25 years ago (August 1999): This started as a promising month but ended with me in a hospital in Italy with a “distorted ankle”. I got in 282 miles missing the final 9 days of the month with the ankle injury. I was able to race four times. I started the month off with the short (3m) race at Yankee Homecoming in anticipation of racing the Beach to Beacon 10k that weekend. I finished in 2nd place in 14:48 and was thoroughly pissed at the winner for his antics (waving to the crowd then back to me). I’m not a fan of showboating and told him so in the chute. I thought it was real bush-league crap. A few days later (08/07) I joined 3,300 others for the Beach to Beacon. I had a decent enough race running 30:47 for 27th place. The next weekend I had a lousy run at the Newmarket Healthcare 5k taking 2nd place in 15:17 on a hot and muggy day. After that I was off to Italy with Richard Bolt for the Challenge Stellina mountain race. My ankle was killing me leading up to the race and was just brutal during the 9.6 mile trail race that climbed 5,000’. I ended up in 21st place and also ended up in an ambulance as I couldn’t put any pressure on my foot after the race. That was the end of my mountain racing for the year.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Looking back - August 1999
Beach to Beacon
1 27:48 KHALID KHANNOUCHI M27 OSSINING NY MOROCCO
2 28:19 JOSEPH KIMANI M26 OLENGURNONE KENYA
3 28:22 WILLIAM KIPTUM M28 KABIRER KENYA
4 28:41 ABRAHAM ASSEFA M27 ADDISABEBA ETHIOPIA
5 28:49 ABEL ONDEYO M22 KABIRER KENYA
13 30:16 PETER HAMMER M33 BRIGHTON MA
15 30:37 DEON BARRETT M26 CANTON MA
18 30:47 DAVE DUNHAM M35 BRADFORD MA
19 31:10 BOB WINN M40 OGUNQUIT ME
22 31:20 TODD COFFIN M38 FREEPORT ME
23 31:40 BYRNE DECKER M32 YARMOUTH ME
24 32:03 TIMOTHY BOILARD M24 PRINCETON MA
25 32:05 ANDY WEDLAKE M27 BELMONT MA
26 32:04 CATHERINE NDEREBA F27 PHILADELPHIA PA KENYA
31 32:17 MICHAEL PAYSON M36 FALMOUTH ME
33 32:28 JOHN AYERS M33 BEVERLY MA
37 32:38 JAMES MILLER M40 ESSEX JUNCTION VT
40 32:45 ROBERT ASHBY M31 BRUNSWICK ME
48 33:24 KEVIN BECK M29 CONCORD NH
49 33:28 JOHN NOLAND M36 KINGSTON MA
Newmarket 5k
1 15:12 WILSON PEREZ M21 NEWMARKET NH
2 15:17 DAVE DUNHAM M35 BRADFORD MA
3 15:23 CRAIG WATCKE M32 WEST NEWBURY MA
4 15:36 NIVALDO FILHO M38 CAMBRIDGE MA
5 15:38 TERRY MCNATT M34 NEEDHAM MA
6 15:44 CHRIS TEAGUE M30 CHELMSFORD MA
7 15:46 MATTHEW LYONS M21 WAKEFIELD MA
8 15:55 DAN VERRINGTON M37 BRADFORD MA
9 16:23 SCOTT SINGLETON M21 KEENE NH
10 17:00 CRAIG FRAM M40 PLAISTOW NH
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