Amherst 10 Miler

Bill Dixon, 2nd age graded overall
Photo by Thomas Cole

By Matt Story

Despite yet another snowstorm, thirty-seven Angry Chickens made their way out to Amherst for the Five College Realtors 10 Miler.  First across the line was James Sullivan in 58:35.  Shawn Conway, Mike Luebeck, EJ Hrynowski, and James Deluca joined him scoring for the Men's Open team that finished 12th.  Candice Gagnon was the first GLRR female to finish in a time of 1:10:37.  She was followed by Trish Bourne and Katie Gessler to put the Women's Open team in 7th.

The GLRR Male Masters also netted a 7th place finish.  Shawn and EJ were joined by Vermonster Bill Dixon, Jim Garcia, and Ken Goodin in scoring for the Masters.  Four of these five also scored for the 5th place Seniors team -- dropping Shawn and adding Bill Dumont.  The potent Dixon-Goodin combo added another Vermonster in Brad Fawley to take home 1st place for the Male Vets by something like 20 minutes.

Trish trading blows with Lisa Zappala of Whirlaway.
Trish would edge her out by 4 seconds for 1st in AG.
Photo by Thomas Cole.

The trio of Trish, Madeline Febo, and Pamela Beckwith took home 7th for Women Masters.  Trish and Madeline were joined by Nancy Dorn on the 5th place Women's Seniors team.

Notable individual efforts are age group wins by Trish Bourne and Bill Dixon and a 3rd in the age group by Ken Goodin in his debut USATF-NE Vets race.















Full Results at http://www.coolrunning.com/results/15/ma/Feb22_FiveCo_set1.shtml.