2008 Roxbury Race #26 - The Roxbury Mile

One mile - Rec area to Booth Free School

August 30, 2008

8:30 am - 65 degrees, drizzle

   

 

Next Week: 4.2 miles: Hemlock/Ranney

Andrews edges Schafer and DeMarrais

Palmer nips Sheldon

Short but sweet

    Our starter today introduced himself as "Larry" and promised to serve up some high-speed road racing.  We got what we ordered.

    Jeff Sheldon looked to win the race, but as the finish line approached, Steve Palmer had more legs than Jeff did and he pulled away for a two-second margin.

    The race of the day was among the women.  Early on, Mary Schafer was duking it out with long-time friend (and long-missing from Roxbury) Marge DeMarrais.  Then, towards the end of the race, Lisa Andrews came up from behind to grab the crown, three seconds ahead of Mary, who, in turn, was just one second ahead of Marge.  What a race!

    Points leaders Ed Sandifer and Joe Mendes went at it the whole race, too.  Jolting Joe, usually fast-starting, held back a bit and stalked the Fossil for most of the race, while the Fossil kept trying to pass long-time rival Mark Zerbe.  When Mark finally pulled past the Fossil, Joe blew past both of them and left the poor Fossil dusted in ninth place.

Slowing down

    We all know that we usually slow down as the race gets longer.  The theory is that if you double the length of the course (and if other things aren't too different), then your pace per mile will slow down by a constant amount, about 20 seconds a mile for most people.  This amount is sometimes called the doubling constant.

    So, if you are fit and you can run a mile in about 6:00, we'd guess you can run two miles at about 6:20 per mile, for a total time of about 12:40.  On the other hand, if you can run a half-marathon at an 8:00 minute pace (1:44:48), then we guess you can run a marathon at about 8:20 per mile (3:38:20). 

    WebGuy likes mathematics, so he did some math on this idea to see if he could understand it a little better.  He took the data from today's 8.2 mile race and compared it to our paces from the 4.3 mile race on High Bridge Road back on June 21.  He took these two races because they were similar courses, down hill, then back up the hill, but one was just about twice as long as the other.  The data for the 15 people who ran both races is given below:

Slowing down
8.2 mi 23-Sep 4.3 mi 21-Jun Slowdown
1 Jeff Sheldon 49.08 6.00 24.52 5.47 13
2 Joe Mendes 57.05 6.58 28.37 6.39 19
3 Ed Sandifer 57.35 7.01 29.05 6.46 15
4 Steve Benoit 59.48 7.18 29.56 6.58 20
5 Ray Fico 60.25 7.22 30.32 7.06 16
6 Mark Zerbe 63.42 7.46 31.23 7.18 28
7 Dan Lynch 62.19 7.36 31.54 7.25 11
8 Chris Deming 52.58 6.28 31.58 7.26 -58
9 Tom McNulty 64.57 7.55 32.21 7.31 24
10 David Mariani 67.18 8.12 33.35 7.49 23
11 Bob Lewis 74.33 9.05 35.30 8.15 50
12 Lynn Zuback 72.20 8.49 35.53 8.21 28
13 Russ Pribanic 79.16 9.40 36.02 8.23 17
14 Scott Benjamin 72.31 8.51 36.06 8.24 27
15 Mario Hasz 73.10 8.55 36.24 8.28 27

Webguy decided to disqualify Chris Deming from this list because he actually sped up by almost a minute per mile as the race distance doubled, and we guessed that he wasn't trying very hard on June 21.  No offence, Chris.

With Chris kicked out of the data, the average slowdown for the 14 survivors was 22.7 seconds per mile.  The data seems to fit the theory pretty well.  The doubling constant for this data is a little more than 23 seconds (because 8.2 miles is a little less than double 4.3).

Why don't you try to calculate some doubling constants for your own races, and see if your experience fits the theory. (8/23/2008)

People    

Hall of Famer Corinne Bellemare returned to Roxbury for the first time this season.  She's been battling a foot injury for almost a year now.  Welcome back.  

