Runners hit pavement for Lobster Festival 5K/10K races
Steve Cartwright, left, joins a fellow competitor for a photo finish during the Lobster Festival 5K. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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A 10K runner (in white bib) merges with 5K runners on Pleasant Street. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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Pointing in all directions! I’m getting confused! (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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Ribbons for you and for me. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
5K winner. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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5K overall female winner. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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Stay in line! Correct order needed in the finishing chute. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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Thumbs up. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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Steve Cartwright, left, joins a fellow competitor for a photo finish during the Lobster Festival 5K. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
(Photo by Sarah Thompson)
(Photo by Sarah Thompson)
A 10K runner (in white bib) merges with 5K runners on Pleasant Street. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
(Photo by Sarah Thompson)
(Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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Pointing in all directions! I’m getting confused! (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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Ribbons for you and for me. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
5K winner. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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5K overall female winner. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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Stay in line! Correct order needed in the finishing chute. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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Thumbs up. (Photo by Sarah Thompson)
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ROCKLAND – Two groups of runners high-tailed a neighborhood of Rockland, Sunday, Aug. 5, during the annual Lobster Festival road races.
5K (3.1 miles) runners burst from an invisible start line under the traffic lights at Park and Main streets, hot on the heels of the 10K (6.2 miles) runners who started, simultaneously, several yards ahead.
Clear blue skies, sun and shade accumulated into decent running conditions along Main Street, Broadway, and Pleasant Street for the hundreds of competitors pounding the pavement.
A couple of slight snafus required quick, easy adjustments by race officials as the city awakened.
In the midst of the race, one pack of 5K runners was redirected to the east entrance of Pleasant Street, closest to the harbor, allegedly by a police officer, even when competitors before them had raced correctly to the Broadway entrance. As a result, for a brief time, racers were finishing from two directions, causing an onslaught of congestion within the in the Trackside Station parking lot finish area.
Also at issue was the lack of barriers to vehicles at both ends of Pleasant Street. Even after seeing the racers, and despite the large crowd of people in the roadway at the finish, several drivers still proceeded along the route. And then, when a barrier was erected at the intersection where 10K runners rejoined the 5K finishers, several drivers simply drove around that barrier.
In the end, however, runners are runners. And all were able to finish what they’d started.
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