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Mark LoSacco ran 39 of the season's 41 races. He won three times, and finished in the top three most of the rest of the time. That earned him 1932 Prestigious Roxbury Points, and put him in first place for 2006, our 30th season.
Pam Quist, a veteran of more than 20 seasons, won more than half of the time this year, logging 21 wins in 33 attempts. She became the first woman ever to earn over a thousand points, recording 1318 points and winning among the women by over 500 points. She finished 6th over all.
Last year's winner, Jeff Sheldon, cut back a bit this year and ran only 21 races (but a few marathons.) He still won 13 times (usually making it a Sheldon-Quist double) and earned 1201 points. He spent most of the season bouncing around in the second ten in the points standings, but on the last day of the season he moved up to 10th place, bumping Scott Benjamin out of the Top Ten. That was the only change in the Top Ten.
A record 291 different individuals ran at Roxbury this year. Most of them were people. 112 of them scored over a hundred points, including Terri Sacco and Lisa Andrews, who waited until the last race of the season to reach the milestone.
If you ran every mile of every race for the whole season, you raced 165.5 miles. Only Scott Benjamin did that. The total attendance at all 41 races was 1993, making it the largest race in Litchfield County, in one sense. People earned a total of 59732 of those Prestigious Roxbury Points. (You can't counterfeit them. You can't even buy them on eBay. The only way to get them is to run the race.)
Three people took the whole year before they discovered the Roxbury Races, so we had three last-minute rookies, Stephen Marjalese, Chris Chiappini and Tom Hartch. Next year, they and anyone else who ran eight or fewer races this year will be eligible to be Rookie of the Year.
Complete details are below.
In the table below, person who did not miss a race yet this year is marked with a *. That's Scott Benjamin. An "R" marks this week's three rookies. People reaching Century marks this week are marked with a "C." On the rare occasion someone reaches a thousand points, they got an "M," but that didn't happen this week.
Latest standings:
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Updated December 2, 2006
