Ahmad wins, Lemberger ties women's mark

The Westport Parks and Recreation Department sponsored the fourth race of the 2010 Road Runners program with a 4.1-mile run which started and finished at Compo Beach last Saturday. Nadeem Ahmad of Westport won his first race of the season and led 117 runners with a time of 23:18. Ahmad's time didn't break of 20:35 set by Westporter's Roy Mascolino's (20:35) record, which he set in 1983.

Tom Parise (24:19) of Suffield and Sharon Lemberger (24:32) of Stamford placed second and third. As the first woman finisher, Lemberger's third place finish tied the best place finish ever by a woman runner in the program's history. Steven Marsalese (25:31) of Rye Brooke, N.Y. placed third in the men's division, in fourth overall. Amy Fredericks (26:31) of Norwalk and Westporter Kylie Gould (30:00) were second and third in the women's division, ninth and 27th, overall. Other Westport-Weston residents who finished in the top ten were David Allen (25:38), fifth; Paul Greenberg (26:02), sixth; Casey August (26:19), seventh; Dan August (26:25), eighth; and Bruce Geller (26:45), 10th.

This weeks point winners in the Grand Prix scoring system are as follows: Men's Junior Division; Spencer Brown, 3 points, Jack Hennessey, 2 points, and John Sand, 1 point. Men's Open Division; Tom Parise, 3 points, Casey August, 2 points, and Dan August, 1 point. Men's Sub-Masters Division; Vincent Dejana, 3 points, Ashish Bhandari , 2 points, and Alex Cotter, 1 point. Men's Masters Division; Nadeem Ahmad, 3 points, Steven Marsalese, 2 points, and David Allen, 1 point. Men's Grand Masters Division; Roland Lochoff, 3 points, Joe Von Ehr, 2 points, and Alex White, 1 point. Men's Veterans Division; Tom Maile, 3 points, Steve Sylvestro, 2 points, and Dan France, 1 point. Men's Grand Veterans Division; Michael Goldman, 3 points, Bob Laufer, 2 points, and Bob Goldblatt, 1 point. Women's Junior Division; Kylie Gould, 3 points, and Judy Feng, 2 points. Women's Open Division; None. Women's Sub-Masters Division; Sharon Lemberger, 3 points, Kelly Ives, 2 points, and Kathleen Rosseland, 1 point. Women's Masters Division; Amy Fredericks, 3 points, Kim Driscoll, 2 points, and Terry Bernard, 1 point. Women's Grand Masters Division; Dorit Heimer, 3 points, Ronnie Behringer, 2 points, and Elizabeth Craig, 1 point. Women's Veterans Division; None. Women's Grand Veterans Division; Norma Minkowitz, 3 points.

Grand Prix Division point leaders after four races are as follows: Junior Men; Jack Hennessey and Spencer Brown, 8 points. Open Men; Tom Parise, 12 points. Sub-Masters Men; Vincent Dejana, 11 points. Masters Men; David Allen, Steven Marsalese and Nadeem Ahmad, 5 points. Grand Masters Men; Roland Lochoff and Joe Von Ehr, 5 points. Veteran Men; Steve Sylvestro, 8 points. Grand Veteran Men; Bob Laufer, 10 points. Overall Men; Tom Parise, 35 points. Junior Women; Judy Feng, 10 points. Open Women; Emily Lamont, Kelly Bird and Lauren Dellavolpe, 3 points. Sub-Masters Women; Catherine Galin, 6 points. Masters Women; Liz Herbert and Amy Fredericks, 8 points. Grand Masters Women; Deidre O'Farrelly, 8 points. Veteran Women; Carol Kane, 6 points. Grand Veteran Women; Norma Minkowitz, 12 points. Overall Women; Liz Herbert, 29 points.

This week's gift certificate and prize winners were Tom Parise, Robert Smith, Andrew Flower, Charley Mason, Dan Clark, Ray Oliver and Christina Ogren whose place stick numbers were drawn at the post-race prize lottery. This week's award tee-shirt winners were Paul Greenberg, Casey August, Dan August, Sharon Lemberger, Kylie Gould and Kim Driscoll.

The next scheduled is tomorrow at 8 a.m. with a 4.7-mile run starting at Longshore Club Park. The runners will start at the pool and tennis parking lot and run out the Longshore exit road to the marina parking lot, turning left around the 17th fairway of the golf course, left toward the recreation office parking lot, left at the first tee of the golf course and in front of the Longshore Inn restaurant, and back to the starting line. They will continue straight out the exit road, right on South Compo Road, right on Compo Beach Road, right on Compo Beach entrance road, follow the perimeter roads of the beach, out the beach exit road, straight on Soundview Drive, left on South Compo Road, left on the Longshore entrance road, straight past the recreation office parking lot, left at the first tee of the golf course and in front of the Longshore Inn restaurant, right into the pool and tennis parking lot and finish in front of the pavilion building next to the tennis courts. The record for the 4.7-mile run was set by Dave Peterson (23:26) of Fairfield in 1983. The women's record was set by Mary Dolan-Zengo (28:05) of Wilton in 1998.

All interested persons are invited to participate. Applications for and information about the program are available at the recreation offices at Longshore Club Park at the start of each race or at westportroadrunners.org. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. at the pavilion located next to the tennis courts and pool area. The weekly fee for the program is $5 (resident) or $8 (non-resident). All participants are reminded to park in the marina or gravel parking lots. Co-sponsors of this year's program include: Pequot Runners, Running Times Magazine, Village Bagels, Runner Roost, Sherpa Training, Road I.D. and Matt Greene of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance.

Below is a list of the 25 finishers. Complete results of Saturday's 4.1 mile race are attached or may be found at westportroadrunners.org.

Place, Name Time

1. Nadeem Ahmad, Westport 23:18

2. Tom Parise, Suffield 24:19

3. S. Lemberger, Stamford 24:32

4. Steven Marsalese, NY 25:31

5. David Allen, Westport 25:38

6. Paul Greenberg, Westport 26:02

7. Casey August, Westport 26:19

8. Dan August, Westport 26:25

9. Amy Fredericks, Norwalk 26:31

10. Bruce Geller, Westport 26:45

11. Roland Lochoff, Westport 27:19

12. Spencer Brown, Wilton 27:33

13. S. Landowne, Westport 27:50

14. David Silvia, Wilton 27:54

15. Vincent Dejana, Wilton 28:02

16. Joe Von Ehr, Southport 28:13

17. Jack Hennessey, Westport 28:48

18. Marc Landy, Westport 28:56

19. Ed O'Keefe, Fairfield 29:02

20. Tom Maile, NY, 29:07

21. John Sand, Redding 29:07

22. Paul Sykes, Darien 29:08

23. Michael Hoffman, Wilton 29:39

24. Alex White, Westport 29:48

25. W. Zimmerman, Weston 29:55