{"id":2224,"date":"2008-05-28T22:01:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2012-02-09T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T03:21:25","slug":"patriots-invitational-just-a-day-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/essportscouncil.org\/liberty-tour\/post\/patriots-invitational-just-a-day-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriot’s Invitational; Just a Day in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0As it has been for each Patriot’s Invitational for all four years, the weather was near perfect, with temperatures in the high 60’s and the sun shining most of the day.\u00a0 For those athletes that broke more than 75 Patriot’s Invitational meet records, it was just a day at the park, as it was for Jason Hewitt (Pictured Above) from the Greater Boston Track Club.\u00a0 Jason shattered the previous record of the 3000m Steeplechase by more than 30 seconds, setting the new mark at 10:53.61.\u00a0 This is also a new Liberty Tour series record.\u00a0 Not satisfied with one record, Justin also set a new meet record\u00a0in the\u00a0Master’s Mens (30 – 34) 800m run with a time of\u00a0 2:21.66.\u00a0 More than 75 records were broken for this meet, and 40 of those were also Liberty Tour series records.\u00a0 More than 50 records were set in the Youth Divisions, 10 in the Open Men’s & Women’s Divisions, and the rest in the Master’s Divisions.\u00a0 Almost 25 records were broken by the Girl’s and Women’s Divisions, which is a big improvement over the first threee (3) years of the Tour.<\/p>\n

When asked for his reaction to so many records being broken on the day, Executive Producer of the Empire State Liberty Tour, Anthony Mills simply said, “There is no surprise having this many records broken and set, when you realize that the number of athlete registrations for the 2008 Patriot’s Invitational grossly obliterated the previous record\u00a0by nearly double, as just a couple shy of 200 were in attendance.\u00a0 Even better was the large number of spectators in the stands to watch and cheer the competitors.\u00a0 In addition to that,\u00a0the Liberty Tour also\u00a0set a record for the most teams\u00a0competing with nearly 12 teams from all over the Northeast.”<\/p>\n

There were even a couple of new additions to the Liberty Tour for everyone to take advantage of.\u00a0 Fine Design Sportswear was on\u00a0site to make available a large selection of Sportswear, geared\u00a0strictly for the Patriot’s Invitational, and they will be offering similar items for each meet with a specific meet logo designed just for the Empire State Liberty Tour Track & Field Series.\u00a0 Also on hand was Capital District Sports Photos, which took more than 1,400\u00a0Action Shots for athletes and parents to purchase at a very inexpensive price, starting at $3.00 for a 4 x 6 memory.<\/p>\n

Be sure to check out all the new Records for this meet and the entire series of meets by\u00a0going to the “Records” link.\u00a0\u00a0To check out the full list of\u00a0Results, click on the “Results” link.\n\t\t