Summer Sizzler #20 - 5K
August 28, 2002

             Lombardi Concludes Season with Record Run

        Harrier Ron Lombardi began the 2002 Summer Sizzler season on Everett Barney Day with a wire to wire win on the 8K road course. He closed the season in similar fashion, only this time he took down the 17:38 record for 38 year old men held by Celio Hernandez these past eleven years. The smooth striding accountant from Southington, Connecticut, sprinted into a commanding lead at the start, then spent the next quarter of an hour chasing the imaginary Mr. Hernandez from 1991. Fighting fatigue and the clock up the final hill, Ron crossed the line in 17:28 to claim his first Sizzler record since he was setting the standard for distance running at Palmer High.
         Recent Citadel grad and track standout Scott Sutter soloed over the Forest Park trails in 18:56 for second, while Harrier David Estabrook prepared for the high school cross country season with a solid 19:43 effort. SMACer Richard Clark was first master in 21:22 while Brian Goddu supplemented his Harrier newspaper reporting duties by winning the senior title in 22:39 and in the process exacted a measure of revenge on the Harrier cross country course. 
        Twelve year old Jordan Roby of the New Britain Dog Pound (Connecticut) captured her second women’s victory of the Summer Sizzler season with an speedy 23:52 clocking. Colleen Cummings took second in 24:56 while the Hartford Track Club’s indomitable Zofia Turosz took third in 25:28 and in the process set a new standard for 64 year old women, chopping nearly six minutes off the old record set by Barbara Hennig of the Hudson Mohawk Road Runners Club (New York) way back in 1989. 
        Thus the 2002 Summer Sizzlers are concluded. The Greater Springfield Harriers wish to thank all those volunteers who made this series possible, particularly race director Sharon Mikaelian, Harriers Brian Goddu, Elizabeth Duquette, Neal Lamberton, Sue Crowley, Pete Stasz, Tom Whelan and friends Bruce Kurtz and everyone else who helped out during the season. And of course our sponsor, Fast Feet, Inc. Until next year……..

Results 
 1  17:28  Ron          Lombardi    38M  GSH
 2  18:56  Scott        Sutter      24M  ---
 3  19:43  David        Estabrook   16M  GSH
 4  20:33  Edian        Melendez    39M  ---
 5  21:19  Mike         Butler      29M  ---
 6  21:22  Richard      Clark       48M  SMAC
 7  21:34  Martin       LaChapelle  39M  ---
 8  22:04  Joe          Fois        27M  GSH
 9  22:22  Tom          Dwyer       44M  GSH
10  22:26  Dan          Clark       49M  EORC
11  22:39  Brian        Goddu       52M  GSH
12  22:54  Daryl        Delisle     45M  ---
13  22:56  Daniel       Dupre       33M  ---
14  23:22  Doug         Cummings    40M  ---
15  23:30  Matthew      Lambert     15M  ---
16  23:30  Andres       Olivo       16M  ---
17  23:36  Kevin        Young       50M  GSH
18  23:44  Rachad       Elzinji     20M  ---
19  23:52  Jordan       Roby        12F  NBDP
20  24:09  Al           Cabot       47M  GSH
21  24:09  Bill         Collins     49M  ---
22  24:23  Mark         Devlin      39M  GSH
23  24:29  Christopher  Park        30M  ---
24  24:40  Don          Grindle     47M  GSH
25  24:56  Colleen      Cummings    36F  ---
26  25:28  Zofia        Turosz      64F  HTC
27  25:38  Bryon        Dailey      47M  GSH
28  25:44  Lauran       Thompson    35F  ---
29  25:46  Bruce        Rockwell    59M  GSH
30  25:51  John         Pashko      50M  GSH
31  27:01  Don          Grant       60M  SMAC
32  27:18  Roy          Anderson    55M  ---
33  27:19  Yaz          Soffan      27M  ---
34  27:48  Michael      Bullock     54M  ---
35  28:08  Mary Lou     White       47F  ---
36  30:11  Cindy        Fois        25F  ---
37  30:24  Jason        Lambert     43M  ---
38  30:45  Kathy        Hunter      48F  EORC
39  30:59  Kim          Tremble     31F  EORC
40  32:01  Tim          McAneany    64M  ---
41  35:13  Ursula       Jackson     31F  ---