Londonderry Old Home day race

I hadn't run the Londonderry race since 1991.  It has conflicted with other races or I've been unable to make it due to injury.  This year I had an open weekend and was excited to return to the site of my 1991 (still standing course record).

I arrived an hour before the race, quickly signed up and got a course preview done for a warm-up.  The first mile heads down the Millennium Mile course so you can count on a quick start.  Unfortunately you come back up it at the end!  I felt okay during the warm-up but not great.  It was 75 degrees but the humidity was 100%.  When I stopped sweat just poured off.  I switched into race flats and headed out for another mile.  I bumped into Larry Martin (longtime Londonderry coach), it was great to see him out there.  There was also a huge group of XC runners, also great to see.

About 150 runners headed off down the road and after about 100 meters 5 of the Londonderry XC kids went flying by.  Right before the mile, 3 of them just stopped!  Maybe they were doing a workout?  Anyway that moved me up to 3rd place.  I hit the mile in 5:30.  The downhill pretty much continues to 1.25 and there is only a bit of a bump after that until the final climb.  I hit 2 in 11:19(5:49) but then the climb starts.  I struggled to the finish in 18:23 and it felt a LOT faster than that.  I'm hoping this is a good tune-up for Lynn Woods and the USATF NE 10m (both next week).

 39th Annual Lundgren 5K Road Race - 8/18/2017                      
 Londonderry Old Home Days - Londonderry NH                                      
                                

5k Run Road Race
      Comp#  Name                            Team                             Time
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    1   802  Nowak, Eric                M17  Londonderry, NH               17:38.9       
    2   744  Griffin, Matthew           M15  Londonderry, NH               17:50.1       
    3   855  Dunham, Dave               M54  Bradford, MA                  18:23.5       
    4   733  Carbone, Matt              M35  Melrose, MA                   19:15.3       
    5   874  Schrank, Noah              M20  Londonderry, NH               20:12.5       
    6   749  Kraft, Tyler               M14  Londonderry, NH               20:21.8       
    7   817  Bieler, William            M15  Londonderry, NH               20:22.9       
    8   782  Porter, Tim                M37  Londonderry, NH               20:26.9       
    9   860  Oliviera da Silva, Cleber  M47  Manchester, NH                20:34.6       
   10   824  Pawlowicz, Kenny           M15  Pelham, NH                    20:50.8