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2 2012 Shelter Island 10K Journal

EDITOR

Peter Boody

PUBLISHER

Andrew Olsen

ART DIRECTOR

Barb Pfanz

SALES

Ken AllanAdam Hashagen

PROOFREADERS

Archer BrownJo-Ann RobottiJoAnn Kirkland

PHOTOGRAPHY

Garret MeadeEleanor P. LabrozziTom TouwBeverlea Walz

CONTRIBUTORS

Julie LaneBob LiepaJocelyn MurrayJo-Ann RobottiJoanne ShermanPeter Waldner

3 Welcome to the 10K

4 Event details All you need to know before, during and after the race.

5 Race weekend schedule

10 Course map

14 ‘Joey’s Mile’ becomes offi cialThe fi nal mile is dedicated to Joe Theinert, a Shelter Islander serviceman killed in Afghanistan.

18 2011 race wrap-upAfricans dominated top 10K fi nishers in 2011.

22 Registrars extraordinaire Jackie Tuttle and Diane Kilb have been the friendly faces of the 10K race from the start.

26 When in Rome…We do things a little differently around here. Here are a few helpful tips.

32 2012 10K PawprintCourse humor by Peter Waldner.

41 Hosting the eliteIslanders open their homes every year to top athletes.

42 Olympic spirit in the airThis year’s 10K connects to the Summer Games.

46 Running for a causeGwen L. Kosinski Foundation teams up with the 10K.

48 Race benefi ciariesLocal charities make the difference between race statistics and real 10K results.

50 Racing by the numbers2011 10K winners

52 Who makes the race happenThe 10K is supported by a legion of local volunteers.

54 Thanks to our sponsorsThe companies that give the 10K what it needs to keep on going.

c o n t e n t s

It is a privilege and an honor to wel-come each participant, volunteer, spon-sor and spectator to the 33rd Shelter Island Run. Thank you Shelter Island for open-ing your hearts, homes and community to some of the nicest people on the planet. And thank you to the “nic-est people on the planet” for bringing your joy, energy and money to us.

What a special relation-ship Shelter Island has with the running community.

As you know, this is an Olympic year. We are especially proud that one of our own, Amanda Clark-Nissen (not related to writer) and her teammate Sarah Lihan of Ft. Lauderale, Florida, are going to London in the 470 Class sailing competi-tion. (See article on page 14.) In honor of them we invited to this year’s 10K some of the greatest Olympic runners of all time: Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit Samu-elson and Bill Rogers. Along with our own Amanda, they’ll be here to breathe the Olympic spirit into our own Shelter Island event.

Who can forget Munich 1972 when 24-year-old Munich-born American Frank Shorter pulled away from the fi eld by more than two minutes to win gold in 2:12:19? He was the fi rst American marathoner in 64 years to win Olympic gold. No American male has since.

Who can forget Los Angeles 1984? The marathon for women was being contested for the fi rst time in the Olym-pics. A gritty, petite 27-year-old named Joan Benoit from Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in a white painter’s cap, toed the starting line with USA emblazoned on her singlet. Twelve weeks after major knee surgery and only four miles into the race, she had the audacity to take the lead from Rosa Mota, Ingrid Kristiansen and the late Grete Waitz — all legends in their own right and favorites over Joanie in this race.

No one dared go with her. Everyone thought she would fade. But 22 miles

later, she entered the Los Angeles Coliseum 90 sec-onds clear of Grete and more than two minutes ahead of Mota to win gold in 2:24:52. No other American woman has repeated that feat.

And who can forget the years 1975 through 1980 when “Boston Billy” Rogers won four New York Marathon

and four Boston Marathon titles and set the American record twice in the pro-cess? No person has ever done that. He is still the last American-born runner to win New York, male or female. His best shot at an Olympic gold medal was in 1980 when he made the Olympic team again — he’d competed in 1976 with an injury — but the U.S. boycotted for po-litical reasons and he never got his shot.

Represented by these athletes, the triumphs of Munich, Los Angeles, Bos-ton and London will meet for a time on Shelter Island. In American running cir-cles, these three giants of our sport are not forgotten. During this weekend, they will be mixing with other runners and encouraging Amanda and Sarah in their quest for gold in London.

What will these amazing women bring back with them from England that will never be forgotten? They are the best in America — will they prove to be the best in the world? Stay tuned. Follow them at teamgosail.org and help fund them if you can.

Our offi cial charities are: East End Hospice, the Shelter Island Run Com-munity Fund and the Timothy Hill Chil-dren’s Ranch. Please take time to look them up online and stop by their booths on race day to pick up literature. They are all great.

Good luck to all runners and to Team Go Sail.

CLIFF CLARKCo-Founder

Welcome everyone to the 33rd annual Shelter Island 10K Run

The 10K Journal is a publication of the

EDITOR ART DIRECTOR PROOFREADERS PHOTOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORSTh 10K J l

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Everything you need to knowHere’s an overview of all the working parts of the 10K run and 5K walk to help participants make the most of both events. CHECK IN

Runners should arrive on Shelter Island by 3 p.m. Saturday, June 16 for packet pick-up and check-in at the Shelter Island School gymnasium. Packets are available starting Friday, June 15 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Your “Champion Chip” GPS tracking device will be included with your packet. After the event, hold onto your race number, which grants you admission to Saturday night’s post-race party. Please note that strollers or baby joggers are not permitted on the course.

THE RACE

2012 RACE LOGISTICS

USA Track & Field Certifi ed Course

STARTING INSTRUCTIONSThe 10K race starts at 5:30 p.m. sharp, Saturday, June 16, rain or shine, on Route 114 near the traffi c circle in front of the Shelter Island School. The staging area is on the school grounds. School Street is a detour for through traffi c — please cross with caution and do not delay vehicle traffi c. Do not gather on Route 114 near the starting area until called by the offi cial starter, David Katz of Finish Line Road Race Technicians (FLRRT). When called, enter the section that indicates your antici-pated average pace per mile.

SPLITSSplits are measured at each mile mark. A digital clock will be on display on the right side of the road at the 5K mark.

WATERHYDRATE, HYDRATE, HYDRATE! Water will be available outside the school from 2 to 5 p.m. Runners are strongly urged to take fl uids within one hour of the start of the race. Water will also be available at 2, 4 and 5 miles and at 1.5 miles for 5K walk-ers. Signs will alert runners to offi cial water stations. DO NOT ACCEPT FLUIDS from unoffi cial sources along the course.

FIRST AIDA professionally staffed medical tent will be open from 12 noon until after the race on the fi nish fi eld.

5K WALKThe 5-kilometer community walk begins at 5:45 p.m., 15 minutes after the 10K. It is a non-competitive event. All entrants will receive a runner’s packet and T-shirt.

THE ROUTESBoth the 10K Run and the 5K Walk begin on Rte. 114 at the Center round-about and head southward. Turn left on St. Mary’s Rd. and continue to the next round-about. •The 5K Walk goes left at the round-about onto Manwaring Rd. to Rte. 114, then north to West Neck Rd. where the 5K merges with the 10K to the fi nish fi eld behind the American Legion Hall. • The 10K Run goes right at St. Mary’s round-about onto Ram Island Rd., left up Cobbetts Lane, then right on Manhanset Rd. until Manhanset becomes Shore Rd. Keep right of the Dering Harbor Village Hall on Shore Rd. until Shore becomes Winthrop Rd. • Follow Winthrop across the bridge to Rte. 114. Go left on 114 to West Neck Rd. • Make a right onto West Neck and a quick left onto Midway Rd. Follow Midway to Bateman Rd., go left on Bateman for 200 meters and exit right onto the school athletic fi eld behind the American Legion Hall and around to the fi nish line.See page 28 for a map of the course.

FINISH AREARacers cross the fi nish line at the Shelter Island School’s playing fi eld, Fiske Field, behind the American Legion Hall.

BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO

Manning the grill at the post-race party at Island Boatyard last year.


SHUTTLE BUS SERVICEThere will be free shuttles between North & South ferries starting at 1 and 2 p.m. respectively, provided by a Sunrise Coach Lines bus and Hampton Jitney. The Jitney will provide a service to the Post-Race Party; both Sunrise and the Jitney will shuttle to the ferry depots until 11 p.m.

PARKINGSigns will direct drivers from each ferry to a parking area behind the school. PLEASE DO NOT PARK ANYWHERE ON ROUTE 114! It’s part of the race course. Park on side streets and keep all driveways clear.

RESTROOMSPortable toilets will be located outside the American Legion Hall and near the fi nish line.

DRESSING/SHOWERS & BAG CHECKFree showers and a bag check for all race participants will be available at the Shelter Island High School gym, hosted by the Class of 2014. Tips are appreci-ated.

RACE DAY LOGISTICS

S.I. 10K RUN & 5K WALK RACE DAY CALENDARFRIDAY, JUNE 158:15 a.m. MOTIVATIONAL CHAT Elite runner Bill Rodgers speaks with Shelter Island students in the school auditorium. For students only.

