Author: Stephanie Reich
Down the Stretch Track Fest
Striders posted fast times at the Down the Stretch Track Fest hosted by Light Horse Track Club on a rainy evening.
In the invitational mile heat, Alexandra Carrizales broke her own racing team record with a time of 5:02.47!
In the 5k, Jacob Englander ran 17:38.07. In earlier sections of the mile, Samantha Curry ran 5:33.60 and Akintunde Morakinyo ran 5:38.94. Future racing team member James Merkel ran 8:58.85 in the youth mile!
Sunday Strides: All Fruit Relay
In a longstanding Striders tradition, racing team members participated in the 4×2 mile All Fruit Relay, which uses a piece of fruit as the relay baton.
The “Banana Bunch” (Pamela Jock, Stewart Reich, Deb Hicks, and friend of the racing team Christopher Withee) took 1st place in 52:34 using a banana as their baton.
Team “Orange you glad we’re running?” placed 4th, with Carlos Renjifo running all four laps alongside his daughters. Jicheng (Jason) Liu joined team PAL’s to place 5th, and John Chall and his daughter each ran two 2-mile laps for “A pair of pears” to place 7th.
