Notes
Tough race once again. With the sun out in full force, temps were mid-70's by race time with some humidity. I struggled. First mile I hung around with Antunes hitting in around 5:10. I was already breathing heavy. I had to break and give up some space and lose contact. Mile 2, which should be fast, came in about 5 seconds slower at 5:14 (would have liked another 5:10). At this point I struggled. Mile 3 includes the island loop and then coming back into the uphill. I passed Liz as I was approaching the mile marker but I was cooked. I hit a disappointing 5:30 and mile 4 only got worse. I maybe gave up 4-5 or so spots but overall I maintained my position but just couldn't make up any ground on distance. TJ passed me during the loop and he quickly disappeared into the group ahead completely losing sight early in mile 4. At one early part of mile 4, my watch had a "live" pace of 5:53. It gave me a bit of a kick in the butt to recover but only could get so much back. Mile 5 was just adrenaline to keep me going with the benefit of the last downhill. A nice bonus was Andrew and his family being at the top of the hill by the brewery which gave a much needed boost when I was cooked. Overall, about 30 seconds faster than last year, but that was miserable. I don't seem to race well at the 5M distance. I think this was still only 10 seconds or so off from my 5M PR. I need to get those two middle miles down to 5:20 or so and I would be happy. Today was just not a good day with the weather to attack. Perhaps I didn't "try" hard enough and could have fought harder, difficult to say. I felt pretty miserable and hot at the end though.
Fav
Place
Div
Div Pl
Name
Age
Gender
Bib #
USATF-NE Club
Age Grade %
5k Split
GunTime
Time
1 MOPEN 1 Amos Sang 29 M 354 Western Mass Distance Project 86.5 15:22.8 24:37 24:36.7
2 MOPEN 2 Neal Darmody 28 M 282 Whirlaway Racing Team 86.3 15:22.4 24:42 24:41.6
3 MOPEN 3 Ruben Sanca 31 M 239 Whirlaway Racing Team 85.0 15:23.0 25:06 25:06.0
4 M0-39 1 Benjamin Groleau 25 M 83 Western Mass Distance Project 83.7 15:45.8 25:27 25:26.3
5 M0-39 2 Timofey Karginov 22 M 1704 82.8 15:45.4 25:43 25:42.2
6 M0-39 3 Timothy Gill 25 M 216 Western Mass Distance Project 82.4 16:01.8 25:52 25:51.6
7 M0-39 4 Scott Mindel 31 M 153 Central Mass Striders 82.4 15:46.8 25:54 25:54.0
8 M0-39 5 Eric Macknight 29 M 1940 81.9 15:57.3 26:03 26:00.8
9 M0-39 6 Brandon Newbould 36 M 276 Whirlaway Racing Team 83.3 15:55.0 26:01 26:00.8
10 M0-39 7 Thomas Paquette 27 M 341 Unattached 81.2 16:10.1 26:16 26:13.9
11 M0-39 8 Dennis Roche 31 M 325 Western Mass Distance Project 81.3 15:58.0 26:15 26:14.1
12 M0-39 9 Scott Leslie 36 M 351 Central Mass Striders 82.4 16:18.2 26:18 26:17.3
13 M0-39 10 Andrew Chalmers 28 M 286 Greater Boston Track Club 81.0 16:18.6 26:22 26:18.2
14 M0-39 11 Jacob Wormald 23 M 41 Gate City Striders 81.0 16:03.4 26:19 26:18.3
15 M0-39 12 Pat Fullerton 29 M 163 Central Mass Striders 80.9 16:13.1 26:21 26:20.5
16 M0-39 13 Dan Smith 39 M 212 Western Mass Distance Project 83.6 16:22.7 26:25 26:23.0
17 M0-39 14 Christopher Antunes 37 M 366 Somerville Road Runners 82.4 16:12.3 26:27 26:26.4
18 M40-49 1 Tj Unger 40 M 376 HFC Striders 84.0 16:20.0 26:32 26:29.0
19 M50-59 1 Nat Larson 56 M 295 Greater Springfield Harriers 95.4 16:30.7 26:33 26:30.4
20 M0-39 15 Jarrod Ottman 20 M 1726 80.3 16:12.5 26:33 26:30.5
21 M0-39 16 Peter Francia 27 M 265 Western Mass Distance Project 80.3 16:11.3 26:31 26:30.7
22 M0-39 17 Christopher Battoo 30 M 242 Greater Boston Track Club 80.3 16:18.7 26:32 26:31.3
23 M0-39 18 Robert Norcross 36 M 172 Greater Boston Track Club 81.6 16:29.4 26:37 26:33.0
24 M0-39 19 Jason Griffiths 37 M 382 Whirlaway Racing Team 81.9 16:16.8 26:37 26:35.6
25 M0-39 20 Aliaksandr Leuchanka 27 M 348 Millennium Running 80.0 16:36.4 26:38 26:37.1
26 M0-39 21 Robert Espinosa 34 M 220 Western Mass Distance Project 80.7 16:31.7 26:40 26:38.0
27 M0-39 22 Dylan Lafond 25 M 229 Millennium Running 79.5 16:46.1 26:49 26:46.8
28 M0-39 23 Daniel Joyce 26 M 1633 79.4 16:32.2 26:53 26:48.8
29 M0-39 24 Nick Aguila 28 M 272 Millennium Running 79.4 16:12.0 26:50 26:49.3
30 M0-39 25 Christopher Klucznik 35 M 191 Somerville Road Runners 80.4 16:28.0 26:52 26:49.9