Fossil Sneaks Away, Gancher
Flies
Five people were together at the mile, Scott
Benjamin and the four people who ultimately took the top four positions.
As the field
worked its way down the long South Street hill, the pack gradually broke up,
first as Scott fell, then as Bob Derringer led Ed Sandifer off the front.
It looked like a battle between Keyless boB and the Old Fossil. But boB
had set himself a bit of an ambitious pace. Though the Fossil slowed down,
Keyless slowed more, and by the two mile mark, he was running stride for stride
with Kyle Gancher, who is showing the best form we've seen in years.
Actually, it was two of boB's strides for
every three of Kyle's, because he's a lot taller than she is. They were
back and forth all the way back up South Street, as they watched the Old Fossil
gradually pull away. They turned the corner onto West Apple Lane, and boB
didn't take the lead for good until they were at the flower farm, less than 200
meters from the finish.
Now, Kyle will start to taper for the big
Mystic Marathon in three weeks. Other races cost Roxbury some runners this
week, as last week's winner, Dangerous Ken Merrick is resting before next week's
Hartford Marathon, and several people are doing Sunday's Ridgefield Half
Marathon.
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 Bob Lewis,
punching the button on his watch. The lower photo is one of our tireless
finish line workers. If nobody writes down how fast you run, we can't put
your name on the web. Among our regular finish line workers are Ken Neils,
Dave Harvey and Wayne Blackman. Thanks to you all.
The Roxbury Races are
now listed on the Internet both on CoolRunning.com and on HiTekRacing.com.
This week's Roxbury
results:
