Merrimack River trail race

River tops
Ben Nephew hasn’t entered for this weekend’s 18th running of the Merrimack River trail race. He has the most consecutive finishes of CMS team members, with ten. His streak is also second, behind only Tom Speidel who has run every edition of the race. Ben is also currently tied with fellow CMSers, Rob Smith and Dave Dunham. Rob and I both will not be racing this year due to injury (Rob) and nagging injury (my ankle). I’ve listed below the top 25 times ever run at the River. CMS runners own twenty of those times. Ben has three from when he was running for GBTC and the other two come from Dave Hannon (NETT) and Greg Hammett (now running for CMS).
1 56:30 Paul Low 2006 CMS (pictured on the right)
2 56:42 Dave Dunham 1999 CMS
3 56:53 Dave Dunham 1997 CMS
4 57:06 Paul Low 2005 CMS
5 57:29 Dave Dunham 1996 CMS
6 57:32 Paul Low 2003 CMS
7 57:36 Craig Fram 1995 CMS
8 57:37 Dave Dunham 1995 CMS
9 57:42 Ben Nephew 2003 GBTC
10 57:44 Paul Low 2007 CMS
11 57:46 Kevin Tilton 2008 CMS
12 58:10 Richard Bolt 2005 CMS
13 58:23 Paul Low 2004 CMS
14 58:27 Dan Verrington 1996 CMS
15 58:31 Ben Nephew 2000 GBTC
16 58:34 Dave Dunham 2000 CMS
17 58:58 Kevin Tilton 2005 CMS
18 59:01 Dave Hannon 2003
19 59:04 Ben Nephew 2002 GBTC
20 59:10 Peter Maksimow 2005 CMS
21 59:24 Richard Bolt 2002 CMS
22 59:35 Kevin Tilton 2006 CMS
23 59:39 Greg Hammett 2006
24 59:44 Ben Nephew 2006 CMS
25 59:48 Kevin Tilton 2007 CMS