5 years ago: (January 2012) I had a great month with a lot of fun racing (7 races!) and 5 track workouts at the Hampshire Dome while getting in 384 miles with no days off. I started the month (01-01-12) running the Frost 4 in Salem, MA. I had a good battle with arch rival Dan Verrington J, he went out hard and I didn’t catch him until after 2 miles we went back and forth until 200 meters to go when I kicked it in for a masters personal best of 21:54 which was good enough for 5th place in the field of 675.
1 21:25 Eric Sofen 26M SEATTLE WA
2 21:31 Nick Sousa 28M Salem MA
3 21:33 Michael Nickerson 22M Salem MA
4 21:51 James Pawlicki 37M Lynn MA CMS
5 21:54 Dave Dunham 47M Bradford MA CMS
6 21:58 Dan Verrington 49M Bradford MA CMS
7 22:07 Ben Strain 33M Beverly MA CMS
The following weekend (01-08-12) I headed to Dartmouth for an unusual double of 800 and 1,500 meters. I’d only ever run a 1500 once in college and the 800 twice. The field was very small so there wasn’t any jostling as we headed off on 7+ laps. I took the lead at 200m and tried to run an even pace. My goal was to run in the 4:40’s, I thought a really good day would be a sub-5:00 mile equivalent and would be happy with anything equal to a five-O anything. I slowly pulled away from the chase and built up a 3+ second lead with a lap to go. I went into my kick but that was essentially the same speed as my running up ‘til that point. Mark Coogan yelled at me with 100m to go “you better kick, they are coming”. Unfortunately I was already full-out and was caught right at the line, missing out the win by 5/100ths of a second. The double back in the 800 went well; I set a 3 second masters PR which was fun.
M45 800 Meter Run
1 Michel St-Pierre M46 Shawinigan, QC 2:14.85
2 Dave Dunham M47 Bradford, MA 2:26.92
3 Dave Menard M46 Waltham, MA 2:33.67
1500 Meter Run
1 Brett Miller M47 Montreal 4:44.60
2 Dave Dunham M47 Bradford, MA 4:44.65
1 Geoff Dunbar M41 Hanover, NH 4:48.40
1 Maribel Souther F36 Hanover, NH 4:51.78
1 John Matthews M55 Gtr Spfld 5:00.80
2 Tom Kolb M56 Merrimack, NH 5:37.37
1 Larry Smith M67 Cooperstown, NY 6:30.28
The next weekend (01-14-12) I went to Tewksbury for the Fudge 5k . I've been running Fudgesicle 5ks (actually 3.15 miles) since 'back in the day'. This year with no snow so no snowshoe racing...so I headed over to Tewksbury. The races are $1 and the course is marked and has mile splits, and results are posted on CR after. They always get a decent crowd and it is great to have the race done and head for home by 9 AM. Dan Verrington was planning on running 5:20 pace for 2 miles then easing up. I had been sick for a few days and wasn't sure what I could run. My plan was to push the pace with Dan through 2 and if I felt good enough try to continue on. We did the course as a warm-up then did a couple of strides and we were off.
Dan took the lead about 1/2 mile in and I tucked behind him until we hit the mile (5:27). I moved to the front and kept the pace honest, Dan moved back in front at about 1.5 and I took over again just before 2 miles. I hit 2 in 10:53 (5:26), about 2 seconds up on Dan. The last mile was tough with a solid headwind and a slight up hill. I managed to close out in 5:46 (16:39) and 42 seconds for the final part.
In all I was pretty happy with a 17:21 and a win. Dan came in 30 seconds later in second. I figure the time would be a little over 17 on an actual 5k course, decent effort. The win gave me my 34th consecutive year with at least one win. The time is my fastest on the course as a master, my previous best was a 17:30 back in 2006.
