WIth Team Ziff’s focus aimed directly at the Cayuga Triathlon (where it hopes a hard day on the course will result – at a minimum — in a reason to celebrate with a few cold Ithaca brews,) the firm’s Legal Ladies brought some pride home this weekend.  Christina Bruner Sonsire, who recently married Chemung County ADA and future trail-running recruit Damian Sonsire, took top honors in the women’s five-mile race at last Sunday’s Tanglefoot Trail Run at the Tanglewood Nature Center in Elmira, New York.  (Read Diane Sherrer’s Race Report , visit the Finger Lakes Runners Club’s website, and watch a News 10 video clip for more information about the race.)  This was Sonsire’s fourth time running the race, having won the women’s five-mile title in 2006 and the women’s ten-mile title in 2007.

More impressive than Sonsire’s performance was Team Ziff Attorney Sue Daubner’s STELLAR trail running debut!!!  Sue finished the five-mile course as First Place Master’s Runner.  (To put it in perspective, Jim Derick – undeniably ine of the greatest Twin Tiers runners in history — won the men’s master’s title.)  According to Sue, the title was “bittersweet.”  “Winning the award was pretty cool,” said Daubner, “but having to accept that I am now in the master’s division is a reality I wasn’t quite ready to face!”  

Great job, ladies.  Go Team Ziff!