3–4 p.m. LIVE RADIO BROADCASTWLNG (92.1 FM) live radio broadcast from Gubbins Running Ahead in East Hampton featuring Bill Rodgers, Barbara Gubbins and Cliff Clark.

5–8:30 p.m. RACE CHECK-IN In the Shelter Island School gym. Pick up T-shirts and goody bags.

5:30–8 p.m. PRE-RACE PASTA BUFFETHosted by the 6th and 7th grades of the Shelter Island School at the American Legion Hall to benefi t student activities. Meet elite runners and enjoy the food of Chefs Sebastian and Julie Bliss . Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door; $5 children under 12; $30 maximum per family; $15 for Shelter Island residents.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1611:30 a.m.LIBRARY CHAT WITH BILL RODGERS hosted by Shelter Island Library Director Denise DiPaolo and open to the public.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. RACE CHECK-IN at the Shelter Island School gym.

1 p.m. FREE SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE starts between North Ferry and the school, by a Sunrise Coach Lines bus until 11 p.m.

2 p.m. FREE SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE starts between South Ferry and the school, provided by Hampton Jitney. Shuttle from the school to Post-Race Party at Island Boatyard.

2–4 p.m.DJ MUSIC at the starting line in front of the school.

4 p.m.KIDS FUN RUN Free, at Fiske Field.Medals for all ages, 4-10.

4:30 p.m.PRE-RACE STRETCHING CLINIC on the school lawn with Suzette Smith from Shelter Island Pilates.

5:15 p.m.RACE DEDICATION*A moment of silence will be observed for all the troops during the race dedication and the National Anthem will be sung by Sara Mundy.

5:30 p.m. SHARP!START OF THE 33RD ANNUAL SHELTER ISLAND 10KIn front of school; no jogging strollers allowed.

5:45 p.m. START 5K FUN WALK (non-competitive)

7 p.m. AWARDS CEREMONY FOR TOP FINALISTS At Fiske Field. Other awards will be presented at the Post Race Party.

7-11 p.m. POST RACE PARTY at the Island Boatyard, South Menantic Road. Mixed grill barbecue, live music by Who Dat Loungers and dancing. Proceeds to benefi t Shelter Island School student programs. Free to all registered runners who bring their race number, modest fee for non-registered guests.

11 p.m. LAST SHUTTLE BUSES TO NORTH AND SOUTH FERRIES

12:45 a.m. LAST BOAT FROM NORTH FERRY

1:45 a.m. LAST BOAT FROM SOUTH FERRY

RACE LOGISTICS CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

* A note about the 2012 10K Race Dedication: This year’s race is dedicated to Shelter Island’s own Olympian, Amanda Clark and her team Sarah Lihan, who will be racing in the 470 sailing competition in London in July. It is also dedicated to all the Island’s service men and women, those who are participating today and those who are still in active service. Shelter Island’s own 1st Lt. Joseph Theinert, who was killed on June 4, 2010, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when an improvised explosive device was detonated near his dismounted patrol, is being honored from this day forward with the permanent dedication of Joey’s Mile, the fi nal leg of the 10k.

BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO

Loosening up at the pre-race stretching clinic.


BEFORE AND AFTER

KIDS FUN RUNFree 200-meter run through the offi cial Shelter Island Run fi nish line for children 4 to 10 years old. Free souvenir T-shirt and medal for all participants. Bring the kids to Fiske Field at about 3:45 p.m. for the run, which begins at 4 p.m.

FREE STRETCHING CLINICA stretching and warm-up clinic will be held from 4:30 to 5 p.m. on the front lawn of the school, near the starting line.

POST-RACE PARTYLet the fun continue after the race. Head to the Island Boatyard near the end of Menantic Road. Free to registered run-ners, the party will feature a mixed grill barbecue, music and dancing; $20 for non-participant guests.

PACE GROUP

40-MINUTE PACE GROUPHarry Hackett III of Merrill Lynch in South-ampton is sponsoring a 40-minute pace group led by elite runner Joan Benoit Samuelson. The group will try to break a 40-minute time for the 10K course. Any-one who thinks they can run a 6:25 mile is welcome to sign up at the registration site to run with this group. All participants will be given a special number and singled out for recognition at the fi nish line.

COURSE RECORDS

OPEN DIVISIONAlena Reta 28:41, 2007 Maria Luisa Servin, 33:12, 1997

MASTERS (40 AND OVER)Graeme Fell, 30:37, 2000 (Long Island record)Marina Belyeava, 35:16, 2000 (Long Island women’s record)Alena Reta, 28:41, 2007Maria Luisa Servin, 33:12, 1997

RACE RESULTS Times will be posted at www.FLRRT.com

RACE LOGISTICSCONTINUED FROM 5

PRIZES

Prize money is raised through corporate and private donations.

OPEN DIVISIONFirst-place male and female runners receive free round-trips for two on Jet Blue Airways. First through 5th men and women receive, respectively, $1,000, $500, $300, $200 and $150 and a trophy; places 6 through 10 receive $75 cash and a medal. A bonus of $1,500 will be awarded for breaking the course record (28:41/33:12); $50 bonus for leader at miles 2-6.

MASTERS RUNNERS40-plus-years-oldFirst-place masters male and female runners receive free round-trips for two on Jet Blue Airways, $300 and a custom-made medal; $200 will be awarded to 2nd place male and female; $100 to 3rd place male and female. A $300 bonus will be awarded for breaking the course record (30:37/35:16).

OTHER AWARDSA ribboned medal will be given to all fi nishers. Custom-made medals will be awarded to the fi rst three fi nishers in the following categories, male and female: 19 and under, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74,75+, Shelter Island residents, and wheelchair racers. No duplication of awards; higher award prevails.

RANDOM DRAWINGSJet Blue Airways and Apple Honda will offer random drawings at the awards ceremony. • Jet Blue will sponsor two round-trips on any Jet Blue non-stop fl ight destination from New York. • Apple Honda of Riverhead will award $500 to sponsor a registered runner and $500 for a registered walker. You must be a registered runner or walker and present at the awards ceremony to be eligible.

GENERAL

BENEFICIARIESOver the course of its history, the annual Shelter Island Run has donated more than $600,000 to various local charities. The goal this year is to continue this tradition in order to meet the ever-expanding needs of these organizations. This year’s race will benefi t the East End Hospice, Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch and the Shelter Island Run Community Fund.East End Hospice in Westhampton Beach has assisted thousands of patients and their families during the fi nal period of termi-nal illness. Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch provides assistance to hundreds of at-risk adolescent boys placed by Long Island family courts, social services and juvenile justice authorities. The Shelter Island Run Community Fund engages in a variety of charitable activities for the benefi t of Shelter Island residents and organizations.

RADIOThe offi cial Shelter Island Run radio stations include WLNG 92.1 FM, WEHM 92.9 and 96.9, BEACH 101.7 and WBAZ 102.5. The race will be broadcast live with pre-race coverage starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday by WLNG 92.1. Interviews will be given the entire week before the race. LI Radio will be promoting the race through commer-cials and 15-second community calendar messages, live DJ mentions of the event, on-air interviews and social media promo-tions.

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This year ‘Joey’s Mile’ becomes a permanent part of the 10K course

BY JO-ANN ROBOTTI

Mile fi ve through six of the Shel-ter Island 10K will offi cially and permanently be desig-nated as “Joey’s Mile” as of

this year’s race, according to 10K board member and Race Director Mary Ellen Adipietro.

The stretch, which runs north of the intersection of Route 114 and West Neck Road , along Midway Road and down Bateman to the fi nish line at Fiske Field, will commemorate Army 1st Lieutenant Joseph (Joey) Theinert, who was killed in action in Afghanistan in June 2010. “It will forever be ‘Joey’s Mile,’” Ms. Adipi-etro said, “and everyone who sees it will be reminded of him.”

Only six weeks into his deployment, Lt. Theinert was killed by an improvised explosive device while on a dismounted patrol in Kandahar. In recognition of his heroic actions, Lt. Theinert was posthu-mously inducted into the New York State Senate’s Veterans Hall of Fame in Albany on May 22 this year.

Just three weeks after his untimely death, the 2010 10K was formally dedicat-ed to Lt. Theinert in a ceremony in front of the Shelter Island School, from which he graduated in 2004. Twenty-four school children, who symbolized the 24 years of his life, each stood beside the starting line holding a balloon. The dedication was followed by moment of silence and the singing of “God Bless America” by Sarah Mundy.

In 2011, the Race Committee hung a banner dedicating the last mile to Joey, and Ms. Adipietro and Lt. Theinert’s mother, Chrystyna Kestler, organized Is-

landers to help line the route with Ameri-can fl ags. “It looked great,” Ms. Adipietro recalled, “and everyone — runners and non-runners alike — just loved it.”

“A lot of people said that it inspired them in that last mile” of the race, said Ms. Kestler.

