Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Co-Ed 4 X 100 relay

1st 1:01 Shawna, Claudia, Keith, Trav
2nd 1:02 Jenna, Tivon, Marie, Cleon
3rd 1:04 Lunel, Johanna, Christie, Henry

Monday, June 28, 2010

Thursday Night Track Work Out July 1st 2010

Meeting Location: New York Sports Club 145 Street
Time: 6:55
Pace: Track work out

Thursday AM Run July 1st 2010

Meet up Location : 110 Street and Lenox Ave Central Park Entrance
Time: 5:30 AM
Distance:3.00 Miles
Pace: Comfortable

Please leave a comment with your name and planned distance/pace if you will be in attendance.

Wednesday Night Run June 29th 2010

Meet up Location : New York Sports Club 59 Street Park & Madison
Time: 6:45
Distance: Three - Five Miles
Pace: Fast- Comfortable

Please leave a comment with your planned distance/pace if you will be in attendance.

Tuesday Night Run June 28th 2010

Meet up Location : New York Sports Club 59 Street Park & Madison
Time: 6:45
Distance: Three - Five Miles
Pace: Comfortable

Please leave a comment with your planned distance/pace if you will be in attendance.

The Men's & Woman's 100

The ladies race results

1st Ndaya Alice
2nd Claudia Steer
3rd Sandy s



The Men's Race Results
1st Cleon Clix
2nd Delshon Chestnut
3rd Travis Doyle

Woman's 200

The Woman's Race Results
1st Ndaya Alic: .30
2nd Jenna Schmidt:.31
3rd Marie Joseph: .38

The Men's 200m

The Men's Race Results

1st Travis Doyle
2nd Illays Diani
3rd Trivon Madison


mens 200m qualifyer heat 1 (vince, Ilyas,Keith and Lunel)



mens 200m qualifyer heat 2 (Henry,Travis,Tivon and Ahmed)

The 400

Men's Race Results

1st Travis Doyle
2nd Ilays Diani
3rd Henry Stanley


Woman's Race Results

1st Ndaya Alic: 1:11
2nd Johanna Brobeck 1:12
3rd Claudia Steer 1:20

Sunday, June 27, 2010

The wannabee mens and womens 1 Mile

The Mens Mile Race Results

1st Travis Doyle:5:22
2nd Ilays Diani: 5:23
3rd Lenel Milien 7:42

after leading the entire way travis creeps up on ilyas and beats him to the finish.


after trailing lunel for 9/10 of the mile Tivon passed lunel only to get passed back by lunel right at the finish


Travis,Ilyas,Lunel and Tivon on the 3rd lap of the 1 mile, with the lead ilyas has its all but over for the rest of the field, or is it.


The Woman's Mile Race Results

1st Christie Congdon :6:21
Claudia Steer :7:00
Sandy S :7:01


A very close finish between the woman for the 2nd and 3rd spot lets roll the tape.


wannabee women 1 mile finish Christie take a commanding 200m lead for the win, the race is for second place now between Claudia and Sandy


christie, sandy, claudia, johanna and marie 1 mile start

Wannabees Track Showdown

We would like to say thank you to everyone that showed up to the Wannabees first of many Track Show Downs.Without all of you this event would not have turned out to be such a success.

Stay posted the videos of all the near finishes and race results

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Thursday AM Run June 24th 2010

Meet up Location : 110 Street and Lenox Ave Central Park Entrance
Time: 5:30 AM
Distance:3.00 Miles
Pace: Comfortable

Please leave a comment with your name and planned distance/pace if you will be in attendance.

Thursday Night 5k Support / Track Work Out

Meeting Location: Wall Street New York Sports Club
Time: 6:30
Activity: Support runners in the Wall Street 5k followed by a track work out.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Tuesday AM Run June 22nd 2010

Meet up Location : 110 Street and Lenox Ave Central Park Entrance
Time: 5:30 AM
Distance:3.00 Miles
Pace: Comfortable

Please leave a comment with you name and planned distance/pace if you will be in attendance.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Wednesday Night Run June 23rd 2010

Meet up Location : New York Sports Club 59 Street Park & Madison
Time: 6:45
Distance: Three - Five Miles
Pace: Fast- Comfortable

Please leave a comment with your planned distance/pace if you will be in attendance.

Tuesday Night Run June 22nd 2010

Meet up Location : New York Sports Club 59 Street Park & Madison
Time: 6:45
Distance: Three - Five Miles
Pace: Comfortable

Please leave a comment with your planned distance/pace if you will be in attendance.

