I’ve run 110 USATF New England championships but haven’t run a Cross-Country (XC) championship since 1995. This Sunday I’ll be joining my CMS teammates in Westfield to take on the best XC runners in New England .
Here are my totals for USATF NE championships:
Indoor Track – 1
Outdoor Track – 1
Ultra (50km) – 1
Trail – 4
XC – 5
Mountain – 11
Road – 88
It’s been 25 years since my first NE XC championship and 17 years since my last.
Here are my results at the USATF NE champs:
11/15/87 Marlborough , MA 10k 29:57 3rd place Field = 300
11/13/88 Smithfield , RI 10k 32:19 12th place Field = 200
11/12/89 Smithfield , RI 10k 32:15 17th place Field = 154
11/15/92 Smithfield , RI 10k 30:55 4th place Field = 95
11/12/95 Boston , MA 10k 32:08 36th place Field =159 (Team lost to BRC by 29 seconds)
I’m hoping for a top 25 finish this weekend (based on previous years results), but will be happy with any result as long as I give it my best (and my hamstring holds up!).
2 comments:
How can the team lose by 29 seconds? Didn't they use cross country (place) scoring? Perhaps it was a tie, and the tie-breaker was not the place of the sixth runner, but total time?
I'm not sure, but I believe at the time the scoring was best 5 by time like it is in the road GP.
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