This year, the Kestler family proposed to the Race Committee that the same stretch become a “Veteran’s Mile.” Des-ignation would be given to the Island’s Gold Star families, those who have lost a family member on active duty, and Blue Star families, who have some-one currently serving on active duty. “But the board decided that they wanted to name the mile after Joe. They said that the Island kids really want-ed to do it,” Ms. Kestler said.

So once again this year, American fl ags will line a portion of Route 114, then onto Midway and Bateman Roads, right into Fiske Field. To put each one of those

fl ags in place, Ms. Kestler and Ms. Ad-ipietro enlisted Island school children to help out in a “grassroots kind of effort, with one kid telling another, ‘Hey, come out to the fl ag placing party,’ so it became a joyous kind of thing,” said Ms. Kestler. The two women said there was a “teach-ing moment” involved, as well, because it give kids a chance to learn the proper etiquette for handling and hanging an

American fl ag.While she looks to the

fl ags as a wonderful way to commemorate her young son’s service and sacrifi ce, Ms. Kestler said she also sees the dedica-

tion of “Joey’s Mile” as a very visible affi r-mation of all the youth of Shelter Island. Citing the accomplishments of Olympic contender Amanda Clark, who will sail on the U.S. team this summer in England, Ms. Kestler said, “These fl ags are really all about the great things our Shelter Island children do.”

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The runner-up from 2010 dashes to victory

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African runners must like some-thing about Shelter Island be-cause they keep winning, posting quality times and

dominating the Island’s annual 10K race. They did so again in the last running of the 10K on Saturday, June 18, 2011.

Kumsa Adugna, 25, of Ethiopia, who was the runner-up in 2010, was the win-ner of the 32nd annual Shelter Island 10K Run. Adugna, running a 4-minute, 47-second mile pace, bolted across the fi nish line, completing the course in 29:44. He nudged out Harbert Okuti of Uganda by two seconds and third-place Keteme Nigusse of Ethiopia by three seconds in a close fi nish.

“I’m happy. I like,” Adugna, whose English is limited, told reporters after-ward.

Adugna ran with the lead pack the whole way. He was fi rst among a distinct group of six runners at the front that was later whittled down to three. Adugna, who said he had felt confi dent, took the lead on the grass during the fi nal sprint to the fi nish line.

Seven of the top eight fi nishers were Africans. Girma Tolla of Ethiopia was fourth in 30:04, Mourad Marofi t of Mo-rocco was fi fth in 30:24, Abiyot Endale

Worku of Ethiopia was sixth in 30:49 and Demesse Tefera of Ethiopia was eighth in 32:50.

Tefera followed seventh-place Birhanu Feysa of Silver Springs, Md. (31:18).

The fi rst Long Islander last year was Matt Walsh of Wantagh. He was ninth in 34:52, which was 13 seconds ahead of 10th-place Christopher Koegel of Malverne.

The women’s champion also had an

African connection. Although Tezaya Dengersa, 30, is Turkish, she lives in Ethiopia with her husband and their two children.

In clocking a winning time of 34:17, Dengersa for the fi rst time fi nished ahead of her rival, second-place Malika Mejdoub of Morocco, who turned in a time of 34:40.

Dengersa said she had pushed herself as hard as she could. Perhaps she need-ed to. Speaking of Mejdoub, Dengersa said, “She’s strong.”

Mejdoub said the two of them ran the fi rst three miles together before Denger-sa made her move.

“Actually, I didn’t run well,” Mejdoub said. “I was a little tired this week, but

it’s OK. I took second place. I’m happy.”Caroline Bierbaum of New York City

came in third at 34:43. Michele Buono-ra of Sayville was the fi rst Long Island woman with a time of 40:52 that brought her 10th place.

Among the fi eld of 22 elite runners last year were seven Ethiopians, four Moroccans, a Ugandan and a Kenyan. Dr. Frank Adipietro, the race’s medical director, said, “I’m going to have to say this is the strongest fi eld we’ve had in the 32-year history of the race.”

Shelter Island’s fastest male runner was Charley Stark with a time of 35:49, put-ting him in 22nd place. The fastest Island woman was Jodie Brewer with a time of 47:30, which put her in 182th place.

Not counting Dengersa, Mejdoub was one of four Africans to place among the top eight in the women’s race. Among them were Salome Kosgei of Kenya (fourth in 36:15), who was followed by Aileen Barry of New York City (37:41) and Jane Finck of New York City (38:47). The next three female fi nishers were Muluye Gurmu of Ethiopia (38:57), Il-ham Batal of Morocco (39:19) and Jenny Malik of Rochester (40:18).

The event featured more former Olympians than it has ever had — four — with Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samu-elson, Girma Tolla and Dengersa taking part. Other big names from the running world participated, including Kim Jones and Jon Sinclair.

“There are so many good runners to-day,” said Rodgers, who has won four

Among the fi eld of 22 elite runners last year were seven Ethiopians, four Moroccans,a Ugandan and a Kenyan.

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Kumsa Adugna of Ethiopa, a runner-up in the 2010 10K, won in 2011.


Tezaya Dengersa, a Turkish citizen who

lives in Ethiopia, was the women’s top

fi nisher last year.

Boston Marathons, four New York City Marathons and ran the marathon in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. “It’s not like 30 years ago, and so many good, older runners today, all ages, and that’s what you see here.”

The warm, sunny weather early in the day of last year’s run faded away as the 5:30 p.m. starting time approached. It got cloudy, protecting runners from the sun. But it was muggy, not so easy on the runners.

As they made their way along the American-fl ag-lined fi nal mile dedicated to 1st Lt. Joe Theinert, the Islander killed in Afghanistan in 2010, overhanging trees offered welcome shade for some of the way and smiling spectators lined the route, offering refreshments, applause and encouragement.

“It’s a celebration of our sport,” said Samuelson, who won the fi rst Olympic women’s marathon in 1984 in Los An-geles.

Still, the conditions must not have been right for a record: Alena Reta of Ethiopia set it at 28:40 in 2010 when he won the race for the second time in four years.

Many reasons can be cited for the

Africans’ dominance in long-distance running. Samuelson gained a fi rst-hand appreciation for that a few weeks ago when she visited Kenya.

“I was really impressed with the way they trained,” she said. “They just run everywhere. If I went for a run, kids would jump off the backs of trucks or would run out of the school-yard and they would run alongside us.”

The affable Rodgers, who fi gures he has run some 165,000 miles over the course of his career, made his third ap-pearance in the race as part of a celeb-rity pace group.

“I was glad to not have to push as hard as I could because this was hard enough,” he said. “I’m getting a little creaky.”

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BY JO-ANN ROBOTTI

For the 33rd year in a row, par-ticipants in the Shelter Island 10K will be greeted by a phalanx of volunteers in the school gym-

nasium who will give them their num-bers and packets and answer any and all questions from the important to the mundane.

Since the start of the race in 1980, this process has been the responsibility of registrar extraordinaire, Jackie Tuttle. Race organizers and participants alike credit her, and her longtime associate, Diane Kilb, with helping to make the Shelter Island race not only an extraor-dinarily effi cient event but a highly per-sonal one as well.

Ms. Tuttle, who was a school teacher in East Hampton before her retirement, recently recalled how she became in-volved when the 10K began. Referring to the president of South Ferry Co. and a 10K co-founder, she said, “I saw Cliff Clark on the ferry one day and he started telling me about the plans being made for the run. I told him that the Special Olympics was one of my favorite chari-ties. Then, the night before the race, Cliff called and said ‘I really need some help with the registration,’ and that’s how it all began.”

A last-minute request of that nature would have fl oored most people but Ms. Tuttle, who has been characterized by one race volunteer as “unfl appable,” rose

to the occasion with aplomb. “That fi rst year we had some 500 to 600 people who came in to register. Somehow, we just handled it all.” And she has kept on handling it. “My involvement just kind of grew. I had no idea at the time that I’d be in it so deep.”

LOOKING FOR HELPA long-time Islander who had been

active in many facets of the community, Ms. Tuttle quickly realized that a key to the race’s success was getting the sup-port of Island residents. There was a vocal minority “who complained about the inconvenience, the crowds, the ferry lines, everything connected with the race, so we wanted to come up with ways that would involve them, make them feel special and compensate them in some way” for the problems they might encounter.

“We wanted to make sure that they had happy memories of race day and would talk it up instead of complain-ing about it,” explained Diane Kilb. “We wanted extra-good local publicity to come from this race.”

Ms. Tuttle hit upon the idea of desig-nating numbers 100-200 for locals (the fi rst 100 numbers go to the elite runners) and reserving those same numbers for them every year. “If you saw number 101 on the road,” said race founder Cliff Clark, “you instantly knew it was a Shel-ter Islander. It really personalized the whole experience.”

