The 20k distance (12.4 miles) is one of the rarely
contested distances in the history of the USATF road running grand prix. This
year will be only the seventh time the distance was included in the 7 race
series which has been held since 1985. In 1985 two 20k’s were run with one
designated as the “Men’s masters championship” and the other being the overall
championship held in Charlton and Springfield MA respectively. I could not
locate results from 1985. In 1987 the race was held in Marshfield over a hilly
double-loop course. In 1992 Pittsfield hosted the championships and in 2000,
2002, and 2003 the Bedford Lions (Bedford NH) held the last three 20k’s.
CMS was the team champion in 1992 and
2000. GLRR won in 1987, WRT in 2003, and BAA in 2002. CMS had an individual champion in 1992 when
Dave Dunham edged BRC’s Ed Sheehan by 9 seconds. Dunham also won while wearing
the green of GLRR in 1987. CMS
holds the team record with a time of 5:29:37 which is an average of 1:05:55 for
the five scoring members, or an average of 5:19 per mile.
09-27-87
1 63:10 Dave Dunham GLRR
2 64:02 Reno Stirrat
CMS
3 64:27 Larry Olson TVFR 1st 40+
4 65:10 Dick Mahoney
5 65:19 Steve Curran BAA
6 66:00 John Noland MRR
7 66:10 Walter Murphy GLRR
8 66:14 Gary Wallace GLRR
9 66:29 Mike Slavin BAA
10 66:58 John Waldron CSU
11 67:28 Jim Garcia
CMS
Teams
1 GLRR
2 BAA
3 CMS
4 CSU
03-28-92
1 64:03 Dave Dunham
CMS
2 64:12 Ed Sheehan BRC
3 65:22 Jim Zimmerly
CMS
4 65:45 Jeff Staab BRC
5 65:49 Wayne Jacomb
CMS
6 66:06 Pat Gillooly BRC
7 66:26 Scott Clark
CMS
8 66:42 Dave Damerjian CSU
9 67:47 Jim Garcia
CMS
10 68:03 Jeff Mutter TVF
Team Results
1. CMS = 5:29:37
2.
CSU = 5:42:33
3.
BRC = 5:45:45
4.
GLRR = 5:51:33
5.
TVFR = 6:00:26
06-25-00
1 1:04:42 PETER HAMMER 33M
BRC
2 1:05:41 CRAIG FRAM 41M WHIRL
3 1:05:42 DAVE
DUNHAM 36M CMS
4 1:07:17 TODD
COFFIN 38M CMS
5 1:07:46 DAN
VERRINGTON 37M CMS
6 1:07:59 LARRY
SAYERS 40M CMS
7 1:08:13 RICHARD
BOLT 29M CMS
CMS and some
familiar names
12 1:09:37 JIM
GARCIA 41M CMS
17 1:10:05 GARY
GARDNER 29M CMS
22 1:11:28 BYRNE
DECKER 33M CMS
24 1:11:43 BEN NEPHEW 24M GBTC
41 1:15:49 DAVID
WEATHERBIE 32M CMS
42 1:15:58 JERRY
LEARNED 51M CMS
Team Results
1. CMS =
5:36:57
2. WRT = 5:45:25
3. GLRR = 6:04:45
4. GBTC = 6:06:37
5. TVFR = 6:10:04
06/23/02
1 1:04:30 CHRIS MAGILL 29M BAA
2 1:05:03 KEN PLISKA 36M WHIRL
3 1:06:29 ANDY SPAULDING 31M DIRIG
4 1:07:01 KEVEN O'NEIL 32M BAA
5 1:07:07 ERIC BEAUCHESNE 32M GLRR
6 1:07:52 LOWELL LADD 26M BAA
7 1:08:14 CHRIS TEAGUE 32M GLRR
8 1:08:23 ROD
VIENS 34M CMS
9 1:08:30 JIM QUADROS 39M WHIRL
10 1:08:34 STEVEN SNOVER 42M
CMS and some
familiar names
16 1:09:31 BEN NEPHEW 26M GBTC
20 1:10:18 TIMOTHY
BOILARD 27M CMS
30 1:11:40 RICHARD
BOLT 31M CMS
35 1:12:19 ERNIE
BRAKE 40M CMS
38 1:12:43 JEFF
MUTTER 42M CMS
41 1:13:15 DAVE
OLIVER 46M CMS
Team Results
1. BAA = 5:37:57
2. WRT = 5:43:50
3. GLRR = 5:47:43
4. CMS =
5:55:23
5. CSU = 6:08:46
06/29/03 – Unfortunately for CMS, the
Ascutney hill climb was the day before and the Mountain series was the focus for
many of the guys who would also normally do the GP. Verrington beat the Moulton
brothers who would just edge him in age if you added them together.
1 1:06:24 David Hinga 27M WHIRL
2 1:07:18 Craig Fram 44M WHIRL
3 1:07:42 Dan Verington
41M CMS
4 1:07:49 Patrick Moulton 21M
5 1:07:56 Casey Moulton 21M GLRR
6 1:09:03 Eric Beauchesne 32M GLRR
7 1:09:09 Terry Shea 29M BAA
8 1:09:16 Brad Klinedirst 27M MVS
9 1:09:22 Doug Martyn 43M WHIRL
10 1:09:27 Chris Teague 32M GLRR
13 1:10:00 James Pawlicki 28M GBTC
21 1:11:56 Ben Nephew 27M GBTC
24 1:12:54 Alan Bernier
28M CMS
44 1:16:07 David Oliver
47M CMS
47 1:16:38 Richard Bolt
32M CMS
48 1:16:38 Dave
Dunham 39M CMS
Team Results
1. WRT = 5:47:15
2. GLRR = 5:48:44
3. BAA = 6:03:16
4. GBTC = 6:06:43
5. CMS =
6:09:59
