Slow snowshoe racing

The tough snow at Prospect Mountain last weekend got me thinking about the ‘toughest’ snowshoe race I’ve done.  Here are the 10 slowest pace per mile of the 117 snowshoe races I’ve done.  Of course pace alone doesn’t dictate how tough a race is.  There were a couple of Hawley Kiln races (back when it was 7 miles of single-track) that were brutal and I remember a Moody Springs race that was over 9 miles and was downright nasty.

The Constitution Hill race (#2) had very deep snow and I chose to lead, a big mistake as I got buried in the last ½ mile.  The Moody Springs race (#3) was especially hard if you factor in that the first and last mile was on groomed snowmobile trail, so the other 2.5 miles took FOREVER.  Funny, the slowest paced races I won were both at the same pace 9:42.

 

Rank	Date	Location	St	Dist.	Time	Pace	PL	Fin	Info
1	02/18/07	Hawley	MA	4.50	53:27.0	11:53	2	59	Hallockville
2	01/23/11	Lanesboro	MA	3.70	42:14.0	11:25	3	63	Constitution Hill
3	02/27/11	Hawley	MA	5.50	59:00.0	10:44	6	58	Moody Springs
4	02/24/07	Adams	MA	8.00	1:25:28.0	10:41	4	33	Covered Bridges
5	02/16/14	Woodford	VT	6.20	1:05:54.0	10:38	4	90	Prospect
6	03/03/07	Hawley	MA	5.00	52:44.0	10:33	2	39	Hawley Kiln
7	01/07/06	Savoy	MA	3.00	31:23.0	10:28	4	94	North Pond shuffle
8	01/19/02	Beaver Creek	CO	6.21	1:03:18.0	10:12	17	100	NA snowshoe champs
9	12/22/13	Haverhill	MA	4.00	0:40:04.0	10:01	3	5	Winnekenni Snowshoe race
10	01/11/03	Florida	MA	4.00	38:49.0	9:42	1	90	South Pond shuffle
10	03/03/13	Greens Grant	NH	6.20	1:00:07.0	9:42	1	14	Snowshoe to the clouds