“Jackie was ‘inclusive’ before the word became part of the vocabulary,” said Ms. Kilb. “She was accommodating and inclusive to everyone, but especially to kids and Islanders.” She was also ex-tremely organized. “In the days before computerization, she devised a cross-registration system so we could look up a runner by his or her name, or number, or by category. If something went afoul, we would always track them.”

“Jackie and Diane brought organiza-tion to the registration program,” said Mr. Clark. “They brought structure to the registration program; both of them were very good at detail. But it was their compassion that made this process so special. They knew the people. They looked forward to meeting them every year. They were hostesses rather than simply registrars. They made everybody who came through the door feel wel-come and honored,” said Mr. Clark.

WHERE’S THE ATM?For Ms. Tuttle, working the race was

not only an opportunity to support a fa-vorite cause but a way to meet friends new and old. “We got to see the same people every year, off-Islanders and lo-cals, and a lot of families. Runners we started with in their 20’s began bringing their kids with them and some of those kids now have kids.”

She recalled being on the island of An-guilla one year and seeing a man with a Shelter Island run T-shirt. “I went up to

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The faces of the 10K when runners register: Jackie Tuttle and Diane Kilb.

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him, introduced myself and asked him why he hadn’t registered for this year’s race.”

Over the years, the volunteers would gather two to three nights a week at reg-istration headquarters — the Tuttles’ din-ing room table — to sort and process the applications. By the 10th year, there were 2,200 runners, Ms. Tuttle recalled, and “we were still doing it all by hand. But Diane Kilb held it all together. She would work nights, sorting the applications into piles, male, female, ages, groups.” One year, bedridden with back problems, Ms. Kilb continued to “slice open envelopes” during her recuperation.

During the 1980s, with the running trend at its peak, race day registration was temporarily suspended as an option but the team of volunteers in the gymna-sium would make an exception for “any-one with a Shelter Island connection.” Both Ms. Kilb and Ms. Tuttle laughingly recall the stories people used to tell on race day; “I have an uncle who lives here” was a popular one. “People would say anything to be allowed to register.” Ms. Kilb remembered.

Payment was a sticky wicket in those early years, when registration fees had to be paid in cash or by check. ‘Don’t you

take Master Card?’ was one of the big-gest questions we would get, followed by ‘Where is the ATM?’ We trusted a lot of people to send in their checks and, sur-prisingly, most did,” said Ms. Kilb.

THE COMMUNITY FUNDIn addition to handling the logistics of

registration, the team of Tuttle and Kilb took on the process of securing non-prof-it status for the race’s Community Fund.

While event proceeds benefi ted the Spe-cial Olympics and later, other charities, the revenue from the 10K Journal was designated solely for Island projects.

“We wanted to be able to give some-thing back to the community,” said Cliff Clark, “to compensate in some way for the inconveniences of the race.”

Ms. Tuttle and Ms. Kilb decided that they would do the paperwork to create the non-profi t organization themselves. “We didn’t hire a lawyer; the two of us just plugged away at it ourselves,” Ms.

Tuttle reminisced. “We worked two win-ters getting it all organized.”

According to the fund’s current trea-surer, Clarissa Tybaert, $228,000 has been given away since 1982 in support of programs and needs on Shelter Is-land. The Community Fund also awards a sizeable scholarship or scholarships to graduating Shelter Island High School se-niors, which are generously matched by Ken and Donna Wright of Shelter Island. In 29 years, the fund has given scholar-ships to 82 Shelter Island seniors. Mak-ing the presentation at graduation each year, Ms. Tuttle likes to make a point of mentioning exactly how much the fund has donated to students. “I like people to know how much has been given back,” she said.

Even after 33 years of working the race, the thrill and the enjoyment hasn’t faded for either of these women. “I love going to see the start of the race,” said Ms. Kilb. “All those feet pounding the pavement; it’s always so exciting.”

As for Ms. Tuttle, “The race is a big part of my life now. I haven’t been active in other things and even my garden has taken a back seat. I just don’t have time for gardening when we’re working on the race.”

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BY JOANNE SHERMAN

If you have never before visited Shel-ter Island, you should know that everything here is just a little bit different than it might be in other

places. Some people have even used the word “odd” — but of course, they mean it in a good way.

Here are just a few things it helps to know about this Island and the people who make it their home.

GETTING DIRECTIONSIn other places people usually give

directions like this: “St. Gabriel’s Re-treat House? Sure. Bear to the right, then turn left on Congdon, right on Cartwright and right on Burns. Bingo! You’re there.”

It’s not like that here, because here the locals seldom use street names. We locate places by either who lives there, what used to be there, or what happened there. So, directions to the retreat house might sound like this: “Oh, you mean the monastery (because that’s what it used to be). Okay, follow the road to right at the place where that little yellow sports car fl ipped, then turn

left where the road always fl oods, then left again right before you get to the re-tired fourth-grade teacher’s house, then right at the fi eld where the fi remen have their chicken barbecue in August.”

A few years ago a visitor from Minne-sota asked a local for directions. She said he told her to go straight until she came to ‘where the big tree used to be.’”

“Used to be?” she asked.“Yup. Really big tree,” he said. “Big-

gest one on the Island. But it’s gone now.”

“Okay. So, should I be looking for a really big stump then?”

“Naw,” he said. “Not any more. They dug out that stump a long time ago.”

As she drove away, she kept an eye out for a place where there was no big tree, no stump and someone else to ask

Need directions? Here’s what you do: First, fi nd a map, then ask a local to point to the “you are here” place on the map, and the place you’re trying to get to. He or she will still tell you to go past where the hay barn burned down (right before World War II) but at least you’ll have a general idea of where you are and where you want to be. Maybe.

WATCH FOR ‘THE WAVE’No, not a tsunami wave but the “odd”

way drivers here acknowledge one an-other as they pass in opposite directions on our roads. In other places people wave in the traditional way of saying “Hey, how ya’ doin,’” because we’ve all seen it: a hand in the air or out the win-dow is quite normal.

But when you see a driver on Shelter Island wave in that manner, you know he or she is not a local.

Locals who recognizes a familiar ve-hicle coming at them will always wave but there is no hand fl apping involved. Ever. Someone explained once that there’s a little too much New England in these Islanders to let them be so de-monstrative. Instead, they raise a fi nger off the steering wheel, usually (but not always, so be warned) it’s the index fi n-ger and it’s a quick, subtle movement.

That’s it. Finger up, fi nger down. At no time does the palm of the hand break contact with the steering wheel. On rare occasions, you might see an enthusiastic driver lift two fi ngers, but most often that’s just someone who’s waving and stretching another fi nger at the same time.

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And it’s important to note that it’s the familiar vehicle that gets the wave, not the person behind the wheel. So if you borrow a local’s car, expect to get that odd Island “salute” and make sure you salute right back (fi nger up, fi nger down) because that’s the way we do it here.

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION?

The theory goes that we are all sepa-rated — and not just from Kevin Bacon, but everyone else — by a mere six de-grees. People are tighter than that here on Shelter Island. It’s more like four degrees, or fewer, so be careful what you say, and to whom, because we are pretty much all connected.

There’s a favorite and oft-told story about a visitor to Shelter Island who got a speeding ticket. Unaware of the four degrees (or fewer) that separate us here, he was on his way off the Island and complained to the ferry purser that he had to come back because he was going to fi ght a ticket. Obviously the blankity-blank cop didn’t know what he was doing. “Good luck in court,” the ferry guy told him.

The perp did come back to face the judge, and sitting at the bench, holding the gavel, the story goes, was the ferry guy. Yes, he was also the judge.

But wait, it gets better. That blanki-ty-blank cop? Yeah, you know what’s coming, don’t you. He was the judge’s son. ‘Nuf said?

A ‘HARELEGGER’ BY ANY OTHER NAME

The term “harelegger” refers to a per-son born here. One theory for how that moniker came about is it refers to the way Islanders had to run “like rabbits” to make the last ferry from Greenport. There is another theory, though it’s not at the top of the local theory list: back in the days when several New York City German beer barons had summer

homes on the Island, they used to ar-rive on the big steamboat ferry. Wagons would be sent to meet them and, in-stead of holding up signs with names, the way limo drivers do now, the wagon drivers would shout out “Herr Lager!” (Mr. Beer, get it?) General Island con-sensus among hareleggers themselves, though, is on the side of the rabbits.

Whatever way the word came about, it defi nes a person who was born on Shelter Island, which also must mean born at home because there is no hos-pital here. It’s a nickname that true hareleggers wear proudly.

This is a place of many nicknames

such as Tink, Easy, Chair, Stovie, Bluto, Toots, Pencil, Peach and Punch. Up un-til he died just last year, one of our most well-known and beloved locals was a guy called Scratchy. Many people didn’t even know his real name until they read it in his obituary.

Though it’s mostly men with those unusual and colorful names, sometimes Island women get them, too. There was one called Bird and there’s Smoke and Queen. She got her nickname because she was the oldest girl where she grew up in a part of the Island called Eel Town.

