Apparently not Jim Kinton's favorite band, heartwrenchingly enough. Despite the more than generous offer from a British-American consortium, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, and Agnetha Faltskog (that's ABBA for those of you too young to remember the late 70's - early 80's) won't be reuniting to get any "Money Money Money" (times $333,333,333) any time soon. Call me crazy, but this is undoubtably the reason behind Jim's less-than-stellar performances the last two weeks. He claims he's been sick. Yeah, good one, Jim. More like heartsick.
You know, if I were really sadistic, I would have included a sound clip here.
Ho-hum, another easy win for Nancy Given. Collyer seems to be intent on something, he's cut his times from 45 to 39 to 37 minutes the last few weeks, easily crushing Shannon Chi and Nancy Forsythe down the stretch tonight. And as we always say before the race, becareful out there, people. Robin Shor got a boo-boo on her knee, although it apparently was not as traumatizing an experience as her encounter with the sumo-amazon sweatmachine she encountered on the cape last year.
And yes, I'm thru with the dead skin thing.
Women's Masters ==================================================== 1 Nancy Given 27:08 2 Marylee Dempsee 31:02 3 Una McKeever 35:21 Men's Masters ==================================================== 1 Steve Burton 25:43 2 Mark Hemenway 26:56 3 Jostein Pederson 27:06 4 Greg Billington 27:41 5 Dom Daveta 30:12 6 Liam Brady 31:56 7 Wayne Ramsey 34:17 8 Larry Horlick 34:33 9 Steve Pepe 35:01 10 Brian Poli 38:24 Women's Open ==================================================== 1 Katie Griffiths 28:10 2 Aileen Mason 31:00 3 Kristin Simonson 31:13 4 Jen Takacs 33:27 5 Nancy Macri 34:26 6 Robin Shor 34:28 7 Stephanie Schroot 35:36 8 Shannon Chi 37:51 9 Nancy Forsythe 37:52 10 Tricia O'Neil 38:36 Men's Open ==================================================== 1 Dave Farris 25:30 2 Peter Brook 25:39 3 Lionel Kervella 26:32 4 Jim Croke 26:59 5 Jim Kinton 27:17 6 Zack Sweeney 27:35 7 Amin Saab 28:45 8 Peter Terhune 29:12 9 John Evans 29:30 10 Billy West 30:13 11 John Gorvin 30:53 12 Dave Brno 31:09 13 Ed O'Connor 32:44 14 Guy Some 33:08 15 Mike Manoogian 35:27 16 Tom Micka 36:15 17 Paul Collyer 37:28 18 John Phelps 37:56