2005 Roxbury Race #23

3.7 miles - South Street, Ranney Hill

July 23, 2005

8:30 am. 80 degrees, sunny, dry 

   

One Last Win for Andrea Behling

    Andrea Behling won't win again at Roxbury.  We'll take next week off for the New Milford Road race.  The next week, August 6, Andrea will miss the race because she and Kurt Thoennessen (21st over all today) will be getting married that day. Kurt will miss, too.   So, the next time we'll see the two of them at a Roxbury Race, she'll be Andrea Thoennessen.  No more wins for Andrea Behling.  Congratulations!

    In a mid-race interview, Andrea was concerned that she would lose her 491 points (second among the women) in the Prestigious Roxbury Points System when she changes her name.  When she seemed disinclined to the obvious solution, call off the wedding, WebGuy promised that he'd see what he could do, but it might be complicated.

    In the race itself, Andrea What's-her-name finished 19th over all and 1:19 ahead of New Milford High School star Laura Hermann.

    It was a bit of a tiger fight among the men, though the results were familiar.  When they got to the base of the climb up Ranney Hill Road, the top three were still all together, and the next three were just a few seconds back.  The hill did its job, though, and people spread out.  Jeff Sheldon spread to first place and his tenth win of the season.

Certification Saga Continues

    WebGuy and Scott Benjamin spent two days this week working on certification issues.  On Thursday they were joined by WebGuy's son Phil (who took that picture of Kyle and the stroller we use on the main page) to use a steel tape to measure a calibration course along the dead-straight section of South Street.  Measuring one way with the tape, it came out 2370' 9" long.  Going back it was only 2370' 8" long.  But, since it was a hot day, our steel tape had expanded by a few thousandths of a percent, so the course is actually a little longer than the tape said.  After we adjusted for that, we got an "official" length for the course of 2370.984 feet, approximately 2370 feet 8 3/4 inches, which is a little less than half a mile.

    On Saturday we rode Ed's classic Gitane Tour de France bicycle four times up and down the calibration course wearing the Oerth-Jones counter pictured at the top of this page.  The course took an average of 8006.25 clicks on our counter.  Then we rode the 3.55 mile Hemlock Road course twice each direction, and it measured 63111 clicks one direction, 63121 clicks the other direction (a difference of 0.016 %, less than 3 feet over more than 3 miles, and we're allowed 0.080 %) .  After doing the arithmetic, and taking into account the required 1.001 safety factor, we conclude that the course is 3.536 miles long.  We'll stop calling it the 3.55 mile course, and it will be the 3.5 mile course from now on.

    We also measured the version of the loop that we used for the marathon last December.  It took 64049 clicks one direction, 64061 the other direction, ( 0.019% difference, or about 3 feet 7 inches) and measures out to be 3.5886 miles long.  For the marathon, we'd assumed it was 3.58 miles long.  The difference is about 15 yards, and we ran it five times.     

    After the August 6 race, we plan to measure to and from Judd's Bridge.  If it comes out to 8.2758 miles, then the Marathon course will be exact.  Otherwise, we'll have to make an adjustment to the start.  In December, we assumed it was 8.3 miles.

Stick differences

    A couple of people didn't get sticks this week, but they got times.  The people involved were Sharon Gawe, Mo van Moffaert and Ron Karl.  We just spliced them in to the results in the appropriate places.  For this reason, if any of them beat you, then your place in the official results will be higher than the number on your stick.

    Also, both Mike Abraham and Lou Denaro claimed to be 8th this week, and nobody claimed to be 10th.  We think Lou was 10th.  Jeff Tindell added to the confusion by making a "9" that looks like a "7," but we got that straightened out.

Safety

    Fossil has three rules of running:

  1. Be safe

  2. Have fun

    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.

Some New Pictures

   Up top, we have this week's only new picture, a close-up of the fancy Jones-Oerth counter we bought a few weeks ago to use  

    Then we have Ken Merrick, stretching on that same old phone pole that serves as one end of our start/finish line.  It's starting to lean under the pressure. Then we have the speedy duo of Lou Denaro and Mark Andrejczyk discussing race strategy before the race.  Friends Chris Norris and Tom McNulty, dressed in blue.  Then we have John Kane, whose wife is doing an Iron Man Triathlon.  Poor John.  Poor Wendy.  

