4/11 - Race for Education 5K Scarborough
5/9 - Sea Dogs Mother's Day 5K Portland
6/6 - Kennebunk Beach Classic 5K Kennebunk New course. Supposedly "blazingly fast".
6/20 -Sea Dogs Father's Day 5K Portland
7/4 - LL Bean 10K Freeport
7/9 - Kennebunk Library 5K Kennebunk
8/7 - Beach to Beacon Cape Elizabeth
8/21 - Breakaway 5K OOB Very fast PR course!
11/7 - Manchester Half Marathon Manchester, NH
11/25 - Thanksgiving 4 Miler Portland
Goals for 2013: sub 18 5K; stay healthy
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Here's the basic outline of what I was planning for my 2010:
That's the general outline, but may not have gotten to all of these due to life getting in the way. I was also hoping to get a chance for something new and different like the Fred Brown Relay around Lake winnipesaukee or Reach the Beach, anything new.
Right now, I'm not healed enough to do much more than walk with light jogs of 1/2 mile or so thrown in. My last round of surgery has left me with another 8 - 12 weeks of therapy to go. I'm planning to jump into this schedule at the LL Bean 10K, or Pineland Trails 10K, and will almost certainly not run a fall marathon.
I've never entered a 5K, so may have to do that this year just to try out that as a new distance.
mta: Forgot about the Portland Trails 10K, which has been my favorite race in the past 2 years. So added it.
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If you do a 5K or two, Kennebunk Beach and the Breakaway 5K races are wicked fast if you want a good time. The Sea Dogs races are pretty fast as well - plus you get a free ticket for each race! I will be running my first marathon sometime in October (probably the first Sunday). I want a "fast" course. What do you recommend for one in New England?
One of my goals this year is to run at least one race a month. So far, so good. I am 3 for 3...
Subject to change, of course, but here's my current thinking:
3/28 - Great Scot Trot 5K --- Standish
4/11 - Great Bay Half -------- Newmarket, NH
4/18 - Boys' Club 5 Miler --- Portland
5/15 - Run For Hope 5K ---- Portland
6/26 - Pottle Hill 10K -------- Mechanic Falls
7/4 - 4 On The Fourth ------ Bridgton
8/? - Cumberland County 5k - Gorham
9/? - Trail To Ale 10K ----- Portland
10/3 - Maine Marathon
10/31 - Great Pumpkin 10K - Saco
11/25 - Portland Thanksgiving 4 Miler
12/? - Jingle Bell 5K ------ Freeport
As for fast New England's marathons, I don't have any first hand knowledge of any marathons. But reading some of the posts on RA, I seem to recall people saying Baystate is relatively flat, therefore, presumably fast..
And Diamond J, I guess you and I have crossed paths at both Scarborough and Irish Rover already this year. However, my use of the word "crossed" is very figuratively since I was not in the same time zone when you finished...
Diamond,
Seems to me that what makes Baystate fast is the field and not the course. The course is certainly "flat-ish", compared to most NE courses, but its got its share of rolly-polly (slight hills, overpasses, bridge approaches).
What makes Baystate fast is the field. People with your speed are dime a dozen in this race, you'll always have someone to pull you. For slower folks, Baystate gets "empty", the crowd is at 3:00 to 3:30 at this race, rather than the 3:45 to 4:30 that is more common in NE marathons.
VT City Marathon is a great party, lots of recreational runners big crowds, fun. Manchester NH is trying to get there, doesn't have the same level of support along the course.
Baystate is the one you want. Smaller (~1500 marathoners), focused, serious, good course support.
Are you still planning on Sugarloaf in May to test the marathon distance?
Oh yeah! Totally forgot about the Trail to Ale! Definitely doing that one again...I'll probably do the Pumpkin, too.
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I've been doing a lot of Fat Ass races...
In fact, of the 4 races I've done so far this year, 3 have been Fat Asses and 1 was the Mid-Winter Classic.
I was thinking about running Exeter next month, but I'm not really feeling the mojo right now and might take a small break from "regular" training and just do whatever the hell I please (which is basically what I've been doing except probably w/o actually trying to get out the door.) I'll probably do some trail runs with friends a few times a week and will still run with the folks I coach on Thursdays...we'll see how it goes.
Either way, I'll probably run the barefoot 5k and possibly the 50k at the Pineland Farms Trail Challenge at the end of May. I'll also likely run the Bradbury Trail Running Series (6 / 9 / 12 mile races) - I'm having trouble getting excited about anything else.
I think I'm just bummed that Dirigo won't field a team for the New England Grand Prix races for another year...2 races now that we've skipped w/zero interest.
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What's the deal with Dirigo RC? The website isn't really that informative and I was wondering how club members joined.
Nice 5K Diamond J and Road Shuffler. 3rd OA for Diamond J.
Hey RTW-
Sorry, didn't notice your message last year so I'm a bit late getting back to you.
If you are still interested, I'll get you the criteria - basically, it boils down to if you're competitive and can run a fast time.
Anyone doing: Ocean Park (7/29), Run with the Ducks (8/13), or Breakaway (8/20)? I'll be there.
I'm also curious to hear how everyone's season has been going...
Uhh....one helluva good day in early May out at the Indy Mini Marathon, everything else since then has been beyond crummy. So I've changed to goal to trying to not set any more personal worsts....that should be do-able.