The rain and fog may have discouraged a few from turning out today, but they did little to dampen the intensity of this morning’s race that featured climbs up Ranney and Chalybes hills.

Ten-year old Cazden Brenner took it out hard and led for the first half-mile or so before backing off. He finished a respectable 29th overall. Theresa Krebs was the only one of the regulars that sought to match strides early on with Cazden and she remained among the front pack for a 1st place finish on the women’s side and 8th place overall.

Meanwhile, the battle on the men’s side was ultimately won by Jeff Sheldon, fresh off his first Iron Man competition in New York City last Saturday. Jeff described last week’s experience as both humbling and inspiring, and is already looking ahead for another go. On this Saturday morning, Iron Man Jeff slowly worked his way past veteran speedster and current point’s leader Ken Merrick and held on for a narrow six second victory.

Another close race was the battle for 22nd place. Here, Ross Levy nipped Christopher Buck by one second. Fortunately for Ross, he wasn’t nipped by Christopher’s accompanying pooch whose name went unrecorded. Ross was determined to beat both runner and canine, and insists that neither had a leg up on him.

Other notes: The Rossiter brothers both competed today, but we won’t see them for a bit as they’re both off to Gettysburg College tomorrow where they’ll be teammates on the Cross Country team, much like they were a couple years back at New Milford High. Cole will be a junior, and Noah will be starting his freshman year. Good luck guys.

Special thanks to Russ Pribanic, Eric Koenig and Walt Schutler for working the finish line, Bob for the cones, Chris for the stats and everyone else. Don’t forget – next week is The Boot, so BE THERE or … we’ll see you another time.

Race Results

	Roxbury Race Series 2012 - Race #26 - August 18, 3.7 Miles
	Down Ranney, Up Chalybes

	Order of Finish
place	name	age	time	pace

1	Jeff Sheldon	32	23.09	6.15
2	Ken Merrick	43	23.29	6.21
3	Noah Rossiter		24.04	6.30
4	Nelson Azevedo	53	24.14	6.33
5	Scott Holmes	50	24.40	6.40
6	Eric Koenig	32	25.07	6.47
7	Seamus McLaughlin	18	25.07	6.47
8	Theresa Krebs	43	25.20	6.51
9	Ryan Ripp	26	25.46	6.58
10	Cole Rossiter		25.52	6.59
11	Chris Deming	45	25.58	7.01
12	Mike Abraham	52	26.07	7.04
13	Bruce Goulart	62	26.22	7.08
14	David McNamara	56	26.27	7.09
15	Steve Benoit	60	26.37	7.12
16	Dan Readyoff	43	26.50	7.15
17	Ed Wolfe	14	27.06	7.19
18	Tom McNulty	46	27.13	7.21
19	Clara Wolfe	16	27.17	7.22
20	Steve Whitcomb	34	27.42	7.29
21	Jeff Tindell		27.51	7.32
22	Ross Levy	61	28.04	7.35
23	Christopher Buck		28.05	7.35
24	Larry Deming	55	28.22	7.40
25	Scott Benjamin	54	28.30	7.42
26	Dave Wolfe	48	29.17	7.55
27	Ray Acunto	43	29.41	8.01
28	Tom Dever	60	29.49	8.04
29	Cazden Brenner	10	29.50	8.04
30	Alison Masopust	28	29.56	8.05
31	Brandon Davis	27	30.24	8.13
32	Dan Lynch	50	30.28	8.14
33	Emily Davis	28	32.06	8.41
34	Jennifer Claybrooks	22	32.44	8.51
35	Paul Butler	54	33.55	9.10
36	Janet Levy	58	34.05	9.13
37	Bob Lewis	47	34.10	9.14
38	Sharon Gawe	60	35.46	9.40
39	Erik LoSacco	9	36.28	9.51
40	Baerbel LoSacco	40	36.29	9.52
41	Michelle Marcisz	43	37.11	10.03
42	Bob Satterlee	63	37.21	10.06

	Alternate courses

place	name	age	distance	time
43	Russ Pribanic	58	?	?

Race Report by Mike Abraham

Race Report – August 18, 2012

Race Results