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Kevin Shelton-Smith left a comment for Anne Tiger-Days

"Yes we have women's sizes. I'll get an XS to Melissa as you suggest"

May 10

Anne Tiger-Days left a comment for Kevin Shelton-Smith

"No I do not have singlet as of yet but are they male and or female size?????? I'm a small xs female. I would love to sport it for the Brooklyn Half. I just emailed Janet to let her know I'm VCTC for the half she said.....ok I think…"

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Kevin Shelton-Smith left a comment for Anne Tiger-Days

"Do you have a VCTC singlet yet? We'll have to get one to you somehow. There's going to be a big contingent. I'll try to organise a meeting place afterwards, look out for it on our Facebook page or a broadcast."

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"YES!!!!!! wouldn't miss it "

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Kevin Shelton-Smith left a comment for Anne Tiger-Days

"Anne Are you doing the Brooklyn Half? Kevin"

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Jonathan Stenger commented on Kevin Shelton-Smith's group Thursday Tempos

"Results from the April Catch Me If You Can. It was a rough night for some of us and a small crew, but we saw great improvement from Beni and continued excellence from Kevin. April Time Trial Results Runner Time Pace Improvement Beni…"

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Jonathan Stenger commented on Kevin Shelton-Smith's group Thursday Tempos

"Congratulations all around last night at the March Catch Me If You Can! Every runner improved versus their predicted pace. Time Trial Results Runner Time Pace Improvement James Moloney 35:34 8:15 4:22 Linda 40:00 9:17 3:04 Glenn…"

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James Moloney, Jr. commented on Kevin Shelton-Smith's group Thursday Tempos

"Is anyone else skipping NYRR Club Night and heading to the flats this evening? Not that any of you regulars run as slowly as me, but I expect to be there about 6:45 for a warm-up lap."

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David Kornacker commented on Kevin Shelton-Smith's group 40+ Mens Division Team

"That's great, Daniel - looking forward to seeing you at Coogan's."

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Daniel Hennessy commented on Kevin Shelton-Smith's group 40+ Mens Division Team

"signed up for Coogan's, Scotland Run & Portugal - though not expecting to add to the points tally just yet"

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Garland Days commented on Kevin Shelton-Smith's group 40+ Mens Division Team

"I'm ready for Coogan's!"

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This Group is to help coordinate the 40+ men's team for NYRR points races.

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Are you a current paid-up member of VCTC?: Yes & I'm all paid up!

How Long have you been a VCTC member, not counting just the website?: Since Leathermans Loop Apr 2007
Prior to that I'd been Coach and President at UNAC, New York

Where are you from originally?: Blighty, up north

Where do you live now?: In the English village countryside, and right opposite Vanny

Relationship Status?: Married

Do you have any children?: Oh yes

What's your favorite running shoe?: Saucony - old models come cheapest

What do you do? What's your profession, what do you do all day?: I'm an aviation specialist working for United Nations peacekeeping, since 1999. I spent 18 months in Sudan and Darfur in charge of UN air operations and have also spent time in the Congo, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Lebanon, Pakistan, Uganda, Kenya, Eritrea, Georgia, Chad, CAR and China. In the RAF I flew the Harrier jumpjet, but started life as an aircraft technician and happily went on to be an Engineer Officer on everything from vehicles to Boeing AWACS over 22 years, with a spell as an air traffic/fighter controller thrown in.
When I'm not away, I'm at my desk planning new peacekeeping missions or equipment and techniques for future operations.

Hobbies?: Just running these days.

Pet Peeve?: Waste and noise

Running PR's List them Here from 100meters to 100miles!: Age graded 84.9%.
5k - 17.25, 4M - 22.34
5M - 28.40, 10k - 35.25
15k - 54.10, 10M - 59.36
Half M - 1.18.36
Marathon - 2.44.43, 60k - 4.24.30
50M - 7.06.26, 100M - 20.30.26

How did you get into running?: I was no good at team sports

Year's you've been running?: On and off from 76-96, then fairly consistently since

What's your favorite race(s)?: Mudders and Grunters XC
Wharfedale off-road marathon

Most memorable performance(s) and why?: Philly Marathon 2004. I'd run the JFK 50M the day before all out and started the Philly with groin strain. From 4 miles I didn't think I'd finish. I finished in 4:02 (I think) quite amazed that I'd overcome so much pain.

