and ended Jeff Sheldon's winning streak at six in a row. It wasn't that
close; Jim won by 31 seconds, with Ken Merrick, finally getting over his Boston
Marathon, another 25 seconds behind Jeff.3.55 miles - down Chalybes, up Hemlock May 14, 2005 8:30 am. 55 degrees, mostly cloudy |
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Jim Zoldy comes to Roxbury once or twice a year. Now that the weather has
improved a bit, he came this week
and ended Jeff Sheldon's winning streak at six in a row. It wasn't that
close; Jim won by 31 seconds, with Ken Merrick, finally getting over his Boston
Marathon, another 25 seconds behind Jeff.
The women had a particularly strong field this week, as we see from all the yellow stripes in the results. Roxbury rookie Katie Wrinkle led a pack of five women who finished between 12th and 21st today in a space of just over two minutes. Last week's winner Caroline White was 23 seconds back.
Rivalries
Keep your eye on the rivalry emerging between Brian Vanderheiden and Lou Denaro. They have been finishing one after the other four of the last five weeks, and the fifth week only one person got between them. This week was Lou's turn. Brian vows "I'll beat him next week."
Note that Mike Abraham jumped over both
of them this week. Abe gets better and better as the season goes on.
Keep your eye on him.
The regular rivalry between Jeff Sheldon and Mark LoSacco was interrupted this week as Mark "WebGuy Jr." LoSacco eased off, already tapering for his Vermont City Marathon in two weeks. Reports that he already has Taper Disease. That's the rash of injuries that erupt just before a marathon, just after you're done with all of your hard training. He's wrestling Achilles.
Safety
Fossil has three rules of running:
Be safe
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
The pictures last week were so good that
we decided to use them again. At the top we have Walt and Mario acting friendly
before the race. 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.
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 May 14, 2005
