15 years ago

15 Years ago – April 2005: I was slowly increasing my mileage during this month and mixing in some racing.  Nothing all that impressive but I was out there trying. Really that is all we can ever do.  I started the month at the Winners Circle 4 mile and was well under my goal of breaking 6:00 pace with a 10^th place finish.  A week later I ran an evenly paced 5k race (529/531/534) to take 5^th place and 2^nd 40+ at the Girls Inc 5k.  The following week I had a terrible run at the Groton 5k taking 9^th place (and feeling awful) running a slow 17:21. Although I did pick up $25 for my top finish in the 40+ age group.  I closed out the month with a rare trip to Cambridge for the weekly Fresh Pond 2.5 mile.  This race is a classic going back to the 1970s.  World class runners have done this race (for example the fastest known women’s times, are held by Lynn Jennings (2.5M) and Cathy O’Brien (5M). Their times, 12:04 and 25:29).  Teammates Dan Verrington and Jim Pawlicki joined me.  Well, they joined me for the warm-up and warm-down.  They ended up in a close battle with Dan taking the win, I came in 33 seconds later getting out-kicked at the end for fourth place.

04/03/05 Salisbury April fools 4 mile

1 19:46 John Mortimer

2 20:23 Mike Obrien 40+

3 20:58 Joe Shairs

4 21:00 Dennis Floyd

5 21:03 Ryan Aschbrenner

7 21:44 Jim Pawlicki

10 23:00 Dave Dunham 40+

04/10/05 Girls Inc 5k

1 15:49 Raymond Youngs

2 16:02 Dan Verrington

3 16:43 Eric Couture

4 16:48 Derek Dorval

5 17:09 Dave Dunham

04/30/05 Fresh Pond 2.5 mile

1 12:44 Dan Verrington

2 12:45 Jim Pawlicki

3 13:15 Peter Galimore

4 13:17 Dave Dunham

5 13:27 Pat Sweeney