Lots of wet, soaking rain up at Devens last night, accompanied by a steady downpour of damp soggy precipitation and passing showers.... Only 12 brave souls (soles?) ventured outdoors to compete in our weekly 5K run.

In the men's race it was a close contest between Dan Navaroli and Peter Wojtas. They were stride-for-stride coming through the first mile mark. By Mile #2 Navaroli had opened up a pretty good lead, but then he paused for a moment to pick up some car keys that he'd dropped (?). [Not sure of the exact details, but we really did see Dan turn around and run back several steps!] Anyway, Dan Navaroli won the race (19:28) and Peter Wojtas ran yet another very strong 2nd (19:37).

Plenty of craziness in the women's race as well, as Jan Beckwith arrived at Devens just seconds before race time -- due to traffic on the way home from work -- and then during the race she managed to miss a turn and go off course for a minute or two. Nonetheless, Jan still won the race (23:48) with over 50 seconds to spare.

    1  19:28  Dan Navaroli            M20-39  Leominster      CMS
    2  19:37  Peter Wojtas       -1m- M40-49  Greenville, NH  CMS
    3  21:04  Bob Girouard       -1s- M50-59  Fitchburg       CMS
    4  21:18  Bryan Johnson           M40-49  Winchendon      CMS/NMC
    5  21:50  Tom Spinelli            M20-39  Leominster      CMS
    6  22:10  Peter Orni         -1v- M60-69  Ashburnham      CMS/NMC
    7  23:48  Jan Beckwith       -1f- F50-59  Bolton          CMS
    8  24:33  Ray Pfau                M60-69  Bolton          CMS
    9  24:39  Sau-Mei Leung           F20-39  Clinton         CMS
   10  28:14  Ray Boutotte            M50-59  Pepperell       CMS
   11  29:13  Megan Therriault        F20-39  Gardner         CMS
   12  34:45  Catherine Pfau    -1fs- F50-59  Bolton          CMS