The Colgate Women’s Games is the nation’s largest amateur track series open to all girls from elementary school through college. Held at Brooklyn ‘s Pratt Institute, competitors participate in preliminary meets and semi-finals over five weekends throughout December and January. Finalists compete for trophies and educational grants-in-aid from Colgate-Palmolive Company.
PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn
DECEMBER 15th, 2012 9AM to 1PM .
The October schedule will focus on conditioning and skill building. All practice sessions will take place at the east sixth street track. Some runners will prepare for two events, the NYRRC Grete’s Great Gallop a 1.7 mile race on October 14th in Central Park and the Youth Jamboree on October 21st. The Youth Jamboree will take place at the New Balance Track & Field Center at the Armory and will feature a variety of track and field events for Grades Pre-K thru 5 beginning at 8:00 a.m and Grades 6 and older starting at 12:00 noon.
The schedule is as follows:
3rd Practice (5:30 pm East 6th Street Track)
7th No Practice
10th Practice (5:30 pm East 6th Street Track)
14th Grete’s Great Gallop 8:00 am Central Park
17th Practice (5:30 pm East 6th Street Track)
21st Youth Jamboree 8:00 The Armory
31st No Practice (Halloween)
We have some exciting news to share with you, as well as some disappointing news. The latter first — we aren’t able to run the Fifth Avenue Mile after all. The team signup has already closed and the race is full. The good news is that this gives us more time to prepare for our next event — the Grete’s Gallop 1.7 Mile Run in Central Park on Oct 14.
In exciting news, Natalie Cash Petersson and John have been hard at work on some wonderful logos. We should have something to share with you shortly. We are also in the process of finalizing our application with the New York Road Runners program, which will bring many benefits to the team. More to come on that.
Below is a calendar of Five Points Runners events for the next couple of months. Please note the dates of two non-athletic calendar items: Our first Team Potluck Dinner Party on Sat. 9/29 (please email Michelle Thompson at teneta@aol.com if you did not get the invite or would like to invite someone to the party) and our next Planning Meeting on Sunday 9/30 at 1:30 pm. Both events will be at Hannah & John’s home.
If you have any friends who are interested in joining the team, please have them email Lydia & John for more information. We are also working on an info sheet that we can send around and give to local schools to pass out. (Likewise, if you would like to be removed from this email list, just let me know.)
Lastly, a few parents were talking about taking a short run of their own this Sunday morning, during the kids’ practice. If you’d like to join, just bring your own running shoes to the track, and the parents can take a jog on the East River Promenade while the kids do their own workout.
All the Best,
Coach Lydia & Coach John
Calendar of Upcoming Events:
Sunday, 9/16 9:30 am – Practice at 6th St. Track
Wednesday, 9/19 5:30 pm – Practice at 6th St. Track
Saturday, 9/22 9:30 am – Practice at 6th St. Track **special Saturday practice**
The September schedule will focus on general conditioning and skill building. All practice sessions will take place at the east sixth street track. General training is foundational and helps to develop overall physical capacity and fitness. This will include basic running, strength building, and exercises used to develop muscular power and to improve overall speed.
The schedule is as follows:
19th Practice (5:30 pm East River Track)
23rd Practice (9:30 am East River Track)
26th Practice (5:30 pm East River Track)
30th Practice (9:30 am East River Track)