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DH Jones 10m

5 minutes of video from the 2 mile mark of the race today.

Snowshoe nationals are next weekend. I won't be running, but will be taking pictures (been there and done that). Below is not an attempt to predict the results, but a list of what I think are the top qualifiers (may have missed a few here/there).
Peter Fain

Name		Cat	St	Qualifier	Results in past national championships
Peter	Fain	35-39	CA	1st @ CA2	1st @ 2009
Kelly	Mortenson	35-39	MN	1st @ WI	2nd @ 2009 - 98%, 3rd 2007 - 97%
Josiah	Middaugh	30-34	CO	Auto Qual	1st @ 2008
Scott	Gall	35-39	IA	Auto Qual	3rd @ 2008-96%, 5th 2007-95%, 6th 2006-93%
Greg	Hexum	35-39	MN	1st @ WI1 & MN1	8th @ 2008-91%, 1st 2007 & 2006
DJ	Snyder	20-24	ID	1st @ UT & AZ	4th @ 2009-95%, 10th 2008-89%
Robert	Bolton	50-54	SD	Auto Qual	5th @ 2009-93%, 17th 2008-80%
Mike	Decker	30-34	WI	2nd @ MN-95%	10th @ 2006-91%
Kevin	Tilton	25-29	NH	1st @ NH	11th @ 2006-91%
Andrew	Kless	20-24		6th @ NY2-95%	19th @ 2008-82%
Darren	Brungardt	25-29	CO	1st @ CO3 & 6th @ CO	9th @ 2009-89%, 20th 2008-78%, 27th 2007-82%
Jesse	Haynes	35-39	CA	Auto Qual	13th @ 2007-89%, 17th 2006-88%
Thomas	Beckum	30-34	ME	2nd @ VT - 99%	15th @ 2007-88%, 15th 2006-89%
Sylvester	Coons	35-39	NV	3rd @ AZ-95%	10th @ 2009-88%, 14th 2008-82%, 24th 2007-82%
Richard	Bolt	40-44	OR	2nd @ OR - 90%	12th @ 2009-87%, 4th 2006-96%
Jeremy	Drowne	30-34	NY	8th @ NY - 94%	14th @ 2009-86%
Matt	Westerlund	35-39		8th @ NY2 - 94%	15th @ 2009-85%
Nathan	Huckle	30-34	NY	4th @ NY - 96%	16th @ 2009-85%, 16th 2008-81%, 14th 2007-89%
Zachary	Rivers	20-24	NY	Auto Qual	Junior champion 2006 & 2007
Chikara	Omine	25-29	CA	1st @ CA
Yaro	Middaugh	30-34	MI	1st @ MI
Ryan	Pauling	30-34	NY	1st @ NY
C Fred	Joslyn	25-29		1st @ NY 2
Geoff	Cunningham	30-34	NH	1st at VT
Jared	Scott	25-29	AZ	2nd at AZ-99%
Piers	Stockwell	30-34	CA	2nd at CA2- 92%
Josh	Ferenc	25-29	NH	2nd at NH-99%
Daniel	Craighead	20-24	NY	2nd at NY -98%
Matthew	Russell	25-29		2nd at NY2 99%
Ryan	Rebain	20-24	MI	3rd at MN
Robb	Class	50-54	MN	3rd at MI qual & WI-94%
Jim	Johnson	30-34	NH	3rd at NH-99%
Eric	Sambolec	30-34	NY	3rd at NY-97%
Doug	Hazleden	50-54	NY	3rd at VT- 92%
Daniel	Miller	30-34	TN	4th at MN -92%
Peter	Mallett	25-29	NH	4th at NH -98%
Tim	Van Orden	40-44	VT	4th at NY2- 97%
Jason	Bond	35-39	CO	4th at OR
Johnathan	Delf	30-34	WI	4th at WI -93%
Russ	Krause	30-34		5th at NY2 -96%
Kris	Borchardt	30-34	WI	5th at WI -93%
Daniel	Seigers	25-29	NY	6th at NY-96%
Robert	Jackman	25-29	RI	7th at NH-93%
Mark	Brose	40-49	MN	5th at MN-92%
Earl	Steinbrecher	45-49	NY	5th at NY-96%
Travis	Earley	25-29	NY	9th at NY-94%
Tyler	Murray	20-24	NY	10th at NY-93%
Eric	Morse	40-49	VT	12th at NH-90%
Dave	Bischoff	45-49	NY	12th at NY-91%
Jason	Urckfitz	40-49	NY	11th at NY-91%
Danny	Ferreira	25-29	NH	9th at NH- 92%
David	Principe	40-49	RI	14th at NH- 89%
Robbie	Olsen	25-29		14th at NY2- 89%
Sean	Snow	40-49	VT	15th at NH- 89%
Ben	Volk	45-49	WA	4th at OR1 -88%
Eddie	Habeck	30-34	VT	4th @ VT- 88%, 25th @NH 81%
Dave	Quintal	45-49	NH	16th at NH 88%
Nicholas	Budzzyn	25-29	MI	8th at MI -88%
Jim	Oberst	45-49	NY	14th at NY-87%
Jason	Pare	35-39		16th at NY2 87%
Kyle	Schmidt	35-39	WI	4th at WI1-85%
Garrett	Wagner	25-29	NY	15th at NY-85%
Daven	Oskvig	30-34	NY	16th at NY-84%
Reeder	Fahnestock	30-34	NH	18th at NH-86%
Chris	Dunn	40-49	NH	19th at NH-85%
Brian	Northan	30-34		19th at NY2- 85%
Kurt	Gustafson	25-29	MA	20th at NH- 85%
Ken	Clark	45-49		20th at NY2- 84%
Matthew	Aldridge	35-39	NY	20th at NY
Michael	Cozza	20-24	IL	20th at WI-82%
Miguel	Contreras	25-29		24th at NY2- 81%
Jason	Reed	35-39	CA	4th at CA-80%
Travis	Cain	25-29	PA	Unknown
Micahel	Daigeaum	30-34	PA	Unknown
Geordie	Edmiston	45-49	PA	Unknown
Gary	Rosenberg	40-44	NJ	Unknown
Brian	Thomas	40-44	PA	Unknown

