Next stop, Ninigret
Our next big race day will be Sunday, June
10.
Our 20-kilometer New England racewalk
championship -- a Grand Prix event -- plus
a nonchampionship 5-kilometer race will be held
that morning in Ningret Park in Charlestown,
RI.
The same event last year was one of the
highlights of our season, with the largest field
for a local 20K that we've seen in many years.
We're hoping for another big showing this time.
The 5K race will begin at 9 a.m., followed by the
20K at 9:45. The separate starts will enable
people to help count laps and hand out water for
the race in which they're not competing.
The area is scenic and the course is
absolutely flat. The loop consists of 1,375
meters, which means we will race 14.75 laps to
cover the 20 kilometers. Our top mathematicians
will be on hand to help you determine your target
pace per lap.
A race form is inside this newsletter. Click here
for the entry form. For further information,
contact Justin Kuo
at 617-731-9889 or Joe Light at
401-596-3173.
Helpers are needed. If you can assist at the
June 10 races, please telephone Justin or e-mail
him at kuo@world.std.com.
Call for volunteers
We are looking for New England Walker
volunteers to assist at the JP Morgan Chase
Corporate Challenge road race at 7 p.m.
Thursday, June 21, at Boston Common. Volunteers
help earn money for the club and will have their
membership extended through 2002. To volunteer,
or to receive additional information, call Justin
Kuo at 617-731-9889, or e-mail him at kuo@world.std.com.
Grand Prix standings
Two races in this year's Grand Prix series
have been completed. Those races were your faster
time in the New England Indoor 3k at the BU
Armory or the National Indoor 3k at the Reggie
Lewis Track, and the recent Clamdigger 8k in
Westerly, RI. The standings, based on the times
in the races as compared to age-graded tables,
are:
| Women |
| 1. |
Marcia Gutsche |
169.03 (2 races) |
| 2. |
Joanne Harriman |
155.21 |
| 3. |
Chris Anderson |
73.58 (1 race) |
| 4. |
Florence Dagata |
70.86 |
| 5. |
Pamela Hoss |
69.15 |
| 6. |
Rachel Beaudet |
67.37 |
| 7. |
Sheila Sosnowski |
65.74 |
| 8. |
Joyce Vandergalien |
65.40 |
| Men |
| 1. |
Bob Keating |
179.69 (2 races) |
| 2. |
Stan Sosnowski |
153.07 |
| 3. |
Bill Harriman |
151.96 |
| 4. |
Charlie Mansbach |
140.43 |
| 5. |
Tom Knatt |
79.39 (1 race) |
| 6. |
Bob Ullman |
75.85 |
| 7. |
Louis Free |
75.48 |
| 8. |
Richard Ruquist |
75.32 |
| 9. |
Bill McCann |
72.22 |
| 10. |
Bill O' Leary |
71.49 |
| 11. |
Dennis Slattery |
68.41 |
| 12. |
Chuck Dolecki |
67.75 |
| 13. |
Justin Kuo |
62.22 |
The series, says record-keeper Bill
Harriman, is "a great way to test yourself,
and see how you rate against the standards for
your own gender and age group. The next race in
the series will be our longest GP race, the 20k
on the flat, fast Ninigret Park loop on June
10th. Are you up for the challenge?"
Race results
Sherwood Foundation 15K - May 6,
Foster, RI. What a difference a year makes. The
temperature was 35 degrees cooler than it was for
last year's 15K and 30K road races -- and the
turnout for the unjudged racewalk divisions was
down 85 percent. No walkers at all in the
mountainous 30K. "Once in a lifetime is enough,"
said 2000 winner Joe Light, who switched to the
15K this year. There was no duel between the two
walkers, obviously, but we each had enough
runners to try to keep up with and overtake.
Lovely day, beautiful scenery, a nice tuneup for
next month's 20K.
| Joe Light |
1:22:37 |
| Charlie Mansbach |
1:39:36 |
Clamdigger 8K and then some - April 22,
Westerly, RI. Grand Prix event. A beautiful day,
perhaps the best in the nine-year history of this
Westerly Track & Athletic Club production.
