Worcester, MA
October 17, 1998

After the strange happenings at the previous two CMS 52-Week 5K Series races, it was hoped that #42 would return to normalcy. No such luck.

On Saturday morning, October 17th, in addition to CMS 52-Week 5K #42, the club was committed to timing and scoring the Mental Health Awareness 5K in Westborough. As a result, one timing and scoring crew headed east to Westborough while another started out to Worcester State College, the site of the 52-Week 5K.

Unfortunately, the car transporting the WSC bound crew suffered a blown radiator hose enroute and, as a result, the crew never made it to WSC until the race was well over.

Fortunately, one of those in attendance at WSC was Ken Deary, the impresario of the CMS-Dudley 5K Series. Upon realizing that the timing and scoring crew was not going to materialize, Ken announced to the assembled runners that the $2 entry fee was waived and instructed the two volunteers who did appear, Jerry Grove and Bob Seed, to write down names, ages, places and times at the finish line. And so it was done.

1	17:28	Brad Fors		20-39M	Leominster, MA		CMS
2	17:42	Mike Niles		40-49M	Westminster, MA		CMS
3	18:42	Dave Greenslit		40-49M	Worcester, MA		CMS
4	19:58	George Paradis		40-49M	Oakham, MA		CMS
5	20:51	Joanne Lachapelle	40-49F	Worcester, MA		CMS
6	20:53	Nick Popiak		40-49M	Thompson, CT		CMS
7	21:43	Ken Deary		40-49M	Dudley, MA		CMS
8	24:16	Bill Krauss		40-49M	Worcester, MA		CMS
9	26:04	Sam Fitzwater		20-39F	Oxford, MA		CMS
10	26:15	Ed Sato			60-69M	Worcester, MA		CMS
11	26:48	Sharon Lawson		20-39F	Charlton, MA		CMS
12	29:10	Heather Karman		00-09F
13	29:11	Eddie Gallivan		60-69M	Worcester, MA		CMS
14	31:49	Dale Ames		50-59M	Worcester, MA		CMS

The volunteers: Jerry Grove (Worcester); Bob Seed (Boylston).

(14f - clear; somewhere between 45 and 55 degrees)

revd November 30, 1998, barry