MCM preview

I know Sri and Lee are the only Brickyarders running Marine Corps but I thought this preview was such a great read others might like to check it out. 

http://www.clifbar.com/article/the-marine-corps-marathon-course-preview

You can track any friend running MCM via texts sent to your phone by visiting the following page and entering their name and your cell phone number.

http://www.marinemarathon.com/Community/Social_Media.htm
 
Here's who I know that is running:

Sri Bodkhe
Lee Bradley
Laurie von Schmidt
Alissa Savage (Laurie's daughter)
Eric Gruettner
Queen Karen Rogers
Cynthia DeGirolamo
Kelly Pabilonia
Scott Cooney
Anton Strunz
Anna Starodaj
Caryn Vita

The race starts at 7:55 AM this Sunday, October 25, 2015.

Lee

Brent is back!

On Sunday October 18th Brent Stratton left Tom Walsh and Lee Bradley in the proverbial dust at the Mikey's Place 5K in Old Wethersfield. Karen Prado PR'd.

http://thelastmileracing.com/results/results2015/15results/15mikeysplace.html

473 11 Miguel Ramirez 9 M 3 M5059 21:01.7 6:47
242 20 Karen Prado 7 F 2 F4049 22:08.7 7:08
475 27 Peter Briggeman 19 M 5 M5059 22:30.0 7:15
970 42 John Dasilva 29 M 1 M60+ 23:51.2 7:41
416 59 Brian Walker 41 M 2 M60+ 24:22.4 7:51
889 60 Brent Stratton 42 M 10 M5059 24:26.3 7:52
898 61 Tom Scoville 43 M 11 M5059 24:37.9 7:56
870 73 Tom Walsh 53 M 5 M60+ 25:17.1 8:09
1500 79 Lee Bradley 59 M 6 M60+ 25:38.8 8:16
897 89 Jackie Scoville 23 F 3 F5059 26:23.0 8:30
946 92 Laurie Von Schmidt 25 F 4 F5059 26:35.3 8:34

Hartford

http://www.gsrs.com/results/2832

Lea, Mike, Lani, Adam, Chip and countless others ran the full today.

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/923964817

(Chip used Lee's Garmin 10) 

 

Lee and Chip at 26.15!

Bruce, Chip, Lee, John. Thank you Caryn Vita!!!

Here's what happened.

Pla  Div/Tot Div Mara10k Pace Half Pac 17m Pace Mara20m
Pace 25.1 Pace Guntime  Nettime Pace Race#
Name

610  2/15  M65-69  55:15  8:54 1:56:52 8:56  2:31:35 8:55
2:58:16  8:55 3:44:23  8:57 3:55:17 3:54:39.69  8:57  952
Chip Bradley

787  49/148 F35-39  57:30  9:16 2:02:30 9:22  2:39:35 9:24
3:07:31  9:23 3:55:01  9:22 4:05:52 4:04:41.79  9:20  522
Lea Crown

915 41/112 F40-44 51:56  8:22 1:54:46  8:46 2:32:58 9:00
3:01:47  9:06 4:01:26  9:38 4:14:43  4:13:45.74  9:41 226
Wanda Hodsen

958 104/160 M45-49 51:08  8:14 1:50:20  8:26 2:29:28 8:48
3:00:12  9:01 4:04:07  9:44 4:16:30  4:15:58.99  9:46  37
Adam Osmond

1283 70/112 F40-44  58:34  9:26 2:07:08  9:43 2:48:23 9:55
3:22:13 10:07 4:22:59 10:29 4:37:26 4:34:54.86 10:30  688
Lani Ralston

1350 30/47 M60-64 1:01:38 9:56 2:11:20 10:02 2:51:58 10:07
3:23:37 10:11 4:26:27 10:37 4:41:18 4:40:10.17 10:42  365
Michael Taricani

Karen Prado killed the 1/2. 9th out of 345 people. Top 2%. PR by a lot. 1:44:50.

Hartford!!!

