4.2 miles - Down Hemlock, up Ranney April 1, 2006 8:30 am. 50 degrees |
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Matt Patrick ran a brilliant race from the start, led up and over Hemlock and by
the time he got back past the
General Store, he had such a lead that his nearest competition, bike shop owner
Greg Pelican, could just barely see him. Problem was, the course turned left
onto Ranney Hill Road about a quarter of a mile before the General Store.
Greg tried to call poor Matt back, but Matt didn't understand, and Greg sure
wasn't going to catch him, so Greg turned, and Matt took a while to realize his
mistake. Greg won, John Hirsch a minute back, and over 50 people spread
out across the county chasing them.
Pam Quist got her second win in a row, edging Jenna Hannibal, this also for the second week in a row. This week, though, the gap was only 34 seconds, less than half of last week's margin. This is getting exciting.
Help Web Guy Get Your Points Right
When we left the Rec Area this week, it looked like times and places would be a particular challenge. Poor Web Guy came home with a list of problems, "I got the wrong stick," "I missed the time for number 23," "We pressed the button twice there instead of just once," people with no places next to their names, no tape on the printer stopwatch. Astonishingly, all that worked out just fine, once Web Guy figured out that John Whelan and Joe Whelan weren't the same person, and that he'd skipped from one to the other typing the results, leaving out the seven people in between.
What did mess up, though, is that we didn't get enough information on times and order-of-finish for the people who ran alternate courses. So, what we did was just put the ones we did have times for in time order, and then list the rest in whatever order they ended up in. This messed up the points just a little bit, maybe three or four points. If you have information, contact Web Guy and he'll try to fix it. Same goes for some of those times from last week. eMail at esandifer (at) earthlink (dot) net.
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 safe and possible. (on the other hand, avoid the inside of sharp, blind curves.) Also, it is much 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:
Be safe
Have fun
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
At the top, we have a nice picture Ron Carl and Prasama, before a race last year. Then we have former-loser Paul Butler. He's forsaken his losing ways by telling people before the race who he's going to beat. It worked this week.
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
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Created April 1, 2006
