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This is not a race for my pal Lance. Not because of the distance but you
don't know who is your competition at any given moment.
It's your typical Fat Ass race, come and do some or all. They only ask
that you check in if you plan to run the entire race so they can mark
off your laps. Over 70 started and you have no idea how many loops each
person will do. For me and an my band of 8 we didn't care. The writer of
this article is the co director and friend so I drag my winter Ho's(it's
their adopted term so don't let anyone get a wedgie in their shorts) to
the race for the weekly long run.
For some people a 5k loop is boring but there is the advantage of
passing your car every 5k to eat and drink. No need to carry anything,
add and subtract layers of clothes plus you get to watch people. There
were five of us that ran side by side from the start because our pace is
about the same. Others from the group were doing less and kicked it to a
higher gear. We were maybe in the middle of 70 just doing our laps
watching the people in front of us do their thing.
For the first two laps we had a guy tag along who was telling an old
Boston tale of hitting the med tent with a calf cramp and then
strapping him down and off the hospital with ice on his testicles. All
the time he is saying I have a cramp in my calf. He gets to the
hospital and the ER doc verifies, yes he has a calf cramp and off he
goes home. We are running and laughing almost to the point we have to
stop. This started all the shrinkage jokes and did he ever have
kids,etc. It went verbally down hill from there. We got about 7 laps out
of that plus a few other war stories that crawl out of the closest after
I wake up.
Next thing I know we have three to go and then there is just the two of
us. We have been paying absolutely no attention to the race. Very little
idea where we were in race and didn't really care. There was one female
in front of us that was really flying. Damn near see contrails as she
ran and great running form. We hit lap 9, two to go, and the fast
evaporatedand we are passing people like they are stationary. It's early
in the year and many overestimate their abilities and [censored] the bed big
time. I'd say we did not slow very much. We were not racing and simply
trying to hold a steady pace. After the fact we had averaged 9:03 but we
had stopped for about a minute at each lap to eat, drink, change
clothes, potty stop, etc. so we likely averaged about 8:45. Not to bad
for a 50k when our longest run was 14 miles.
Dot, you may know Alicja Barahona from her Iditarod record of 7 days 16
hours
1. Byron Lane (38) 3:52:04
2. Tim Henderson (36) 3:58:56
3. Ken Klemp (48) 4:09:43
4. Jacque Schiffer ( 41) 4:41:33
4. Doug Freese (60) 4:41:33
6. Eric Gross (48) 5:11:40
7. Jeanine Armbrust (39) 5:12:42
8. Jay Lustgarten (45) 5:21:10
9. Alicja Barahona (51) 5:22:29
10. Leo Saposnick (59) 5:22:52
11. Erika Abraham (67) 5:47:13
12. Larry Phillips (44) 5:50:05
13. Cornell Dawson ( 64) 5:54:52
14. Barbara Sorrell (48) 5:57:00
15. Lois Grayson (48) 6:36:25
15 Charlie Dermody (54) 6:36:25
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Women's winner repeats
Jacquie Schiffer of Olivebridge, Ulster County, repeated as women's
titlist. Once again, the Onteora Runners Club star teamed with fellow
Onteora stalwart Doug Freese, running the entire length of the race
together. The ageless Freese, 60, who looks and runs at about half his
age, was cracking jokes the entire way and encouraging Schiffer to her
fourth-place finish of 4:41:33.
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P.S. I never knew she had won last year.