Most finishes

Rank	Name	Last Name	Finishes	First-Last	Best Time	Best Pl	2013 age
1	Keith	Woodward	38	1973-2013	1:03:06	1	62
2	Frederick	Ross	37	1976-2013	1:23:42	63	66
3	Gaetan	Breton	35	1973-2013	1:13:29	11	65
4	Leonard	Hall	33	1971-2013	1:08:04	3	60
5	Ronald	Johnston	33	1981-2013	1:18:34	54	61
6	Jim	Laprel	33	1972-2013	1:42:10	89	59
7	William	Morse	32	1982-2013	1:18:36	44	62
8	Everett	McBride	32	1982-2013	1:22:34	95	58
9	Ron	Paquette	32	1982-2013	1:26:46	82	72
10	Dianne	Menard	32	1979-2011	1:34:31	210
11	John	Cederholm	31	1973-2013	1:08:26	1	70
12	Curt	Hirsch	31	1983-2013	1:15:55	33	64
13	Dean	Rasmussen	31	1983-2013	1:17:29	40	65
14	Bob	Gillis	31	1983-2013	1:22:27	75	58
15	Chris	Ellis	31	1983-2013	1:24:44	135	57
16	Robert	Bradlee	30	1983-2013	1:22:04	73	56
17	Steve	Titcomb	30	1984-2013	1:26:42	78	61
18	Michael	Gillis	30	1984-2013	1:28:24	187	56
19	David	Jefska	30	1984-2013	1:37:47	303	56
20	Allan	Aldrich	30	1984-2013	1:42:11	344	67
21	Stephen	Dowling	29	1985-2013	1:37:34	336	63
22	Walter	Kuklinski	28	1986-2013	1:19:38	66	64
23	James	Soucy	28	1984-2013	1:40:45	325	45
24	Matthew	Curran	27	1987-2013	1:16:06	19	56
25	Steve	Peterson	26	1988-2013	1:08:01	7	47
26	Peter	Barzdines	26	1988-2013	1:30:35	177	61
27	Hildy	Fosse	26	1984-2010	1:45:03	356
28	Lee	Grimes	26	1983-2008	1:46:16	451
29	Sumner	Brown	25	1984-2010	1:10:53	12
30	Bob	Treadwell	25	1975-2011	1:16:02	23
31	Peter	McDonough	25	1986-2010	1:27:52	137
32	Normand	Menard	25	1985-2010	1:33:33	227
33	Jim	Gallant	25	1986-2013	1:41:03	359	55
34	Sumner	Rupprecht	25	1984-2009	1:48:20	465
35	Dave	Dunham	24	1988-2013	1:00:37	1	49
36	Donald	Dwight	24	1986-2013	1:17:29	43	50
37	Jeff	Gould	24	1990-2013	1:17:38	56	48
38	Carlton	Mendell	24	1982-2005	1:36:19	198
39	David	Roy	24	1977-2005	1:43:42	195
40	Bob	Hodge	23	1974-2010	1:01:14	1
41	Mike	Casner	23	1979-2009	1:05:48	4
42	William	McNulty	23	1969-1994	1:21:30	13
43	Richard	Schilder	23	1986-2013	1:22:52	76	55
44	Dick	Fortier	23	1986-2012	1:30:31	175
45	Donald	Hogardt	23	1990-2013	1:30:40	204	66
46	John	Howe	23	1985-2013	1:38:43	302	78
47	Ronn	Chaisson	23	1984-2006	1:43:20	336
48	Peter	Watson	23	1988-2011	1:46:19	393
49	Gerard	Tautkus	23	1982-2005	1:46:50	457
50	Ernest	Brake	22	1992-2013	1:11:52	14	51
51	Joe	Astle	22	1989-2012	1:26:32	96
52	Douglas	Eastman	22	1984-2013	1:32:56	240	61
53	Jerry	Dougherty	22	1980-2002	1:33:35	155
54	Bruce	Brinkema	21	1988-2013	1:25:52	144
55	Jacqueline	Shakar	21	1993-2013	1:26:40
56	Mike	Pelchat	21	1977-2013	1:29:44	114
57	Phil	Ostroski	21	1984-2004	1:39:32	321
58	Skip	Cleaver	21	1990-2013	1:45:42	483	68
59	Peter	Pantelis	21	1983-2005	1:51:36	477
60	Francis	Burdett	20	1994-2013	1:06:39	10
61	David	Tinker	20	1983-2002	1:22:49	73
62	John	Ouellette	20	1988-2009	1:26:17	138
63	Lucien	Lariviere	20	1987-2010	1:28:59	150
64	Peter	Covill	20	1989-2012	1:30:36	233
65	Vickie	Miller	20	1994-2013	1:36:53	294
66	Robert	Hall	20	1985-2010	1:37:15	283
67	Mark	Asaro	19	1982-2010	1:08:33	9
68	Gary	Passler	19	1982-2008	1:14:11	30
69	Richard	Mulhern	19	1979-2009	1:16:59	38
70	Tom	Miller	19	1994-2013	1:22:34	62
71	Donna	Smyers	19	1993-2013	1:22:37
72	Lucien	Trudeau	19	1989-2013	1:28:17	167
73	Andrew	Lewis	19	1983-2012	1:29:24	185
74	Georges	Tessier	19	1991-2013	1:39:15	288
75	Diana	Avery	19	1984-2004	1:41:19	305
76	Dan	Verrington	18	1988-2011	1:05:43	4
77	Donald	Pray	18	1982-2011	1:26:58	152
78	John	Menna	18	1989-2010	1:37:35	295
79	Robert	Johnson	18	1986-2004	1:41:37	404
80	Richard	Fedion	18	1995-2012	1:45:16	464
81	Charles M	Reed	18	1972-1998	1:54:25	112

Streak leaders

Rank	Name	Last Name	Active Strk	Finishes	First-Last	Missing	Best Time
1	Frederick	Ross	36	37	1976-2013	1977 dnf	1:23:42
2	Ronald	Johnston	33	33	1981-2013	None	1:18:34
3	William	Morse	32	32	1982-2013	None	1:18:36
4	Everett	McBride	32	32	1982-2013	None	1:22:34
5	Ron	Paquette	32	32	1982-2013	None	1:26:46
6	Curt	Hirsch	31	31	1983-2013	None	1:15:55
7	Dean	Rasmussen	31	31	1983-2013	None	1:17:29
8	Bob	Gillis	31	31	1983-2013	None	1:22:27
9	Chris	Ellis	31	31	1983-2013	None	1:24:44
10	Gaetan	Breton	30	35	1973-2013	1978-83	1:13:29
11	Steve	Titcomb	30	30	1984-2013	None	1:26:42
12	Michael	Gillis	30	30	1984-2013	None	1:28:24
13	David	Jefska	30	30	1984-2013	None	1:37:47
14	Allan	Aldrich	30	30	1984-2013	None	1:42:11
15	Stephen	Dowling	29	29	1985-2013	None	1:37:34
16	Walter	Kuklinski	28	28	1986-2013	None	1:19:38
17	Keith	Woodward	27	38	1973-2013	74,75,86	1:03:06
18	Matthew	Curran	27	27	1987-2013	None	1:16:06
19	Steve	Peterson	26	26	1988-2013	None	1:08:01
20	Robert	Bradlee	26	30	1983-2013	1987	1:22:04
21	Peter	Barzdines	26	26	1988-2013	None	1:30:35
22	Jeff	Gould	24	24	1990-2013	None	1:17:38
23	Jim	Gallant	23	25	1986-2013	1987,89,90	1:41:03
24	Ernest	Brake	22	22	1992-2013	None	1:11:52
25	Leonard	Hall	21	33	1971-2013	74-78,82,89-92	1:08:04
26	Jacqueline	Shakar	21	21	1993-2013	None	1:26:40
27	Francis	Burdett	20	20	1994-2013	None	1:06:39
28	Vickie	Miller	20	20	1994-2013	None	1:36:53
29	Skip	Cleaver	18	21	1990-2013	93,94	1:45:42

Press Release - 2013 Hall of Fame

4^th Annual Mount Washington Road Race Hall of Fame Induction

Friday, June 14 -- 6 p.m.

&

53^rd Northeast Delta Dental Mount Washington Road Race

Mt. Washington Auto Road

June 15, 2013 – 9 a.m.

·        Race’s Hall of Fame honors Day-Lucore, Gutierrez, Teschek and Wyatt  

April 23, 2013 -- Pinkham Notch, N.H.

Two great champions from the Rocky Mountains, the race director who brought Mt. Washington into the modern era, and the World Mountain Champion from New Zealand will be honored this summer as the newest members of the Mount Washington Road Race Hall of Fame.  In a ceremony at the base of the Mt. Washington Auto Road on Friday evening, June 14, the Hall of Fame will induct J’ne Day-Lucore and Simon Gutierrez, each of whom won the race three times; Bob Teschek, who directed the event for 29 years; and Jonathan Wyatt, the Mt. Washington course record-holder whom many consider the best uphill runner in history.

