Reunite- USATF Club Nationals Race Report

The Signs of Weakness headed to Bethlehem, PA this past weekend for Club Nationals.  It was the biggest field on record for the race with 571 finishers and 68 full teams in the Open Men race.

The talent level of the race was apparent as the Signs of Weakness finished 55th, but individual performances were strong.  Ryan Poley finished his strongest race of the season by finishing third for the team, and Jake Hagen came in 4th for the team even though he had just come off an injury.

Ryan Poley

Looking forward to many more events like these in 2015! 

The team after the race

The Mighty Mile

Signs of Weakness UNITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Second Mighty Mile will be coming up the day after this year's turkey trot and so I wanted to recap last year's results first (since I didn't do it)(as told by Mike Selig):

The first WNY Black Friday Mighty Mile was a success despite the harsh weather conditions. Solid field of 13 made it out for the soon-to-be legendary annual event. A last minute course change forced a 4 taco race, but this deletion made for a much more dramatic finish. The itself race was heated from the start and was tight until the final lap where Ryan Poley, of Williamsville, took charge and ran away from Orchard Park High School alum Steve Cahoon. The results are as follows:

1.) Ryan Poley - 8:26
2.) Steve Cahoon - 8:40
3.) Michael Bakowski - 9:14
4.) Joseph Whelan - 9:38
5.) Joseph Armenia - 9:50
6.) Michael Selig - 9:59
7.) Joseph Chernowski - 10:09
8.) Paul Culligan - 10:14
9.) Jesse Mang - 10:15
10.) Jon Selig - 13:09
11.) David Welby - 13:41
12.) Peter Holowka - 14:35
DNS - Daniel Giza (did finish all four tacos)

Special thanks to Christine Spelman, Mike Yemma, Todd Witzleben, Betsy Selig, Norah Selig and W. Gilmore Selig for officiating the race. It was a grand time.



This year's Mighty Mile will be the day after Thanksgiving at noon. See you there.

Turkey Trot

Here are the SOW finishers (chip time). Nice job to all. Next year we will put 5 in the top 10. Keep it up!

4. Jesse T. Mang 0:25:36 0:05:09
6. Brad Heron 0:25:54 0:05:13
11. Jacob J. Hagen 0:26:40 0:05:22
17. Ryan Poley 0:27:03 0:05:26
40. John G. Bauman 0:28:19 0:05:42
47. Michael Selig 0:28:41 0:05:46
79. Robert J. Duggan 0:29:38 0:05:58
91. Mike G. Bakowski 0:29:56 0:06:01
390. Lyle O'Brien 0:34:22 0:06:55
391. Steve W. Cahoon 0:34:23 0:06:55
725. Gabe A. Nelson 0:36:36 0:07:22
1051. Andrew S. Hutchins 0:37:34 0:07:33
1173. Joseph Armenia 0:39:05 0:07:52
1707. Jon Selig 0:41:26 0:08:20

Nick DiPirro...Bronze Medalist

I would like to congratulate Nick DiPirro on his third place finish at his conference championships this weekend, way to get it done.

Turkey Trot 09 and The Cross Country 09 Season Awards!!

Its that time of year where everyone everywhere is finishing up their cross seasons (Conferences should be this coming weekend) and the people in Buffalo will be preparing for the Turkey Trot. It was a good season for Signs of Weakness, a strong start to hopefully many years of good running. We generated a lot of interest from people, a lot of which didn't take the club seriously. But we showed up to races, got the job done, and looked strong in the process.

Ryan Anderson is our MVP for the first full season of SoW racing, and he led the team with a 25:13 at Paul Short, which is impressive. No most improved or top newcomer awards for us this time around, we'll see next year.

This is a pretty big weekend for SoW. Make sure you tune in to see how our runners are doing. The MAC Conference Championship is this weekend and it will be featuring Chris Allen, Matt Kaiser, and Jake Hagen, a group of loyal Signs/ Buffalo Bulls. Also check out the NYC Marathon, where you can see Dave Doty, Andy Tomaswick, and TJ Bittel all strive to tally great times. You might even catch a Sign or two on Sunday at the Bob Ivory run in Buffalo!

After that, I hope everyone in Buffalo gears up for the Trot, I think that we can get 5 guys in the top 10. Which would really look good. Lots of yellow streaking down to the finish before anyone else??? It would be like a beautiful waterfall of yellow.

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