 2002
Ashenfelter 8K Classic and one-mile Ridger Romp Nov. 28.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=6288518&BRD=1847&PAG=461&dept_id=487338&rfi=8
Ashenfelter 8K Captured By Armstrong and Borkowski, Runner's Gazette,
http://www.runnersgazette.com/results/ashen02.htm
16 Years and 499 Races Later, Vince Carnevale Just Won't Quit By PHIL COFFIN,
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Open the door and step inside Vince Carnevale's century-old house in Newark.
The wall on the left in the hallway is covered from floor to ceiling, from
the front door to the kitchen, with photographs, awards and plaques from
Carnevale's 70-year career as a runner, many of them from his days at Newark's
Central High School and Georgetown University. There is no space left.
On the opposite side, along the stairway upstairs, the wall is covered with
more photographs and plaques, dominated by a photo of Carnevale, then in
his 70's, running a race in Central Park, snow blowing around him. Follow
the photos up the stairs, where they line the wall to the ceiling. At the
top of the stairs, the light of a sunny autumn day slips in under an aging
blind, landing on another huge photo, this one of Carnevale finishing a
marathon, in the year he turned 70, in little more than three and a half
hours.
"This is my whole life," Carnevale says, standing on the
stairs, raising his palms to point to the walls. Not quite. Sitting outside,
making his blue eyes light up, is the blue 2001 Mustang he bought last year.
And he will have a role in a 27-year-old friend's wedding next summer.
But there is no separating Carnevale from his running. A trophy case off
the kitchen is crammed with his trophies and medals from races, and another
case sits in the parlor. Upstairs, past the race T-shirts stacked and hung
by the dozens, is a third case, just as full. In another room is a table
covered with elaborate bowls for winning races, and a stack of boxes with
silver plates that were awards.
These, too, are part of the life of Vince Carnevale, 86, who on Thanksgiving
will compete in his 500th race since turning 70.
Carnevale tells visitors that it is not a great accomplishment, "When you
love something, that's no problem," he said, but he knows better. He has
had a trophy made and engraved commemorating the 500th race, which will
come at the Ashenfelter 8K Classic in Glen Ridge, N.J.
Go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/sports/othersports/24VINC.html
to read the rest of this story.
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