40+ snowshoe ranking

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	Last wk	Total pts	Avg	# raced	Name		Age	Team	This week
1	1	997.21	99.72	10	Tim	Van Orden	41	CMS	1st at Moby Dick &Hallockville
2	2	687.39	98.20	7	Dave	Dunham	45	CMS	Idle
3	3	959.69	95.97	10	Steve	Wolfe	45	Acidotic	4th at Horse hill & 2nd at Hallockville
4	4	388.89	97.22	4	Chris	Dunn	41	Acidotic	Idle
5	7	383.73	95.93	4	David	Pincipe	43	TNT	1st at Horse Hill
6	5	290.70	96.90	3	John	Pajer	47	CMS	3rd at Horse Hill
7	6	478.78	95.76	5	Sean	Snow	43		2nd at Horse hill
8	8	367.09	91.77	4	Jeremiah	Fitzgibbon	53	Acidotic	Idle
9	9	270.58	90.19	3	Mike	O'Connor	45	Acidotic	Idle
10	10	272.20	90.73	3	Christopher	Smith	43	Dungeon Rock	Idle

Open snowshoe rankings

Here is my take on the New England snowshoe racing scene...

			Last	#
Rank	name		Week	Run	Notes	This weekend
1	Jim	Johnson	1	10	Nine 1st place finishes, one 3rd	1st at Horse hill & Hallockville
2	Kevin	Tilton	2	3	two 1st, and one 4th	Idle
3	Josh	Ferenc	3	3	one 1st, one 2nd, and one 7th	Idle
4	Ben	Nephew	4	5	one 1st, one 2nd, one 3rd, one 5th, and one 6th	Idle
5	Tim	Van Orden	5	10	one 1st, five 2nd, one 3rd, and three 4th	2nd at Moby Dick & Hallockville
6	Geoff	Cunningham	N/R	3	one 1st, two 2nd	Idle
7	Robert	Jackman	7	4	two 3rd, one 5th, and one 7th	Idle
8	Charles	Theriault	8	3	one 3rd, one 4th, and one 5th	Idle
9	Tim	Cox	9	3	one 2nd, one 7th, and one 8th	Idle
10	Ross	Krause	10	5	two 3rd, one 4th, one 5th, and one 6th	3rd at Hallockville

Winning margin

Back late last year, double-j won the Feel good farm trail race by a huge margin.  We had a brief discussion about margins of victory which got me thinking about what my record would be.  I had never figured it out, so it took a few months to compile the stats.  I have 354 wins, but could only figure out the winning margin in 246.  17 wins were intentional ties, so the margin was zero.  91 times I was unable to find the old results which may have listed the second place time. 

There are various ways to measure the margin and I've gone with the three below.  Margin - time between me and second place.  Margin/Mile - time between me and 2nd place divided by the distance run.  % ahead - my time divided by the second place time.

