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Results courtesy of the Greater Springfield Harriers.
On a day when health officials were issuing exercise advisories/warnings and the local news media (East Longmeadow Reminder) thought the race unusual enough to send a photographer, the Harriers matter-of-factly proceeded with the Summer Sizzler 5K. After all, we don’t call then Sizzlers for nothing!
Harrier Charlie Towse, taking his cue from the record setting heat (the official high temperature for the day at Bradley Field was 99 degrees, and at Westover Field 97 degrees, all time records for August 14th.) matter-of-factly proceeded to break the record for 64 year old men. Charlie sweated over the Forest Park 5K cross country course for 23 minutes and 39 seconds, over a minute faster then the 24 minutes and 44 second record set by Harrier Bud Aronson fourteen years ago.
Brian Nelson and Scott Sutter paced the hot field in 18:37, with Brian getting the nod when Scott eased at the wire. Sixteen year old GSHer David Eastabrook took third in 20:12 while CMSer Steve O’Neil took both master and senior honors in 21:07.
Twelve year old Jordan Roby of the New Britain Dog Pound (Connecticut) club captured the women’s title in 23:57 for her first ever Summer Sizzler win. Vickie Cavanaugh took second in 26:05 while Katherine Nelson was third in 27:24.
Only two races remain in this year’s series; next week will be the final 8K road race, while the following Wednesday the 5K cross country race concludes the 2002 Summer Sizzler season.
Results 1 18:37 Brian Nelson 22M --- 2 18:37 Scott Sutter 24M --- 3 20:12 David Estabrook 16M GSH 4 20:30 Joe Fois 27M GSH 5 21:07 Steve O'Neil 51M CMS 6 21:21 Edian Melendez 39M --- 7 21:35 Roy Mitchell 12M NBDP 8 21:58 Seth Roberts 50M GSH 9 22:03 Martin Lachapelle 39M --- 10 22:48 Tim Londo 36M GSH 11 22:56 Dan Stevenson 18M --- 12 23:34 Kevin Magee 23M --- 13 23:39 Charlie Towse 64M GSH 14 23:51 Daniel Dupre 34M --- 15 23:57 Jordan Roby 12F NBDP 16 24:43 Mike Gula 17M GSH 17 25:07 Brian Goddu 52M GSH 18 25:17 Christopher Park 30M --- 19 25:47 Don Grindle 47M GSH 20 26:01 Don Grant 60M SMAC 21 26:05 Vickie Cavanaugh 17F --- 22 26:05 Bill Collins 49M --- 23 26:13 Kevin Young 50M GSH 24 26:18 Al Cabot 49M GSH 25 26:41 Jim Waltein 41M --- 26 26:52 Ed Dwyer 36M GSH 27 27:24 Katherine Nelson 20F --- 28 27:33 Michael Kalmbach 41M --- 29 27:41 Dan Hayden 18M --- 30 28:16 John Rauseo 27M --- 31 28:18 Ed Crimmins 41M --- 32 28:51 Sam Crimmins 15M --- 33 29:21 John Derosia 27M --- 34 29:24 Peggy Conley 44F PVWRC 35 30:54 Chris Reavey 51M --- 36 32:28 Lindsay Coughlin 14F --- 37 32:28 Taylor Carr 14F --- 38 33:06 Sue Illingsworth 47F ---