Summer Sizzler #12 - 5K
June 30, 2004

Peter Fratini Cruises to Win; 
Amy Nedeau Fastest Since 1989

      Peter Fratini won the race while Amy Nedeau ran the fastest woman's time in fifteen years on the Summer Sizzler cross country course.
      Peter earned his third lifetime Summer Sizzler crown with a 19:18 clocking as the speedy Harrier became the 11th different runner (out of twelve races) to win a Sizzler this year. Seth Roberts placed 3rd in 22:31 to win both the master and senior divisions, while Charlie Towse was the first veteran in 24:13, just missing one of those tough Doug Blanchard age marks.
      But the headline story was 2nd place finisher overall Amy Nedeau whose 19:44 was the fastest woman's time since Nicole McGilpin narrowly missed the course record in 1989 with a 19:31 effort. Amy's impressive first tour of the infamous Harrier course did result in a new age record for 29 year old women, chopping over a minute off the 20:57 standard set by Harrier Coleen Walsh in 1984. Amy, who competes for the Boston Athletic Association (the folks who put on that Marathon every year), has been battling an injury for the past year or so and its nice to see the Western Mass native rounding back into shape. Several of our senior men's team recall her 7th place finish at the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships in Rocklin, California, in 2002 where she led the BAA women to a third place finish.
      In today's race, fifteen year old Elizabeth Cullinan placed 2nd among the women in 24:44, followed by Aimee St. Hilaire in 3rd in 25:41.
Results 
 1  19:18  Peter Fratini 	39M GSH
 2  19:44  Amy Nedeau 		29F BAA
 3  22:21  Seth Roberts 	52M GSH
 4  23:09  Ray Charow 		42M ---
 5  24:03  John Adamson 	31M ---
 6  24:13  Charlie Towse 	66M GSH
 7  24:22  Doug Cummings 	42M ---
 8  24:44  Elizabeth Cullinan 	15F ---
 9  25:08  Bruce Rockwell 	61M GSH
10  25:41  Aimee St. Hilaire 	33F ---
11  25:55  Steve Penna 		48M EORC
12  25:57  Don Grindle 		49M GSH
13  26:01  John Scalise 	51M WMAC
14  26:11  Vic Goulet 		65M ---
15  26:46  Michael Finn 	34M ---
16  27:44  Roy Anderson 	56M GSH
17  28:43  Brian Donaldson 	31M ---
18  29:29  Ray Wenninger 	55M EORC
19  29:56  Kim Gibbons 		33F EORC
20  42:29  Jan Komaiszko 	48M GSH