And what better way to celebrate than to do a
little extra racing. Belatedly, racewalk director
Joe Light discovered that he had started us at
the wrong telephone pole. "This also affected the
turnaround point at the starting line," reported
the apologetic Joe. Subsequent remeasurement
revealed that the course was 360 meters longer
than intended. The true distance left Grand Prix
scorekeeper Bill Harriman with a challenge, since
there are no international age-graded tables for
races of 8,360 meters. Bill solved the problem by
multiplying our official times by 0.9569378 and
doing his tabulations from there. And here are
the results for the 5.194 miles we did cover:
| Women |
| 1 |
Marcia Gutsche |
42:52 |
| 2 |
Joanne Harriman |
54:57 |
| 3 |
Sheila Sosnowski |
1:00:45 |
| 4 |
Nectar Babaeghian |
1:09:39 |
| 5 |
Ann Spivak Diamond |
1:10:09 |
| 6 |
Florence Dagata |
1:12:41 |
| 7 |
Carol Ballmer |
1:15:54 |
| Men |
| 1 |
Bob Keating |
41:22 |
| 2 |
Stan Sosnowski |
47:36 |
| 3 |
Bill Harriman |
47:41 |
| 4 |
Andy Cable |
51:56 |
| 5 |
Charlie Mansbach |
52:39 |
| 6 |
Dick Ruquist |
53:13 |
| 7 |
Justin Kuo |
55:39 |
| 8 |
Louis Free |
57:45 |
| 9 |
Richard Huie |
59:43 |
| 10 |
Bill O'Leary |
1:05:33 |
Judges: Diana Gladden (Chief), Bill Banks,
Ross Dagata
Volunteers: Ross Dagata, Hilary Keating, Genya
Kuo, Tolya Kuo, Joe Light
105th Boston Marathon - April 16.
Unofficial and unjudged, but they did go the
26.2-mile distance.. The results are the recorded
times; chip times are approximately 10 minutes
faster.
| 1 |
. Steve Attaya |
52 |
New Orleans LA |
4:57:44 |
| 2 |
. Robert H Keating |
54 |
Nashua NH |
4:57:46 |
| 3 |
. Grace D. Mutz |
41 |
Cary NC |
5:10:48 |
| 4 |
. Anne Marie Kunz |
59 |
New York NY |
5:20:18 |
| 5 |
. Ole Holsti |
67 |
Chapel Hill NC |
5:22:30 |
| 6 |
. Dennis J Buckley |
53 |
Marlborough MA |
5:52:37 |
| 7 |
. Debbie Shelby |
48 |
Spencer MA |
5:57:13 |
| 8 |
. Maureen Danahy |
44 |
Brookline MA |
5:57:14 |
Danehy Park 5K - April 8, Cambridge,
MA. Our monthly series of developmental racewalks
gets underway in the now-traditional trying
circumstances. Bill Harriman reports: "Three
years out of three now, first a blizzard then
last year a cold rain with deep, icy puddles on
the course, and now this year. The Puddle was
there again but at least the rain stopped just
before 9:30. The chill factor felt like about 15.
John Costello, Justin Kuo and Richard Ruquist all
showed up at the last minute, nobody warmed up,
and we all got it over with as fast as we could.
John and Richard headed straight home for hot
showers after the race, while Justin, Joanne and
I huddled over hot soup at Bread & Circus.
Maybe we should start these races at the
beginning of spring, in June."
| 1. |
John Costello |
NEW |
Needham, MA |
29:26 |
| 2. |
Justin Kuo |
NEW |
Brookline MA |
33:25 |
| 3. |
Richard Ruquist |
NEW |
Cambridge MA |
42:28 |
Judges: Joanne and Bill Harriman.
Justin adds that a new 400 meter track is
under construction just a stone's throw from the
finish line. Perhaps it will figure into our
future Danehy events, although Bill observes that
the new track does not appear to be level. We'll
all just have to show up at Danehy to see this
for ourselves.
