30 Years ago (August 1991) - I was pretty busy this month, running five races (the most I’ve run in ANY August). I started the month with a handicapped race in Windham NH. The director had everyone estimate their finishing time and the slowest runner started first and everyone else following based on predicted finish time. Theoretically everyone would reach the finish at the same time. I was the last to start in the field of 30 and I ended up with the fastest time of the day over 10 KM (31:05), I’m not sure what place I got. A couple of days later (08/07/91) I hit the track in Worcester. I’m not sure why I did this race, but Bob Hodge went so maybe we decided to head into CMS country and test ourselves. I ended up taking first in the 2 mile, running 9:10.1. Hodgie finished in second just 1/10th of a second behind me and Rich Marion took 3rd in 9:19.2. Next (08/17/91) I was back on the road running the Londonderry Old Home days 5 KM. This was a tough race with a very fast first mile (over the Millennium Mile course), then a flat middle mile and a really tough final mile coming back up the first mile of the course. I managed a 14:44 for first place. The time was the course record until the race was moved/combined in 2020. Four days later (08/21/91) I hit the woods of Lynn for the Lynn woods relay. Our “Sully’s Ice Cream” team set the still standing course record and I set the still standing standard for the 2.5 mile course (12:05) over the anchor leg. My final race of the month (08/28/91) was the USATF (then called NEAC) 5 KM road championships in Goddard state park (Greenwich, RI). A hurricane had come through the day before and due to downed trees, they had to modify the course which turned out to be about 30 seconds long. I took third place in 15:07 and bitter rival (kidding) Eric Morse took the win in 14:56.
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