Overheard at the starting line: "Why is it always raining on the Jeep Trail?" This reporter could go on about the metaphysical, psychological, paranormal, and extracurricular reasons about rain and the Jeep Trail but it is really time to just accept that on an ordinarily beautiful day in Roxbury, it will be raining on the Jeep Trail. That said, it was a beautiful day in Roxbury for racing.

In an exciting change of events, the Bob Lewis Mid-Autumn Challenge was expanded to include a quiz on pop music trivia, spelling, and long division in addition to the Jeep Trail Run. “It is important for us to break a mental sweat, too,” said race namesake and director, Bob Lewis. This week’s winner is Amanda, who knew that the song “One Night in Bangkok” is from the musical “Chess” with music written by former members of ABBA and lyrics by Tim Rice, correctly spelled “recidivism”, and divided 254 by 17. Way to go Amanda! Other contenders included Jeff, who commented, “I had a great run, so I was optimistic about my chances, but was done for when Amanda took the remainder to 6 decimals on the long division. I really thought I could keep going at two, but she pulled so far ahead I couldn’t keep up.” Kim was an early leader in the spelling division by refusing to spell “irregardless” since it is not actually a word. “I will not support bad grammar. Period.” Bob was naturally the leader in pop music trivia. Not even Casey Kasem knows as much as Bob!

This week's Chris Norris fact: When Chris Norris does division, there are no remainders. Take that, prime numbers! .

Next week is the only-in-Roxbury 11.2 mile Botsford Hill ascent and 3.95 mile alternate Jeep Trail (forecast = rain). You heard it here first, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”

Race Results


Roxbury Race Series 2009 - Race #36 - November 7 - Jeep Trail 3.95 miles

place	time	name	age	pace per mile
1	24.02	Jeff Sheldon	29	6.05
2	25.33	Mark LoSacco	40	6.28
3	26.03	Nelson Azevodo	50	6.36
4	26.06	Chuck Rocca	36	6.36
5	27.05	Lou Denaro	49	6.51
6	27.30	Mike Abraham	56	6.58
7	27.44	Steve Haas	54	7.01
8	28.19	Jeff Tindell	59	7.10
9	28.30	Tom Dever	57	7.13
10	28.43	Chas Greystone	54	7.16
11	29.45	Bruce Goulart	59	7.32
12	30.02	David Mariani	46	7.36
13	30.21	Martin Green	41	7.41
14	30.25	Mark Zerbe	49	7.42
15	30.40	Brian Gildea	48	7.46
16	31.18	John Kane	58	7.55
17	31.29	Harry Ong	70	7.58
18	31.30	Larry Deming	52	7.58
19	31.41	Nora Hulton	46	8.01
20	31.51	Bob Lewis	45	8.04
21	31.59	Russ Pribanic	55	8.06
22	32.08	Boo Boo	31	8.08
23	32.27	Stephanie Bennett	39	8.13
24	32.40	Scott Benjamin	51	8.16
25	32.53	Peter Tep	45	8.19
26	33.03	Paul Butler	52	8.22
27	33.24	Nikki Stolz	20	8.27
28	33.33	Lynn Zuback	44	8.30
29	33.51	Mario Hasz	61	8.34
30	34.05	Greg Pings	48	8.38
31	34.25	Eric Condo	40	8.43
32	34.26	Mike Walsh	20	8.43
33	34.50	Chris Oberhammer	48	8.49
34	36.08	Wendy Carlson		9.09
35	36.18	Hale Rickman	57	9.11
36	37.03	Sharon Gawe	57	9.23
37	38.11	Kim Pollard	28	9.40
38	39.26	Janet Hiser	47	9.59
39	39.26	Petula Hiser K9		9.59
40	43.19	Aurelia Boyer	56	10.58
41	43.45	Keith Dupree	67	11.05
42	44.39	Charlie Euston	65	11.18
43	46.48	LeeAnne Zarger	55	11.51




	Alternate Courses:
	place	name	age	distance	time

	44	Chris Deming	43	0.42	4.32
	45	Prasama Sangkachand	50

If anyone has photos or stories about the races, send 'em to chris (at) beatfrequencies (dot) com and I'll try to put them up here on these pages...

Bob Lewis Mid-Autumn Challenge - Winners: Jeff Sheldon and Nora Hulton

Race Results