Fast-improving Erik Gundel tactfully beat neither JT Schemm, the physics teacher at his alma mater, NMHS, nor Chuck Rocca, one of his mathematics teachers at Western Connecticut State University.

Aforementioned Chuck Rocca is preparing to run the Mohawk-Hudson River Marathon in Albany in October.  He ran today's mile in 6:12 as part of the entire Roxbury Marathon course. 

Jack Fico and his dad Ray finished 5th and 32nd today.  Jon and Harry Ong and their friend Dudley finished 17th, 37th and 38th.  Ryan, Kevin, Ian and Tom McNulty made it a family day and finished 42, 43, 49 and 50, and they had enough family left over to provide cheering fans at the finish line.  Henry, Steve and Calvin Palmer were 1st, 31st and 33rd.  Amanda and Chris Deming were 4th and 47th.  And we mustn't overlook Janet and Ross Levy in 22nd and 39th.

Did we miss anyone?

I wasn't sure, but I thought that Stan Murphy in 23rd and John Murphy Jr. in 28th weren't related.  This was news to them, as they've known each other all of Stan's life.  Stan was in town to go water skiing with his dad, but since Dad Murphy was running Roxbury first, Stan came along.  Welcome to Roxbury, Stan Murphy.

Pictures

    Up top, Scott Benjamin gives the safety warning.  Chuck Rocca and Erik Gundel lurk in the background.  Then Al Mletzko and Corinne Bellemare join the Hall of Fame.  All the other pictures already have captions.

A foggy start at the August 23 race of 8.2 miles

     The Roxbury Races are now listed on the Internet both on RunningInTheUSA and on HiTekRacing.com.  For information contact Bob Lewis at ctstaterunner (at) yahoo (dot) com, or at 203 240 0162.

Last week's results (8.2 miles - Judds Bridge)      

Next week (when available) (4.2 miles - Hemlock/Ranney) 

 

 

This week's results

 
place time

name

 age
1 5.01 Steve Palmer 46
2 5.03 Jeff Sheldon 28
3 5.23 Brian Clemente 23
4 5.27 Chris Deming 41
5 5.34 Ray Fico 42
6 5.47 Mike Abraham 49
7 5.58 Joe Mendes 42
8 5.59 Mark Zerbe 48
9 6.03 Ed Sandifer 56
10 6.08 Chris DePalma 41
11 6.12 Chuck Rocca 35
12 6.13 J T Schemm 32
13 6.15 Erik Gundel 21
14 6.16 Lisa Andrews 25
15 6.17 Brian Vanderheiden 38
16 6.19 Mary Schafer 34
17 6.20 Jon Ong 45
18 6.20 Marge De Marrais 44
19 6.21 Brian Gildea 47
20 6.22 Nate Mahrer 36
21 6.25 Chris Zarzycki 52
22 6.33 Ross Levy 57
23 6.36 Stan Murphy 26
24 6.39 David Mariani 44
25 6.41 Bob Lewis 43
26 6.47 Scott Benjamin 50
27 7.13 Theresa Oria 41
28 7.15 John Murphy Jr 58
29 7.25 Mario Hasz 59
30 7.39 Bob Satterlee 59
31 7.40 Henry Palmer 13
32 7.43 Jack Fico 9
33 7.43 Calvin Palmer 9
34 7.47 Russ Pribanic 54
35 7.51 Paul Butler 50
36 8.08 Paul Courtney 46
37 8.29 Dudley Ong 7
38 8.30 Harry Ong 68
39 8.34 Janet Levy 54
40 8.41 Sharon Gawe 56
41 9.19 Charlie Euston 64
42 10.02 Ryan McNulty 7
43 10.08 Kevin McNulty 9
44 10.10 Lynn Zuback 43
45 10.12 LeeAnne Zarger 54
46 10.12 David Crompton 60
47 10.15 Amanda Deming 10
48 10.23 Ron Karl 67
49 12.23 Ian McNulty 5
50 12.24 Tom McNulty 42
51 13.19 Corinne Bellemare 50
52 14.08 Dan Lynch 46

 

 

 

Deming Brothers, Chris and Larry

 

Four colorful outfits, one far too colorful.

