Old course record - makes it another year

I keep track of all of my course records that still exist.  There aren’t many left.  I lost a lot of them to either the course being changed or the race being no longer held.  Of course I also lost many to guys running fasters!  My course record at the Bradford Valentines 5 mile held up for another year.  The record is now 22 years old.  I ran 24:32 on 02/10/1996.

It was a bit windy that day but the temperature in the 40’s made for a decent (decent for February) day for racing.  CMS teammates Dan Verrington and Gary Gardner (U-Mass Lowell head track coach) joined me at the front.  Dan dropped off near “Ski Bradford” and I managed to drop Gary soon after and went on to a 29 second victory.   Gary took second in 25:01 with Dan third in 25:18.

Pat Fullerton won this year’s race with a sub-26 effort.  The last time anyone was under 26 was Dan Vassallo in 2011.  Sub 26 minute times at the Bradford Valentine’s race are listed below.  Although I lead the list, Dan has an impressive 4 times in the top 10 and 3 fast wins (he has a few other wins but not under 26 minutes).  David Hinga also has 3 times in the top 14, all of which were winning times, and Craig Fram has the masters course record (25:50) and another sub 26 (25:54) which was done as a 10 mile workout (we ran the second loop in 26:30 including the time from the finish line back to the start).

Rank     Time     Name                Place     Cat       Year

1          24:32    Dave Dunham    1          M31      1996

2          25:01    Casey Moulton   1          M2029   2004

3          25:03    Gary Gardner    2          M24      1996

4          25:18    Dan Verrington 3          M33      1996

5          25:22    Nate Jenkins      1          M2029   2009

6          25:27    Dan Verrington 1          M3039   2000

7          25:28    David Hinga       1          M2029   2005

8          25:37    Frank Corrigan   2          M2029   2009

9          25:38    Dan Verrington 1          M3039   1999

10         25:44    Dan Verrington 1          M3039   1998

11         25:44    Dan Vassallo      1          M2029   2011

12         25:45    David Hinga       1          M3039   2006

13         25:50    Craig Fram        2          M4049   2000

14         25:50    David Hinga       1          M3039   2007

15         25:52    Ken Pliska         1          M3039   2002

16        25:53     Pat Fullerton      1         M29       2018   

17         25:54    Dave Dunham    1          M32      1997

18         25:54    Craig Fram        2          M38      1997

19         25:58    E Beauchesne   2          M2029   1999