Formed in 2010, the Mount Washington Hall of Fame recognizes outstanding performers in this annual footrace to the summit of the highest peak in the northeastern United States. The Friday evening ceremony celebrates the folklore and history of the race while also serving as a welcome to some 1200 runners who will make the 7.6-mile ascent of the Auto Road the following morning in the 53^rd running of the Northeast Delta Dental Mt. Washington Road Race. 

Votes by the Hall’s six committee members, plus the 11 honorees chosen in previous years, determined this year’s new members of the Hall of Fame:

J’ne (pronounced “Janey”) Day-Lucore, of Denver, Colorado, first ran Mt. Washington in 1992 and set a new course record for women in one hour 11 minutes 45 seconds. Already the record-holder for the Pike’s Peak Ascent in Colorado, she came back to the Granite State in 1993 to defend her title as Queen of the Mountain and reached Mt. Washington’s 6288-foot summit seven minutes faster than her nearest challenger. She won again in her third Mt. Washington appearance, 1995, before an injury restricted her running and she turned to triathlons.  Even so, she returned to Mt. Washington in 1998 and finished second only to Sweden’s Magdalena Thorsell, who broke the course record that year. Returning in 1999 at the age of 38, Day-Lucore placed fourth, and in 2001 here she was ninth woman overall, second in the master’s division behind only Olympian Joan Benoit Samuelson. 

Simon Gutierrez, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, first came to Mt. Washington in 1998 and impressed everyone with a third-place finish. The following year he finished fifth -- two minutes faster than in his debut. Certain he could win Mt. Washington, Gutierrez returned in 2002 and placed first in that year’s weather-shortened race, defeating the hardcore New Englanders as well as then course-record holder and Hall of Famer Daniel Kihara of Kenya. To prove he could win the race at its full distance, Gutierrez ran away from the field in 2003, then won for a third time in 2005. He is also the race’s fastest over-40 runner of all time, having broken Hall of Famer Matt Carpenter’s master’s record in 2008 by finishing fifth overall in 1:01:34, and holding six of the nine fastest master’s times ever recorded at Mt. Washington.

Bob Teschek, of Newport, N.H., ran the Mt. Washington Road Race eight times, beginning in 1966.  He became the race’s director in 1982 and turned the race into one of the best-organized events in the sport. His name is familiar to countless Mt. Washington runners, as well as to race directors across the region and farther afield who use his company, Granite State Race Services, to provide timing and finish-line management to several road races on most weekends of the year. He set his own excellent personal best time (1:15:52) for the Mt. Washington Road Race in 1977 and says he will run it again some year.  

Jonathan Wyatt, of Wellington, New Zealand, first ran Mt. Washington in 2004, when he became the prohibitive favorite the moment he signed up. He had already won the World Mountain Trophy three times, was an Olympic marathoner, held course records in mountain races all across Europe, and was likely not merely to win at Mt. Washington but to break the course record. In fact he broke it by a minute and 40 seconds, running through damp fog and wind to reach the summit in 56:41, nearly seven minutes ahead of runner-up and U.S. national mountain champion Paul Low. Wyatt returned in 2007 and won again in 1:01:25, still well ahead of the field. He also won the World Mountain title three more times.  

The Northeast Delta Dental Mount Washington Road Race pits runners against one of the most challenging obstacles in road-racing anywhere. The Mt. Washington Auto Road rises at an average grade of 11.6 percent, the second half of the course being above the tree line and exposed to Mt. Washington’s notoriously capricious weather. The race has attracted Olympic athletes, Boston marathon champions, and many of the world’s great mountain running specialists, who compete in the White Mountains of New Hampshire along with numerous other runners from across the United States and abroad. 

The Mt. Washington Road Race Hall of Fame recognizes athletes whose exceptional accomplishments in the race have added greatly to the history and stature of the event.  Inductees are chosen by a vote of the Hall of Fame committee and Hall of Fame members from a longer list of nominees compiled by December 31 of the preceding year. Anyone is welcome to nominate candidates for consideration.

The Friday evening Hall of Fame induction is part of the annual pre-race gathering for stories, brief speeches, information and advice about running up the mountain, and other tributes to the race.  The ceremony will start at 6 p.m. in the large tent at the base of the Auto Road, on Route 16 just north of Pinkham Notch.  The public is invited.

Regularly updated information about the Mt. Washington Road Race Hall of Fame is available any time on 

Facebook (facebook.com/mwrrhof), Twitter  (twitter.com/mwrrrecords) and the Hall of Fame blog (mtwashingtonrecords.blogspot.com ).  For further information email committee members Dave Dunham (dave.dunham@comcast.net) or John Stifler (jstifler@econs.umass.edu).  For information about the Northeast Delta Dental Mt. Washington Road Race, visit www.mountwashingtonroadrace.com.