Fred Warren recap

Second race in two days. I got in about a three mile warm up and lined up for the start of the Fred Warren 5.5 mile (my GPS measured out 5.3) in Holden. This is a fun, low key, but in your face rolling course on a Sunday evening. It is a CMS run event all the way to the timing and volunteers. I like it for several reasons. The post race gathering to all runners and volunteers at Stephen Laska’s house .4 miles away is the big draw. The other is an evening race on a Sunday. Rare, yes. But it enabled me to tackle some stuff on a Sunday morning instead of running (I changed out the fuel pump on my Volkswagen Rabbit GTI).

CMS studs Scott Leslie, Dave Brooks, and Tom Steele were in the house. I ran with Tom in the early miles as we were 3^rd and 4^th respectively. He pulled away into mile 2 but I almost got back on his heels at the top of the hill into mile 4. Then we had the fast skates on the downhill into 5 miles. I lost some time to him there but it was still my fastest mile of the day and only one under six minutes. We both got passed by a WPI runner before we got on Main Street as we finished 4^th and 5^th respectively.

The rest of the night included a cool down with the CMS guys, reconnecting with Krissy, and attending the post race party which Stephen Laska and Kim Gordon rolled out to us.

Fred Warren 5.5 mile road race

Holden, MA, July 29, 2018

Overall Results

Courtesy of Central Mass Striders

http://www.coolrunning.com/results/18/ma/Jul29_FredWa_set1.shtml

Place

Time

First

Last

Place

AG

Town

Club

1

28:38:00

Scott

Leslie

1M

M30-39

Rutland

CMS

2

29:31:00

Dave

Brooks

2M

M20-39

Holden

CMS

4

32:24:00

Tom

Steele

1/12

M40-49

Rutland

CMS

5

32:46:00

James

Pawlicki

2/12

M40-49

Lynn

CMS

 

Photos by Kim Gordon and Mike Keating