CMS club record - Marathon

CMS top marathon times


With the New England marathon championships just a day away I thought I’d take a look at the CMS club record for the marathon. I think it will be a while until someone takes a shot at Andy Ronan’s club record of 2:11:27; however there are a handful of guys running at Baystate who should make it onto the CMS list. I’m currently maintaining the cut-off for the list at under 2:33. At that time there are 52 different CMS members running 168 marathons to make the list. This is as of the end of 2009 and a couple of guys have made the list since then (but I only update at the end of the year). Dan Verrington (who is running Baystate) tops the list with an amazing 19 marathons (as a CMS member) under 2:33. Jim Garcia trails by only one with 18 times under 2:33. Yours truly is next with 13, followed by Kevin McGovern and Byrne Decker who both have 10.

Here are the top 25 times
1 2:11:27 Andy Ronan - Boston 1991
2 2:13:30 Andy Ronan – London 1990
3 2:13:38 Geoff Smith - Boston 1990
4 2:13:49 Andy Ronan - Twin Cities 1989
5 2:18:00 Geoff Smith - Boston 1991
6 2:18:30 Scott Bagley - Columbus 1991
7 2:19:50 Dave Dunham -Rocket city 1996
8 2:20:46 Reno Stirrat - Rocket city 1987
9 2:20:47 Mike Whittlesey - Twin cities 1995
10 2:20:51 Dave Dunham - Rocket city 1992
11 2:21:05 Scott Bagley - Olympic trials 1992
12 2:21:10 Dan Verrington - Vermont city 1996
13 2:21:16 Jim Zimmerly - Rhode Island 1992
14 2:21:18 Dave Dunham - Olympic trials 1992
15 2:21:36 Dave Dunham - Bay state 1998
16 2:21:40 Scott Clark - Rocket city 1990
17 2:21:55 Dave Dunham - Pittsburgh 1999
18 2:21:56 Larry Sayers - Stamford 1988
19 2:22:21 Jim Zimmerly - Columbus 1991
20 2:22:35 Dave Dunham - Rocket city 1998
21 2:22:38 Dan Verrington - Rocket city 1996
22 2:22:43 Reno Stirrat - Rocket city 1988
23 2:22:58 Craig Fram - Boston 1995
24 2:23:09 Bob Johnson - Montreal 1981
25 2:23:09 Rick Doiron - Columbus 1991

Also for those interested here are the 50th, 75th, etc… Check out the CMS website for the complete list and club records at other distances. www.cmsrun.org
50 2:26:06 Frank Ritchie - Green Mountain 1986
75 2:27:51 Dave Dunham - World Cup (Greece) 1995
100 2:29:10 Brian Pickell - Jacksonville 1988
125 2:30:38 Mark Perrone - Rocket city 1988
150 2:32:05 Tim Blouin - Unknown 1984

I don't have a picture of Scott and me at the Olympic trials in 1992 but this is a little later that year when we ran 60:59 and 60:53 respectively.