Did you even know there’s a place here called Eel Town? It’s easy to get to; just take a right where that big tree used to be and follow the road past the fi eld where the fi remen have their chicken barbecue in August.

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The Shelter Island 10K is known for attracting large numbers of elite runners every year, many of whom travel great distances

to participate. One of the hallmarks of the race organization has been the annual participation of host families who open their homes to these runners, ensuring they will have a truly unique Shelter Is-land experience.

Of the legions of volunteers who make the 10K a reality, the host families have a unique role in the race’s success. Accord-ing to Janelle Kraus-Nadeau, who heads the elite runner program, race organizers are always looking for more volunteers every year. “It almost always works out that the demand is greater than our sup-ply,” she said. In 2012, there will be 12 runners in the elite fi eld and Ms. Kraus-Nadeau said she hoped to place each one with an Island family. As late as the end of May, Ms. Kraus-Nadeau said, “We still have athletes contacting me for as-sistance.”

Heights residents Paul and Susan Mc-Dowell have been one of the most stal-wart of host families, accepting as many athletes for the past several years as they can fi t in their home. “We really enjoy it,” Mr. McDowell said. “Over the past couple of years we’ve hosted runners from Ke-nya and Ethiopia and a few other places. They typically come on Friday night and the race is Saturday. They may or may not stay over Saturday night and leave sometime Sunday but we invite them to stay as long as they like.”

With their lives dictated by running and competition, the athletes have strict schedules that often prevent them from spending more than a few hours with

their Shelter Island hosts. “These run-ners’ lives are pretty monastic,” Mr. Mc-Dowell said, “They get up, run, take a nap, run and go to bed.”

But the McDowells try to interject a little fun into the visit and show them some aspect of the Island beyond the scenic 6.2-mile course. “When they get to Shelter Island, we take them out on our boat and do a few different things with them. They enjoy it tremendously, and we do, too.”

Eleanor Oakley hosted her fi rst run-ners in 2000 and has “an on-going friendship with one of the fi rst runners who stayed with me; it’s gone on for 12 years now,” she said. The runner, Joseph Kibor, who won the men’s race that year,

comes from a poor village in Kenya and regularly sends Ms. Oakley photos of his family (“My real mother,” he writes on the back of the pictures, to distin-guish her from Eleanor, whom he calls his “American mother”). He has called and emailed Ms. Oakley from different places around the world to report on his running career, his family, his service with the UN troops in Somalia and his life back in Kenya.

“I’m passionate about this program,” said Ms. Oakley. “It’s an incredible ex-perience to exchange information about our families with these young people. Rather than see them in isolation, hav-ing them stay in your home lets you see them as part of a family.” She has also

hosted women from Ethiopia “whose stories are simply incredible.”

“We don’t really think about the fact that this is a career for these runners; it’s their livelihood and how they support their families,” Ms. Oakley said. “They travel from place to place all around the globe so they can send their winnings home.”

While host families are required only to provide breakfast and a clean, safe place to stay, many go above and be-yond what is asked of them.

“If they want to do more, they are certainly welcome to do so,” said Cliff Clark, one of the original architects of the hosting program, which is now headed by Race Director Mary Ellen Adipietro. Some families, according to Mr. Clark, make all the runners’ meals. Others host post-race dinner parties to which they invite the athletes. Still others transport them around the Island during the week-end or take them out sailing or fi shing.

Because of hosts like the McDowells and Ms. Oakley, Ms. Adipietro said that many runners request to stay with par-ticular families about whom they have heard rave reviews.

“The great thing about Shelter Island is, as we all know, that it is an amaz-ingly close and warm community,” said Mr. McDowell. “And one of the great rea-sons the race itself is so successful is not only is it a picturesque place to run but people who come here feel the friend-ship of Shelter Island.”

As for Ms. Oakley, she is looking for-ward to fi nally being re-united with Jo-seph Kibor next year. “One of my chil-dren is moving to Kenya and when I go to visit I’ll see Joseph, as well. I just love the fact that some place in Kenya, in a very poor village, there is some mention and memory of Shelter Island.”

Some place in Kenya, in a very poor village, there is some mention and memory of Shelter Island.

Joseph Kibor, in T-shirt at center, won the 2000 Shelter Island 10K. He still sends Eleanor Oakley,

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Olympic spirit fi lls the air as 10K runners conveneIslander Amanda Clark will be sailing for a medal in Weymouth this summer

BY JULIE LANE

This year’s 33rd Annual Shelter Is-land 10K Run and 5K Walk has a special connection to another athletic event: the 2012 Summer

Olympics in London, England.Because Shelter Island is the home-

town of U.S. Olympic sailing team mem-ber Amanda Clark, the organizers of the 10K have dedicated the run this year to the spirit of the Olympics.

Ms. Clark, 30, learned to sail as a child at the Shelter Island Yacht Club and is a 2000 graduate of Shelter Island School. She qualifi ed as an Olympic alternate in the 470 two-person dinghy in 2004, as a competitor in 2008 and this year she did it again in a world qualifi er in Perth, Aus-tralia in December with her crew Sarah Lihan of Ft. Lauderdale. The pair went on to win a silver medal in world cup sail-ing in the Semaine Olympique Française regatta in Hyères, France in April.

Ms. Clark lives on the Island with her husband Greg Nissen when she is not traveling the world to sail, train and raise

funds. She has said she intends to re-tire from Olympic competition after the Olympic races in Weymouth, England this summer.

With runners entered in the 10K seek-ing to raise funds for their Olympic ef-forts, Ms. Clark and Ms. Lihan — also known as “TeamGoSail” — plan to be

here for the 10K to cheer them on and sell Olympic paraphernalia, according to 10K Race Director Mary Ellen Adipietro.

Ms. Clark is not the only Shelter Is-lander with an Olympic connection. Cliff Clark, a founder of the 10K, was a con-tender in 1972 and Island running star Janelle Kraus (now Kraus-Nadeau) was a contender in 2008. Ms. Clark has gone the furthest, however, in winning a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

Ms. Clark made it in 2008 with her for-mer crew, Sarah Chin, but Ms. Chin opted not to compete this year, forcing Ms. Clark to go in search of a new teammate. Enter Ms. Lihan, who brought height, strength and experience as a solo sailor to Team-GoSail, Ms. Clark said.

It was an uphill battle at the start. American competitors Erin Maxwell and Isabelle Kinsolving Farrar were favored to win in Perth. With many locals glued to coverage of the racing via the Internet, the Clark-Lihan team edged Maxwell-Kinsolving Farrar to secure an Olympic berth.

“We did it!” was the triumphant mes-sage on TeamGoSail’s Facebook page.

Since that December victory, TeamGo-Sail has continued to train and compete in races both in the United States and abroad. With their second-place fi nish in April in the International Sailing Fed-eration’s World Cup event in Hyères, they showed they could medal facing the same competitors who will be in Weymouth this summer. They prefer heavy wind and seas, which are typical at Weymouth in mid-summer. They got those conditions in Hyères.

CLIFF CLARKWhile the Shelter Island 10K celebrates

TeamGoSail’s Olympic dream, it also honors Mr. Clark and Ms. Kraus-Nadeau, who brought their share of Olympic hope to the Island in past years.

Mr. Clark refers to his Olympic effort as his “trials and tribulations.”

“It was a great experience,” he said. He still relives his trials in Eugene, Oregon,

Ms. Clark and Ms. Lihan plan to be here for the 10K to run for their Team Go Sail.

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Sarah Lihan and Shelter Island’s Amanda Clark competing in 2011.

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in 1972 when he came in one place be-hind what he needed to make it to the Munich Olympics. “Forty years later, I can still get my adrenalin rush thinking about being among the best” who competed in the 5000 meter and steeplechase fi nals. It was during the trials that he became fast friends with Olympian Frank Shorter, who will be running in the Shelter Island 10K this year.

He placed fi fth in the steeplechase; three runners and an alternate went to Munich. He remembers his time in the steeplechase at 8 minutes and 36 seconds. Had his pace been two seconds faster, he would have made it to the Olympics.

Ironically, it was the 5000 meter race on which he had set his hopes, but he fi nished further back in the pack with a run of 13 minutes and 54 seconds.

JANELLE KRAUS-NADEAUIn 2008, Mr. Clark stepped forward to

help Janelle Kraus-Nadeau in her effort to compete as a marathoner in the Olympics in Beijing.

Ms. Kraus-Nadeau was training with Ray Treacy of Providence College, but Mr. Clark, who had coached her on Shel-ter Island, “was always able to offer great advice whenever I asked for it,” she said. “Coach Clark has remained a trusted mentor and friend,” she said.

She made it to the fi nals in her trials but a hip injury spoiled her training pro-gram, Mr. Clark said. Ms. Kraus-Nadeau said in an interview that she “did not per-form as I would have hoped” because of the injury.

It happened about six or seven weeks before trials began and “from that point on, I felt like more of my time was spent going to physical therapists, chiropractors and message therapists,” she said.

