2005 Roxbury Race #12

4.3 miles - High Bridge - Larry Kershnar Memorial

May 7, 2005

8:30 am. 41 degrees, cloudy and windy

   

Cold and Windy for the Kershnar Memorial

    The wind was like March.  The temperature was like February, and the slate-gray skies were from November.  Fifty-one runners showed up on an otherwise fine May morning for the annual Larry Kershnar Memorial Race, 4.3 miles down South Street, across High Bridge Road, and back up South Street.  Nice shadow-box mounted sets of Roxbury Road Race badges awaited the day's winners, Jeff Sheldon and Andrea Behling

    Jeff won his sixth race of the season and his fourth in a row.  He was eight seconds faster than he was on this same course last week.  Mark LoSacco, who was 50 seconds back last week was only 15 seconds back this week.  Jeff led pretty much wire to wire.

    Among the women, it was Andrea Behling winning her second race of the season, about a minute and a half ahead of Pam Quist.

Larry Kershnar

    What was the Mid Spring Championship was re-named in honor of the late long-time Roxbury Race Director Larry Kershar.  For most of his career, Larry was a science teacher at New Milford High School. He was teaching there when the current director, Bob Lewis, was a high school student.  Later Larry went on to teach teachers in the Education Department at Western Connecticut State University.  He was one of the senior faculty there when Web Guy first started teaching there.  Larry's two sons, Eric and Steve, both came back to town to run the First Ever Roxbury Marathon in December.  We don't have a digital picture of Larry, so instead we're using this one of Walt Schuttler and Mario Hasz.  We picked it because Larry was a happy guy and everyone liked him, just like Walt and Mario.

Living in Roxbury

    After the race, Roxbury PE teacher Mo van Moffaert pointed out that there were NINE Roxbury residents in the race this week.  Web Guy can identify seven of them.  How many do you know?

    One of them is Richard Bartkus, 42nd today and facing cancer surgery on Tuesday.  He says the prognosis is good, but we can wish him well anyway.

Rivalries

   Last week, Web Guy Jr noted the fierce rivalry evolving between the Fossil and Mark Zerbe.  Mark Z missed this week (lost his star, too).  That didn't stop the rivalry, though.  The Fossil doesn't see very well, and besides that, he doesn't pay very good attention.  Soon after the race began, he thought he saw the Z in front of him and resolved to keep close.  After about 3/4 of a mile, the gap had only grown and the Fossil gave up on that plan.  Turns out that Fossil was looking at Mark Andrejczyk, who scooted away to finish 3rd, almost two minutes ahead of the Fossil.

This week vs last week

    We ran the same course two weeks in a row.  Conditions were similar, and times were similar as well.  On the average, the 31 people who ran both races were just five seconds faster this week.  Sharon Gawe edged Ken Merrick to be the Most Improved, 1:57 faster this week than last.  Corinne Bellemare suffered the greatest setback, giving back 2:37.  Walt Schuttler and Chris Childs tied for most consistent, each just two seconds slower this week, and Mike "Torpedo" Ruospo was most average, improving by four seconds.  Complete comparisons are at the bottom of the page.

Safety

    Fossil has three rules of running:

  1. Be safe

  2. Have fun

    It's come back to the Organizers that sometimes all those runners on the road confuse them.  This seems particularly common on the South Street courses like the one we ran this week.  On the High Bridge Road course, it is even worse because the fastest runners are already on their way back up the hill while some people are still on the way down.  

    We can help if we try to all stay on the same side of the road when there is traffic.  It also helps to "call" the traffic like Dan Lamb does.  He can trumpet "Car Up!" or "Car Back!" loud enough that it almost scares the cars off the road.

    Also, be nice to the drivers.  For the most part, they like us, and they are proud to have us running in Roxbury.  Smile, and, if you wave, be sure you us all five fingers.

Punctuality

    We started almost on time today.  With your continued cooperation, we hope to continue.

Pictures

    We have lots of new pictures this week.  At the top, as noted before, we have Walt and Mario acting friendly before the race.  Mario clobbered Bob by 2:03.  Then we have Dan Lamb.  Dan used to run almost every Saturday, and won his share of races.  But then his architecture business improved, and he has to work on Saturdays a lot of the time.  This was his first appearance this season. After Dan, we have Scott Benjamin giving the Safety Warning before the race.  Then we have a row of six people at the Awards Ceremony that followed the race.  Several of these folks live in Roxbury. People who think that Web Guy intentionally uses the most embarrassing photographs of people he can find should note that the other shot of these six people is from a different angle and it has an outhouse coming out of someone's head. The next shot is a post on the Pavilion, with Al Mletzko behind 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, two of which don't seem to be wearing traditional running shoes. 

