Marathon Mania
Eliza Moore '01
Issue date: 11/5/00 Section: Sports
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What must a person be thinking when he or she decides to run 26.2 miles and then adds ~ 20-30 miles of training per week on top of coursework, interview preparation, managing a club, TAing, and, in one runner’s case, being a new parent. Well, frankly, this reporter has come to the conclusion that these people are just plain crazy (not that she isn’t doing one herself at the end of October). You’d have to be mad to think that surviving first semester of second year was not enough of a challenge. But, there is just something about running a marathon that grabs the attention of a type-A personality (which are quite plentiful in business schools…).
The first of us to complete this personal challenge this year was Carter Burns, who chose the Wineglass Marathon to be his first. The Wineglass Marathon runs from Bath (where?) to Corning, ending in front of Corning’s Museum of Glass. The terrain is hilly in the beginning and then relatively flat past the first 9 miles. For those who were not up for the full marathon, Merrill Lynch sponsored the Wineglass Relay. The relay broke the marathon into 3 legs, the first two legs measuring ~ 9.1 miles each and the third leg measuring 8 miles.
While the marathon only drew Carter in, Carol Chan was able to rally many aspiring Johnson School marathoners to run the relays. Six teams of Johnson school affiliated runners completed the relays that took place on October 1. Team Chunder: Tim Krozek, Carter Burns and Eileen Huang; Run Team: Kerri Dolan, Pete Loncto, Mike Husson; Fast Team: Steve Milt, Brian Gregory, Erik Duisenberg; Forward Team: Jen Tegan, Eddie Gilmartin, Meredith Clawson; Johnson I Team: Steve Sauer, Lazaro Guzman, Beth Fuller; Johnson II Team: Carol Chan, Eliza Moore, Laurie Sedgwick.
The marathon began at 9 am on that sunny Sunday morning and the relays were launched just 15 minutes later. The official rules of the relays required that each runner complete one leg, cross an electronic pad that reads the tag tied to the runner’s shoe (yes, very high tech) and then pass the virtual baton (represented by a ribbon) to the next runner. But, do you think JGSMers play by the rules? Not that day. It seems that several overeager runners (myself included) needed to run more than one leg each in order to keep to their training schedules. Therefore, due to some negation of scores as runners’ tags were counted twice, no official times can be reported. But, suffice it to say that everyone kicked @$$
The whole crew completed their portions by 1:30 pm, ate a little something at the finish and dragged themselves 40 miles back to Ithaca to face studying for mid-terms and completing finals. Was it worth it? You bet, and we’ve got the shirts and medals to prove it.
So where else can you go to cheer on Johnson School runners in the near future? Well, you missed Tom Schryver (go first years!) in the Marine Corps Marathon in DC. You also probably missed Laurie Sedgwick (go CSO!) and me in the Cape Cod Marathon on October 29. But you might be able to catch Jen Tegan running the NYC Marathon on Nov. 5 or a whole crew of second years (Tim Krozek, Eddie Gilmartin, Eileen Huang, and more) running the Philly Marathon on Nov.19.
So, if you see anyone limping up and down the stairs in Sage (or strategically using the elevator) over the next month or so, you might want to keep your distance. This marathon mania is contagious and you might be the next victim!