The Trail to Ale 10K was a joyride for many, a
trail of tears

(with great scenery) for others. So who’ll be wearing the
maillot jeaune in Newton?

With many tight races and some divisions locked up,
we figured it best to break it down by

divisional possibilities.

the Trail to Ale, the last being in 2007

when
the taps we’re still going at 2 pm. This year, Shipyard Brewer extraordinaire
Alan Pugsley allowed

that the parched masses knocked off 10 half-kegs and
10-one-sixth kegs in one hour five minutes.

That’s all right, Bob
was part of theimpromptu Narragansett ‘Prius Party’ in the back lot before

NER
& Bob & others moved on to the traditional 2nd floor outdoor landing,
post-race repast at

Dry Dock on Commercial Street.

for this year’s NER Pub Stop No. 5. Without further adieu:

 

Trail to Ale Results

Men’s Standings  

Women’s Standings

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who ran sub-5 pace as part of a 20-mile day, the next 7 slots were all
Pub Series with TJ Unger sucking pond water

at the finish but valiantly
managing to stay ahead of chief rival and HFC teammate Lee Danforth.

TJ with Natick’s Marc
LeBlanc, one that he appeared to win (looking from the rear

and not at a great
vantage). Both runners were given the same time in the official chip-timed
results with LeBlanc getting the nod. A phone call with the timing company a
day later revealed the ‘chip’ had recorded LeBlanc 3/100ths of a second ahead
of Danforth, leaving Lee a point behind TJ going into Paddy’s.

 

Jason – well, not his finest hour
but still good enough to retain 3rd overall with

CSU poster boy Terry McNatt
solid in 4th. With a stellar run, Whirlaway’s Jim Quadros has made it
interesting for the final $ spot as he pulled to within 3-points

of Mcdara
Nash.

in the offing, but her
winning 37:09 put herover 2-minutes ahead of everybody.

She’s now 5-for-5 with
a perfect 250 points. If she wins Paddy’s, she’ll be the first

woman in the 13
yr. history of the Pub Series to have swept all 6 races. Other than a

Kathy
Fleming or a collegiate speedster showing up (which could happen), it looks
like a lock.

Heartbreak

Hill Strider Amy Pace and CSU’s Annalisa Pawlosky are uncanny
in their ability to laser onto each other while vying for the 5th ($) slot.
Annalisa was one place ahead of Amy at Might Meehan, Amy was one place ahead of
Annalisa at Trail to Ale and is just 2-points back heading into Paddy’s.

 

position.

Both will finish in
the top 5 Open so, with a great run (winning the Masters division in 34:18),
John Noland jumps past Mcdara Nash and Jim Quadros into the top spot with 31
points. Mcdara and Jim (tied at 27) will duke it out for the runner-up position
and they can all thank Greg Picklesimer who missed his 2nd race.

didn’t matter as a
very strong contingent of Maine Masters turned off the Pub spigot and no one
scored a point.

Race runner-up Mary Pardi (39:20) led the charge. (Both men’s
winner Tarpy and Pardi are running the ING Hartford Marathon as part of the
NER/Hartford “New England’s Finest” program.)

Cagle in third.

lame at Mighty Meehan and walking the Trail, Chris Spinney (a point behind
Hammond coming in) vaulted into 1st

but will be running the Bay State Marathon
the same day as Paddy’s, prompting him to remark, pre-race, “Fallon’s got it.”

appearance) would have done it, until Fallon joined the
strained/pulled Hammy Club at 4M on the Trail and walked it in.

second (36),

but the hammy ain’t feeling too good.

ain’t, finishing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th would put him in the
silver position.

a leg at Paddys, and CSU’s Theo Kinderman,
who earned 5 pts. at the Trail for a total of  20, either wins or places 2nd 50+ to clinch the bronze.

donning the maillot jeune (yellow
leader’s singlet) at Paddy’s.

 

Bellisle, 55, whenever Northport NY’s
Kathryn Martin

shows up at the odd Pub Series race. A national track and road
talent, Marge ran 41:58 to stay ahead of younger

“Open” rivals Amy Pace and
Annalisa Pawlosky – but she had to defer to 58 year-old Martin, who regularly
sweeps

her events at the World Masters Championships.

among women.

bumped up and Kayleen Rosato picking up 5 points, this puts Kayleen
in the catbird’s seat with a 1-point margin (23-22)

over Ginny Carlin (AWOL) in
Portland. Behind this duo, there is a 3-way tie for 3rd between Pub stalwarts
Jeannie Vieira,

Sue Maslowski and Marianne Withington.

instead, hefinds himself in a tie at 20 point with Lovell, Maine’s Kevin
McDonald. Running on homestate turf,

McDonald ran 43:11 to Duke’s 44:09, and
thus Duke’s 2-point lead coming in vanished.

in Newton with John Winters assured of the bronze no matter
how it plays out between the lead duo.

champion Catherine Farrell was just one point behind Kelly entering
the fray, but after Mighty Meehan the writing

was on the wall.

accompli as Janet (Mainers, I’m not afraid of no
stinkin’ Mainers) dominated her division at Trail to Ale, winning by almost
3-minutes

in 51:37.

 

point in Portland to wrap up third.

winner Bob Hillman of the Marshfield Road
Runners has

garnered yet another title and now owns about 5 or 6 maillot jeunes

from year’s past. At 77, Bob can still belt it out and had enough in reserve

to
stay an extra night to take in the Portland shops and pubs.

Lou Peters, a spry 84, has forged divisional bronze after outkicking Paul
Hammond at the finish of this year’s

“Trail to Ale.”

Nor’Easter.

up your leader’s jersey, a
tradition we started several years ago after watching all the jersey
designations at the Tour de France.

dancing shoes to Paddy’s afterwards).

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