Old course records

Old April course records

I have three course records (for races in April) on the books that have stood up for a fair amount of year.

The 25^th running of the Leatherman’s 10km trail race will take place later this month (http://www.leathermansloop.org/).  I set the course record back in 1993 running 36:52.  The race is very popular and entry is closed this year.

Red’s shoe barn (now renamed something else but still run on the same course) 5m will hold it’s 30^th annual race this year.  I set the CR back in 1996.  Craig Fram ran a similar time a few years later but with 1/100^th’s I still got the CR of 24:12.01.  I may run there this year and take a shot at running under 28 minutes which would be close to my 40+ PR. 

The final April CR I still hold is the Lakefront 50km in Chicago.  The record is now 10 years old and this year will be the 12^th annual running of this loop course held on the waterfront.  I have bittersweet feelings about this CR (2:57:36), it should have been the American Record but due to a snafu the course was 50m short of certified (you have to add 1 meter per kilometer to certify and they did not).  D’oh!