2008 Roxbury Race #32

4.3 miles - High Bridge Road

October 11, 2008

8:30 am - low 40's, turning leaves lifting fog

   

 

Next Week: 3.52 miles - up Hemlock

LoSacco races hard

Reibeling edges tough women's field

    Mark LoSacco took off like a shot. And he just kept going. He quickly became a red-clad spot, disappearing from the sight of six closely-packed pursuers.  If Mark looked back after the first mile or so, there was nothing to see.  At the end, he had a two minute margin on last week's winner, Scott Holmes.

    The race among the women was much closer.  Dawn Riebeling, running her rookie year at Roxbury, snagged her fourth win in six races, half a minute ahead of last week's winner, Haley Nagamatsu and a minute ahead of points-leader Mary Schafer.

People

Chris Deming missed this week's Roxbury, but we managed to track him down and get his excuse in writing.  It seems he was running the Hartford Marathon.  Here's his report:

I came in 19th place at the Hartford Marathon today - 3rd in Masters Men! 

My gun time was 2:52:59 (net time 2:52:54).  This improves my marathon PR by 5 minutes.  I did start out faster than I intended.  I was aiming for a 6:29 pace. After the first two miles at 6:10 pace, I made an adjustment and managed to stay around my overall target (at mile 13, I was right at 6:29 pace overall) - until around Mile 19, where my legs started cramping up and my pace got dramatically slower - Miles 19 - 26:  6:41, 6:50, 6:39, 6:40, 6:55, 7:00, 7:05, 7:02.  So I suffered through the last 10K in about 43 minutes - when I was hoping for just over 40 minutes.  But, all in all, it was a good day!

Congratulations to Mike Hall, who came in 3rd overall in 2:32:24!

- Chris

Sharp eyes spotted this among the 536 finishers at Sunday's Mohawk Hudson River Marathon up by Albany:

130 461 CHARLES ROCCA 35 M NEW MILFORD CT 3:29:32 8:00

We look forward from the perpetrator's account of the day.  We know he'd hoped to run about eight minutes an hour and thought he was ready to break 3:30.  My calculator says that an 8:00 pace exactly is 3:29:36, so it looks like he was fairly close to his goal.  Congratulations.    

Elevations

We got the following email from someone named "Murf". My sources tell me that this is probably an alias or a pseudonym.  Anyway, it seems that "Murf" has a more accurate topographic map than the one we used last week from Google Maps, and he makes the following corrections to the elevations we reported last week.

Hi Ed;

    I had to double check...

  This week's course featured an unusually long climb, starting near river level at the corner of River Road, about 320 feet above sea level, then climbing up past 650 feet as we went past the top end of Chalybes.  Even the top of Ranney Hill Road is only about 660 feet, though, truth be told, Painter Ridge Road takes up to 860 feet.  Bottsford takes us to only about 660 feet, and the lowest we ever go is about 260 feet when we occasionally cross the Shepaug River on Minor Bridge Road or loop back on Falls Road when we do the 6.4 mile course.

River Road...we go as low as 300 feet before starting back up (just before tennis courts on left at house having a lot of work done...There was tree work being done last Saturday).

Opposite Chalybes...675 feet.

Painter Hill (not Ridge) is 900 feet...I believe this is our highest point.

Botsford (actually along Town Line Rd  730 feet).  The Botsford route also takes honors as having the most elevation gain. 

I loved the Wesleyan history and the John Cramer story.  Harry Ong turned 69 on  Sunday, October 5th.  We should do something to honor him...I can't beat him, so I guess honor would be good!

   Murf

Pictures

    Up top, Scott Benjamin gives the safety warning.  Chuck Rocca and Erik Gundel lurk in the background. Then we have the new picture of the Prince of the Abraham Family with his mother, Kara.  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 (7.3 miles - Jeep trail / Hemlock)

Next week (when available) (3.52 miles - up Hemlock) 

 

 

