2006 Roxbury Race #16

4.8 miles - Judd's Bridge Rd.

June 3, 2006

8:30 am. cool, rainy

   

Sheldon and Hulton Beat Field & Mother Nature

    Race #16 of the 2006 Roxbury season threatened to be a total washout.  Despite the risk becoming waterlogged, some 40 diehards showed up to race the 4.8 mile Judd's Bridge Rd. out-and-back course.  Those who finished fast enough managed to beat out the worst of the downpour.  The rest were treated to a heavy but cooling downpour.

   Jeff Sheldon was one of those that ran fast enough to avoid the rain.  He also ran fast enough to avoid all the other runners.  Jeff led wire to wire and finished nearly a full 2 minutes over closest rival Ken Merrick.  Jeff's time of 27:15 is a 5:41 pace.

   Pam Quist took a week off and let someone else win.  Nora Hulton was on hand to take this week's honors as she covered the course in 37:52.  Mo van Moffaert took second place among the ladies.  This was Nora's first win of the 2006 season.

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:

  1. Be safe

  2. Have fun

  3. It's sometimes more fun if you win.  Set goals you can realistically achieve.

    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.

Vermont City Marathon Kudos

   Congratulations to Tom McNulty for chopping almost a full hour off his marathon PR last week at the Vermont City Marathon!  Congratulations also go out to occasional Roxbury runner Sameh Hassan who made Vermont City his first marathon and completed it in under 5 hours.  Their race results are below.

Overall place First Last Age Sex Bib City State Half marathon Nettime Guntime Pace
753 Thomas McNulty 40 M 1959 New Milford CT 1:58:05 3:58:19 3:58:40 9:06
1647 Sameh Hassan 36 M 1333 Danbury CT 2:00:06 4:40:26 4:41:10 10:42

This week's pictures

      First up is an old photo of Tom McNulty. His breakthrough effort at Vermont deserves a top of page photo! 

    Then we have Brian Vanderheiden, and Mark Andrejczyk warming up on the track.  That one is followed by a shot of Chris Deming who moved up out of the fog to the 5th spot in the point standings this week.

    Then we have Kurt Thoennessen and Bob Saterlee working together to push over the wooden fence posts.  

    Along the side of the results, is a shot of two Mark's one's a LoSacco and the other's a Zerbe.

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

 

 

1 27.15 Jeff Sheldon 26 ( 5.41 min per mile)
2 29.12 Ken Merrick 37 ( 6.05 min per mile)
3 29.52 Mark LoSacco 37 ( 6.13 min per mile)
4 30.08 Brian Vanderheiden 36 ( 6.17 min per mile)
5 30.34 Mike Ruospo 41 ( 6.22 min per mile)
6 31.01 Mike Abraham 46 ( 6.28 min per mile)
7 31.20 Chris Deming 39 ( 6.32 min per mile)
8 32.11 Lou Denaro 46 ( 6.42 min per mile)
9 32.54 Jeff Tindell 56 ( 6.51 min per mile)
10 34.08 Dan Lynch 44 ( 7.07 min per mile)
11 34.23 Brian Gildea 44 ( 7.10 min per mile)
12 34.46 Douglas Lee 45 ( 7.15 min per mile)
13 34.51 Chris Childs 47 ( 7.16 min per mile)
14 35.10 Mark Zerbe 45 ( 7.20 min per mile)
15 35.18 Jack Rankin 57 ( 7.21 min per mile)
16 36.11 John Boccuzzi Jr 37 ( 7.32 min per mile)
17 36.13 Chris Norris 37 ( 7.33 min per mile)
18 36.16 Scott Benjamin 48 ( 7.33 min per mile)
19 36.56 Paul Butler 48 ( 7.42 min per mile)
20 37.37 Russ Pribanic 52 ( 7.50 min per mile)
21 37.43 Harry Ong 67 ( 7.51 min per mile)
22 37.46 Mario Hasz 57 ( 7.52 min per mile)
23 37.52 Nora Hulton 42 ( 7.53 min per mile)
24 39.15 Ray Giordano 56 ( 8.11 min per mile)
25 39.50 Bob Lewis 41 ( 8.18 min per mile)
26 40.30 Tom McNulty 40 ( 8.26 min per mile)
27 41.05 Kurt Thoennessen 27 ( 8.34 min per mile)
28 42.05 Mo van Moffaert 46 ( 8.46 min per mile)
29 42.24 Bob Satterlee 57 ( 8.50 min per mile)
30 44.18 Lynn Zuback 40 ( 9.14 min per mile)
31 46.10 Charlie Euston 61 ( 9.37 min per mile)
32 48.44 Steve Schoeller 51 ( 10.09 min per mile)
33 49.10 George Hermann 48 ( 10.15 min per mile)
34 50.09 Larry Deming 49 ( 10.27 min per mile)
35 51.24 Ron Karl 65 ( 10.43 min per mile)
36 52.32 Prasama Sangkachand 46 ( 10.57 min per mile)
37 54.16 LeeAnne Zarger 52 ( 11.18 min per mile)
Alternate 2.4 mi
38 20.21 Chris Powderly 54 ( 8.29 min per mile)
Alternate 0.41 mi
39 3.43 Amanda Deming 8 ( 9.04 min per mile)
40 4.49 Collin Deming 6 ( 11.45 min per mile)

 

 

Created June 3, 2006

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