April

 Not a bad month, slowly making gains...

Month	Single	Double	Triple	Day off	>3 runs	Days	Total miles	Avg
January	5	26	0	0	0	31	382	12.32
February	11	10	3	4	0	28	220	7.86
March	6	24	1	0	0	31	325	10.48
April	4	23	3	0	0	30	362	12.07
May						0
June						0
July						0
August						0
Sept						0
Oct						0
Nov						0
Dec						0
Totals	26	83	7	4	0	120	1289
120	22%	69%	6%	3%	0%
Days
						Ave per day	10.74
	213					On days run	11.11
	Actual runs					Per run	6.05
						Avg week =	75.19

 

Week Ending 04/25/21

Not a bad week.  Windy and felt sluggish every morning but afternoons seemed to go well.  Oblique is feeling pretty good but glute is still bothersome.  Had a fun run with Dan & Doug on the Bay Circuit trail in Andover mid-week.  Finished out the week with a great run with Greg and Doug on all of the trails in Newburyport & Salisbury.
 
Week – 80
Month – 304
Year – 1,231
Life – 150,177
 
M – 440am Methuen rail trail 5m in 833s
                1130am Industrial park 5m in 733s
 
T – 440am Methuen rail trail 5m in 829s
                1130am Reverse Kingsbury 5m in 702s
 
W – 440am Methuen rail trail 5m in 829s
                1130am H2H2H run (mix of trails and road) with Dan & Doug segment record 7+ miles in 801s
 
Th – 440am Methuen rail trail 5m in 838s
                1130am Hyatt loop 6m in 717s
 
F – 440am Bradford rail trail 5+m in 835s
                11am Salem rail trail out/back 6m in 705s

S - 730am Rockingham trail out/back 8m in 738s

     930am GSRT out/back 4m in 933s

S - 7am LONG run with Greg Putnam and (10m) Doug - 16 miles on many rail trails in 729s

Week Ending 04/18/21

 

Not a bad week – slow in the morning but not so bad in the afternoon.  Got my first COVID shot on Thursday.

 

Week – 82

Month – 224

Year – 1,151

Life – 150,097

 

M – 440am Methuen rail trail 5m in 927s

        Noon Industrial park 5m in 817s

 

T - 440am Methuen rail trail 5m in 853s

        Noon Industrial park 5m in 747s

 

W – 440am Rail trail from the depot out/back 5m in 833s

        1130am Dan’s AVIS 7+ in 842s

 

Th – 440am Methuen rail trail 5m in 837s

         1145am Ghost train & Eastern marsh trail run 8m in 726s

 

F – 440am Bradford rail trail 5m in 838s

      130pm Slushy and snow Industrial park 5m in 753s

 

S – 7am Freeman rail trail 7m with Petey (bike) and D-la in 829s

       930am Nice relaxing 4m in 933s

 

S – 830am 8 on my own in 732s into 8 more in 1002s for total of 16m in 845s

Love my giant frosted cookie!

Looking back - 40 years ago (April 1981)

 Looking back:    40 years ago - April of 1981 was a busy month for me. I started my junior year outdoor track season with nine races. I set a personal best of 9:35 to win the Wilmington invitational (04/11/81). The following week I ran an “easy” mile (4:37) saving something for the relay (440 in 57.4) in a dual meet against Andover (04/15/81). I also ran the two mile at the Haverhill invitational (04/18/81) taking third in a PR of 9:34. I set a PR in the 440 in the relay against Lowell (04/21/81) running 53.9. Earlier in the meet I won the 2 mile in 10:17 running as easy as possible to save something for the relay. We won the meet by 2 points with the relay clinching it.  Mike Healey, Bernie Brown, me, and John Dangora combined to run a 3:46.0.  That weekend our team took third in the Distance Medley Relay at the State Relays, I ran the ¾ mile leg in 3:20. I finished the month with a win at 2 miles (9:36) against Chelmsford where I also ran the relay (58.0).  Chelmsford (our archrivals) destroyed us 110 to 35.  We got wins in the pole vault (George Busnach – 11-6), the mile (John Dangora – 4:33.4), and my 2 mile win.  We also took the mile relay (3:45.1) and the 4x110 which set a school record (45.8 – Kevin Norman, John Grella, Bob Follett, and Ron Caterino).

 

Wilmington Invitational 2m

1 Dunham (Bill) 9:35.8

2 Terrill (Hav) 9:45.4

3 Norwood (Bev) 9:48.5

4 O’Brien (Reading) 9:48.7

5 Donahue (Meth) 9:54.2

6 Lemieux (Meth) 10:00

Looking back - 30 years ago (April 1991)

30 years ago – April 1991: I was all over the charts racing from 1 mile on the track to 12 miles on the trails and race sizes from a field of five to over 2,300. I started (04/07/91) the month with a win at the “Wang run”, no it wasn’t a naked race, it was run from the Wang offices in Lowell. I ran 25:31 for the win on a hot (85 degree) day for that early in the spring. In my log I noted that the five miles was “quite a bit longer than advertised” and that Mixon, Alvey and Nasatka took it out hard and then I made a move after 2 miles with Nasatka throwing surges at me.  A couple of days later I did a reasonably hard 3 mile “tempo run” in 14:25 on the Dracut high school track and then (04/15/91) I went down to Washington DC for the Sallie Mae 10k. I’m not sure why I went but I think they were listed in “Road Race Management guide”, which listed prize money races and what you needed to do to qualify for invitation.  They were willing to fly me down and put me in a hotel, so I went.  I had a lousy run with a 30:21 for 10th place. The next week (04/21/91) I ran the always interesting Leatherman’s 10k trail race in NY. I ended up losing by three seconds to British Fell runner Andy Moffatt (37:23 to 37:26), Petey took 3^rd in 39:26.  A couple of days later I tried to get my legs moving again with a track workout.  This time Artie led me for the first ¼ as I did 5 x ½ mile in 2:13, 2:15, 2:14, 2:14, and 2:12 with ¼ rest. That weekend (04/27/91) I battled Scott Clark over a mile at the Granite state mile during a track meet at Londonderry High School. I took first in 4:20.9 with Scott a little over 2 seconds back.  The following day (04/28/91) I really changed speeds doing the Seven Sisters trail race in Amherst. I went off course twice losing over five minutes and ended up losing to Moffat again, this time by a little over 2 minutes. I found the course to be way too rough for me and vowed to never run it again (15 years later I ran it again and it was still too dangerous for me).