15 years ago – April 2006: I raced four times during this month, three of those were trail races. Dan Verrington and I were taking part in a trail series (we’d both win some trail shoes for completing the series). I started off the month (04/01/06) with the SEA 5k in Concord NH on a warm and sunny day. I (barely) managed a top 10 finish taking 9th in 17:21. Dan topped the master’s category running 16:22. Next up (04/08/06) was the Merrimack River Trail Race. Paul Low took down my course record running 56:30. Petey (Steve Peterson) took me down holding me of the whole race and taking it to me by 2 seconds as I finished in 12th place in 1:03:58, again Dan topped the master’s with a 1:02:29. The following weekend (04/15/06) Dan, Rob Smith, and I headed to Union CT for the Northern Nipmuck trail race. This was a very tough 16 mile out/back run with 3,200’ of climb and descent, and it was warm and muggy on race morning. I was outside of the top 10 (12th) at the 8 mile turn and started catching people soon after. I caught Rob at around 12 miles as we both power-walked one of the tougher climbs. I struggled over the last four miles but managed to finish in fourth in 2:18:48. Dan took second in 2:13:14 and Rob was 5th in 2:19:54. The final race of the month (04/23/06) was the Muddy Moose 14 mile in Wolfeboro NH. I picked up a nasty cold and was still feeling sick on this 45 degree drizzly morning. I found myself in 7th place in the early going and caught up to Dave Hannon and Paul Young on the steep “escarpment” climb. We ran back and forth for the next 10 miles with me leading on the ups and them taking me on the downs. I finally gapped Dave around 12 miles and dropped Paul with about a mile to go to take 5th place in 1:37:44. Dmitry Drozdov took the win in a CR 1:29:20 and Dan was top master in 1:33:07.
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