10 years ago: I raced 6 times over the month including 3 snowshoe races in 24 hours. I started the month at a New England Classic, the Lynn Stew Chase (02/03/13). I had a good day, rolling along to a 2nd place finish ($25 cash prize) trailing only Jason Porter. The following weekend I headed to Prospect Mountain (Woodford VT) for a 5.4 mile snowshoe race. I got as close as 8 seconds behind Greg Hammet at the top of the climb, but he extended the lead to a minute on the downhill section.
Lynn Stew Chase
1 Jason Porter 1/25 M4044 43 M CENTRAL MAINE STRIDERS 54:05 5:49
2 Dave Dunham 1/22 M4549 48 M CENTRAL MASS STRIDERS 54:13 5:49
3 James Pawlicki 1/46 M0139 38 M CENTRAL MASS STRIDERS 54:27 5:51
4 Ryan Kerrigan 2/46 M0139 32 M SOMERVILLE ROAD RUNNERS 54:29 5:51
5 David Corbett 3/46 M0139 29 M MYSTIC RUNNERS 55:02 5:55
Prospect Mountain Snowshoe
1 50:35 Greg Hammett 35 M CMS
2 51:50 Dave Dunham 48 M CMS
3 55:23 Tim Mahoney 31 M CMS
4 55:33 Jeff Dengate 35 M Central Park Track Club
5 56:14 Rich Teal 35 M ARE
The next weekend I got in a lot of snowshoe racing. I started on 02/16/13 with a rare CMS hosted snowshoe race at Moore State Park (Paxton, MA). The 3.5 mile course started with a loop around a big open field, Steve Dowsett (WRT) went out hard and in the first half mile I was 30 seconds back. I’d stay that far back the entire race, taking 2nd place over 4 minutes ahead of third.
Place Name Age Time Club
1 Steve Dowsett 25 27:12 Whirlaway
2 Dave Dunham 48 27:48 CMS
3 Ken Clark 50 32:16 HTC
That evening I headed to Kingman Farm (Madbury, NH) for a night snowshoe race. This race is a lot of fun (for a snowshoe race). There is a totally different vibe when racing at night, in the woods, on snowshoes. I was tired from the morning race. It took me nearly a mile to get around to the fast starting Principe’s (dad & son), I think this would be the last time I’d beat DJ. He is now knocking on the sub-4 minute mile door. Anyway, I caught Ryan Welts and we battled for most of the way until he put 17 seconds on me in the last ½ mile.
1 Jim Johnson 35 M Madison, NH BAA 23:40 7:24
2 Robert Jackman 30 M Warwick, RI Tuesday Night Turtles 24:31 7:40
3 Ryan Welts 32 M Northwood, NH acidotic RACING 25:20 7:55
4 Dave Dunham 48 M Haverhill, MA CMS 25:37 8:01
5 David Principe 46 M Johnston, RI Tuesday Night Turtles 26:25 8:16
6 David Principe Jr 14 M Johnston, RI Tuesday Night Turtles 26:42 8:21
The next morning it was off to Merrimack NH for the Horse Hill snowshoe race. Jim Johnson of the hated BAA Unicorns was out of sight in the first stretch of trail. Ryan Welts sat on me as we hammered along about the same distance behind JJ as we were ahead of the next guy. This time I got the better of Ryan putting 6 seconds on him on the final downhill and flat ¼ mile to the finish.
1 27:35 7:25 Jim Johnson BAA UNICORNS 35 M 781 Madison NH
2 29:20 7:54 Dave Dunham CMS POLAR BEARS 48 M 776 Bradford MA
3 29:26 7:55 Ryan Welts ACIDOTIC RACING 32 M 200 Northwood NH
4 31:15 8:25 Ryan Proulx 33 M 782 Portsmouth NH
5 32:14 8:40 Chris Dunn ACIDOTIC RACING 44 M 775 Strafford NH
My final race of the month was the USATF New England 10 mile championships (DH Jones – Amherst, MA). My only notes on the race are that I finished first in the 45-49 age group (AGR results below).
1 57:51 Dave Dunham 48 CMS Bradford MA
2 58:35 Scott Anderson 48 WHIRLAWAY New Bedford MA
3 59:20 Wayne Levy 47 BAA Waban MA
4 1:00:40 Titus Mutinda 47 TEAM RUN Lowell MA
5 1:01:00 Alejandro Heuck 48 GSH A
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