This week's results

 
place time

name

 age pace per mile
1 25.28 Mark Losacco 39 5.55
2 27.30 Scott Holmes 46 6.24
3 27.49 Mike Abraham 49 6.28
4 28.02 Dave Harvey 45 6.31
5 28.44 Joe Mendes 42 6.41
6 28.53 Ed Sandifer 56 6.43
7 29.11 John Porges 40 6.47
8 29.20 Bob Kent 49 6.49
9 29.57 Jeff Tindell 58 6.58
10 30.27 Mark Zerbe 48 7.05
11 31.08 Brian Gildea 47 7.14
12 31.12 J T Schemm 32 7.15
13 32.14   Dawn Riebeling 23 7.30
14 32.15 Tom Dever 56 7.30
15 32.41 Nate Mahrer 36 7.36
16 32.47   Haley Nagamatsu 14 7.37
17 33.19   Mary Schafer 34 7.45
18 33.40 Scott Benjamin 50 7.50
19 34.34 Bob Lewis 44 8.02
20 34.42 John Murphy Jr 58 8.04
21 34.53 Russ Pribanic 54 8.07
22 35.18   Lynn Zuback 43 8.13
23 35.56 Mario Hasz 60 8.21
24 35.58 Harry Ong 69 8.22
25 36.07 Hale Rickman 55 8.24
26 36.11 Larry Deming 51 8.25
27 37.43   Jeanne Bartkus 49 8.46
28 39.16   Sharon Gawe 56 9.08
29 39.16 Ed Moros 61 9.08
30 44.25   Mo van Moffaert 48 10.20
31 50.01   LeeAnne Zarger 54 11.38
32 50.40 Charlie Euston 64 11.47
33 54.53   Prasama Sangkachand 49 12.46

 

Alternate races

 

 
place name age distance time
34 Paul Butler 51 2.50 26.00
35 Corinne Bellemare 50 2.40 34.26
36 Amanda Deming 10 0.82 7.22

 

 

Deming Brothers, Chris and Larry

 

Four colorful outfits, one far too colorful.

 

 

Amanda Deming, Princess of Stopwatch

 

Current points standings

 

Week 32

 

    Two people in the Top Ten missed this week, and the rules billed each of them one place.  Mark Zerbe leapt over Chuck Rocca to grab 6th place by a ten point margin, and Brian Gildea now enjoys twelve points on David Mariani for 8th place.

 

    With her win today, Dawn Riebeling moves into the Top Ten among the women, 59th place overall.

    

    Joe Mendes shaved yet another point off the Fossil's overall lead, and now sits 84 points back with 8 races to go.  

 

    For the season, we've had 278 different runners, with a total attendance of 1441.  Runners have earned 40868 Prestigious Roxbury Points.  Ninety runners have reached the Centurion milestone.  The series has run 133.26 miles.  We can't calculate how many miles have been raced at Roxbury this year, but we estimate it's a little over 5000.  By the end of the season, we'll have gone across the country and back.

 

    Mary Schafer leads in the Wins column with 15 victories on the season, out of 23 races. Jeff Sheldon leads the men with 8 wins.   Three runners maintain perfect attendance, Fossil, Scott Benjamin and Bob Lewis. 

 

    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.  

 

