Weekly Sunday Rub
March 12, 2000

Race Director: Marge Lebo
Assisted by: Mark Barnhardt and Pat Spagnolo

After welcoming fellow runner Darlene Maloney, the challenge facing our hearty crew was to determine how quickly they could pace themselves into a 25 MPH head-wind along the Riverfront 4-mile course.  Prior to the start, all runners gave RD Lebo their predicted times and subsequently ran the breezy 4-mile course without watches. 

Bruce ("the human metronome") Irvin was the closest to his predicted time, being off by a mere 3 seconds!  In second place was Mike Garman, off by only 4 seconds. The top 5 runners closest to their predicted times were awarded prizes that only runners can appreciate such as wine, Powerade, Gatorade, or bottled water.

Mom-to-be Susie Kramer led the women in 31:08.  First among the men was Tom Snedden in 25:54.

In an effort to redeem herself for not bringing cookies to the Christmas run, RD Lebo toted along hot coffee and sweet rolls.  Where were you, Nick and Sheldon? Listed below are the actual and predicted times for today's brave souls:


Name                      Actual Time          Predicted Time:
Tom Snedden          25:54                    25:30
Mike Garman         25:56                    26:00  (2nd) 
Bobby Kramer         28:40                    31:24
Frank Crupi             28:51                     29:30
Mark Ritter             29:35                    28:30
Susie Kramer           31:08                    34:00
Wayne Smithers       31:27                    31:45  (5th) 
Mike McFadden       31:52                   32:00  (3rd) 
Darlene Maloney     31:55                    31:00
Patti Adami               32:19                    32:40
Lee McMindes         32:31                    32:20  (4th) 
Chris Gipe                 32:36                    30:00
Jim Vorhauer             33:34                   30:30
Jason Mazzei            34:12                    32:00
Rick Tolbert               34:31                   34:58
Dave Lebo                 34:34                    31:50
Phil Spagnolo            35:47                     39:40
Bruce Irvin                 36:07                   36:04 (1st) 
Stacey Pietras          37:17                      35:30
Gary Grobman          38:19                     38:00
Jackie Tolbert           39:17                     39:50
Les Powell                39:30                      40:00
Rachel Irvin               42:29                    42:00
Ray Gavlick               44:09                    41:45