Looking back - May 1993

30 years ago (May 1993): My aim during this month was to get a couple of CMS series finishes (I needed 26 for a sweatshirt) and to run fast at the New England 8km championships. On 05/12 I ran through a CMS series race in 20:23. The following weekend I wrote that I “felt lousy” but I put together a 14:40 CMS series 5k win.  That would be the second fastest time on the Worcester loop trailing my CR.  Four days later I finished in third place at the USATF (then NEAC) 8km championships at Agawam with a step under 24 minutes (23:59).  Since neither of the guys in front of me were from the USA I took the New England title.  A week later (05/30) I finished in first over 10k in the Dracut State forest.  The race was put on by Thera-fit (my PT at the time).  I ran 31:46 despite the course and the 5:30pm race start time.

Therafit 10k

1 31:46 Dave Dunham

2 32:42 Eric Beauchesne

3 33:10 Dave Hannon

4 35:33 Mike Beeman

 

The week of the 8km champs from my training log:

05/17 am bike in the basement 45 minutes,  Lunch loop 3 in 19:27, PM Scobie trails 5 in 32:46

05/18 am bike in basement 45 minutes, Lunch loop 3 in 19:24, PM 5 miles Orienteering at Pawtuckaway

05/19 am bike 30 minutes,  Lunch loop 3 in 19:46, CMS 5k – 3 warm-up (23:00) 5k in 14:40, 1m warm-down

05/20 am bike 1 hour in basement, Lunch loop 3 with Jack in 21:27, Easy 3 in the woods 20:32

05/21 am bike in the basement 30 minutes, Lunch loop 3 in 19:46, PM Scobie trails 5 in 32:20

05/22 Scobie plus Partridge and Cardinal for 8m in 58:00

05/23 Big group warm-up 3m in 22:00, 5m race in 23:59, 2 warm-down in 14:00

 

Riverside 8km Agawam, MA

1 23:12 John Kipngeno Kenya

2 23:21 Larry Matthews Great Britain

3 24:00 Dave Dunham CMS           USATF NE champion

4 24:01 Mike Slinskey NY

5 24:04 Ed Sheehan BRC

8 24:21 Rod Ellsworth

9 24:30 Eric Morse

11 24:35 Tony Bates

12 24:40 Scott Clark

13 24:46 Dan Verrington

19 25:00 Tim Eno

21 25:03 Wayne Jacob

24 25:16 Mike Casner

29 25:32 Rich Ovian

30 25:33 Jim Garcia

39 25:52 Mark Perrone

54 26:45 Kevin McGovern

363 34:50 Don Drewniak