now last change points

name

 age div races C wins star
1 1 0 1325 Ed Sandifer 56 32 C *
2 2 0 1241 Joe Mendes 42 30
3 3 0 1098 Chris Deming 41 25 6
4 4 0 1037 Dan Lynch 46 28
5 5 0 981 Lou Denaro 48 21
6 7 1 907 Mark Zerbe 48 27 C
7 6 -1 897 Chuck Rocca 35 24
8 9 1 860 Brian Gildea 47 23
9 8 -1 848 David Mariani 44 26
10 10 0 845 Scott Benjamin 50 32 *
11 11 0 810 Mary Schafer 34 F 23 C 15
12 12 0 789 Nate Mahrer 36 24
13 13 0 760 Bob Lewis 44 32 *
14 14 0 703 Russ Pribanic 54 25 C
15 16 1 678 Jeff Tindell 58 18
16 15 -1 670 Larry Deming 51 30
17 17 0 670 Mike Abraham 49 16 2
18 19 1 587 Mario Hasz 60 26
19 18 -1 577 Bruce Goulart 58 15
20 20 0 550 Jeff Sheldon 28 12 8
21 21 0 524 Paul Butler 51 23 B
22 22 0 516 Matt Cappiello 43 10
23 23 0 510 Brian Vanderheiden 38 14
24 24 0 488 Ray Fico 42 14
25 27 2 483 Lynn Zuback 43 F 23 2
26 26 0 482 Harry Ong 69 19
27 25 -2 466 Steve Haas 53 10
28 30 2 434 Tom Dever 56 14
29 28 -1 431 Joe Whelan 43 8 2
30 29 -1 427 Bob Satterlee 59 23
31 31 0 396 Paul Courtney 46 26
32 32 0 390 Dudley Ong 7 O 15
33 35 2 367 Scott Holmes 47 8 1
34 33 -1 352 Theresa Oria 41 F 21
35 34 -1 337 Ross Levy 57 11
36 39 3 330 Dave Harvey 45 7 BC
37 36 -1 319 John Whalen 42 7
38 38 0 318 John Murphy Jr 58 13 C
39 37 -2 308 Jon Binzen 51 8
40 40 0 285 Andrew Levy 21 6 3
41 41 0 280 Nora Hulton 44 F 10 1
42 42 0 279 Mo van Moffaert 48 F 21
43 43 0 277 Sharon Gawe 56 F 21
44 44 0 260 Tom McNulty 42 10
45 45 0 260 Paul Malek 16 6
46 46 0 250 Chris Childs 49 6
47 47 0 232 Cindy Scannell 50 F 10 2
48 48 0 229 John Adomelis 53 5
49 50 1 228 Charlie Euston 64 22
50 49 -1 223 Don Smith 64 6
51 53 2 217 Ed Moros 61 10 B
52 51 -1 215 Adam Levy 23 5
53 54 1 214 LeeAnne Zarger 54 F 21
54 52 -2 209 Taylor Phillips 17 5
55 55 0 203 Theresa Krebs 39 F 6 3
56 56 0 203 Mike Taylor 42 4
57 57 0 201 Kurt Thoennessen 30 10
58 62 4 193 J T Schemm 32 6
59 63 4 189 Dawn Riebeling 23 F 6 4
60 58 -2 184 Steve Benoit 56 5
61 59 -2 174 Louis Garguilo 30 3
62 60 -2 172 Pat Moore 46 F 12
63 61 -2 172 Erik Gundel 21 6
64 75 11 170 Mark Losacco 39 4 1
65 66 1 161 Prasama Sangkachand 49 F 20
66 78 12 158 John Porges 40 4
67 64 -3 157 Bob Moore 50 8
68 65 -3 155 Zach Wortman 17 4
69 67 -2 152 Katie Neils 15 F 6
70 68 -2 151 Rosie Morehouse 5 O 3
71 69 -2 148 Andrew Morehouse 41 3
72 70 -2 148 John Hirsch 33 3 2
73 71 -2 142 Sean Kerton 17 4
74 72 -2 141 Alissa Pajer 21 F 3 3
75 73 -2 133 James Moen 17 3
76 76 0 132 Amanda Deming 10 F 21
77 74 -3 131 Chris Zarzycki 52 5
78 77 -1 125 Ron Karl 67 16
79 79 0 123 Brittany Ronan 17 5
80 80 0 120 Brian Solt 35 7
81 81 0 117 Chris Powderly 56 6
82 82 0 113 Steve Palmer 46 2 1
83 83 0 112 Michael Hicks 39 8
84 84 0 111 Scott Bussom 29 2
85 85 0 105 Joe Mannion 47 4
86 86 0 103 Connor Lofink 17 4
87 87 0 101 Roderic McGahren 39 4
88 88 0 101 David Dion 17 2
89 89 0 100 Dan Lamb 46 3
90 90 0 100 Jon Ong 44 3
91 101 10 99 Jeanne Bartkus 49 F 8
92 91 -1 97 Janet Levy 54 F 11
93 92 -1 95 Jim Little 54 10
94 93 -1 95 Unknown 4
95 94 -1 94 Kevin Curley 27 2 1
