Race Results 2000 Results Race of the Month Waltham 4Miler Key Largo Dartmouth Relays Fresh Pond 1 Boston Prep 16 miler GBTC Invitaional Other Months		January 2000 Race of the Month Fresh Pond 2.25 & 4.5 - miler January 15th at 10:00am in Cambridge Owing to severe mid-winter conditions it appears that the Fresh Pond Race was not well attended and may not have been run at all, as the Globe Scoreboard paged lacked an entry for Fresh Pond. In any event the champion of this CRC race of the month must go to Marcello Scippa who raced Fresh Pond a week before and a week after the scheduled ROM. Marcello most recently took first in the 2 1/2 miler in 13:48, and as listed previously took a second on January 8th. Other Races: Saturday January 1st, 2000 Waltham 4Miler Waltham, Ma. Jeff Townsend broke in the New Millenium in style running the Waltham 4Miler. Jeff came in second (first in his age group) in a time of 21:26 (5:24)! Yikes! We gotta get this guy on a team! First race of the millenium Key Largo,Fla. Ginny Carlin: Greetings from sunny Key Largo! I ran my first race in my new home on the first day of the new millennium - the Whale Harbor Inn 5K. I believe I have finally found my niche - I can be a slow runner and still win a medal! My running has plummeted to new record lows since I got here in October. I'm now rolling out of bed and running at 6:15 in the morning - not my best time. But the body is slowly adjusting and I'm finally getting beyond 3 mile runs. The New Year's Day race started at 8:30 a.m. (late by Florida standards - but after all it was the day after New Year's Eve) a little south of me in Islamorada. It drew a whopping 150 people (runners and walkers). It was a beautiful sunny, dry morning (not unlike most mornings here). I "sized up" my competition (running is not a big pastime here - curling the 16 oz. cans is). Met some people from the Greater Lowell Track Club who have also had the good sense to move here and we traded pleasantries about Lake Winnie. Shot out at a blistering 7:15 pace - far ahead of most of the runners, I might add. It was a flat course (oh, what a surprise). Tried to catch the woman ahead of me, tried to maintain that blistering 7:15 pace but, alas, it wasn't to be. Finished at a 7:30 pace - 23:14 time. A far cry from my 19:50 days, but a start at least. It still won me 4th woman overall and 1st master. Even broke out the racing flats and have been suffering shin splints ever since. All in all, however, it did get me motivated. There aren't too many races here in the Keys, so I'll have to travel to Miami. Aside from that I love it here. I'm on or in the water most of the time. Can't imagine ever wearing tights and gloves again. For anyone who's interested in taking a field trip later in the Spring (and I'll send more info at a later date) the big race here in the Keys is the 7-Mile Bridge Race - yes, that's right you run point to point over the 7-Mile Bridge here in Marathon. I do miss those Wednesday night workouts! Happy New Year to all! Friday January 7th, 2000 Dartmouth Relays, Hanover New Hampshire. Bruce Davie writing from Hanover: Peter Gallimore and I represented CRC in the Masters (over 30) section of the Dartmouth relays on January 7th. For the first time in my experience the event was not coincident with a winter storm. We both entered the 1500m, which was run as one big heat, with 18 runners ranging in age from 31 to 74. The start was predictably crowded, but Peter quickly settled into the lead pack and I took up 6th place slightly back from the pack. It turned out that the lead pack also included Barry Hardwick, Dartmouth's track coach, and Craig Fram, the National masters cross-country champion. To my considerable surprise, the entire Dartmouth track team turned up to cheer for their coach, who must be a well-liked guy if the noise level was anything to go by. It actually created quite an atmosphere, and in the mentally fogged state that inevitably develops late in the race I could almost convince myself they were cheering for me, which did me no harm in the final stretch. Anyway, having set myself a target pace of 35-36 seconds per lap, I found myself hitting that on the nose with no-one really close to me for most of the race. With about 300m to go I managed to catch the one guy who had dropped off the lead pack, and finished 5th in 4:23.45. This marked the 3rd time I have run 4:23.something at Dartmouth, and was a .22 second improvement on last year, so I guess I can declare myself in decent early season shape. The time was