2001 Roxbury Race #33 - 4.8M

Roxbury, CT, October 20, 2001

Results courtesy of Ed Sandifer's Roxbury Running Page.

Teachers Rule

Teachers took the first four places in the men's race and won the women's race in this week's 4.8 mile Roxbury Road Race. New Milford Social Studies teacher Mike Abraham returned to the Speed Zone after a long absence, and took the lead from the word "Go!" After about half a mile, New Fairfield Social Studies Teacher Marty Ogden took off to try to hunt him down, but only managed to keep him in sight for the entire race, finishing 19 seconds back. New Milford Science teacher made his break on the Old Fossil after a mile, and managed to cut his deficit on Marty to just nine seconds, but the race ended before he caught him Fossil finished fourth. Some of you know that in real life, Fossil teaches mathematics at Western Connecticut State University.

Meanwhile, New Fairfield elementary school teacher Pam Quist had a comfortable two-minute win over Peg Molina and a resting-for-a-marathon Kyle Gancher. Quite a day for teachers.

Regular winner Ken Merrick ran his first marathon at Hartford a week ago, 3:13. He described it as the most difficult thing he has ever done. It slowed him a bit in this week's race.

Congratulations Ken, and good luck Kyle.

We'd be grateful for clues on who "Jeff" is in 23rd place.

Click here for news of sometime Roxbury runner Joan Murphy, living this fall in Siberia. Joan is the daughter of Roxbury Regular John Murphy Jr, and was a cross country and track star for New Milford High School.

This week's upper photo is Scott Benjamin, before the race, with the hot air balloon about to be launched behind him. That's a sign of the cool, still autumn mornings here in Roxbury. The middle photo is Ron Carl, after a strong finish, in front of the beautiful Hurlburt Park sign. Way at the bottom of the page is Betsy Daniels, smiling because she only has about a quarter of a mile to go.

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

This week's Roxbury results:

1	28.42	Mike Abraham	41	(	5.59	min per mile)
2	29.01	Marty Ogden	32	(	6.03	min per mile)
3	29.10	JT Schemm	25	(	6.05	min per mile)
4	29.56	Ed Sandifer	49	(	6.14	min per mile)
5	30.36	Bob Derringer	39	(	6.23	min per mile)
6	30.40	Ken Merrick	32	(	6.23	min per mile)
7	30.59	Chas Greystone	46	(	6.27	min per mile)
8	31.00	Steve Benoit	49	(	6.28	min per mile)
9	31.01	Jake Beardsley		(	6.28	min per mile)
10	31.48	Dan Lamb	39	(	6.38	min per mile)
11	31.58	Pam Quist	37	(	6.40	min per mile)
12	32.00	Jack Rankin	52	(	6.40	min per mile)
13	32.23	Paul Teixeira	42	(	6.45	min per mile)
14	33.58	Peg Molina	43	(	7.05	min per mile)
15	35.06	Gregg Scribner	29	(	7.19	min per mile)
16	31.15	Chris Childs	42	(	6.31	min per mile)
17	35.26	Scott Benjamin	43	(	7.23	min per mile)
18	36.55	Kyle Gancher	34	(	7.41	min per mile)
19	37.03	Chris Powderly	49	(	7.43	min per mile)
20	37.41	Mark Atkinson	42	(	7.51	min per mile)
21	38.04	Tom McNulty	35	(	7.56	min per mile)
22	38.26	Carl Hunt	49	(	8.00	min per mile)
23	38.34	Giovanna Acampora	46	(	8.02	min per mile)
24	38.47	Jeff		(	8.05	min per mile)
25	39.28	Al Mletzko	55	(	8.13	min per mile)
26	40.18	Mo Van Moffaert	41	(	8.24	min per mile)
27	40.52	Wendy Carlson	25	(	8.31	min per mile)
28	42.18	Charlie Euston	57	(	8.49	min per mile)
29	42.46	Bob Satterlee	52	(	8.55	min per mile)
30	42.55	Betsy Daniels	40	(	8.56	min per mile)
31	45.30	Ron Karl	60	(	9.29	min per mile)
32	48.55	Lee Anne Zarger	46	(	10.11	min per mile)
33	49.40	Corinne Bellemare	42	(	10.21	min per mile)
		Alternate 2.4 mi
34	21.12	Katie Neils	9	(	8.50	min per mile)
35	21.16	Bob Lewis	36	(	8.52	min per mile)
36	40.25	Ken Neils	0	(	16.50	min per mile)