Hockomock Swamp Rat Journal Preview

ON THE COVER: Well Shiver my timbers and tickle my genitalia with a cold ostrich plume - the legendary Capester Billy "The Kid" Riley has finally made the cover of the Rat!!! Yup, it's taken a while but we gotta give this devil of the over-70 set his due. He might be the best over-70 athlete in the whole damn world. And don't give me any of this Ed Whitlock stuff, either. Maybe Canadian Eddie could outrun Bill at 26, but poor craggy Eddie looks awful at the end of a race he could haunt an abandoned house on Halloween (plus, he's not a Rat subscriber). Riley is not only old and fast, but so youthful of both visage and corpus that he can still pick up younger women at the post-race bar scenes!!! This is incredible. How many 71 year old guys can make that statement? None. damnit. None. nada. zilch. Lets go to the facts. The BAA/CCAC'er out of sandy Centerville (except in the winter when he goes to Florida to train for the Lutz 5K with Chuck Keating et al) recently set an age record by 15 minutes at Mount Washington (1:35:54) and is a member of both the CCAC and NE65 Running Club Halls of Fame. He's run 40 marathons including 21 Bostons with a 2:50 best. He was a USAT(?)F(?) Runner of the Year in 1997 and competed in the Hawaii Ironman four times, winning his age group in every instance. Man, I'm getting tired typing this stuff. Momma. Want more? The Kid also holds his age division CR at the traditionally brutal Utica (NY) Boilermaker 15K and is completely undefeated at 70+ as of this writing. In most local races he also beats the 60+ winner- and sometimes the 50+ winner. We're done here. He "da man"

1 .RACE REPORTS FROM THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND

8th Annual Frostbite Invitational 15K, 9.32 miles, Raynham, MA (1/20) (345 Eat Dupes Raynham 15K Winter Gem Supe Mario (48:40) Runs Down McCarron)
28th Weary Traveler Road Race, 4.95 miles, Bourne, MA (1/6) (Joe Navas Not weary At Bourne 5)
27th WCRC Hangover Classic, 6.21 miles, Salisbury, MA (1/1) (Hass Hot In Icy Salisbury WCRC Overhanger)
LC Scenic Winter Road Race, 4.8 miles, Little compton, RI (1/5) (Tammaro Edges Schaad in RI)
27th CMS Freezer Five, 5 miles, Sterlin, MA (1/1) (Carraras Rules Sterling Freddy Zee Reminisces)
27th Paddt Kelly Road Race, 5 miles, Brockton, MA (2/10) (Lynch Hunts Down Bennet-Dagget In Brockton Hot Chili, Pasta, Beer And Buns In The Barroom)
4th NRA Super 5K, 3.1 miles, Narragansett, RI (2/3)(Like Wicked Awesome Class At Superbowl 5K In Narragansett)
29th CMS Stu's 30K, 18.6 miles, Clinton, MA (3/2) (Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Oh Gimmee Shelter And Pass The Advils
And many, many more, with ALL HSR subscribers times listed

2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Complaints. Complaints. Complaints. (The Rat readers return fire). Completely uncensored look at what New England runners are REALLY thinking about.

3. RATDOSSIERS - None this issue.

4. COMPLETE ROAD RACE SCHEDULE:

Rat Spring Road Races, April 5 - June 10
Yup, we even have the Wilmington NY, Whiteface Mountain Run, 8 miles, 888-Whiteface

. ROAD RACE ENTRY FORMS:

Over a dozen in this issue, delivered to your doorstep in the centerfold of the
April - May 2008 issue of the Hockomock Swamp Rat.

6. AND MUCH MORE:

26 big pages, jam packed with insightful meanderings covering New England road racing news from the only underground running magazine in the Free World and/or beyond.