Margin
Smallest margin was .1 at the CMS 2m track series where I held off Bob Hodge.
Biggest margin was 30:56 at the Chicago Lakefront 50km, it was a tough day with 65-74 tems with 20-40 mph winds.  I passed through the marathon in  2:30:04 and ran the last 8km in 27:32 (which I'd love to run now!).

Date	Location	St	Dist.	Time	Info	Type	Margin	Margin/mile	Losing time	% by
08/07/91	Worcester	MA	2.00	9:10.1	CMS Series	O track	0:00:00.1	00:00.050	0:09:10.2	100.02%
04/07/01	Chicago	IL	31.07	2:57:36	Chicago Lakefront 50k	Road	0:30:56.0	00:59.7	3:28:32.0	117.42%

Margin/Mile
The smallest margin/mile was at the Boyston (now Stu's) 30km.  It was the NE championship and Dan Dillon finished .3 behind me with Ed Sheehan another 3 tics back.  We did not sit and kick, it was a very fast run from start to finish with no one able to break away until the last 100m.

The largest margin/mile was at Stark mountain, which was also the slowest "mile" I've ever run.  It climbed straight up Stark mountain to the summit.

Date	Location	St	Dist.	Time	Info	Type	Margin	Margin/mile	Losing time	% by
03/08/92	Boylston	MA	18.63	1:38:03.0	NEAC 30K	Road	0:00:00.3	00:00.016	1:38:03.3	100.01%
10/06/07	Fayston	VT	1.00	0:23:51.0	Stark Mountain	Mtn	0:02:56.0	02:56.0	0:26:47.0	112.30%

% Ahead
The smallest % ahead was at Boyston where Dillon finished .01% behind. 

The largest % ahead was at the Dare Laconia 10k.  I ran alone from the start and won by nearly a mile (5:17 ahead).  Second place was 17.72% back.

Date	Location	St	Dist.	Time	Info	Type	Margin	Margin/mile	Losing time	% by
03/08/92	Boylston	MA	18.63	1:38:03.0	NEAC 30K	Road	0:00:00.3	00:00.016	1:38:03.3	100.01%
10/16/93	Laconia	NH	6.21	0:29:49.0	DARE	Road	0:05:17.0	00:51.0	0:35:06.0	117.72%

Notthingman

On Friday I had my shuffle on at work and one of my co-workers asked me why I "look so sad".  I didn't realize that someone could tell I was listening to a sad song just by looking at me (although some would say I'm pretty "sad" looking all the time).  Anyway, here is a great version of Nothingman.

Week Ending 02-21-10

By Tuesday I knew there was no way I could continue running.  My foot was just killing me the entire 3 miles.  It was bad enough that I was sick to my stomach (on 1-10 that only means 9, 10 is when I pass out).  So now I'm off for two weeks...minimum. 

M - Bike 30min AM, 4m run in 32:34, Bike 30min PM
T - Bike 30min AM, 3m lunch run 21:59, Bike 60min PM
W - Bike 60min AM, PT in the afternoon
Th - Bike 30min AM, Bike 60min PM
F - Bike 60min AM, PT then bike 30min PM
Sat - Bike 60min AM & Row 10min, Bike 60min PM & Row 10 min
Sun - Bike 90min AM & Row 10min, Bike 30min PM & Row 10 min

Totals:
7 miles run
Bike - 10.5 hours
Row - 40min

This is how I feel

40+ snowshoe rankings

Pretty much everyone was idle.  Tim Van Orden (TiVO) was the only top ten rankee that competed, and he had a strong performance taking the masters title at Camp Saratoga.

	Last wk	Total pts	Avg	# raced	Name		Age	Team	This week
1	1	797.21	99.65	8	Tim	Van Orden	41	CMS	1st at Camp Saratoga
2	2	687.39	98.20	7	Dave	Dunham	45	CMS	Idle
3	3	764.57	95.57	8	Steve	Wolfe	45	Acidotic	Idle
4	4	388.89	97.22	4	Chris	Dunn	41	Acidotic	Idle
5	5	191.38	95.69	2	John	Pajer	47	CMS	Idle
6	6	378.96	94.74	4	Sean	Snow	43		Idle
7	7	283.73	94.57	3	David	Pincipe	43	TNT	Idle
8	8	367.09	91.77	4	Jeremiah	Fitzgibbon	53	Acidotic	Idle
9	9	270.58	90.19	3	Mike	O'Connor	45	Acidotic	Idle
10	10	272.20	90.73	3	Christopher	Smith	43	Dungeon Rock	Idle