   Along the side of the results, Paul Butler in a white had that disappears into the white sky.  Then Christina Clark in a great action shot as she launches off the starting line.  Below that, shots of Diane Hasz and Ron Karl our trusty finish volunteers this week.

   Way down at the bottom, we have the Fossil with his friend the dragon, and three sets of mystery feet.

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

 

   

 

 
1 21.25 Jeff Sheldon 25 ( 5.47 min per mile)
2 21.46 Daniel Murphy 35 ( 5.53 min per mile)
3 21.58 Mark Andrejczyk 32 ( 5.56 min per mile)
4 22.39 Mark LoSacco 36 ( 6.07 min per mile)
5 22.51 Dave Harvey 41 ( 6.11 min per mile)
6 23.06 Pete Gillen 23 ( 6.15 min per mile)
7 23.09 Chuck Ryan 50 ( 6.15 min per mile)
8 23.28 Mike Abraham 55 ( 6.21 min per mile)
9 23.38 Jeff Tindell 45 ( 6.23 min per mile)
10 24.00 Lou Denaro 44 ( 6.29 min per mile)
11 24.23 Ed Sandifer 53 ( 6.35 min per mile)
12 24.59 Ken Merrick 35 ( 6.45 min per mile)
13 25.00 Shadow Merrick 3 ( 6.45 min per mile)
14 25.04 Mark Zerbe 44 ( 6.46 min per mile)
15 25.20 Matt Andryc 17 ( 6.51 min per mile)
16 25.34 Chris DePalma 38 ( 6.55 min per mile)
17 27.18 Scott Benjamin 47 ( 7.23 min per mile)
18 27.23 Chris Childs 46 ( 7.24 min per mile)
19 27.30 Andrea Behling 26 ( 7.26 min per mile)
20 27.46 Mario Hasz 56 ( 7.30 min per mile)
21 27.54 Kurt Thoennessen 26 ( 7.32 min per mile)
22 28.17 Joe Simons 51 ( 7.39 min per mile)
23 28.49 Laura Hermann 15 ( 7.47 min per mile)
24 29.09 Paul Butler 47 ( 7.53 min per mile)
25 29.17 Bob Lewis 40 ( 7.55 min per mile)
26 29.34 Lynn Zuback 39 ( 7.59 min per mile)
27 29.35 Dan Lynch 42 ( 7.60 min per mile)
28 29.40 Bob Satterlee 57 ( 8.01 min per mile)
29 29.52 Ken Burke 58 ( 8.04 min per mile)
30 29.58 Chris Powderly 52 ( 8.06 min per mile)
31 30.21 Sinead Blevio 32 ( 8.12 min per mile)
32 30.23 Gisela Boelhouwer 41 ( 8.13 min per mile)
33 31.27 Alicia Flanagan 21 ( 8.30 min per mile)
34 32.16 Steve Schoeller 50 ( 8.43 min per mile)
35 32.23 Walt Schuttler 53 ( 8.45 min per mile)
36 32.30 Peg Molina 48 ( 8.47 min per mile)
37 32.37 Wendy Carlson   ( 8.49 min per mile)
38 33.14 Kyle Knight 38 ( 8.59 min per mile)
39 33.15 Carl Hunt 53 ( 8.59 min per mile)
40 34.56 George Hermann 47 ( 9.26 min per mile)
41 35.06 Charlie Euston 60 ( 9.29 min per mile)
42 35.17 Ron Karl 60 ( 9.32 min per mile)
43 36.04 Al Mletzko 62 ( 9.45 min per mile)
44 36.34 Tim Flanagan 51 ( 9.53 min per mile)
45 38.50 Mo van Moffaert 45 ( 10.30 min per mile)
46 38.53 Sharon Gawe 52 ( 10.31 min per mile)
47 41.22 Prasama Sangkachand 45 ( 11.11 min per mile)
48 42.22 Corinne Bellemare 46 ( 11.27 min per mile)

 

  

 

 

 

 

Created July 23, 2005.  Finished July 25

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