Reebok 5K Challenge

Franklin Park, Boston, November 18, 1995

135 finishers

Kate Fonshell raced to a course record over frosty fields and trails at the Reebok 5K XC Challenge at Franklin Park in Boston. Fonshell's time of 16:12 was 8 seconds better than the standard set by Lynn Jennings at the Boston Mayor's Cup three weeks before. Like the previous weekend at the Reebok/USATF New England championships, the asics TC runner was dogged by Sinead Delahunty for the full race distance. This week, though, her margin was a scant second ahead of the Irish national team member, as the compact stride of the Villanova alumna was better suited to the slick course which became increasingly more muddy over each circuit. Third woman in this co-ed race was Molly McClimon-Watcke, whose 16:37 puts her sixth on the Franklin Park 5K course list.

The men's division was headed by a quartet of Central Mass. Striders runners; middle distance ace Bill Bland was first across the line in 15:15, six seconds up on Nathanial Halsey in the final tune-up at the course before the December 3 USATF National Championships.

Men:

1.Bill Bland, CMS, 15:15; 2.Nathanial Halsey, CMS< 15:21; 3.Mike Nahom, CMS, 15:27; 4.Darrin Krug, CMS, 15:33; 5.Tony DaRocha, BostonRC, 15:38; 6.Scott Lundquist, Cambridge Sports Union, 15:45. (Lundquist won the 4.5 mile Bemis Pie Run at Northfield-Mt.Hermon School on Wednesday, argueably the oldest continuously conducted race in the country at several years past 100)

Women:

1.Kate Fonshell, asics, 16:12; 2.Sinead Delahunty, NewBalance, 16:13; 3.Molly M-Watcke, New Balance, 16:37; 4.Lisa Senatore, New Balance, 16:53; 5.Fran tenBensel, New Balance, 17:00; 6.Kristin Beaney, CMS, 17:16.

Steve Vaitones 
Vaitones@cfa.harvard.edu