10 years ago:
December 2008
I tried to get out and race a bit more during this month,
getting in four “races”. I started with
the Assault on Mt Hood XC race in Melrose.
I like this race, I’ve done it a few times and it seems like every time
they have a new challenging course. It
was a bit icy out there but I managed to keep my legs under me and take 10th
place in 22:33 over 3.5 (or so) miles.
1 Ryan Gattoni
20:46.9 23M
2 Joe Shairs
20:51.4 40M CMS
3 Ben Strain
21:02.3 30M CMS
4 Henry Scoward
21:07.2 45M CRC
5 Terry McNatt
21:21.3 43M
6 Dan Verrington
21:35.8 46M CMS
7 James Pawlicki
22:06.9 34M CMS
8 Dave Hannon
22:10.3 37M NETT
9 Chris Van Cott
22:27.9 28M
10 Dave Dunham
22:33.1 44M CMS
A week later I ran in the very popular BU Mini meet. I ended up in the second of three heats of
the 3,000 meters. I would have been
better off in the third heat as I ran mostly alone and took 16th out of 17
finishers running a 10:01 (about 10:40 for 2 miles). Since we had some snow and I was getting
ready for snowshoe racing season, I decided to set up a 5k race at
Winnekenni. My guess was that no one
else would show up because it was Christmas morning. I figured out a 3.5-mile loop and did my
warm-up setting out flags for the race course.
No one showed up so I went out and ran the loop as fast as I could
(26:39). For a warm-down I went back out
and cleared the course of flags. It was
a fun way to get in 11+ miles and winning a “race”. Three days later I closed out the month with
the “I love Woodford” snowshoe race. I
had a pretty decent run finishing in fourth, barely holding off late surges
from teammates Tim Mahoney and Jim Pawlicki.
1 Josh Ferenc M27 23:44
2 Jim Johnson M31 24:32
3 Mathew Cartier M33 24:50
4 Dave Dunham M44
25:15
5 Tim Mahoney M29 25:22
6 James Pawlicki M34 25:30
7 Mathew Westerlund M36 26:10
8 Jay Kolodzinski M29 27:40
9 Steve Wolfe M44 27:48
10 Ken Clark M46 28:01
11 Abby Woods F30 28:08
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