2005 Roxbury Race #6

Down Chalybes, up Ranney

March 26, 2005

8:30 am. 28 degrees, sun

   

Sheldon, White vanquish record field

    Seventy-one people didn't have anything better to do this Saturday morning, so they all came to Roxbury.  It was an even bigger field than last week.  Jeff Sheldon and Caroline White were the fastest ones, each winning their second race of the year.  Caroline had won the first race of the season, and Jeff won the second one.

    Jeff admits to being a little less energized than he was last week, when he had Jeremie to chase, and Jeff's nearest competition, Mark LoSacco, 15 seconds back, might have charged harder if he hadn't seen that Jeff still had lots in reserve.

    Places 8 through 13 were all snagged by runners from New Milford High School, tuning up for the upcoming spring track season.  Others of them were sprinkled all over the first 20 or so places.  They have a well-developed pack instinct.  It shows how their cross country team won last year's New England Championship.

College Graduate

    Roxbury icon Dennis Harrington has been making good use of his time lately.  Last week, after a 30 year odyssey, Dennis finished his college degree through Charter Oak. It's a rare time he beats his son Kevin in a race.  Kevin won't finish college until May.  It's hard to believe that Dennis has been in college almost as long as the Fossil has been running Boston.  Congratulations from all of us, Dennis!

Farther Back

    New Milford cross country alumnus Ben Danton, now a freshman at the University of New Hampshire, was spotted several times on the course, but he didn't cross the finish line, so you won't find him in the results.

This week vs last week

    The 41 people who ran both last week and this week were, on the average, we were 35 seconds slower this week.  The two courses were both 3.7 miles long, but this course, with two hills, is generally regarded as more difficult.  Statistics seem to bear that out.

    Bob Lewis and Mike Mayer went against the trend and managed to improve by over a minute each, 1:24 and 1:03 respectively.  A dozen people, though, were more than a minute slower on this course, lead (or followed) by Tom McNulty, 4:38 slower.  Mark LoSacco and Charlie Euston were closest to the :35 second average slow-down, missing by 9 seconds each.  Charlie, though was only :26 seconds slower, while Mark was :44 seconds slower.  Brian Gildea was the most consistent, slowing by only :02 seconds.

    Complete details are at the bottom of the page.

Value Added

    It is easy to generate statistics with the sophisticated software we use to create these pages.  This week we have a column that compares the place we finished this week (first column) with the place we finished last week (second column).  It looks like Brian Clemente made the biggest move up, climbing from 8th last week to 3rd this week.

    Anybody seen JT Schemm lately?  It might be that he's occupied with the new addition to his family, Elliott Maier Schemm.  Bring him to the races, JT!  And congratulations.

Other events

    Wally Jahn has announced that the proposed Half Marathon in Danbury and through Bethel is really going to happen, and it will be next Sunday.

    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.  We should be able to get from Roxbury up to the high school in plenty of time to run both races.

    The Rumor is true that Wayne Blackman, a regular on the Roxbury Injured List, and Dr. Mary Chute will tie the knot next weekend.  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.

Pictures

    At the top, Walt Schuttler, Carl Hunt and Mo van Moffaert warm up before a race last year.

    Then a shot from the start a couple of years ago.  How many people can you identify there?  One of them is Keyless boB.  Then, we have Kyle Knight leading Sinead Blevio to the finish line a year ago.  Below that, the small but brave field leaves the finish line last week.  Who is that wearing shorts, anyway?

     Along the side, next to the results, we have Regular Bob Satterlee, giving the quality of writing on the web page a Thumbs Up.  Then there's a photo from February, 2004. Then comes George Hermann, and 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: 

 

