15 years ago: December 2008
I
tried to get out and race a bit more during this month, getting in four
“races”. I started with the Assault on Mt Hood XC race in Melrose. I like this race; I’ve done it a few times and it seems like every time they have a new challenging course. It was a bit icy
out there, but I managed to keep my legs under me and take 10th
place in 22:33 over 3.5 (or so) miles.
1
Ryan Gattoni
20:46.9 23M
2
Joe Shairs
20:51.4 40M CMS
3
Ben Strain
21:02.3 30M CMS
4
Henry Scoward
21:07.2 45M CRC
5
Terry McNatt
21:21.3 43M
6
Dan Verrington
21:35.8 46M CMS
7
James
Pawlicki
22:06.9 34M
CMS
8
Dave Hannon
22:10.3 37M NETT
9
Chris Van Cott
22:27.9 28M
10 Dave Dunham
22:33.1 44M CMS
A week later I ran in the very popular BU Mini meet. I ended up in the second of three heats of the 3,000 meters.
I would have been better off in the third heat as I ran mostly
alone and took 16th out of 17 finishers running
a 10:01 (about 10:40 for 2 miles). Since we had some snow and I was
getting ready for snowshoe racing season, I decided to set up a 5k race at Winnekenni. My guess was that no one else would
show up because
it was Christmas morning. I designed a 3.5 mile loop and did my warm-up
setting out flags for the course. No
one showed up so I went out and ran the loop as fast as I could (26:39). For a warm-down I went back out and
cleared the course of flags. It was
a fun way to get in 11+ miles and winning a “race”. Three days later I closed out the month with the “I love Woodford” snowshoe race. I had a decent run finishing in fourth,
barely holding off late surges from teammates Tim Mahoney and Jim Pawlicki.
1
Josh Ferenc
M27
23:44
2
Jim
Johnson M31
24:32
3
Mathew Cartier
M33 24:50
4
Dave Dunham
M44 25:15
5
Tim Mahoney
M29
25:22
6
James
Pawlicki M34
25:30
7
Mathew Westerlund M36
26:10
8
Jay Kolodzinski
M29 27:40
9
Steve Wolfe
M44
27:48
10
Ken Clark
M46 28:01
11
Abby
Woods F30
28:08
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