2005 Roxbury Race #1

Up Chalybes

February 19, 2005

8:30 am. 12 degrees, clear and sunny

   

Viklund, White Win Cold Opener

      Roxbury is back.  Spring must be on the way.  You couldn't tell it by the weather, though.  It was sunny and beautiful, but it was about 12 degrees, and if you spent any time outside of your car, you noticed that there was a sneaky wind out of the north west that cut through clothes after just a little while.

    Still, 54 people re-united after a ten week break and set out on the "up-the-hill" version of the 2.4 mile course on Chalybes Road.

    It was hard for lots of people to get started after the winter break, but Pat Viklund and Caroline White showed fewer deleterious effects than the rest of us, and won their respective divisions.  Pat had only 14 seconds on Jeff Sheldon, his nearest rival, while Caroline had a gap of just under a minute on Andrea Behling.

    Complete results are a little farther down the page.  The column "Last Season" tells us the place that people finished last year in the Prestigious Roxbury Points System. 

Roxbury the Event

    The race was apparently the biggest event of the morning in all of Roxbury, and the folks who market Red Bull knew it.  They sent one of their top marketing teams in the Red Bull truck to hand out free samples of the product before and after the race.  Despite the very cold weather, the cold beverages were popular both before and after the race.

Other events

    Red Bull wasn't the only outfit that knew where to find runners on a Saturday morning.

    Wally Jahn handed out 2005 Road Race calendars from New England Runner, as well as entry forms for next week's Polar Bear Run at Lake Waramaug.  He also announced that the proposed Half Marathon in Bethel is really going to happen, and it will be on April 3.

    Ryan McGorty, a senior at Shephaug Valley High School, along with Michael Hall, is organizing an April Fools Day 5k and two mile walk in Washington.  Part of the April Fools joke is that the race is April 2, not April Fools Day itself.  He handed out a bunch of entry forms.

    Rumors Abound that Wayne Blackman, a regular on the Roxbury Injured List, and Dr. Mary Chute will tie the knot the first week in April.  Paparazzi take notice!

    Pete Gillen eMailed an appeal to participate in an unusual charity drive to support "microloans" in developing countries.  You can read our conversation on this.  I was skeptical at first, feeling it seemed too good to be true, but I checked with Oxfam America and it checks out just fine.  Or you can go straight to the web site at www.povertyfighters.com. The drive ends March 31.

This week vs last year

    We ran this same course, though in the opposite direction, as the closing race of the 2004 season.  That makes this race an indicator of what people have been doing for the last ten weeks.  It's pretty clear that a lot of us have been sitting down a lot.  Of the 28 people who ran both races, only five, led by Dennis Harrington, managed to be faster now than then.  We were an average of about 35 seconds slower.

    The consistency award goes to Women's winner Caroline White, who lost only 3 seconds over the winter.  Mario Hasz slowed by 36 seconds, making him the most average of us all.

    Complete details are at the bottom of the page.

Pictures

    At the top, we have spectator Andy Morehouse's photograph of the crowd rocketing away from the starting line.  Andy complains that it was too cold for photography, and apologizes for not taking more pictures.  Below that are the folks from Red Bull and their Mobile.  Then we have Ryan McGorty making the announcement of his race.  Ryan also worked the stop watch at the finish line for us.  Behind him, you can see, peeking from under her bundle, Diane Hasz, who bravely handed out sticks at the finish line.  You can't wear gloves and hand out sticks.

   Below that is a shot of the crowd, listening to Ryan, adjusting their gloves and trying to stay warm, just before the start.  Along side the results, we have pictures from warmer times last year, Lynn Zuback in the first shot, Chris Childs, Sharon Gawe, Tom McNulty and half of Ken Moffitt below that. Way down at the bottom we have Fossil in Germany, six time zones east of here, meeting another dragon.  Both the Fossil and the Dragon survived the encounter, only slightly the worse for wear. 

