August 1999

20 years ago (August 1999): This started as a promising month but ended with me in a hospital in Italy with a “distorted ankle”.  I got in 282 miles missing the final 9 days of the month with the ankle injury.  I was able to race four times.  I started the month off with the short (3m) race at Yankee Homecoming in anticipation of racing the Beach to Beacon 10k that weekend.  I finished in 2^nd place in 14:48 and was thoroughly pissed at the winner for his antics (waving to the crowd then back to me).  I’m not a fan of showboating and told him so in the chute.  I thought it was real bush-league crap.   A few days later (08/07) I joined 3,300 others for the Beach to Beacon.  I had a decent enough race running 30:47 for 27^th place.  The next weekend I had a lousy run at the Newmarket Healthcare 5k taking 2^nd place in 15:17 on a hot and muggy day.  After that I was off to Italy with Richard Bolt for the Challenge Stellina mountain race.  My ankle was killing me leading up to the race and was just brutal during the 9.6 mile trail race that climbed 5,000’.  I ended up in 21^st place and also ended up in an ambulance as I couldn’t put any pressure on my foot after the race.  That was the end of my mountain racing for the year.

Beach to Beacon

1             27:48       KHALID KHANNOUCHI            M27         OSSINING NY MOROCCO

2             28:19       JOSEPH KIMANI                      M26         OLENGURNONE  KENYA

3             28:22       WILLIAM KIPTUM                   M28         KABIRER  KENYA

4             28:41       ABRAHAM ASSEFA                  M27         ADDISABEBA  ETHIOPIA

5             28:49       ABEL ONDEYO                        M22         KABIRER  KENYA

                                                                          

13            30:16       PETER HAMMER                      M33         BRIGHTON MA

15            30:37       DEON BARRETT                      M26         CANTON MA

18            30:47       DAVE DUNHAM                       M35         BRADFORD MA

19            31:10       BOB WINN                             M40         OGUNQUIT ME

22            31:20       TODD COFFIN                        M38         FREEPORT ME

23            31:40       BYRNE DECKER                      M32         YARMOUTH ME

24            32:03       TIMOTHY BOILARD                M24         PRINCETON MA

25            32:05       ANDY WEDLAKE                     M27         BELMONT MA

26            32:04       CATHERINE NDEREBA             F27          PHILADELPHIA PA KENYA

31            32:17       MICHAEL PAYSON                   M36         FALMOUTH ME

33            32:28       JOHN AYERS                           M33         BEVERLY MA

37            32:38       JAMES MILLER                        M40         ESSEX JUNCTION VT

40            32:45       ROBERT ASHBY                      M31         BRUNSWICK ME

48            33:24       KEVIN BECK                           M29         CONCORD NH

49            33:28       JOHN NOLAND                       M36         KINGSTON MA

Newmarket 5k

1             15:12       WILSON PEREZ                       M21         NEWMARKET NH

2             15:17       DAVE DUNHAM                       M35         BRADFORD MA

3             15:23       CRAIG WATCKE                      M32         WEST NEWBURY MA

4             15:36       NIVALDO FILHO                     M38         CAMBRIDGE MA

5             15:38       TERRY MCNATT                      M34         NEEDHAM MA

6             15:44       CHRIS TEAGUE                       M30         CHELMSFORD MA

7             15:46       MATTHEW LYONS                   M21         WAKEFIELD MA

8             15:55       DAN VERRINGTON                  M37         BRADFORD MA

9             16:23       SCOTT SINGLETON                 M21         KEENE NH

10            17:00       CRAIG FRAM                          M40         PLAISTOW NH