My CMS teammate Erik Vandendries had an unusual double this
weekend, taking on the Newton’s revenge on Saturday and the Cranmore mountain
race on Sunday. Newton’s revenge is a bike race up the Mt Washington Auto road
and Cranmore is a running race up (and down) Mt Cranmore. His 5th
place finish at Mt Washington and 6th place finish at Cranmore are
impressive feats but I think his other “double” is even more impressive.
Erik ran his first Mt Washington earlier this year posting a
1:12:20 to take third place in the 50+ age division. His time was the
6th fastest ever run by anyone over the age of 50. Add to that his
1:03:15 from Newton’s revenge and he rode/ran a combined time of 2:15:35. It
got me thinking if anyone has gone faster. I scoured the results, cutting off
at 1:15 for both of the bike races and the running race. I have the running
results back to the very beginning and was able to get all of the Newton’s
revenge results (this year was the 10th). The hill climb bike race
is entering its 43rd year but I was only able to get results back to
1997.
In the last 19 years I found no runners (except Erik) who
have done one of the bike races and the running race in the same year. Only two
other runners had gone under 1:15 on the bike and on foot. Erik’s combined time
of 2:15:35 tops both.
Name Bike Run
Total
Lou Bregou 1:06:21 1:13:43 2:20:04 Different
years
Matt Mallet 1:07:51 1:12:52 2:20:43 Different
years
Erik Vandendries 1:03:15 1:12:20 2:15:35 Same year
If anyone has results from earlier years I’d love to get that
info!
1 comment:
Mike McCusker (of Bridge of Flowers fame) has done both run and bike race several times (in the same year). A few years back, he broke the 60 year old record at the bike race (in 1:15:xx) and I believe placed in the running race as well. I did both run and bike race in 2008 and 2010 and found I am a better runner than biker (or a much worse biker..). I ran/biked times that were very close with my run times each year being a minute or two faster than my bike times. There was some talk about having a mountain run/bike series as Ascutney, Mt Washington, Mt Greylock all have hill bike and run climbs but not sure that went anywhere. I had a hard time convincing the biking crowd that it was fun to run up the mountains. :)
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