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

 

   

 

This week's results  

 

 
Place Last
season		 time name age division pace
1 41 13.43 Pat Viklund 17 5.43
2 29 13.57 Jeff Sheldon 24 5.49
3 14.03 Alister Ratcliff 16 5.51
4 4 14.11 Mark LoSacco 36 5.55
5 14.23 Peter Lofink 44 5.59
6 1 15.08 Ken Merrick 35 6.18
7 8 15.21 Mike Abraham 45 6.24
8 15.29 Keith Ratcliff 55 6.27
9 15.48 Wallie Jahn 50 6.35
10 11 16.06 Ed Sandifer 53 6.43
11 5 16.12 Mark Zerbe 44 6.45
12 6 16.52 Lou Denaro 44 7.02
13 17.14 Eddie Gorecki 51 7.11
14 127 17.17 Caroline White 42 F 7.12
15 13 17.33 Chris Childs 46 7.19
16 17.38 Jeffrey Dinguec 50 7.21
17 17.51 Matt Corso 49 7.26
18 22 18.15 Andrea Behling 26 F 7.36
19 24 18.16 Jeff Field 35 7.37
20 9 18.17 Scott Benjamin 47 7.37
21 72 18.22 Pam Quist 41 F 7.39
22 18.28 Chas Greystone 49 7.42
23 18.33 Ray Giordano 55 7.44
24 25 18.39 Chris Norris 36 7.46
25 18 18.44 Sinead Blevio 32 F 7.48
26 14 18.54 Lynn Zuback 39 F 7.53
27 19 19.01 Paul Butler 47 7.55
28 35 19.11 Cindy Scannell 47 F 7.59
29 15 19.35 Mario Hasz 56 8.10
30 87 19.42 Nora Hulton 41 F 8.13
31 12 20.03 Tom McNulty 39 8.21
32 110 20.21 Craig Hunt 14 8.29
33 154 20.37 Karl Hunt 44 8.35
34 30 20.44 Steve Decker 49 8.38
35 68 20.49 Carl Hunt 53 8.40
36 197 20.52 Erin Lofink 15 F 8.42
37 105 21.16 Terry Lyons 44 F 8.52
38 28 21.28 Chris Powderly 52 8.57
39 36 21.36 George Hermann 47 9.00
40 63 21.5 Carl Rosa 40 9.06
41 46 21.55 Ron Karl 60 9.08
42 16 22.46 Bob Lewis 40 9.29
43 32 23.23 Charlie Euston 60 9.45
44 102 23.34 Shiloh Gawe 5 O 9.49
45 112 23.341 Sharon Gawe 52 F 9.49
46 96 24.03 Al Mletzko 62 10.01
47 114 24.13 Dennis Harrington 51 10.05
48 54 25.19 Steve Schoeller 50 10.33
49 52 25.33 Corinne Bellemare 46 F 10.39
50 25.46 Paul Ayoub 42 10.44
51 113 25.53 Lee Ann Zarger 50 F 10.47
52 152 25.531 Copper Zarger 5 O 10.47
53 62 26.56 Prasama Sangkachand 45 F 11.13
54 76 27.25 Christina Clark 35 F 11.25

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Women
  Other

 

This week vs last year

    Comparing times this week to the times on the same course, opposite direction, last December 4.

 

Now Then improve
1 Dennis Harrington 24.13 26.03 1.50
2 Corinne Bellemare 25.33 26.04 0.31
3 Scott Benjamin 18.17 18.43 0.26
4 Copper Zarger 25.53 26.06 0.13
5 Jeff Sheldon 13.57 14.01 0.04
6 Caroline White 17.17 17.14 -0.03
7 Mark LoSacco 14.11 14.06 -0.05
8 George Hermann 21.36 21.30 -0.06
9 Cindy Scannell 19.11 19.04 -0.07
10 Steve Schoeller 25.19 25.06 -0.13
11 Lynn Zuback 18.54 18.39 -0.15
12 Sinead Blevio 18.44 18.26 -0.18
13 Mike Abraham 15.21 15.00 -0.21
14 Mario Hasz 19.35 18.59 -0.36
15 Chris Norris 18.39 18.01 -0.38
16 Ed Sandifer 16.06 15.22 -0.44
17 Mark Zerbe 16.12 15.27 -0.45
18 Lee Ann Zarger 25.53 25.06 -0.47
19 Lou Denaro 16.52 16.04 -0.48
20 Ron Karl 21.55 21.02 -0.53
21 Charlie Euston 23.23 22.29 -0.54
22 Al Mletzko 24.03 22.59 -1.04
23 Jeff Field 18.16 17.08 -1.08
24 Carl Rosa 21.50 20.17 -1.33
25 Ken Merrick 15.08 13.35 -1.33
26 Sharon Gawe 23.34 21.54 -1.40
27 Shiloh Gawe 23.34 21.53 -1.41
28 Tom McNulty 20.03 18.11 -1.52

 

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