This page was originally started by Bill Spencer of Litchfield, New Hampshire, who thought it would be interesting and informative to assemble road race records for the New Hampshire running community. Bill started this project in the late 1990’s and began actually posting records in 1999. To accomplish this, Bill had to cull through many file drawers of NH races going back to the early 1980’s. The paper results long pre-dated Coolrunning.com (now defunct).
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Bill went through (literally) every race result to find the best individual age time for NH residents, as well as the best all-time in the State. Bill also recorded the top 5 age group individuals for the age group records. Bill notes for us that many of the top 5 are the same age but are no longer in the individual records.
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Bill prepared a single web page for each distance, titled “New Hampshire 5k Road records that included the individual age records. He then reserved the NHRunning website domain to host the records. The records were hosted on this site for several decades. Going forward, they will be hosted here.​
​In approximately 2005, Bill began to work with a national state record website database located in Tennessee (those are the links you will see to “staterunnningrecords”), which Bill found to be a more efficient way of keeping updated records. He linked to that page from his website. We will do as well.
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Once Bill began posting to the national site he stopped posting the individual results with the Age Group and all-comer records and just updated the links after a record.
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Approximately two years before his death on April 16, 2024 Bill requested that Cathy Merra of Amherst, NH, take over as New Hampshire record keeper. Cathy took over and kept Bill's records updated for the next four years. Effective August 16, 2026 Cathy has turned over the updating of all records to longtime NH race announcer Andy Schachat. Andy has been a central figure in New Hampshire road racing for more than three decades and is known as the “voice of New Hampshire races” Andy has announced more than 1,500 races, including the Boston Marathon, Mount Washington Road Race, New Bedford Half Marathon and hundreds of Granite State events. He has written and reported on NH running for newspapers, publications and radio and is himself a three-time Boston Marathoner and is dedicated to preserving the history and recognizing the people who built the state's running community.
If you need to reach Andy about a record, please contact him here: nh@staterunningrecords.com