Click the red link below for a live countdown clock!  
Countdown Till Hartford Full and Half!      Everyone is hereby notified that the anti-rain dance officially begins  
     

Wolf Den Dash

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/911751772

On Sunday Adam, Mike and Lee ran the Wolf Den Dash, an 8 mile trail race in Pomfret, CT. The gal in the middle is Robyn Errickson, a Newington neighbor. We decided to run it together and not race. It was a very challenging course. And very beautiful. My average pace was 13:50. Nuf said?! Walked a lot of it. Fell four times. Didn't get hurt. There was a  yellow jacket nest somewhere near the 3+ mile mark and she got nailed twice, I got stung once.

http://aratrace.com/wolf-den-dash-trail-races/

Here's a picture of one of the rock formations we saw. This picture was not taken yesterday, thus the lack of green etc.

Hogsback and Wolf Den Dash

Adam's doing both.  Here's what he had to say about the Sunday race (Wolf Den Dash in Promfret)

"I ran a tough trail race last year in Pomfret, and I'm going to repeat it this Sunday. If you like trail running you will love this."

"Israel Putnam Wolf Den is a historic site off Wolf Den Road in Pomfret, Connecticut. At this location in 1742, Israel Putnam shot and killed Connecticut's last known wolf. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985." Wikipedia

My Run 169 Towns friend Shell Bee is directing the Wolf Den Dash. You can run 4 or 8 miles. She designed an awesome knit hat.

The day before, this Saturday, is HTC's Hogsback 1/2.

I'll be running two loops at Reservoir 3 this Friday evening starting at 4:30 with Kevin Mason and Amy Ciccarillo and possibly Tray. Join us if you can.

Lee

New Haven

It's been awhile since ...

Instead of running 20,000 meters on Monday, Lee spent $20,000 on a 2012 Subaru Legacy sedan. It's red. In mint condition. Will pick it up in Vernon this week. Like running shoes, he keeps cars waaaaay too long. His Accord is 19.

Full results of the 20K are at

http://www.newhavenroadrace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/new-haven-20K-results.txt

Mike, Lani, Lea and Barbara ran the 20K. Go Barbara!

1208 34 2051 Taricani Michael 61 M Burlington M60-64 2:02:23 1:01:07 2:03:19 9:56
1311 121 1187 Crown Lea 38 F Meriden F30-39 2:05:28 1:02:19 2:06:35 10:12
1433 81 859 Ralston Lani 44 F Granby F40-44 2:09:53 55:55 2:10:57 10:33
1776 4 52 Kream Barbara 67 F Avon F65-69 2:37:52 1:13:57 2:38:55 12:48

Molly Huddle won the women's race. She's from Linda'a area and we've been following her story for the last few weeks. Lori Riley wrote a great article on her on Sunday.

32 1 1 Huddle Molly 31 F Providence OVRALF 1:06:26 33:16 1:06:26 5:21

John Minervino killed it.

140 7 1535 Minervino John 52 M Higganum M50-54 1:21:46 40:13 1:21:49 6:35

As did Paul.

293 26 1309 Baldini Paul 43 M North Haven M40-44 1:32:33 46:20 1:32:54 7:29

I learned about these two guys' times from a new friend Bill Liebler who sought my advice pre race on the wisdom of running at an 8:15 pace. He was 5 minutes ahead of me at the Bristol 1/2, is younger etc. etc. Looking at my last year's New Haven time etc. etc. I told him I thought that might be a bit unrealistic and that 8:25 might be wiser. He killed it. (Time below).

Larry Regan killed it.

320 32 1503 Regan Lawrence 49 M Wallingford M45-49 1:33:51 46:05 1:34:04 7:35

491 41 1633 Liebler William 42 M Southington M40-44 1:40:48 50:42 1:41:15 8:09

Wanda and Andy crossed together. Wanda was a pacer.

894 36 1075 Hodsen Wanda 44 F Wethersfield F40-44 1:52:27 56:44 1:53:07 9:07
895 88 749 Zyrek Andrew 47 M Manchester M45-49 1:52:27 56:42 1:53:07 9:07

On the 5K side, Karen Prado placed 1st in the 45-49 division. Impressive!

343 1 3679 Prado Karen 49 F Wethersfield F45-49 22:45 22:54 7:22

Lee