 

 

Amanda Deming, Princess of Stopwatch

 

Current points standings

 

Week 26

 

    Jolting Joe Mendes chopped two more points out of the Fossil's overall lead, and at the same time he reached the stratospheric Millennium Man Milestone.

 

    Lou Denaro was the only of the Top Ten to miss this week, but it wasn't enough to drop him out of 5th place overall.  The highest place changes were Bob Lewis and Nate Maherer, who jumped over Russ Pribanic, who is nursing an injury and dropped to 14th place.

 

    Our total number of different runner this year reached 250.  Last week we passed 100 miles raced.  People have earned a total of 34859 Prestigious Roxbury Points so far.  Three people, Bob Lewis, Ed Sandifer and Scott Benjamin, maintain perfect attendance for the season.

 

    In the table below, runners who have not missed a race yet this year are marked with a *.  Rookies, those running their first Roxbury race of the season, are marked with an "R", and people reaching 100-point milestones are marked with a C.  People whose ages were different this week than they were in our data base are marked with a B.  If everything in the data base works perfectly, this means they had a birthday recently, but we know the data base isn't perfect. Other symbols and doodads may be added later in the season. 

 

now last change points name age div races C wins star
1 1 0 1108 Ed Sandifer 56 26 C *
2 2 0 1049 Joe Mendes 42 25 M
3 3 0 937 Chris Deming 41 21 C 5
4 4 0 888 Dan Lynch 46 23
5 5 0 831 Lou Denaro 48 17
6 6 0 760 Brian Gildea 47 20
7 7 0 734 David Mariani 44 22
8 8 0 723 Scott Benjamin 50 26 C *
9 9 0 718 Chuck Rocca 35 19 C
10 10 0 716 Mark Zerbe 49 21 C
11 11 0 703 Mary Schafer 33 F 19 C 15
12 13 1 622 Bob Lewis 43 26 C *
13 14 1 620 Nate Mahrer 36 18 C
14 12 -2 619 Russ Pribanic 54 21 C
15 15 0 571 Larry Deming 51 24
16 16 0 532 Jeff Tindell 58 14
17 17 0 516 Matt Cappiello 43 10
18 18 0 499 Mario Hasz 59 21
19 21 2 492 Jeff Sheldon 28 11 7
20 19 -1 487 Paul Butler 50 20
21 20 -1 465 Bruce Goulart 58 12
22 25 3 451 Ray Fico 42 13 C
23 22 -1 436 Steve Haas 52 9
24 23 -1 431 Joe Whelan 43 8 2
25 24 -1 427 Bob Satterlee 59 23
26 28 2 415 Mike Abraham 49 10 C
27 26 -1 412 Brian Vanderheiden 38 11 C
28 27 -1 381 Lynn Zuback 42 F 18 1
29 30 1 372 Harry Ong 68 14
30 31 1 357 Paul Courtney 45 23
31 29 -2 357 Tom Dever 55 11
32 32 0 319 John Whalen 42 7
33 34 1 316 Dudley Ong 7 O 12 C
