2006 Roxbury Race #5

3.7 miles - South Street to Ranney Hill Road

March 18, 2006

8:30 am. 25 degrees, wind and sun

   

Sheldon, Hannibal Hot on Yet Another Cold Day

    College students are flocking to Florida this week for Spring Break.  They sure aren't flocking to Roxbury.  They're too smart for that, as "Spring" and St. Patrick's Day  only brought 25 degrees, bright sun, and an annoying wind out of the north.  This was enough to deter over 6 billion of the world's people from running Roxbury.  Forty-four people, though, didn't know any better and showed up anyway.  They found quite good running conditions, except for that north wind, and a challenging course.

    When the starter said "GO!" Jeff Sheldon went.  He lead the entire race and at the end he was 31 seconds ahead of Ken Merrick.  Ken was part of a larger group of about ten people who went out a bit slower and stayed together for the first half mile.  Jeff got most of his lead by the mile mark and then coasted in.

    Jenna Hannibal won a much closer women's contest, edging Pam Quist by just 16 seconds.  Among the women, Pam went out fourth or fifth and slowly moved up.  At the mile mark, Jenna probably had at least a 20 second lead.  Last week's winner, Eunice Bussom, was another 24 seconds behind Pam, making it a pretty tight race.

 

Personal Notes

    This year's new rivalries are starting to take shape.  Most conspicuous is that huge battle among the women, among Jenna Hannibal, Eunice Bussom and Pam Quist.  It's a good thing they all like each other,

    The Fossil and new runner Chris Deming are banging heads every week, with Lou Denaro mixing it up in there, too.  The Fossil took down Chris for the first time this year, but Lou Denaro got them both.  Fossil is 1-3 against both of them, and Lou trails Chris 1-3 as well.  It's hard to believe that Chris ran his first race just a year ago.

    Longtime Roxbury Regular Paul Teixeira has talents beyond running.  During the ten-week winter break, he bowled a perfect 300 game.  

    Nora Hulton is racing again after a wedding-related injury cost her most of the 2005 season.  A broken foot slows you down a bit, but when they stick it in a bucket of cement for about four months, it slows you down even more.  Ironically, Nora is a florist.  She works with things that LIKE to have their feet in a cement bucket.

Safety

    Safety is important to us, as we don't run on closed roads and generally like each other.  

    It is safest if we face traffic as much as possible.  Also, it is safer if we are all on the same side of the road, instead of making traffic drive between runners.

    Fossil has three rules of running:

  1. Be safe

  2. Have fun

  3. It's more fun if you run well

    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 use all five fingers.

This week's pictures

    We're being lazy about pictures this year.  Here they are again.

    At the top, we have a nice picture of Sharon and Shiloh.  To the right, here, is a picture from the March 15, 2005 race, when conditions were clearly adverse.

    Along the side of the results, we have Mo van Moffaert about to get her stick from Ken Merrick.  Then there's a shot of two camera-shy runners, hiding where they think we won't take their pictures.  Below that is a picture of physical therapist Mike Candito, who now lives in Massachusetts.  The Fossil credits Mike with saving his Achilles tendon, and thus helping end the Fossil's plague of injuries.  Thanks, Mike.

    Along the bottom is another Winter start from 1998.  How many of the people can you identify?

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

 

 

 
1 21.29 Jeff Sheldon 26 5.48 min per mile)
2 22.00 Ken Merrick 37 5.57 min per mile)
3 22.17 Mark LoSacco 37 6.01 min per mile)
4 22.32 Joe Whelan 6.05 min per mile)
5 23.02 Mike Ruospo 41 6.14 min per mile)
6 23.11 Scott Holmes 44 6.16 min per mile)
7 23.18 John Richers 51 6.18 min per mile)
8 23.24 Brian Vanderheiden 36 6.19 min per mile)
9 24.01 Mike Abraham 47 6.29 min per mile)
10 24.20 Lou Denaro 45 6.35 min per mile)
11 24.34 Ed Sandifer 54 6.38 min per mile)
12 25.04 Chris Deming 39 6.46 min per mile)
13 25.27 Chris DePalma 39 6.53 min per mile)
14 25.51 Chris Childs 47 6.59 min per mile)
15 26.01 Jenna Hannibal 28   7.02 min per mile)
16 26.17 Pam Quist 42   7.06 min per mile)
17 26.41 Eunice Bussom     7.13 min per mile)
18 26.46 Steven Wurst 7.14 min per mile)
19 26.51 David Mariani 42 7.15 min per mile)
20 27.05 Brian Gildea 44 7.19 min per mile)
21 27.48 Chris Norris 37 7.31 min per mile)
22 27.56 John Boccuzzi Jr 37 7.33 min per mile)
23 28.04 Andrea Thoennessen 27   7.35 min per mile)
24 28.07 Jeff Field 7.36 min per mile)
25 28.10 Scott Benjamin 48 7.37 min per mile)
26 28.23 Paul Butler 48 7.40 min per mile)
27 28.35 Cindy Scannell 48   7.44 min per mile)
28 28.42 Dan Lynch 43 7.45 min per mile)
29 28.53 Mario Hasz 57 7.48 min per mile)
30 29.15 Nora Hulton 42   7.54 min per mile)
31 30.13 Lynn Zuback 40   8.10 min per mile)
32 31.13 Kurt Thoennessen 27 8.26 min per mile)
33 31.58 Ed Moros 58 8.38 min per mile)
34 32.52 Bob Satterlee 57 8.53 min per mile)
35 33.11 Mike Hicks 37 8.58 min per mile)
36 33.55 Bob Lewis 41 9.10 min per mile)
37 34.17 Hal Lyons 9.16 min per mile)
38 34.45 Steve Schoeller 51 9.24 min per mile)
39 35.42 Dennis Harrington 52 9.39 min per mile)
40 36.54 George Hermann 48 9.58 min per mile)
41 37.10 Sharon Gawe 53   10.03 min per mile)
42 37.12 Charlie Euston 61 10.03 min per mile)
43 37.39 Prasama Sangkachand 46   10.11 min per mile)
44 38.23 Ron Karl 64 10.22 min per mile)

 

  

 

 

 

 

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