Open Snowshoe rankings

			Last week	# Raced	Notes	This weekend
1	Jim	Johnson	1	8	Seven 1st place finishes, one 3rd	Idle
2	Kevin	Tilton	2	3	two 1st, and one 4th	Idle
3	Josh	Ferenc	3	3	one 1st, one 2nd, and one 7th	Idle
4	Ben	Nephew	4	5	one 1st, one 2nd, one 3rd, one 5th, and one 6th	Idle
5	Tim	Van Orden	5	8	one 1st, three 2nd, one 3rd, and three 4th place finishes	4th at Camp Saratoga
6	Greg	Hammett	6	2	one 2nd and one 3rd	Idle
7	Robert	Jackman	7	4	two 3rd, one 5th, and one 7th	Idle
8	Charles	Theriault	8	3	one 3rd, one 4th, and one 5th	Idle
9	Tim	Cox	9	3	one 2nd, one 7th, and one 8th	Idle
10	Russ	Krause	N/R	4	one 3rd, one 4th, one 5th, and one 6th	5th at Camp Saratoga

Definitely top 10 material but haven’t raced enough…
Justin Fyffe - one 1st place finish
Geoff Cunningham - two 2nd place finishes
Mark Miller – one second place finish
Corey Watts – one second place finish
Peter Mallett - one fourth place finish
Jeremy Drowne - one 2nd and one 10th
C Fred Joslyn - one 1st

Week ending 02-14-10

Started the week worried about a stress fracture, ended it knowing I had tendonitis.

M - o/b 4 from Lowell General after injection 29:00.  PM Ind Pk 6 with Dan 44:38
T - o/b 3 at lunch 20:21.  PM - Ind Park 6 with Dan 44:18
W - o/b 3 at lunch 20:25.  PM Ind pk 6 with Dan and JJ 44:10 (got results, time to back off and get foot better).
Th - o/b 3 plus Veterans park 2 - 33:18
F - Lunch park loops 4m - 27:27
Sat - Bradford 6km race - ugly
Sun - 2.5 road run (class 4 road) then up/down Gile mountain with Eric - 39:57 total

Totals:
Week - 49
Month - 115
Year - 355
Life - 107,726

Snowshoe article

This appeared on the front page of the Eagle tribune today.
Different running 'shoes' - EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

Bradford 6km

This was my worst performance this year and I'm not sure of exactly why.  I guess my head was not 100% in it with worries about my foot.  Some days you try to give your best and just come up short and this was one of those days.

My foot felt half-way decent warming up with a big group from Dan's house.  It even felt good doing a few strides before the race (good being I wasn't favoring it too much).  The pack headed out with the 5m racers and those of us in the shorter race mixed in.  I felt pretty decent as I turned the corner at 3/4 of a mile in first place.  There were two guys right on me and one went by almost immediately.  I hit the mile (?) in 5:28, but in another 1/2 mile the leader had pulled 5 seconds ahead.  I hit the 3m mark of the 5m in 9:10 (3:42???).  That was pretty much the end of it for me.  I felt lousy on the uphill from 3-4 and the guy trailing me just sat waiting for the right time to go by.  I drifted to over 15 seconds behind the leader with a 6:06 split (?????).  I still kept thinking I had a shot to close the gap and hold or at least hold on to 2nd place.  The guy behind me had other ideas.  He blew by me in the last downhill 400m and put 15 seconds on me (yikes!).  My final mile was 5:47 for a 21:04 3rd place effort.  My splits were worse last year when I ran the 5m (5:59/5:40).  All in all it was a rough day.  I limped back over to Dan's then headed home and iced my foot for the rest of the day.

Hopefully a week of easy mileage will get my foot back on track.

Pics by Jim Rhoades

Billerica High School Track & XC

A couple of months ago I started my new job at the IRS and met up with a fellow BMHS former runner.  Brant Aylward (1961) was a member of the first cross country team at Billerica.  He ran ran for coach Roger Sampson who was my first high school XC coach some 20 years later.

