Race Results 2000 Results Race of the Month Genesis Battlegreen Run USTAF New England Cross Country Championships JFK 50 miler The Philadelphia Marathon Turkey Trot Results Archieve		November 2000 Race of the Month November The Boston Athletic Club 5-miler November 12th, 2000 Submitted by Shelley McDonough CRC Race of the month coordinator. CRC made a strong showing at November's race of the month, garnering 4 awards in total! Karl Amundson cruised to an easy victory in the 5 mile race, taking 1st place in 27:00, more than a minute ahead of the next finisher. Age group awards went to Tanya (1st in 20-29), Johanna (3rd in 30-39), and Shelley (3rd in 20-29)....In all, nearly 10 CRC'ers turned out for the popular race, on a day with near-perfect conditions. Following Karl's lead, all members turned in fine performances. Tanya recovered from her strong showing at the Bay State Half in time to prove that she is rapidly becoming one of CRC's top women -- she ran a blistering 33:40 to finish as the 5th woman overall (1st in her age group). Three members of the CRC family finished within 4 seconds of each other, at just over 7:00 minute pace -- Bob Boudrot, quickly bouncing back from his marathon only a few weeks ago, finished in 35:21 (13th in his division). Only a second behind, in 35:22 (7th in his division), was David Pulsifer (Shelley's friend), running in his first -- but with this display of talent, surely not last -- road race ever! Two seconds later, Johanna Foster crossed the line in 35:24, for an impressive 8th place among the women (3rd in her division). None too happy with my time, I finished in 36:37, as the 11th woman. I was 5th in my division, but took home a 3rd place medal due to the fact that 2 of the top 3 overall winners came from my division. Also deserving of a big congratulations are Mark Smith, who turned in a solid 38:37 for the CRC men,Jennifer Sehenrich finished in 40:10 to take 19th place in her division (out of 52), and new member Heather Dimmick (46:50) who crossed the line with Caryn Gordon (46:51). Rumor has it that Caryn registered a huge PR with this run, and Heather chatted nonstop throughout the 5 miles (so we'll be expecting her to knock off a few minutes from the time in her next race!!) All racers enjoyed plenty of beer, pizza, chili, hot dogs (as well as the usual post-race fare) as a reward for their efforts. Hope to see you all at the December race of the month in West Roxbury! Other Races: Saturday November 4th 2000 JFK 50 mile run in Boonsboro, MD Karen Claire just ran what she *thinks* is her last ultra of the year! I ran in the JFK 50 mile run in Boonsboro, MD on Saturday, November 4th. I had a great time! I traveled to it to run with my friend Shelly, who was running it as her first ultra. The run starts in Boonsboro, MD and ends in Williamsport, MD. The first three miles or so are on pavement, and climb up to the Appalachian Trail (AT). About 13 miles are run on the AT, and then the course goes along the Potomac River on the C&O towpath/dirt trail for a (flat!) marathon. The remaining distance (~8 miles) is run on paved rolling roads. I was told by various individuals that the JFK 50 is much easier than the Vermont 50. I considered this comparison, and have decided that while the Vermont 50 is *harder* than JFK, JFK is not *easier* than Vermont, as I would not use any variation of the word 'easy' to describe a 50 miler!! This was the 38th annual JFK 50 mile - it was so cool reading over info given to us at the race about the most finishes by one person (record was 31 times - maybe 32 after this year?) - most consecutive JFK finishes, etc. I think that it is so great at ultras to meet and talk to people who have been doing this for years and years and still love it! (There were multiple runners over 70 years old at this!) I had heard and read three fairly consistent things about this run that might make it difficult - 1. The AT is super rocky and very difficult to run on 2. The unending flat and unchanging scenery along the towpath make it monotonous and difficult to run on 3. It sucks to finish a 50 miler on roads! I am happy to report: 1. I think I have some New England trail runner in me now! I kept wondering 'Where are the rocks I kept hearing about?! The really rocky section must be coming up later...' But an impossibly rocky section never appeared! Sure, the AT is rocky...but it's no 7 Sisters...or Wapack End to End...or Presidential Traverse! I was actually passing folks on the rocky sections (that never used to happen)! It was sort of unpleasant that the AT was really crowded, and there were times that you just couldn't pass folks if you wanted to - particularly in the final descent off the AT to the towpath. But I was just psyched at how *easy* I thought the terrain was! 2. The scenery along the towpath was beautiful! Many twists and turns along the river, and fall colors - I found the scenery very nice. I did find it *very* difficult to transition from the hills of the AT to the flat of the towpath. Shelly and I had decided to do a 5 minute run/1 minute walk pattern for the length of the towpath, and it was really hard to get into that groove. But once it finally clicked, it worked great - unfortunately it didn't click in until around mile 30, but still, the flat towpath didn't prove to be unbearable. 