5 years ago (May 2018): I raced four times this month, two mountain races, and two cross-country races. First up was Pack Monadnock, the early season mountain series race was always a nice time to see so many familiar faces.
It was surprisingly humid
and temps were just a bit over 60 degrees. The 50+ age group looked deep
although the overall field look to be a bit weak. My hope was to run between
1:10 and 1:12. Corey Dowe (Runners Alley) who finished 6th in the
women’s field at the USA Mountain champs last year decided to take it out hard
and gapped the field in the first ½ mile. Todd Callaghan slowly pulled
away from the chase group and caught Dowe a bit before the mile. I tried to
latch onto Mark Reeder as I passed through 5 miles in 32:25. The last 2 miles
would have nearly 1,000 feet of climb, which is almost half of the total climb
in the race! At 9 miles There was no one in sight in front of me (or behind).
I hit the finish in a few ticks over 1:11 and after a minute on the ground
climbed up the firetower and announced that I was the first to the “VERY
TOP”.
Pack Monadnock (178 finishers)
Pl
Time
Name
Sx/Age City
St Team Cat
1
1:09:16 Todd
Callaghan
M48 Beverly
MA CMS M4049
2
1:09:30 Brandyn
Naro
M31 Manchester NH
GCS M3039
3
1:09:57 Erik
Vandendries
M53 Chestnut Hill
CMS M5059
4
1:11:03 Dave
Dunham
M54 Bradford MA
CMS M5059
5
1:11:51 Joe
Shaw
M36 Belmont MA
M3039
6
1:12:31 Mark Reeder
M58 Brighton MA
GLRR M5059
50-59 age group (36 finishers)
1
1:09:57 Erik
Vandendries
53 Chestnut
Hill CMS
2
1:11:03 Dave Dunham
54 Bradford
MA CMS
3
1:12:31 Mark
Reeder
58 Brighton
MA GLRR
4
1:15:48 Brian
Ruhm
53 Nashua NH
GCS
5
1:16:34 Christopher Smith
52 Woburn
MA SRR
6
1:18:58 Ed Sheldon
53 Hooksett
NH CMS
7
1:23:02 David
Lapierre
54 Chelmsford MA CMS
Next up was the Canterbury Shaker Village XC 5k which I’d only done once before (2008). My
goal this year was to run faster than my time in 2008. This is a great
location for a Cross-Country race. . This is a tough race with
nearly 300' of climb and drop over 3 climbs. I got a chuckle when the
announcer mentioned the "mudhole on the backside". I was in 5th
place after the first couple of turns on the dirt road, then we hit the field
and the deep grass. By 1/2 mile I'd moved up to 2nd place a couple of
steps behind Sean McCauley. That was pretty much the action for the
race. I ended up in 2nd place 12 seconds back in 18:42.
Canterbury Shaker Village
XC 5k May 12,
2018 5
Kilometers
Canterbury, NH
1 1/3 MOPEN 18:32 18:30
5:58 Sean McCauley 26
M 58 Canterbury NH
70.18%
2
2/3 MOPEN 18:43 18:42 6:02 Dave
Dunham 54
M 17 Bradford MA
81.37%
3
3/3 MOPEN 19:46 19:45 6:22 Mike
Roy
21 M 215 Northfield
NH
65.74%
4
1/16 M3039 19:56 19:54 6:25 Sam
Wood
31 M 261 Laconia NH
65.59%
5
1/9 M2029 20:05 20:04 6:28
Timothy Lindberg 24 M 192
Ashland NH
64.70%
More cross-count with the Trav’s trail race which
I’d done seven times prior to this weekend but I hadn’t raced it since
2009. I was hoping to run under 18:00 for the 3(ish) mile distance. I met
up with teammates Jim Pawlicki and Greg Putnam and we headed out to preview the
course. It was already nearly 80 degrees and very humid. My goal
was to keep Jim in sight and if possible keep Chris Kealey in sight.
After the mile I got around Jim and his footfalls faded (I didn’t look
back). Chris was slowly extending his lead on me, but I still had him in
sight. The climb to the finish was hot and I was beat, but I did manage
to get around a guy and get myself across the line under 18 minutes.
18th Annual
Trav’s Trail 3 mile XC race
1
Dan Chebot 30
M
15:48 5:16
2
Nick Lemon 25
M
16:09 5:23
3
Gregory Putnam 48 M
Stoneham
16:26 5:29 CMS
4 Nick
Roosa 32
M
16:39 5:33
5
Steve Dowsett 30 M
Newburyport 16:50 5:37 WRT
6 Paul
Larosa 41 M
Newburyport 16:53 5:38
7
Michael Watson 31 M North Andover
16:56 5:39
8
Matt Cartes 39
M
17:10 5:44
9
Chris Kealey 50 M
Newburyport 17:38 5:53
Maudslay TC
10 Dave Dunham
54 M
Bradford
17:52 5:58 CMS
12 James Pawlicki 43 M
Lynn
18:18 6:06 CMS
15 Kara
Haas 47 F
Chelmsford
18:57 6:19
18
Douglas DeAngelis 51 M
Newbury
19:24 6:28 TGloucester
19 Mike
Haas 45 M
Chelmsford 19:30
6:30
My final race of the month was the Wachusett Mountain race. I've run many
versions of this race (this was my 22nd time) and enjoy this
version. It is a mostly uphill 2.9 mile race with a mile up "Mile
Hill Road" before a short downhill into the park then the final tough 1.5
of steady climb to the summit. A near record number showed up for the race
despite temps in the 80s and high humidity. I found myself in 15th place
1/2 mile into the race as things started to settle down and reality hit.
The second 1/2 mile is one of the toughest and I caught a few (including early women's
leader Corey Dowe). I could see Tim Van Orden up ahead, and knew he had
the 50+ title in hand. In the next half I was able to close the gap on
teammate Erik Vandendries. I ended up catching him as we made the final
turn for the summit and put a scant 4 seconds on him by the finish.
1
19:44.9 Scott
Mindel
M31 CMS
2
20:16.5 Jacob
Wormald
M22 GCS
3
20:32.1 Ryan
Carrara
M41 Battle Rd
4
20:40.5 Scott Leslie
M36 CMS
5
20:51.3 Brandyn
Naro
M31 GCS
6
20:55.2 Cameron Cogburn
M32
7
21:06.5 Todd
Callaghan
M48 CMS
8
21:10.6 Tim Van
Orden
M50 CMS
9
21:18.4 Liam
Garvey
M22
10
21:22.6 Andrew
Greene
M33
11
21:41.1 Dave
Dunham
M54 CMS
12
21:45.6 Erik
Vandendries
M53 CMS
13
22:00.2 Dan
Princic
M38 WRT
14
22:17.6 Steve
Brightman
M49 CMS
15
22:21.8 Jim
Boule
M51 aR
16
22:38.5 James
Pawlicki
M43 CMS
M50-59
1
8 21:10.6 Tim Van
Orden
M50
2
11 21:41.1 Dave
Dunham
M54
3
12 21:45.6 Erik
Vandendries M53
4
15 22:21.8 Jim
Boule
M51
5
20 22:49.6 Ed Sheldon
M53
6
24 23:03.9 Chris
Smith
M52
7
25 23:06.9 Brian
Ruhm
M53
8
40 25:10.1 Michael
Dufour
M52
9
41 25:13.8 David Lapierre
M54
10
45 25:46.5 Jeff
Gould
M53
11
47 25:54.9 Bruce
Christensen M50
12
48 25:55.1 Paul
Young
M52
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