Category: Races
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Great Stew Chase 15K 2017 recap
Great Stew Chase 2017 The Great Stew Chase was the first race in the Melrose Running Club’s “MRC Race Series.” This is also the first time we’ve had a race series. I counted 29 members at one point. Including members running under different colors, we had 36 runners. We managed to get 25 members in the…
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Hangover Classic 2017
I have run the Hangover Classic in Salisbury, MA for five of the past seven years. Usually I run the 10K, last year I ran the 5K with my daughter. And I always jump in the ocean! The Winner’s Circle Running Club always puts on a well-organized and fun event. If you’ve never run their New…
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Years in Review
I started this post in 2015 to review the past few years from a running perspective. Somehow I never got around to posting the review. Here it is now with the addition of 2016. Years in Review I wanted to look at the past few years of running and not just look at the past…
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Assault on Mt Hood 2016
Running Assault on Mt Hood 2016 The 12th Annual Assault on Mt Hood cross-country race hosted by the Melrose Running Club at the Melrose Fish and Game Club was run December 10th, 2016. The 3.5 mile Mount Hood Golf Course race attracts runners from Melrose as well as Southern New Hampshire and The GBA. Each…
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Running Cambridge Winter Classic 5K
Cambridge Winter Classic 5K 2016 The Cambridge Winter Classic lived up to it’s name and felt like a winter race. Pre-race ambient air temperature was 34° F with a 5 to 10 mph breeze. My Garmin shows the ambient temperature at 36° with a 12 mph breeze during the race. There were times when the…
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Running Feaster Five Thanksgiving 5 Miler
On Thanksgiving morning, I drove to Andover, MA to run The 29th annual Feaster Five Road Race. This is a huge running event that draws over 9,000 runners for the 5K and 5 Miler. As the web site says: The Feaster Five Thanksgiving Day Road Race in Andover, MA has been a Merrimack Valley tradition since…