By the way, Sean Albert (who finished 3rd in the walk in Eugene) also RAN
some pretty good miles in New Jersey for Paramus High School and St. Peter's
College. He never ran a 4:10 mile to my knowledge, but I bet he could have
beaten Jack Lemon. Of course, Jack was already in his 60's by then.
Ed Koch
-----Original Message-----
From: sean other <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ryan Grote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Michael J. Roth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: T&F Listserve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: t-and-f: Top NJ HS Milers...WALK or RUN
>Hey Grotey Baby,
>I've a freshman walker here in Ireland who can run
>4:12 mile.
>Sean
>--- Ryan Grote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Only that another kid from NJ, freshman from
>> Parsipanny Hills named Jeremy
>> Zagorski, set a Morris County frosh record in the
>> 1600 this year of 4:16 and
>> change. Bet that is quicker than your boy Zach
>> Pollinger did his mile...OK,
>> his was indoors, and the 4:16 was for 1600m.
>>
>> So let me get this straight, if you didn't mention
>> the racewalking and are
>> getting all defensive about not denigrating it or
>> making it less deserving,
>> are you saying that its all equal if on foot? If
>> that is the case, then
>> your boy can go ahead and enter the NJSIAA high
>> school meets and be judged
>> on the same guidelines, time and place, right? That
>> is, since they don't
>> have racewalking in high school track in NJ...which
>> of course doesn't make
>> it less deserving as an event. Maybe your boy
>> Pollinger can tangle with
>> Zagorski next year...only that Zagorski ran his PR
>> in the Meet Of Champions,
>> which you have to qualify for...Pollinger would not
>> qualify, in fact
>> wouldn't even make the sectionals. But oh wait,
>> thats different he's
>> WALKING.
>>
>> Oh wait, racewalking is a differnent discipline,
>> different event, right? So
>> why did you fail to mention it as such?
>>
>> You can't just go out and say some that John Godina
>> threw 70 feet and some
>> high school kid threw 120, lots of them actually,
>> ones that didn't even make
>> it to the state meet....without talking about what
>> they throw. 70 feet in
>> shot...pretty darned good. 120 feet in the
>> discus...not all that
>> exceptional.
>>
>> So maybe your boy did set a record, but make it
>> clear what the record was.
>> Unless you feel embarassed by it.
>> Grote
>> adiRP/MMRD
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Michael J. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: Ryan Grote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: T&F Listserve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 2:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: t-and-f: re: NJ Superstars
>>
>>
>> > Ryan,
>> >
>> > There was no neglect at all, and no reason to
>> denigrate these
>> > performances by somehow qualifying them as less
>> deserving because of the
>> > event that they choose to undertake.
>> >
>> > Next . . .
>> >
>> > MJR
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
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