2005 Roxbury Race #15

The Roxbury Mile

One Mile - Hurlburt Rec Area to Booth Free School

May 28, 2005

8:30 am. Beautiful 

   

White, Clemente grab course records

    Sixty-one runners toed the line on West Apple Lane on a 60-degree Saturday morning, engines revving, ready to charge toward the finish line, just a mile away at Booth Free School.  For a number of runners, mostly young and very young people who had never run such a long race  before, the race seemed a long one. For most of the Regulars, especially the Marathon survivors, a mile isn't time to get up to full speed.

    Brian Clemente and Jeff Sheldon had no trouble getting started.  After the rest of us had gone about ten yards, they were already 20 yards ahead.  It sure didn't look like they were moving fast, but they just kept getting farther and farther ahead.  Just about half way, as we turned on to South Street, Brian started to pull away, and eventually finished in 4:46, six seconds ahead of Jeff, and a course record by about 17 seconds.

    Among the women, Caroline White, Andrea Behling and Theresa Krebs were all bunched up at the half mile, with Pam Quist hovering just behind.  Pam didn't catch them, and their little pack gradually spread out so they finished ten seconds apart; Caroline 13th overall in 5:49, Andrea 16th, six seconds back, and Theresa in 21st place, the last one to break six minutes.

    That minute between 5:00 and 6:00 was the busiest minute at the finish line, as 19 people streamed across.  Seventeen finished the next minute.

    We'll try another Roxbury Mile about Labor Day.  Mark your calendars.  Next week we run the 4.8 mile Judds Bridge Road course.

Vermont City Marathon Results

    Mark LoSacco - 3:13:21 (chip time of 3:13:16, splits of 1:36:08/1:37:13) 121st place

    Tom McNulty - 4:57:41 (chip time of 4:55:35, splits of 2:21:24/2L34:11) 2037th place

    Congratulations to both.  You can check complete results at http://www.runvermont.org/.

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 need some new 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: They are right now!  Thanks for the help Al, Betsy and Ken.

 

 
Roxbury Mile 28-May
1 Brian Clemente 19 4.46
2 Jeff Sheldon 25 4.52
3 Ken Merrick 35 5.03
4 Mike Abraham 45 5.09
5 Brian Vanderheiden 35 5.14
6 Lou Denaro 44 5.23
7 Mike Ruospo 40 5.28
8 Dave Harvey 41 5.30
9 Dan Lamb 43 5.34
10 Mark Zerbe 44 5.41
11 Chas Greystone 50 5.43
12 Ed Sandifer 53 5.45
13 Caroline White 42   5.49
14 Jeffrey Dingwell 50 * 5.50
15 Chris Childs 46 5.52
16 Dave DeBoy 35 5.53
17 Andrea Behling 26   5.55
18 Bob Edmonds 62 * 5.56
19 Jack Zamary 41 5.57
20 Dan Lynch 42 5.58
21 Theresa Krebs 35   5.59
22 Kurt Thoennessen 26 6.00
23 John Kane 53 6.01
24 Pam Quist 41   6.05
25 Paul Teixeira 45 6.07
26 Don Smith 61 6.09
27 Scott Benjamin 47 6.18
28 Bob Lewis 40 6.25
29 Katie Neils 12   6.27
30 Chris Powderly 52 6.31
31 Mario Hasz 56 6.33
32 Lynn Zuback 39   6.41
33 Bob Satterlee 57 6.45
34 Paul Butler 47 6.47
35 Cindy Scannell 47   6.50
36 Karl Hunt 44 * 7.00
37 Alexandra Sherman 12 * 7.19
38 Ron Karl 60 7.20
39 Mo van Moffaert 45   7.20
40 Wayne Blackman 40 * 7.30
41 Charlie Euston 60 7.31
42 Steve Schoeller 50 7.44
43 Craig Hunt 14 * 7.55
44 Meghan White 11 * 7.56
45 Sharon Gawe 62   8.19
46 Al Mletzko 52 8.25
47 Colin Decker 7 * 8.36
48 Steve Decker 49 8.38
49 Harry Mayer 9 * 8.47
50 Mike Mayer 42 8.48
51 Prasama Sangkachand 45   8.57
52 Christina Clark 35   9.13
53 Jackie DeVito 13 * 9.14
54 Rachel White 13 * 9.36
55 Marc White 46 * 9.38
56 Liliana Neils 8   10.00
57 Betsey Daniels 44 * 10.00
58 Oliver Daniels     10.00
59 Rupert Daniels     11.00
60 Ken Neils 12.24
61 Taylor White 9 * 13.57

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Created May 28, 2005.  Revised May 29, 2005.

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