40 years ago (March 1981): I closed out my junior year indoor track season with a tenth place finish (9:35.7) at the Eastern championships in Princeton NJ. Although it was a personal best I was disappointed and noted that I “felt awful” during the race.
In between indoor and outdoor track season I hit the roads for only the second (and third) time. I set a personal best at 5 miles and at 10 km, which is easy to do when you are running the distance for the first time! I finished 15th at the Shamrock 5m in Boston running 25:17 which was only good enough for 3rd in the 18 and under category. BMHS teammate John Dangora was one of the juniors ahead of me. Splits: 5:03/5:10/5:02/5:05/4:57. Two weeks later I ran the Lechmere 10km in Peabody ($3 pre entry & $4 day of) and took 12th place in 32:04. I out-leaned Steve Perkins (Danvers) for the junior category win and took home a GE AM/FM digital alarm clock that I still have. That is the oldest race prize that I still have. On the last day of the month I started the outdoor season with a PR of 4:31.6 for the mile in a dual meet against Haverhill. It was only good enough for 2nd place as the Hillies Tom hinds took the win in 4:28.
Peabody Lechmere 10km 03/28/81
1 Greg Meyer NBTC 29:04
2 Dick Buerkle NYAC 29:35
Doug Sweazey GBTC 29:55
3 Tim Donovan NBTC 30:50
4 Jim Stronach CTC 31:02
5 Gary Wallace GBTC 31:05
6 Dean Kimball UNH 31:12
7 Keith Brown 31:13
8 Brad Hurst 31:22
9 Paul Swenson 31:35
10 Stu Penn WSSAC 31:43
11 Don Thompson CTC 31:49
12 Dave Dunham BMHS 32:04
13 Steve Perkins DHS 32:04
14 Joe Catalano BAA 32:04
15 Mark Kimball BU 32:14
20 Patti Catalano AW 33:19
Final week of March 1981 (junior year at BMHS)
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