Fiesta 5k , Thursday, July 23, 2005

Team Gloucester should own its hometown Fiesta 5K. And it did. Coming on June 23 only five days after Mt. Washington, and four after the Wellspring Father's day Rockport race, it was deja vu all over again for Tristan Colangelo and Layce Alves.

They were the first local male and female mountain finishers and both won the Fiesta 5k outright. Tristan tripled by winning the in-between Wellspring 5k too on June 19. But there was more, lots more. Matt Curran, last year's overall winner, was sixth and uncontested as the first master. Rick Ciolino was 2nd and Mark Asaro, third.

His 16-year-old son Peter, one of several top guns from the high school track team, was out of sight of Dad finishing 7th and breathing down Matt's neck toward the end. Bob Gillis was the runaway winner of the over 50 age group with Phil Dunn second and Pat Salony fourth.

And Carrie Parsi and Peter Watson led the over 60 women and men. Dave Geary at 39 and still stuck in the competitive 30 to 39 age category, was 5th in his group. Tristan bought the first pitcher -- it was part of his first place winnings -- at the Old Timers.

Most of Team Gloucester was still north for Mt. Washington on the day after when the wellspring races were run. But Tristan was back and in good form, blowing through the 5k in a winning time of 16:19. Phil Dunn was 7th overall and first in his category with a 21;04. In the 10k Steve Whittey was 17th and second in category with a 42:53 and Pat Salony back down to earth after the mountain was 35th and 3rd in category with a 47:02.

Fiesta 5k finishers

1 -- Tristan Colangelo, 15:35
7 -- Matt Curran 17:04
8 -- Peter Asaro 17:09
16 -- Rick Ciolino 18:38
17 -- Bob Gillis 18:42
19 -- Mark Asaro 18:46
23 -- Layce Alves 18:52
27 -- Dave Geary 19:36
30 -- Steve Whittey 20:05
37 -- Phil Dunn 20:37
42 -- Pat Salony 21:42
91 -- Carrie Parsi 23;57
100 - Peter Watson 24:32
150 - Pixie Harrington 27:46