This weekend I’ll be attempting the
Cranmore mountain race for the 13th time since 1996. The race
has been the National Championships a number of times and the course has been
everything from a 3 mile with 1,200’ of climb (with a free ride down the
Gondola) to a quad busting (and lung busting) three loop version. One
year it was three loops and it started at the TOP. Insane!
I’ve only won the race once, in 1996 I
was able to pull away from training partner Dan Verrington about half-way up
the climb and secure the win. I got a pair of racing snowshoes for the
win & course record. You can probably guess the years it was a
national championships by what my place was. The only one that doesn’t
fit the pattern is 2014 when I WALKED the course in order to get my “Goat”
status. I did not run a step of it that year but some of my walking on
the steep stuff was very fast.
|
Date
|
Dist.
|
Time
|
PL
|
Fin
|
Master
|
Senior
|
|
07/07/96
|
3.00
|
20:15
|
1
|
80
|
||
|
10/03/04
|
3.00
|
23:05
|
3
|
49
|
1
|
|
|
07/08/06
|
6.40
|
50:23
|
4
|
101
|
2
|
|
|
06/27/07
|
8.77
|
1:15:01
|
12
|
124
|
3
|
|
|
06/29/08
|
6.20
|
57:40
|
6
|
139
|
2
|
|
|
06/28/09
|
7.20
|
56:20
|
25
|
232
|
3
|
|
|
06/27/10
|
7.08
|
58:52
|
10
|
182
|
3
|
|
|
06/24/12
|
5.00
|
45:03
|
6
|
138
|
2
|
|
|
07/21/13
|
7.45
|
1:06:21
|
25
|
182
|
2
|
|
|
07/20/14
|
6.20
|
1:41:05
|
145
|
188
|
|
23
|
|
07/10/16
|
5.85
|
57:37
|
6
|
199
|
|
1
|
|
06/03/17
|
5.90
|
55:50
|
28
|
200
|
|
1
|
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