but
very wet cloudburst a little over five minutes in to the race. Moreover,
the half mile of Jeep trail was in its full, muddy glory. 3.95 miles - Jeep trail April 23, 2005 8:30 am. 47 degrees, intermittent rain |
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After a week of glorious weather, the weekend brought a cooler, wet Saturday
morning. Thirty-nine runners ignored good sense and came to Roxbury for
the 3.95 excursion up the Jeep trail. Though it was not actually raining
when the race began, or when the race ended, folks who wore glasses to run were
punished by a gentle, but
very wet cloudburst a little over five minutes in to the race. Moreover,
the half mile of Jeep trail was in its full, muddy glory.
Jeff Sheldon led a cadre of five stalwarts into the soggy breach. The group of Mark LoSacco, Mark Andrejczyk, Mike Abraham and Lou Denaro held together pretty well until the downhill ended and the uphill began just after the two mile mark. Then folks started to spread out, and the top five finished in that order.
It took a while for the women to sort themselves out this week, but when the dust settled (completely the wrong metaphor for the circumstances) Cornwall florist Nora Hulton had earned a commanding lead over Lynn Zuback, Katie Neils and Wendy Carlson.
Boston
A number of people we know from Roxbury joined 20,000 of their closest friends last Monday for an early-afternoon excursion from Hopkinton to Boston. You can check out their times, places and splits on our Boston Marathon page. They are arranged in order of Official Time an Place. Note that Chip Time results and Official Time results are a bit scrambled, as some of us took as little as 48 seconds or as much as 27 minutes to get across the starting line.
Pictures
At the top we have a pair of shoes. One well-known Roxbury runner sometimes has trouble with her shoes coming untied. The Fossil showed her a way to keep them tied that sometimes helps. See how the loops on the shoe on the left (her right foot) are tucked in to the laces, and the ones on the right are just double knotted? It's a trick Fossil learned from Priscilla Welch, the first over-40 woman to win Boston. Guess which shoe came untied? Try it yourself.
The next picture is Jeanne Bartkus and Mo van Moffaert warming up before the race. Both were involved in exciting finishes this week.
Then the start of this week's race. On the far left,
Lou Denaro, dressed in gloves and a warm, yellow fleece top. On the right,
Katie Niels, chilly before the race. Of course, once the race started, Lou
cooked and Katie was quite comfortable. In between, lots of people we
know, and up at the top, a clear, blue sky.
Then Lou again, and Prasama, doing what most people do when the photographer says "Smile!" On the right, we see Paul Ayoub's idea of a smile. Looks odd, but he seems to be enjoying it.
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 Paul Butler, cheerful, but not feeling like a winner. Way down at the bottom we have Fossil meeting another dragon, and six more feet after the race.
The Roxbury Races are now listed on the Internet both on RunningInTheUSA and on HiTekRacing.com
This week's results:
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Created April 23, 2005