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

 

   

 

This week's results: 

 
This Last
1 1 25.22 Jeff Sheldon 25 ( 5.54 min per mile)
2 2 25.37 Mark LoSacco 36 ( 5.57 min per mile)
3 26.20 Mark Andrejczyk 32 ( 6.07 min per mile)
4 8 26.28 Ken Merrick 35 ( 6.09 min per mile)
5 6 27.09 Brian Vanderheiden 35 ( 6.19 min per mile)
6 4 27.25 Lou Denaro 44 ( 6.23 min per mile)
7 3 27.33 Mike Abraham 45 ( 6.24 min per mile)
8 27.43 Dave Harvey 41 ( 6.27 min per mile)
9 7 27.46 Mike Ruospo 40 ( 6.27 min per mile)
10 11 28.13 Ed Sandifer 53 ( 6.34 min per mile)
11 28.35 Scott Holmes 43 ( 6.39 min per mile)
12 29.01 Dan Lamb 43 ( 6.45 min per mile)
13 10 29.19 Jeff Tindell 55 ( 6.49 min per mile)
14 20 30.36 Andrea Behling 26 ( 7.07 min per mile)
15 18 30.54 Chris Childs 46 ( 7.11 min per mile)
16 16 31.38 Chas Greystone 49 ( 7.21 min per mile)
17 23 31.43 Jack Zamary 41 ( 7.23 min per mile)
18 25 31.44 John Murphy Jr. 54 ( 7.23 min per mile)
19 19 32.13 Pam Quist 41 ( 7.30 min per mile)
20 21 32.25 Scott Benjamin 47 ( 7.32 min per mile)
21 26 33.04 Chris Norris 36 ( 7.41 min per mile)
22   34.03 Lee Ann Flanagan 46 ( 7.55 min per mile)
23 33 34.28 Lynn Zuback 39 ( 8.01 min per mile)
24 34.41 Ken Burke 58 ( 8.04 min per mile)
25 35 34.43 Mario Hasz 56 ( 8.04 min per mile)
26 34.55 Harry Ong 65 ( 8.07 min per mile)
26 30 34.57 Kurt Thoennessen 26 ( 8.08 min per mile)
27 31 35.04 Chris Powderly 52 ( 8.09 min per mile)
29 34 35.17 Sinead Blevio 32 ( 8.12 min per mile)
30   35.28 Wendy Carlson   ( 8.15 min per mile)
31 36 36.46 Bob Satterlee 57 ( 8.33 min per mile)
32 37 37.30 Walt Schuttler 53 ( 8.43 min per mile)
33 38.06 Ed Moros 57 ( 8.52 min per mile)
34 38 38.37 Mo van Moffaert 45 ( 8.59 min per mile)
35 40 38.58 Charlie Euston 60 ( 9.04 min per mile)
36 39.35 Ron Karl 60 ( 9.12 min per mile)
37 42 40.10 Steve Schoeller 50 ( 9.20 min per mile)
38   40.17 Jeanne Bartkus 45 ( 9.22 min per mile)
39 43 41.52 Sharon Gawe 52 ( 9.44 min per mile)
40 42.34 Dennis Harrington 51 ( 9.54 min per mile)
41 43.29 Tim Flanagan 51 ( 10.07 min per mile)
42 43.33 Richard Bartkus 55 ( 10.08 min per mile)
43 45.30 Al Mletzko 62 ( 10.35 min per mile)
44 45 46.42 Prasama Sangkachand 45 ( 10.52 min per mile)
45 46 46.55 Christina Clark 35 ( 10.55 min per mile)
46 47 50.15 Corinne Bellemare 46 ( 11.41 min per mile)
47   52.53 Lee Ann Zarger 50 ( 12.18 min per mile)
48   52.53 Copper Zarger 5 ( 12.18 min per mile)
Alt 1.64 mi
49 28 14.41 Bob Lewis 40 ( 8.57 min per mile)
50   15.24 Katie Neils 12 ( 9.23 min per mile)
Alt 0.41 mi
51   4.40 Trixie Neils   ( 11.23 min per mile)

 

  

 

 

 

 

This week vs last week

 

This Last Improvement
1 Sharon Gawe 41.52 43.49 1.57
2 Ken Merrick 26.28 28.21 1.53
3 Steve Schoeller 40.10 41.30 1.20
4 Mario Hasz 34.43 35.38 0.55
5 Andrea Behling 30.36 31.17 0.41
6 Ed Sandifer 28.13 28.49 0.36
7 Christina Clark 46.55 47.29 0.34
8 Chris Norris 33.04 33.32 0.28
9 John Murphy Jr. 31.44 32.12 0.28
10 Charlie Euston 38.58 39.21 0.23
11 Jack Zamary 31.43 32.06 0.23
12 Brian Vanderheiden 27.09 27.31 0.22
13 Lynn Zuback 34.28 34.49 0.21
14 Sinead Blevio 35.17 35.35 0.18
15 Jeff Sheldon 25.22 25.30 0.08
16 Bob Satterlee 36.46 36.53 0.07
17 Mike Ruospo 27.46 27.50 0.04
18 Mark LoSacco 25.37 25.40 0.03
19 Walt Schuttler 37.30 37.28 -0.02
20 Chris Childs 30.54 30.52 -0.02
21 Lou Denaro 27.25 27.16 -0.09
22 Mo van Moffaert 38.37 38.26 -0.11
23 Mike Abraham 27.33 27.04 -0.29
24 Prasama Sangkachand 46.42 46.10 -0.32
25 Kurt Thoennessen 34.57 34.24 -0.33
26 Chris Powderly 35.04 34.28 -0.36
27 Scott Benjamin 32.25 31.46 -0.39
28 Jeff Tindell 29.19 28.34 -0.45
29 Pam Quist 32.13 31.16 -0.57
30 Chas Greystone 31.38 30.40 -0.58
31 Corinne Bellemare 50.15 47.38 -2.37

 

 

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