Looking
back 35 years (July 1985): I
was training pretty hard during July of 1985 with weeks of 104, 90, 91, and 84
with a day off each week! raced for the (then) young Whirlaway Racing team
which was managed by Dave Kazanjian over the summer of 1985. On a hot and humid
4th of July I
headed to North Andover for a tough hilly 10km race. After a slow opening
mile of 5:18 I dropped under 5:00 pace to take a 61 second victory in 30:50.
U-Lowell teammate Brian Moody took second in 31:51. The race drew 450
finishers.
Five
days later (07/09/85) I headed to Cawley Stadium for the GLRR weekly 2 mile
series. I ran from Billerica to the track (6 miles) then did another
2 miles on the track to finish my warm-up. I took it out hard (hoping to
take a shot at Bob Hodge’s CR 8:52) with splits of 66/66/67/69 I hit the mile
in 4:28 I finished up with another 4:28 for an 8:56 win. Brad Hurst
took second in 9:08.
I
closed out the month at the Newburyport 10 mile (07/30/85) on a hot and
humid Tuesday night. I was hoping to run a low 49 (based on my earlier races)
and went out for it hitting 5 miles in 24:36. This was my first attempt at 10
miles and I went in with rookie optimism hoping to run around 49 flat (from the
presumption that a 24:30 wasn’t hard so two in a row should be manageable).
After that I fell off the back of the pack and struggled in with a 5th
place 50:10
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