good for second in my agegroup and another addition to my Dartmouth mug collection. Meanwhile, Peter took the lead for the middle part of the race, but the much-cheered Hardwick and national-class Fram were able to outkick him, leaving Peter 3rd in 4:14 - an excellent time and first in his agegroup. We were only mildly miffed at getting our behinds kicked by a couple of 40-somethings. If only I could have had a coach who ran 4:10 when I was in college... The Dartmouth relays always present a good opportunity to "double" - it makes the drive north seem more worthwhile if you can compete for more than 5 minutes. The nice thing about the second event in the day is that, with no hope of a PR, some of the pressure is off, and you can treat it as a science experiment to see how the body performs when less than fresh. Of course, this elegant logic appeared full of holes as I lay gasping on the track after the 1500, but 90 minutes of rest does wonders - heart rate drops below 160, and speaking in short but complete sentences becomes possible. So I lined up for the 800m with the goal of doing nothing foolish in the first 400 and having requested my wife to cheer loudly as I entered the 3rd lap, when I knew fatigue would be hitting hard. It all went surprisingly well, as I settled right into 3rd place, hit a 65 second split for 400m, made some progress towards the leaders in the last 400 and ended up taking 3rd in 2:10.94. Since this is just 4 seconds behind my PR and a 2 second improvement on last year I was jolly pleased. It was also good for another mug for second in my agegroup. Peter was allowed a longer rest as his second event was a leg of the 4x200 relay. I had retired to the Hanover Inn for beer by this stage but I believe his team took second in a time of 1:50.20. Saturday January 8th, 2000 Fresh Pond Series, Cambridge Ma. What better way to prepare for the Race of the Month than by running the course a week early? Molly, Marcello and Diane did just that and all three appear in great shape as the trio took identical second place finishes at the various distances. On next Saturday pace yourself off of these runners and you are sure to run well. Sunday January 23rd, 2000 Boston Prep 16 Miler Derry, NH. It looks like several CRCers are gearing up for Boston 2000! Beth, Allison, Adam, Brian, Joe, and George hiked on up to Derry, NH on Sunday to take part in the gut-wrenching, grueling Road Race know as the Boston Prep 16 Miler. Filled with steep inclines and declines, this is one tough course, one that could potentially injure a would be marathoner. But our crew played it smart and used this event as a "training run". I'm sure Fred would be glad to hear that! BOSTON PREP 16 Miler George Nicholson 2:02:57 7:42 Brian Stramer 2:03:36 7:44 Allison Abbott 2:06:29 7:55 Joe McCarty 2:07:00 7:57 ADAM PENN 2:10:06 8:08 Beth Bolyn 2:16:14 8:31 GBTC Invitational Meanwhile Bruce Davieand Peter Gallimore, a spring marathon far from their thoughts, stayed indoors. Bruce offers this report. Sunday provided another opportunity for Peter and me to represent CRC on the indoor track, this time at the GBTC Invitational on Harvard's historic and allegedly fast track. Proof of how seriously they take their history at Harvard is the fact that the track is 220 yards around, as opposed to the modern 200 meter distance. Running the mile, this has the pleasant effect of eliminating that annoying 9 extra yards one has to run on a metric track, bringing it down to a nice even 8 laps. Based on my time at Dartmouth, I had estimated I should be able to run 4:45, and this seed time put me in the 4th heat, alongside a group of lads who appeared to be of average age 14, but were in fact mostly college students. I adopted my usual even-splits strategy, aiming for 35-36 seconds per lap and hitting that target pretty accurately in the early going. That left me well back from the lead after 2 laps as the younger runners got off to a fast start. But keeping my 35 s pace I found myself moving up through the field until, with 2.5 laps to go I caught the leaders. I felt good enough to take the lead, and just managed to hold on for a rare first place finish in the pleasantly surprising time of 4:40.6, a time I've only beaten twice. Peter ran the 3000m, and perhaps dividing a metric distance into 220y increments didn't work so well for him; his time of 9:03 was a tad slower than his last attempt at this distance (although his 4:43 first mile is a time I would love to be able to run without collapsing immediately afterwards.)