45 years ago: December (1979) - I raced four times in December of 1979. This was my sophomore year at Billerica Memorial High School (Go Indians! Crush Chelmsford!). As I recall the big goal of that year was to run a 2-mile faster than the fastest girl at BMHS. Sandi Cullinane ran 10:30, so it was a pretty lofty goal (which I did eventually meet). I picked up my first “Disqualified” in a race. The DQ was from “impeding the progress” of another runner. I kept accelerating whenever this guy tried to pass me and forced him to stay in the second lane. I’m still not sure exactly what I did wrong. I’m pretty sure we didn’t protest the DQ because we won the meet anyway. I only have one other DQ and I’d dispute that one as well. (I won an XC meet at Andover HS but must have gone off course. The course was very poorly (if at all) marked. Mike Busnach and I were so far ahead of the first Andover runner that we just ran what we thought was the correct course). We kicked off the indoor season as we did back in those days with the Falmouth Invitational. On 12/15 I ran a personal best for 2 miles taking 5th place in 10:45. Two days later I finished in third place in a dual meet against Lawrence at Lawrence with an 11:09. On 12/22 I ran 5:02 for the mile against Lowell at Lowell but was DQ’d. I closed out the month with a personal best in the mile with a 5:02 at the Methuen Invitational.
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