Report from the National Invitational
20K
By Joe Light
Ken Mattsson and I arrived at our hotel in
Manassas, Virginia early afternoon on Saturday,
March 31, to be greeted with most shocking news:
Bob Keating had been DQ'd from the 50k race that
morning! Keats, who probably has the best
technique in New England and is unarguably one of
the top two or three over-50 walkers in the U.S.,
was tossed from a race. We saw him later that
afternoon at a local community center where the
top male walkers in the U.S. and Coach Pena from
the ARCO center in Chula Vista, California were
presenting a panel discussion. Keats was his
usual unflappable self -- he could have just set
a record for all we could tell.
The discussion was pretty interesting. Pena's
English is rather limited, so one of the walkers
acted as translator. Much of it focussed on the
problems of training for international
competition with the present schedule of races in
the U.S. There was also some useful advice for us
average folks. The audience had a global feel
with athletes from Pena's homeland of Ecuador,
Venezuela, Cuba, many Canadians, and a Swede,
Andreas Gustafsson, the son of Olympic walker Bo
Gustafsson, who won silver in the 50k in 1984. He
sat at our table for dinner, where we learned
that he is a student at Brigham Young University.
Unfortunately, he was DQ'd the next day in the
20k race.
The weather on Sunday was just about perfect
for racing. As usual, Bob Briggs and his large
crew of volunteers did an outstanding
organizational job (except for raisins in the
bagels -- oy vey!). Ken easily achieved his goal
of going under 30 minutes in the 5k. I was about
3 minutes slower than my goal of 1:55 in the 20k,
but was pleased to get no warnings, despite a
crew of tough judges who were positioned every
200 meters or so on the 1000-meter
straightaway.
This was my third year at the National
Invitational. Flights from Providence are
relatively inexpensive and room rates are pretty
cheap. I urge NEW members to consider coming down
next spring.
| Results |
| Men's 20K |
| 1. |
Xavier Moreno |
Quito, Equador |
1:25:16 |
| 2. |
Sean Albert |
Chula Vista, VA, |
1:26:55 |
| 3. |
Patrick Boisclair |
St-Lin QUE |
1:33:22 |
| 4. |
Gordon Mogher |
Toranto, ONT |
1:33:36 |
| 5. |
Gregory Dawson |
St. James, NY |
1:44:47 |
| 6. |
Ian Whatley |
Greenville, NC |
1:46:27 |
| 7. |
James Carmines |
Etters, PA, |
1:53:13 |
| 8. |
Edward Fitch |
Mechanicsburg, OH |
1:53:32 |
| 9. |
Joe Light |
Westerly, RI |
1:57:53 |
| 10. |
Nicholas Bdera |
Roosevelt Island, NY |
1:58:42 |
| 11. |
Bob Barrett |
Smallwod, NY |
2:00:40 |
| 12. |
Dave Lawrence |
Buffalo, NY |
2:03:05 |
| 13. |
George Opsahl |
Lake Oswego, OR |
2:05:23 |
| 14. |
Jack Starr |
Newark, DE |
2:11:45 |
| 15. |
Bill Goodwin |
Somerset, PA |
2:13:31 |
| 16. |
Robert Dawson |
Little River, SC |
2:21:14 |
| 17. |
Douglas Kreinik |
Parkersburg, WV |
2:23:37 |
| Women's 20K |
| 1. |
Teresa Vaill |
Pine Plains, NY |
1:33:23 |
| 2. |
Marina Crivello |
Montreal QUE |
1:44:41 |
| 3. |
Heidi Hauch |
Scottsdale, AZ |
