I touched base with teammate Darin Brown who was coming off an injured and hoping to make sure we had 3 finishers (minimum needed to score a team). I then met up with Ernie Brake and Scott Clark and we hit the road to warm-up over the last 1.5 miles of the course. It was fun catching up with the guys as it'd been almost a month since the last series race. This is not an easy course and checking out the last 1.5 reminded me of that. I was hoping to go through the 4 mile mark in the time I'd run the entire 5m back in 2000 (24:43).
I changed into racing flats and did an easy 1/2 mile over to the line. There'd be plenty of time to get going once the race started. My hope was to keep Scott in sight for the first 1.5 and then see what I could do on the downhill. Scott went out and Ernie and I hooked up with him about 1/2 mile in. We were all pretty much together for most of the uphill then Ernie turned on the jets and put 10+ seconds on us. It felt too fast for me and we still had a long way to go. I was about 30th place at the bottom of the hill and moved up a couple of places on the climb. I got a couple more including Ernie on the way down to 3 miles. Scott and I ran together until a little after 3 then I just could not stick with him. The 90' climb from 3.5 to 4 miles just chewed me up.
I got passed by a young guy on the downhill after 4 as we closed in on Sean Snow (fellow 50+ runner). I kept thinking "relax" but was not relaxed or recovered on the little downhill. The last little bump onto Fruit street really kicked me in the butt. I held on for a disappointing 31:42 (compared to 29:38 last year) but managed a first place in the Age Graded Masters and the 55-59 age group.
Our team had a great day taking the top 3 age graded places and 4 of the top 6! One more race to go but anything can happen with the competition very tight. I hear the Canterbury race is pretty tough, hopefully it won't be as hot.
1 1/3 MTOP3 25:12 25:12 5:03 Kyle Gronostaj 23 M 4 East Greenbush NY 84.59%
2 2/3 MTOP3 25:45 25:45 5:09 Neal Darmody 29 M 2 Bow NH 82.78%
3 3/3 MTOP3 25:55 25:55 5:11 Nick Aguila 29 M 324 Manchester NH 82.25%
4 1/12 M3034 26:05 26:05 5:13 Brian Harvey 32 M 353 Cambridge MA 81.98%
5 1/12 M4044 26:31* 26:31 5:19 Justin Freeman 42 M 3 Campton NH 85.18%
6 1/6 M2529 26:38 26:38 5:20 Samuel Fazioli 27 M 335 Salem NH 80.04%
7 2/12 M3034 27:45 27:45 5:33 Scott Mindel 32 M 280 Burlington MA 77.06%
8 2/6 M2529 28:34 28:34 5:43 Louis Saviano III 28 M 220 Sandown NH 74.62%
9 1/6 M2024 29:22 29:21 5:53 Andrew Tuttle 24 M 197 Alton NH 72.63%
10 3/12 M3034 29:32 29:32 5:55 David Chorney 31 M 350 Concord NH 72.28%
11 3/6 M2529 30:08 30:07 6:02 Sean McCauley 27 M 252 Canterbury NH 70.78%
12 2/6 M2024 30:18 30:18 6:04 Christopher Dunn 24 M 253 Kennebunk ME 70.35%
13 1/3 FTOP3 30:22 30:21 6:05 Jaclyn Solimine 24 F 348 Haverhill MA 79.74%
14 2/3 FTOP3 30:45 30:45 6:09 Cayla Pellegrini 27 F 310 Derry NH 78.70%
15 1/16 M5054 31:17 31:17 6:16 Scott Clark 53 M 194 Gilmanton NH 78.85%
16 1/8 M1619 31:33 31:30 6:18 Colin Lessard 17 M 107 Bow NH 68.25%
17 3/3 FTOP3 31:31 31:30 6:18 Lindsay Weigel 26 F 268 Concord NH 76.83%
18 3/6 M2024 31:38 31:38 6:20 Jason Schoeller 20 M 345 Suncook NH 67.39%
19 2/16 M5054 31:42 31:42 6:21 Sean Snow 52 M 371 Dunbarton NH 77.17%
20 1/29 M5559 31:43 31:43 6:21 Dave Dunham 55 M 15 Bradford MA 79.10%
21 2/8 M1619 32:01 31:59 6:24 Benjamin Neff 16 M 140 Bow NH 68.04%
22 2/29 M5559 32:19 32:18 6:28 Jim Angell 55 M 147 Hopkinton NH 77.67%
23 3/16 M5054 32:24 32:23 6:29 Darin Brown 52 M 76 Madison NH 75.54%
24 1/14 F3539 32:31 32:30 6:30 Mary Klene 35 F 325 Manchester NH 74.98%
25 3/29 M5559 32:47 32:46 6:34 Ernest Brake 58 M 195 North Sutton NH 78.57%
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