Some pictures:

1959 Track team

1959 XC team

1960 Track team

Doing pick-ups behind the High School

Brant Aylward '61 (Captain), George Marin '63 (8th place at Mass state meet - 1960), Richard Graham '61

Bradford and Fudgicle

Two of my older course records could reach another year this weekend.  I set the CR (14:57) at the Fudgicle series on 02-09-1991 (so it just passed 19 years) and the Bradford Valentines 5m (24:31) on 02-10-1996.  I think the Valentines record is soft, at least compared to the Fudgicle.  Nate Jenkins ran Valentines last year and Casey Moulton did the 6km a couple of years ago.  Either one of them could take the record on Saturday.  I think I might run the 6km if the snowshoe races are off this weekend...

Open snowshoe rankings

Rank	Name		Last week	# Raced	Notes	This weekend
1	Jim	Johnson	1	8	Seven 1st place finishes, one 3rd	Idle
2	Kevin	Tilton	2	3	two 1st, and one 4th	Idle
3	Josh	Ferenc	3	3	one 1st, one 2nd, and one 7th	Idle
4	Ben	Nephew	4	5	one 1st, one 2nd, one 3rd, one 5th, and one 6th	Idle
5	Tim	Van Orden	5	6	one 1st, three 2nd, one 3rd, and two 4th place finishes	1st @ Saratoga
6	Greg	Hammett	N/R	2	one 2nd and one 3rd	2nd @ Northfield
7	Geoff	Cunningham	N/R	3	one 1st and two 2nds	1st @ Smuggs
8	Robert	Jackman	6	4	two 3rd, one 5th, and one 7th	Idle
9	Charles	Theriault	7	3	one 3rd, one 4th, and one 5th	Idle
10	Tim	Cox	8	3	one 2nd, one 7th, and one 8th	Idle

40+ snowshoe rankings

	Last wk	Total pts	Avg	# raced	Name		Age	Team	This week
1	1	697.21	99.60	7	Tim	Van Orden	41	CMS	1st at Saratoga
2	2	687.39	98.20	7	Dave	Dunham	45	CMS	1st at Northfield
3	3	764.57	95.57	8	Steve	Wolfe	45	Acidotic	2nd at Northfield
4	4	388.89	97.22	4	Chris	Dunn	41	Acidotic	Idle
5	U/R	191.38	95.69	2	John	Pajer	47	CMS	3rd at Northfield
6	U/R	378.96	94.74	4	Sean	Snow	43		4th at Northfield
7	5	283.73	94.57	3	David	Pincipe	43	TNT	Idle
8	6	367.09	91.77	4	Jeremiah	Fitzgibbon	53	Acidotic	Idle
9	7	270.58	90.19	3	Mike	O'Connor	45	Acidotic	Idle
10	8	272.20	90.73	3	Christopher	Smith	43	Dungeon Rock	Idle

Wolfe rankings

Rank	Name		Pts	races
1	Tim VanOrden	41	91.85	7
2	Dave Dunham	45	90.23	7
3	Steve Wolfe	45	85.77	8
4	Chris Dunn	41	84.86	4
5	Sean Snow	43	84.44	4
6	David Principe	43	81.41	3
7	John Agosto	45	80.4	3
8	Jeremiah Fitzgibbon	53	80.22	4
9	Paul Bazanchuk	55	79.53	4
10	Ken Clark	47	78.85	7

Week ending 02-07-10

Not a bad week, considering my foot has been killing me since Sidehiller.  Hit 66 miles and took fourth at Northfield mountain.

M - Lunch 3 - 21:37, PM o/b run at Pinnacle PT - 44:16
T - Lunch 3 - 21:06, PM Ind park 6 - 44:04 w Dan
W - Lunch 3 - 21:00, PM Ind park 6 - 45:18 w Dan and Greg
Th - Lunch 3 - 20:35, PM Ind park 6 - 43:44 w Dan
F - Marking the Northfield course 5.3 - 1:09 w Paul Baz, then run in Deerfield 3m - 22:05
S - 1.5 out to mark some more, 3 wup w Paul Baz and Tim M, 5.3 race, 5.3 clearing the course with Tim
S - 4m up/down Sunapee mountain with Eric then out/back 3 on road.

Totals
Week = 66
Month = 66
Year = 306
Life = 107,677

Northfield snowshoe race

Boy, as late as Tuesday it was not looking good for Northfield. I was worried that the race would have to be moved or canceled. Fortunately Bill Gabriel (Northfield) scouted out the trails and assured me we’d be able to race. Ed Alibozek (snow guru) also had scouted out other locations in case we needed to move.


I met up with Paul Bazanchuk on Friday afternoon and with a clear idea of what would be the most usable trails we headed out. We used over 100 flags and a bunch of surveyor tape. The biggest mistake of the day was my bringing a can of spray chalk only to find out that the color I had was white. D’oh.

