2004 Roxbury Race #20

2.4 miles - up Chalybes

July 3, 2004

8:30 am. 

   

Merrick & Krebs Episode 2

For the second consecutive week Ken Merrick and Theresa Krebs crossed the line first in Roxbury.  Despite race organizer's best efforts to mix things up this week by running the course in the reverse direction, the pair proved strong enough to hold off this week's challengers.

The men's race got off to an interesting start as the lead pack of Merrick, Andrejczyk, Abraham, Gillen, and Denaro held together through the first 1.5 miles.  As it inevitably does, however, the steep climb up Chalybes thinned the pack, and in the end Merrick was too strong over the last mile for the rest.  He crossed the line in 14:03, 5 seconds ahead of second place finisher Mark Andrejczyk.  This is Ken's 9th win of the season.

Pam Quist was on hand today to make the women's race equally close.   Theresa Krebs was able to hold Pam off and cross the line in 16:33, with a 14 second edge.  This is Theresa's third consecutive win and her 6th total.  Full results below.

All good sequels come in threes.  Will there be a Merrick & Krebs Episode 3?  Tune in next week - or better yet, show up and race!

Request for Help
If you have information on the following runners please email marksl2@earthlink.net and he will be glad to give credit where credit is due:
bulletIllegible Name - I couldn't make out the name of the runner finishing in 14th place (age 39).
bulletMystery Runner - The runner finishing in 36th place did not appear to sign in today.

 Pictures

    Up top we have most of the women's point leaders taking some cooldown laps on the track.   At right, we have Charles Euston finishing up strong.  Even farther down, we have Bob Satterlee hitting his watch at the finish with Dave Harvey getting the official time. Prasama is shown about mid-way through her Roxbury mile, and all the way at the bottom is Fossil's Slovenian dragon.  We don't often see dragons in Roxbury.  There are no dragons (or snakes) in Ireland

Marathons

    Response to the idea of a December Marathon has been positive.  Scott Benjamin has offered to take the lead in getting it organized.  Nothing is firm yet.  If you have ideas, talk to Scott, or talk to Fossil, or eMail Web Guy (address above)  We'll remind you of the issues.

  1. When?  Second week in December has been suggested.  Someone else suggested just telling people it's 2.4 miles, then surprising everyone.  
  2. Course - We're gradually converging on the idea of a longer loop, six to eight miles, at the beginning, followed several shorter loops, probably 3.55 miles.  This would make it so we could have LOTS of water stops with just a few volunteers.  However, the numbers don't work out to use the usual 6.4 mile Falls Road loop.  Any suggestions for a fairly un-Alp-like opening loop?
  3. Relays?  Some people like to do Marathon Relays.  Would we want to include that, too?  How about a half-marathon at the same time?   (Answer: People seem to think we should include a marathon relay.)
  4. Who?  Who wants to take charge of all this? (Answer:  Scott Benjamin, plus whoever wants to help)

Other Races

July 5 at 9am in downtown Bethel, the zillionth annual Bethel Firecracker race.  Information at www.bethel-firecracker.com. (Firecracker web page designed by Roxbury Regular Mark LoSacco!)

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

 

   

 

This week's results  
 

1 14.03 Ken Merrick 43 ( 5.51 min per mile )
2 14.08 Mark Andrejczyk 31 ( 5.53 min per mile )
3 14.14 Pete Gillen 22 ( 5.56 min per mile )
4 14.16 Mike Abraham 44 ( 5.57 min per mile )
5 14.27 Mark LoSacco 35 ( 6.01 min per mile )
6 14.37 Ken Moffitt 51 ( 6.05 min per mile )
7 14.55 Lou Denaro 44 ( 6.13 min per mile )
8 15.32 Jeff Tindell 54 ( 6.28 min per mile )
9 15.35 Ed Sandifer 52 ( 6.30 min per mile )
10 15.39 Mark Zerbe 43 ( 6.31 min per mile )
11 15.44 David Genest Jr 16 ( 6.33 min per mile )
12 16.09 Marty Ogden 35 ( 6.44 min per mile )
13 16.14 Paul Teixeira 45 ( 6.46 min per mile )
14 16.24 Illegible Name 39 ( 6.50 min per mile )
15 16.24 Adam Levy 19 ( 6.50 min per mile )
16 16.33 Theresa Krebs 35 ( 6.54 min per mile )
17 16.40 Chris Childs 45 ( 6.57 min per mile )
18 16.47 Pam Quist 40 ( 7.00 min per mile )
19 16.55 Tom Siegel 42 ( 7.03 min per mile )
20 16.59 David Genest Sr 47 ( 7.05 min per mile )
21 17.01 John Murphy Jr 54 ( 7.05 min per mile )
22 17.10 Ross Levy 53 ( 7.09 min per mile )
23 17.13 Scott Benjamin 46 ( 7.10 min per mile )
24 17.31 John Kane 52 ( 7.18 min per mile )
25 17.44 Chris Norris 35 ( 7.23 min per mile )
26 17.50 Rich Zuvich 49 ( 7.26 min per mile )
27 17.54 Cindy Scannell 46 ( 7.28 min per mile )
28 18.14 Andrea Behling 29 ( 7.36 min per mile )
29 18.14 Kurt Thoennessen 25 ( 7.36 min per mile )
30 18.25 Tom McNulty 38 ( 7.40 min per mile )
31 18.35 Justin Moore 46 ( 7.45 min per mile )
32 18.36 Lynn Zuback 38 ( 7.45 min per mile )
33 18.37 Craig Hunt 13 ( 7.45 min per mile )
34 18.38 Bob Lewis 39 ( 7.46 min per mile )
35 19.08 Hugh Fullman 47 ( 7.58 min per mile )
36 19.13 Mystery Runner ?? ( 8.00 min per mile )
37 20.23 Carl Hunt 43 ( 8.30 min per mile )
38 20.23 Katie Fullman 16 ( 8.30 min per mile )
39 20.30 Elizabeth Genest 14 ( 8.33 min per mile )
40 20.47 Mo Van Moffaert 44 ( 8.40 min per mile )
41 21.24 Charlie Euston 59 ( 8.55 min per mile )
42 22.43 Peggy Smith 42 ( 9.28 min per mile )
43 22.43 Walt Schuttler 52 ( 9.28 min per mile )
44 22.43 Kyle Knight 37 ( 9.28 min per mile )
45 23.50 Carl Hunt 53 ( 9.56 min per mile )
46 23.58 Janet Levy 50 ( 9.59 min per mile )
47 24.01 Christina Clark 34 ( 10.00 min per mile )
48 24.39 Prasama Sangkachand 44 ( 10.16 min per mile )
49 26.43 Steve Schoeller 49 ( 11.08 min per mile )
50 27.07 Corinne Bellemare 46 ( 11.18 min per mile )

   

 

 

 

 

 

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