Snowstorm Classic #10 - 10K
February 2, 2002

Super Run Breaks Snowstorm Classic Record
Heather Gardiner Just Misses Another Win

     After tying the 5K record last week with her unprecedented 1st place overall, Heather Gardiner gave the 10K course a try. The result: a new course record for women and nearly another first place finish. 
     This time the Hartford Track Club speedster had additional obstacles to overcome. Weather conditions were more seasonal and less then ideal, ie., windy and cold with a few patches of icy roadway on the Forest Park course. And not only were Steve Byrne and Steve O'Neil, the 2nd and 3rd place finishers from last week, looking for revenge, but two UMass Students had joined the fray, North Medford Club's Jamie Jee and the Harriers' Jason Reed, a previous Snowstorm Classic winner. The stage was thus set.
     Jamie Jee opened a quick early lead at the starting gun as the 22 year old UMass senior by way of Gardner, Mass, bolted up the early hill. But Gardiner gave chase, and by the top of the hill had strung out the rest of the field, with Steve Bryne, Steve O'Neil and Jason Reed next in line. That's how they stayed, with the two leaders slowly pulling away from the others. By the 5K mark Jee held a fifteen second margin over Gardiner, and everyone else was racing for 3rd.
     The margins remained the same over the next few miles and it appeared that Jee was headed for a comfortable win. But with a mile to go Gardiner put on a ferocious charge, steadily closing the gap all the way to the finish with Jee just hanging on for a four second victory in 36:28. Gardiner's late surge however had it's rewards, a 36:32 new course record for women, breaking by one second the record which had stood for over twenty years, the 36:33 standard held by the Harriers' Carol O'Connor. In addition, Gardiner smashed the 40:41 record for 23 year old women held since 1989 by the Harriers' Diane Tedford.  
     Heather is pointing towards this year's Boston Marathon and based upon her Snowstorm Classic efforts could be headed towards a big pr.
     Steve Byrne held on to 3rd in 37:25 while Jason Reed (37:44) edged past Steve O'Neil (37:57) who again won both master and senior honors. Finian O'Shea (40:24) was the first junior. Dawn Roberts (43:43) held off Ludmila Cosio (44:01) for 2nd and 3rd respectively among the women. Ellie Lowell (50:10) of the Silk City Striders was first master and senior for the women.

Results
 1  36:28  Jamie     Jee          22M  NMC
 2  36:32  Heather   Gardiner     23F  HTC
 3  37:25  Steve     Byrne        34M  GSH
 4  37:44  Jason     Reed         23M  GSH
 5  37:57  Steve     O'Neil       50M  CMS
 6  38:47  John      Bigos        48M  GSH
 7  39:08  Tim       Brown        49M   ---
 8  40:02  Frank     Rucki        52M  CMS
 9  40:24  Finian    O'Shea       17M   ---
10  40:58  Teddy     Adams        41M   ---
11  41:47  Jon       Harris       20M   ---
12  42:31  Wayne     Stocker      47M  GSH
13  42:53  Art       Roberts      57M  GSH
14  43:03  Tom       Whelan       43M  GSH
15  43:12  Ramon     Alicea       50M  GSH
16  43:23  John      Hunter       50M  EORC
17  43:29  Jim       Halton       54M  GSH
18  43:43  David     Livingstone  49M  GSH
19  43:43  Dawn      Roberts      30F  GSH
20  44:01  Ludmila   Cosio        31F  TPB
21  44:24  Keith     Fecteau      42M  GSH
22  44:33  Jesse     Regnier      14M  GSH
23  44:44  Mary      Misiaszek    35F  GSH
24  44:49  Paul      Tinker       21M   ---
25  45:05  Neal      Lamberton    53M  GSH
26  45:19  Mike      Butler       29M   ---
27  45:21  Tom       DeLuca       46M  GSH
28  45:24  Deb       Bercovici    35F  GSH
29  45:27  Candy     Goyette      27F   ---
30  45:31  Charlie   Towse        64M  GSH
31  45:46  James     Snyder       49M  GSH
32  46:20  David     Aronson      46M  SMAC
33  46:33  Tom       Regnier      41M  GSH
34  47:10  Brian     Goddu        52M  GSH
35  47:13  William   O'Neill      44M  GSH
36  47:31  Joe       Fois         26M  GSH
37  47:36  Jason     Dominick     30M   ---
38  47:37  Zach      Denver       16M   ---
39  48:00  Justin    Kasunick     26M   ---
40  48:06  Sara      Pragluski    23F  GSH
41  48:07  John      Pashko       50M  GSH
42  48:07  Dennis    Mahoney      47M  SCS
43  48:10  James     Pearson      38M   ---
44  48:12  Glenn     Yarnell      31M   ---
45  48:19  Matt      DuFresne     35M  GSH
46  48:20  Kevin     Young        49M  GSH
47  48:24  Sharon    Mikaelian    36F  GSH
48  48:31  Deb       Girouard     38F  EORC
49  48:40  Bill      Thibault     44M  EORC
50  48:49  Bob       Massaro      58M  EORC
51  49:55  Roland    Gelinas      35M   ---
52  50:00  Doug      Bielefeld    42M  GSH
53  50:10  Ellie     Lowell       54F  SCS
54  51:09  Mary      Gubala       36F  GSH
55  52:07  Chris     Park         30M   ---
56  52:28  Jim       Liebel       53M   ---
57  52:31  Stephen   Penna        46M  EORC
58  52:41  Andrea    DuFresne     32F  GSH
59  52:46  Patrick   Kennedy      61M  GSH
60  52:49  Amy       Bottke       33F   ---
61  52:51  Clive     Woakes       54M  GSH
62  52:52  Mike      LaPlante     41M   ---
63  53:12  Ellen     Bellicchi    51F  GSH
64  54:11  Cindy     Roy          42F  EORC
65  55:25  Ed        Dwyer        36M  GSH
66  55:34  Kelly     Sullivan     35F  GSH
67  57:22  Ray       Wenninger    53M  SMAC
68  57:53  Dick      Osgood       64M  GSH
69  58:06  Mary Lou  White        46F   ---
70  58:09  Rob       Robinson     48M   ---
71  58:12  Katy      Reynolds     48F  NMS
72  58:16  Kathy     Hunter       48F  EORC
73  59:27  Ken       Barba        49M   ---
74  65:22  Kris      Kozuch       44F  EORC
75  74:32  Brian     Santos       32M  SMAC
76  89:42  Bruce     Kurtz        65M  SMAC