Lashawna's Running Testimony

"Running without pressure but with challenge"...That is the best way
to describe this group.

I joined the Wannabee's running group under the assumption of
running with a group of cool people a few times a week
all while dropping a few pounds... But I'll have to say my experience
thus far has definitely exceeded my expectations.
Within the first month I ran over 60 miles of which 13.16 were
contributed by running my very first Half-Marathon in Toronto!
I was encouraged at the last minute to fill in for a team member who wasn't able to make it and it turn out to be a great challenge...I surprised the group and most of all myself.
I've never run further than 8 miles total at one time and I actually
finished in a respectable time of 2hrs 11 min and 37 seconds, lol! The
drive to and from the race was very eventful filled with jokes, pictures of Niagara Falls, detainment at canadian border and horrible encounter with Bambi. The entire weekend w/the group was the best experience I've had in a long time.

I can honestly say I'm proud to be a "Wannabee" and plan to continue to
allow the group to challenge me!

Marie's Running Testimony

The key to my success and happiness in life has always been the great people I surround my self with; that being said, becoming a member of the “Wannabees and former trackstars” has been my best New York City experience.

I joined the Wannabees in October of 2009 with very little running skills, but with great determination, and dedication, and have since managed to exceed goals that I thought were beyond my reach.

My first day of training, which should have been a 40minute run, was more of a “run and walk”. After listening to constructive criticism from Delshon and Travis, members and co-producers of the group, I continued training. My first race was the Prospect Park Turkey Trot 5mile run; which I ran in 50minutes a great success for me. That race built my confidence tremendously. The New York Road Runners 4miles run to benefit the victims of the earthquake in Haiti two months later was emotional for me being of Haitian decent and having family there. I wanted so much to go there to assist, but decided that my best contribution would be in raising awareness, and being part of a great fundraiser. Some members of the team joined me in doing the race while others came out to support. It felt like one great big family, and I was almost overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support for my homeland. At the finish line I thanked God for connecting me with the Wannabees and Former Trackstars.

The training and encouragement I received from our now coaches Delshon and Travis, and fellow team members has allowed me to seek new challenges leading up to my latest and greatest achievement, completion of the Missisagua- half marathon in Canada.

I look forward to many future adventures and running victories with the Wannabees and former Trackstars.

Travis's Running Testimony

After two months of tough training the day was at hand, could I have prepared more, yes but I thought I was at a good place mentally and physically to complete the monster in 3h10m so I could qualify for Boston. Little did I know one slight change in my wardrobe would lead to me not reaching my goal. What you may ask was that slight change, well that slight change was my race day shorts.
So race day is here I'm feeling and looking good (trust looking good race day goes a long way especially when you see your race pic lol). The race begins my goal is to run the first 20miles at a 7min pace and then try to finish the last 6 at a 7:30 pace which would bring me to my 3h10m goal. Mile 18 hits and I can't hold my 6:55 pace so I drop to 7:10 for miles 19 an 20. Then all hell breaks loose.
Mile 21 I begin chaffing between my inner legs. It's so much rubbing I begin to bleed I can't take the pain anymore so I funny walk for miles 21 and 22 (15 mins each) looking for the water station to get some cream,while cramping up in ways unknown to man. A sight of joy in the distance a water station joy joy joy, only to find out the station didn't have any cream. My spirit drops and just as my dreams were about to come to an end I see Henry and Sandy. Henry didn't have cream but what he had I was going to use. What did he have you might ask was chap-stick lol. I quickly unscrewed the bottom took the first half applied it on my right leg and the other half on the left I was back baby for all of one mile until it ran out lol.
Three miles left Del ins closing in on me and time's slipping away, I said ok im not making my 3:10 but I know I can't have Del pass me. Oh I forgot I asked Henry to run to The next station to get me some cream only God knew where he was because I couldn't see him. So I sucked it up put my hand between my legs and ran the last 3 miles in pain that I've never felt before. I finally came to the finish with a time of 3:46 collapsed and was wheelchaired to the medical tent where I got a great massage :-).

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Introduction to The Blog

Bees,
After exceeding our storage capacity on the Google Groups site we moved communication to email. Which has proved to be some what effective but very manual. Some times people weren't sure where the runs were, start times or locations. This blog has been established as a reference tool, a place to share advice and most importantly talk trash ( Travis & Vince).

We hope everyone takes full advantage of the blog. Another goal of this blog is for members to make guest post,regarding advice about training diet or a race that you think we should run.