1:52:03 |
| 4. |
Martine Rainville |
St Laurent, QUE |
1:55:35 |
| 5. |
Emma Carter |
Baldwin City, KS |
1:55:53 |
| 6. |
Ann Gerhardt |
Sacramento, CA |
2:01:33 |
| 7. |
Tara Shea |
Alabama, LA |
2:06:42 |
| 8. |
Eileen Lawrence |
Buffalo, NY |
2:14:46 |
| 9. |
Ginger Armstrong |
Taftville, CT |
2:17:46 |
| 10. |
Joan Venslavsky |
Mercerville, NJ |
2:19:18 |
| 11. |
Star V. Campbell |
State College, PA |
2:26:18 |
| 12. |
Fran Emanuel |
Brick, NJ |
2:29:42 |
| Women's 5K |
| 1. |
Marcia Gutsche |
Newton, MA |
26:24 |
| 2. |
Janet Comi |
Erie, PA |
29:16 |
| 3. |
Lilian Whalen |
Etobicoke, ONT |
30:22 |
| 4. |
Patricia Jones |
Utica, NY |
31:00 |
| 5. |
Virginia Inglese |
Vienna, VA |
31:07 |
| 6. |
Marie Woodland |
Norristown, PA |
31:24 |
| 7. |
Jan Adams |
Surrey, UK |
33:30 |
| 8. |
Linda Rodbell |
Great Falls VA |
33:43 |
| 9. |
Karen Arnold |
Theodore, AL |
33:49 |
| 10. |
Daisy LaForce |
Ottawa, ONT |
34:04 |
| 11. |
Maryanne Torrellas |
Clinton, CT |
34:21 |
| (26 finishers) |
| Men's 5K |
| 1. |
Allen James |
Clifton Park, NY |
22:07 |
| 2. |
Eric Cordero |
Cuba |
23:33 |
| 3. |
Juan Yanes |
Venezuela |
27:15 |
| 4. |
David Baldwin |
Harrington, ME |
27:25 |
| 5. |
Don Ramsden |
London, ONT |
27:50 |
| 6. |
George Fenigsohn |
Poquoson, VA |
28:09 |
| 7. |
Marc Olshan |
Alfred, NY |
29:08 |
| 8. |
Ken Mattsson |
Cambridge, MA |
29:11 |
| (16 finishers) |
National Masters Indoor 3K - Part of
the three-day track and field championships at
the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, March 25. The
fifth consecutive year that Boston has hosted
this event. As usual, racewalkers flocked here
from all over the country, and a strong team of
officials made everything run smoothly.
| PLACE |
NAME |
AGE |
HOMETOWN |
TIME |
| -----------
Women 35 ------------ |
| 1 |
Marcia Gutsche |
W39 |
Newton, MA |
14:52.03 |
| 2 |
Jean Teanan |
W37 |
Bristol, CT |
16:30.62 |
| 3 |
Donna Masters |
W38 |
Troy, NY |
18:15.74 |
| 4 |
Eileen Druckenmiller |
W39 |
Emmaus, PA |
19:57.37 |
|
|
| ----------
Women 40 ------------ |
| 1 |
Victoria Herazo |
W41 |
Las Vegas, NV |
14:50.85 |
| 2 |
Ann Percival |
W42 |
New Britain, CT |
17:09.95 |
| 3 |
Jeanette Wineland |
W42 |
Swartz Creek, MI |
18:33.43 |
| 4 |
Maryanne Torrellas |
W42 |
Clinton, CT |
20:26.12 |
|
|
| ----------
Women 45 ------------ |
| 1 |
Lee Chase |
W47 |
S. Glastonbury, CT |
15:34.99 |
| 2 |
Ann Gerhardt |
W49 |
Sacramento, CA |
16:34.63 |
| 3 |
Debbie Topham |
W48 |
Mayville, MI |
16:52.41 |
| 4 |
Chris Anderson |
W47 |
Shrewsbury, MA |
17:58.82 |
|
|
| ----------
Women 50 ------------ |
| 1 |
Yoko Eichel |
W53 |
Woosland Hills, CA |
16:57.63 |
| 2 |
Nadya Dimitrov |
W50 |
Smithtown, NY |
19:10.06 |
| 3 |
Pamela Hoss |
W52 |
Brookline, MA |
19:58.39 |
| 4 |
Joyce Vandergalien |
W53 |
Providence, RI |
21:18.60 |
|
|
| ----------
Women 55 ------------ |
| 1 |
Kathy Frable |
W55 |
McKinney, TX |
18:08.30 |
| 2 |
Hansi Rigney |
W59 |
Carmel, CA |
18:21.56 |
| 3 |
Joanne Harriman |
W58 |
Tewksbury, MA |
18:59.11 |
| 4 |
Ruby Tolbent |
