Summer Sizzler #10 - 8K
June 18, 2003

         Tom Walsh # 2 Wins # 1, Mary Ferraro Wins # 7 #                              Doug Blanchard Passes     
        
          The Summer Sizzler season reached its mid-point under cloudy skies, both literally and figuratively. Trinity College student Tom Walsh rather enjoyed the warm, light rain as he toured Forest Park in 29:31 for a comfortable win. The former Cathedral High half mile ace garnered his first Sizzler crown, notwithstanding the Hall of Fame listing of two wins for another Tom Walsh.  
          Mary Ferraro again dominated the women’s field with a brisk 31:16 clocking, placing her 2nd place overall while earning her a seventh women’s victory for the season, including four in a row. Art Roberts (32:31) out dueled fellow Harrier Seth Roberts (33:23) for 3rd place overall as well as first master and first senior. Kristin Ashe (34:44) and Colleen Cummings (36:13) took the silver and bronze medals for the women.  
          The overcast and rainy weather created an appropriate atmosphere for the news which struck GSH club members and other Summer Sizzler runners….the passing of long time Harrier Doug Blanchard.  Affectionately nicknamed the Champ by club president Pete Stasz (based on his winning the USATF National Masters Cross Country Championships in his age division several years ago in Palo Alto, California), Doug was a Summer Sizzler mainstay who holds a total of 26 age records, including 13 consecutive age records on the cross country course.      He will be missed by all of us. 

Results 
 1  29:31  Tom      Walsh       19M  ---
 2  31:16  Mary     Ferraro     26F  GSH
 3  32:31  Art      Roberts     59M  GSH
 4  33:23  Seth     Roberts     51M  GSH
 5  33:33  Dan      Clark       50M  EORC
 6  34:08  Dave     Estabrook   17M  GSH
 7  34:11  Ruben    Rios        35M  GSH
 8  34:31  Dennis   Francis     34M  ---
 9  34:34  Tom      Dwyer       45M  GSH
10  34:44  Kristin  Ashe        34F  ---
11  34:45  Mark     DeGrandpre  34M  ---
12  35:19  Brian    Goddu       53M  GSH
13  35:34  John     McMahon     28M  ---
14  35:39  Neal     Lamberton   54M  GSH
15  36:13  Colleen  Cummings    37F  GSH
16  36:43  Peter    Terhune     38M  SRR
17  38:11  Stephen  Penna       47M  EORC
18  38:13  Kate     Butler      32F  GSH
19  38:14  Joe      Fois        28M  EORC
20  38:18  Ed       Dwyer       37M  GSH
21  38:18  Mike     Butler      30M  EORC
22  38:19  Tim      Londo       37M  GSH
23  38:30  Joe      Wynn        24M  ---
24  39:00  Kevin    Young       50M  GSH
25  39:05  Dan      Lynes       60M  EORC
26  40:41  Mary     Marchetto   51F  ---
27  40:41  Don      Marchetto   54M  ---
28  46:04  Jim      Waltein     41M  ---
29  48:04  Hilary   Terhune     29F  SRR
30  50:16  Dick     Osgood      65M  GSH
31  56:23  Jan      Komaiszko   47M  GSH