Looking back - 10 years ago

10 years ago: January 2013 -  I ran three snowshoe races and got a win and two second place finish.  First up was Prospect Mountain 2.6 mile snowshoe race featured a fantastic mix of ups/downs, single-track/wide trail, and tracked/un-tracked.  There was a LOT of snow out there.  Not sure how but I got myself a win over a very good field.

Woodford, VT, January 6, 2013

1 22:10 Dave Dunham     48 M

2 22:51  Jeremy Drowne   35 M   

3 23:20  Josh Ferenc        31 M   

4 23:38  Steve Dowsett     22 M  

5 24:23  Nick Curelop       24 M   

6 25:01  Tim Van Orden    44 M  

 A couple of weeks later I headed up to North Conway for the Whitaker Woods 4 mile snowshoe race which was very fast due to the lack of snow.  There was just enough snow out there to run in snowshoes (but traction devices would have made it easier and faster).  Jim Johnson competing for the Blue&Yellow Unicorns won by about a quarter mile.  I got second despite ankle, hip and back issues.

 North Conway, NH, January 19, 2013

1 26:56 Jim  Johnson        M 35 BAA/Dion  

2 29:10 Dave Dunham      M 48 CMS/Atlas   

3 29:57 Danny Ferreira      M 36 acidotic   

4 30:00 Chris Dunn           M 44 acidotic  

5 30:30 Ryan  Welts         M 32 acidotic   

 The final weekend of the month had me traveling to Pittsfield for Curly’s record run had very fast conditions (although the 1,000’ of climb may have slowed things down).  The top 5, including me, went off course in the early going and then went off again at the top of the climb.  All of us were able to creep back into the top five by the end but ran long by 4-6 minutes.

 1 Josh Ferenc      M 31 43:04  

2 Dave Dunham   M 48 43:45  

3 Steve Dowsett M 24 43:50

4 Tim Vanorden   M 44 44:26

5 Tim Mahoney   M 33 44:32