34 33 -1 308 Jon Binzen 51 8
35 39 4 304 Theresa Oria 41 F 18 C
36 35 -1 293 Dave Harvey 44 6
37 36 -1 286 Scott Holmes 47 6
38 37 -1 285 Andrew Levy 21 6 3
39 38 -1 280 Nora Hulton 44 F 10 1
40 40 0 260 Paul Malek 16 6
41 41 0 250 Chris Childs 49 6
42 42 0 232 Mo van Moffaert 48 F 16
43 43 0 229 John Adomelis 53 5
44 50 6 227 John Murphy Jr 58 8 C
45 44 -1 223 Don Smith 64 6
46 45 -1 215 Adam Levy 23 5
47 46 -1 213 Cindy Scannell 50 F 9 2
48 54 6 211 Ross Levy 57 7 C
49 51 2 209 Sharon Gawe 56 F 15 CB
50 47 -3 209 Taylor Phillips 17 5
51 48 -3 205 Ed Moros 60 9
52 49 -3 203 Mike Taylor 42 4
53 53 0 194 Tom McNulty 42 8
54 52 -2 189 Kurt Thoennessen 29 9
55 58 3 185 Charlie Euston 63 18
56 55 -1 174 Louis Garguilo 30 3
57 56 -1 172 Pat Moore 46 F 12
58 71 13 172 Erik Gundel 21 6
59 57 -2 171 Theresa Krebs 38 F 5 2
60 61 1 164 LeeAnne Zarger 54 F 16
61 59 -2 157 Bob Moore 50 8
62 60 -2 155 Zach Wortman 17 4
63 62 -1 152 Katie Neils 15 F 6
64 63 -1 151 Rosie Morehouse 5 O 3
65 64 -1 148 Andrew Morehouse 41 3
66 65 -1 148 John Hirsch 33 3 2
67 66 -1 142 Sean Kerton 17 4
68 67 -1 141 Alissa Pajer 21 F 3 3
69 68 -1 133 James Moen 17 3
70 86 16 131 Chris Zarzycki 52 5 C
71 69 -2 130 Prasama Sangkachand 49 F 16
72 70 -2 130 Mark Losacco 39 3
73 72 -1 124 John Porges 40 3
74 73 -1 123 Brittany Ronan 17 5
75 74 -1 120 Brian Solt 35 7
76 78 2 119 Ron Karl 67 15
77 75 -2 117 Chris Powderly 56 6
78 76 -2 112 Michael Hicks 39 8
79 77 -2 111 Scott Bussom 29 2
80 84 4 105 Amanda Deming 10 F 17 C
81 79 -2 103 Connor Lofink 17 4
82 80 -2 102 Steve Benoit 55 3
83 81 -2 101 Roderic McGahren 39 4
84 82 -2 101 David Dion 17 2
85 83 -2 100 Dan Lamb 46 3
86 117 31 100 Jon Ong 44 3 CB
87 85 -2 95 Jim Little 54 10
88 87 -1 94 Kevin Curley 27 2 1
89 88 -1 90 Wendy Carlson F 5
90 142 52 90 Chris DePalma 41 2
91 89 -2 89 John Kane 56 3
92 90 -2 88 Dan Decrescenco 17 1 1
93 91 -2 87 Craig Hunt 17 1
94 92 -2 86 Jay McGorty 16 1
95 93 -2 85 Dan Watson 17 1
96 94 -2 84 Zack Krause 16 1
97 149 52 82 Lisa Andrews 25 F 2 1
98 95 -3 81 Doug Lee 47 2
99 96 -3 81 Spencer Mannion 15 2
100 97 -3 76 Eric Myhill 41 3
101 98 -3 76 Evan Wright 15 1
102 99 -3 75 Michele Westervelt 38 F 5
103 100 -3 75 Unknown 3
104 101 -3 75 Connor Greene 16 1
105 102 -3 73 Terri Lee 44 F 2
106 103 -3 71 Colin Lennon 15 2
107 104 -3 71 Neil Walsh 18 1
108 105 -3 70 Mike Piersal 15 1
109 106 -3 69 Al Mletzko 66 7
110 107 -3 68 Michael Croft 30 1