96 119 23 93 Haley Nagamatsu 14 4 1
97 95 -2 90 Wendy Carlson F 5
98 96 -2 90 Chris DePalma 41 2
99 97 -2 89 John Kane 56 3
100 98 -2 88 Dan Decrescenco 17 1 1
101 99 -2 87 Craig Hunt 17 1
102 100 -2 86 Jay McGorty 16 1
103 102 -1 85 Dan Watson 17 1
104 103 -1 84 Zack Krause 16 1
105 104 -1 82 Lisa Andrews 25 F 2 1
106 105 -1 81 Al Mletzko 66 8
107 106 -1 81 Doug Lee 47 2
108 107 -1 81 Spencer Mannion 15 2
109 108 -1 76 Eric Myhill 41 3
110 109 -1 76 Evan Wright 15 1
111 110 -1 75 Michele Westervelt 38 F 5
112 111 -1 75 Connor Greene 16 1
113 112 -1 73 Terri Lee 44 F 2
114 113 -1 71 Colin Lennon 15 2
115 114 -1 71 Neil Walsh 18 1
116 115 -1 70 Marge De Marrais 44 F 2
117 116 -1 70 Mike Piersal 15 1
118 117 -1 69 Doug Langley 20 2
119 118 -1 68 Michael Croft 30 1
120 120 0 67 Gary Coolbeth Jr 35 2
121 121 0 66 Heather Whalen 43 F 4
122 122 0 66 Andrew Mendelson 16 2
123 123 0 66 John Richers 53 2
124 124 0 65 Patrick Firmender 15 1
125 125 0 64 Collin Deming 8 9
126 126 0 63 Patrick O'Brien 16 1
127 127 0 61 Sarah Whalen 12 F 3
128 128 0 61 Kenny Heyne 14 1
129 129 0 60 Alessandro Criollo 16 1
130 130 0 59 Kara Thoennessen 2.1 F 4
131 131 0 59 Susan DeWitt 42 F 3
132 132 0 58 Brittany Moore 16 F 1
133 133 0 57 Lily Horton 16 F 1
134 134 0 56 Rick DeWitt 50 3
135 135 0 56 Mark Andrejczyk 35 1
136 136 0 56 Mike Moreau 16 1
137 137 0 55 Nina Oria 14 F 3
138 138 0 55 Tom O'Mealia 17 1
139 139 0 54 Brian Clemente 23 1
140 140 0 54 Jimmy Kukral 17 1
141 141 0 54 Kyle Hobbs 16 1
142 142 0 52 Glenn van Moffaert 19 1
143 143 0 52 Kelsey Maikay 17 F 1
144 144 0 52 Mike Szerkowicz 18 1
145 145 0 51 Garrett Derringer 15 1 1
146 146 0 51 Schuyler Metcalf 17 1
147 147 0 50 Alex Breg 16 1
148 148 0 50 Drew Firmender 21 1 1
149 149 0 50 Ken Levalle 18 1
150 150 0 50 Pat Hall 52 F 1
151 151 0 49 Jack Whalen 10 3
152 152 0 49 Mia Myhill 5 O 2
153 153 0 49 C M Liotta 17 1
154 154 0 49 Jim Lee 49 1
155 155 0 48 Bob Derringer 46 1
156 156 0 48 Nathaniel Kay 16 1
157 157 0 47 Chris Yang 15 1
158 158 0 47 Ken Burke 61 1
159 191 32 46 Hale Rickman 55 3
160 159 -1 46 Ben North 16 1
161 160 -1 45 Jason Satterlee 33 1
162 161 -1 44 Alex Ehrenreich 18 1
163 162 -1 44 Wyatt Golding 23 1 1
164 163 -1 43 Burr Tweedy 17 1
165 164 -1 43 Jesse Steinmetz 14 1
166 165 -1 41 Sheila Anson 51 F 2
167 166 -1 40 Brian Cherry 17 1
168 167 -1 40 Dan Germain 46 1
169 168 -1 40 Paul Yaunsem 17 1
170 169 -1 39 Jack Fico 9 2
171 170 -1 39 Bob Trumbley 47 1
172 171 -1 39 Max Kachur 16 1
173 172 -1 39 Shannon Tredennick 38 F 1
174 173 -1 38 Kristine Dziezynski 38 F 2
175 174 -1 37 Michelle Courtney 14 F 3
176 175 -1 37 Pete Gillen 26 1
177 176 -1 37 Thomas Scarola 46 1
178 177 -1 36 Pat Dennen 28 1 1
179 178 -1 36 Tyler Kniery 17 1
180 179 -1 35 Lucky Zarger 2 O 4
181 180 -1 35 Ishmael Chesto 37 1
182 181 -1 35 Richard Hunt 61 1
183 182 -1 34 Stan Murphy 26 1
184 183 -1 33 Sid Phadnis 16 2
185 33 Bob Kent 49 1 R
186 184 -2 33 Jackie Devito 16 F 1
187 185 -2 33 Ryan Phillips 28 1
188 186 -2 32 Raymond Pajer 59 2
189 187 -2 32 Chris Peterson 15 1
