Notes
It's been awhile since I've done Leg 4 of Mill Cities but it is one of my favorites. This year I struggled to maintain pace. First mile was hot out of the start as usual but then started to hit a wall. It was a cold wet and rainy morning. When it came time for my handoff, the ran had died down, but then came back with a fury within a couple of miles. It didn't have the wind, but was somewhat reminiscent of Boston with 40 degrees and rain.
I had a goal of 5:30's (or faster) but just couldn't hold. Every mile was a struggle. I feel like I would hit a split, look at my watch, and the current mile pace would be 5:50+. I would work hard to get it back down as much as possible with limited success. I just couldn't get any sort of speed.
I passed a ton of sunshine start runners, but was difficult to tell who I was actually racing against. I was able to eventually rundown Mystic Runner Dave Corbett, who I hadn't seen in awhile, but it took a long stretch of watching his white singlet taunting me in the distance. I had made some ground on Wicked's Dan C, but by mile 7 I gave any ground back that I had picked up.
We held on for a win in the men's submaster by 12 seconds! Good team effort. it was a cold wet morning but everyone came through. SRR overall took 3rd behind GLRR (2nd) and Gate City (1st).
Place No. Team Name Club Div Leg 1 Leg 2 Leg 3 Leg 4 Leg 5 Time
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1 228 WHIRLYBOYZ WRT MO STEVE DOWSETT TIM POITRAS SHANE WHALEN SAM GRAY RUBEN SANCA 2:30:59
2 11 OLD GOATS GCS MO KYLE GERLACH DAN MORTIMER LUCAS ROY AUSTIN SCOTT RYAN MORAN 2:34:50
3 215 WICKED BRICK HUNTERS WRC MO KEVIN HANKINS CHRIS CHAPRUET JOHN PAGE DAN CHRUNIAK JONAH HULBERT 2:35:40
4 140 SRR - TEAM BLITZEN SRR MSM DIRK WALTHER PAULO AMARAL SCOT DEDEO CHRIS KLUCZNIK PATRICK LUCKOW 2:37:59
5 106 MYSTIC PIZZA MR MSM RYAN KERRIGAN JOE RYAN JOHN EGAN DAVE CORBETT NATHAN OLSON 2:38:11
6 14 NEW GOATS GCS CO JACOB WORMALD WINIFRED COOPER RACHEL CATALDO COLIN SMITH STEVE HALAS 2:39:15
7 190 FAST AND FURIOUS WCRC MO NATE WEBBER ERIC BOWDEN SEAN MOODY PAT FULLERTON JOE RAND 2:40:48
8 137 SRR - MOVEMBER NEVER ENDS SRR MO KYLE POCHINI RONI TEICH DOUG LIPINSKI PATRICK HANEBERG CHARLES DUNN 2:41:08
9 15 GOLDSTEIN STANDARD GCS MSM HUMZA JAFFERJI GREG INDRUK SCOTT HAFFERKAMP ADAM GOLDSTEIN NATHAN DELYANI 2:44:18
10 53 PATRIOTS AT 1 GDTC MM CHARLIE BEMIS MIKE FRAYSSE RICK BERNARD JIMMIE COCHRAN JACK TOSCANO 2:45:22