I was not set on running this race until the day
before. I signed up early in the day,
after getting back from running 13 miles in and around Big River. I didn’t want to race, I would have been
happier to get in a long run, but the people I usually run long with were
either doing this race, or not available to run. Soooo….I knew the only way I would make sure
to get in a decent day of running was to go to the damn race.
After my 13 miles on Saturday morning, I spent 6 hours at
the bowling alley, bowling in a
tournament and drinking beer. It felt
like a repeat of the Run 4 Kerri the week before. Fortunately that was not the case. I woke up a little tired, but not feeling
like the previous week.
My original plan was to get down to Narragansett early and get
in 5 miles before doing another 3 warm up before the race. That was the only thing that I
sabotaged. I slept a little later and
only got in 5 miles before the race.
It was overcast and muggy as fuck. It was not like last year’s horrible weather
and it certainly was not like last week’s awesome weather…but it was not
weather for fast times.
Although the race was not in the USATF-NE GP Series this
year, the race organizers decided to keep the team prizes for USATF teams
only. Jim Pawlicki organized a team over
the last month or so and we were able to field both Open and Masters
Teams. We were one runner short of a 50+
team.
Anyway…that was added incentive to run….so here is the race
recap.
The first mile is fast and with the millions of High School
kids in the race it was fast…I am usually good at not getting caught up in such
craziness and did a good job not sprinting out in the first ¼ mile. I fell in behind Dave and could see Josh and
Joe from CMS just ahead. Teammate Kevin
Gorman of Level Renner fame went by me around 0.5 miles. After the mile, 5:31, I went by Dave and
Kevin and shortly after Joe. Josh would
stay ahead throughout the race, I came up on him a few times, but he kept
gaping me again. From 2 on the race was
just a grind. It was humid as hell and
nothing felt easy, but we got though mile after mile and final made it past the
4 mile marker. Before this point I had
no clue where the others were behind me, but just after 4 Joe went by me and
pulled up along side Josh. I was waiting
for the whole slew of them to come by at this point. We made the turn onto South Pier Road and headed
towards the finish. This road sucks, it
is slightly up hill….VERY slight…but it is straight and just seems to go
forever. Finally I could see the sign
where the ¼ to go mark was. I was
keeping Josh and Joe within kicking distance and all of a sudden Joe waves me
by…I thought he was letting me go to just out kick me later! Turns out he said after that he was just
spent and feeling like shit. Right around
the same time that Joe waved me bye, I heard someone say, “Go David” Oh shit!
Dave is right there too!! This
cheering was added incentive to keep at it.
We turned the final corner and through the 8k mark to the finish.
Turns out the 5 scorers on the CMS team were all damn
close. We all finished within 20
seconds!
40th-Josh
Perks 28:40.0
42nd-Robert Jackman 28:46.0
43rd-Joe
Shairs 28:51.0
44th-David Principe 28:52.0
47th-Kevin Gorman 29:00.0
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| CMS guys heading out for a cool down. |
So a better race then the last, but over a minute slower
than 2015 at the same race. Training
over the last few weeks has been good and this week is going similar. Consistency is the key and I am finally
getting to that point at least!
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