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Established in Summer of 1982

2019 Year in Review

Celebrating 37 Years of Running

Thank you for being part of the FARC Family.

President’s Message

Welcome tonight to the 2019 Freehold Area Running Club’s Awards

Banquet and 39 Year of Celebrating our running traditions.

This year we maintained our 37th year tradition of 5 Sundays of our 5K

Winter Series with soup and bagels for all runners. The winter series takes

a lot of dedicated unselfish members to pull it off every Sunday. Also, we

continued our St Paddy’s Day 5 Mile Run as the Sunday before the holiday

with medals and awards fitting the season. The summer series of kid’s

night dashes and 5K run in Battleground State Park continued to draw

participants from around the area as well as running camps.

Most of all we set a standard for future races with our enhanced Born to

Run 5 Mile Race with vendor expo, kids races and finisher medals. Again,

the attendance was up from the previous year thanks to a dedicated race

committee headed by our past president Joe Francese.

As a member for over 35 years I am always proud to get praises from

runners on “How we put on a good race.” These comments are based upon

the countless hours of our volunteers and the support we get from all

sources. However, we cannot rest on our laurels but move ahead with new

ideas for the next year of races. I challenge our members to become active

with your ideas and participation in our club events and meetings. Wishing

the new Executive Board, the best for the new year.

Sincerely,

Jason Chaikin

2019 FARC Vice President and Acting President

2019 FARC

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

* Executive Officers *

Jason Chaikin Acting President

Patrick Coyne Vice President

Janet Bergum Treasurer

Cathy Gaughan Secretary

*Emeritus Presidents *

Paul Fitch Edward Daley

Jeff Decker Thomas Wendel

Marcia Shapiro Linda Hyer

Dominique DeVito Robert Hyer

Barry Seward Isabel Lewis

John Weitz Michael O’Flaherty

Richard Edwards Jim Jensen

Joseph Francese

* Board Trustees * James Bergum, Patricia Coyne, Patti Ferriola, David Freidman, Isabel Lewis

Brian Gaughan, Mark Guberman, Spencer Holcombe, William Lewis, Walt Rutsky, Ron Salvio, Avram Shapiro, Marcia Shapiro, Marty Slutzky,

Andy Stevenson, John Weitz, Thomas Wendel.

FARC FOYER of DISTINCTION

(Our Hall of Fame)

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1989 Bud Fitch

Ed Daley

Hank Bailey

JJ Jennings

1990 Jack Jacoby

1991 Bob Shortmeyer

1992 Dan O'Rourke

Warren Bannerman

1993 Jeff Decker

Avram Shapiro

Janis Ticky

1994 Bruce Berritt

Sue Gilbert

Woody Gloth

1995 Ralph Garfield

1995 Hal Smith

1996 Thomas Wendel

1997 Linda Hyer

1998 Bob Hyer,

1998 Isabel Lewis

1999 Frank Haviland

2000 Marcia Shapiro

2001 Pam Spadola

2002 Al Hayden

2003

2004 Walter Rutsky

2005 Jim Bergum

2006 David Friedman

2007 Donald Spadola

2008 Maggie Freeman

2009

2010

2011 John Weitz

2012 Michael O’Flaherty

2013 Ron Salvio

2014 Stan Dubroff

2015

2016 Jim Jensen

2017

2018 Janet Bergum

2019

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Freehold Area Running Club

2019 Year in Review

Our Excellence Awardees’ for Supporting the Club

1990 Excellence Award

John/Jim Casey

1992

Excellence Award

Monmouth Cablevision

1993

Excellence Award

Royal Lawns

1995

Excellence Award

Battleground Maintenance

1996

Excellence Award

Marlboro Recreation

1997

Excellence Award

Echo Ink

1998

Excellence Award

TeleCordia Pioneers

1999

Excellence Award

Joe Tyberghein

2000

Excellence Award

Pauline’s Health Food

2003

Excellence Award

Steve Levine & The Windmill

2004

Excellence Award

Dunkin Donuts Freehold-Manalapan

2005 Excellence Award Manhattan Bagel - Freehold

2006 Excellence Award USA United Stor All 2007 Excellence Award Court Jester (Mike Page) 2008 Nestlé’s Beverage Company 2009 Excellence Award Shore Runner Shoe Store 2010 Excellence Award Court Jester 2011 Excellence Award Freehold Partnership 2012 Excellence Award Cube Smart Storage Units - Freehold

