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19th ANNUAL NORWALK (CT) SUMMER SERIES
.............final series standings............
George Buchanan Takes 6th Title in 7 Years
Emmy Stocker Wins Her First Series
Saturday, September 21......Stamford's George Buchanan today continued his domination of
road racing in lower Fairfield County, winning his sixth Norwalk Summer Series in the past seven
years. Occasionally a faster runner shows up to challenge and defeat Buchanan in a single race,
but he has fashioned the incredible record of 40 first-place finishes and 6 second-place finishes in
the 47 races he has run in this Summer Series (he has missed just one race).
On the women's side, Greenwich's Emmy Stocker easily won her first Summer Series title.
An average of 106 runners finished each of the six races in this year's series.
In the Series scoring, Purdy Points are awarded for each race: the points reflect the runner's
pace per minute, weighted for the number of miles in that race. Then, the runner's worst race of
the six is dropped from the total. Buchanan amassed 3,260 points, while Stocker's winning total
of 2,419 points placed her 6th over-all.
In 1989, at the age of 31, George Buchanan first entered the Norwalk Summer Series. The series
consists of six races, run from June to September, and progressing in length from 3 miles to a
13.1 half-marathon. Buchanan ran five of the six races in that 1989 series, finished 4th, 4th, 4th,
2nd and 4th, and ended up as the second-best runner in the entire series.
In the seven years since then, Buchanan (a Stamford resident) has:
. Run 47 of the 48 races
. Set and still holds the course record for Roton's 7-Miler
. Set and still holds the men's age 30-39 course record for Calf Pasture's 9-miler
. Finished first 40 times, second 6 times; never lower than second.
. Won six of the seven Summer Series in this stretch
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....................................AGE GROUP WINNERS............................
Age Points .....Men..... Points ......Women.....
0 - 14 -none- -none-
15 - 19 -none- 1,658 Colon, Hildanies
20 - 29 2,799 Rorick, Michael 1,907 Hickey, Meg
30 - 39 2,995 Karl, Eric 1,628 Ingram, Felicia
40 - 49 2,345 Goulart, Bruce 1,574 O'Kane, Marcia
50 - 59 2,290 Oda, Kaz 1,586 Richardson, Marilyn
60 - 69 2,236 Smith, Robert -none-
70 - 79 832 Fisher, Cole -none-
Wheelchr 2,504 Nirenstein, Al -none-
