Looking back - May 1991

 35 years ago: I made the most of racing in May of 1991 with only four races, but I covered 45 miles and got two wins in those races.  My first race of the month (05/05/91) was the NEAC (now USATF NE) 10 mile championship in Worcester.  Scott Bagley seemed to have the race in hand at 8 miles, at just after 9 Dennis Simoniatis and I went by and took Dennis in a sprint with both of us timed at 49:36 (one of those rare days when everything comes together.  

A week later (05/12/91) on a hot and humid day I won the Lawrence Eagle Tribune 10 mile in 54:28. Teammate Dave LaPierre was second in 57+. The next weekend (05/19/91) I hit the trails taking on the Soapstone Mountain.  I took the lead at the start and promptly led the top 25 people off course at the top of the mountain. We had to plow through the rest of the field on the descent, and I finally got back into the lead after a few miles. I ended up losing the race by a couple of ticks over Brit Andy Moffat.  

1 Andy Moffatt 1:28:32 2 Dave Dunham 1:28:34 5 Stephen Peterson 1:32:52 20 Scott Spence 1:42:05

 

I finished off the month (05/26/91) with a trip out to the US 20km championships in Wheeling WV.  It was a brutal day with temps in the 80’s and 90% humidity.  Times were slow (winning time was 1:03:07).  I ended up finishing 3^rd U.S. with a 1:05:31 (8^th place overall) this is my best finish in a road U.S. championship.

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 (2^nd 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 (2^nd place) at the MVC league meet to close out my High School junior year of track.

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

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