This
week		 Last
week
1 2 22.15 Jeff Sheldon 24 ( 6.01 min per mile)
2 5 22.30 Mark LoSacco 36 ( 6.05 min per mile)
3 8 23.17 Brian Clemente 19 ( 6.18 min per mile)
4 23.23 Dan Germain 43 ( 6.19 min per mile)
5 23.27 Mike DeCrescenzo 16 ( 6.20 min per mile)
6 10 23.41 Mike Abraham 45 ( 6.24 min per mile)
7 23.42 Wallie Jahn 50 ( 6.24 min per mile)
8 4 24.03 David Hunt 17 ( 6.30 min per mile)
9 24.08 Dan DeCrescenzo 14 ( 6.31 min per mile)
10 24.14 Pat Viklund 18 ( 6.33 min per mile)
11 24.14 Andy Watson 16 ( 6.33 min per mile)
12 24.23 Nick DeCrescenzo 18 ( 6.35 min per mile)
13 24.25 Ryan Cheng 15 ( 6.36 min per mile)
14 11 24.33 Ed Sandifer 53 ( 6.38 min per mile)
15 14 24.48 Lou Denaro 44 ( 6.42 min per mile)
16 12 25.19 Mark Zerbe 44 ( 6.51 min per mile)
17 25.29 Anthony Socotch 17 ( 6.53 min per mile)
18 25.36 Greg Ritzinger 48 ( 6.55 min per mile)
19 16 25.40 Caroline White 42 ( 6.56 min per mile)
20 17 25.47 Chris DePalma 38 ( 6.58 min per mile)
21 26.00 Frank Etzler 13 ( 7.02 min per mile)
22 26.33 Dan Watson 13 ( 7.11 min per mile)
23 26.35 Chris Childs 46 ( 7.11 min per mile)
24 19 26.41 Brian Gildea 43 ( 7.13 min per mile)
25 26.50 Mike Viklund 14 ( 7.15 min per mile)
26 26.53 Mark Grinberg 15 ( 7.16 min per mile)
27 21 26.54 David Mariani 41 ( 7.16 min per mile)
28 23 26.58 Kevin Bradley 42 ( 7.17 min per mile)
29 27.01 Bruce Goulart 55 ( 7.18 min per mile)
30 20 27.06 Chas Greystone 49 ( 7.19 min per mile)
31   27.14 Andrea Behling 26 ( 7.22 min per mile)
32 27 27.23 Mike Mayer 42 ( 7.24 min per mile)
33 22 27.36 Jack Zamary 41 ( 7.28 min per mile)
34 24 27.38 Pam Quist 41 ( 7.28 min per mile)
35 30 28.49 Scott Benjamin 47 ( 7.47 min per mile)
36 29.05 Tom Fisher 45 ( 7.52 min per mile)
37 29.05 Morgan Fisher 37 ( 7.52 min per mile)
38 37 29.19 Lynn Zuback 39 ( 7.55 min per mile)
39 39 29.21 Dan Lynch 42 ( 7.56 min per mile)
40 34 29.32 Chris Norris 36 ( 7.59 min per mile)
41 35 29.35 Nora Hulton 41 ( 8.00 min per mile)
42 29.53 Kurt Thoennessen 26 ( 8.05 min per mile)
43 42 29.58 Bob Lewis 40 ( 8.06 min per mile)
44 32 30.06 Cindy Scannell 47 ( 8.08 min per mile)
45 30.48 Ray Giordano 55 ( 8.19 min per mile)
46 40 31.17 Chris Powderly 52 ( 8.27 min per mile)
47 33 31.36 Sinead Blevio 32 ( 8.32 min per mile)
48 38 31.46 Harry Ong 65 ( 8.35 min per mile)
49 43 32.51 Michael Hicks 36 ( 8.53 min per mile)
50 28 33.10 Tom McNulty 39 ( 8.58 min per mile)
51   33.37 Mo van Moffaert 45 ( 9.05 min per mile)
52 33.37 Carl Hunt 54 ( 9.05 min per mile)
53 49 33.51 Ron Karl 60 ( 9.09 min per mile)
54 44 34.29 Jeff Nicholas 44 ( 9.19 min per mile)
55 50 35.00 Jeanne Bartkus 45 ( 9.28 min per mile)
56 52 35.13 Sharon Gawe 52 ( 9.31 min per mile)
57 35.14 Ed Moros 57 ( 9.31 min per mile)
58 48 35.46 George Hermann 47 ( 9.40 min per mile)
59 35.52 Carl Rosa 40 ( 9.42 min per mile)
60 55 36.29 Steve Schoeller 50 ( 9.52 min per mile)
61 54 37.02 Charlie Euston 60 ( 10.01 min per mile)
62 37.13 Rich Zuvich 50 ( 10.04 min per mile)
63 37.31 Paul Ayoub 42 ( 10.08 min per mile)
64 53 37.53 Jim Little 51 ( 10.14 min per mile)
65 58 38.28 Dennis Harrington 51 ( 10.24 min per mile)
66 59 40.40 Prasama Sangkachand 45 ( 10.59 min per mile)
67 64 41.05 Christina Clark 35 ( 11.06 min per mile)
68 60 41.38 Corinne Bellemare 46 ( 11.15 min per mile)
Alt 2.4 miles
69 65 22.06 Bob Satterlee 57 ( 9.13 min per mile)
70   26.37 Tarryn Bartkus 11 ( 11.05 min per mile)
71 22.46 Dominic Rosa 11 ( 9.29 min per mile)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week vs last week

This Last Improvement
1 Bob Lewis 29.58 31.22 1.24
2 Mike Mayer 27.23 28.26 1.03
3 Sharon Gawe 35.13 36.09 0.56
4 Kevin Bradley 26.58 27.29 0.31
5 Dan Lynch 29.21 29.47 0.26
6 Steve Schoeller 36.29 36.50 0.21
7 Mike Abraham 23.41 24.00 0.19
8 Pam Quist 27.38 27.55 0.17
9 Ron Karl 33.51 34.05 0.14
10 Brian Clemente 23.17 23.28 0.11
11 Lynn Zuback 29.19 29.27 0.08
12 Dennis Harrington 38.28 38.35 0.07
13 Lou Denaro 24.48 24.53 0.05
14 David Mariani 26.54 26.59 0.05
15 Chris DePalma 25.47 25.50 0.03
16 Brian Gildea 26.41 26.39 -0.02
17 Jeanne Bartkus 35.00 34.57 -0.03
18 Scott Benjamin 28.49 28.42 -0.07
19 Caroline White 25.40 25.33 -0.07
20 Chas Greystone 27.06 26.54 -0.12
21 Jack Zamary 27.36 27.22 -0.14
22 Chris Powderly 31.17 31.00 -0.17
23 Ed Sandifer 24.33 24.15 -0.18
24 Chris Norris 29.32 29.08 -0.24
25 Nora Hulton 29.35 29.10 -0.25
26 Charlie Euston 37.02 36.36 -0.26
27 Mark LoSacco 22.30 21.46 -0.44
28 Jeff Sheldon 22.15 21.22 -0.53
29 Mark Zerbe 25.19 24.23 -0.56
30 Christina Clark 41.05 40.04 -1.01
31 Cindy Scannell 30.06 28.57 -1.09
32 Michael Hicks 32.51 31.37 -1.14
33 Prasama Sangkachand 40.40 39.23 -1.17
34 Jim Little 37.53 36.34 -1.19
35 George Hermann 35.46 33.59 -1.47
36 Corinne Bellemare 41.38 39.36 -2.02
37 Harry Ong 31.46 29.38 -2.08
38 David Hunt 24.03 21.40 -2.23
39 Sinead Blevio 31.36 29.05 -2.31
40 Jeff Nicholas 34.29 31.58 -2.31
41 Tom McNulty 33.10 28.32 -4.38

 

 

 

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