2002 Roxbury Race #28

2.4 miles - up Chalybes - Team race

August 31, 2002 

   

 

Leftovers win team race

    For at least ten years, Roxbury has had something like a team race.  It started as a relay, back when the race began at Booth Free School.  That was taking a long time, so after a few years, it became a three-person team race, adding up the times to determine the winning team.  For a long time, we tried to balance the teams so that each team had a strong runner, a medium runner and a slower runner.  That never really turned out very balanced, so starting in 2001, teams were just whoever wanted to be a team.  Now, in 2002, with the larger fields, we decided to expand teams to four people, and still let people pick teams however they wanted to.

    The Bevy of Levy's had a tough choice.  There are five of them, and only four could be on the family team.  They kicked Mom (Janet) out.  The team of Bob Lewis, Katie Neils and Ed Sandifer had been together for several years.  They stayed together and added Dave DeBoy to the team (pictured at the right). Gisela and Ben Boelhouer wanted to be on the same team.  They added friend Sharon Gawe and the newly single Janet Levy (see above.)  Bob Derringer, Paul Teixeira, Gregg Scribner and Ken Merrick are friends, so they formed a team.  After eight teams had been formed, four people remained, just like in high school gym class.  

    What was it about Mike Abraham that made nobody want to run with them?  Slow?  Unpopular? Different?  Doesn't that describe all of us?  Well, of course, these leftovers ran away with the race, won the team prize by 22 seconds over the Derringer, Teixeira, Scribner and Merrick team.  

    In the individual race, nobody was surprised to see Mike Abraham, Bob Derringer and JT Schemm in the top three places.  After all, they've all had life-improving changes in their lives lately.  Abe got married earlier this month, just days from the time JT had his first child, young Jonas (who visited Roxbury last week), and Keyless boB has a really hot pair of fast silver racing shoes.

    Welcome back to Ken Merrick and Vernon LeRoux, sixth and fourth respectively today, missing since March and April with a combination of injury and Lyme disease. 

    The Roxbury Races are now listed on the Internet both on CoolRunning.com and on HiTekRacing.com.  

          (when available)

This week's Roxbury results

Team results
1 1 Mike Abraham 13.52
1 3 JT Schemm 14.13
1 12 Sean Murphy 15.51
1 24 Chris Childs 17.11
61.07
2 2 Bob Derringer 14.12
2 6 Ken Merrick 15.07
2 17 Gregg Scribner 16.03
2 18 Paul Teixeira 16.07
61.29
3 4 Vernon LeRoux 14.54
3 8 Chris DePalma 15.23
3 10 Steve Benoit 15.37
3 23 John Murphy Jr 16.59
62.53
4 9 Mark Zerbe 15.33
4 14 Al Curtis 15.55
4 19 Mark Andrejczyk 16.09
4 20 Bill Euerle 16.10
63.47
5 7 Dan Lamb 15.13
5 13 Pam Quist 15.52
5 15 Dan Schiesel 15.57
5 33 Jeff Morse 20.43
67.45
6 21 Ross Levy 16.14
6 22 Andrew Levy 16.59
6 25 Adam Levy 17.21
6 26 Alana Levy 18.18
68.52
7 5 Ed Sandifer 15.00
7 16 Dave DeBoy 15.59
7 27 Bob Lewis 18.31
7 36 Katie Neils 23.46
73.16
8 29 Janet Levy 20.12
8 30 Ben Boelhouwer 20.20
8 31 Gisela Boelhouwer 20.24
8 34 Sharon Gawe 21.01
81.57
9 28 Bob Satterlee 20.02
9 32 Tom McNulty 20.28
9 35 Al Mletzko 21.01
9 37 Corinne Bellemare 24.13
85.44

 

Individual results

1 13.52 Mike Abraham 42 ( 5.47 min per mile)
2 14.12 Bob Derringer 40 ( 5.55 min per mile)
3 14.13 JT Schemm 26 ( 5.55 min per mile)
4 14.54 Vernon LeRoux 47 ( 6.13 min per mile)
5 15.00 Ed Sandifer 50 ( 6.15 min per mile)
6 15.07 Ken Merrick 32 ( 6.18 min per mile)
7 15.13 Dan Lamb 40 ( 6.20 min per mile)
8 15.23 Chris DePalma 35 ( 6.25 min per mile)
9 15.33 Mark Zerbe 41 ( 6.29 min per mile)
10 15.37 Steve Benoit 50 ( 6.30 min per mile)
11 15.47 Scott Benjamin 44 ( 6.35 min per mile)
12 15.51 Sean Murphy 20 ( 6.36 min per mile)
13 15.52 Pam Quist 38 ( 6.37 min per mile)
14 15.55 Al Curtis 39 ( 6.38 min per mile)
15 15.57 Dan Schiesel 52 ( 6.39 min per mile)
16 15.59 Dave DeBoy 32 ( 6.40 min per mile)
17 16.03 Gregg Scribner 29 ( 6.41 min per mile)
18 16.07 Paul Teixeira 43 ( 6.43 min per mile)
19 16.09 Mark Andrejczyk 28 ( 6.44 min per mile)
20 16.10 Bill Euerle 57 ( 6.44 min per mile)
21 16.14 Ross Levy 51 ( 6.46 min per mile)
22 16.59 Andrew Levy 14 ( 7.05 min per mile)
23 16.59 John Murphy Jr 51 ( 7.05 min per mile)
24 17.11 Chris Childs 43 ( 7.10 min per mile)
25 17.21 Adam Levy 17 ( 7.14 min per mile)
26 18.18 Alana Levy 13 ( 7.38 min per mile)
27 18.31 Bob Lewis 37 ( 7.43 min per mile)
28 20.02 Bob Satterlee 53 ( 8.21 min per mile)
29 20.12 Janet Levy 48 ( 8.25 min per mile)
30 20.20 Ben Boelhouwer 10 ( 8.28 min per mile)
31 20.24 Gisela Boelhouwer 37 ( 8.30 min per mile)
32 20.28 Tom McNulty 36 ( 8.32 min per mile)
33 20.43 Jeff Morse 38 ( 8.38 min per mile)
34 21.01 Sharon Gawe 49 ( 8.45 min per mile)
35 21.01 Al Mletzko 61 ( 8.45 min per mile)
36 23.46 Katie Neils 9 ( 9.54 min per mile)
37 24.13 Corinne Bellemare 43 ( 10.05 min per mile)

Last modified: September 7, 2002 

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