111 134 23 66 Janet Levy 54 F 7
112 108 -4 66 Jeanne Bartkus 49 F 5
113 109 -4 66 Heather Whalen 43 F 4
114 110 -4 66 Andrew Mendelson 16 2
115 111 -4 65 Dawn Riebeling 23 F 2 1
116 112 -4 65 Patrick Firmender 15 1
117 113 -4 64 Collin Deming 8 9
118 207 89 63 J T Schemm 32 2
119 114 -5 63 Patrick O'Brien 16 1
120 115 -5 61 Sarah Whalen 12 F 3
121 116 -5 61 Kenny Heyne 14 1
122 118 -4 60 Alessandro Criollo 16 1
123 119 -4 58 Brittany Moore 16 F 1
124 120 -4 57 Lily Horton 16 F 1
125 121 -4 56 Mark Andrejczyk 35 1
126 56 Steve Palmer 46 1 R 1
127 122 -5 55 Nina Oria 14 F 3
128 54 Brian Clemente 23 1 R
129 123 -6 54 Kyle Hobbs 16 1
130 124 -6 52 Glenn van Moffaert 19 1
131 125 -6 52 Kelsey Maikay 17 F 1
132 126 -6 52 Mike Szerkowicz 18 1
133 127 -6 51 Garrett Derringer 15 1 1
134 128 -6 50 Drew Firmender 21 1 1
135 129 -6 50 Ken Levalle 18 1
136 130 -6 50 Pat Hall 52 F 1
137 131 -6 49 Jack Whalen 10 3
138 132 -6 49 Mia Myhill 5 O 2
139 133 -6 49 Jim Lee 49 1
140 135 -5 48 Bob Derringer 46 1
141 136 -5 48 Nathaniel Kay 16 1
142 137 -5 47 Ken Burke 61 1
143 138 -5 46 Kara Thoennessen 1.5 F 3
144 139 -5 45 Jason Satterlee 33 1
145 140 -5 44 Alex Ehrenreich 18 1
146 141 -5 44 Wyatt Golding 23 1 1
147 143 -4 43 Jesse Steinmetz 14 1
148 144 -4 42 Doug Langley 20 1
149 145 -4 41 Sheila Anson 51 F 2
150 146 -4 40 Paul Yaunsem 17 1
151 216 65 39 Jack Fico 9 2
152 147 -5 39 Rick DeWitt 50 2
153 148 -5 39 Bob Trumbley 47 1
154 39 Marge De Marrais 44 F 1 R
155 150 -5 39 Shannon Tredennick 38 F 1
156 151 -5 38 Susan DeWitt 42 F 2
157 152 -5 37 Michelle Courtney 14 F 3
158 153 -5 37 Pete Gillen 26 1
159 154 -5 37 Thomas Scarola 46 1
160 155 -5 36 Pat Dennen 28 1 1
161 156 -5 36 Tyler Kniery 17 1
162 157 -5 35 Ishmael Chesto 37 1
163 158 -5 35 Richard Hunt 61 1
164 34 Stan Murphy 26 1 R
165 159 -6 33 Sid Phadnis 16 2
166 160 -6 33 Jackie Devito 16 F 1
167 161 -6 33 John Richers 53 1
168 162 -6 33 Ryan Phillips 28 1
169 163 -6 32 Raymond Pajer 59 2
170 164 -6 32 Chris Peterson 15 1
171 165 -6 32 Gary Coolbeth Jr 35 1
172 211 39 31 Ryan McNulty 7 2
173 166 -7 31 Armand Wilson 19 1
174 167 -7 31 Dave Van Moffaert 17 1
175 168 -7 30 Chris Morcone 1
176 169 -7 30 Gerry Heyde 56 1
177 170 -7 30 Gil Rubin 60 1
178 171 -7 30 Mimi Gillen 58 F 1
179 172 -7 30 Tom Brayton 45 1
180 212 32 29 Kevin McNulty 8 2 B
181 173 -8 29 Karen Kay 48 F 1
182 174 -8 28 Kevin Peterson 15 1
183 175 -8 28 Stephen Yu 46 1
