25 years ago (Feb. 2000): My ankle woes that had me sidelined during the summer just would not go away. I was pretty much unable to race in Feb. getting in just one snowshoe race (a win at Saratoga springs) and an 88th place work-out at the USATF XC nationals where I ran 44:43 and beat just four of the 92 finishers.
20 years ago (Feb. 2005): I tore my obturator externus (in the hip socket) and was out for 6 weeks starting in December. I only got back to running near the end of January. My only race was the Weir Hill snowshoe race where a field of three toed the line. Dan Verrington won and I took 2nd. This was the smallest field in a race that Dan and I both ran in. We’ve raced each other over 300 times.
10 years ago (Feb 2010): I was having foot trouble again this month so very little racing. I took 4th place at the Northfield snowshoe race (which I directed and DRC timed).
1 35:45 Justin Fyffe M 29 CMS
2 35:47 Greg Hammett M 32 CMS
3 37:48 Ross Krause M 30 WMAC/Runreg.com
4 38:54 Dave Dunham M 45 CMS/Atlas
5 39:31 Tim Mahoney M 30 CMS
Leading the chase pack at Northfield On the summit of Sunapee (fire tower ruins)
My only other race for the month was the Bradford Valentines 6km. I had a terrible run and afterwards my foot was just killing me. I limped around after and iced like mad but ended up sidelined again. No solace for taking third place in the field of 280. I lost 15 seconds to the 2nd place finisher in the last ¼ mile!
Bradford (2010) 10 mile champs (2015) With Eric & Murdock (2015)
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