190 188 -2 31 Ryan McNulty 7 2
191 189 -2 31 Armand Wilson 19 1
192 190 -2 31 Dave Van Moffaert 17 1
193 192 -1 30 Chris Morcone 1
194 193 -1 30 Gerry Heyde 56 1
195 194 -1 30 Gil Rubin 60 1
196 195 -1 30 Mimi Gillen 58 F 1
197 196 -1 30 Tom Brayton 45 1
198 197 -1 29 Kevin McNulty 8 2
199 198 -1 29 Karen Kay 48 F 1
200 199 -1 28 Kevin Peterson 15 1
201 200 -1 28 Stephen Yu 46 1
202 215 13 27 Corinne Bellemare 50 5
203 201 -2 27 Stacey Kennedy 38 F 2
204 202 -2 27 Ian Rocca 1.9 1
205 203 -2 26 Andrea Thoennessen 29 F 1
206 204 -2 26 Henry Palmer 13 1
207 205 -2 25 Jacob Collette 15 1
208 206 -2 25 Jorge Lopez 43 1
209 207 -2 25 Ray Pajer 59 1
210 208 -2 24 Ben Lofink 15 1
211 209 -2 24 Calvin Palmer 9 1
212 210 -2 24 P.J. Scappatura 14 1
213 211 -2 24 Steve Greene 54 1
214 212 -2 23 Lola Zarger 1 O 2
215 213 -2 23 Cristine Maloney 35 F 1
216 214 -2 23 Sinead Blevio 35 F 1
217 216 -1 22 Beverly Pajer 55 F 2
218 217 -1 22 Barbara Kiselak 51 F 1
219 218 -1 22 Joanne Emanuel 40 F 1
220 219 -1 22 Rebecca Press 36 F 1
221 220 -1 22 Tommy Vanderheiden 3 1
222 221 -1 22 Will Luckey 15 1
223 222 -1 21 Bill Hoey 1
224 223 -1 21 Dave Blauch 29 1
225 224 -1 21 Jack Kennedy 9 1
226 225 -1 21 Rory Goodwin 52 1
227 226 -1 20 Britanny Ronan 17 F 1
228 227 -1 20 Michelle Norella 42 F 1
229 228 -1 19 Shannon Bartkus 14 F 2
230 229 -1 19 Charlie Hastey 46 1
231 230 -1 19 Jackie Brown 15 F 1
232 231 -1 18 Adam Fox 13 1
233 232 -1 18 Aimee Reutzel 16 F 1
234 233 -1 18 Gregg Nolting 54 1
235 234 -1 18 Matt Bacco 15 1
236 235 -1 17 Ian McNulty 5 2
237 236 -1 17 David Deboy 38 1
238 237 -1 17 Nichole Souza 15 F 1
239 238 -1 16 David Crompton 60 2
240 239 -1 16 Matt Curran 15 1
241 240 -1 16 Matt Curran 15 1
242 241 -1 16 Patrick O'Neill 16 1
243 242 -1 15 Rosie Ong 66 F 1
244 243 -1 14 Ally Bierce 15 F 1
245 244 -1 14 Gary Coolbeth Sr 57 1
246 245 -1 14 Ian Overton 17 1
247 246 -1 13 Catherine Mendes 9 F 1
248 247 -1 13 Deborah Coolbeth 54 F 1
249 248 -1 13 Mariah Walsh 15 F 1
250 249 -1 13 Mary Lou White 52 F 1
251 250 -1 13 Michelle Gallagher 40 F 1
252 251 -1 12 Anne Rickman 26 F 1
253 252 -1 12 Jennifer Bacleau 34 F 1
254 253 -1 11 Angelica Mendes 14 F 1
255 254 -1 11 Kandace Yuen F 1
256 255 -1 11 Michael Kersten 37 1
257 256 -1 11 Sarah Swanson 15 F 1
258 257 -1 11 Stormy Chamberlain 32 1
259 258 -1 10 Mary Deming 84 F 2
260 259 -1 10 Jordan Butler 14 1
261 260 -1 9 Bonnie Murray 44 F 1
262 261 -1 9 Duncan Engel 17 1
263 262 -1 8 Chelsea Smith 16 F 1
264 263 -1 7 Brittany Orbecker 14 F 1
265 264 -1 7 Erin McNulty 10 mos. F 1
266 265 -1 7 Judy Larson 52 F 1
267 266 -1 7 Ryland Grudzinski 14 1
268 267 -1 6 Ann Schafer 31 F 1
269 268 -1 6 Danielle Nielsen 10 F 1
270 269 -1 6 Jacob Lewis 9 1
271 270 -1 6 Joan Temple 52 F 1
272 271 -1 6 Kyle Knight 41 F 1
273 272 -1 6 Maura McNulty 41 F 1
274 273 -1 6 Pam Quist 44 F 1
275 274 -1 5 Alissa Mendes 37 F 1
276 275 -1 5 Chloe Karl 63 F 1
277 276 -1 5 Jeromy Lewis 9 1
278 277 -1 5 Mary Beth Morrison 51 F 1

 

 

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