2013 Excellence Award Freehold Fire Department 2014 Excellence Award Wegman's 2015 Excellence Award Printing2Go 2016 Excellence Award Freehold Township Parks and Recreation

2017 Excellence Award Terrace Bagels

2018 Runners High Shoe Store 2019


2019 Year in Review

Matthew John Stuper Memorial Scholarship

1996 Todd Brezo, Eric Egenolf, Kathleen Stuper Frank Thompson 1997 (Year Named for Matthew Stuper) Tim Fitch, Liz Loennecker, Tina Tillem, Gavin Wendel Kathleen Stuper 1998 Jonathan Gloth, Brooks Kirsch, Thomas O'Brien 1999 Katie Daley 2000 John Anderson, Sean Daley, Katherine Saffer, Sarah Wendel 2001 Erin Coyne, Mark Haviland, Jennifer Saa, Christopher Skeehan. 2002 David O’Brien, Christopher Reed 2003 Victor Vientos, Adam Salberg, Jason Skeehan, Matt Forys, Nathan Bergum, Ken Anderson 2004 Allyson Rosen, James Coomber, Daniel O'Brien, Lisa Oldak, Brian Saa 2005 Timothy Dunsheath

Laura Saffer Melissa Vientos Megan Skeehan 2006 H Erica Weitz, Kerry Calnan, Sean Coyne 2007 Ashley Higginson Mike O’Flaherty Edward Anskar Fosse Rachel Provost 2008 Renee Hyer Richard Roman Alexis Roy Jacqueline Roy Jack Tarpey 2009 Kaitlin Kellner Allyson Moskal Melissa Provost Ryan Spadola Jason Weiner 2010 Randy Spadola Jeffrey Weitz James Decker Roy Apostle Ronald Apostle Mackenzie Roche Lauren Hyer 2011 Marisa Borchardt Susan Walsh 2012 Caroline Kellner Heather Spadola Arielle Weiner 2013 Mia Apostle Theodore Apostle Laura Coyne Danielle Friedman Brianne Roche Kendall Roche Cody Vientos 2014 Keelia Decker William (Billy) Foster 2015 Kerry Dyks Vincent Ferriola Nicole Francese

2016 Ciara Roach 2017 No Awardee 2018 Will Spector Rachel Kenny 2019 Kyle Reed Carmela Apostle Nicholas Lundberg 2020


2019 Year in Review

We Celebrated 36 Years.

We dined and danced with good friends.


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We started the year out with the Winter Series.

Governor Murphy and His wife join us for our Winter Series.


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Adnenne Nola , Wins the Winter Series Week 5 with at 18:55.

Aw the Puddle, a dedicated runner.


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Our Post Registration Folks are ready for St. Paddy’s.

A beautiful blue sky awaits the start of St. Paddy’s 5 Mile and eager runners.


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St. Paddy’s has started and Spring is not far off.

Aw! It’s Summer and the kids are warming up for the races.


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50-yard Dash, what can be more fun for a kid? Crossing the finish line

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The Half Miler’s await. The Kids are eager to start. On you Mark, Set, GO.


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The Miler’s are also on the starting line.

The Start of the 2019 Summer 5K.


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What would the Summer Series be without an Ice Pop?

Our Summer Series Age Group Winners, Rich Riopel, Tom Brieva, and Tim Fitch.


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Our Summer Series Volunteers Janet Bergum and Patti Ferriola.

Summer It takes us out to the Ball Game and our Summer Club Outing.


2019 Year in Review

More fun at the Blue Claws, FARC Night at the Blue Claws.

Who did you root for Ham, Egg, or Cheese? Or Buster?


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The little ones warm up for the Dashes at Born to Run.

The Kid’s One mile started on Court Street, Freehold at Born to Run.


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The Start of our Born to Run 5 Mile Race.

The Awards for Born to Run.


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The Start of our Toys for Tots 5K A sunny fall day.

We enjoyed the fun of running and meeting friends while we are giving back.


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The Nutcrackers are lined up and waiting the winners.

This is why we do we it. Thank you for your generosity.


2019 Year in Review

A very special Thank You to the FARC Volunteers who come out to help at our events,

they make all of our races so special for our runners.

FARC is a 501(c) 3 not for profit organization. We currently have over 400 memberships. Our members range from some serious competitors to the 'just stay in shape' runners, which includes most of us.

Please visit us at our web site farcnj.com or email us at [email protected], also visit us on Facebook.

Hope to see you all at

31st Annual St. Paddy's 5 Mile: March 15th, 2020

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