She told a reporter at the time, “I am certainly going to give it my best, but I am not going to walk away from the ex-perience and think of myself as a failure if I am not in the top three.”

Looking back, she said in May, “It would have been a serious long shot for me to make the 2008 team even if I was healthy. I was more shooting to fi nish in the top fi ve.”

Competing in the trials was still a source of pride, Ms. Kraus-Nadeau said. She trained along side the man who would become her husband, Bill Nadeau, who was prepping to run in the Boston Mara-thon that year. They trained together and when they in different cities they would follow identical training schedules.

She was a four-time All American at Wake Forest University and a member of Team USA during the 2001 World Uni-versity Games in Beijing, China, and in Chiba, Japan in 2002. Today, she and her husband live in Madison, Connecticut and Ms. Kraus still runs most mornings and occasionally jumps into a road race.

TOP RUNNERS HEREAlong with Shelter Island’s local ties to

the Olympics, the Shelter Island 10K has a long history of attracting many of the world’s great runners. Olympians in this year’s race, besides Mr. Shorter, are Joan Benoit Samuelson, Bill Rodgers and Keith Brantly.

Mr. Shorter won the 1972 Olympic mar-athon with a fi nish more than two min-utes ahead of his competition. He placed fi fth in the 10,000 meter race. Thanks to his Olympic marathon win, he earned the nation’s Sullivan Award as the top ama-teur athlete. He followed up his 1972 gold medal with a silver medal in the 1976 Olympic marathon and was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984.

Ms. Benoit Samuelson won gold in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, beating the great Greta Weitz, who had bested Ms. Benoit Samuelson in 10 previous marathons. Ms. Benoit Samuelson was subsequently inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame.

Her name fi rst became nationally known when she posted a 2:35:15 time in the 1979 Boston Marathon, setting an American women’s record. She set a world record of 2:22:43 in the Boston Marathon in 1983, despite having undergone sur-gery two years earlier on both Achilles tendons. She set American records in 1983 in the 10-kilometer, half-marathon, 10-mile and 25-kilometer races.

Bill Rodgers was a cross-country runner at Newington High School in Connecticut who went on to compete in marathons in 1973. He competed in the 1976 Olympic Marathon in Montreal but was hampered by a metatarsal problem in his right foot. While he stayed with the leaders of the pack for the fi rst 25K, he dropped off the pace and fi nished 40th with a timing of 2:25:14. In 1980, he thought his opportu-nity for Olympic success was fi nally near but the United States opted to boycott the games because of Moscow’s invasion of Afghanistan, putting an end to his per-sonal Olympic quest.

Keith Brantly was a fi ve-time partici-pant in Olympic trials in the 5K, 10K and marathon, before competing in the 1996 Olympic Marathon in Atlanta. His fastest career marathon run was 2:12:31. Other personal bests include 42:50 in 15 kilo-meters; 28:02 in 10 kilometers; 13:36 in 5 kilometers; and 3:40:7 in 1500 meters.

He is an eight-time United States Na-tional Roadracing Champion in the 10K, 20K, 25K and marathon and was inducted into the Road Runners Club of America Hall of Fame in 2005 and the University of Florida Athletics Hall of Fame in 2004. He remains a member of the United States Olympic Team Mentoring Program.


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Kosinski continues its link to the 10K

Foundation raises funds for brain cancer research

BY JULIE LANE

For the third successive year, the Gwen L. Kosinski Foundation and its Minds Over Matter Running Team returns to the Shelter Island 10K to continue rais-ing money for research vital to curing brain cancer.

Launched in May 2002 by the Kosin-ski family of Sag Harbor in memory of Gwen Kosinski, 48, who lost a two-and-a-half-year battle with brain cancer, the foundation has been hailed by fundrais-ing developers at Memorial Sloan-Ketter-ing Cancer Center as a pioneer in fund-raising for brain tumor research.

The foundation has provided grants to major cancer centers, including Me-morial Sloan-Kettering, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Cedars Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Foundation money has also gone toward scholarships for those pursuing studies in cancer-related health fi elds.

Foundation leaders believe that mon-ey is all that stands in the way of fi nding a cure. Money has also been dedicated to improving the quality of care for brain tumor patients and their families.

Since its founding, the organization has raised more than $500,000 through

its annual Gwen L. Kosinski Memorial Golf Tournament and the Minds Over Matter Sag Harbor 5K Run. In 2011, af-ter a successful experience with a team running in the 2010 Shelter Island 10K, it abandoned its own Sag Harbor run to concentrate on the Shelter Island run.

“We are proud to be joining charitable forces with the Shelter Island Run,” ac-cording to a statement on the founda-tion’s website at glkfoundation.org.

Running is a major focus of fund rais-ing for the foundation, thanks to Gwen Kosinski’s friendship with the late Bob Connelly, a runner who was a 25-year survivor of brain cancer. He and Ms. Kosinski met in a brain tumor support group. It was Mr. Connelly who orga-nized the fi rst Minds Over Matter Sag Harbor 5K after his friend’s death. When

Mr. Connelly became too ill to carry on the run, the foundation, under Ms. Ko-sinski’s daughter, Jaime, took over the race organization and kept it going until joining forces with the Shelter Island 10K race.

“It’s a new decade and the time has come to do something different and big-ger,” Jaime said at the time. She saw the alliance with the nationally recognized Shelter Island 10K as a means of gaining more prominence for the foundation.

The decision was in line with Mr. Con-nelly’s original vision of having Minds Over Matter teams participate in major races all over the country. The fi rst MOM team made its debut at the 2001 New York City Marathon.

In December 2011, a MOM team ran in the Voices Against Brain Cancer 5K Run/Walk in New York City’s Central Park.

The Gwen L. Kosinski Foundation Benefi ting Brain Tumor Research is a 501(c)3 nonprofi t organization. Contri-butions are tax-deductible. To support the foundation, contributions can be made through the foundation’s website at glkfoundation.org or checks payable to the Gwen L. Kosinski Foundation can be mailed to the foundation at 318 Roa-noke Avenue, Riverhead, NY 11901.

Since its founding, the organization has raised more than $500,000 to fi ght brain cancer.

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Race benefi ciaries

10K COMMUNITY FUNDSince its inception in 1981, the Shel-

ter Island 10K has generated more than $600,000 in race proceeds to benefi t re-gional organizations.

But locally, the race has generated more than $228,000 for the Shelter Is-land 10K Community Fund. It benefi ts the Shelter Island community, including scholarship recipients, youth programs and community organizations. Shelter Island High School seniors are among the many who benefi t from the 10K. The 10K Community Fund grants size-able scholarships to graduating seniors, thanks to matching funds given annu-ally by Ken and Donna Wright of Shel-ter Island.

Thousands of dollars have been giv-en to a wide range of youth programs. Funds generated by the 10K have helped maintain basketball courts and a local playground. Money has gone to support Project FIT, the Island’s physical recre-ation center, to provide school sports uniforms and to pay for Girl Scout and Boy Scout activities. The Scouts have been perennial volunteers for the Shel-ter Island 10K.

Community groups supported by race proceeds include the Shelter Is-land Historical Society, the ambulance squad, the Shelter Island Public Library, the Nature Conservancy’s Mashomack Preserve, the American Legion’s Mitch-ell Post 281 and local senior citizen’s programs.

TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN’S RANCH

Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch in Riverhead has transformed the lives of young men on the East End, including some from Shelter Island. Timothy, the brother of Thaddeaus Hill, the execu-tive director of the ranch, died tragically in 1972 but his dream of a farm home for troubled boys lived on in the ranch his family founded and has run for more than 35 years.

It has been part of the 10K run story for eight years now but what many 10K regulars may not know is the close re-lationship between the ranch and a key Island family. Cliff Clark, co-founder of the Shelter Island 10K and president of South Ferry Company, is the vice presi-dent of the ranch’s Board of Directors. His father, Bill Clark, was vice president of the ranch board for 11 years before him.

The ranch organization was formally established in 1976 and its fi rst house for boys opened in 1980. In addition to its resident program, the camp offers a counseling center and a day camp for local kids. For more information on the ranch, visit the timothyhillranch.org.

EAST END HOSPICEThe 10K Board of Directors values

the commitment of East End Hospice to helping patients and families during their most trying times. The organization has been a race benefi ciary for the past seven years.

East End Hospice is a New York State-certifi ed hospice serving terminally ill pa-tients and their families on the East End. No patients are ever denied services due to inability to pay, leaving hospice with an annual defi cit of more than $850,000 and a continuing need for fi nancial sup-port.

In addition to end-of-life care, hospice also provides bereavement counseling, community education and a free-of-charge summer day camp on Shelter Is-land called Camp Good Grief for children who have experienced the loss of a loved one. For more information on hospice, call 288-8400 or visit its website, eeh.org.

The Shelter Island 10K is more than a celebrated athletic event known all over the world. It’s also a fundraiser that has provided fi nancial support close to home for the

Shelter Island 10K Community Fund, Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch and East End Hospice.