W59 |
Weeks Barre, PA |
20:23.99 |
|
|
| ----------
Women 60 ------------ |
| 1 |
Rita Sinkovec |
W61 |
Evergreen, CO |
18:26.02 |
| 2 |
Joanne Elliott |
W64 |
Deerfield Beach, FL |
18:26.50 |
| 3 |
Lana Kane |
W61 |
Consetoga, PA |
21:11.42 |
|
|
| ----------
Women 65 ------------ |
| 1 |
Rachel Beaudet |
W65 |
East Longmeadow, MA |
23:20.72 |
|
|
| ----------
Women 70 ------------ |
| 1 |
Kate Marrs |
W72 |
Milwaukee, WI |
20:52.65 |
|
|
| ----------
Women 75 ------------ |
| 1 |
Miriam Gordon |
W75 |
Hollywood, FL |
21:24.68 |
| - |
Eunice Kavanagh |
W78 |
Longmeadow, MA |
DQ |
|
|
| -----------
Men 35 ------------- |
| 1 |
Stephen McCullough |
M39 |
CT |
16:15.98 |
| 2 |
Bill Masters |
M36 |
Troy, NY |
23:28.56 |
|
|
| -----------
Men 40 ------------- |
| 1 |
Douglas Johnson |
M40 |
Morganfield, KY |
14:24.49 |
| 2 |
Dennis Slattery |
M43 |
Lowell, MA |
16:47.51 |
| - |
Rod Craig |
M42 |
Bad Axe, MI |
DQ |
|
|
| -----------
Men 45 ------------- |
| 1 |
Jerry Gordon |
M46 |
Glens Falls, NY |
20:20.54 |
|
|
| -----------
Men 50 ------------- |
| 1 |
Robert Keating |
M54 |
Nashua, NH |
13:50.20 |
| 2 |
Stanley Sosnowski |
M50 |
West Kingston, RI |
15:30.80 |
| 3 |
Robert Ullman |
M52 |
Nashua, NH |
16:13.68 |
| 4 |
Bill Harriman |
M53 |
Tewksbury, MA |
17:21.87 |
| 5 |
Ross Barranco |
M51 |
Linden, MI |
17:43.48 |
| 6 |
Danny Wineland |
M53 |
Swartz Creek, MI |
19:46.84 |
|
|
| -----------
Men 55 ------------- |
| 1 |
Rich Friedlander |
M56 |
Chesterfield, MO |
13:36.80 |
| 2 |
Norman Frable |
M55 |
McKinney, TX |
15:32.82 |
| 3 |
David Baldwin |
M58 |
Harrington, ME |
16:28.92 |
| 4 |
Charles Mansbach |
M56 |
Newton, MA |
18:25.73 |
|
|
| ---------- Men
60-69 ----------- |
| 1 |
Jack Bray |
M68 |
Greenbrae, CA |
16:03.74 |
| 2 |
Bob Barrett |
M67 |
Smallwood, NY |
16:05.97 |
| 3 |
Paul Johnson |
M63 |
Venice, FL |
16:11.47 |
| 4 |
John Elwarner |
M61 |
Sterling Hgts, MI |
16:28.23 |
| 5 |
Thomas Knatt |
M60 |
Concord, MA |
16:38.23 |
| 6 |
Seth Kaminsky |
M60 |
Cold Spring Harbor, NY |
17:40.66 |
| 7 |
Gustave Davis |
M63 |
Orange, CT |
19:43.35 |
| - |
Richard Huie |
M65 |
Branford, CT |
DQ |
|
|
| -----------
Men 70 ------------- |
| 1 |
Jack Starr |
M72 |
Newark, DE |
17:54.37 |
| 2 |
Edward Gawinski |
M74 |
Wilmington, DE |
19:09.49 |
| 3 |
Bill McCann |
M71 |
Longmeadow, MA |
20:30.24 |
| 4 |
Charles Dolecki |
M70 |
Wilbraham, MA |
21:36.53 |
| - |
Dick Donley |
M74 |
Tulsa, OK |
DQ |
|
|
| -----------
Men 75 ------------- |
| 1 |
Robert Mimm |
M76 |
Willingboro, NJ |
19:12.96 |
| 2 |
Charles Boyle |
M77 |
Annapolis, MD |
20:30.41 |
| 3 |
Johhn Nervetti |
M76 |
Oak Ridge, NJ |
20:38.47 |
|
|
| -----------
Men 80 ------------- |
| 1 |
Tim Dyas |
M80 |
Ridgewoof, NJ |
22:33.17 |
| 2 |
Paul Geyer |
M81 |
Rochert, MN |
24:16.31 |
|
|
| -----------
Men 85 ------------- |
| 1 |
Bill Patterson |
M85 |
Greensboro, NC |
24:29.58 |
Officials: Mary Helen Baldwin, Ross Barranco,
Tom Eastler, Ann Gerhardt, Diane Gladden, Tom
Knatt, Carol Kuo, Justin Kuo, Ken Mattsson,
Maryanne Torrellas, Steve Vaitones.
