Looking back - February 2016

 10 years ago – I only raced twice during February of 2016.  No complaints on either result. On 02/14/16 I raced teammate Jim Pawlicki at the Brooksby Snowshoe Classic.  I had originally entered in another race that was cancelled because it was too cold!  In all 38 of us took off but I’d only see Jim.  I led early and after the mile Jim made a move and dropped me.  I got back to him after 3 miles on a climb and we went back and forth until 100 meters to go when Jim found another gear and beat me by 4 seconds.  At minus 2 degrees at race start this was (at the time) the fourth coldest temperature I’d ever raced in.

1 James Pawlicki     M41    21:21

2 Dave Dunham                M51    21:25

3 Jeffery Hixon                  M41    24:05

4 Brett Rickenbach   M40    25:15

 

A week later (02/21/16) I retreated to the indoor track.  I was entered in the USATF NE indoor track championships and my hope was that the entire field wouldn’t lap me over the 5,000 meters.  I had run 17:26 a few weeks before and was hoping to improve on that.  Sixteen runners were entered and 14 were out of sight in the first 200 meter lap.  Dan Verrington was the closest but too far ahead for me to latch on.  He was 7 seconds ahead at the mile, he came back a bit in the last mile but still buried me.

1        Adam Pacheck         GBTC  14:47

2        Matt Hillard   Battle 14:51

3        Nate Jenkins CMS    14:55

12      Dan Verrington        CMS    16:59

13      Dave Dunham         CMS    17:06