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The pasture at Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch in Riverhead.



2011 Shelter Island 10K Winners

2011 WINNERS LIST

WHEELCHAIR1 PETER HAWKINS 47 MALVERNE, NY 32:36

2 WILLIAM LEHR 53 SHELTER ISLAND 35:57

MALE OVERALL WINNERS1 KUMSA ADUGNA 25 ETHIOPIA 29:44

2 HARBERT OKUTI 25 UGANDA 29:46

3 KETEME NIGUSSE 30 ETHIOPIA 29:47

4 GIRMA TOLLA 35 ETHIOPIA 30:04

5 MOURAD MAROFIT 29 MOROCCO 30:24

6 ABIYOT ENDALE WORKU 26 ETHIOPIA 30:49

7 BIRHANU FEYSA 29 SILVER SPRING, MD 31:18

8 DEMESSE TEFERA 28 ETHIOPIA 32:50

9 MATT WALSH 26 WANTAGH, NY 34:52

10 CHRISTOPHER KOEGEL 27 MALVERNE, NY 35:05

FEMALE OVERALL WINNERS1 TEZAYA DENGERSA 30 TURKEY 34:17

2 MALIKA MEJDOUB 29 MOROCCO 34:40

3 CAROLINE BIERBAUM 27 NEW YORK, NY 34:43

4 SALOME KOSGEI 30 KENYA 36:15

5 AILEEN BARRY 29 NEW YORK,NY 37:41

6 JANE FINCK 30 NEW YORK, NY 38:47

7 MULUYE GURMU 27 ETHIOPIA 38:57

8 ILHAM BATAL 25 MOROCCO 39:19

9 JENNY MALIK 32 ROCHESTER, NY 40:18

10 MICHELE BUONORA 22 SAYVILLE, NY 40:52

MALE AGE GROUP: 1- 19 1 TIMOTHY GRUBER 16 HUNTERSVILLE, NC 35:21

2 MICHAEL BRANNIGAN 14 E NORTHPORT NY 37:15

3 KEVIN LIANG 18 WATERFORD, NY 38:17

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 1-19 1 AUDREY KELLY 16 WADING RIVERNY 44:58

2 BIANCA JACKSON 18 GLENCOE, IL 45:17

3 NATHALIE IVERS 18 CHATHAM, NJ 49:25

MALE AGE GROUP: 20 -24 1 TYLER BRITTON 22 EAST QUOGUE, NY 40:55

2 CRAIG PRIESTLY 24 HOLBROOK, NY 41:38

3 GREG HOFFMAN 24 MERRICK, NY 42:13

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 20 -24 1 BRENN DONNELLY 22 EUGENE, OR 41:44

2 ABBY FRENCH 24 NEW YORK, NY 44:53

3 ELIZABETH BURKHARD 24 WANTAGH, NY 46:33

MALE AGE GROUP: 25-29 1 BRYAN KNIPFING 27 MILLER PLACE, NY 37:46

2 SHAWN ANDERSON 28 HUNTINGTON STA., NY 38:02

3 DENIS JUDGE 26 NEW YORK, NY 38:02

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 25-29 1 MICHELLE RORKE 27 NEW YORK, NY 44:53

2 CHRISTINA SCHAEFER 26 LAKE GROVE, NY 45:49

3 CHRIS MCDONOUGH 26 WASHINGTON, DC 47:25

MALE AGE GROUP: 30 -34 1 JAY BARRY 33 NEW YORK, NY 35:13

2 PHILIP SHEA 30 BEACON, NY 35:16

3 SAL NASTASI 31 BABYLON, NY 36:09

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 30 -34 1 JEANNA COMPOSTI 30 NEW YORK, NY 41:06

2 TINA FREY 33 NEW YORK, NY 41:34

3 DANIELLE MESSINGER 33 OYSTER BAY, NY 42:29

MALE AGE GROUP: 35-39 1 GREGORY PEZOLANO 36 NEW YORK, NY 37:37

2 JAMES LEFRAK 37 NEW YORK, NY 38:25

3 BOBBY CAMERON 39 SHIRLEY, NY 38:43

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 35-39 1 SHONTEL JUNG 35 BROOKLYN, NY 44:01

2 DANYA PERRY 39 NEW YORK, NY 44:02

3 ERIN TINTLE 39 EAST HAMPTON, NY 46:27

MALE AGE GROUP: 40 -44 1 KEN RIDEOUT 40 SHELTER ISLAND, NY 38:10

2 GREG FINCK 42 NEW YORK, NY 38:19

3 RAY STRONG 41 SOUTHOLD, NY 39:21

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 40 -44 1 MARY LEONARD 43 NEW YORK, NY 47:46

2 KAREN MCGLADE 43 AMAGANSETT, NY 47:50

3 FIONA MOORE 41 NEW YORK, NY 47:58

MALE AGE GROUP: 45-49 1 JHONNY CAMACHO 48 BOLIVIA 40:35

2 ALEC RAINSBY 49 BROOKLYN, NY 42:02

3 DJ BOUZOURENE 46 OLD BETHPAGE, NY 43:56

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 45-49 1 SUSAN BAYAT 46 NEW YORK, NY 44:47

2 SHARON MCCOBB 47 EAST HAMPTON,NY 45:26

3 GRACE MAGUIRE 45 NEW YORK, NY 49:17

MALE AGE GROUP: 50 -54 1 RICK BUCKHEIT 53 SOUTHOLD,NY 40:18

2 BARRY AUSKERN 51 GREENFIELD, MA 42:39

3 RUDY AFANADOR 52 MEDFORD, NY 43:27

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 50 -54 1 ELIZABETH WAYWELL 53 DIX HILLS, NY 47:31

2 DOLORES DOMAN 54 DIX HILLS, NY 47:31

3 FRANCES WALTON 52 NEW YORK, NY 48:30

MALE AGE GROUP: 55-59 1 MIKE BOTTINI 56 EAST HAMPTON, NY 42:03

2 GERALD SCHMIDT 55 MARIETTA, MN 45:09

3 BRUCE HOTCHKISS 57 RIVERHEAD, NY 45:38

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 55-59 1 KATHY LEE 55 NEW YORK, NY 49:06

2 JANE KENNEY 55 SHELTER ISLAND, NY 52:14

3 SUSAN HARMS 56 HUNTINGTON, NY 59:38

MALE AGE GROUP: 60 -64 1 BOB MORITZ 62 MEDFORD, NY 45:53

2 JOHN MORRIS 64 SOUND BEACH, NY 45:53

3 DAVID DEMPSEY 61 NEW YORK, NY 47:45

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 60 -64 1 ELLEN CLARK 60 SHELTER ISLAND, NY 59:11

2 CHRISTINE BRAKEL 63 BRIGHTWATERS, NY 1:02:40

3 SHERRY BELLOVIN 64 MASSAPEQUA, NY 1:03:59

MALE AGE GROUP: 65-69 1 RICHARD MOHLERE 65 SHELTER ISLAND, NY 53:04

2 ALAIN ROIZEN 66 SHELTER ISLAND, NY 55:42

3 BLAINE LAWSON 69 STONY BROOK, NY 56:08

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 65-69 1 SUSAN MCCLANAHAN 65 NEW YORK, NY 1:02:17

2 FRANCOISE MALLOW 67 SHELTER ISLAND, NY 1:10:57

3 MARILYN BORNEMEIER 68 EAST ORLEANS, MA 1:11:29

MALE AGE GROUP: 70 -74 1 S LOMVARDIAS 70 SHELTER ISLAND, NY 1:07:14

2 DON STRONG 70 SETAUKET, NY 1:17:25

3 ANDREW CARLSEN 72 SHELTER ISLAND, NY 1:19:47

FEMALE AGE GROUP: 70 -74 1 FRAN WALKER 70 OYSTER BAY, NY 1:13:22

2 BECKY KOTLER 72 MANCHESTER CTR., VT 1:14:59

3 BARBARA CARLSEN 72 SHELTER ISLAND, NY 1:19:49

MALE AGE GROUP: 75-99 1 BLAIRE STAUFFER 78 SAG HARBORR, NY 1:00:28

2 AMERICO FIORE 81 SOUTHAMPTON, NY 1:07:39

3 LARRY LIDDLE 75 SOUTHAMPTON, NY 1:07:50

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The 10K:Who makes it happenEvery year, many volunteers and sponsors turn the 10K into a reality. Among them are the following:

SHELTER ISLAND 10K BOARD

EMERITUS

Cliff ClarkJohn Byington

MEMBERS

Mary Ellen AdipietroKevin BarryDon BindlerDoug BroderRick DenningJames EklundHarry Hackett IIIJanelle Kraus-NadeauBill LehrJackie TuttleJennifer Wissemann

