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Photo by Roger Perham |
I headed over to Pingree to sign up for the 10K trail run. There
was 5K too which is one loop and the 10K is two. I warmed up with Doug and Dan.
On our way back to the start, a crowd was staring at the foot bridge as bees
were stirred up and had stung several runners. This was 200 meters into the
race so the race director made the wise decision to delay the start and re-route
the course away from the area for everyone’s safety. This shortened the course
a bit (I measured out 5.7 at the end of the race). I jumped out at the start
into the lead with Mike Demauro in tow. The change in the course was simple –
just head across the baseball field and into the trail to pick up the orange
surveyor flags. There were two volunteers out on the field just in case as
well. The footsteps behind began to fade after 1.5 miles. I went through half
way in just over 18 minutes. I noted how warm it was but 90% of the course was
under tree cover in the woods. Based on the cheering at half way, my lead was
less than 15 seconds. Come to find out Mike was finishing his race (5K) and
Eric Narcisi was now in chase. I heard him twice in the next mile or so. I was
tiring out and could not sustain the pace of the first lap. I had to keep
honest and did not want to get caught. I pressed on with small surges and it
seemed to give me some operating room. I finished up and held Eric off by 19 seconds to take a win. My time was 36:34 which suggests that my 2nd lap was about 30 seconds slower. In keeping with the trend of not doing back to back
races on the same terrain, my next race will be the Jim Kane Sugar Bowl 5K this
Thursday night in South Boston.
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