2005 Roxbury Race #15

The Roxbury Mile

4.5 miles - up Chalybes, down Hemlock

May 21, 2005

8:30 am. Beautiful 

   

Sheldon, Wrinkle win

    Jeff Sheldon took home his 7th win of the season, and Katie Wrinkle her 2nd on a beautiful Saturday morning over the 4.5 mile Up Chalybes, Down Hemlock course.  Jeff covered the course in 26:16, besting closest rival Ken Merrick by about 52 seconds.  Ken continues his recovery from Boston.  Brian Clemente rounded out the top three for the men today.

  Katie Wrinkle ran unchallenged this week finishing in 30:30 about 3 minutes ahead of second place finisher Pam Quist.  For Katie this is her second win in two attempts.  In baseball terminology she is batting a thousand.  Cindy Scannell took 3rd place for the women today.

 Rivalries

   The rivalry between Brian Vanderheiden and Lou Denaro continued this week.  They have been finishing one after the other five of the last six weeks, and the sixth week only one person got between them.  Despite Brian's vow ("I'll beat him next week"), Lou got the better of him this week and finished ahead of him by about 16 seconds.  The great thing about Roxbury is that there's always next week.

     The regular rivalry between Jeff Sheldon and Mark LoSacco contnues to be on hold as Mark "WebGuy Jr." LoSacco was tapering for his Vermont City Marathon next week.  He's shooting for a Boston Qualifier, which for him means running 3:15.  Roxbury Regular Tom McNulty is also running.

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

    Up top we have a starting area photo with Jeff Sheldon looking intimidating with the shades, and Lou Denaro looking cold with the fleece.  Next we have Scott Benjamin giving the Safety Warning before the race.  Then we have a row of six people at an Awards Ceremony that followed a championship 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 2 26.16 Jeff Sheldon 25 ( 5.50 min per mile)
2 3 27.08 Ken Merrick 36 ( 6.02 min per mile)
3 27.46 Brian Clemente 19 ( 6.10 min per mile)
4 4 27.55 Mike Abraham 45 ( 6.12 min per mile)
5 5 28.12 Lou Denaro 45 ( 6.16 min per mile)
6 6 28.28 Brian Vanderheiden 35 ( 6.20 min per mile)
7 7 28.44 Mike Ruospo 40 ( 6.23 min per mile)
8 8 28.47 Jeff Tindell 55 ( 6.24 min per mile)
9 28.48 Vernon LeRoux 50 ( 6.24 min per mile)
10 9 29.03 Mark LoSacco 36 ( 6.27 min per mile)
11 10 29.17 Ed Sandifer 53 ( 6.30 min per mile)
12 30.14 John Adomelis 50 ( 6.43 min per mile)
13 12 30.30 Katie Wrinkle 23 ( 6.47 min per mile)
14 30.30 Chris Ciparelli 24 ( 6.47 min per mile)
15 11 30.41 Mark Zerbe 44 ( 6.49 min per mile)
16 15 30.44 Mike Mayer 43 ( 6.50 min per mile)
17 13 30.59 Scott Bussom 27 ( 6.53 min per mile)
18 31.11 Don Smith 61 ( 6.56 min per mile)
19 18 31.58 Chris Childs 46 ( 7.06 min per mile)
20 32.46 Tom Siegel 43 ( 7.17 min per mile)
21 32.55 Paul Teixeira 45 ( 7.19 min per mile)
22 20 33.05 Scott Benjamin 47 ( 7.21 min per mile)
23 33.34 Pam Quist 41 ( 7.28 min per mile)
24 23 33.59 Dan Lynch 43 ( 7.33 min per mile)
25 34.23 John Murphy Jr. 55 ( 7.38 min per mile)
26 28 34.45 Cindy Scannell 47 ( 7.43 min per mile)
27 25 34.47 Chris Norris 36 ( 7.44 min per mile)
28 27 34.53 Bob Lewis 40 ( 7.45 min per mile)
29 34 35.06 Katie Neils 12 ( 7.48 min per mile)
30 29 35.09 Mario Hasz 56 ( 7.49 min per mile)
31 33 35.15 Chris Powderly 53 ( 7.50 min per mile)
32 35.35 Harry Ong 65 ( 7.54 min per mile)
33 36.24 Steve Decker 49 ( 8.05 min per mile)
34 35 37.03 Lynn Zuback 39 ( 8.14 min per mile)
35 37.46 Ken Burke 59 ( 8.24 min per mile)
36 37.47 Molly Burke 18 ( 8.24 min per mile)
37 38.49 Wendy Carlson ( 8.38 min per mile)
38 41 39.39 Steve Schoeller 50 ( 8.49 min per mile)
39 37 39.49 Mo van Moffaert 45 ( 8.51 min per mile)
40 40.40 Charlie Euston 60 ( 9.02 min per mile)
41 41.20 Ed Moros 57 ( 9.11 min per mile)
42 42 41.36 Ron Karl 63 ( 9.15 min per mile)
43 42.51 Dennis Harrington 52 ( 9.31 min per mile)
44 44.18 George Hermann 47 ( 9.51 min per mile)
45 44 44.36 Jim Little 51 ( 9.55 min per mile)
46 45 50.35 Prasama Sangkachand 45 ( 11.14 min per mile)
47 46 53.10 Lee Ann Zarger 51 ( 11.49 min per mile)
Alternate 2.4 mi
48 19.03 Dave DeBoy 34 ( 7.56 min per mile)
Alternate 0.41 mi
49 49 8.39 Trixie Neils ( 21.06 min per mile)
50 48 8.40 Liliana Neils ( 21.08 min per mile)
51 50 8.54 April Neils ( 21.42 min per mile)
52 8.55 Ken Neils ( 21.45 min per mile)

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

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