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Chase Corporate Challenge Results

18, Jun 2009

Interestingly enough, it turns out this was a relatively slow year for the NYC Chase Corporate Challenge. I mean, with my 21:25 I’m in no position to call anyone out, but take a look at the Top 10 from 2009 vs. 2008…

2009 MEN
1 Jeffrey Rios 17:29 DAVIS LANGDON
2 Matthew Forys 17:37 BLACKROCK
3 Sean Swift 17:45 JP MORGAN CHASE & CO.
4 Aidan Walsh 17:46 THE RUNNING COMPANY
5 David Sorensen 17:48 D. E. SHAW & CO.
6 Frank Corrigan 17:51 THOMSON REUTERS
7 Chris Delaubenfels 17:56 UFT RUNNERS-DOE
8 Jacob Gomez 18:00 MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING
9 Chris English 18:03 LEVY & HALPERIN, LLP
10 Larry Contrella 18:10 BANK OF AMERICA

Now compare that to the 2008 results, where all the Top 10 men broke 18 minutes. Also interesting that the top competitors from 2008 barely appear in the 2009 results…

2008 MEN
1 Matthew Forys 17:25 BLACKROCK
2 Karl Dusen 17:28 AIG INVESTMENTS
3 Francis Corrigan 17:30 THOMSON REUTERS
4 Ryan Hays 17:36 LEVY & HALPERIN
5 Ben Reynolds 17:42 MERRILL LYNCH & CO.
6 Chris Ellis-Ferrara 17:51 ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN LP
7 Mark Olivier 17:54 TEAM PFIZER (PGRD)
8 Chris English 17:57 LEVY & HALPERIN
9 John Traugott 17:58 CREDIT SUISSE
10 Dean Charette 17:59 UBS

Same thing with the women, the top 2009 woman was 13 seconds slower than ’08s winner, and this year’s number 10 woman was 19 seconds slower than her counterpart in 2008…

Chase Corporate Challenge

25, Mar 2009

I signed up today for the Chase Corporate Challenge. Pretty exciting stuff since my employer didn’t participate last year.

The Corporate Challenge is a 3.5 mile race in Central Park and our team is running on June 10th. Given that I recently ran an 18:04 5k (w/ 5:49 splits), I assumed that I would be at the head of the pack when confronted with a bunch of corporate joggers. Boy was I wrong.

I forgot that the New York business community skews very Type A, and therefore highly competitive. Here are the Top 5 Male finishing times from 2008…

MENS RESULTS
Place Name Time Company
1 Matthew Forys 17:25 BLACKROCK
2 Karl Dusen 17:28 AIG INVESTMENTS
3 Francis Corrigan 17:30 THOMSON REUTERS
4 Ryan Hays 17:36 LEVY & HALPERIN
5 Ben Reynolds 17:42 MERRILL LYNCH & CO.

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