I was looking forward to the USATF New England XC
Championships for the master’s race which is a 8K distance. As Joe Shairs and I
drove to Franklin Park, we chatted about the CMS men lining up for more
team competition up north in Manchester, NH via Manchester City Marathon. I was anxious and excited for them - wishing to a degree that I was up there being a part of that. While waiting for our race,
we were getting updates from Sasha Mindel who was getting a play by play about
her husband, Scott Mindel, racing for CMS, leading the marathon in the early
miles with Dan Vassallo just a few strides back. Just pure awesome. It pumped me up for my race.
Yes, back to cross country. I was thrilled to have a few extra CMS
master runners (Alan Bernier, Steve Brightman, and Martin Tighe) in our race
beyond what we had at the Franklin Park 5K two weeks ago. I jumped out at the start and followed Steve for a short while before having to settle in. I had good position within the race among folks that I usually finish
near. Mile 1 went by in 5:28 (per GPS). Up and over Bear Cage Hill and a
Wilderness Loop brought me through the 5K right at what I ran two weeks ago in
18:13.
The wheels came off in the 2nd Wilderness Loop and I felt my
cadence back down from Ron Lombardi (GSH) who motored on pretty good. Steve Brightman
got into the mix while I was being hunted by Senior’s John Sullivan and Wayne
Levy in the last mile. Their presence kept me racing scared to the finish two
seconds behind Steve. My time was 29:07, 8th runner for CMS, placing
36 overall out of 107 runners in the race. My goal was 28:45. The team finished
2nd to a strong BAA squad. Results and awesome photos by Scott Mason of all three races (men's open, women's open/masters, and men's masters).
Splits
5:28
5:43
5:59
6:00
5:52
Within an hour after our race we would get random updates
for the marathon. Dan would go on to win the race with Scott finishing 2nd.
Eric Narcisi rounded out the scoring helping the CMS open team to a first place
finish. Our masters team, 2/3 of them Seniors (Ed Sheldon & Dave Dunham),
would finish 2nd and also go on to win the Senior team division.
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| Striding out with Ron Lombardi and Steve Brighman before 3 miles Photo by Scott Mason |
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