As the millennium draws to a close, or at least the year 1999, runners continued to alter the Snowstorm Classic record books. Three new women’s marks were established while the men tied one record and lowered another.Harrier Heather Wenninger notched her second record in as many weeks, and her fourth overall, as the speedy 16 year old zipped around the 5K Forest Park course in 19:26, erasing the 20:04 standard set by Harrier Diane Hanks nearly seventeen years ago. Diane is a former western Mass cross country champ from Shelburne Falls (and Mohawk Trail Regional High School) while Heather captured the title this year competing for Chicopee Comp. Heather also won the women’s race followed by teammates Kathy Colwell in 21:09 and Dawn Roberts in 21:29.  Mary Ryczek added to her collection of age records with a 21:33 effort. Demonstrating how she won the overall USATF-New England grand prix title for senior women this year, the CMSer and Longmeadow resident knocked over a minute off the previous standard for 53 year olds, 22:49 set by Marjorie Kos of the Millrose Athletic Association (New York) two years ago.  Zofia Turosz also added to her record collection with a 23:26 clocking as the first 61 year old to challenge the Snowstorm Classic course. The Hartford Track Club runner now has six records on the 5K course. Surprising no one, Sandu Rebenciuc made his 1999 Snowstorm Classic debut a success as the Olympic trials qualifier (in the 3000 meter steeplechase) ran "a tempo run" of 16:24.  Harriers Carlos Rivera (16:36) and Jeff Totten (16:54) took silver and bronze, with Jeff keeping pace with Sandu through the first mile.  Bob Willis took fourth in 17:00, lowering the age 49 record he set two weeks ago by another seven seconds, while Frank Rucki proved to be the model of consistency in 17:56, tying the age 50 record he set two weeks ago.

 1  16:24  Sandu Rebenciuc      30M  ---
 2  16:36  Carlos Rivera        25M  GSH
 3  16:54  Jeff Totten          24M  GSH
 4  17:00  Bob Willis           49M  GSH
 5  17:35  Erich Fiedler        16M  ---
 6  17:38  Steve O'Neil         48M  CMS
 7  17:49  Tom Bousquet         18M  GSH
 8  17:56  Frank Rucki          50M  CMS
 9  18:08  Kenny Delisle        15M  ---
10  18:28  Tom Regnier          39M  GSH
11  19:06  Joe Fois             24M  GSH
12  19:12  Richard Clark        45M  SMAC
13  19:26  Heather Wenninger    16F  GSH
14  19:47  Jesse Regnier        12M  FFTC
15  19:51  Seth Roberts         48M  GSH
16  19:57  Tom Ripke            35M  GSH
17  20:11  Matthew Snow         16M  ---
18  20:26  Michael Swiszcz      16M  ---
19  20:38  Dan Delisle          38M  ---
20  20:39  David Stevenson      15M  ---
21  20:41  Jonathan Tetherly    55M  GSH
22  20:45  Jacob Hervieux       15M  ---
23  20:57  David Livingstone    47M  GSH
24  21:09  Kathy Colwell        36F  GSH
25  21:11  Brian Goddu          50M  GSH
26  21:17  Mark Lynch           41M  ---
27  21:24  John Hunter          48M  ---
28  21:26  Joel Boucher         45M  EORC
29  21:29  Dawn Roberts         27F  GSH
30  21:33  Mary Ryczek          53F  CMS
31  21:36  Joe DeJesus          45M  ---
32  21:39  Don Grindle          44M  GSH
33  21:41  Brian Gibbons        30M  GSH
34  21:54  David Aronson        44M  SMAC
35  22:00  Michele Sosnowski    28F  GSH
36  22:09  Chris Zurheide       35M  GSH
37  22:16  Scott Frazer         35M  ---
38  22:28  Steve Atkinson       16M  ---
39  22:29  Dave Martula         54M  SMAC
40  22:39  Neal Lamberton       51M  GSH
41  22:45  Deb Bercovici        33F  ---
42  23:00  Mary Misiaszek       33F  GSH
43  23:26  Zofia Turosz         61F  HTC
44  23:39  Erv Landry           60M  GSH
45  23:41  Bob Massaro          56M  EORC
46  23:50  Sean Contant         11M  ---
47  23:52  Ellen Bellicchi      49F  GSH
48  23:57  Patty Duffy          31F  SMAC
49  24:14  Bill Thibault        42M  ---
50  25:21  Sam O'Neil           15M  ---
51  25:34  Bill Milkiewicz      44M  EORC
52  25:38  Ann Franczyk         47F  GSH
53  25:41  Hugh Moriarty        58M  GSH
54  25:48  Tom Rowland          56M  GSH
55  26:01  Joe Mercolino        45M  ---
56  26:33  Steve Fiedler        44M  ---
57  26:40  Kathy Hunter         46F  ---
58  27:03  Peter Vangsness      48M  GSH
59  27:13  Rod Scott            47M  ---
60  27:14  Ray Wenninger        51M  SMAC
61  27:28  June Contant         41F  ---
62  27:43  Ed Dwyer             33M  GSH
63  28:48  Janet Romayko        54F  HTC
64  29:29  Maureen Bonavita     37F  ---
65  29:29  Sheila Byrne         33F  GSH
66  30:51  Mari Rebenciuc       28F  ---
67  31:39  Karin James          32F  ---
68  31:39  Linda Samoncik       37F  ---
69  32:27  Bruce Kurtz          63M  SMAC
70  33:09  Anna Carlson         10F  ---
71  33:11  Dave Carlson         40M  ---
72  34:24  Jenna Carlson         7F  ---
73  37:26  Jose Gonzalez        10M  ---