Marcha atletica for everyone
By Charlie Mansbach
I do not know how to say "back of the
pack" in Portuguese.
Yet here I am in Rio Maior, 50 miles north of
Lisbon, for this city's 10th annual
International Racewalk Grand Prix.
Rio Maior calls itself "The City of
Sport" and takes its athletics seriously.
"This city has long been considered a national
and international reference point of racewalking,
not only for the quality of its athletes, but
also for the dedication of its organizations,"
says the loosely translated message of welcome
from Mayor Silvano Manuel Gomes Sequeira
in the race program booklet.
Indeed, the athletic spirit is in the air. I
pick up my bib number inside City Hall (no
registration fee; complimentary T-shirt) and
wander to the nearby race course. The downtown
rotary, a row of shops and one side of a park are
blocked off to foot and vehicular traffic, and on
the other side of the barriers is a one-kilometer
loop with a huge arch at the start/finish line. A
flea market has sprung up on the periphery, with
merchants displaying their wares on tables and
blankets and scores of people milling about. Ah,
what we wouldn't give for a racewalk to be the
focal point of public activity in some city back
home.
The day's main events are 20Ks for elite
female and male walkers. [I find out a week later
that the women's title went to Portuguese
Olympian Susana Feitor in 1:27:55 and the
men's crown to Latvian Olympian Aigars
Fadejevs in 1:22:02, closely followed by
French Olympian Anthony Gillet and his
countryman Denis Longluis, both in
1:22:16.] I clearly am not eligible for the 20K;
the back-of-the-pack guys in this race will
finish in the 1:40s.
Instead, I am signed up for a 5K for
juvenis masculinos and veteranos
masculinos. In other words, junior and
master males, same as in our one-hour race in
Worcester -- guys roughly my age and guys younger
than my children. Four other short races precede
ours, from 1K for small children to 4K for junior
and masters women. Ten-kilometer races for junior
men and women will follow, starting the same time
as the 20Ks.
Five minutes before our race is to commence,
the announcer tells us to enter the holding pen
near the starting line. I do not understand a
word, but fortunately my nephew's wife does and
heads me in the right direction. My son then
strolls over from the flea market and notices
that I am wearing my USA singlet inside-out. Not
wanting to make an unintended international
statement, I quickly remove my pins, number and
singlet, and, with son's and nephew's wife's
help, put everything back together properly with
two minutes to spare.
Twenty-five of us take to the line. The
starter delivers a few sentences that I also do
not understand but can guess at, and fires his
pistol. Off we go past the row of shops, make a
turnaround at a spot marked by cones and -- nice
touch -- potted plants, and head back in the
opposite direction to another leafy turnaround.
When I finish my first lap my wife and our
nephew's wife let out a big whoop of
encouragement. Then they look around, notice that
none of the other spectators are yelling
anything, and remain silent for the rest of the
race.
