Old course record - makes it another year
I keep track of all of my course records that still exist. There aren’t many left. I lost a lot of them to either the course being changed, or the race being no longer held. Of course, I also lost many to guys running fasters! My course record at the Bradford Valentines 5 mile held up for another year. The record is now 24 years old. I ran 24:32 on 02/10/1996.
It was a bit windy that day but the temperature in the 40’s made for a decent (decent for February) day for racing. CMS teammates Dan Verrington and Gary Gardner (U-Mass Lowell head track coach) joined me at the front. Dan dropped off near “Ski Bradford” and I managed to drop Gary soon after and went on to a 31 second victory. Gary took second in 25:03 with Dan third in 25:18.
Only 12 people have ever gone Sub 26 at the Bradford Valentine’s race. I’ve listed them all below. Although I lead the list, Dan has an impressive 4 times in the top 10 and three fast wins (he has a few other wins but not under 26 minutes). David Hinga also has 3 times in the top 14, all of which were winning times, and Craig Fram has the masters course record (25:50) and another sub 26 (25:54) which was done as a 10 mile workout (we ran the second loop in 26:30 including the time from the finish line back to the start!).
Rank Time Name Place Cat Year
1 24:32 Dave Dunham 1 M31 1996
2 25:01 Casey Moulton 1 M2029 2004
3 25:03 Gary Gardner 2 M24 1996
4 25:18 Dan Verrington 3 M33 1996
5 25:22 Nate Jenkins 1 M2029 2009
6 25:27 Dan Verrington 1 M3039 2000
7 25:28 David Hinga 1 M2029 2005
8 25:37 Frank Corrigan 2 M2029 2009
9 25:38 Dan Verrington 1 M3039 1999
10 25:44 Dan Verrington 1 M3039 1998
11 25:44 Dan Vassallo 1 M2029 2011
12 25:45 David Hinga 1 M3039 2006
13 25:50 Craig Fram 2 M4049 2000
14 25:50 David Hinga 1 M3039 2007
15 25:52 Ken Pliska 1 M3039 2002
16 25:53 Pat Fullerton 1 M29 2018
17 25:54 Dave Dunham 1 M32 1997
18 25:54 Craig Fram 2 M38 1997
19 25:58 E Beauchesne 2 M2029 1999
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