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5.0 miles - Squire Road July 6, 2002 - Summer Championship |
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Gancher, Basich Win Summer Championship
Chris Basich has had it tough for a little while now. It's been a long
comeback from his broken foot last year, but today he conquered a tough field on
Roxbury's toughest course to win the Roxbury Summer Championship, sponsored by
the Litchfield Bank. Springfield College ace Pete Gillen, half Chris
Basich's age, held in there for most of the race, but finished 22 seconds
behind.
Keyless boB Derringer suffered another week of frustration, despite his new haircut and very fast new shoes, as Mike Abraham beat him for the zillionth week in a row, this time by just 15 seconds. Bob had Mike's number early in the season, but Mike changed his number and the two are locked in a death match in the Roxbury Points race.
Kyle Gancher won again for the second week
in a row. This week she was about two minutes slower than last week,
taking it easy before the big 15k in Utica, NY next week. (Fossil ran that
race many years ago, when it was the National Championship
race. BIG RACE!) Mary-Alex Zickefoose and Sarah Thomas weren't
very far behind. 
Though it was easy to complain about the hills this week, nobody dared complain about the weather. It really was as nice as it looks in the pictures, sunny, mild breeze, and in the low 70's. After a sweltering week, it was a swell weekend.
We took lots of pictures this week. Top left, we have race winner Chris Basich. It was hard to get a picture of him, he was moving so fast. Top right is third place finisher, last week's winner Mike Abraham.
Next on the left is women's winner Kyle Gancher. Even on a relatively slow day, she got mostly past the camera before our photographer could catch her. (The photographer was Kyle's mom!)
Next on the right is a rare photo of the camera-shy Fossil himself. Is it something about the camera angle, or does he have really short legs? Maybe it's the sunglasses.
A little farther down on the right is second place finisher Pete Gillen, and way down on the right is head official, turning into an old-timer on the comeback trail Dave Harvey, modeling one of the t-shirts he designed.
Next week's race is the longest of the season, 8.2 miles down to Judd's Bridge and back.
The Roxbury
Races are now
listed on the Internet both on CoolRunning.com
and on HiTekRacing.com.
(when available)
This week's Roxbury
results
| 1 | 30.04 | Chris Basich | 40 | ( | 6.01 | min per mile) |
| 2 | 30.26 | Pete Gillen | 20 | ( | 6.05 | min per mile) |
| 3 | 31.06 | Mike Abraham | 42 | ( | 6.13 | min per mile) |
| 4 | 31.21 | Bob Derringer | 40 | ( | 6.16 | min per mile) |
| 5 | 31.47 | James Dabbo | 20 | ( | 6.21 | min per mile) |
| 6 | 32.32 | Steve Benoit | 49 | ( | 6.30 | min per mile) |
| 7 | 33.20 | Lou Denaro | 42 | ( | 6.40 | min per mile) |
| 8 | 33.49 | Ed Sandifer | 50 | ( | 6.46 | min per mile) |
| 9 | 34.30 | Chris DePalma | 35 | ( | 6.54 | min per mile) |
| 10 | 35.05 | John Adomelis | 47 | ( | 7.01 | min per mile) |
| 11 | 35.27 | Bill Euerle | 57 | ( | 7.05 | min per mile) |
| 12 | 35.54 | Ed Butt | 51 | ( | 7.11 | min per mile) |
| 13 | 35.58 | Al Curtis | 39 | ( | 7.12 | min per mile) |
| 14 | 37.23 | Kyle Gancher | 35 | ( | 7.29 | min per mile) |
| 15 | 37.38 | Gregg Scribner | 29 | ( | 7.32 | min per mile) |
| 16 | 38.47 | Paul Teixeira | 42 | ( | 7.45 | min per mile) |
| 17 | 39.13 | Rich Zuvich | 47 | ( | 7.51 | min per mile) |
| 18 | 39.17 | Scott Benjamin | 44 | ( | 7.51 | min per mile) |
| 19 | 39.23 | Mary-Alex Zickefoose | 18 | ( | 7.53 | min per mile) |
| 20 | 39.43 | Sarah Thomas | 17 | ( | 7.57 | min per mile) |
| 21 | 40.05 | Frank Lang | 63 | ( | 8.01 | min per mile) |
| 22 | 42.15 | Bob Satterlee | 53 | ( | 8.27 | min per mile) |
| 23 | 42.36 | Carl Hunt | 50 | ( | 8.31 | min per mile) |
| 24 | 43.54 | Gisela Boelhouwer | 37 | ( | 8.47 | min per mile) |
| 25 | 46.06 | Brian Winthrop | 47 | ( | 9.13 | min per mile) |
| 26 | 47.03 | Mo van Moffaert | 42 | ( | 9.25 | min per mile) |
| 27 | 47.20 | Betsy Daniels | 41 | ( | 9.28 | min per mile) |
| 28 | 51.35 | Dennis Harrington | 48 | ( | 10.19 | min per mile) |
| 29 | 55.10 | Prasama Sangkachand | 42 | ( | 11.02 | min per mile) |
| 30 | 56.08 | Mary Ellen Wintrhop | 39 | ( | 11.14 | min per mile) |
| Alt 3.55 miles | ||||||
| 31 | 40.40 | Corinne Bellemare | 43 | ( | 11.27 | min per mile) |
| Alt 2.4 mile | ||||||
| 32 | 20.36 | Bob Lewis | 37 | ( | 8.35 | min per mile) |
| 33 | 22.54 | Ron Karl | 60 | ( | 9.33 | min per mile) |
| 34 | 23.46 | Katie Neils | 9 | ( | 9.54 | min per mile) |
| Alt 0.41 mile | ||||||
| 35 | 7.19 | April Neils | ( | 17.51 | min per mile) | |
| 36 | 7.55 | Liliana Neils | 5 | ( | 19.19 | min per mile) |
| 37 | 8.01 | Ken Neils | 58 | ( | 19.33 | min per mile) |
Last modified:
July 6, 2002 