3. The flatness of the towpath made the rolling hills that followed a very welcome change even though it was on road! I had been nervous about the last part on roads, because in both the Vermont 100 and 50 the road sections seemed so painful to me! But in this case, it was great to be able to walk the uphills and run the rest rather than relying on my watch all of the time to dictate walk/run intervals. We had a pseudo goal that we'd like to finish the run in under 12 hours...but mostly we just wanted to finish (Shelly's longest run prior to this was a marathon) under the 14 hour cut-off. We finished in 11:50, mission accomplished! Anyway, some neat things at this race - a bicyclist kept biking back and forth on the tow path with a boom box/speaker system on his bike - blasting music for the competitors - (theme from Rocky, etc) - neat! All the folks out there who had done this race so many times were fun to talk to. This is definitely an event people keep coming back to. (And with the 14 hour cut-off, it's a great run for first timers, and slow folks like me). Personally, it was soooo nice for me when we finally found a good pace on the towpath (mile 30+)! I was just not feeling right for most of the 20's. Oh, Shelly's husband, Nik, did a duathlon (3 mile run/10 mile mountain bike/3 mile run) in Virginia the next day. He saw a woman wearing a JFK shirt like the ones Shelly and I got. He asked her is she had just done the race the day before. She had!!! Ultrarunners are crazy! :) Sunday November 5th 2000 Genesis Battlegreen Run, Lexington, MA. Will Riddell offers these cryptic comments: The conditions were kind of cold and windy, very wet and hilly. 10k Results Adam Penn 39:51 6:25 17th place Will Riddell 41:25 6:40 24th place 5k Results Ilaria Rebay 20:13 6:32 1st woman (9th overall) Veterans Day, Saturday November 11th 2000 USATF New England Cross Country Championships Boston MA. Bruce Davie on Scotish mud-wrestling CRC had two entrants in this 10k cross country race at Franklin Park. It was my third XC outing this year, and a first for Eric Lanzendorf. No prior race that I have run in the US has so successfuly recreated the conditions that I knew and loved in Scotland. After 2 inches of rain fell on Friday, Franklin Park was a total quagmire. I was very glad that I'd bought a new pair of spikes 2 weeks ago. By the end of the race I was plastered with mud up to my shoulders. Although my mud-running technique has gotten rusty, I managed to run a race that I was happy with. After one mile, it was feeling eerily similar to the race 2 weeks ago - the same split (5:27) and the same competition - Marcello Scippa, in an Athletics East singlet (sigh) - on my shoulder. And once again I managed to make up places from the end of the first mile onwards, as I slowed down less than the surrounding runners. In the end I finished in 35:46, 75th out of 101, a 10 place and 20 second improvement on last year's time (and thus a PR, in spite of the heavy going). Eric ran well (without spikes) to take 98th place and fought off some late challengers with a strong finish in 40:31. He asserted that he had a good time but may have just been humoring me. I suspect that a CRC women's team could have done quite well at this event - and it's so much more dignified than mud-wrestling. Sunday November 19th 2000 The Philadelphia Marathon, Philadelphia PA. Adam Penn in a strong performance finished well within his Boston qualifing standard. Adam was 234th overall and 91st in the division in a time of 3:06:42 for a pace of 7:08. Thanksgiving Day Thursady November 23rd 2000 Thanksgiving Turkey Trot, Mesa, Az Christy Muldoon found herself far from Plymouth this past Thanksgiving running the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot in Mesa, Az. She surely outran any hungry Pilgrims that may have been in the vicinity crossing the line in a blistering 39:48. Christy reports: I did the first mile in about 15 seconds under my planned pace (6:10 insteadof 6:25). Ok, I told myself, slow down for the next few miles and then pick it up at the end. I went through mile 2 in 12:20. Just relax, I said, you shouldn't be going this fast yet. Mile 3 - 18:40. At about mile 3.5 it hit me. Just keep going, I said - you can keep it up. Mile 4 - Don't slow down too much, I said, and you can still make your goal. Mile 5 - 31:50. Just keep going, I said, you're almost there. Just finish -- if you just keep going you can break 39:50. OK, I did, and I'm happy with my time. Really happy. But I think I gotta work on this pacing thing.