June 1991

30 Years ago - I raced six times in June of 1991, mixing it up with races from 5 to 26.2 miles and from the big fields at Mt Washington and the New England Athletic Congress (now USATF NE) 10km to the small (96 finishers) field at the Goffstown Gallop. I started the month with a win at the Nipmuck trail marathon.  My course record from that day still stands.

1 Dave Dunham 3:01:51            2 Keith Turner 3:10:45               3 Rich Fargo 3:11:44

Six days later (06/08/91) I hit the roads with a third place finish at the NEAC 10k in Winthrop. This was the only race I can think of that was named for a hockey player (Mike Eruzione). It was a very hot day in the 90’s and a huge pack went through the 5k together. It was a two loop course because Winthrop isn’t big enough for a single loop 10k! Ed Sheehan took the win in 30:47 and I was three seconds back.

1 Ed Sheehan 30:47

2 Rod Ellsworth 30:49

3 Dave Dunham 30:50

4 Bob Hodge 30:53

5 Scott Clark 30:58

The following week (06/15/91) I picked up $600 for finishing second at Mt Washington. Derek Froude won the race in 1:00:36. I finished in 1:02:07 and noted in my training log “felt lousy, fifth place at the mile, passed Hodge (3^rd place 65:32) at 2 miles”. It was a muggy day with temperatures in the 60’s at the base and a 17 degree wind-chill at the summit.

The next weekend I doubled-up, running a 10 mile on Saturday (06/22/91) and a 5 mile on Sunday (06/23/91). I won at the Montpelier 10 mile running “as easy as possible to win” in 53:32. The next day I raced in Lowell MA at Cappy’s Copper Kettle, taking on Dennis Simonaitis, Craig Fram, Paul Hammond, and Buddy Bostick (among others). Dennis took the win, breaking 24 minutes and I was second ($300) in 24:02.

Montpelier – GLRR top team (1 Dave Dunham 53:32, 3 Art Demers 54:00, 5 Dave Lapierre 55:58)

Kappy’s – 1 Simoniatis 23:55 2 Dunham 24:02 3 Fram 24:14 4 Bostik 24:47 5 Hammond 24:47

The final race of the month was the Goffstown Gallop, which is a long running New England standard. Back at the 12th running, I took the win over the 5.2 mile course in 27:19. I don’t remember much about the race except that it was very hot that day and I went straight from the finish into Glen Lake.