Monday, May 4, 2026

Looking back - April 1981

 45 years ago: I was busy back in May of 1981, racing seven times over the course of the month.  I kicked off the month (05/03/81) with a rare road race.  I’m not sure why I chose to do this, especially with it being the day before a dual meet against Methuen. I ran 24:38 to take second place at the Dunster Street race in Cambridge (won by BAA’s Brian Pickell in 24:04). The next day I won the 2 mile in the dual meet (10:04) and ran the 4x400 relay (55.6). The next weekend (05/09/81) I traveled to White Plains NY for the Loucks Games where I took third in the 3200m (metric 2m) in 9:24.8. The pace was very unusual for me with a big negative split (2nd mile faster than the first) running 4:48 and finishing in 4:36.  A week later (05/16/81) I was victorious at the Northern Area Championships running 9:26.9, with nearly opposite splits of the week before (4:38/4:48).  I got sick in the closing weeks of the month and ran a disappointing 9:45 at the Sate Class meet (fourth place) and a 4:31 (2nd place) at the MVC league meet to close out my High School junior year of track.




Sunday, May 3, 2026

Week of 05/03/26

 Decent week with a workout and some quick days. Two weeks until the next race.

Week 90

Month 36

Year 1,468

Life 168,468






Thursday, April 30, 2026

April

 Closed the book on another month with 381 miles over 30 days. I got back to racing, workouts, orienteering, and had the most triples (three runs per day) and fastest average pace per mile (workouts and races help with that!). Biking got a lot more enjoyable this month as less layers were required. I’m looking forward to more biking and less layering in May.

 

Zero

Single

Double

Triple

>3

Total days

Total runs

Dist

Avg per Day

Avg per run

Total time

Pace

ISS

January

0

4

9

18

0

31

76

395

12.74

5.20

57:38:12

0:08:45

9

February

0

8

13

7

0

28

55

250

8.93

4.55

36:35:08

0:08:47

0

March

0

3

9

15

4

31

82

406

13.10

4.95

58:50:20

0:08:42

5

April

0

4

4

22

0

30

78

381

12.70

4.88

54:14:23

0:08:33

4

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Totals

0

19

35

62

4

120

291

1,432

11.93

4.92

207:18:03

0:08:41

18

Percent

0.0%

15.8%

29.2%

51.7%

3.3%

Avg runs per day

2.43

Avg Wk

83.5

Projected Year

4,355.67