Running hero's?: Steve Jones and Paula Radcliffe

Why do you run?: To stay in shape and to be all I can be

Future goals?: sub 2.50 Marathon when over 50.
Empire State Bldg Run
Western States 100
NYRR Runner of the Year

Any last words? Suggestions to the club admin?: We need more beer and barbies

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Brooklyn Half May 22nd, 2010. 10 PRs plus 3rd Overall age-graded

The weather held off and the conditions were calm and not too hot, although it was a 7am start! Good enough for 10 PRs and a new age group Club Record on the same course on which Perry set it last year - sorry Perry.

The first to PR was Jeff down from 1.31.33 to 1.30.14, followed by

Erick down massively from 1.36.25 to 1.31.46 and an Age Graded PR up from 64.2% to 64.5%. Bother are going to after that sub-1.30 title threshold now.

Allen and Matt broke through the 1.40…

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Posted on May 24, 2010 at 1:41pm

Healthy Kidney 10k May 15th, 2010

In addition to some great VCTC team results mentioned by Bette, I can confirm that the men are now 2nd in the Open B league. But there were a good many PRs set on Saturday too.

Lou Csak ran 41.44 down from 43.29 (you're never to old to run well).

Erick Fernandez took ONE second off his PR to run 42.10.

Dom took a minute off his to run 46.38.

Alex continued her improvement down from 52.45 to 51.51.

Jo Ann slices 6s off her PR to et 54.40.

Robert Branch smashed his… Continue

Posted on May 20, 2010 at 10:20am

Knickerbocker 2009

Not too good a run today. I ran 4.40, Erick did 6+, Lanny Levit, Ed James and Sal Calvatorre were in the same region. Sal ran the 4 miler today too! Hiroshi didn't run. Jo Ann cheered us on throughout and Dawn joined her for the first 3 hrs. Then Kate came out for a short while around 11.30 and Rachel came out a ran a loop or two with Erick. Jo Ann ran the last two to bring Erick home, so a good VCTC effort all round.

I started out ok and went with the leader for 6 miles then decided… Continue

Posted on November 22, 2009 at 7:20pm — 2 Comments

Latest PRs posted + Video

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Just posted the latest members PRs on the Coach's page. Check yours out. Also the video I posted (with Mike's help) is really worth seeing. It's not us but it's VCP in the mud last year - great music too.

Posted on October 27, 2009 at 10:40pm

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At 9:46pm on May 9, 2012, Anne Tiger-Days said…: No I do not have singlet as of yet but are they male and or female size?????? I'm a small xs female. I would love to sport it for the Brooklyn Half. I just emailed Janet to let her know I'm VCTC for the half she said.....ok

I think the Best way is to give it to Melisa to give to Walter to give to Garland who then brings it to me.

At 2:14pm on May 9, 2012, Anne Tiger-Days said…: YES!!!!!! wouldn't miss it

At 1:29pm on May 9, 2012, Eileen Hickey said…: Hi Kevin, I sent in my application form and payment on Monday, you'll hopefully get it today or tomorrow. Hope to start running with the club next week or the week after. Knee a bit iffy at the moment.

At 8:28pm on June 1, 2011, Sara Wenger said…: still doing those tempos? 7pm sharp?

At 3:27pm on May 20, 2011, Anna Brew Carlson said…: ... Unfortunately, those times were run a long, long time ago ...

At 10:29am on May 2, 2011, Ana Leiva said…: Hi Kevin, thanks for the invite. I did the 10K run sunday and it was for the Riverdale Y. My time was (1:12) I have started a half marathon training today. Super excited!

Ana

At 11:04am on April 15, 2011, antonio varrenti said…: hey, kevin. I did mail in a money order on tuesday,If you want to email me , the adress is antonio.varrenti@yahoo.com. dont forget the dot in between the name.thanks.Also i am running the japan 4miler, hope to see some club members there. thanks

At 4:00pm on March 11, 2011, Kate Donovan said…: Hey, I am resending the previous message from 1 Feb..... I don't see messages from Yahoo groups, can I send those messages to my new Yahoo account? But when I look for
VCTC on yahoo groups, I can t find it.

Can you help?

At 5:54pm on February 1, 2011, Kate Donovan said…: I would like to get the e-mail to donovanodonovan@yahoo.com, can you arrange?

Also, still not seeing the Ramble up on any of the pages, do we know why?