REGISTRARS

Jackie TuttleJennifer Wissemann

REGISTRATION

Diane M. KilbKathy Sullivan

FIELD COORDINATOR

Judy Sherman

BANKING/BOOKKEEPING

Kathy Sullivan

VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS

Judy ShermanJackie TuttleMary Ellen AdipietroJennifer Wissemann

PRESS COORDINATORS

Donald BindlerMary Ellen AdipietroHarry Hackett IIIWLNGDr. Frank Adipietro

HOUSING

The Chequit InnDering Harbor Inn

WEBSITE

Louise Clark, graphic designer

CLERKS OF COURSE

Kevin BarryCliff Clark

FINISH-LINE SERVICES

David Katz/FLRRT

VOLUNTEER T-SHIRTS

GLK Foundation (Minds over Matter)

MEDALS

South Shore OutdoorDr. Frank Adipietro (Kids

Fun Run)

FIELD SET-UP/BREAKDOWN

James EklundChristian JohnsonChuck Kraus

MEDICAL

Frank Adipietro MDLinda Kraus RNStony Brook Ambulance

SCHOOL LIAISON

BJ Ianfolla

WATER STATIONS

North Fork WaterGreg RaymondTom Hashagen

SHOWERS

Shelter Island H.S. Sophomore Class

PASTA PARTY

Sebastian Bliss & familySI 7th and 8th grade

classesBetsy MartinGinny GibbsSysco & DiCarlo Food

Service

PRE- & POST-RACE REFRESHMENTS

Jamie Danza, Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch

Dave Johnson, East End Hospice

Shelter Island IGABozzuto’s Fresh House ProducePepsiCoca-Cola

POST-RACE PARTY

Island Boatyard Greenport Harbor Brewery James BraddockJames CoganStephanie Sareyani and

Michelle Rice & Shelter Island H.S. Students

Sunrise BusHampton JitneySysco & DiCarlo Food

Service

POST-RACE CLEAN-UP

Shelter Island youths andJohn Kneeland,

“Miscellaneous Men”

RACE INFORMATION

631-774-9499shelterislandrun.com

ELITE ATHLETES

Janelle Kraus-Nadeau, chair

Lorraine GormanJohn Lupski

AWARDS AND RUNNERS’ PURSE

Janelle Kraus-Nadeau Lorraine GormanKathy Sullivan

SOUND COORDINATOR

Joe Capuano

HEADLINERS

Harry Hackett IIIFrank J. Adipietro MD

GOODY BAGS

9th grade / National Honor Society

Hampton Jitneypop chips

2012 VOLUNTEERS

ELEANOR P. LABROZZI PHOTO

Peter Hawkins of Malverne topped the fi eld in the wheelchair division last year.


Quality Cancer Care Close to Home

Alexander Zuhoski, M.D. Board Certified in Medical Oncology

and Hematology

Louis J. Avvento, M.D.Board Certified in Medical Oncology

and Hematology

Deepali Sharma, M.D. Board Certified in Medical Oncology

Here to serve you at two locations:1333 East Main St., Riverhead, NY

631-727-8500325 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, NY

631-204-9700

Eastern Long Island Hematology/Oncology, P.C. Riverhead & Southampton www.eliho.com

1279 East Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901Phone (631) 727-2100 • Fax (631) 727-2646

201 Manor Place, Greenport, NY 11944Phone (631) 477-2701 • Fax (631) 477-8893

East End Cardiology, P.C.• John W. Pearson, MD, FACC

• Thomas A. Falco, MD, FACC

• Fulvio Mazzucchi, MD, FACC

• John M. Crean, MD, FACC

• Mark Saporita, MD, FACC

• Robert P. Dougherty, DO, FACC

• Ricardo J. Monserrate, MD, FACC

• William J. Buckley, MD, FACC

• Jenny Lowenthal, ANP


The 10K: Brought to you by ...GOLD MEDAL

SPONSORS

Hampton JitneyRunners will travel from across the world to

participate in the 33rd annual Shelter Island 10K Run and 5K walk on June 16. If they happen to be travelling from Manhattan, they might have caught a ride out on the Hampton Jitney — and some might have found themselves aboard the Jitney’s specially wrapped 10K bus, part of an ongoing effort by the Jitney to promote the race and the charities it supports.

Wrapped in a stick-on “paint job” so it can func-tion as a 10K Run billboard, the bus was unveiled in 2011 at the Jitney’s headquarters in South-ampton. The eye-catching blue and purple design includes the names of the race benefi ciaries East End Hospice, Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch and the Shelter Island Run Community Fund. It fea-tures the 10K logo. The bus has been hard to miss rolling up Third Avenue, down Lexington, or on the Long Island Expressway or along either of Long Island’s forks.

“We’re fortunate to have such a great sponsor,” Race Director Mary Ellen Adipietro said. “The owners of the Jitney are actually avid runners and love the local charities that are involved in the run.” Geoff and Andrew Lynch are president and vice president of the company.

In 1974, the Jitney got started with one van. Today its fl eet of modern buses serves both forks of Long Island. The Jitney has many corporate cli-ents but prides itself on working with Cub Scout Pack 455, St. Andrew’s School, the Jewish Cen-ter of the Hamptons, John Drew Theater of Guild Hall and the Riverhead Fire Department.

For more information on the Jitney, check out-hamptonjitney.com.

The Hackett FamilyThe 10K committee is grateful to have The

Hackett Family as a gold sponsor again this year, Ms. Adipietro said. Harry L. Hackett, III is a fi nan-cial advisor and senior vice president of invest-ments with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. His offi ce is at 57 Hampton Road in Southampton. Call 631-204-8663.

JetBlueThis is the fi fth year that JetBlue Airways has

been a Gold Medal corporate sponsor of the 10K and the 10K board is delighted the company con-tinues to be a major force in making the event happen, Ms. Adipietro said.

The low-cost airline headquartered in Queens makes JFK its primary hub. Philanthropy is an in-tegral part of its bottom line. According to a com-pany spokesperson, “Our commitment to the cit-ies we serve is to support and align ourselves with not-for-profi t organizations that focus on children, education, communities and the environment.” For more information, visit jetblue.com.

Dr. Frank’s Pain Management What runner doesn’t live with pain now and

then? Dr. Adipietro specializes in alleviating it at his pain center at Eastern Long Island Hospital. Well-known throughout the region, he is the hos-pital’s head anesthesiologist and is certifi ed with fi ve national medical groups. Epidural steroid in-jections, diagnostic discography and endoscopic diskectomy are some of the minimally invasive procedures and treatments offered. Since 1998, Dr. Frank, as he is known in his hometown of Shelter Island, and his medical team have treated more than 12,000 patients. More information is available at elih.org/painmanagement.

South Ferry Co.The South Ferry Company has been linking

Shelter Island and the South Fork through genera-tions of Clark family ownership. Company Presi-dent Cliff Clark, a noted Air Force runner in his day, is a co-founder of the 10K and past president of its board of directors. Just as South Ferry is an integral part of the Shelter Island community, the South Ferry Company has been a key supporter of the 10K race from the beginning.

Shelter Island ReporterThe Shelter Island Reporter has served the Is-

land as its weekly newspaper for more than 50 years. It strives to cover Island life, issues and events thoroughly and fairly. Just as Shelter Island itself has a proudly independent nature, its weekly paper of record maintains its local editorial inde-pendence as one of the East End weeklies owned by Times/Review Newspapers of Mattituck, which acquired the Reporter in 2000. The Reporter staff produces this 10K journal.

East End Financial GroupThe East End Financial Group combines al-

most 100 years of experience in the investment advisory, fi nancial, estate and retirement planning fi elds. Its mission is “to help our clients achieve their fi nancial goals and objectives.” It is located at 318 Roanoke Avenue in Riverhead and can be reached at 631-727-8111.

2012 RACE SPONSORS


Chequit Inn / Ram’s Head InnHousing sponsor of this year’s 10K, The Chequit

(it’s pronounced CHEE-QUIT) is a charming Vic-torian country inn in the Island’s historic district, Shelter Island Heights. It has a lively atmosphere and superb restaurant with an extensive wine and beer selection.

The Ram’s Head Inn on the shore of Coecles Harbor out on Ram Island is an inviting seaside getaway with a relaxing atmosphere. Its stunning and private location has made it a popular site for weddings, business retreats and other private functions.

New York Road RunnersThe NYRR are dedicated to promoting the sport

of distance running and enhancing health and fi t-ness. Together with their magazine and website, nyrr.org, they promote professional and recre-ational road races and other fi tness programs.

GLK Foundation Minds over Matter

The Gwen L. Kosinski Foundation was estab-lished in May 2002 by the Kosinski family of Sag Harbor after Gwen lost her battle with brain can-cer at the age of 48. The foundation’s board is comprised of friends and family of the Kosinskis who believe in the importance of fi nding a cure for brain tumors.

SILVER MEDAL SPONSORS

BRONZE MEDAL SPONSORS

DERING HARBOR INN

Long Island Radio BroadcastingWEHM • WBAZ • WBEA


Documents

2012 Si10k Journal