Londonderry News

This years one mile downhill run on Mammoth Road in Londonderry included a field of 562 runners up just slightly from last year.  The overall winner Peter Najem from Derry, New Hampshire nearly broke the 4 minute mile goal with a time of 4:04 as reported by the state of the art equiptment used by YankeeTiming.

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The idea for this race was conceived on Thanksgiving weekend of 1999. Best friends John Mortimer (Londonderry HS, ‘95) and Matt Downin (Pinkerton Academy, ‘95) Hampstead, and Matt’s older brother, Andy Downin (Duxbury HS, ’91) were organizing a New Years Eve/ Millennium party at the Downins’ home in Hampstead, New Hampshire.

At time, there had never been a sub 4-minute mile run in the state of NH. With the Union Leader Newspaper’s sponsorship and media attention, the race’s popularity grew. On December 31st, the last day of 1999, over 120 runners ran the downhill stretch of road in Londonderry, with the winner, Scott Anderson of Washington, DC finishing in record time of 3 minutes and 51 seconds. Six men broke the 4-minute barrier; women’s winner Amy Lyman of Springfield, MA ran a 4:32 mile. Every runner left with a smile on his or her face — the inaugural Millennium Mile was indeed a success!

Since 2002 the race takes all of the proceeds to fund the Jack and June Mortimer Memorial College Scholarship, named after John’s parents who both succumbed to cancer. The Scholarship helps to defray tuition cost for a graduating New Hampshire or Massachusetts senior who is planning on becoming a collegiate student athlete.

                     Male and Female Top 5 Runners

********** FEMALE OVERALL RESULTS ***********
1 Jill Kerr           31 Newton          MA    4:43
2 Kara Haas           39 Chelmsford      MA    4:47
3 Yolanda Flamino     33 Hancock         NH    4:52
4 Jennifer Mortimer   27 Lexington       KY    4:58
5 Hillary St.         21 Concord         NH    5:14

********** MALE OVERALL RESULTS ***********
1 Peter Najem         23 Derry           NH    4:04
2 Justin Fyffe        29 E Dummerston    VT    4:08
3 Judson Cake         32 Bar Harbor      ME    4:12
4 Todd Swenson        29 Somerville      NH    4:14
5 Mark Burnham        22 State College   PA    4:19

For the detailed Age-Group Results visit the Londonderry Millennium Mile Awards Listing on the Cool Running website

              Londonderry Top 16 Runners (Residents)

Place Name                No. Sex/Tot Ag S Time
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32 Devereux Geiger       557  30/325  15 M 4:43
39 Michael Peabody       585  36/325  20 M 4:53
52 Doug Briere           223  48/325  30 M 5:02
55 Joshua Leahy            8  51/325  14 M 5:03
56 Andreas Geiger        556  52/325  15 M 5:04
58 Christopher Lasocki   508  54/325  16 M 5:05
116 Kevin McIntire        518 100/325  14 M 5:29
118 Paul Leahy              9 102/325  51 M 5:30
132 Matthew Raylinsky     368 114/325  32 M 5:37
162 Jeremy Lindquist      580 136/325  34 M 5:48
171 Michael Koski         293 141/325  37 M 5:54
182 Sami Tocman            71  34/234  13 F 6:03
190 Steve Bioren          411 155/325  43 M 6:06
193 Dylan Howes           430  57/325  15 M 6:08
195 Howard Tocman          72 159/325  46 M 6:10
200 Nick Stone            254 162/325  10 M 6:14

The overall Results of the Londonderry Millennium Mile of all 562 runners that completed the course.

The 12 and under have some amazing times this year with the lowest being 12 year old Sean Munnelly of Litchfield and Jake McMaster of Derry, New Hampshire both with a time of 5:20. All the 12 and under awards for the Londonderry Millennium Mile can be seen on the Cool Running Website.

Did You Know?

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Browse the over 200 images of these 2009 Runners we hope you enjoy them! Click on any you like for a larger image and explore our darkroom. If you find one you like select “buy” and it will be in your mailbox before you know it. 100% quality guarantee on all images.

Visit our Darkroom HERE to jump right to a full screen slide show of the 2009 Londonderry Millennium Mile!