Saturday, December 15, 2018

Looking back = Dec 2008


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

No comments: