Shawn Conway and I arrived early at Elm Bank in Wellesleyfor the GBTC XC Festival. This was race number one in the Cross Country Grand Prix. The start and finish area moved to the other side ofthe park next to the last of the soccer fields. CMS had five masters runnerssigned up. The weather was perfect, overcast and in the low 60’s. I rounded up GregPutnam, Nick Taormina, and David Principe for a warm up over loop 1 a fewminutes before the women started their 5K. The course was over the same terrainand loops as in the past. I was familiar with them last running here in 2015. Iran a second warm up in my Inov8 flats, waiting for masters race to start as itwas delayed fifteen minutes to allow the women’s race to conclude.
I got on the front row and jumped out to get good positionbefore the course narrowed down into a double track after 50 yards. It was essentiallysingle file after 75 yards. We had to contend with the exposed roots after ahalf mile along the Charles River. They were easy to see and navigate as long as you had a line ofsight. Nick pulled up next to me before mile 1 and gave me encouragement tostick with him. We had Arthur Besse, Greg, and David up ahead and it was looking goodfor the team. I got ahead of Nick before mile 2 near the soccer fields. Gregstopped and walked off the course with a hamstring issue. Down a man, we were unable to score a team.
I pressed ahead in the last mile trying to close a five seconds gapbetween I and both Justin Renz and Scott Grandfield from HFC. Neither one let up an inchover the roots and back to the finish. I finished in 10th place anda time of 18:21. Nick finished in 18:35. I felt good with the effort. I wascurious what I ran for my last effort at this race in 2015 (my first crosscountry race as a 40 year old master runner). I finished 3rd with a time of 17:29 behind Josh Perks (17:07)and Joe Shairs (17:21).
Greg was down and out after the race when we talked. Team doctors will have to take a look at the MRI later this week. I gathered the CMS guys and we ran 3.5 loops around Elm Bank for another 4 miles giving me close to 10 for the day.
Top 20 results of the 40+ race below.
Greater Boston Track Club XC Festival
Elm Bank Park, Wellesley, MA September 9,2018
Men 40+
Place No. Name Club City St S Ag Menma Pace
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1 182 TJ UNGER HFC STRIDERS WESTWOO MA M 40 16:33 5:20
2 352 LEE DANFORTH HFC STRIDERS NORWOOD MA M 40 16:40 5:22
3 103 ANDY GARDINER BAA DOVER MA M 53 17:13 5:33
4 106 ARTHUR BESSE CMS TEMPLET MA M 46 17:26 5:37
5 138 JUSTIN DAGLISH GLRR CARLISL MA M 41 17:46 5:44
6 108 DAVID PRINCIPE SR CMS JOHNSTO RI M 51 18:00 5:48
7 171 TIMOTHY GAVIN HFC STRIDERS WESTON MA M 42 18:06 5:50
8 179 JUSTIN RENZ HFC STRIDERS MILTON MA M 46 18:14 5:52
9 172 SCOTT GRANDFIELD HFC STRIDERS REHOBOT MA M 53 18:16 5:53
10 107 JAMES PAWLICKI CMS LYNN MA M 43 18:21 5:55
11 104 MICHAEL MCGRANE BAA ASHLAND MA M 48 18:24 5:56
12 110 NICK TAORMINA CMS GLOUCES MA M 46 18:35 5:59
13 183 TOM VOSSEN HFC STRIDERS NORWOOD MA M 44 18:40 6:01
14 137 SHAWN CONWAY GLRR WAKEFIE MA M 47 18:52 6:05
15 325 MARK REEDER GLRR BRIGHTO MA M 58 18:54 6:05
16 353 TITUS MUTINDA GBTC DORCHES MA M 53 18:58 6:07
17 181 PATRICK TROY HFC STRIDERS MEDFIEL MA M 42 19:13 6:11
18 148 EDWARD PARROT GR SPRINGFIELD AMHERST MA M 48 19:29 6:17
19 174 CHRIS KELLY HFC STRIDERS WESTWOO MA M 56 19:52 6:24
20 359 EJ HRYNOWSKI GLRR ARLINGT MA M 56 19:57 6:25
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