I signed up my first road mile in decades. This was the USATF New England Road 1 Mile Championship in Hopkinton, MA. It was first run last year in 2024 and seemed a popular event over the Marathon Championship in terms of participation from the USATF members.
The cool part was that my race would be contested
among Men's Masters/Seniors age grouping 40 through 59. The race course was a quarter
of a mile away looking like an out and back with some elevation changes. The turn
around at half way was an easy turn around an island, not a single cone.
My goal was to run a 7 minute mile so get to 3:30 at the half. I
ran about 87 seconds at the ¼ mile and clocked about 3:28 at the turn around which
had a little climb to reach. I was spent on the return. I passed only one runner
to the finish running a chip time of 7:07 or gun time of 7:10. I finished 98th out of 104
runners. Pretty humbling experience.
The race was simple but out of my comfort zone. I
ran a few more miles after the race after checking in on the Notch mates on how they fared. I checked out some trails behind the
school before watching the men’s open, women’s masters and then women’s open
races which was fun to watch as a spectator roadside.
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