Looking back: Feb 2016

 Five years ago – I only raced twice during February of 2016.  No complaints on either result. On 02/14/16 I raced teammate Jim Pawlicki at the Brooksby Snowshoe Classic.  I had originally entered in another race that was cancelled because it was too cold!  In all 38 of us took off but I’d only see Jim.  I led early and after the mile Jim made a move and dropped me.  I got back to him after 3 miles on a climb and we went back and forth until 100 meters to go when Jim found another gear and beat me by 4 seconds.  At minus 2 degrees at race start this was (at the time) the fourth coldest temperature I’d ever raced in.

1 James Pawlicki            M41      21:21

2 Dave Dunham             M51      21:25

3 Jeffery Hixon              M41      24:05

4 Brett Rickenbach         M40      25:15

 

A week later (02/21/16) I retreated to the indoor track.  I was entered in the USATF NE indoor track championships and my hope was that the entire field wouldn’t lap me over the 5,000 meters.  I had run 17:26 a few weeks before and was hoping to improve on that.  Sixteen runners were entered and 14 were out of sight in the first 200 meter lap.  Dan Verrington was the closest but too far ahead for me to latch on.  He was 7 seconds ahead at the mile and could no longer see Dan.  He came back a bit in the last mile but still buried me.

1          Adam Pacheck   GBTC    14:47

2          Matt Hillard       Battle    14:51

3          Nate Jenkins      CMS      14:55

12         Dan Verrington  CMS      16:59

13         Dave Dunham    CMS      17:06