Race Report by Mary Schafer

Roxbury Races Report

Before we start in on this week's race, let's follow up on Scott's safety briefings:
1. Run on the left side of the road. It's the right thing to do.
2. Move to the (left) side of the road when you hear "car up" or "car back."
2a. If you can, yell "car up" or "car back" when a vehicle is near.

SERIOUSLY. It's like people are begging cars to hit them and wishing the Town of Roxbury would ask us to leave. Or are just plain stupid. If any of these statements describe you, please run elsewhere.

That said, it was a fantastic, almost warm morning for running the Jeep Trail! This week's winners are Chris Scannell* in an adjusted 23:28 and Theresa Krebs in an actual 27:31. *Chris and the other pack leaders were distracted by the orange cone marking the frost heave/washout on High Bridge and made the turn a little early. Remember, all, that the little yellow arrows placed on the ground mark the way. Shockingly, and slightly disappointingly, the Jeep Trail itself seemed to survive the winter better than most of the structures in Northwest Connecticut. The usual muddy spot was, as usual, muddy. Paparazzi Mark was there to encourage us to kick it up a bit. Watch for his pictures on Facebook.

It has been noted that we have yet to see either Chuck or Bruce so far this season. Chuck? Bruce? If you're out there, come back. Two important questions were raised this week:
1. What is proper running attire if one prefers to run shirtless, yet still remain highly visible to cars and other road users? For the answer, we turn to none other than Jeff, "Obviously you should wear fluorescent arm warmers." Well, duh.
2. Wouldn't it be more interesting if some of the Roxbury women ran shirtless? No. Did anybody else know that Ross is actually Dr. Ross? If there are any jokes to be made about ER or George Clooney, please input them here.

A final reminder, Steve will be running the Boston Marathon next Monday in support of the Community Congregational Church. For those of you who have run Boston, you would recognize the CCC as the little white church at the starting line. In years past, the CCC charged runners to park their cars for the day and thus funded their program for disadvantaged children. Fast forward and the race is 30k runners and no private cars are allowed close to the starting line. In compensation for losing their fundraiser, the Boston Athletic Association has given the CCC two bibs for the marathon. Steve is the second runner from Roxbury to run for the CCC. The big idea is that if Steve can respectably fundraise, hopefully the CCC will let someone from Roxbury have the bib again next year. So please donate if you can. There will be a shoebox at sign in on Saturday.

Next week, we're running up Chalybes, our traditional pre-Boston race. See you there!

Race report from LeeAnne and the Northern Nipmuck Trail Race: That is why we were not at Roxbury. It is most probably the toughest race either of us did. Took us over 7 hours to go 16 miles. Held on the Nipmuck Trail in northeastern Ct. We survived to tell the tale though! One rolled ankle on my part and a calf cramp for Charlie(both events made us fall once) but we were able to keep going. Lots of walking(and resting to catch our breaths at the end of climbs) the second half- very hilly, rocky etc.

Race Results

Roxbury Race Series 2011 - Race #8 - April 9 - 3.95 miles - Jeep Trail
The first three runners turned too soon on High Bridge Rd, shortening their run by about 0.22 mile. Times adjusted by 5.6%
place name age time pace per mile (Actual 3.73 mile Time)
1 Chris Scannell 24 23.28 5.56 22.13
2 Ryan Clarke 15 24.33 6.13 23.15
3 Scott Holmes 49 24.47 6.16 23.28
4 Chris Deming 44 24.59 6.19  
5 Nelson Azevedo 52 25.25 6.26  
6 Brian Vanderheiden 41 25.42 6.30  
7 Joe Mendes 44 26.06 6.36  
8 Mike Abraham 51 26.37 6.44  
9 Steve Cognato 42 27.20 6.55  
10 Steve Haas 55 27.28 6.57  
11 Theresa Krebs 41 27.31 6.58  
12 Steve Benoit 58 27.45 7.02  
13 Jeff Tindell 61 27.55 7.04  
14 Tom McNulty 45 28.12 7.08  
15 Baerbel LoSacco 39 28.20 7.10  
16 Chris Norris 42 28.25 7.12  
17 John Whalen 45 28.27 7.12  
18 Larry Deming 53 28.47 7.17  
19 Russ Pribanic 57 28.49 7.18  
20 Nate Mahrer 39 29.00 7.21  
21 John A. Adomelis 56 29.10 7.23  
22 Alison Masopust 27 29.21 7.26  
23 Joe Dolen 56 29.37 7.30  
24 Mary Schafer 36 29.59 7.35  
25 Blake Carrigan 10 30.01 7.36  
26 Dirk Feather 36 30.03 7.36  
27 Eric Koenig 31 30.09 7.38  
28 Jeffrey Bishop 30 30.12 7.39  
29 Ross Levy 60 30.22 7.41  
30 Ryan Carrigan 42 30.40 7.46  
31 Steve 33 30.47 7.48  
32 John Kane 59 31.03 7.52  
33 Bill Goodman 31 31.11 7.54  
34 Stephanie Bennett 41 31.23 7.57  
35 Bill Euerle 66 31.30 7.58  
36 Emily Davis 26 32.06 8.08  
37 Paul Butler 53 32.15 8.10  
38 Scott Benjamin 53 32.22 8.12  
39 JT Schemm 35 32.27 8.13  
40 Bob Lewis 46 32.48 8.18  
41 Krystal Koenig 28 33.10 8.24  
42 Lynn Zuback 45 33.13 8.25  
43 Irene Clarke 42 33.15 8.25  
44 Kristine Dziezynski 41 33.32 8.29  
45 Anita Hannan 45 33.39 8.31  
46 Kim Cognato 42 33.47 8.33  
47 Michael Hicks 42 33.57 8.36  
48 Dan Lynch 49 34.17 8.41  
49 Dan Ong 12 34.34 8.45  
50 Harry Ong 71 34.52 8.50  
51 Whitney Goodman 28 34.56 8.51  
52 Cathy Racz 45 35.01 8.52  
53 Sarai Wilds 41 35.06 8.53  
54 Bob Satterlee 62 35.06 8.53  
55 Kateri Danay 13 35.28 8.59  
56 Dan Ambruso 41 35.41 9.02  
57 Mario Hasz 62 35.51 9.05  
58 Dan Lamb 49 35.54 9.05  
59 Keith Dupree 68 37.27 9.29  
60 Sharon Gawe 58 38.05 9.38  
61 Kathy Creighton 54.00 38.06 9.39  
62 Janet Levy 57 40.02 10.08  
63 Mo Van Moffaert 51 40.41 10.18  
64 Aurelia Boyer 57 42.08 10.40  
65 Marissa Bishop 29 50.47 12.51  
           
           
Alternate Routes
place name age dist. time
66 KC Gawlak 53 1.00 9.00

If anyone has photos of the races, send 'em to chris (at) beatfrequencies (dot) com and I'll try to put them up here on these pages...or better yet...
join the Roxbury Races Facebook group and you can post them there yourself!
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