East End Club 5 mile

15 years ago (yesterday) I showed up at the East End Club road race looking to get some points in the Hockomock Swamp Rat series.  I’d had good luck at the EEC race (28^th running this year), but not on this day.  During my warmup I rolled my ankle badly.  I couldn’t bail since I needed the points, so I used a roll of duct tape I had in the car and gave it a shot.  I managed to stick with Eric Beauchesne for the first couple of miles but then reality hit and he took off to the win.  I hobbled home with my slowest EEC finish.

 

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I ran the East End Club race five times and won four of those times:

07-22-84               1^st           24:26

07-12-87               1^st           24:34

07-14-91               1^st           25:22     Ran with Jim Quadros for first three

07-19-92               1^st           24:30     2^nd place Dave Cremin 24:57

07-16-90               2^nd          26:32     Eric Beauchesne 1^st

 

Good luck to everyone running this weekend, don’t forget to pack the duct tape!

My ankle hurts just looking at this picture