The inaugural Seacoast 5000 Racewalk was held today on the track at Portsmouth High School, in Portsmouth, NH. It was sunny and dry, with temperatures in the low 60s.

Here are the results:

Mens's 5000 meter race walk
1. Brian Savilonis (M59)  30:58
2. Bill Harriman (M63)    31:30
3. Kiyoshi Imai (M52)     32:36
4. Stephan Mayeux (M45)   32:37
5. Tom Knatt (M69)        32:53
6. Charles Mansbach (M65) 33:45
7. David Libby (M62)      35:08

Womens's 5000 meter race walk
1. Susan Copp-Silva (W56) 38:29
2. Lorrie Wilkes (W59)    44:07

The race was judged by Tom Eastler, JoAnne Harriman, Jay Diener

Sponsors of today’s race include the Galley Hatch Restaurant, Hampton Vision Center, Seacoast Coca-Cola Bottlers, and Seacoast Dreams Dentistry.

Thanks to the racers, and our volunteers for coming out to get this race off to a great start in its first year.

Jay

Here are a few images from the Portsmouth NH RW.[salbumthumbs=17,1,n,n,center]

Newspaper article posted in Fosters Daily Democrat.