1 Dave Dunham 166 1/4 47 M4049 Bradford MA 17:21 5:35
2 Dan Verrington 167 2/4 49 M4049 Bradford MA 17:51 5:45
3 John Rheaume 174 1/10 30 M3039 Lowell MA 18:00 5:48
4 James Sullivan 74 1/2 26 M2029 Chelmsford MA 18:05 5:50
5 Liam Skinner 100 3/4 45 M4049 Lowell MA 18:37 6:00
01-21-12 Whitaker Woods Snowshoe It was 9 degrees when I arrived at the race site. I met up with race director and teammate Kevin Tilton and we headed out on the course. We ran the 4 miles putting the final touches on course markings to make sure everyone stayed on course this year. The loop was very fast groomed snow with a little single-track that was also well packed. It would be a good day for the fast guys. At the start everyone bolted like it was a sprint. I was hurting and in 5th place in the first 200 meters. I slowly caught up to Chris Dunn and passed him about ½ mile in, then got Danny F on the first climb. At the same time Jim Johnson broke away from Judson Cake. I caught Judson on the second climb and felt pretty good, but JJ was out of site now except on the long straights. I gapped Judson but he came back on the descent and caught me with about 1 mile to go. He really took off in the last mile and I didn’t have another gear. I worked as hard as possible and was rewarded with a third place finish and over a minute improvement on my time from last year.
Place Time Name Gend Age Club Points
1 27:27 Jim Johnson M 34 CMS 100.00
2 28:25 Judson Cake M 34 Acidotic 96.60
3 28:40 Dave Dunham M 47 CMS 95.76
4 29:49 Danny Ferreira M 29 Acidotic 92.06
5 30:33 Chris Jasparro M 44 TNT 89.85
6 31:06 Chris Dunn M 43 Acidotic 88.26
7 31:52 Ryan Welts M 31 Acidotic 86.14
8 33:44 Dan Hayden M 25 81.37
9 33:53 Scott Mason M 54 TNT 81.01
10 34:22 Jason Massa M 44 Acidotic 79.87
01-22-12 Constitution hill
Lots of fun at the WMAC race in WAY Western Mass. When the horn sounded I immediately found myself in the lead, which was fine by me because it meant I could keep the pace slow. I threw in some fast running on a little snowmobile track but TiVo then went by when we got back in the deep snow. Tim M then took the lead for a little and we sat behind him until the loop was completed. At that point I took off at a pace I knew I couldn’t maintain but I wanted to put some distance on Tim (M). TiVo came along with me and very much like last year took the lead at 14 minutes in. By the time we hit the base of the hill he had 13 seconds on me. About ½ way up the 500’ climb I took the lead and he tucked in. I snuck a look back to see Tim M and Ross Krause (both CMS teammates) not far behind. Breaking trail is a lot of work! TiVo said he’d take over whenever I wanted and just as we reached the summit ridge I waived him around. He was off like a shot! The ridge was untracked but nowhere near as deep as last year. He motored away and I just tried to stay on my feet on stay in second place. Not much changed in the last ½ mile of descending and TiVo took his first win of the year and I took second. CMS took the first four places.
1 Tim Van Orden 32:58 m 43 CMS
2 Dave Dunham 33:40 m 47 CMS
3 Tim Mahoney 33:58 m 32 CMS
4 Ross Krause 34:18 m 32 CMS
5 Dave Merkt 34:23 m 28
6 Steve Dowsett 34:55 m 23
7 Rich Teal 35:08 m 33
8 Ashley Krause 38:16 f 34 CMS
9 John Agosto 38:37 m 47
10 Erik Wight 38:52 m 52
Track workouts at the Dome with Dan
01/03/2012 6x800 2:41.2/2:41.3/2:39.7/2:41.2/2:38.6/2:41.1 483m Hampshire Dome
01/10/2012 800/800/Mile/800/800 2:45.6/2:43.2/5:15.2/2:43.8/2:43.7 160/480/320/160/200 Hampshire Dome
01/17/2012 4x1 mile 300 rest 5:31.2 / 5:28.4 / 5:28.7 / 5:24.5 1:38/1:40/1:34/2:07 Hampshire Dome
01/24/2012 8x800 w 400 rest 241.0/241.1/241.3/241.8/240.3/241.1/242.4/241.6 400+ Hampshire Dome
01/31/2012 400/800/1200/1600/1200/800/400 78.9/242.1/401.6/522.0/400.7/240.9/77.9 115/51/205/329/211/47/142 me
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