35 years ago - August 1986

35 Years ago (August 1986) - I only raced twice this month as I was training hard preparing for my final Cross-Country season at U-Lowell and used the races to check my fitness. At the Lowell Firefighters race (5 mile) I took second place in 24:32. Larry Olsen was the winner in 24:24, Larry always showed up to race and this was one of the first times I’d gone up against him. We’d race many times over the next couple of decades. The other race I did was also in Lowell, the very popular Dubliner race. Over 1,200 turned out for this run on a perfect day for racing. I didn’t really “have it” on this day running 24:34 to take second place to Doug Sweazey who ran 24:03.

Fire Fighters – 08/04/86 1 Laurence Olsen 24:24 2 Dave Dunham 24:32 3 Tom Mixon 25:46 4 Ken Skelly 25:47 5 Lance Burgess 26:04 6 Bruce Labonte 26:05 7 Roger Nasatka 26:05 10 Mike Woodman 26:45 13 Jason Cakouros 27:19 17 Eric Beauchesne 28:37 25 Scott Graham 28:38 26 Dave Cremin 28:43 35 David Lapierre 29:37 36 Terrence White 29:40

Dubliner – 08/11/86 1Douglas Sweazey 24:03 2 Dave Dunham 24:34 3 Bobby Derrah 25:08 4 Bob Bradford 25:15 5 Lance Burgess 25:22 8 Joe Regan 25:47 10 Patrick Sweeney 25:58 13 John McKenna 26:23 17 David Cremin 27:02 19 Jim Quadros 27:22 21 Declan Gilbert 27:38 31 Tony Sapienza 28:40