Left - Happy in my Star Trek t-shirt

We were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the snow. The footing would be good; I wouldn’t call it fast because you still had to climb over 700’ to the summit. The 5.3 mile loop featured just over 2 miles to the top of Reservoir road then a fast 3+ mile descent back to the visitor’s center. I guessed that the leaders would climb in about 8 minute pace and descend close to 6 minute pace, which would bring the winner home in about 35 minutes.

On race morning I headed out with some BLACK spray chalk to mark the intersection where the course doubled back (the first and last kilometer covered the same ground in each direction). Thanks to Bill for loaning me the spray paint. The DRC timing and scoring crew showed up and they know their stuff so well that I could now just focus on getting ready for the race. They’d take care of registration/timing and whatever else was needed. I couldn’t have the race without them. Thanks guys!

I got in a nice 3-mile warm-up on the road with Paul and Tim Mahoney, and then changed into my race gear. I let the crew know that the winner would be back in about 35 minutes and I hoped to return in about 40. With a “runners set, and go” we hit the trail.

Below - out like it was a 5km

Ross Krause sprinted out to the lead with Greg Hammett, Justin Fyffe, and Tim Mahoney right behind him. Steve Wolfe was next with me hanging on. The first climb seemed to be super-fast. Since most of the race would be on the wide ski trails there should have been no worry about positioning. It felt like the start of a 5 km road race to me! After about ½ mile I started to settle into a reasonable pace. I passed Steve and could see the top four stretched out in front. Fyffe was still cranking and now had gapped the chasers. Krause and Mahoney were running together with Hammett about ½ way between them. Not much changed on the climb to the single track. I timed Tim and Ross as they entered the single track and I was 18 seconds back.

They seemed to slow a bit on the single track and I started to close the gap. As we were about to exit onto the road Tim yelled out and went down in a heap. I thought he had caught his shin on a tree branch, but found out later that he’d taken a funny step and hyper extended his knee. Ross asked if he was okay as he passed (he may have offered to help him up as well). While this happened I caught up and passed Tim to hit the road in fourth place just a few ticks behind Ross.

My guess on the climb must have been fairly accurate, I hit the top in 18:45 and Justin was way off in the distance, maybe 2 minutes up on me. I lost site of him and Greg as they turned onto the outflow pipe trail. Ross was moving well and he took a look to gauge where I was as he headed off the steep descent. I checked my watch as he headed onto Reservoir road and the gap was now 17 seconds. I also looked for Tim and guessed he was further behind me than I was behind Ross.

The road section is very fast. It had a mix of fast snow and just enough descent to really motor (but not so steep that you have to brake to stay in control). This would also be the last time I’d see the leaders. I was a bit surprised to see that Greg and Justin were running together. Justin is a strong climber and Greg has a lot of speed. The mix was jus right that the tow had an excellent battle. It reminded me of some of the great duels between Paul Low and Richard Bolt back in 2004/2005. They ended up pushing each other right to the line with Justin out kicking Greg in the last 100 meters. The Women’s race also looked to be a close one with Carolyn Stocker beating Granite Stater Amber Cullen by 29 seconds.

Meanwhile not much changed for the rest of the top five. Ross pulled away over the last 1.5 miles after leaving the road. I felt tired and flat most of the way and my foot was killing me on the descents. I was just happy to keep position through the end.

In all we had 73 finishers from 16 different clubs and they ranged in age from 12-80. The DRC had results well in control so Tim and I were able to head right out and sweep the course. Tim broke his shoe during the loop and had to finish in racing flats. I guess that is better than having it fail during the race!

Thanks again to everyone who helped make this race a success. Monies raised will be donated to the Merrimack River trail association for construction of a new bridge on the trail that will open up four more miles of trail for running, hiking, skiing, and snowshoe-ing.


Left - Finishing (both feet off the ground!)


Place Time Name Gend Age Team

1 0:35:45 Justin Fyffe M 29 CMS
2 0:35:47 Greg Hammett M 32 CMS
3 0:37:48 Ross Krause M 30 WMAC/Runreg.com
4 0:38:54 Dave Dunham M 45 CMS/Atlas
5 0:39:31 Tim Mahoney M 30 CMS
6 0:40:03 Steve Wolfe M 45 Acidotic
7 0:40:07 John Pajer M 47 CMS
8 0:40:22 Sean Snow M 43
9 0:40:44 Danny Ferreira M 27 Acidotic
10 0:41:15 Kurt Gustafson M 25 Nordic TC