There are judges all over the place, and guys
on bicycles are transporting red cards to the DQ
board. Somewhere along the line, two walkers
behind me and one ahead of me get the hook. I'm
enjoying all the little touches. The people at
the support stations give us full, opened bottles
of spring water. The announcer calls out the name
of each walker who passes by (and does a pretty
good job of pronouncing mine). My lap counter
wordlessly holds up fingers to tell me how many
loops remain. All that's missing is a functioning
clock -- the two big timepieces remain at zero,
presumably being rested for the main events to
follow.
I never find out the race results. I know the
winner didn't lap me, so I'm guessing he finished
in 25-26 minutes. The 15th and 16th guys were
probably more than a minute ahead of me, and I
was well in front of five others. My watch tells
me I did a 30:47, better than my 5Ks of last
year.
I cool down, stretch and watch the start of
the 20K. Then off we go to the old walled city of
Obidos for sightseeing and some walking of a
noncompetitive nature.
2001 race calendar
As always, our listing of racewalking events
is not engraved in stone. Some races are added
during the season, others are changed or
canceled. It's always best to verify the time,
date and location with the race director before
setting out.
May
20 - Great Bear 5K. Pollard School,
Needham, MA, 3:20 p.m. An unjudged walk as part
of a daylong series of road races.
781-444-8499.
27 - Brookline Reservoir walk.
617-731-9889
June
3 -5K, Danehy Park, Cambridge, 9:30
a.m. Moved up from the second Sunday of the month
so as not to conflict with the New England 20K.
Contact Bill Harriman at 978-640-9676 (before
9:30 p.m.).
10 - New England 20K, Ninigret Park,
Charlestown, RI. Grand Prix event. Entry form
enclosed.
15-16 - Massachusetts Senior Games,
1500-meter and 5K racewalks for ages 50 and
above. Springfield. 413-788-2457.
16 - New England outdoor 3K
championship. Part of the regional track met.
Northeast University track, Dedham, MA. New
England track and field office, 617-566-7600.
24 - Brookline Reservoir walk.
617-731-9889.
July
4 - Dedham 5-miler, Dedham, MA. An
unjudged walking division as part of the town's
holiday road race.
10 - 5K, Danehy Park, Cambridge, 9:30
a.m. (See June listing.)
22 - Brookline Reservoir walk.
617-731-9889.
14 -Bay State Games 3K, MIT track,
Cambridge, MA. Part of the track and field
portion of the statewide athletics festival.
781-932-6555.
August
12 ????- 5K, Danehy Park, Cambridge,
9:30 a.m. (See June listing)
12 - Eastern Regional Masters 5K
championship. Part of the regional masters track
and field meet. Grand Prix event. Springfield
College, Springfield, MA. New England track and
field office, 617-566-7600.
26 - Brookline Reservoir walk.
617-731-9889.
26 - Sherwood Foundation 10K. Unjudged
walk in conjunction with running race.
401-943-1123.
September
9 - 5K, Danehy Park, Cambridge, 9:30
a.m. (See June listing)
23 - Brookline Reservoir walk.
617-731-9889.
October
7 -- National One- and Two-Hour
Championships, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Worcester, MA. Grand Prix event. Justin Kuo,
617-731-9889.
26 - Sherwood Foundation 5K,
Providence, RI. 401-943-1123
Racewalking down memory lane
June 1997 -- Bob Keating
captures the New England 20K in 1:50:08 as a
grand total of four of us go the distance on a
muggy morning in Boston's Franklin Park. Ten
others race the first half of the course and then
stick around to furnish much-appreciated moral
support.
May 1999 - The New England 20K moves to
a challenging 1K loop on the Rhode Island College
campus in Providence. Brian Savilonis tops
the five finishers in 1:54:53, and the next day
repairs to his computer and calculates what our
times might have been if we'd raced on a level
course instead of climbing a hill 20 times.
Phone any time
For up-to-the-minute information on race
schedules, clinics and other events, call the New
England Walkers hotline at: 781-433-7142
The New England Walkers
Send material to:
Charlie Mansbach
25 Larkspur Road
Newton, MA 02468
E-mail address: Mansba@nws.globe.com
or cmnsbch@cs.com
For membership information, contact
Justin
Kuo at 617-731-9889