184 176 -8 27 Lucky Zarger 1 O 3
185 177 -8 27 Stacey Kennedy 38 F 2
186 178 -8 26 Andrea Thoennessen 29 F 1
187 26 Henry Palmer 13 1 R
188 179 -9 25 Jacob Collette 15 1
189 180 -9 25 Jorge Lopez 43 1
190 181 -9 25 Ray Pajer 59 1
191 182 -9 24 Ben Lofink 15 1
192 24 Calvin Palmer 9 1 R
193 183 -10 24 P.J. Scappatura 14 1
194 184 -10 24 Steve Greene 54 1
195 185 -10 23 Lola Zarger 1 O 2
196 186 -10 23 Sinead Blevio 35 F 1
197 187 -10 22 Beverly Pajer 55 F 2
198 188 -10 22 Barbara Kiselak 51 F 1
199 189 -10 22 Joanne Emanuel 40 F 1
200 190 -10 22 Rebecca Press 36 F 1
201 191 -10 22 Tommy Vanderheiden 3 1
202 192 -10 21 Bill Hoey 1
203 193 -10 21 Dave Blauch 29 1
204 194 -10 21 Haley Nagamatsu 14 1
205 195 -10 21 Jack Kennedy 9 1
206 196 -10 21 Rory Goodwin 52 1
207 197 -10 20 Britanny Ronan 17 F 1
208 198 -10 20 Joe Mannion 47 1
209 199 -10 20 Michelle Norella 42 F 1
210 200 -10 19 Shannon Bartkus 14 F 2
211 201 -10 19 Charlie Hastey 46 1
212 202 -10 19 Jackie Brown 15 F 1
213 203 -10 19 Kristine Dziezynski 38 F 1
214 204 -10 18 Adam Fox 13 1
215 205 -10 18 Aimee Reutzel 16 F 1
216 206 -10 18 Gregg Nolting 54 1
217 231 14 17 Ian McNulty 5 2 B
218 208 -10 17 Nichole Souza 15 F 1
219 209 -10 16 Matt Curran 15 1
220 210 -10 16 Matt Curran 15 1
221 213 -8 15 Rosie Ong 66 F 1
222 214 -8 14 Ally Bierce 15 F 1
223 215 -8 14 Gary Coolbeth Sr 57 1
224 217 -7 13 Catherine Mendes 9 F 1
225 218 -7 13 Deborah Coolbeth 54 F 1
226 219 -7 13 Mariah Walsh 15 F 1
227 220 -7 13 Mary Lou White 52 F 1
228 221 -7 12 Jennifer Bacleau 34 F 1
229 222 -7 11 Angelica Mendes 14 F 1
230 11 David Crompton 60 1 R
231 223 -8 11 Kandace Yuen F 1
232 224 -8 11 Michael Kersten 37 1
233 225 -8 11 Sarah Swanson 15 F 1
234 226 -8 11 Stormy Chamberlain 32 1
235 227 -8 10 Mary Deming 84 F 2
236 228 -8 10 Jordan Butler 14 1
237 229 -8 9 Bonnie Murray 44 F 1
238 230 -8 9 Duncan Engel 17 1
239 232 -7 8 Chelsea Smith 16 F 1
240 233 -7 7 Brittany Orbecker 14 F 1
241 234 -7 7 Erin McNulty 10 mos. F 1
242 235 -7 7 Judy Larson 52 F 1
243 236 -7 7 Ryland Grudzinski 14 1
244 237 -7 6 Ann Schafer 31 F 1
245 6 Corinne Bellemare 50 1 R
246 238 -8 6 Joan Temple 52 F 1
247 239 -8 6 Kyle Knight 41 F 1
248 240 -8 6 Maura McNulty 41 F 1
249 241 -8 6 Pam Quist 44 F 1
250 242 -8 5 Alissa Mendes 37 F 1
251 243 -8 5 Chloe Karl 63 F 1
252 244 -8 5 Mary Beth Morrison 51 F 1

 

 

Created August 30, 2008

 

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